Techstep

Information about Techstep

Techstep
Stylistic origins: Drum and Bass, Techno
Cultural origins: late-1990s, England, Scotland
Typical instruments: Synthesizer - Drum machine - Sequencer - Keyboard - Sampler - Laptop
Mainstream popularity: Small
Subgenres
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List of jungle and drum n bass artists List of jungle and drum n bass record labels


Techstep (also referred to as tech) is a major subgenre of drum and bass, characterized by a dark, sci-fi mood, near-exclusive use of synthesised or sampled sound sources, and influences from industrial and techno music at the forefront. Although described as having a "techy" feel, techstep's relationship with techno should not be overstated. It shares the technique of creating a high-energy collage from abstract, synthetic noises, including samples, bleeps and squelches: it rarely uses instruments that have not been processed by effects. Similarly, quantized drum-machine kit and percussion sounds are favoured over naturalistic human breakbeats. However, it usually adheres to drum and bass norms in other regards, especially in terms of musical structure, with the emphasis on the "drop". Techstep saw jungle's obsession with bass change from aiming for low and deep to exploring timbre, artists aiming to outdo each other with ever more distorted and "twisted" bass sounds.

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See also

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Darkstep - Drumfunk - Futurestep - Hardstep - Intelligent - Jazzstep - Jump-Up - Liquid funk - Neurofunk - Techstep - Trancestep
Other electronic dance music genres
Ambient | Breakbeat | Drum and bass | Electro | UK garage | Hardcore | House | Industrial | Synthpop | Techno | Trance | Triphop
Drum and bass (commonly abbreviated to d&b, DnB, dnb, d'n'b, drum n bass and drum & bass) is a type of electronic dance music also known as jungle.
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Techno is a form of electronic dance music that had its early beginnings in Western Europe in the late 1970s[1] and later developed and established as a genre in Detroit, Michigan during the 1980s.
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Motto
Dieu et mon droit   (French)
"God and my right"
Anthem
No official anthem specific to England — the anthem of the United Kingdom is "God Save the Queen".
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Nemo me impune lacessit   (Latin)
"No one provokes me with impunity"
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A musical instrument is a device constructed or modified with the purpose of making music. In principle anything that, produces sound, and can somehow be controlled by a person playing it, can serve as a musical instrument.
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Synthesizer is generally any kind of electronic musical instrument, or electronic device capable of producing or manipulating audio tones, such as musical notes, through audio signal processing.
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A drum machine is an electronic musical instrument designed to imitate the sound of drums and/or other percussion instruments. Drum machines are very useful instruments for a wide variety of musical genres, not just purely electronic music.
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A music sequencer (also MIDI sequencer or just sequencer) is software or hardware designed to create and manage electronic music.

Originally, music sequencers did not include the ability to record audio.
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keyboard instrument is any musical instrument played using a musical keyboard. The most common of these is the piano, which is used in nearly all forms of western music. Other widely used keyboard instruments include various types of organs as well as other mechanical,
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sampler is an electronic music instrument closely related to a synthesizer. Instead of generating sounds from scratch, however, a sampler starts with multiple recordings (or “samples”) of different sounds, and then plays each back based on how the instrument is
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laptop computer, or simply laptop (also notebook computer or notebook), is a small mobile computer, which usually weighs 2-18 pounds (1-6 kilograms), depending on size, materials, and other factors.

A laptop computer is much smaller than a desktop.
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This is a list of electronic music genres and sub-genres, though for the latter not all possess their own article (in which case, see the main genre article).

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This is a list of jungle and drum and bass artists.

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  • A Guy Called Gerald
  • Abstract
  • Adam F
  • AK1200
  • Alex Reece
  • Alix Perez
  • Amon Tobin
  • Andy C
  • Aphrodite
  • Aquasky
  • Arcon 2

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This is a list of noteable drum and bass record labels:

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  • A Klass Records

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  • BC Recordings
  • Beatservice Records
  • Beta Recordings
  • Black Label Records
  • Black Sun Empire Recordings

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Drum and bass (commonly abbreviated to d&b, DnB, dnb, d'n'b, drum n bass and drum & bass) is a type of electronic dance music also known as jungle.
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Synthesizer is generally any kind of electronic musical instrument, or electronic device capable of producing or manipulating audio tones, such as musical notes, through audio signal processing.
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sampler is an electronic music instrument closely related to a synthesizer. Instead of generating sounds from scratch, however, a sampler starts with multiple recordings (or “samples”) of different sounds, and then plays each back based on how the instrument is
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Industrial music is a loose term for a number of different styles of experimental music, especially but not necessarily electronic music. The term was first used in the mid-1970s to describe the then-unique sound of Industrial Records artists.
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Techno is a form of electronic dance music that had its early beginnings in Western Europe in the late 1970s[1] and later developed and established as a genre in Detroit, Michigan during the 1980s.
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This article is about quantization in music. For other uses, see Quantization.

Time Quantization

In digital music processing technology, quantization is the process of aligning a set of musical notes to a precise setting.
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For other uses, see Break.


In popular music a break is an instrumental or percussion section or interlude during a song derived from or related to stop-time – being a "break" from the main parts of the song or piece.
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Oldschool jungle is the name given to a style of electronic music that incorporates influences from genres including breakbeat hardcore, techno, rare groove and reggae/dub/dancehall.
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In music, timbre, or sometimes timber, (from Fr. timbre; IPA /'tæmbəɹ/ as in the first two syllables of tambourine, or /'tɪmbəɹ/, like timber)[1]
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A distortion is the alteration of the original shape (or other characteristic) of an object, image, sound, waveform or other form of information or representation. Distortion is usually unwanted.
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Ed Rush is a prominent jungle/techstep/neurofunk DJ, who often produces tracks in collaboration with Optical. Both Ed Rush and Optical are the co-heads of a drum and bass record label called Virus Recordings. Their 1998 album "Wormhole" is considered a genre classic.
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Optical is the pseudonym of Matt Quinn, a renowned drum and bass producer and DJ from England.

He is best known for his work with Ed Rush, fellow head of the Virus Recordings label, and as a pioneer of the techstep and neurofunk sound.
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Matrix is the pseudonym of London based drum and bass producer and DJ Jamie Quinn. Jamie started his musical career as one half of drum and bass duo Turbosound, who signed to DJ SS's F Project Records label, an offshoot of Formation Records.
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Virus Recordings is an influential UK-based drum and bass record label, specialising in the techstep and neurofunk sub-genres. Founded by Ed Rush and Optical in 1998, the label is known as the main home of the duo as well as Fierce, Matrix, and MC Ryme Tyme.
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