What is Trancestep?

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Trancestep (sometimes known as Electrostep) is a sub-genre of Drum and Bass music, combining the synthesized melodic elements of Trance and Electro with the drum patterns and basslines of Drum & Bass. Trancestep is most closely related to fellow sub-genres Techstep and Darkstep, but generally sounds more upbeat and is more likely to use sung vocals. Trancestep can also be associated to the genre mix of 2-step garage and trance.

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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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Trance is a style of electronic music that developed in the 1990s. Trance music is generally characterized by a tempo of between 130 and 165 BPM, featuring repeating melodic synthesizer phrases, and a musical form that builds up and down throughout a track.
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This article is about the genre known as simply electro, not to be confused with electro house, electroclash, electropop or electro-industrial, which are also often referred to as "electro" for short. See Electro for other meanings of the term "electro".

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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.
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Darkstep is a sub-genre of Drum and Bass which became popular in the late 1990s. It combines the dark elements of Darkcore with highly energetic breakbeats. Samples commonly used to achieve this include the amen break and the firefight break.
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UK garage (also known as UKG or just garage) refers to several different varieties of modern electronic dance music generally connected to the evolution of house in the United Kingdom in the mid 1990s.
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John B (born John Bryn Williams, 1977 in Maidenhead, Berkshire, England) is a drum and bass DJ and producer from the UK. He is widely recognised for his very wild hair and his talent at producing cutting edge drum and bass tracks.
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Concord Dawn, (Evan Short & Matt Harvey), is a New Zealand Drum and Bass group, active since mid 1999. They were very popular on the local bNet / Student Radio stations and were getting some prime time airplay.
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DJ Muffler is Konsta Mikkonen, Finnish born drum 'n bass DJ and producer, who currently also lives in London and Tallinn. Despite his young age he is being considered as one of the most known and prolific drum 'n bass DJs and producers in the scene.
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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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Darkstep is a sub-genre of Drum and Bass which became popular in the late 1990s. It combines the dark elements of Darkcore with highly energetic breakbeats. Samples commonly used to achieve this include the amen break and the firefight break.
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Drumfunk is a subgenre of drum & bass sometimes referred to as "edits" or "choppage". The term came into widespread use ca. 2000, when drumfunk itself began to expand. The hallmarks of drumfunk records are complex breakbeats which sound as though they are being played live on a
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Futurestep is a relatively new sub-genre of drum and bass music, combining the synthesized melodic elements of hardstyle with drum and bass rhythms, and a wide variety of samples, particularly from rock, hip hop and reggae.
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Hardstep is a subgenre of drum and bass which emerged in 1994. The composure of hardstep is similar to that of industrial techno but in a drum and bass context, characterized by heavy beats and bass lines which tend to dominate the entire space of a track alone.
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Intelligent drum and bass (IDB) is the widespread term for the subgenre of drum and bass emphasising influences from lounge jazz and ambient music. The music typically has a very atmospheric or ambient quality, with washes of synthesised pads, and deep sub-bass.
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Jazzstep is a drum and bass subgenre which emerged in 1995. It is a result of a combination of the rhythmic drum and bass structure with contemporary electronic jazz composition.
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Jump-Up is a subgenre of jungle and drum and bass that was popular with fans of drum and bass in the mid 1990s and was designed to be played in mainstream nightclubs to get a crowd to "jump up" and dance.
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Liquid funk is a style of drum and bass. While it uses similar basslines and bar layouts to other styles, it contains fewer bar-oriented samples and more instrumental layers (both synthesized and natural), harmonies, and ambience, producing a calmer atmosphere directed at both home
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Neurofunk (commonly abbreviated neuro) is a sub-genre of drum and bass pioneered by producers Ed Rush, Optical and Matrix,[1][2] during the periods of 1997 & 1998 in London, England as a progression of techstep.
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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.
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Electronic dance music (EDM), is a broad set of percussive music genres that largely inherit from 1970s disco music and, to some extent, the experimental pop music of Kraftwerk. Such music was originally borne of and popularized via regional nightclub scenes in the 1980s.
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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).

  • Ambient
  • Ambient house

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Ambient music refers to a kind of music that envelops the listener without drawing attention to itself [1]

'Ambient Music must be able to accommodate many levels of listening attention without enforcing one in particular; it must be as ignorable as it is
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Breakbeat (sometimes breakbeats or breaks) is a term used to describe a collection of sub-genres of electronic music, usually characterized by the use of a non-straightened 4/4 drum pattern (as opposed to the steady beat of house or trance).
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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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This article is about the genre known as simply electro, not to be confused with electro house, electroclash, electropop or electro-industrial, which are also often referred to as "electro" for short. See Electro for other meanings of the term "electro".

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UK garage (also known as UKG or just garage) refers to several different varieties of modern electronic dance music generally connected to the evolution of house in the United Kingdom in the mid 1990s.
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Hardcore techno, often referred to as just "hardcore", is a style of electronic music that originated in the early-to-mid-1990s in multiple locations including Rotterdam, Frankfurt and Newcastle, Australia. The style is typified by a fast tempo.
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House music is a style of electronic dance music that was developed by dance club DJs in Chicago in the early to mid-1980s. House music is strongly influenced by elements of the late 1970s soul- and funk-infused dance music style of disco.
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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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