darkstep

A subgenre of dubstep with a fast tempo that incorporates ambient and industrial samples.

Noun

  1. A subgenre of dubstep with a fast tempo that incorporates ambient and industrial samples.
    • Another area where I suspect there's some crossover, but I haven't poked around in much, is within death/black metal. Certainly some of what I've heard has the dark techy feel of techstep / darkstep like Technical Itch...
    • This record is a standout in the records of Six Finger Satellite as it takes a dance tone. Some darkstep dances fer sure, but think Chrome, Deutsch Amerikan Friendschaft and you might start to get the idea. - 2005...
    • on 10.10.10 the new DREAM ITO DUST song "counterfeit" was released online in 6 different mixes plus a video. besides the original, there is a darkstep mix, a breakcore mix [bryin dall], an EBM mix [angztek industries],...

Origin

From dark + -step.