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techstep

techstep noun: a subgenre of drum and bass music heavily influenced by techno and industrial music.

Noun

techstep (uncountable)

  1. A subgenre of drum and bass music heavily influenced by techno and industrial music.
    • 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 and whatnot, but it's not something I've had the time to look into properly.2004 October 5, Phil Evans, “breaks / Drum and base / thrash metal”, in alt.music.drum-n-bass (Usenet)
    • Although the more experimental edge encapsulated this darkness, the DJ-led sound called for simplicity. Standing out was the arrival of techstep; a sound that was heralded by DJ Trace's Mutant Revisited, a radical reworking of T-Power's Mutant Jazz.2020, Martin James, State of Bass

Origin of techstep

From tech + -step.

Questions about techstep

What does techstep mean?
Techstep means a subgenre of drum and bass music heavily influenced by techno and industrial music.
What part of speech is techstep?
Techstep is a noun.

Words near techstep in the dictionary

  1. techquity
  2. techs
  3. techs up
  4. techspeak
  5. Techspressionism
  6. techstep
  7. techtochrysin
  8. TechTok
  9. TechToker
  10. TechTokers
  11. TechVoc

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