techstep

English

Etymology

From tech +‎ -step.

Noun

techstep (uncountable)

1. (music) A subgenre of drum and bass music heavily influenced by techno and industrial music.
   • 2004 May 10, Phil Evans, “breaks / Drum and base / thrash metal”, in alt.music.drum-n-bass‎^[1] (Usenet):

     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.

   • 2020, Martin James, State of Bass‎^[2]:

     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.