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| Breakstep
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| Cultural origins
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London
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Breakstep
, or
breakbeat garage
, is a genre of music that evolved from the
UK garage
scene and influenced the emergence of
dubstep
.
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History
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Breakstep evolved from the
2-step garage
sound. Moving away from the more soulful elements of garage, it incorporated downtempo
drum and bass
style basslines, trading the shuffle of 2-step for a more straightforward breakbeat drum pattern. The breakthrough for this style came in 1999 from
DJ Dee Kline
's "
I Don't Smoke
" selling 15,000 units on Rat Records, until eventually being licensed to
EastWest
in 2000 and climbing to number 11 on the
UK Singles Chart
. Following this came
DJ Zinc
's "
138 Trek
", an experiment with drum and bass production at
UK garage
tempo (138 bpm). This instigated a dialog between breaks and garage producers, with Forward>> (a club night at Plastic People, London) playing host to
Zed Bias
and
Oris Jay
(a.k.a. Darqwan). They were mirrored in breaks by producers such as
DJ Distance
.
References
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McDonnell, John (10 November 2008).
"Scene and heard: Bring breakstep back"
.
The Guardian
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Long before dubstep became the popular fare of weed-addled students around the country, there was a genre that helped the transition from the sickly sweet sound of UK garage to the bass-drenched south London sound. That genre was breakbeat garage, now more popularly known as breakstep.
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