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Breakstep is a breakbeat influenced subgenre of UK garage - originally called breakbeat garage, now more often referred to as 'breakstep.' This sound is similar to, but not the same as dubstep, with some cross-over between artists.


Heard a Zed Bias set a few days ago & was told it was breakstep, tbh it sounded like some of the early dubstep i had heard from people like Horsepower records & Big Apple tracks (kinda like that root's of dubstep cd)
I iant never been a huge fan of garage but this Zed bias set was excellent tunes imo. also heard search & destroy are classed as this style but imo they sound like tracks off the first vex'd lp Degenerate & i throught it was dubstep???........

anyone recomend me any other producers to check out & also anyone got any sets to link so i can d/l em.

thanks in advance

www.breakstep.net/

DJ Whistla wrote:www.breakstep.net/

thing is dubstep is that varied in sound, like anti-war dub is so diffrent from goat stare. anyone recomend me some dark producers mixes etc in this style. also what do people class vex'd & search & destroy as breakstep or dubstep.

bollocks. fuck off.

Can we just call it "bass-heavy music around 140 bpm" please.

over genre-ising is pointless.
but i think little boh peep's description is a little vague.

tbh.
just call it SICK.

its all dubstep. At that time it was fresh so everyone was just doing their interpretation of the evolved garage sound and coming from all aspects of dance music. The sound is more formulaic now but it does not mean that everything that preceded the scene we know now should be swept to one side. The sound was breaky yes, i think breakstep was a name formulated to kind of separate the more experimental producers from what was to become the more traditional sound we know of today.

Also we were all far too lazy to come up with a name, despite many rants with all the gang, ah well just blame us all

below is an early 2004 interview with lombardo for the curious when the breakstep/dubstep sound was still evolving

http://www.inthemix.com.au/features/140 ... generation

there's a big thread about breakstep here
http://dubstepforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=43375