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What's the most niche genre you like?
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Drumstep is probably pretty niche. It's like oldschool dubstep but slightly faster and with busier drums/cymbals/percussion. I think I actually need an even more specific descriptor to differentiate it, because if you search "drumstep" on youtube etc. you mostly get stuff with those brostep-style midrange noises that is super popular in more modern dubstep, drumstep and drum'n'bass, which I mostly don't like at all.
I'm listening to a ton of niche genres, but TBH I don't really have a good idea which of them would be the least known or least popular.
It's easier to understand drumstep as a subgenre of drum and bass. It has the same tempo as drum and bass but employs a halftime 2-step drum pattern like dubstep, using synth sounds that are also reminiscent of dubstep.
Drumstep was popular in the early 2010s but it's mostly out of fashion today. Some classic examples are Rob Swire's drumstep remix of Witchcraft or Knife Party's Bonfire.
People still produce halftime drum and bass tracks today but they use much deeper basses and sounds reminiscent of breaks/garage/techno, not 2010s dubstep sounds. That style is more known as simply "halftime". Ivy Lab are classic, reputable halftime producers.
At least the stuff I like (if it would actually be called 'drumstep', which I'm not certain about) is generally quite a bit slower than drum'n'bass.
Is that not what drum'n'bass is doing, too? I don't think I've ever heard a drum'n'bass track that wasn't halftime with some kind of 2-step-derived pattern.
Do you have a definitive drumstep album rec?
It's not really an album kind of genre, but here's two EPs:
Margari's Kid - We Are Ghosts Now
TMSV - Ego Death
I figured. That always make it more difficult for me. I'll check those out. I like EPs. Thanks.