jazzstep - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
From Wiktionary, the free dictionary
From jazz + -step (“denoting a genre of electronic dance music, especially one influenced by drum and bass”).
jazzstep (uncountable)
- (music) A genre of electronic dance music which combines elements of drum and bass and jazz.
1997 August, Tim Haslett, “Bristolian Renaissance”, in CMJ New Music Monthly, volume 48, page 50:
Tracks such as "Stoned Love" and Die's "Reincarnations" effect a nearly perfect synthesis of Alex Reece/Wax Doctor-esque jazzstep and the rumbling hardstep styles exemplified by outfits like DJ Recordings and Renegade Hardware.
2015 May 12, Xilent [Eryk Jerzy Kowalczyk], quotee, “Xilent on crossing genre boundaries and working with some of the biggest names in pop”, in MusicRadar[1], archived from the original on 15 June 2021:
I was around 19 when I heard about more VST instruments like Massive and FM8, and the first track I actually made after the punk rock phase was this jazzstep jungle song - a liquid funk piece that was so badly done; the drums were just a loop I found online and so on.
2015 August 24, “The 200 Best Songs of the 1980s”, in Pitchfork[2], archived from the original on 15 December 2022:
In wistful instrumental stretches the song slides into an extended keyboard solo of unexpected (even for Womack & Womack) minimalism and economy, a slow jazzstep in zero gravity.
2018, Bill Kandiliotis, The Blood Ring, →ISBN:
Jazzstep plays in the background, a five-year-old classic, 'Gyrating to the Rhythm' by Two Evil Uncles.