2000s in British music

Dubstep is a genre of electronic dance music that originated in South London in the early 2000s. The style, whose roots trace to the Jamaican sound system party scene in the early 1980s, emerged as a UK garage offshoot that blended 2-step rhythms and sparse dub production, as well as incorporating elements of broken beat, grime, and drum and bass.

electronic music genre

genre of electronic music originating from England, United Kingdom

British music chart television series

genre of electronic music originating from England in the early 1990s

Post-Britpop is an alternative rock subgenre and is the period in the late 1990s and early 2000s, following Britpop, when the media were identifying a "new generation" or "second wave" of guitar bands influenced by acts like Oasis and Blur, but with less overt British concerns in their lyrics and making more use of American rock and indie influences, as well as experimental music. Bands in the post-Britpop era that had been established acts, but gained greater prominence after the decline of Britpop, such as Radiohead and the Verve, and new acts such as Keane, Snow Patrol, Stereophonics, Feede

UK garage subgenre

subgenre of UK garage

music genre or scene

genre of electronic dance music from the United Kingdom

genre of electronic music

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genre of electronic dance music known primarily for its off-kilter or “unstable” beats