Subgenres
Recently, smaller scenes within the drum and bass community have developed and the scene as a whole has become much more fractured into specific sub-genres. The generally accepted and major sub-genres of drum and bass include:
-Darkstep (or "Darkside" or "Dark")
-Drumfunk (or "Choppage", "Edits")
-Electrostep (or "Trancestep" or "Futurestep"]
-Hardstep
-Intelligent (or "Atmospheric" or "Ambient")
-Jazzstep (or "Jazz and Bass")
-Jump-Up
-Liquid funk (or simply "Liquid")
-Neurofunk (or "Neuro") - though there is some argument over whether neurofunk is an extension of techstep or is a separate subgenre, see article for details.
-Sambass (or "Brazilian Drum and Bass")
-Techstep