2-step Garage

2-step garage, or simply 2-step, is a typically British style of modern electronic dance music, and a relatively popular subgenre of UK garage.

One of the primary characteristics of the 2-step sound - the term being coined to describe "a general rubric for all kinds of jittery, irregular rhythms that don't conform to garage's traditional 4-to-the-floor pulse" - is that the rhythm lacks the kick drum pattern found in many other styles of electronic music with a regular four-to-the-floor beat.