So, I was letting my friend Christian listen to my strange music that until recently I had termed anti-dubstep since it was really different from normal dubstep. As he was listening to it he said it was kind of like Happy Hardcore mixed with Dubstep and it was good. So happystep. Now that I have a wobble bass that I can use, and I have a genre to do, I'm going to keep writing in happystep.

To describe it though, I'll go pretty in depth. The genre's I'm actually mixing are dance, trance, dubstep, industrial, and hardstyle. The melodies are either dance or trance. I write mostly in a major scale which lends itself to a more happy sound. Then the drumming is either a simple 4-on-the-floor or something similar to that. Bass pedal should be varied from the quarter-note pattern but should emphasis the beat. I put snare on 2 and 4 (industrial), though it could work on 1 and 3 (dance), or just 3 (DUB). The Bass should be heavy but not overpowering since the emphasis is the melody in a way more similar to dance or techno. BPM is high or atleast seems high, should seem faster then Dubstep most of the time. Also, I use a hardstyle noise to keep the beat interesting. Finally, breakdowns work well, I like to use them a lot, being the metal fan I am, and from the one I used in Dropped I thought it worked well.

So far I have three songs of this genre:
Goblin Feast
Dropped
Happystep (WIP)

I'm looking for input on this genre, any ideas are welcome. Please leave a comment or something to let me know :D