Breakstep, or breakbeat garage, is a type of music that evolved from the UK garage scene music and influenced the emergence of dubstep.

Breakstep evolved from the 2-step garage sound. Moving away from the more soulful elements of garage, it incorporated downtempo drum & bass style basslines, trading the shuffle of 2-step for a more straight forward breakbeat drum pattern. The breakthrough for this style came in 1999 from DJ Deekline's 'I Don't Smoke' selling 15,000 units on Rat Records until eventually being licenced to EastWest in 2000 and climbing the top 40 UK chart to number 11. Following this came DJ Zinc's '138 Trek,' an experiment with drum & bass production at UK garage tempo (138 bpm). This instigated a dialog between breaks and garage producers, with Forward>> playing host to Zed Bias and Oris Jay (aka Darqwan). They were mirrored in breaks by producers like DJ Quest, Osmosis and Ed209. Current descendants of these artists include Toasty Boy, Marlow, Mark One, Search & Destroy, Quiet Storm, Threnody, DJ Distance, Reza, Bracket (RIP), Gunjack, Blackmass Plastics and Warlock, many of whom are associated with Urban Graffiti, Destructive Recordings, Combat Recordings, Consume, Rottun Recordings or Storming Productions.

André Rafael Ferreira Fernandes (born April 1, 1982 in Oporto) is a Portuguese musician, composer and producer who creates film scores and original music for television and movies.

He produced original music for several mainstream advertising campaigns and has developed music and sound for the child-oriented scientific TV show Ciência por Miúdos [2010] (Science for Kids). In cinema, he has directed both the sound and music department of the movie Um Funeral à Chuva [2010] (Funeral in the rain) - by Portuguese film maker Telmo Martins and edited by José Nascimento - creating the lead soundtrack and sound design.

As a musician, the multi-instrumentist is part of several music acts such as Ghost Orchid and (aura). While Ghost Orchid is a more song-oriented atmospheric post rock project, (aura) is a more experimental project going through antagonistic and diversified musical styles and fusing the music itself with lots of sound design and cinematic elements. (aura)'s debut album invisible landscape is an imaginary soundtrack inspired on the photographic work of José Ramos.

Fábio Igor Ribeiro Marques (born 25 December 1990 in Vila Nova de Famalicão) is a Portuguese footballer who plays for C.F. Os Belenenses as a defender.