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Differential spatial modulation (DSM) is a multi-antenna technique that does not require channel state information (CSI). However, DSM has a deficiency of low spectral efficiency (SE). In this paper, a differential space-time media-based modulation (DSTMBM) system is proposed. The DSTMBM system equips radio frequency (RF) mirrors to transmit additional bits, which leads to an improvement of SE. Simulation results show that the bit error rate (BER) performance of DSTMBM is about 4 dB better than that of DSM under the same parameters. For low-complexity implementation, a genetic algorithm aided compressed sensing (GA-CS) detector is tailored to the DSTMBM system. Compared with the state-of-the-art low-complexity detector with the best performance in differential systems, the GA-CS detector achieves a complexity reduction of 3 orders of magnitude when the transmit matrix dimensions are $8\times 8$, at the cost of only around 1 dB in terms of BER performance. Furthermore, the complexity of GA-CS detector does not grow exponentially with the matrix dimension.