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UK garage, abbreviated as UKG, is a genre of electronic dance music which originated in England in the early to mid-1990s. The genre was most clearly inspired by garage house and jungle production methods, but also incorporates elements from dance-pop and R&B.
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- 20 Years of UK Garage History: Table of Contents
- 1978–1987: Paradise Garage
- 1991–1994: Early 90’s U.S. Garage & Deep House
- 1994–1996: Early UK Garage
- 1996–1997: Speed Garage
- UK Garage: It’S A London Thing
- 2 Step vs. 4x4
- 2000–2001: Ukg Y2K
- 2000–Onward: Grime
It’s really pretty incredible that after 20 years, the influence of the UK Garage is still very present. From its early incarnations around 1994, British Garage has had a huge impact over urban music in the UK with artists like Dizzee Rascal, Burial, Wiley, The Streets, Ms Dynamite. It has achieved both underground and commercial success and manage...
The origin of what we call Garage music today opened in the late 70’s & 80’s PG was initialy an actual Parking Garage turned into a LGBT club in New York city where legendary iconic DJ Larry Levan used to play an eclectic blend of soulful music. Club Zanzibar, Tony Humphries & The New Jersey Sound Solidified by a series of compilations released in ...
In the UK, DJ’s like Tuff Jam and Dreem Team started playing DUB mixes of US (along some Italian and Dutch) vocal tracks at a faster tempo in afterhour clubs/parties and asked local MC’s to get on the mic over the music as they were already doing in the Drum & Bass scene. This was a sign of things to come. At that point in the UK, it was called the...
Around ’94, the UK influences start morphing with the US garage/soulful house sound. It becomes slightly faster, tougher and more focused on the bassline while still keeping a lot of US influence. Because of the high price of the US imports in the record shops, certain producers in the UK (such as Grant Nelson, Richard Purser & Warren Clarke ) star...
While the garage house sound starts to stagnate in America, in the UK Garage it evolves and starts getting media attention. Drum & Bass studio engineers are starting to create their own vision of Garage and infuse it with that British touch. New sub-genres see the day: 2step beats make their appearence and Speed Garage is all the rage. At this poin...
The hype around UKG brings the scene to new heights. the british press is all over it, UKG compilations are selling out, UKG artists such as MJ Cole, Tuff Jam & Dreem Teem are entering the charts, Garage events such as Pure Silk puts Ayia Napa on the map as a clubbing destination. The FM airwaves are taken over by UKG: numerous pirate stations are ...
The UKG sound splits in two. Four to the floor vs two step. The trend is changing and the attention towards 2 step is growing, moving away from the traditional 4×4 beats. Up and coming producers like Zed Bias & El-B are bringing a darker sound to 2 step, paving the way for what we now call dubstep. On the other end of the scale, sampling U.S. R’n’B...
The sound of UKG is morphing & going in different directions. The MC led parties created a new sound. Club MC’s inspired a new generation of artists which are taking the charts by storm. Artists like Oxide and Neutrino & the So Solid Crew are shaping up the future of UKG: Grime. UKG is now the UK’s version of the Urban scene in America replacing bo...
When the momentum of 2step / UK Garage pretty much stopped dead around 2000-2001, MC’s needed to have a space to express their voice and what filled that void was Grime… or 8bar, UK Bashment, Sub Low, Eskibeat or probably a million other names. Mostly, it meant the tracks coming from the end of 2step that featured MC-ing. Around that time most of t...
Apr 26, 2021 · By the late '90s, UK garage had exploded to become the defining subculture of urban Britain—with number-one hits, a distinct fashion style, and nationwide club nights too.
Apr 17, 2020 · UK garage emerged as a genre in the mid-’90s, but to understand where it came from we need to go back to ’70s New York, where a young Larry Levan got his first big break as a DJ and secured a residency at the new Paradise Garage club.
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Aug 17, 2024 · 17 August 2024. It has been 30 years since the rhythm and beats of garage music took the UK by storm. The genre has consistently evolved since the 1990s, becoming a party-starting sound and...
Jun 13, 2014 · 1) While most people agree that most of the first UK Garage releases happened in 1994 (on UK labels like Swing City, 4 Liberty and Nice & Ripe) it could also be argued that it happened in 93 or 95. But there’s never an official date, no recorded eureka moment.
Aug 2, 2024 · During the 90s and 00s, the sound of UK garage took the country by storm. In a short few years, the genre emerged from underground events and transformed into Britain’s number one...
