From Sorted Sent Thu, Feb 19th 1998, 20:50
From Sorted Sent Thu, Feb 19th 1998, 20:50
ok. i'm usually pretty quiet around here, but this is actually a subject i have some authority on. Speed garage caught my ear last summer, and i've been buying it and playing it out at clubs and parties around here ever since. >> > are considered speed garage? I wonder if it's really the fusion of >> > jungle and reggae (I read that somewhere) or just another shade of >> > progressive house. i think it's both...there are already a bunch of different sounds within speed garage, believe it or not. ragga style with lots of chattin', reggae samples, timestretches, gunshots, and rough, pronounced jungle basslines...there's the real garagey stuff, with lower, but not as in-yo-face basslines, and diva vocals either sung or sampled. there's also the weird harder stuff, and that's a bit indescribable. Loop Da Loop's remix of Lisa Stansfield's 'the line', as well as their remixes of recent Todd terry and Space Brothers stuff...no badness/end of the world, some of the recent stuff by The Son and CrossTrax...if any of it could be called 'idm' (which i doubt) it would be this kind. it's crazy, rough sounding stuff with elements of every style mashed into one song: trance, breakbeat, jungle, house, bangin' techno... these tracks seem to be few and far between. most of the stuff coming out is either the garagey stuff or the ragga-style...i blend 'em all in my sets, but some SG djs are starting to specialize already. yikes SG has been 'officially around' since this past summer, so it's still pretty new...the compilations that are out have a lot of cheese on em. there are a couple early ragga style tracks on Work Vol 8...Double 99's 'ripgroove' is one i remember...but i'd keep away from the comps for now. find a SG dj and get a tape off him. that'll probably be better. as for RA...interFACE pirate out of london plays SG sets. Jerry B on monday nights for sure, and a few other times...and if you want to punish yourself you can listen to KISS100 for the more uktop40 side of things. i'm not sure of their program schedule, but they play the stuff all the time... interFACE: http://www.pirate-radio.co.uk/interface/ (netscape) http://www.pirate-radio.co.uk/interface-usa.ram (RA - us) http://www.pirate-radio.co.uk/interface-uk2.ram or http://www.pirate-radio.co.uk/interface-uk1.ram (RA - uk) KISS: http://www.kiss100.com (netscape) http://www.virgin.net/bv/radio/now/kiss.ram (RA) listen before you buy. heh. i love the stuff, but i also catch a lot of shit for loving it. it's more a get-up-and-dance type of music rather than a sit-down-and-listen type. so that's that. -sorted