From Steve Sent Thu, Feb 19th 1998, 18:08
From Steve Sent Thu, Feb 19th 1998, 18:08
> > I noticed that "speed garage" is being pushed by some as "the new > > underground" sound. Are there any tracks in real audio on the Net > that > > 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. > > Count me too among the clueless when it comes to speed garage. I've > been hearing this rumor too, but I have yet to hear any tracks. > Who are the DJ's/artists at the forefront? Too early for comps? > also "non-IDM": who's to say? All the speed garage that gets into the top 40 in the UK is basically just skippy beat garage with timestrecthed and looped mcs and divas and a bit of backwards bass... pretty inoffensive but quite funny... disposable none the less... but last time i was driving thru london i was checking out some of the pirate speed garage stations... most of it just sounded like garage with skippy sampled 909's... but there were a few tracks which sounded quite 'detroity'... one in particular sounded a bit like rhythim is rhythim 'nude photo'... so good speed garage in theory exists... its like when the pirate jungle stations started up in the early nineties.. youd hear plenty of good stuff on the radio.. but not in the shops.... mind you speed garage seems to have dropped out of the press again so maybe its over. btw i take absolutely no responsibility for anyone buying bad records! Steve