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Speed garage features sped-up NY garage 4-to-the-floor rhythms that are combined with breakbeats. [3] Snares are placed as over the 2nd and the 4th kickdrums, so in other places of the drum pattern. [4] Speed garage tunes have warped, heavy basslines, influenced by jungle [5] and reggae. [6] Sweeping bass is typical for speed garage. [7]
The following is a list of notable UK garage songs which charted on any record chart, particularly the UK Singles Chart and UK Dance Singles Chart. The list also includes songs which fall under the subgenres of 2-step garage , speed garage , bassline , breakstep and future garage .
"Gunman" is the debut single by English speed garage duo 187 Lockdown. The song was released twice, first in November 1997 where it reached No. 16 on the UK Singles Chart and No. 1 on the UK Dance Chart, then again the following year, peaking one place lower at No. 17.
The song was a top 10 hit, peaking at No. 9 on the UK Singles Chart. [1] It also reached No. 1 on the UK Dance Singles Chart. The song contains vocal samples from Street Fighter II, Mortal Kombat 2 and FX & Scratches Vol. 5 by Simon Harris. Mixmag included "Kung-Fu" in their list of "The 15 Best Speed Garage Records Released in '97 and '98". [2]
187 Lockdown was a British speed garage act, comprising Danny Harrison and Julian Jonah. [1] The duo produced one album, with four singles released from it, and remixed many songs towards the end of the 1990s. The duo also recorded under a number of other aliases, such as Gant, Ground Control, Nu-Birth and M Factor. Of these, M Factor was the ...
Van Helden is widely regarded as the pioneer of the speed garage genre [4] and has continued remixing various artists such as Katy Perry, Van Halen, Daft Punk, Pharrell Williams, Britney Spears, Enrique Iglesias, David Guetta, Sam Smith, Bloc Party, Janet Jackson, Juliet Roberts and KRS-One among others with this musical style. Recent releases ...
UK garage encompassed subgenres such as speed garage and 2-step, and was then largely subsumed into other styles of music and production in the mid-2000s, including bassline, grime, and dubstep. The decline of UK garage during the mid-2000s saw the birth of UK funky, which is closely related.
Over time, he began developing his own style, with his techniques of chopping samples becoming an early characteristic of speed garage and later 2-step garage. In separate interviews about his favorite tracks, he included songs by Roy Davis Jr., TJR, Armand van Helden, and other artists from the US and UK garage scenes. [23] [24]