[Mrluvaluva]

Here's Crazy Crush by Gemma Fox as was on that list.

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Originally posted by Mrluvaluva
UK garage (also known as UKG or just garage) refers to several different varieties of modern electronic dance music generally connected to the evolution of house in the United Kingdom in the mid 1990s. Usage of the term "garage" is different in the United States than in the UK, where it refers to the 1980s New York house movement.

The evolution of house music in the UK in the mid 1990s led to the term, as previously coined by the Paradise Garage DJs, being applied to a new form of music also known as speed garage. In the late nineties the term UK garage was settled upon by the scene. This style is now frequently combined with other forms of music like hip hop, rap and R&B, all broadly filed under the description urban music. The pronunciation of UK garage is IPA: /ˈɡærɨdʒ/ (rather than the American pronunciation /ɡəˈrɑ:ʒ/), as this is the most common pronunciation of the word in the British Isles.

2-step garage (or just 2-step) is a typically British style of modern dance music, and one of the two major sub-genres of UK garage, although UK garage is sometimes imprecisely used as a synonym for 2-step. The other sub-genre is 4x4 garage.

2-step is a melting pot of ideas incorporating elements from a wide field of different styles (mainly house, drum and bass, R&B and hip hop) and has produced a large spectrum of different sounding songs/tracks over the last few years. What holds all 2-step productions together is the basic logic of the drum patterns, which also denominated the name of this style of electronic dance music.

4x4 garage (or just 4x4) is a variety of UK garage with drums consisting of a bass drum on each beat in the bar, similar in style to house music. 4x4 garage was the most common form of garage before 2-step garage became more popular. Since the "death" of garage in the mainstream and the increased popularity of grime, 4x4 has once again become the favoured drum pattern for producers of UK garage.

Nowadays the terms "4x4", "speed garage" and "bassline house" are often categorized wrongly as most of today's present listeners brand it as "Speed Garage". In the last 5 years, this brand of garage (4x4) has re emerged as a firm favourite with clubbers nationwide (particularly up north and in the Midlands). A number of new producers, DJs and nightclubs have also emerged of the back of its success, DJ's such as Joe Hunt, Danny Bond, Naughty Nick, and Big Ang, And producers such as DnD/Insidaz, Delinquent & The Wideboys. Many major clubs such as Air, Moonlounge and Radius have hosted bassline house nights and promotions. Some notable labels include Reflective, Ecko, Jump and Boogaloo.

4x4 is gaining popularity in Birmingham, Manchester, Leeds and Sheffield where it is known as niche, a new type of speed garage made with newer technology. It employs a lot of drum and bass production technique but over four-to-the-floor beats.

Grime music is typified by sparse and minimalist 2-step breakbeats, generally around 130-145 beats per minute, and an aggressive and fast rapping style - often in double time. The lyrics and music combine futuristic electronic elements; and dark, guttural, growling bass lines. In contrast to its more soulful predecessors in breakbeat music, grime features MCs as opposed to singers and has jettisoned the R&B influences of earlier UK garage in favour of brutal beats. Due to its experimental nature and diverse stylistic influences, artists involved in the grime scene initially resisted attempts to classify or pigeonhole the style, resulting in a range of different labels, including sublow, 8bar and eskibeat. Grime is sometimes associated with dubstep, a similar but largely instrumental genre which also evolved from the early 2000s UK garage scene.

Dubstep is a genre of electronic dance music which has its roots in London's early 2000s UK garage scene. The genre's name was coined by Ammunition Promotions. Musically, dubstep is distinguished by its dark mood, sparse rhythms, and emphasis on bass. Dubstep started to spread beyond small local scenes in late 2005 and early 2006, with many blogs and forums devoted to the genre appearing on the Internet. Simultaneously, the genre was receiving extensive coverage in music magazines such as The Wire and online publications such as Pitchfork Media. Interest in dubstep grew significantly after BBC Radio 1 DJ Mary Anne Hobbs began championing the genre, devoting a show to it (entitled "Dubstep Warz") in January 2006.

Breakstep is a breakbeat influenced subgenre of UK garage - originally called breakbeat garage, now more often referred to as 'breakstep.' This sound is similar to, but not the same as dubstep, with some cross-over between artists.

Breakstep evolved from the 2-step garage sound. Moving away from the more soulful elements of garage, it incorporated downtempo drum & bass style basslines, trading the shuffle of 2-step for a more straight forward breakbeat drum pattern. The breakthrough for this style came in 1999 from DJ Deekline's 'I Don't Smoke' selling 15,000 units on Rat Records until eventually being licenced to EastWest in 2000 and climbing the top 40 UK chart to number 11. Following this came DJ Zinc's '138 Trek,' an experiment with drum & bass production at UK garage tempo (138 bpm). This instigated a dialog between breaks and garage producers, with Forward>> playing host to Zed Bias and Oris Jay (aka Darqwan). They were mirrored in breaks by producers like DJ Quest, Osmosis and Ed209. Current descendants of these artists include Toasty Boy, Marlow, Mark One, Search & Destroy, Quiet Storm, Threnody, DJ Distance, Reza, Blackmass Plastics and Warlock, many of whom are associated with Urban Graffiti, Destructive Recordings, Combat Recordings, Rottun Recordings or Storming Productions.

Bassline house, or simply bassline, is a sub-genre of UK garage music that mixes elements of speed garage, 4x4 garage and R&B, and shares similarities to fellow sub-genres dubstep and grime from its emphasis on bass. The style originated in Sheffield in 2002, and rose to prominence during the mid-2000s in the north of England. In 2007, the sound began to gain major label interest when T2's single "Heartbroken" entered the music charts in several countries, including the UK singles chart where it reached #2. Since then, it has become significantly popular in the north of England, surpassing dubstep and grime in popularity, and gaining international attention.

Bassline has been the centre of controversy in Sheffield due to a police raid on the former bassline club night Niche, after which the club closed down. The police raided the club amidst fears that the scene had been attracting violence, drug use and gang culture. As it was the most popular bassline night in Sheffield prior to its closure, Niche is sometimes used as an alternative name for the genre.

New Tracks
T2 - "Heartbroken" Featuring Jodie Aysha
Lickrish Music - "Over With You"
Wideboys - "If You want to Party" Featuring Dennis G
Duncan Powell - "Highly Effective"
Saint B Baby - "The Vulture (4x4 Mix)" Featuring Skrapsta, Def1, Donae'o, Big Mighty, KO & Jay'o, Sharky P, PSG, Creed, DT & B-Live
Gemma Fox - "Might Be", "Crazy Crush"
Delinquent featuring KCat "My Destiny"
H "Two" O featuring Platinum "Whats It going to Be"
The Count Of Monte Cristal and Sinden - "Beeper"


Any other questions?

Thank you. Thats clears the whole thing up.

[Mrluvaluva]

No problem. Wikipedia is a good source.