Speed Garage

[kidshuffle]

^tune

[soulkids]

garage luv

[badger]

This was what I initially started going out to really back in 1996/7

This was the Ultimate ''Speed Garage'' track (although, if i remember rightly Speed Garage was a term refuted by the Garage community, I know I never used or liked the term) ''its jus garage innit!''

interesting that you say that because i'm looking back on garage after the fact, having mostly slept on it when i was growing up. i've always seen speed garage as something predating and being distinct from a lot of the other 4x4 garage like the ones in the previous post

i suppose that's a bit like someone comparing say early big apple dubstep to a lot of the dubstep being made today and saying that it's something separate when it's an evolution of the music rather than a divergence

[soulkids]

I always thought speed garage was just fast paced 4/4 opposed to the 2step stuff which followed after?

[JBoy]

I always thought speed garage was just fast paced 4/4 opposed to the 2step stuff which followed after?

Yeah garage was 4/4 before the 2 step beat came about and i think the first ever 2 step track was gabriel but cant remember who it was by and that was 96 or something. By the time i started going out nights were mainly 2 step mainly with the odd bumpy track.

[groucho_marxx]

This was what I initially started going out to really back in 1996/7

This was the Ultimate ''Speed Garage'' track (although, if i remember rightly Speed Garage was a term refuted by the Garage community, I know I never used or liked the term) ''its jus garage innit!''

interesting that you say that because i'm looking back on garage after the fact, having mostly slept on it when i was growing up. i've always seen speed garage as something predating and being distinct from a lot of the other 4x4 garage like the ones in the previous post

i suppose that's a bit like someone comparing say early big apple dubstep to a lot of the dubstep being made today and saying that it's something separate when it's an evolution of the music rather than a divergence

It was a very early evolution of the sunday scene i suppose right before 1998 when it blew up and everyone started listening to it/going out to it, coincidentally, i started djing and raving to House around about this time, although Id say i probably collected garage vinyl from about 1996-1999, the golden era.

[groucho_marxx]

I always thought speed garage was just fast paced 4/4 opposed to the 2step stuff which followed after?

Yeah garage was 4/4 before the 2 step beat came about and i think the first ever 2 step track was gabriel but cant remember who it was by and that was 96 or something. By the time i started going out nights were mainly 2 step mainly with the odd bumpy track.

[faust.dtc]

^^^ I always thought that Gabriel was US Garage, which inspired the UK 2step movement.

Badger coming with a nice selection.

And yeah, spin spin sugar.

[Laszlo]

(although, if i remember rightly Speed Garage was a term refuted by the Garage community, I know I never used or liked the term) ''its jus garage innit!''

This.

[kidshuffle]

Anybody know if any of these old labels that were putting out this sorter stuff are online for MP3 downloads?? Ive found Ice Cream Records on Beatport, but apart from that not much else.

juno seems to be improving their back catalog.

[groucho_marxx]

I have an absolute ton of this tracks on vinyl, simply sitting there in a basement at my parents house in Folkestone!

[JBoy]

Cellar.

[garethom]

All in all though, Scooter are probs my fave speed garage <3

[JBoy]

Scooter were pure class.

[LA_Boxers]

This was what I initially started going out to really back in 1996/7

This was the Ultimate ''Speed Garage'' track (although, if i remember rightly Speed Garage was a term refuted by the Garage community, I know I never used or liked the term) ''its jus garage innit!''

interesting that you say that because i'm looking back on garage after the fact, having mostly slept on it when i was growing up. i've always seen speed garage as something predating and being distinct from a lot of the other 4x4 garage like the ones in the previous post

i suppose that's a bit like someone comparing say early big apple dubstep to a lot of the dubstep being made today and saying that it's something separate when it's an evolution of the music rather than a divergence

I was listening/buying garage at the early to mid days of 2 step. I would agree with what Badger has said. Most Speed Garage came about earlier than 4x4 and 2step. Obviously there was a bit of overlap, but speed garage, IMO, came first.

[groucho_marxx]

This was what I initially started going out to really back in 1996/7

This was the Ultimate ''Speed Garage'' track (although, if i remember rightly Speed Garage was a term refuted by the Garage community, I know I never used or liked the term) ''its jus garage innit!''

interesting that you say that because i'm looking back on garage after the fact, having mostly slept on it when i was growing up. i've always seen speed garage as something predating and being distinct from a lot of the other 4x4 garage like the ones in the previous post

i suppose that's a bit like someone comparing say early big apple dubstep to a lot of the dubstep being made today and saying that it's something separate when it's an evolution of the music rather than a divergence

I was listening/buying garage at the early to mid days of 2 step. I would agree with what Badger has said. Most Speed Garage came about earlier than 4x4 and 2step. Obviously there was a bit of overlap, but speed garage, IMO, came first.

Its quite an unclear one really and there was no real passing of the proverbial baton, speed garage was given for sped up US dubs, even tracks of Just Gets better, The Word Is Love ilk fell under that catagory, in places I used to go, but again, it was just a name I think personally, though the jungle bassline did give it a distinct sound.

[garethom]

A "Roots Of Garage" CD along the lines of the "Roots Of El-B" and "Routes Of Dubstep" would be absolutely sick.

[badger]

it was just a name I think personally, though the jungle bassline did give it a distinct sound.

always the case with genre names, but yeah that's what makes speed garage for me, as opposed to 4x4 garage as a more general term

A "Roots Of Garage" CD along the lines of the "Roots Of El-B" and "Routes Of Dubstep" would be absolutely sick.

hmm good idea for a mix there... going to have a little think about a tracklist

[garethom]

it was just a name I think personally, though the jungle bassline did give it a distinct sound.

always the case with genre names, but yeah that's what makes speed garage for me, as opposed to 4x4 garage as a more general term

A "Roots Of Garage" CD along the lines of the "Roots Of El-B" and "Routes Of Dubstep" would be absolutely sick.

hmm good idea for a mix there... going to have a little think about a tracklist

Big up man, would be nice to hear that.

"Roots of Post-Dubstep" next

[badger]

dunno what would be better, roots of garage or history of garage? think the latter would be nice so that it shows the progression of the sound