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.
quoted 3 lines are considered speed garage? I wonder if it's really the fusion of
>> > 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