Speed Garage

craner

Beast of Burden
Listening to this in the car has reignited my interest in this slim piece of time (97-8?). Speed garage sounds very evocative now and definitely a London thing. I think it's aged pretty well.

What is striking though is that a lot of the speed garage guys had a very short productive period - locked in the pre-2-step period and not really venturing any further. Scott Garcia, 187 Lockdown, Double 99, Tuff Jam, KMA...careers all basically fizzled out by 1999.

How fertile is Speed Garage? What are the best tracks, or the lost gems?
 

Corpsey

bandz ahoy

I don't really know what speed garage is but apparently this playlist is

4X4 beat + heavy/dubby bassline?
 

sadmanbarty

Well-known member

I don't really know what speed garage is but apparently this playlist is

4X4 beat + heavy/dubby bassline?

US Garage's rhtymic template + elements from jungle (bass, ragga samples, gunshots, vocal stretch's etc.)


It's faster than US garage as well.
 

droid

Well-known member
I think bass is a big factor, there's line between 4 x 4 garage and speed garage, which I would generally associate with big reesey basslines, not sure if that distinction is generally accepted though?

 

craner

Beast of Burden
Didn't 'Flat Eric' get play on the garage pirates? Or is that some bollocks I invented?
 
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