Rudewhy's Speed Garage Top 100

Woebot

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just catching up with this. gotta say - amazing. loving the little descriptions. seriously deep knowledge in evidence. stunning. thanks so much Rudewhy.
 
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Woebot

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I also believe this was the only Speed Garage track Todd Terry produced himself rather than enrolling the likes of Loop Da Loop for remix duties.

bad tune.

todd made a stab at jungle didn't he with "blackout"- with that there was the sense of a distance travelled.


and he was enamoured of the same hip hop x techno x reggae formulation that bewitched uk dance music - so i suppose it's surprising he didn't make more speed garage cuts.
 

boxedjoy

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got the CD single of this for 50p on ebay recently - so spiritual and uplifting and yet so dark and menacing
 

boxedjoy

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people always think of speed garage as being quite macho and aggressive because the story you hear of its peak* is of the violence and fighting, but I always thought it coded as quite camp, the shuffling beats and protracted breakdowns, and I don't think it ever got as obviously so as it did here

*(I was 8 in 1996)
 

boxedjoy

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every Booker T remix has the same hi-hat fill but this is so much better than the others, all the familiar speed garage cliches but just assembled so well and devastatingly
 

boxedjoy

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I haven't listened to that yet but I have it saved on my to-do list. I listened to the Big Ang and DJ Narrows ones from the same series and they were excellent so I'm looking forward to the other four.
 
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