POLL: Greatest garage producer?

[luka]

spirit of the sun? bluuurgh! kirk degergio type of title.

 

[Tim F]

Off the top of my head I count the following absolute classic Dem 2 tunes:

Dem 2 - Destiny
Groove Connektion 2 - Club Lonely (Dem 2 Don't Cry Dub)
Nu-Birth - Anytime (Dem 2 Remix)
Dem 2 - Baby (Dub)
Aftershock - Slave to the Vibe (Dem 2 Remix)
US Alliance - All I Know (Da Grunge Dub)
Antonio - Bad Funk (Dem 2 Breakbeat Remix)
Dem 2 - Desire
Dem 2 - Da Keep
De Souza - Keep it Coming (Dem 2 Remix)
Basement Jaxx - Jump & Shout (Dem 2 Remix)
Divine Styler - Directrix (Dem 2 Remix)
S-J - I Feel Divine (Dem 2 Remix)
Cloud 9 - Do You Want Me (Dem 2 Remix)
Indo - R U Sleeping (Dem 2 Remix)

There's dozens of more tunes I haven't even heard...

 

[Tim F]

Re joyous/yearning 2-step, my quick top 10 probably would be:

1. Amira - My Desire (Dreem Teem Remix)
2. Kristine Blond - Loveshy (Club Asylum Remix)
3. Sweet Female Atittude - Flowers (Sunship Remix)
4. Valerie M - Tingles 2000 (Artful Dodger Remix)
5. MJ Cole - Crazy Love
6. Zoom & DBX - Comin' Again
7. Dionne Rakeem - Sweeter Than Wine
8. Doolally - Straight From The Heart
9. Richie Dan - Call It Fate (Underground Mix)
10. Omar - Sometimes It Snows In April (Dreem House Dub)

 

[Tim F]

Dreem Teem probably the other glaring omission: when was drum programming ever as exquisite as in their remixes of Amira and of Kwesi's "Lovely" (both 1997!)??

 

[Ory]

i went with dem2, but here's my case for chris mack (0 votes???)

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(prefer the dubplate style mix but it's not on youtube afaik)

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also somewhat recently found out he made a mix of this classic

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[craner]

Dreem Teem probably the other glaring omission: when was drum programming ever as exquisite as in their remixes of Amira and of Kwesi's "Lovely" (both 1997!)??

I was thinking exactly the same thing! I think they were tainted in the hipster stakes by their Sunday lunchtime Radio 1 show.

 

[craner]

If anyone can explain the Wookie thing to me, I'd be grateful (and amazed). I'm scratching my head on the Zed Bias front, too.

 

[luka]

olivier basically wookie is good. he sounds plodding and cumbersome and dopey compared to the best garage somtimes but actually he is good tho. i put him in the sam category as sticky. the drums are bigger and crunchier. the bass is uglier and squelchier and louder.

 

[luka]

like somthing like storm which is a classic whther you can hear it or not is almost post 2 step, looking towards grime in the future. big ugly and heavy.

 

[Corpsey]

I had NO IDEA Dem 2 looked like this. I thought only people in nu-metal bands had soul patches like that. My whole world is crumbling around me.

Wookie - Scrappy, Down on Me, Angel RMX

 

[luka]

so why mak everyone elses world crumble too you selfish cunt?

 

[luka]

sometimes you gotta keep things to yourself.

 

[wise]

:slanted: ??
http://www.discogs.com/artist/Dem+2

9 tunes in 9 yearrs it's not exactly churning them out is it?

 

[wise]

one thing about wookie is that a fair number of his remixes just sound like they tacked the vocal on to an existing track. could say that about lots of guys but i think it lets him down a bit. not as much variation either.

I do't think you're taking into account the stuff he released on Manchu
http://www.discogs.com/label/Manchu+Recordings
very forward looking productions lots of variety, balance that with his more mainstream and vocal stuff and he's a pretty rounded producer

 

[wise]

which is definetly some sort of high point in westeren civilization.

I prefer the Ed Case remix



Best Dem 2 is the De Souza remix for me (as posted previously by someone?) or this

 

[wise]

9. Richie Dan - Call It Fate (Underground Mix)

Love this one

 

[wise]

Joyous!

 

[craner]

olivier basically wookie is good. he sounds plodding and cumbersome and dopey compared to the best garage somtimes but actually he is good tho. i put him in the sam category as sticky. the drums are bigger and crunchier. the bass is uglier and squelchier and louder.

I suppose I can accept that. 'Down on me' is good.

 

[meatstixx]

wookie learned his craft as one of the ghostproducers of Soul II Soul.. makes sense doesn't it. "on the run from soul 2 soul but you can never.." - battle.

 

[hucks]

I was thinking exactly the same thing! I think they were tainted in the hipster stakes by their Sunday lunchtime Radio 1 show.

I loved that programme. Three hours of UK Garage on the radio to listen to in bed every Sunday morning is a pretty much amazing concept outside London. By the end they were playing about 50:50 garage:r&b, but that was pretty cool, too.