2 other djs I still need to check that get name dropped by so many other djs I respect are
Ken Collier out of Detroit and
Tee Scott from NYC. Collier was huge for Detroit underground house and Scott was knocking around with and influencing the who's who of the NY/NJ sphere. Big influence on Tony Humphries who's my go-to guy for the the NJ garage thing which is prob the sound that does it for me above all these days. Tuff Love I'd call it. Gospel tinged but with those deep n dark basses. Chatting with Jerome Sydenham once I was asking him about the Paradise Garage - he was a regular, and he said 'look man, the PG
was all that and then some, but for me, Humphries at Zanzibar was the one.'
Which makes me wonder what Tee Scott did that inspired that