garage back then, a unified scene as it was, was a mishmash of styles - todd edwards style 4/4, r&b-esque 2step, breakbeat garage, wookie's mad beats, Narrows-style dark 4-to-the-floor, proto grime MC tunes, early dubstep etc. Zinc beats and tunes like SOTF or Wookie's 'Storm' were part of the garage scene as a whole and definitely helped inspire some of the climate for the MC-lead tunes that were to become grime.
oris began making dark 2step tunes like 'brand nu flava,' then got persistantly breakier around the time of the early forward>> days and zinc's breakbeat output.
before the emergence of the term 'dubstep,' people referred to 'the forward>> sound' as a loose grouping of all the dark flavours of garage that were played at that club and to me oris' beats fitted perfectly into that grouping.
oris began making dark 2step tunes like 'brand nu flava,' then got persistantly breakier around the time of the early forward>> days and zinc's breakbeat output.
before the emergence of the term 'dubstep,' people referred to 'the forward>> sound' as a loose grouping of all the dark flavours of garage that were played at that club and to me oris' beats fitted perfectly into that grouping.