Chicago wise - Mike Dunn & Steve Poindexter are probably my favourites:
to my ears, Dunn and Poindexter are at the hard technoid-mechanix end of house, at some remove from whatever it is that garage is supposed to be . . . .
Chicago wise - Mike Dunn & Steve Poindexter are probably my favourites:
to my ears, Dunn and Poindexter are at the hard technoid-mechanix end of house, at some remove from whatever it is that garage is supposed to be . . . .
Andy, I thought much like house was named after The Warehouse club in Chicago, garage is derived from The Paradise Garage. Obviously there are far more similarities betw. Chicago and NY house than differences, but I would say that garage has a more ostensible disco influence, hence the smoother, 'classier' vibe and also places more emphasis - gives more of the frequency spectrum - to the bassline (maybe this is why it's more 'bumping' than 'bangin' ala Chicago/Detroit).
I think the Paradise Garage was renowned for its sound-system's ability to produce low-frequencies, perhaps that's why more bass was more prominent in NYC tracks than elsewhere. Although PG had closed by the time many of the classic garage tracks were produced. Still, I think I remember Simon Reynold's discussing in EF, Reese producing one of the first Detroit tracks with heavy bass, 'Just Want Another Chance', Kevin Saunderson had visited the Paradise Garage, and was 'vibing' what a really heavy bassline would feel like in there, how it would sound - and so produced the much sampled, and imitated (esp. in d'n'b) 'Reese bass'.
What would people say is the main distinction between US Garage and just 90s US House?
Modified Reese bass was a big part of a lot of classic No U-Turn tunes, wasn't it?
The difference between US Garage and US house has never been explained that well, I'd be tempted to say that it was a mistake to come up with the name in the first place.
I suppose it's down to gospel vocals.
India & MAW came up with verse chorus type songs but would latinos like them have not have been labelled as Garage because the vocals didn't sound properly 'raised in the church'?
Moodyman "I Cant Kick This Feelin'
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Then one time it was in the player and I suddenly locked into the how hynotic it gets after about 10 mins of those bumpy kicks and shuffles. I found this with a lot of the Detroit beatdown stuff. You have to let it wash over you in a way and it'll pull you in.