1996-'97 Speed Garage Mix - Ruff!

[Benny Bunter]

really made me hear garage as proper ruffed up junglized house music in a way that I usually don't. I think, rather strangely, that 4x4 usually sounds way more junglistic to me than 2step. the faster tempo for one, but also - apropos of something the recent Kode9 Wire interview - something about the twitchy energy of the music straining to be released from its 4x4 underpinning.

I think I know what you mean about this but didn't really realise til after I done the mix. I reckon it could be the use of samples, all the time-stretched vox etc and mad FX that make early garage sound more jungalistic than a lot of 2step. Maybe...:slanted:

 

[scottdisco]

big, big love Benny

 

[wise]

Great mix! bring on part 2

 

[continuum]

yeah big up for this!

 

[HMGovt’s Glorious Return!]

Gonna give this one the ultimate accolade: Burning To A CDR.

 

[baboon2004]

Superb. What's the track that seems to be saying "Our crew" a lot at around 13 minutes? And this track at 39:00 is bumping...sounds like L'Trimm on the vocal sample or something...

Much as I love 2-step, this is educating me that I maybe like speed garage even more...loving the sampling and stretched vocals, feels wonderfully inorganic.

 

[Benny Bunter]

Thanks a lot!

The track with the 'our crew' sample would be this which I've just found out is a remix of A vs B. http://www.discogs.com/A-vs-B-Ripped-In-2-Minutes/master/115101 . Don't know who done the remix but its certainly a big tune.

If you liked this mix, I done a sequel here, http://www.dissensus.com/showthread.php?t=9417