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SPEED
GARAGE MUSIC - What is Speed Garage Music? |
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scene has already broken within the North of England,
where it was difficult to explain the music to them at first,
but now everybody on that tip. It started as a London scene,
but has now spread to Manchester, Birmingham, Wales
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Paul Chambers who help with the running of
500 Records, London, UK comments that..."Everyone's
got their own terminology's - I just make 'garage' music!
If I do come up with a definitive name, I'll get it copyrighted
straight away! One reason why people are keen to give
it a name is that if you want to take it to America you
have to give it a name - that's how they work!"
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| "They have to
have it categorized and pigeonholed, or they can't market
it!. With this in mind it's no wonder that the media, rather
then the people directly involved with the music, have come
up with names such as 'Gangster garage" to define what
they see as sub-genres. It's really down to interpretation
- most of the people creating the music see it quite simply
as the new sound of Underground UK garage".
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Jungle here we come
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One of the most distinctive elements of this scene are the
deep sub-bass lines which dominate many of the tracks. Many
of the producers of Speed Garage have migrated from Jungle
and onto the new and fresh scene of Uk /Speed Garage |
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"The basslines have always
been there", Spoony points out, "because
house music as such has always been based around a hard
kick and a good baseline. The basslines have just become
more predominant within the music and that's the part
which it owes to the jungle side without a doubt. It's
as much a British thing as a jungle thing because that's
what we like in British dance music!"
However the real danger of relying on
the big and deep RIP or Armand Van Helden style
baseline will become boring in the end. However funky
and rough they might seem at present. However not everyone
are following that route. Many are still going for, trying
to produce a song, with full a production, and yes, still
with that ruff edge. But not all in the pursuit of the
roughest baseline that you can come up with.
In fact of late there is a definite use
of HipHop breakbeats and Soul music influences
when it come to the Sunday Scene music nowadays in England.
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