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On Friday night I was asked to play some garage. Just at the point when I had a full floor dancing to Barbie Girl. But that's another story. To be totally honest, I don't really know what Garage music is!! :stu:

 

Can anyone suggest some good tracks or a cd that's worth getting?

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Im starting to get asked for alot of Garage again.... The best tunes that i play are:

 

Sweet Female Attitude - Flowers

Daniel Beddingfield - Gotta Get Thru This

Wideboys - Sambuca

Kci & Jo Jo - Tell Me Its Real (Club Asylum Mix)

Shola Ama - Imagine

Arictechs - Bodygroove

DJ Luck & MC Neat - A Little Bit Of Luck

DJ Deekline - I Dont Smoke

B15 Project - Girls Like Us

 

Thats some more Commercial Garage from the last 10 years

 

Modern Garage includes stuff like T2 - Heatbroken or H20 - Whats It Gonna Be

 

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Difficult to define the genre because the media keep changing their minds...

 

Garage to me means uptempo and dancy, with perhaps a breakbeat rather than the strict 4/4 of club tracks.

 

To be honest, I doubt the average person would know the difference either unless they were heavily into that particular beat structure.

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There's two types of Garage, what Andy describes is known as Speed Garage, T2 and H20 are examples of this.

 

Wheras Arichitects, Artful Dodger etc. is 2-step garage.

 

Take a look at Wikipedia, its really helpful for defining genres.

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Usually you will find Garage pretty close to House and sometimes separated by Garden Shed or Drive.

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Im starting to get asked for alot of Garage again.... The best tunes that i play are:

 

Sweet Female Attitude - Flowers

Daniel Beddingfield - Gotta Get Thru This

Wideboys - Sambuca

Kci & Jo Jo - Tell Me Its Real (Club Asylum Mix)

Shola Ama - Imagine

Arictechs - Bodygroove

DJ Luck & MC Neat - A Little Bit Of Luck

DJ Deekline - I Dont Smoke

B15 Project - Girls Like Us

 

Thats some more Commercial Garage from the last 10 years

 

Modern Garage includes stuff like T2 - Heatbroken or H20 - Whats It Gonna Be

 

Wow, I'd forgotten what a great track "Kci & Jo Jo - Tell Me Its Real (Club Asylum Mix)" is! The original version of that song is so boring, but that mix is great!

 

Thanks I've found a cd called "Pure Garage Rewind - Back to the Old Skool " which seems to have quite a few of the tracks you've mentioned on it. But I can't tell what version of the KCi & Jo Jo track it is though. Has any one this compilation?

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Non of what you listed is Real Garage however its just the name was stolen and used..

 

 

 

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Non of what you listed is Real Garage however its just the name was stolen and used..

Yes, well........

 

I always thought 'Garage' was rock music from America in the 60s

Indeed it is

 

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As Marc said, its just the name was stolen and used

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Difficult to define the genre because the media keep changing their minds...

 

Garage to me means uptempo and dancy, with perhaps a breakbeat rather than the strict 4/4 of club tracks.

 

 

 

 

Well I finally bought some Garage tracks and see what you mean Andy with the beat. Sorry I'm not an expert on this but does "breakbeat" mean where the beat gets kind of chopped up and then there is a pause. It kinda sounds like the cd is sticking actually. :D

 

I have to say, I like the frantic pace of some of it, but it wears thin after a few tracks.

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i though garage music was only played in a garage so we could shut the large door when we have had enough!!

 

and tech-no well theres tech-no use playing it cause it makes no sence!!!

 

lol

 

 

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