Will a House crowd dig Garage ? :s

[tekki]

I'm actually spinning the same at the moment and it seems to be working well. Lot's of big name DJ's are doing the same thing as well.

Looks like we're doing something right here.

[MyUsername]

you're thinking UK Garage aka 'Garridge'

My understanding is garage was pretty much the new york equivalent of house developing at the same time as chicago house with some differences. while ishkurs guide is kind of annoying for some things it may be useful and has some examples of garage tracks.

Well I was actually referring to UK Garage, Future Garage, basically all the other Bass music in general.
I thought garage always referred to UK Garage.

[MyUsername]

Could you give some examples of 4x4-based garage? I always thought 2-step was a defining point of garage (but that's most likely to blame on my lacking knowledge - and as I'm not a fan of the 2-step-based genres I never took the time to further look into garage).

I believe this is some 4x4 garage


Oh and Mr_Moo, I intend to drop some "broken beat" garage as well, I believe it's more interesting as a continuous four to the floor beat. Just to mix things up a little.

[tekki]

Right on MyUsername. Digging it!

[backtothefront]

Evening all, hope we're well?

Just thought I'd had me two penneth worth In a very basic nutshell, this is how I see it:

- Garage - term comes from Paradise Garage, so think US House/Vocal/Soulful House - mid-late 80's pretty much, still very much around and probably covered nicely by Soulful & Deep House.

- Now we have what I suspect is what we're mostly discussing above: UK Garage -

1996/97 - Spawned in the Sunday scene in London, DJ's were playing US Vocal House or US Garage tunes, mainly the dub versions, and upped the pitch to play at a quicker BPM. The term Speed Garage or UK Garage came about around then. A few 'breaks' orientated UKG tunes appeared, Tina Moore etc. Lot's of big tunes in 1997. The first big year of UKG.

2001 - The 2nd coming of UK Garage in the form of developed Garage breakbeat i.e. 2 Step - again mainly in London but also Birmingham and other major UK cities had their own sound developing. Later that year to 2003 ish, the music got quicker to near the 135-140bpm mark; and darker b'lines and different time signatures crept in to form new sub genres of UK Garage:

Dubstep, Grime & Sublow etc were born.

2005-late 2000's - another new take on UKG along with the increasing popularity of Dubstep/Grime etc, 'new school UKG' in the form of 4x4, Bassline etc.

To date - Dubstep obviously still around (but in some different guises such as the awful 'brostep' stuff!) but also Future Garage which takes both old school UKG combined with current production sounds. The Underground Scene is doing well with plenty of new productions across all sub-genres of UKG being put out.

Also just to let you know DJTT Forum's very own Nicky-H has a superb guest mix on my new radio show coming up in a few weeks. The show 'Subculture' launches tomorrow night on www.music4thepeople.co.uk - focussing on Deep House, Leftfield & Electronica. Also not forgetting another installment of 'This Is Our House' on www.nu-rave.com every Friday night - Soulful & Deep House, Future Jungle, Rave Breaks, UKG & Old School.

Cheers,

BTTF.

P.S. Am on the lookout for guest mixes, please feel free to give me a shout if you're interested (Tekki, did you manage to see my PM btw?).

[3heads]

you're thinking UK Garage aka 'Garridge'

My understanding is garage was pretty much the new york equivalent of house developing at the same time as chicago house with some differences. while ishkurs guide is kind of annoying for some things it may be useful and has some examples of garage tracks.

Sure the old NY stuff is great (I mean, Larry Levan <3 <3 <3 - who doesn't love his music? I'm sure much of it would still work quite well today), but I'm not sure that's what Mr_Moo was up to.

[Mr_Moo]

Haha, yeah, i dont mean UK garage. Im talking US style flavours. "God Made Me Phunky", kinda thing. Zack Toms, etc

[Mr_Moo]

I believe this is some 4x4 garage

This is 100% in the opposite direction to what I meant by 4x4 garage! This is awful =P

This sound used to be big commerically about 4/5/6 years ago. I cant remember the sub-genre name it got given. I dont mean speed garage btw. That was HUGE in Birmingham 7 - 10 years ago.

[Mr_Moo]

Like this.

Which sounds EXACTLY like a lot of house music is these days anyway. So, in answer to your question: Play what you like. Dont pigeon hole anything or feel like you should avoid it, because its labelled differently. If you think it'll work try it, if it doesnt, at least you tried. If it does, thumbs up =)

[MyUsername]

Which sounds EXACTLY like a lot of house music is these days anyway.

Well the whole idea to begin with was to mix it up, well I'll just read the crowd and see how they react. Think I'm gonna start off with this banger:

or maybe the version where Katy B sings over it.

and slowly progress to something with a bigger emphasis on the sub.