Speed garage | |
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Stylistic origins | |
Cultural origins | Early to mid-1990s, United Kingdom and United States |
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UK hard house |
Speed garage (occasionally known as plus-8 [1]) is a genre of electronic dance music, associated with the UK garage scene, of which it is regarded as one of its subgenres. [2]
Speed garage features sped-up NY garage 4-to-the-floor rhythms that are combined with breakbeats. [3] Snares are placed as over the 2nd and the 4th kickdrums, so in other places of the drum pattern. [4] Speed garage tunes have warped, heavy basslines, influenced by jungle [5] and reggae. [6] Sweeping bass is typical for speed garage. [7] It is also typical for speed garage tunes to have a breakdown. [8] Speed garage tunes sometimes featured time-stretched vocals. [9] As it is heavily influenced by jungle, speed garage makes heavy use of jungle and dub sound effects, such as gunshots and sirens. [10] [11]
A widely regarded pioneer of the speed garage sound is record producer, DJ and remixer Armand van Helden, whose Dark Garage remix of the Sneaker Pimps' " Spin Spin Sugar" in 1996 helped bring the style of speed garage into the mainstream arena. [12]
The following is a list of notable songs and official remixes which not only charted but were popular within the speed garage scene:
Speed garage | |
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Stylistic origins | |
Cultural origins | Early to mid-1990s, United Kingdom and United States |
Derivative forms | |
Other topics | |
UK hard house |
Speed garage (occasionally known as plus-8 [1]) is a genre of electronic dance music, associated with the UK garage scene, of which it is regarded as one of its subgenres. [2]
Speed garage features sped-up NY garage 4-to-the-floor rhythms that are combined with breakbeats. [3] Snares are placed as over the 2nd and the 4th kickdrums, so in other places of the drum pattern. [4] Speed garage tunes have warped, heavy basslines, influenced by jungle [5] and reggae. [6] Sweeping bass is typical for speed garage. [7] It is also typical for speed garage tunes to have a breakdown. [8] Speed garage tunes sometimes featured time-stretched vocals. [9] As it is heavily influenced by jungle, speed garage makes heavy use of jungle and dub sound effects, such as gunshots and sirens. [10] [11]
A widely regarded pioneer of the speed garage sound is record producer, DJ and remixer Armand van Helden, whose Dark Garage remix of the Sneaker Pimps' " Spin Spin Sugar" in 1996 helped bring the style of speed garage into the mainstream arena. [12]
The following is a list of notable songs and official remixes which not only charted but were popular within the speed garage scene: