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PLAYLIST: UK FLAVORS: UK Garage & 2Step

Artists: Todd Edwards, Grant Nelson, Nu-Birth, Smokin Beats, Two As One & MJ Cole, The Artful Dodger, Somber, Damon Trueitt, Soul || Soul, Subculture, MJ Cole, Craig David, Zed Bias, Al Brown, JK & MJ, Wookie, Second Protocol, Oxide & Neutrino, Urban Myths, So Solid Crew, Platinum 45, More Fire Crew, Daniel Bedingfield, Heartless Crew


UK GARAGE
From Wikipedia: - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UK_garage

UK garage (also known as UKG) is a genre of electronic music originating from England in the early 1990s. The genre usually features a distinctive syncopated 4/4 percussive rhythm with 'shuffling' hi-hats and beat-skipping kick drums. Garage tracks also commonly feature 'chopped up' and time-shifted or pitch-shifted vocal samples complementing the underlying rhythmic structure at a tempo usually around 130 BPM. UK garage was largely subsumed into other styles of music and production in the mid-2000s, including dubstep, bassline and grime. The decline of UK garage during the mid-2000s saw the birth of UK funky, which is closely related.



ORIGINS
The evolution of house music in the UK in the mid-1990s led to the term, as previously coined by the Paradise Garage DJs, being applied to a new form of music also known speed garage. Its originator is widely recognised to be Todd Edwards, the American house and garage producer, also known as Todd "The God" Edwards. In the early nineties, Edwards began to start remixing more soulful house records and incorporating more time-shifts and vocal samples than normal house records, whilst still living in the US. However, it was not until DJ EZ, the North London DJ, acquired one of Edwards' tracks and played it at a faster tempo in a nightclub in Greenwich, that the music genre really took off.
In the late nineties, the term "UK garage" was settled upon by the scene. This style is now frequently combined with other forms of music like soul, rap, reggae, ragga and R&B, all broadly filed under the description of urban music.
Artists such as Grant Nelson, M.J. Cole, Artful Dodger, Jaimeson, So Solid Crew, Heartless Crew, The Streets, Shanks & Bigfoot, DJ Luck & MC Neat, Sunship (Ceri Evans), Oxide and Neutrino and numerous others have made garage music mainstream in the UK, whilst Dizzee Rascal, Wiley and Kano's arrival raised the profile of grime, an offshoot of garage.



From Wikipedia: - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2-step_garage

2STEP
2-step garage, or simply 2-step, is a typically English genre of modern electronic dance music, and a relatively popular subgenre of UK garage.


CHARACTERISTICS
One of the primary characteristics of the 2-step sound – the term being coined to describe "a general rubric for all kinds of jittery, irregular rhythms that don't conform to garage's traditional four-on-the-floor pulse" – is that the rhythm lacks the kick drum pattern found in many other styles of electronic music with a regular four-on-the-floor beat. A typical 2-step drum pattern features beat-skipping kick drums, with a shuffled rhythm or the use of triplets applied to other elements of the percussion, creating a "lurching, falter-funk feel", and resulting in a beat distinctly different from that present in other house or techno. Although tracks with only two kick drum beats to a bar are perceived as being slower than the traditional four-on-the-floor beat, the listener's interest is maintained by the introduction of unusualsnare placements and accents in the drum patterns, or scattered rimshots and woodblocks, as well as syncopated basslines and the percussive use of other instruments such as pads and strings.
Instrumentation usually includes keyboards, synthesizers and drum machines. Other instruments added to expand the musical palette include guitar, piano and horns; these additions are almost always sampled. The primarily synth-based basslines used in 2-step are similar to those in the style's progenitors such as UK garage and before that, drum and bass and jungle, but influences from funk and soul can also be heard. Vocals in 2-step garage are usually female, and similar to the style prevalent in house music or contemporary R&B…


FOLLOW THIS LINK - HISTORICAL ITINERARY:
Old school Jungle: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLt98MSLOMjSlwBiv77dIs8EJn_w_Z3ft_
House Garage: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLt98MSLOMjSkuJXJ-X3w7-l362YLEnwNO


INSIGHTS:
TODD EDWARDS - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Todd_Edwards
GRANT NELSON - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grant_Nelson
MJ COLE - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M._J._Cole
THE ARTFUL DODGER - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artful_Dodger_(UK_band)
JAIMESON - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaimeson

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