Why UKG and USG, Why not just Garage music as it once was???

F.IN.HILLBILLY

Why UKG and USG, Why not just Garage music as it once was???

DFX

Why do the media always have to put names to music? Speed Garage? Its just so that people on Radio 1 can sound like they know stuff.

deejayloveit

so that they can tell you what to buy....what to like, what to eat....what to wear....

also so record stores can have more than 2 sections.

electronic and non electronic.

we need some labels....but speed garage is one of the worst, as is 2-step.

i've had to catch up way too many heads in the US about how all 2-step is really garage, and UK Garage came from US garage, but it's not really the same..........blah blah friggin blah.

[agx]

how comes the world know UK Garage as 2 step? Who made that mistake? And thats proof that UK Garage didnt make it out of the UK until after 1999 ish (on any big kind of scale)

boosted

Hellllll yeah ... so sick of having to explain that there is more to UK Garage than 2step ... especially since I really prefer the 4x4 stuff these days.

Then again, why even make the distinction between house and garage ... pretty much the same music right, just a little more vocals and disco influences in the latter.

As Manny said, there has to be some way to divvy up the vinyl section in your local record shop :-)

Timmy Taktix

Back in 1997/1998, UK Garage wasn't called Garage at all, it was called UK Underground or Underground House, and Garage was just US Garage.

Names are a bit irrelevant anyway as it's often impossible to classify tracks into one particular category. I like what I like and that's it.

Mad-Ad

2-step was how you used to be able to refer to Drum n Bass wasn't it, when it took a lighter style? Way before 2-step uk garage.