I think that the UK garage sound was quite nice when it started off in around 1997 - in fact, I got quite excited about it at the time, mainly as it was closer to nice techno/house than to drum'n'bass (which, by 1997, was really getting on my nerves - all that tech-step stuff). It looked like urban London suddenly had a need for people who could program nice syncopated hi-hat patterns on Roland drum machines again, which made a change from the previous five years, during which only people who could chop up the Apache beat on an Akai sampler were getting any respect.
But then UK garage went all soppy and soft, and lost its edge. I started to see it as a dead genre, in fact, in 1999/2000. But although people like More Fire Crew or The Streets probably do annoy many 313ers, they kind of make me think that the genre's got some life in it again. This is going by the punk rock attitude that, if the kids are doing something than people in their mid-20s don't understand, then *something* must be working right... but I agree, the more prominent artists are pretty much a bunch of posers. I've got a garage mixtape from summer 1997 (the genre was literally weeks old when it was recorded) which still blows me away, and it towers over anything else it's produced since then. Apart from maybe The Streets. Early UK garage had a huge fixation with Detroit house, and you'd often hear Final Cut or Members of the House samples in there; "Take Me Away" was to UK garage what "Someday" was to early-1990s hardcore... Right, I'll stop blabbering now! Brendan > -----Original Message----- > From: Langsman, Marc [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 17 April 2002 17:07 > To: 'Mann, Ravinder [CCS]'; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'; '313' > Subject: RE: [313] hip house > > > > >remarkable similarities with like 'uk garridge' with all the > >dodgy raps which i hope will > >face an equally ill fated demise/. > > > >luving it, luving it it, luving it > >luving liiieke thiees > >hardcore your know the score > >blah blah.... > > > >what with them and So Solid Poo...enough > > > yeah those guys do my head in ! > UK garage used to be vaguely respectable back when i! were > putting out Todd > Edwards stuff etc , but now its turned into loads of pop > poofs with poor > rhymes lamely attempting to get down with the underground. > > One of those so solid guys got put in the slammer - I reckon > thw whole lot > of them should be banged up quite frankly ! > > Marc > > > -------------------------------------------------------------- > ---------------- > This message is intended only for the personal and > confidential use of the designated recipient(s) named above. > If you are not the intended recipient of this message you are > hereby notified that any review, dissemination, distribution > or copying of this message is strictly prohibited. This > communication is for information purposes only and should not > be regarded as an offer to sell or as a solicitation of an > offer to buy any financial product, an official confirmation > of any transaction, or as an official statement of Lehman > Brothers. Email transmission cannot be guaranteed to be > secure or error-free. Therefore, we do not represent that > this information is complete or accurate and it should not be > relied upon as such. All information is subject to change > without notice. > > Legal Disclaimer This message contains confidential information and is intended only for the individual named. If you are not the named addressee you should not disseminate, distribute or copy this e-mail. Please notify the sender immediately by e-mail if you have received this e-mail by mistake and delete this e-mail from your system. mail transmission cannot be guaranteed to be secure or error-free as information could be intercepted, corrupted, lost, destroyed, arrive late or incomplete, or contain viruses. The sender therefore does not accept liability for any errors or omissions in the contents of this message that arise as a result of e-mail transmission. If verification is required please request a hard-copy version. This message is provided for informational purposes only. our website at: http://www.widelearning.com Wide Learning is a trading name of Wide Multimedia Ltd Registered office: 33-41 Dallington Street, London EC1V 0BB Company number: 3339664 VAT number: 690 8399 83 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
