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> what the heck style is this "two step garage" stuff ?
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> can someone point to an MP3 that demonstrates it ?
Use your Napster or whatever and pick up a track by MJ Cole, Wookie,
Colonel Reefa, Architex, DJ Luck & NC Neat, ..
My personal favourites in the genre include:
MJ Cole: "Sincere [Wookie Remix]" (Talkin' Loud)
Wookie feat. Lain: "Battle" (S2S)
Destiny's Child: "Say My Name [Bootleg 2 Step Remix]" (white)
De La Soul: "All Good? [Wookie Remix]" (Tommy Boy)
Wookie: (unknown track name) (Manchu)
Basically 2-step is the new and improved version of what was previously
called "speed garage" (uychh..): house/garage with deep drum&bass style
basslines. 2-step also has very unique type of beat, it's not the
typical 4/4 house beat used in speed garage, but a kind of skit-skat
very groovy, heavily syncopated pattern, pretty hard to decribe if you
haven't heard it. Try any MJ Cole track for a prime example (Mr. Cole is
credited to be the inventor of the 2-step beat). Timbaland uses
percussion a bit like that in his r&b tracks, which you might have come
across..
Typical 2-step track includes:
- the trademark 2-step beat
- heavy d&b basslines
- r&b vocals
- housey melodic elements
There is also a jazzier subgenre in 2-step, much played by Gilles P and
DJs from the Compost camp. Most of the 2-step scene is based in the UK
(where it's *huge*, you can see fan posters of 2-step DJs in teen mags
etc.), but the jazzier sound seems to come pretty much outside of UK;
Germany and Japan are big sources. Artists that immediately come into my
mind include Yukihiro Fukutomi, who like many other names in this
subgenre, is also involved with the nu jazz scene.
