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Surely sendmail reeled when thusly spake Juuso Koponen:
>
> > what the heck style is this "two step garage" stuff ?
> >
> > 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, ..
I don't use Napster, I use Linux and my attempts to use
Gnutella just kept finding servers that don't serve.
Got URL's for some of these ? Thx!
> My personal favourites in the genre include:
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> 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.
