Genre

UK garage

Subgenres

  • bassline
  • 2-step

About

Grew out of early-1990s London clubs playing sped-up US garage house, then developed its own swung, shuffled two-step rhythm at around 130 BPM. Speed garage (1997) and two-step made it a chart force through Artful Dodger, MJ Cole and Todd Edwards' chopped-vocal style, and it went on to seed both grime and dubstep.

Artists with this sound