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8 unusual facts about UK Garage


4x4 garage

4x4 garage (also 4/4, 4x4, four-to-the-floor) is an umbrella term, associated with the UK garage scene.

Claudia Webbe

The latest campaign engaged the UK garage/grime/hip hop group Roll Deep, whose latest track "Badman" is a message to those who might have been seduced by the glamour of guns.

Courtney Pine

His recent music integrates modern British music like drum and bass and UK garage with contemporary jazz styles.

Ewen Spencer

In 1999 Spencer worked photographing nightlife, such as the UK garage scene, for fashion and lifestyle magazine Sleazenation.

Indy Sagu

Sagu has found much success in record producing across many genres of music, particularly in his speciality of bhangra, hip hop, house, UK garage, and rock.

Joy Orbison

O'Grady credits his uncle Ray Keith for introducing him to jungle and UK garage at a young age.

Ridge Racer Type 4 Direct Audio

R4 instead explored music styles encompassing funk, breakbeat, acid jazz, UK garage, progressive house, and neo-soul mixed with traditional Namco synth melodies.

Romina Johnson

Romina Johnson (born 1973, Rome, Italy) is a London-based R&B, soul, UK garage and 2-step singer.


Deighton, West Yorkshire

It starts with a procession of floats playing Reggae Dancehall, Bassline, RnB, Garage and Reggae on the road, costumed bands make up more of the procession including Suga Brown dance group, "Whitacre TRA" and Bradley Junior and Infant and Ashbrow Junior and Infant schools.

Leee John

He released a number of dance singles in the late 1990s and early 2000s, including the UK Garage tracks "Your Mind, Your Body, Your Soul" and "U Turn Me" with Ten City vocalist Byron Stingily (2000).

Moorish Delta 7

Moorish Delta 7 (also known as MD7) are a hip hop/UK garage outfit from the Newtown area of Birmingham, England.


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Plastician

Starting out as a UK Garage DJ at the age of 18 under the moniker of Darkstar (not to be confused with Darkstar of Hyperdub recordings), Reed began to take interest in the darker side of the sound, specialising in sets featuring tracks from the likes of Wookie, Zed Bias, El-B, Groove Chronicles, Steve Gurley and working alongside MC's Tricks & Spellz as part of the "Fearless Crew".