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UK Garage, as its name suggests is a very British thing and is a direct descendent of garage. Speed garage never really took off so a clever bloke by the name of MJ Cole decided that if he mixed some of the elements from Drum N' Bass into it you got a harder, darker sound. UK Garage - 2 step was born.
DJ's such as EZ, Ramsey and Fen and Norris 'the boss' Windross along with the original MC, Creed rocked the house with this new sound. Soon UK Garage started to spread so that it was no longer just a thing they played on Sunday nights in London. Soon clubs nation wide started holding Garage nights. Big time promotion companies such as Naughty but Nice, Garage Nation and Inspiration 'got into it' and the events got bigger and bigger. By the end of '99 it even had it's only island, the Cyprican island of Ayia Nappa which now challenges Ibiza for the clubbing capital of the world.
UK Garage's popularity has risen to boiling point now in 2000. The Dreem Teem (Timmi Magic, Mikee B and DJ Spooney) have their on show on radio 1 (Sunday mornings 10-1). And virtually every record label under the planet pumping out as many compilation albums as possible, commercialisation has reached its full intensity. This, in my opinion is killing the genre. With tunes such as Artful Dodger's Moving to fast and NNG's Right before my eyes being juiced out 10 times a day over the radio people will quickly get tired of it - but then again, the music was designed for the dedicated ravers of the underground not the entire world.
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