UK Garage VS US Garage

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What's the Difference - well, i know what UK Garage sounds like, im wondering more about the US Garage sound.

I try to be as inclusive as i can in my attitude to most things, but does anyone else find theres something about UK Garage as a music and an attitude that just sucks the root?

"We're lovin' it, lovin' it, lovin' it
We're lubbin it like that"
not all of us, buddy

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US Garage

Its got a 4-4 beat, not the breakbeat that UK garage has.

Usually accompanied by soulful vocals and a funky, jumpy bassline and claps.
 
man the way i see it is, US Garage is more R&B like Craig David or Artful Dodger. Whilst Artful Dodger are english they produce a more US sounding Garage, in tracks such as 'Please don't turn me on' and 'Woman Trouble ft. Craig David'.
UK Garage is not so much like this. Artful Dodger do produce a UK Garage sound aswell. It's more of a mix between US and UK with them. Take their track 'Think about me' , 'Are you ready' or even 'Rewind' for an example...

hope this helps out man
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DjSwankstar said:
man the way i see it is, US Garage is more R&B like Craig David or Artful Dodger.
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wrong, US house is plainly house music, it's as simple as that
 
1989:

Then they [uk club scene] discovered garage. 'Garage' as a term had already long been in use on the house scene to differentiate the smooth, soulful songs flowing from New York and New Jersey from the more energetic, uplifting deep house out of Chicago. But the hype on this supposedly new music did allow a lot of very good acts a chance of exposure that otherwise they wouldn't have had. The Americans were confused. To most New Yorkers and Jerseyites, garage was what was played at the Paradise' Garage, which had closed two years earlier. What they were making was club music or dance music, and house was all that track stuff from Chicago. But they were happy that someone somewhere was getting off on their sound. Tony Humphries, who'd been on New York's Kiss FM since 1981 and at the Zanzibar in New Jersey since 1982, was to become instrumental in exposing the Jersey sound. Though he was one of more open-minded DJ's In the New York area, his was the style that married real r'n'b based dance to house.


>> http://www.housemusic.com/extras/
 
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It was written a couple of years ago by Bill Brewster and Frank Broughton.




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"Anyone who claims to be interested in DJing should read "Last Night A DJ Saved My Life" before even switching your decks on.

It was written a couple of years ago by Bill Brewster and Frank Broughton."


totally agree with that....thats where i got my defination of dnb/jungle from in this forum.

good call.
 
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Re: US Garage

Twelves said:
Its got a 4-4 beat, not the breakbeat that UK garage has.

Usually accompanied by soulful vocals and a funky, jumpy bassline and claps.
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a 4:4 beat... well, I'm yet to hear an electronic track, be it DnB, Garage, Trance, House that doesn't have a 4:4 time signature. You may find it in some rock, (Tool and Primus to mention a few).
If you have an example though I'd like to hear it though, but I think you're confusing the disco 4 to the floor beat with time signature, and even the sucky (sorry, but I think it's sucky) US garage doesn't go 4 to the floor.
 
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4 to the floor means

Code: 
1 _ _ _   1 _ _ _   1 _ _ _   1 _ _ _  (KICK)

while 2 step usually goes

Code: 
1 _ _ _   _ _ _ _   _ _ 1 _   _ _ _ _  (KICK)

and dnb might have:

Code: 
1 _ _ _   _ _ _ 1   1 _ 1 _   _ _ _ _  (KICK)
 
btw, this code formatting tool is nice for displaying beat patterns :)
 
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No. That was twelves. Saying that UK garage didn't have a 4:4 time signature. I just explained that it doesn't work like that.
 
No, I didn't say time signature. I said 4-4 beat, maybe the terminology was wrong.

I meant 4 to the floor! As in 4 kick-drums. I understand the 4:4 time signature thing. This is what I use when mixing between house and breakbeat (which UK garage has, for example)

Anyway, thats the easiest thing (for me at least) to differentiate between US garage and the UK garage sound.
 
yes, then we just got mixed up here. 4-4 / 4:4 is time signature and totally different from 4 to the floor.

Anyway, aren't you thinking about the crappy US house? Cause even US garage have some elements of drum&bass in it, and thereby not 4 to the floor.

The differentiation between US Garage and House lies only there within though, so I understand what you're saying.

Of course there are examples of good US house and garage (well not garage hehe) but mostly it's cheesy and it all sounds the same.
 
Very true, but you can use breakbeat in a DnB track if you want to. Not garage though. To soft and plain.
 
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