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  "slug": "double-99",
  "name": "Double 99",
  "description": "Double 99 appears 3 times in our UK Garage, Bass Weight, and The Waxonia Desk — Garage on the Mix lists, placing as high as No. 5. Hand-curated, with a reason for every pick.",
  "updated": "2026-08-29",
  "url": "https://waxonia.com/artist/double-99/",
  "appearanceCount": 3,
  "distinctRecordings": 1,
  "years": {
    "first": 1997,
    "last": 1997
  },
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    "rank": 5,
    "list": "UK Garage"
  },
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      "slug": "uk-garage",
      "name": "UK Garage",
      "url": "https://waxonia.com/genre/uk-garage/",
      "entries": 1
    },
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      "kind": "curator",
      "slug": "the-desk-bass-weight",
      "name": "Bass Weight",
      "url": "https://waxonia.com/theme/the-desk-bass-weight/",
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    },
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      "url": "https://waxonia.com/selection/the-desk-garage-on-the-mix/",
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    }
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      "trackKey": "double-99--rip-groove",
      "trackUrl": "https://waxonia.com/track/double-99--rip-groove/",
      "title": "RIP Groove",
      "year": 1997,
      "label": "Ice Cream",
      "isrc": null,
      "whyItMatters": "Speed garage's calling card. The bassline is borrowed from jungle and the swing from house, and the collision defined an entire eighteen months of British club music.",
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        {
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        },
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          "url": "https://open.spotify.com/search/Double%2099%20RIP%20Groove",
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        },
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      },
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    },
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      "trackUrl": "https://waxonia.com/track/double-99--rip-groove/",
      "title": "RIP Groove",
      "year": 1997,
      "label": "Ice Cream",
      "isrc": null,
      "whyItMatters": "Jungle's tempo halved and its aggression kept. Garage is usually filed as the friendly one, and this is the record that shows how thin that description always was.",
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      ],
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        },
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      },
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        "name": "Bass Weight",
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      },
      "artist": "Double 99"
    },
    {
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      "title": "RIP Groove",
      "year": 1997,
      "label": "Ice Cream",
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      "whyItMatters": "The dark end, and the reminder that garage was never only champagne. The split into speed garage and two-step reads cleanly in hindsight; on a night out in 1997 nobody in the room was choosing sides.",
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      ],
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