The 10 best UK Garage tracks of all time
UK Garage
Skippy, syncopated dance music built from chopped R&B vocals and shuffled hi-hats, made in London in the late nineties. The missing link between house and everything British dance music did afterwards.
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Artful Dodger featuring Craig David / Re-Rewind (The Crowd Say Bo Selecta)
The record that took garage from Sunday afternoon raves to number two in the national charts, and made Craig David a household name in about six weeks.
Sweet Female Attitude / Flowers (Sunship Remix)
Sunship's remix is the definitive statement of the vocal 2-step sound — weightless, swung, and built around a vocal that sounds like it is floating just above the beat.
Wookie featuring Lain / Battle
Bass-heavy, patient, and quietly one of the most sophisticated productions of the era. Wookie treated space as an instrument in a genre that usually filled every gap.
Double 99 / RIP Groove
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.
Todd Edwards / Saved My Life
An American producer chopping vocals into confetti, largely ignored at home and worshipped in London. His editing style became UK garage's grammar and later Daft Punk's too.
So Solid Crew / 21 Seconds
Eight MCs, twenty-one seconds each, one of the most audacious singles ever to top the UK chart. The moment garage became a vehicle for British MCs and grime became inevitable.
Zed Bias / Neighbourhood
Rugged, bass-forward and endlessly rewound. Zed Bias built the template for what would later be called bassline and UK funky without ever losing the garage swing.
Groove Chronicles / Stone Cold
El-B's drums are the most influential in dark garage: dry, snapping, and arranged with a restraint that made the sub-bass underneath feel enormous.
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