# Double 99 — RIP Groove

Double 99’s RIP Groove (1997) appears on 3 of our lists — UK Garage, Bass Weight, and The Waxonia Desk — Garage on the Mix, highest at No. 5 in UK Garage. Every verdict, in full.

- **Released:** 1997
- **Label:** Ice Cream
- **On:** UK Garage, Bass Weight, and The Waxonia Desk — Garage on the Mix
- **Updated:** 2026-08-29
- **Artist:** [Double 99](https://waxonia.com/artist/double-99/)
- **Canonical page:** https://waxonia.com/track/double-99--rip-groove/

## What 3 lists say

### No. 5 in [UK Garage](https://waxonia.com/genre/uk-garage/)

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.

### Picked by [Bass Weight](https://waxonia.com/theme/the-desk-bass-weight/)

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.

### Picked by [The Waxonia Desk — Garage on the Mix](https://waxonia.com/selection/the-desk-garage-on-the-mix/)

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.

## Listen

[Search Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/search/Double%2099%20RIP%20Groove) · [YouTube Music](https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=8WZGUFGBPNQ)

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