Recording
RIP Groove
Double 99
Independently chosen for3 of our lists. Here is what each of them said.
- Released
- 1997
- Label
- Ice Cream
- On
- UK Garage, Bass Weight, and The Waxonia Desk — Garage on the Mix
- Updated
- 2026-08-29
Ranked No. 5 in 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
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
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.