We consider UK garage and 2-step siblings ala breakbeat and nu skool breaks.
They are very similiar but not always the same. Perhaps all UK garage is
2-step but not all 2-step is UK garage?....anyway for us the more commercial
sounding tracks are UK garage (DJ Pied Piper, Oxide & Neutrino, etc) but
things like the Zed Bias remix of 2 Banks Of 4 is just 2-step. Completely
arbitrary and subjective but it seems to be clear to most of the stores we
deal with...I think...
Dirk van den Heuvel
President/GM, Groove Distribution
"Your Guide To The Underground"
http://www.groovedis.com
-----Original Message-----
From: Velanche Stewart [mailto:vstewart@calpoly.edu]
Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2001 4:38 PM
To: Dirk van den Heuvel
Cc: bump2k selectah; Elson Trinidad; acid-jazz@ucsd.edu
Subject: Re: Urban Soul Collective (West London Supergroup)/
Broken-Step?
And while we're on the subject of names, is 2-step the same as U.K.
garage?
In any event, I have a few listeners who are requesting such music, but
we are not exactly well-equipped here in town with such things. I hope
to change all that in due time, but I am feeling Landslide, Bugz, IG,
and others quite nicely.
Dirk van den Heuvel wrote:
>
> Okay what exactly is the different between "broken step" and either broken
> beat or abstract 2-step?? Most of the stuff you mentioned we consider
either
> broken beat or just more abstract ("intelligent"??) 2-step.
>
> Dirk van den Heuvel
> President/GM, Groove Distribution
> "Your Guide To The Underground"
> http://www.groovedis.com
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