Speed garage
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Speed garage (also known as Plus-8) is a type of electronic music, associated with UK garage and hard dance scenes.
Characteristics
Speed garage has sped-up NY garage 4-to-the-floor rhythms. Snares are placed as over the 2nd and the 4th kickdrums, so in other places of the drum pattern. Speed garage tunes have warp, heavy basslines, influenced by jungle and reggae. Sweeping bass is typical for speed garage. It is typical for speed garage tune to have a breakdown. Speed garage tunes sometimes featured timestretched vocals. As being heavily influenced by jungle, speed garage is full of jungle and dub sound effects, such as gunshot sounds.
A widely regarded pioneer of the speed garage sound is record producer, dj and remixer Armand Van Helden, whose Dark Garage remix of Sneaker Pimps' "Spin Spin Sugar" in 1996 is viewed by many to have brought the style of speed garage into the mainstream arena.
