Style Guide: UK Garage | Part 1 - A History of UK Garage with MJ Cole 

You can watch Part 2 here :: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-K7jANHlDrFE.html

As a 40yr old man from the states I feel blessed I found UKG in 97. I started spinning UKG by 2000 and nothing makes my head heart grove like that sound. It's epic to say the least.

25 year old in the states just now getting into UKG. Haven’t been absolutely hooked on a genre like this in a long time.

It's like every UK Garage doc or interview on youtube is just a treasure trove of important historical info

5 years later, there’s a great new UK garage scene emerging

I could listen to him speak for ages. It was great watching this!! I knew he worked at S.O.U.R. which makes sense how he met Elisabeth Troy. Big up the London Underground FM 89.4 crew!! MJ Cole is a national treasure. One of the best UK Garage producers!!

It’s unreal how instantly excited i get the minute i hear the first hit of crazy love.

just been able to put a face to the name. what a humble and down to earth guy. lotta respect

Mj cole my idol. Every garage and jungle tune I ever produced came through listening to this man's works. Absolute legend. I salute you sir

Big Love to UK-Music from Germany!

I was born in 96 in Detroit and I remember very vaguely garage music from back then. Just rediscovered it this past year and that sound sounds so familiar. I don't know where I've heard this music before

He just detailed my entire experience with UKG / 2 Step and Dubstep. The subgenre part is legit. Sub-low ( Jon e. Cash) 8 Bar (Musical Mob Royale) and he clearly speaks facts on the evolution, how Garage went Dark (Oris Jay) and split into Grime and Early Dubstep with more Indian and middle eastern instrumentation behind it which then moved to more Reggae Dub influence. Then the Wobble bass thing happened and caspa and rusko which then pushed the bass as the primary sound .. and "brostep" is born and as Matt points out , when that happened in Garage ( darker sound) the ladies leave the scene . same thing happened in Dubstep, which is why it got called "brostep" . A room full of dudes waiting for the Drop, and a bunch of male producers making more aggressive sounding music. UK Garage, never died, A lot of us DJ's played it in the States through every genre change, through every evolutionary split - Bassline, UK Funky, Grime, Dubstep, 2 Step, and the list of subgenres goes on and on. Big up to MJ Cole who played to a relatively sparse crowd here in Boston well over a decade ago with the members of Soul Champion Crew. ( G Notorious, Senyo, Jam-2 and DJ Elyte aka Eli Goldstein of Soul Clap) I want to see some PROLIFIC DUBBS tracks in 2018 - I'm still playing Scooby/Shaggy - Will Philips :)

Cant wait for Garage to come back in full force! One of my favourite genres from my childhood

MJ Cole! What a legend. Created some amazing tracks that are just as good now as they were back then!

Never comment on videos but what a legend and down to earth bloke MJ Cole is!

Musical pioneer turned visionary

Complete legendary producer, great to be able to watch him spill his thoughts

MJ Cole is one of the three biggest influences on my music ever. Love to see him laying it out like this. Garage for life!

A real inspiration for me. I used to go to garage nights every weekend from 98-00. His records were always up there. A real down to earth guy too.

Great sense of humour. That sarcastic comment about that venue being converted into shops lol

This is the shit Burial would check out definitely since he talked about missing out the garage/ rave scene as youngling

I never thumbed up so many comments under a youtube video, discovered this channel a couple of days ago and every video here is better than the last.

when you said SSL engineering, I died, I'm in that phase right now (just with a big six, not a full desk). love the sound.

MJ Cole absolute beast, hands down fave producer!

*casually* yeah i just created Sincere on that sampler in my bedroom absolute legend

I've been living in Australia since 2013. We had a pool party one xmas day. I jumped on the decks and was playing house and garage. One of the german girls said she didnt like what I was playing because it was too bumpy (it was a garage track) and she asked for melodic techno lol

MJ Cole! the legend himself! Timeless classics - Garage for life crew!

Arguably the best garage producer....massive influence to the UK Scene. Good Times 😉

I love garage and there’s so many great tunes but MJ Cole was on some next level business.

always loved mj's music. refreshing to find him being such an honest, real bloke, too.

Garage always wicked

I love this . Garage, Jungle, Drum n Bass always the underdog in the "EDM" world .

Living legend

So glad I watched this. Such a dude! Has inspired me to start producing again

never knew it at the time..maybe because I was maybe a bit of a dick...(and busy being great at it actually)....and Mjcole was a massive part of the UK dance scene. where ever you went. under or over ground, bangers and good time beats all the way. Hero

As a silly American I must admit, I really did UK Garage. I love the skip.

MJ Cole introduced me to Uk garage . I remember listening to his remix of Another Level’s ‘ Guess I was a fool’ on the office radio. I was hooked from then on. Sincere was a big big album .Nuff respect Mr Cole.

Absolutely legend

Legend! Loving the new stuff!

Good video, very inspirational . Keep up the productions and moving the genre forward

That was great

so humble

Respect for the love for music. Learned a bit even though I generally dislike dub step, uk garage and speed garage. Collecting the best of the genre and try to appreciate it by getting into the feel of it is my quest. Thanks

amazing doc

This is great

fantastic interview!

A lot of non-mainstream small festivals where there’s no attitude and people are just there for a good time are starting to put more garage into there house sets and mixing it up. The reaction from the crowd when a garage tune comes on says all. It’s slowly coming back, just hope it doesn’t go mainstream this time round.

Great interview.

I feel like as the years go on and pass music will go back to its roots the way it was. House, Dubstep, DnB, Garage, and grind along with many other genres will come back in a more modern fashion but still keep the groove and amazing hits it had back in the 90’s and early 2000’s. Garage, DnB and House I feel like is the future of Electronic music. DnB was ahead of its time with bringing a whole new entire way of listening and making music. Electronic music will continue to progress as decades past but it’s the way the artists make em is what will continue to pioneer the new era of music. Big room and Bass drops are not the way to go.

Unfortunately, what happened to UK Garage happens to all dance music genres, the underground stuff just gets pushed aside by new kids entering the scene wanting "sick drops", rapping and air raid sirens.

6:20 that tune was the one. Loved those old skool garage tunes

legend

Thank you

Garage is LONDON!

great guy

just one question. Where is todd edwards in this video? he basically helped in garage's raice to fame.

he kinda reminds me of jeremy from peep show. sick guy tho

RIP Stevie Hyper D!

1:14 … old skool g right there…

Sir, MJ！is the best & only.

Interesting

Yeah i remember that time in 2003, suddenly dropped off..

Is there a track list for this video?

MJ IS GOD LEVEL

Soundtrack/playlist?

Ibiza 1997 Kiss FM Closing Parties - destroyed by UKG - always love MJC though;)

Amazing retro respective Matt, where's Norty, we got beats!

"leather pants, a fruit bowl" lol

Interesting what he said about how fast moving the whole thing was.. the same kind of applied for all UK Bass music be it hardcore, jungle, garage or later on grime and dubstep.. the only genre that seems to have "survived" in earnest is drum n bass. It all kind of fast forwarded itself to death very quickly and the death knell most of the time was the same thing - speed it up, get it darker then add the MC's. And then the gangsters came in and the girls all left... Bit sad really as the music really was futuristic and unique and could have had a much longer run.

That's what is missing from today's music, it lost the bounce. That is what calls me to Old Skool.

Does anyone know this song 1:56

What's the difference between Speed Garage, 2-Step, UK Garage..perspectives from both UK and USA, please...Fight!

Dubstep is definitely a pillar now. With Griz, Subtronics, Zeds Dead, and more leading this new wave.

What's that song during g the first 15 seconds of the video...??? I NEED IT

Sick video! What is the name of the track that starts at 7:20?

Thank fuck for Point Blank

ID on a song playing around 13 minutes? :)

"you gotta stop playing that womp womp stuff cuz the ladies are leaving the club"

can anyone id the tune at 1 min? thanks:)

It's Linford.bless.

track playing at 9.30 anyone?

Yeah, dubstep is going to 100% return

Song at 3:00

remember when we danced hands in the air for days and nights without getting skankt an robbed....at all.,...happE dayz eh

CHEEKY

"I read the manual cover to cover"... said no engineer ever.

13:18. 17:40

DON

This guy likes a bit of speed

MJ Cole was one of the producers with a definitive sound. It's difficult to say anyone was the "king of ukg" it's shared between legends like him, tuff Jam, Jeremy sylvester, Mike millrain, anthill mob, ice cream records, industry standard etc. Together one ukg family pushed the scene. And then so solid etc ruined it :(

Didn’t know mj bit of a nitty

But Ramsey and fen made dubplates with Wiley but didn't like mc's hmmmmmm

94-2000. After that garage died. They are still playing the same tunes now as they did 24 yrs ago. No progression what so ever

Has he got a glass eye?

😆😆😆 might you forgot 2 shaw songs of garage history?!😉

Sad to say but da click - good rhymes which was an awesome track all good guys involved was the start of the end of garage.... you can’t beat a garage version of rappers delight.... simple... garage ended trying to be more Compton than hiphop as that’s easier and a lot lazier to make.... garage died in 1999 and after it’s just been a reminiscence or a poor imitation

He's just had a haircut by the looks of it

I know he is supposed to be Don, but I was never a fan . Only good track he ever did was Crazy Love (Crazy Dub) IMO.