25 Years of UK Garage

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hugopal

[deleted] please show me the sasha gig

When do I talk about Sasha gigs?!

[deleted] Dance music has always been poppy, rnb influenced, commercial

Only parts of it.

[deleted] hedonistic gear

I don’t see how this is in any way synonymous with the “poppy, rnb influenced, commercial” part of your description. “Hedonistic” dance music can be all of, some of, and none of, those things.

[deleted] you just attach a weird attitude of authenticity for functional music

Err, that’s news to me.

I’ve got no idea who you are, and I don’t know how you can act as if you know me.

[deleted] which cannot ever truly offer the subcultural credibility and validation you so crave

Again, I’m not even sure why I’m responding to your post because you don’t appear to talking to me or about me, but rather shouting in to some imagined void.

[deleted] Own your lane

What the heck does this mean?!

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hugopal no, all of it. disco was the pop music of its day. if you can’t see this, you need to go back to school. This is why prog house failed. Tried to be something it couldn’t, logistically.

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hugopal

I’ve got no idea who you are, and I don’t know how you can act as if you know me.

I am the borg, you will assimilate.

erik

Smallman1 Volta was a shit hole

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hugopal

[deleted] no, all of it. disco was the pop music of its day. if you can’t see this, you need to go back to school.

I know that in its day some disco was pop music, and some pop music was disco. No idea what the fuck it has to do with whatever you’re blabbering on about though.

[deleted] This is why prog house failed.

It “failed”?! It did too well to be labelled a failure.

[deleted] the best techno is mutant alien pop

This is wrong, but again, not sure what it has to do with anything anyway.

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even 92-93 weapons grade industrial Jeff Mills was operating in a poppy p-funk lineage. just ask @zackster - the best techno is mutant alien pop.

LT42

[deleted] the best techno is mutant alien pop.

Lol.

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hugopal

bosstrabs Imagine: Me, OLB and Alistair behind the velvet rope. Jeroboams of Cristal on our table.
Gyaldem being suaved.

Are you all putting on the fake Jamaican accent while doing it?!

bosstrabs

hugopal Are you all putting on the fake Jamaican accent while doing it?!

Into the weeds we go…

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hugopal

bosstrabs Into the weeds we go…

Surely while “suaving the Gyaldem” you’d rather be getting “into the weed” .

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hugopal

It “failed”?! It did too well to be labelled a failure.

Absolutely, everyone stopped making it after around 2001, and quickly jumped ship to tech house and mnml when they realised they were just making [paul van dyk without breakdowns. The Dutch and German cheese merchants had more integrity in this regard than the south coast numpties.

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hugopal

This is wrong, but again, not sure what it has to do with anything anyway.

No UFOs, Big Fun, and Good Life would like a word!

whatever

Total longshot and vague description but can anyone recall a speed garage tune from about 97-98 that has a vocal in it that went something like “Fever…you give me fever… fever”? Was played quite a bit at the time - remember John Kelly and Judge Jules both playing it.

alistair

whatever Peggy Lee?

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hugopal

[deleted] Absolutely, everyone stopped making it after around 2001, and quickly jumped ship to tech house and mnml when they realised they were just making [paul van dyk without breakdowns.

Everyone stopped making disco at the start of the 80s, doesn’t mean it had “failed” either.

Tech house and minimal also both died much quicker than prog had when people realised they were just making dull music.

“Paul van Dyk without breakdowns” isn’t really a diss either, PvD had some excellent moments in the 90s. Long breakdowns also get in the way of dancing, while supposedly you are claiming to be an advocate of ‘dance’ music.

[deleted] The Dutch and German cheese merchants had more integrity in this regard than the south coast numpties.

The Dutch and German cheese merchants briefly jumped on the electroclash fad as well, before mostly abandoning any kind of dancefloor sensibility in the pursuit of pop crossovers / radio play, together with generic stadium filler. Don’t see how that has any more to do with “integrity”.

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