help me make a 6-7 cdr history of garage ("Spin Spin Sugar (Armand's Dark Garage mix)" to present)

anyway - what blinding oversights have I made, & haha anyone want to put this in order for me?

Fabulous Baker Boys – “Oh Boy”
The Hornet – “Just 4 U London”
Double 99 – “Ripgroove”
New Horizons – “Slamdown”
KMA – “Cape Fear”
KMA – “Kaotic Madness”
KMA – “Blue Kards”
Dem 2 – “Directrix”
Ramsey & Fen – “Love Bug”
Lenny Fontana – “Spirit of the Sun (Steve Gurley Remix)”
Brandy & Monica – “The Boy Is Mine (Architects Remix)”
Glamma Kid & Shola Ama – “Sweetest Taboo (MJ Cole Remix)”
ES Dubs – “Standard Hoodlum Issue”
Corrupted Crew – “G.A.R.A.G.E.”
DJ Luck & MC Neat – “A Little Bit of Luck”
Lee John – “Your Mind, Your Body, Your Soul”
DJ Dee Kline – “I Don’t Smoke”
Phat Jak – “Gangster, Mobster”
DJ Zinc – “138 Trek”
Chris Mac – “Dubplatestyle”
Architects – “Bodygroove”
Craig David – “Please Don’t Turn Me On (Stanton Warriors Remix)”
Truesteppers – “Out of Your Mind”
Pink – “There You Go (Soverign Remix)”
El-B – “Digital”
Y-Tribe – “Computer Love”
Pay As U Go Kartel – “Know We”
Roll Deep – “Terrible”
Shut Up & Dance – “Moving Up”
TJ Cases – “One By One”
Mis-Teeq – “All I Want (Sunship Remix)”
Bran Van 3000 – “Astounded (MJ Cole Remix)”
Horsepower Productions – “Gorgon Sound”
Elephant Man – “Log On (Horsepower Productions Raggarage Mix)”
K2 Family – “Bouncing Flow”
Menta Feat. Ms. Dynamite – “Ramp”
Ja Rule – “Down 4 U (DnD Remix)”
Heartless Crew – “Heartless Theme”
Dizzee Rascal – “I Luv U”
OT Crew feat. Roll Deep – “Dubplate”
Sticky – “Triplets”
Musical Mob – “Pulse X”
Wiley – “Blizzard”
Danny Weed – “Creeper”
Kano – “Boys Luv Girls”
Jammer – “Birds In The Sky”

Colour Girl - "Joyrider (Y Tribe's Underground Mix)"
En Vogue - "Hold On (Tuff Jam's Radio Mix)"
Indo - "R U Sleeping"
De'Lacy - "Hideaway 98 (187 Lockdown's Hidden Dub)"
Ruff Da Menace - "Kick The Party Into Full Effect"
Scott Garcia - "It's A London Thing"
Roy Davis Jr. - "Gabrielle"
Bug Kann & The Plastic Jam - "Made In Two Minutes (Speed Garage Mix)"
Antonio - "Hyper Funk"
TKS - "Fly Bi"
Tina Moore - "Never Let You Go (Kelly G's Bump-n-Go Mix)"*

* generally regarded at the first "uk garage" track

speed garage may be my favorite music ever to dance to

M-Dubs - For Real
Sunship - Try Me Out (Let Me Lick It)
Richie Dan - Call It Fate (Underground Mix)
Matt Darey - Beautiful (Dubaholics Dub)
Kavana - Will You Wait For Me (Shanks & Bigfoot Mix)
Jocelyn Brown - Somebody Else's Guy (Stanton Warriors Mix)
Stanton Warriors - Determined (if you can find it - and if you can please send it to me!)
Hakan Lidbo - Walk Away (Todd Edwards Remix)
New Horizons - Find The Path (best speed garage track ever!)
Chris Mac - Set Me Off
Cleptomaniacs - All I Do (Bump & Flex Dancehall Dub)
United Grooves Collective ft. God's Gift - Mic Tribute (UGC Mix)
D'N'D - Pick It Up (Remix)
TNT - Easy Lovin' You (Original Mix)
Suburban Lick - You're Mine (2001 Remix)
TJ Cases - I Like To Cut, I Like TO Play
El-B - Serious (Zed Bias Remix)

The Darqwan track of choice is "Nocturnal" or (as Oris Jay) "Biggin' Up Da Massive". I prefer the Sovereign mix of "Do You Really Like It" to the original by far.

Naughty - Pussy (Remix)
Mutiny - The Virus (El-B Remix)
New Flesh - Stick & Move (Horsepower Productions Vocal Mix)
Roots Manuva - Dreamy Days (MJ Cole Vocal Mix)
Mys Dynamite - Ramp

and i'm at work but i'll come up with more later

There was another really big garridge tune around at about the same time that I've now got stuck in my head - "ooh, you're movin' too fast, and I don't think it's right, I'm not givin' you my love tonight..." - who was it by?

add Loop Da Loop (i think) mix of Todd Terry's 'Something Goin On In Your Soul'

never gonna let you go sounds like a good starting point, it's when i started paying attention, although certain -ahead of the curve- mates had been listening to garage for about a year before that dropped, also it goes hand in hand with that rosie gaines remix whatever its called and whoever its by.

maxwell d-serious
maxwell d and b-live-ultimate warriors
da click-good rimes
richie dan-over here (top of the stamina daddy league)
actually that flat eric tune used to get rinsed in the clubs
pay as u go-can't ride mic like me, can't ride mic like 'pay as u go'

right before my eyes (who's it by? i dunno)
brasstooth-that one about being positive whatever its called
the remix of that house track about that woman who works really hard in her 9.2.5 but now shes going to have a whale of a time with all that 'vocal science' stuff, i really liked that one
plus all the millions of bootlegs of R&B stars.

it's worth mentioning that befre so solid there was supreeme team and heartless crew. they might not have been releasing tracks but both HUUUUGELY influential. heartless were revered in east london from about 98 and both were largely responsible for making people step up their lyrics, shifting the focus from the djs to the MCs.

as far as recent stuff, here's a few...

harry toddler/wiley-donkey kick
wiley-ice rink/icy mountain/igloo/blizzard/eskimo/you just don't get it
rapid-pied piper
skepta-gunshot
shark major-ain't a game
d.e.e-organise
stormin-day by day/everywhere i go
nasty crew-take you out/good ya know/
jammer-step to the beat
the ends-are you really from the ends
demon-armshouse
east co.-we're ready/run gums/nuttin' wid dem
mukateers-we hot
maxwell d-lyrical warfare
lady fury-merke dem
roll deep-with my crew/bounce/regular/love/pick yourself up/you were always
ruff squad-tings in boots
sticky-more weed/things we do
general LOK-thts what it is
boyz in da hood-real gangstas
wizzbit-jam hot/poppadoms
geeneus-earth warrior
dizzee-everything he's ever done
diamond clik-don't ya know
jammer-battlefield/feedback
donaeo-bounce
heartless-why? (sticky refit)

thats just off the top of my head without even trying to catch the things on the tip of my tongue, loads i don't know the names of, instrumental ones i can't even make uo names for, you could fill about 20 CDs, with no filler, and thats just with offical releases not even taking bootlegs and dubs into account. theres too much, i'm not even including crews from west, north and south really either so...

mr oizo - flat beat...

now why don't you name some more wookie tunes!
and ultimate warriors was made by viper and maxwell now i come to think about it, not b-live.
and dave, whats the opint of having a blog you don't update, you might as well get rid of it and just tell me stuff about garage to put on my blog instead.

"Are You Relly From The Ends" is like the two-years-too-late absolute apotheosis of my idea of "midnight dancehall" circa beginning of '01 (inspired by "Boo!" and "All I Do (Bump & Flex Dancehall Dub)" if I recall) - that sexy syncopated break! The bass! Love it to the bone.

That's either Architech's "Bodygroove" or the one that opens the second disc of Pure Garage III - is it a Y-Tribe track?

Also:
Bump & Flex - Got Myself Together
Wookie - Down On Me
Dreem Teem vs Neneh Cherry - Buddy X (the real bad-ass metallic version speed garage version Pure Silk: The Third Dimension
Doolally - Straight From The Heart (Bump & Flex Hardstep Dub)

Stanton Warriors were being played by all the garage djs up until the end of 2000 - this was not that odd because they were basically making garage tunes. Their later stuff is breaksy and usually boring. Likewise Horsepower Productions earlier stuff ("Gorgon Sound", "Fists Of Fury") is a very straightforward extension of the Dem 2/El-B continuum.

Speaking of which, there needs to be El-B! How about his mix of Dane Bowers' "Shut Up And Forget About It"? Or his mix of Monie Love's "Slice of Da Pie"?

luka lists a lot of nice records but in this canonical context one really stands out, ruff squad's 'tings in boots' absolutely awesome track, one of the records of the year in fact, so suffused with pure brutal grimy gride it's like reynolds produced it. pied piper is great too but i'll wait til i hear the vocal. they got this cold majesty vibe that so nailed it 'grime' was over to me ever since

its got to be 'promises'!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

i was in NZ, 1999-2001, so my knowledge of those years is pretty vague, dunno how ess kay manages it really. i didn't have a computer there though, i guess that helps...

ok, i'm a very happy bunny right now because i've been listening to a nasty crew tape from early 2002, to jolt my memory, so i can show off in front of you lot better and it turned out to be something i never even knew i had. it's the first time nasty crew played i luv u on radio, it's also got nasty crew spitting over jungle right at the end AND the biggest suprise of all, dizzee himself makes an appearance! i did have another even better dizzee/nasty crew session but i lost it. reynolds has got a copy still.

ok, a few essentials i forgot

jookiemundo-mcs think that they are so heavy. but we know that they are not ready.
yup that one, jookie is brilliant. he's the one that formed east co. he's also a promoter, he does stampede among other things. he's also a bit of a fat boy.

musical mobb-pulse x.
sticky/tubby t-tales from the hood
highly flamable-ready 2 rumble

HARRY LIME! how i forgot him i don't know. if anyone want to tell the story of grime harry limes name HAS to be in there. totally essential.

and a question... i still don't have dizzee's album, my sister's getting it for my birthday, so i was wondering whether this track is on it

oh, he said this and, oh, she said that and, oh dizzee did this and-what you talking abaat, certain boyz need to hush up their maaat!

best dizzee track EVER!

Operator & Baffled-- Things Are Never
Wide Boys--Stand and Deliver
Phuturistix--Blind Faith
Goldie--Believe (Groove Chronicles Remix)
Dreem Team--Dream Team Theme
Groove Chronicles--Stone Cold
God's Gift--Tribute to 32 MCs
Ashanti--Down 4 U (DnD Conemelt Mix)
Gorillaz--Clint Eastwood (Ed Case Remix)
J Da Flex--Bison
Pay As U Go--Champagne Dance (Da Sticky Lick)
Streets--Let's Push Things Forward (Roll Deep Remix)
Sticky ft. Viper--I'm On the Mic
Wiley--I Will Not Lose/They Should Know

that 'mcs think that they are so heavy' tune is wicked. i always have that running around in my head. i thought it was just east connection.

some others that i havent noticed mentioned here:

east connection 'why?'
genius cru 'course bruv'
blackout 'mr dj' (i totally made up the name of who this is by)
mistery men 'shake it'
david anthony 'friday night'

and the ladiez:

lady fevah 'battlecry (chopper mix)'
lady stush 'dollar sign' (doh!)

How did i forget this!

shall we have a competition? again in the hope of showing off i listened to another even earlier tape but realised i didn't have a clue what anything was called. so whoever can identify the most tracks from my shit clues gets the jammer birthday tape featuring ruff squad, wiley, dizzee, esco, nasty crew, crazy titch, jammer and others.
ha! ready?

1)eh eh what you gone do, eh eh what you gone say? drop the bomb drop the bass.

2)mic-ro-ph-ne bad to the bo-ne-e

3)will it be like this forever have i got no time to waste
its just names and numbers that are filling up my day

4)baby i can give to ya, a man like me (xylophone comes in now)

5)oooh i need you so bad baybi
ooh ooh and i need you so bad baby (this tune is BIG!)

6)keep dancing like a snake, like snake (never liked this one much)

7)burning burning
let the mu-sic
burning burning
deep inside

8)mariah carey sped up, one sided vinyl like reynolds was complaining about, but from about 99
i am thinking of you...if it's wrong to love you...cos i'm drowning in you... (loved this one, helium vocals do it for me everytime)

9)i can tell by the way that you're breathing
i can tell you love me as much as i do
it's the way you move you're killing me

well, i have no idea how i'm going to determine a winner when i don't know what the answers are myself but anyway, something to do innit, surely i'm not the only unemployed person here...

jhelisa - friendly pressure (sunship mix)
kristine blond - loveshy (ess, you MUST include this in the chronicles-of-speed-garage part!)
gabrielle - sunshine (wookie dub)
shola ama - imagine (club asylum mix)
some treat - lost In vegas
d'n'd - diamond rings
jameson vs destiny's child - bug a boo
el-b - two thousand
mr reds - can you feel it
texas - in demand (sunship mix)
chante moore - straight up (sunship mix) (wonder what sunship's up to nowadays?)
forbsey - hotpoint (awesome dark carnival/stadium techno-garage from sticky)
phaze one - nicole's groove
mis-teeq - b with me (bump & flex dub)
beverley knight - shoulda woulda coulda (d'n'd 4 to da floor mix)
dj narrows - saved soul (not my fave narrows track, but essential in kickstarting 4beat of '02)
lamb vs mj cole - gabriel

and you can just give me that tape when i come to london town next week. i'll even buy you a pint for it.

it's my birthday soon so i'll have a bit of money, i want to send a few more tapes out then too, it's the tdks i can't afford, the postage is no trouble.

yeah, reflex action like a snake, you're quite right. i know nuffink.

and to the person who mentioned the pied piper bside, nah, not that one, the one i'm talking about sounds like pied piper, but just far more
baroque
for want of better word.

lethal injection
produced by rapid
vocals by armour.

Suggestions:

Happy - Ashanti (DND remix)
Nissi - Outlaw Breaks
Rush DJ - Outlaw Breaks
DJ Wire - Believe Me
Hungry Tiger Remix - Mos Def

*baffled*

naaah, just the really good ones!
and it never really even got started...

hopefully I'll have access to a computer (AND broadband/etc) in the next week & a bit, so I can start d/l-ing & sifting through & compiling something (might try to go for a mega-huge history - been listening to all my cheap cashin compilations* - Agia Napa Fantasy Island & Speed Garage Anthems & Speed Garage Anthems In Ibiza & Silk Cuts In Session & Re-rewind : The Artful Dodger etc etc & Ayia Napa 2000 : Shanks & Bigfoot present & Pure Silk In Ayia Napa & so on, & I can't believe how much of it I know/love (or own!))

If I do manage it, I'll post the tracklisting, see what people think. (matos you may get yr wish, etc)

*NZ got bit by the garage bug, but not the culture, so there's heaps heaps HEAPS of cheap compilations @ the Warehouse & stuff because nobody was listening around the time So Solid Crew were changing the game.

Tina Moore!
Roy Davis Jnr!
Sweet Female flippin' Attitude!
Shanks & bastard Bigfoot!

Wondrous.

I though, by some attack of madness, that nobody'd mentioned 187 Lockdown's mighty "Gunman"...but closer inspection reveals it's there, right near the top.

Nothing more to add.

i never heard this at garage clubs...

surprisingly, though, a bunch of the djs sound absolute shit, i mean terrible, like masterstepz sounds like he never learned about eq knobs. all the djs play the same tunes, too. there is an absolute STOMPER of a ramsey set on the sun city '00 pack, though, the tunes are good enough that you don't care about the mixing.

ez though, hes pretty fucking good, from what i've heard (ie not much)