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Whatever happened to UK Garage? One minute it’s The Newest Bestest Thing In Town, then suddenly we’re all listening to rock and 80s-influence electro... These days it’s back underground

UKG had its roots in the South (“it’s-a-Lon-don-thing”), but despite being based in Manchester, I was really into it. I loved the darker, grittier, harder Speed Garage tracks too. You’ll find plenty of them in this mix.

This session was recorded some time between March and September ’98. I can’t find an exact date on any of the minidiscs. It was around the time I was DJing at Via Fossa on Canal Street in Manchester, filling in for Chris Buckley. He would often lend me his records and I had first dibs on the promos he didn’t want/sell, hence I ended up with quite a wad of Speed Garage tunes.

Also, in 1998, every pop tune seemed to be released with a selection of different genre mixes (RnB, house and UKG) as record companies hedged their bets to gain a hit in any scene. This is why the likes of Robbie Williams, All Saints & Janet Jackson turn up in this tough underground mix; although you could miss them if you didn’t check the tracklist.

Running at over 100 minutes, the mix was split over two minidiscs. In transferring it to a downloadable format I’ve edited the mix together as a single piece of audio. This is the first time it has existed as one continuous mix.

Enjoy!



106’50” - 148.6MB - AAC file - 192kbps


Noel Is Speed Queen vol 1
mixed summer '98 across two minidiscs, re-edited together 27 Feb 07.
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1. fabulous baker boys - oh boy - fen & ramsey remix
2. soul ii soul - pleasure dome - tuff jam’s uvm dub
3. olive - miracle - 187 lockdown deep dub
4. fatimer rainey - love is wonderful thing - dub is a wonderful thing
5. robbie williams - south of the border - 187 lockdown’s southside dub
6. miss bisto - barefoot bandit - white label
7. adeva - don’t think about it - 187 lockdown dub
8. all saints - i know where it’s at - colour system inc vox
9. down low - lovething - vip mix
10. bruce wayne - ready - bmw one’s ultimate bad boy mix
11. adeva - don’t think about it - nu birth dub
12. damage - lovelady - da funkstarz epiccamouflage dub
13. 5 - slam dunk da funk - sol brothers
14. bizzi - bizzi’s party - rolling bass mix
15. serious danger?
16. industry standard - what you need
17. ???
18. fabulous baker boys - oh boy - ??
19. janet jackson - got til it’s gone - armand van helden

**tracklisting for part 2 of the mix was lost so tracks 15>18 are guesses