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|name = 2-step garage | ||
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|cultural_origins = Late 1990s, ], ] | ||
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'''2-step garage''', or simply '''2-step''', is a typically ] style of modern ], and a relatively popular ] of ]. It shares characteristics with other styles of UKG, such as influences from ] and ]. | ||
| ==Characteristics== | ==Characteristics== | ||
| 2-step does not share the ] ] pattern of ] and in older compositions is typically slower, allowing it to be more danceable, hence the name 2-step, taken from the dance move of the same name. The main difference from 4x4 garage is the ] pattern; 2-step essentially removes the second and fourth kick drum, resulting in a ] style beat rather than a ] style beat. Modern 2-step music usually ranges approximately from 127-142 ]. | |||
| Two-step rhythm structure is influenced by ].<ref>(2004) "Popular Music Genres: An Introduction", ISBN 0748617450, 9780748617456, p.216: "This later beat structure, originally developed in hardstep drum'n'bass, led this form of garage to be renamed two-step garage"</ref>Two-step rhythm essentially lacks the 2nd and the 4th kick drum.<ref>: "..2nd and 4th kick drums were got out of drum pattern, resulting only 1st and 3rd kick drums left"</ref><ref>: "..it does this by removing every second and fourth kick from the 4-to-the-floor pulse, creating a lurching, falter-funk feel."</ref> The 3rd kick drum of the drum pattern is moveable.<ref>: ".. left 1st and displaced 3rd kick drum.."</ref> Drum pattern can be irregular.<ref>: "More adventurous 2-step producers program irregular kick-drum patterns..."</ref> Two-step usually ranges 123-135 ].<ref>(2002) "The Techno Primer: The Essential Reference for Loop-based Music Styles", ISBN 0634017888, 9780634017889, p.31: "It involves Hip-hop loops at tempos usually associated with House music around 125-135 bpm"</ref> | |||
| Often featured is an ] over the top, with a vocal style showing similarities to ]. | |||
| Two-step bass is influenced by soul and funk.<ref>: "There is something in 2step - it's either ] written with the tenderness of soul..." "Among 2step traits are and basslines taking their roots from funk"</ref><ref>: "..it does this by removing every second and fourth kick from the 4-to-the-floor pulse, creating a lurching, falter-funk feel."</ref> | |||
| Instrumentation usually includes ], ], and ]s. There are occasional additions, such as ], ] and ]s. | |||
| Two-step almost essentially features ]-style vocals<ref>(2002) "The Techno Primer: The Essential Reference for Loop-based Music Styles", ISBN 0634017888, 9780634017889, p.31: "2-step relies heavily on , House-style vocals,.."</ref> or vocals in the style of ].<ref>: "..vocals have started getting borrowed from ] versions of american r&b hits.."</ref><ref>(2002) "The Techno Primer: The Essential Reference for Loop-based Music Styles", ISBN 0634017888, 9780634017889, p.32: "The 2-Step movement started in the UK with producers doing illegal remixes of songs by major R&B artists. They would sample the a-capella versions of various songs on 12-inch records imported from USA"</ref><ref>(2004) "Rave Culture and Religion", ISBN 0415314496, 9780415314497, p.190: "The Sunday scene also introduced R'n'B to the second or backroom at events, which, in turn, influenced the emergence of '2 step' garage. This addition drew heavily on R'n'B influences, especially in the terms of its vocal arrangements."</ref> It is usual for two-step to cut a-capella into pieces to use them either to underline the rhythm or as melody.<ref>: "Vocals are gotten cut into pieces.."</ref> <ref>: "At first, voice. In the beginning, voice was female, pitched, sped-up , and then cut into smallest pieces and mixed with rhythm to underline it or to create a melody"</ref> ]'s are often featured on two-step tracks.<ref>: "Everything started in ], then it got itself into dnb as a heritage, and then from dnb it got itself into 2step.." "..in 2step, MCs had become almost central figures. There were tracks especially for MCs, battles and crews were initialized.."</ref> | |||
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| Overall two-step atmosphere is soft, lyrical, melodic and erotic <ref>: "2Step is definitely softer, more lyrical, more melodic, more erotic than dnb.."</ref><ref>: "Like 2-step, lover's rock was a UK-spawned hybrid of silky US soul and Jamaican rhythm, that restored treble to the bass-heavy frequency spectrum and replaced militant spirituality with romantic yearning."</ref> | |||
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| ==References== | ==References== | ||
| ⚫ | *]: '''' ], April 1999 | ||
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| *(2004) "Popular Music Genres: An Introduction", ISBN 0748617450, 9780748617456, p.216: "...to be renamed two-step garage" | |||
| *(2002) "Companion to Contemporary Black British Culture", ISBN 0415169895, 9780415169899, p.93: "...'Fill me in' retained the distinctive two-step garage heat..." | |||
| *(2006) "Beyond Subculture: Pop, Youth and Identity in a Postcolonial World", ISBN 0415278155, 9780415278157, p.77 "...there is a current vogue for two-step garage and r'n'b bhangra mixes..." | |||
| *(2000) "Machine Times: DEAFOO", p.22: "...lyrically regressive, rhythmically advanced dance musics like R&8, Southern bounce and two-step garage..." | |||
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| *(2002) "The Techno Primer: The Essential Reference for Loop-based Music Styles", ISBN 0634017888, 9780634017889, p.31: "2-Step relies heavily..." | |||
| *(2003) "All Music Guide to Soul: The Definitive Guide to R&B and Soul", ISBN 0879307447, 9780879307448, p.178: "...Grammy-nominated ''Born to Do It'', which blended 2-step, R&B and pop" | |||
| *(2003) "All Music Guide to Hip-hop: The Definitive Guide to Rap & Hip-hop", ISBN 0879307595, 9780879307592, p.338: "... 2-Step/British Garage" | |||
| *(2007) "DJing for Dummies", ISBN 0470032758, 9780470032756, p.185: "...to recognise breakbeat, R&B, or 2-step garage" | |||
| *(2003) "The Rough Guide to Cult Pop: The Songs, the Artists, the Genres, the Dubious Fashions", ISBN 1843532298, 9781843532293, p.42 "...(later 2-step)..." | |||
| *(2007) "Bebo Unbound: Secure Your Privacy, Buzz Your Band, and Get Popular on Bebo", ISBN 1933747072, 9781933747071, p.147 | |||
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| *(2005) "Engineering Culture: On 'the Author as (digital) Producer'", ISBN 1570271704, 9781570271700, p.178: "...2Step and other forms of contemporary urban music..." | |||
| *(2005) "How Open is the Future?: Economic, Social & Cultural Scenarios Inspired by Free & Open-Source Software", ISBN 9054873787, 9789054873785, p.136: "...2Step and other forms of contemporary urban music"... | |||
| *(2006) "Contemporary Youth Culture: An International Encyclopedia, v.2" ISBN 0313337292, 9780313337291, p.330: "...and 2Step." | |||
| *(2004) "Electronic Vibration: Pop Kultur Theorie", ISBN 3810041025, 9783810041029, p.VI: "mit Speed-Garage und 2Step neue Strömungen herausgebildet", translated: "with speed garage and 2Step new currents developed" | |||
| *(2006) "Berlin", ISBN 8360496609, 9788360496602, p.149 "...nu jazz, 2step,..." | |||
| *(2007) "Techno, Gothic und HipHop: musikorientierte Jugendkulturen im soziologischen Vergleich: Musikorientierte Jugendkulturen im soziologischen Vergleich", ISBN 3638704637, 9783638704632, p.80: "..."2Step" (Mischung aus "House"..)", translated: "...2Step" (Mixture of "House"...)" | |||
| *(2005) "Kulturverführer Köln und Umgebung: Clubs, Theater, Museen, Kinos, Galerien, Events, Szene", ISBN 3937742050, 9783937742052 p.57: "...Reggae oder 2Step.", translated: "...Reggae or 2Step." | |||
| *(2008) "The Digital Musician", ISBN 0415962153, 9780415962155, p.161</ref> | |||
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| *(2000) "Cyberarts 2000: International Compendium Prix Ars Electronica", ISBN 3211834982, 9783211834985, p.195 "...,2 step garage, broken beats,..." | |||
| *(2004) "Rave Culture and Religion", ISBN 0415314496, 9780415314497, p.190: "...the emergence of '2 step' garage..." | |||
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Revision as of 22:01, 11 October 2008
| 2-step garage | |
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| Stylistic origins | UK garage Drum and bass R&B |
| Cultural origins | Late 1990s, London, UK |
| Typical instruments | Music sequencer, Turntables, samplers, Keyboards, Drum machines, Personal computer |
2-step garage, or simply 2-step, is a typically British style of modern electronic dance music, and a relatively popular sub-genre of UK garage. It shares characteristics with other styles of UKG, such as influences from soul and jazz music.
Characteristics
2-step does not share the four-on-the-floor kick drum pattern of 4x4 and in older compositions is typically slower, allowing it to be more danceable, hence the name 2-step, taken from the dance move of the same name. The main difference from 4x4 garage is the bass drum pattern; 2-step essentially removes the second and fourth kick drum, resulting in a breakbeat style beat rather than a house style beat. Modern 2-step music usually ranges approximately from 127-142 BPM.
Often featured is an MC over the top, with a vocal style showing similarities to jungle.
Instrumentation usually includes keyboards, synthesizers, and drum machines. There are occasional additions, such as guitar, piano and horns.
Artists
See also
References
- Simon Reynolds: 'Adult hardcore' The Wire, April 1999
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