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.
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!!
@megarachne3000 yeah maybe in certain parts of the UK. It ain't gone world wide like jungle drum n bass has. If you go to a garage event now they still playing the same tunes as they did 25 yrs ago.
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 :)
Bro, I respect you but...how could you miss Wookie and Sticky for the evolution of brostep? Not to mention all the producers behind SO SOlid pushing the sound including Synth and Megaman, Heartless Crew, Pay As You Go's Wiley and Teebone, Nasty Crews Jamma...gosh so many were in the game before Caspa and Rusko. This was just before grime became grime, and it was still called garage, but we called it rudeboy garage over in Milton Keynes because we didn't know what else to call it. I was 14 when that sound was first emerging, and I believe it gave birth when WIley released Eskimo, which was the year after So SOlid released two of some of the biggest garage game changer tracks, and the same year Pulse X dropped, the same year More Fire Crew released Oi, same year Pay As You Go released Champagne Dance, same year Sticky made Golly gosh...the year before Dizzee OFFICIALLY released I luv U but was the same year DIzzee released it on white label vinyl....man I get so gassed just remembering. Always have been and always will be a garage and grime geek...
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
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 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.
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.
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.
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
The perfect loop 🔂 of pirate radio to keep you going until the weekend, playing the tunes that I would then buy in Swag or Big Apple records. Before that I used to go all over London to buy tunes, Blackmarket records, remix records. At the time the best record shop by far was Wax City Croydon. Jon and Kev were killing it, what an awesome vibe. To then playing those tunes at small venues or local parties. Dressing up in your latest Moshino, Stone Island or Versace garms. The music was really part of my life and it helped me get through life. It was a happy energy that brought unity, there’s another one, how can I forget unity records. Everyone loved the underground music scene, it brought people together. Now, all the kids have got is drill music with these thugs promoting death, misogyny and drugs. I feel really sorry for them. At least I had a direction and it was vibing. I fuking hated it when So Solid came along and started polluting garage with their gangster bs. The scene has never recovered, it’s truly been squashed. When all that shite started happening in Ayia Napa, the government basically shut it down. Everyone lost a lot of money, including the government. The amount of tax they would have made through records, Dj equipment and the clubs. Thank God I got to live in an era where you could choose to listen to music that actually made you want to dance.
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.
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.
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 :(
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
You can watch Part 2 here :: ruclips.net/video/K7jANHlDrFE/видео.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.
Big up the crew across the Atlantic!!
crazy to think you were the age that i am at, discovering the same music
Totally! I’m an American who heard the Dreem Teem on radio 1 and was absolutely hooked, this was in 2000! Still bumpin’ UKG to this day.
It's like every UK Garage doc or interview on youtube is just a treasure trove of important historical info
Yes I’m almost confident this is the only music that I want to make, for a long long time 🎉
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.
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!!
5 years later, there’s a great new UK garage scene emerging
Garage died yrs ago lol
@@damianclarkeed6683no it’s very much alive
@megarachne3000 yeah maybe in certain parts of the UK.
It ain't gone world wide like jungle drum n bass has.
If you go to a garage event now they still playing the same tunes as they did 25 yrs ago.
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
One of several Garage legends
Sincere is one of my all time fav tracks by MJ Cole. Timeless track, one of the most legendary producers of the genre
Thanks for watching.
just been able to put a face to the name. what a humble and down to earth guy. lotta respect
MJ Cole! What a legend. Created some amazing tracks that are just as good now as they were back then!
He was behind the making of many big names and he engineered so many producers tracks.
Never comment on videos but what a legend and down to earth bloke MJ Cole is!
He's an intelligent mind which makes sense how his music has stood the test of time!!
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 :)
Do you know the real dubstep community on reddit ? We listen to new dubstep release (no brostep btw)
Lol a room full of dudes waiting for the drop.
Bro, I respect you but...how could you miss Wookie and Sticky for the evolution of brostep? Not to mention all the producers behind SO SOlid pushing the sound including Synth and Megaman, Heartless Crew, Pay As You Go's Wiley and Teebone, Nasty Crews Jamma...gosh so many were in the game before Caspa and Rusko. This was just before grime became grime, and it was still called garage, but we called it rudeboy garage over in Milton Keynes because we didn't know what else to call it. I was 14 when that sound was first emerging, and I believe it gave birth when WIley released Eskimo, which was the year after So SOlid released two of some of the biggest garage game changer tracks, and the same year Pulse X dropped, the same year More Fire Crew released Oi, same year Pay As You Go released Champagne Dance, same year Sticky made Golly gosh...the year before Dizzee OFFICIALLY released I luv U but was the same year DIzzee released it on white label vinyl....man I get so gassed just remembering. Always have been and always will be a garage and grime geek...
Pulse x was wild, sound track to my early teens still slaps
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!
Well said!!
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
Yes yes bruva!!
Cant wait for Garage to come back in full force! One of my favourite genres from my childhood
Big Love to UK-Music from Germany!
MJ Cole absolute beast, hands down fave producer!
Yeah him Tuff Jam, Booker T, Jeremy Sylvester and Grant Nelson paved the way.
*casually* yeah i just created Sincere on that sampler in my bedroom
absolute legend
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.
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.
Complete legendary producer, great to be able to watch him spill his thoughts
Musical pioneer turned visionary
MJ Cole! the legend himself! Timeless classics - Garage for life crew!
So glad I watched this. Such a dude! Has inspired me to start producing again
Of all the docs I've seen, this one most closely reflects my lived experience of it ❤
Garage always wicked
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
The audacity lol
Arguably the best garage producer....massive influence to the UK Scene. Good Times 😉
It’s unreal how instantly excited i get the minute i hear the first hit of crazy love.
This is the shit Burial would check out definitely since he talked about missing out the garage/ rave scene as youngling
I love this . Garage, Jungle, Drum n Bass always the underdog in the "EDM" world .
6:20 that tune was the one. Loved those old skool garage tunes
whats this track called? trying to find it
Classic!
ruclips.net/video/uR3Vw8J8vUo/видео.html
Great remix from Tim De Luxe but it's not the original. Tim and Omar did the original as Double 99
Great sense of humour. That sarcastic comment about that venue being converted into shops lol
Living legend
Still to this day my favourite genre
Absolutely legend
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.
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.
Theres a sub genre of house wich is very garagey the record label PIV is the forefront of this
Imo
Good video, very inspirational . Keep up the productions and moving the genre forward
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.
dubstep doesnt belong there. shittest genre.
@@JL-nk1pc you must be thinking of brostep my bro
@@essejbooth2982 no dubstep.
@@JL-nk1pc its so lax though
As a silly American I must admit, I really did UK Garage. I love the skip.
amazing doc
fantastic interview!
This is great
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
so humble
Garage is LONDON!
Legend! Loving the new stuff!
The perfect loop 🔂 of pirate radio to keep you going until the weekend, playing the tunes that I would then buy in Swag or Big Apple records. Before that I used to go all over London to buy tunes, Blackmarket records, remix records. At the time the best record shop by far was Wax City Croydon. Jon and Kev were killing it, what an awesome vibe.
To then playing those tunes at small venues or local parties. Dressing up in your latest Moshino, Stone Island or Versace garms.
The music was really part of my life and it helped me get through life. It was a happy energy that brought unity, there’s another one, how can I forget unity records.
Everyone loved the underground music scene, it brought people together.
Now, all the kids have got is drill music with these thugs promoting death, misogyny and drugs. I feel really sorry for them. At least I had a direction and it was vibing.
I fuking hated it when So Solid came along and started polluting garage with their gangster bs.
The scene has never recovered, it’s truly been squashed. When all that shite started happening in Ayia Napa, the government basically shut it down.
Everyone lost a lot of money, including the government. The amount of tax they would have made through records, Dj equipment and the clubs.
Thank God I got to live in an era where you could choose to listen to music that actually made you want to dance.
Great interview.
I love garage and there’s so many great tunes but MJ Cole was on some next level business.
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.
That was great
Sir, MJ！is the best & only.
legend
he kinda reminds me of jeremy from peep show. sick guy tho
just one question. Where is todd edwards in this video? he basically helped in garage's raice to fame.
great guy
Amazing retro respective Matt, where's Norty, we got beats!
Good question!! Nortee was a don!!
Thank you
That's what is missing from today's music, it lost the bounce. That is what calls me to Old Skool.
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.
I love how he uses the exact words that all of us who know nothing about deejaying would use
RIP Stevie Hyper D!
MJ IS GOD LEVEL
For real!!
1:14 … old skool g right there…
Yeah i remember that time in 2003, suddenly dropped off..
Interesting
What's the difference between Speed Garage, 2-Step, UK Garage..perspectives from both UK and USA, please...Fight!
Is there a track list for this video?
"you gotta stop playing that womp womp stuff cuz the ladies are leaving the club"
"leather pants, a fruit bowl" lol
Ibiza 1997 Kiss FM Closing Parties - destroyed by UKG - always love MJC though;)
Soundtrack/playlist?
What's that song during g the first 15 seconds of the video...??? I NEED IT
SINCERE - Mj Cole
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.
I like thus assessment
Thank fuck for Point Blank
Song at 3:00
always loved mj's music. refreshing to find him being such an honest, real bloke, too.
Sick video! What is the name of the track that starts at 7:20?
ruclips.net/video/-lApjhe_SWg/видео.html ;)
Does anyone know this song 1:56
ID on a song playing around 13 minutes? :)
Kaspar Tuuna dub syndicate - i need your love MJ Cole remix
Yeah, dubstep is going to 100% return
It's Linford.bless.
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 :(
"I read the manual cover to cover"... said no engineer ever.
said no young engineer ever*
13:18. 17:40
CHEEKY
can anyone id the tune at 1 min? thanks:)
Quality - Kym Mazelle. Ramsey + Fen remix. MJ Cole on the buttons!
Dubstep is definitely a pillar now. With Griz, Subtronics, Zeds Dead, and more leading this new wave.
check out Peaky Beats from Leeds. seriously good stuff. does a bit of 2step and dubstep respectively, with heaps of influence bouncing between the two
DON
track playing at 9.30 anyone?
This guy likes a bit of speed
Has he got a glass eye?
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
Didn’t know mj bit of a nitty
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
But Ramsey and fen made dubplates with Wiley but didn't like mc's hmmmmmm