Music
Finally it's time for number 11: my UK Garage mix!Back when I only played Hip Hop, R&B and Soul (and before the trapsound really came through) I started doing my first club gigs and always felt like the tempo of the music I was playing was too slow and not danceable enough. Luckily, around the same time I got to know MC Stretch and J Flava who put me on this other sound: 2-Step. To me, it sounded liked speeded up R&B and I started to dig into the sound. Pretty soon I found out about UK Garage which I came to fell in love with because it had all the same elements I loved about Hip Hop (deep basslines, hard hitting drums, funky rhythms and soulful vocals but it was about 1,5 times faster in tempo than the music I was back then! Years passed, I went to many UK Garage clubnights (which were still my best memories to this date) and fell deeper and deeper into the scene. After many raves we started our own clubnight Jangala which had a nice little run for a year and later on I got bookings myself too to play on UK sound parties. By now, I must say UK Garage is my favorite music to play when I DJ because of all the good memories, the fact that it doesn't matter wether you play a well known or unknown track as long as it slaps, the way how you can make longer transitions and just the way the music makes me feel!Hope you enjoy this one, this might be my favorite mix yet!Tracks by GEOTHEORY, Mind Of A Dragon, TQD, PVC, Preditah, Majestic, Rare Candy, Mike Millrain, Moony, DJ Q, Champion, Paul Lauwerence & Andy Garrett, someone off a mixtape by DJ EZ and Youngster.Mixed on my XDJ RX-1.Cover designed with help by Zoe Love Smith :)