How Did Speed Garage Start?
Armand Van Helden is widely regarded as the pioneer behind the modern speed garage sound. He is reported to have said that he wished to combine the jungle and the garage sounds as his aim a couple of years back, and in 1996 several remixes came out including his mix of “Spin Spin Sugar” by Sneaker Pimps with heavy basslines and more timestretching than in the average garage track. But at this stage this would have been classed as more experimental house than “speed garage”, a term which was only heard widely for the first time in early 1997. Speed GarageIt was probably people like Double 99 who first defined the speed garage genre as it is today when they released “Ripgroove”, who turned the experimental Van Helden remix sound into something more accessible by both the jungle posse and the garage crew. Keeping it simple and catchy is the aim of a lot of speed garage producers over the last year or so, and “Ripgroove” succeeds to do this through the instantly recognisable bassline and t
