What you call it Garage??

 

What is UK Garage. this question comes up a lot when people visit the island and hear it’s and its multiple sub-genres. 

I like this explanation here

Here is an excerpt.

“UK garage (also known as UKG or simply garage) is an umbrella term that refers to the offsprings of UK Garage in the form of sub-genres of garage generally connected to the evolution of house in the United Kingdom from early/mid-1990s. Nowadays, garage is now referred to as old skool garage as nobody really makes it anymore.

In 2001-2003, when this old skool garage died out, (which is called 2step, the subgenre of UKG, which garage was in the 1990s,)  it produced three sub-genre offsprings in order to replace it. Grime, Dubstep and Bassline.”

“Some UK Garage/Grime/Bassline/Dubstep producers are leaning towards a newer evolution called UK Funky, often misnamed Funky House, a term for commercial House music. UK Funky takes production values from many different shades of UK Garage music and blends them, at a standard House Music tempo, with tribal style percussion. There are many different takes on Funky, including producers such as Apple, Lil Silva, Roska and Scratcha DVA, who have a harder, more syncopated sound, and other producers aiming for a more commercial, RNB friendly audience, such as Crazy Cousinz.”

This is very similar to the current wikipedia entry, so not sure which was the original source.  Wiley explains the evolution.