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Broadcast: 07/07/03
The New Step  Listen to the documentary
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When someone mentions UK Garage, you'll probably think of the government panicking about trigger happy MCs or the scared promoters who cancel raves for fear of body bags. On the other hand you might think of chart friendly acts like Misteeq or So Solid. But there's a new hybrid sound of the garage underground, championed by producers in their bedrooms making music on little more than a Playstation or a PC. 1Xtra's J Da Flex investigates …
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"PCs are so cheap and it's easier and easier to make music on them. Anyone can have a go" |
Dizzee Rascal, MC & Producer
"There's a lot of people on their computers making tunes. There's a generation where being on the computer and programming beats is second nature to a lot of youth right now. I started when I was about thirteen or fourteen, just doing it in school."
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Zed Bias, Producer
"PCs are so cheap and the music packages are making it easier and easier to make music on them. You're getting CD quality minimum. Anyone can have a go, and the ones that take it seriously will come through the ranks."
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"The industry is quiet in every way, so the stuff we are making we're just playing it for ourselves " |
Oris Jay, Producer
"I don't think in this day and age that it's a London thing anymore I think it's a UK thing. I've got a boy over in Leicester called Lombardo and he moves with a guy called Dubchild, and they're making some amazing tunes at the moment."
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Hatcha, DJ & Producer
"There's not a big demand out there for the music at the moment. The industry is quiet in every way, so the stuff we are making we're just playing it for ourselves and when we are playing out and getting bookings we're playing tunes that we've made so that people are like 'Yeah, we'll book him because he's the only one playing that kind of sound'."
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