UK Garage
UK garage is a British style of dance music with shuffling, syncopated drums, deep sub-bass and chopped, pitch-shifted R&B vocals, at around 130 beats per minute.
It grew in London in the early to mid-1990s, when DJs sped up American garage house records and added bass weight from jungle. Two main rhythms developed: a swung four-on-the-floor beat, and 2-step, which drops some of the kick drums to create a skipping, broken feel. It reached the UK charts around 1999 to 2001 and later gave rise to grime, dubstep and bassline.
Artists it is known for: MJ Cole, Artful Dodger, Craig David, DJ EZ.
- Family
- Electronic & Dance
- On Spotify
- A current genre
- What it is
- A genre
- From
- London, early to mid-1990s
- Also called
- UKG, garage
- Trackify listeners who play it
- 2%
About 1,700 of 83,000 Trackify listeners with public profiles have uk garage among their top artists of the last four weeks. Rounded; updated 13 November 2026.
UK Garage artists
KETTAMA
Silva Bumpa
Sammy Virji
TWOFACED
The Streets
Nia Archives
JACK MARLOW
Riordan
NOTION
BOVSKIThe uk garage artists most Trackify listeners have in their top fifty. Each opens on Spotify.
Sources
The definition is written for this site from open sources, and was checked against them on 13 November 2026.