olzord wrote:I'm proper gobsmacked, I had no idea that UKG had a US following! Fair play lads.
Needs to come back to how big it was though for definite.
As much as I like a massive dirty banger that makes you shit yourself, it'll never take away from the cool Old School vibes

The 2Step stuff really has no following over here other than in couple of cities at all. But the 93-97 4x4 stuff was just considered regular Garage/Soulful House, that just happened to be from England.
UK Garage when it really became it's own scene around 97never caught on over here, the older Garage/Soulful House heads, just found it cheesy and amateur, and the D&B, Techno, Trance, and Hard Dance crews, taught it was too R&B sounding.
UK Garage like Old Skool Jungle, got caught in that place of sounding to "Urban" for the Rave kids, and too weird for the Urban Crew.
That's why it's no coincidence that D&B did'nt really breakthrough over here till the Techstep and Bad Company sound came to the forefront.