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The Burning Ear /// a music blog for people who don't have time for music blogs The History of the UK Garage Words by: Lexis & Dr.Love It’s really pretty incredible that after almost 20 years, the influence of the UK Garage genre is still very present. From its early incarnations around 1994, British Garage has had a huge impact over urban music in the UK with artists like Dizzee Rascal, Burial, Wiley, The Streets, Ms Dynamite. It has achieved both underground and commercial success. The family tree of UKG’s sub-genres is an absolutely fascinating piece of modern music history. Classic Garage undertones are still being felt in the present underground music landscape with the new wave of artists like SBTKRT, Jacques Greene, Disclosure, CRST, Falty DL, Mosca, Preditah and tons of others all paying homage to the roots of UKG. Important Note: The history of UK Garage recap is an evolutive project which we continue to add to and will keep on improving. 1978-1987: Paradise Garage Club Zanzibar, Tony Humphries & The New Jersey Sound 1991 – 1994: Early 90′s U.S. 1994 – 1996: Early UK Garage 2000 – … Grime

Maquina Music Releases Several ThreeSixty and Dirty Harris Tracks Free Maquina Music is a small label from the UK that has been making a name for itself over the last year for releasing extremely high quality tech, progressive, and deep house tracks. They’re also running a top-notch online-focused release and promotion strategy (use of myspace profile notwithstanding) that is building them quite a following, allows them to stay in touch with their core fans, and create and maintain meaningful relationships with industry stakeholders. They were even running a podcast until a few months ago! In other words, bigger labels could take a lesson. So aside from these ThreeSixty and Dirty Harris, whom I’ve written about before, a couple of other Maquina artists I’ve supported in my sets include Jaceo, Kiddo, and Kryder. If you’re in to tech and deep, take a minute to visit Maquina on Soundcloud and check out their other offerings – you won’t be disappointed! Maquina Music on Soundcloud

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things Gotta Dance Dirty™ | Electronic Music Blog Home - Phonica Records EDM Reaches a New Low: Meet ProducerFactory.com | 5 Magazine Update: We obtained contracts pointing to the ownership of ProducerFactory, and have published them here. This is what rock bottom looks like. Meet ProducerFactory.com, a site which turns the black magic of music fakery into something as simple as buying a song on iTunes. In the past, a struggling artist could hire a ghostwriter, or an extra producer. You can literally point, click, and buy tracks to release under your own name. As the site helpfully spells out: Producer Factory is a newly developed idea that allows you to purchase any tracks on this site exclusively, and sell it as your own. Naturally – and as you know, this is my forte – the site will also help you fake the popularity of your purchased tracks through social media manipulation packages such as “Chain Reaction Pack”, which promises “100 Retweet Votes, 100 Soundcloud Favorites, 100 Soundcloud Follower”, etc. etc, for the low price of 490 Euros. So who’s behind ProducerFactory.com? Update: I heard back from Marco… I think.