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Enter any specialist record emporium and you'll notice a slew of UK garage records. You know it's a phenomenon when every kid is tampering in their bedroom and churning out dodgy white labels.
Phenomena don't just spring out of nowhere, however. So all credit to the Dreem Teem for lighting up the path with this release. CD one might be current cuts [Wookie, MJ Cole, Genius Productions and M:Dubs etc] but it's the second volume that's pure classics, most of which are long since lost to dingy vinyl bins.
Given So Solid Crew recently called the Dreem Teem et al 'granddads' you might stop to question whether people really need to know where garage is from? But when it's this fresh, you're damn right they do.
What you see is that the breaky elements - like on M:Dubs 'Over Here' have come to the fore, while the soulful NY trad. garage sound of Baffled feat. Colour Girl has faded.
Oddly there's no Roy Davis Jr's 'Gabrielle' nor any Todd Edwards, as it seems the Dreem Teem are focusing on UK talent.
It's easy to forget that at the time these tracks were being produced nearly everyone was submerged in jungle or the trip hop/ big beat thing. It proves the Dreem Teem may have a point after all.
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