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Warped basslines and inched-up garage have been hurtling through UK clubland since the late ‘90s and rippling through the noughties. Decades on, these sounds have come back into the charts and the underground with a burgeoning new wave. What do the originators think about it? It’s a simple fact: the UK loves UK garage. Although that’s never really been up for debate, particularly as UKG has enjoyed a heavy revival over the last few years, its various strands and orbital genres have waxed and waned in popularity over time. But the throbbing, adrenalised sounds of speed garage and bassline have been steadily creeping back into the dance consciousness. Then in summer 2022, a speed garage-inspired track with a Korg M1 organ bassline shot to UK #1: Interplanetary Criminal and Eliza Rose’s ‘B.O.T.A (Baddest Of Them All)’. Big basslines, breakdowns and warpers are causing havoc in clubs everywhere, with a new crop of producers putting their own take on the rough