UK garage drum patterns.

1. 1990s

   1. 1993
      

      Show Me Love

      Robin S

      US garage-house precursor: StoneBridge's remix kept only the vocal and kick, then added an M1 organ bass over a steady 4x4
   2. 1995
      

      Saved My Life

      Todd Edwards

      New Jersey garage of cut-up vocal and instrument samples over a skippy 4x4; UK DJs pitched his records up toward 130 BPM
   3. 1995
      

      Landmark

      Never Gonna Let You Go (Kelly G Bump-N-Go Vocal Mix)

      Tina Moore

      Kelly G's mix skips kicks for a syncopated, bumping beat; often credited as the first 2-step record, a UK No. 7 in 1997
   4. 1996
      

      Landmark

      Sugar Is Sweeter (Armand Van Helden's Drum 'n' Bass Mix)

      CJ Bolland

      Van Helden set a 4x4 kick under breakbeat-style snares and a jungle bass; called by some the first true speed garage track
   5. 1997
      

      RIP Groove

      Double 99

      Rolling 4x4 with shuffled hats and a booming bass under chopped vocal hooks; often credited as a founding speed garage record
   6. 1998
      

      Landmark

      Stone Cold

      Groove Chronicles

      El-B's crew pulled the kicks off the grid under swung hats and heavy sub: the breakthrough record for darker, deeper 2-step
   7. 1998
      

      Sincere

      MJ Cole

      Sampler-and-Atari 2-step with jazzy chords and swung, broken kicks; one of the first garage records to reach the UK top 40
   8. 1999
      

      Sweet Like Chocolate

      Shanks & Bigfoot

      Bouncy vocal 2-step with a light shuffle; the first UK garage track to top the UK Singles Chart
   9. 1999
      

      Landmark

      Re-Rewind

      Artful Dodger ft. Craig David

      2-step beat with rewind effects and an R&B vocal; a UK No. 2 that carried the skipping garage shuffle into the pop charts
   10. 1999
       

       Neighbourhood

       Zed Bias

       Bass-heavy, broken-kick 2-step and a UK top 30 hit in 2000, by a producer later named among the proto-dubstep pioneers

2. 2000s

   1. 2000
      

      Battle

      Wookie

      Jazz-funk chords over crisp, syncopated 2-step drums and swung hats; Wookie's first UK top 10
   2. 2000
      

      138 Trek

      DJ Zinc

      A drum and bass producer's garage hybrid built on chopped breakbeats at garage tempo; an early breakstep record
   3. 2001
      

      Booo!

      Sticky ft. Ms Dynamite

      Stripped-back 2-step and bass under Ms Dynamite's chat; her first single and a UK No. 12, leaning toward MC-led garage
   4. 2001
      

      21 Seconds

      So Solid Crew

      Sparse 2-step built to carry a relay of MCs, 21 seconds each; a UK No. 1 that moved garage toward MC culture and grime
   5. 2007
      

      Landmark

      Heartbroken

      T2 ft. Jodie Aysha

      Bassline: a straight four-to-the-floor kick under a warped, wobbling bass; the UK No. 2 that took the Yorkshire sound national
   6. 2009
      

      Hyph Mngo

      Joy Orbison

      Swung garage hats and skippy kicks with dubstep weight and house chords; Fact's No. 1 track of 2009

3. 2010s

   1. 2012
      

      Latch

      Disclosure ft. Sam Smith

      Syncopated garage-style kicks and shuffled percussion under a pop vocal; first UK hit for a duo steeped in 2-step

4. 2020s

   1. 2021
      

      Pain

      PinkPantheress

      Short bedroom-pop vocal over a sampled karaoke take of Sweet Female Attitude's Flowers; a UK No. 35 garage single
   2. 2025
      

      Slow Burner

      Interplanetary Criminal & Original Koffee

      Current club UKG: swung garage drums and heavy bass under dancehall vocals, from a key producer of the 2020s revival

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