here's @nayfunevans.bsky.social's Rinse FM program from Thursday where he mixed a set of Baltimore club and UK Garage and talked with me about the 130bpm rhythmic common ground between the two genres:
www.rinse.fm/episodes/nat...
@nayfunevans.bsky.social
Music journalist + UK garage enjoyer, words in the guardian, p4k, resi advisor, mixmag, bandcamp, crack, the wire, dazed, etc. https://linktr.ee/nayfunevans
here's @nayfunevans.bsky.social's Rinse FM program from Thursday where he mixed a set of Baltimore club and UK Garage and talked with me about the 130bpm rhythmic common ground between the two genres:
www.rinse.fm/episodes/nat...
In case you've missed - I'm now a Rinse FM Resident! Spent the last few months creating the best UK garage show itw, and had some amazing guests and conversations. Next one is this Thursday!
www.rinse.fm/shows/nathan...
what's up blusky
29.09.2025 21:28 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0And a great read on the Liverpool scene by @nayfunevans.bsky.social
www.dazeddigital.com/music/articl...
I've been a huge fan of nathan's writing for a long time. We've been chatting for years about hard house and if you're curious, there's some words from me throughout the article.
big ups @nayfunevans.bsky.social !!!!
Hard house is back, and itโs thanks to UK garage ๐ช๐
For NUKG Monthly, I speak with a new generation of garage producers that are rediscovering a style that peaked in popularity 25 years ago.
www.keymag.co.uk/nukg-monthly...
A couple months ago, I found out that Jeremy Sylvester, Dillinja and more remixed the original Tekken soundtrack ๐ฅท
For RA, I investigated the first spark of a decades-long love triangle between jungle, Japanese club culture and video game OSTs ๐ฌ๐ง๐ฏ๐ต๐ฎ
ra.co/features/4419
I spoke to the half-human, half-horse club sensation herself: horsegiirL, for the cover of Mixmag ๐ด๐โจ๐ฅ
mixmag.net/feature/hors...
must read material if you're curious to what UKG has been up to this year. plenty of wonderful words about wonderful tunes
06.01.2025 14:21 โ ๐ 11 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0<3
06.01.2025 15:03 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0After writing 8000 words worth of blurbs, here it is: the Top 100 UK Garage Tunes of 2024โผ๏ธ
www.keymag.co.uk/nukg-monthly...
I wrote all this in 2024 ๐
31.12.2024 09:52 โ ๐ 5 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0It's about that time
20.12.2024 10:11 โ ๐ 5 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0I decided to write up a little list of my favorite releases from this year.
my taste this year has done a 180 from forward thinking club music, taking me back to the mid 00's. this list is mostly garage/hard house with a couple other things sprinkled in.
links to every release will be below
Hang it in the louvre
16.12.2024 23:19 โ ๐ 4 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Got a scam caller today, searched the phone number on google and the only thing that popped up was this wonderful tune, happy days
16.12.2024 14:01 โ ๐ 15 ๐ 3 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Just been asked to be a talking head expert in a documentary because of NUKG Monthly ๐
16.12.2024 12:28 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0One of the best uk garage tunes of the year, what a sparker
12.12.2024 13:18 โ ๐ 12 ๐ 3 ๐ฌ 3 ๐ 1Very cool to be included in this list ๐ gonna share some of my proudest bits of music writing soon to get you new ppl up to speed!
12.12.2024 12:09 โ ๐ 6 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Good morning
12.12.2024 11:34 โ ๐ 4 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Itโs about that time
11.12.2024 13:55 โ ๐ 6 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Ah, a fellow hall and oates enjoyer
04.12.2024 16:41 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0๐ซถ
27.11.2024 20:28 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Hydrabad 001 was an absolute ball ๐ชฉ๐
24.11.2024 14:39 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Just found this one and am completely in love
14.11.2024 23:06 โ ๐ 4 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Yeah that's the sad thing about niche :(
14.11.2024 20:39 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Unreal right
14.11.2024 13:53 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0There's also a really great Dazed one, but I'm thinking something more comprehensive, like how we know the chronology of dubstep. Though that's largely bc of dubstep forum and Blackdown's blogs and stuff
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Yxy...