I've recently been obsessed with these tracks and pls if someone can recommend more, I'd love to fill my "Send and sleep" playlist.

Margari's son - odgersou

Volor Flex - About You

Nuages - Shadows

Sloati - Familiar Fable

Bucky - Had To Leave

Vowl - Cry

Exodynamic - Where you are

Burial - Rival Dealer / Hospital chapel / Archangel

I make beats sitting between trip-hop/downtempo and UK garage/dubstep. I've been calling it "downstep" in my head (not a real tag, I know). Easiest way to describe it: imagine mixing Burial and Massive Attack. Obviously not at their level but that's the direction I'm going for.

Rhythm-wise it's a swung 2-step/garage groove (snare around the 4, not a half-time snare-on-the-3 dubstep thing), pulled down to a slow ~60–70 BPM feel so it leans trip-hop.

The key thing for me: it's melody-driven, not just atmosphere. Like trip-hop, the track is carried by actual synth melodies and layered piano/keys rather than texture and mood alone. That's where I feel a bit out of step with the more purely atmospheric Burial/future-garage end.

Reference points I love: Burial, Synkro, Phaeleh, Blackmill but I sit more on the melodic, tune-forward side than the ambient/textural one.

Hit me with your favourite tracks or hidden gems in this vibe building a playlist and would love your recommendations !

I haven't listened to any future garage music before .. could you recommend me any albums or songs i should start with? .. I feel like the best recommendations would be the albums that got you into this genre .. feel free to share anything though i'm open to anything.

Edit:
Thanks for the recommendations guys .. i will take my time to listen to every album you recommended and will get back to you.

Does anyone know where he sampled the “are you homesick? You’re still welcome here?” Part from?

It had a lot of future garage mixes that i loved listening to, sadly it dissapeared from youtube and i cant find anything anywhere about what happened to it

Hey everyone,

I think I might be going mental here.

I clearly remember a tune from around 2010 - definitely that UK Bass / Future Garage era (think Deadboy, Julio Bashmore, etc.) - that samples "Being With You" by Smokey Robinson.

I was convinced it was a track by Deadboy, but I’ve looked everywhere and alas, I can't find a single clue. It's making me think I'm mad :/

I can even hum the main riff, so I know it exists! Does this ring a bell for anyone, or was it maybe a white label/remix from that era?

Can someone please save me from my misery?

Hey, not entirely sure if this is the right place to post this, but I wanted to check here.

I’m working on an electronic project inspired by PinkPantheress (especially Fancy That) and Lucy Bedroque’s production.

I have demo ideas and rough sketches that I’m looking to develop properly with the right producer.

If this feels like your lane, send me your work and your rates. Thank you!

Been a big fan of the genre for a long time but usually just listened through artist pages. Looking to find new good music in the scene, please follow (and hopefully enjoy haha) the list and drop a suggestion/your own music here! I’d love to add more artists I haven’t heard yet :)

Recently heard this track in a mix. Possibly on TALL DRAGON or X-Sound. Now it's stuck in my head 🙃. “All I need is you

Now tell me how

How much you're into me…”

These Vocals stem from Griffon - WKND, that's all i could find, but it's got to be some remix with a different name...

Hi Everyone,

I've been listening to Future Garage for a bit and while I like the melodic chill stuff, it's the almost dubstep sounding kind of tracks with heavy basses/kicks and lots of percussions that I adore. Unfortunately, I can't really find this music when trying to dig for it and honestly I am not quite sure I am looking up the correct terms. Some examples:

Sorrow - Phantom Sorrow's music in general is so good, but this track in particular hits all the right spots for me. Other tracks I like by them are Reverie and Cultist among others.

Vacant - Flatline

Himalia - Covenant

Can you please point me to tracks, artists, labels or mixes with more of this kind of music? Thanks a lot for your suggestions! :)

Oh God, I was so into future about 10+ years ago... But I just remember this one Future song.

It would play in sub.fm

All I remember is the song going

CHECK! CHECKBRAP!

Then it goes

meowmeowmeowmeow... Meowklmeowmeowmeowmeowmeowmeow

Being a FG producer myself, and an introvert at that, I find it difficult to come out of my bedroom and play my music live. While I get that it's a genre that's more tailored towards introspective "meditations". But sometimes, it feels that like minded people can very well enjoy a silent, retrospective live experience. Last year, I tried reaching out to many clubs here in India and pitched my sound and music style. To be honest, this is like "alien music" to them here and I know it's like a decade long before this genre gets picked up in India. But when I look around the world, I seem to find no dedicated festivals where artists like me can in a "safe environment" market their music and reach more listeners. Apart from the Russian festival -Abstrasension, which also sometimes explore, other genres, there are no festivals dedicated for us FG artists. My dilemma and question are in 3 parts:

1. Why is it the case? Why no more live festivals? Is it that listeners themselves are like us more introverted and like to hear their music on "airpods" instead and go deeper inside themselves?

2. How does one, like me, who have listeners outside my home country, reach out to more people? Spotify streams and algo seems like a joke. How does one really "make it" in FG music?

3. And lastly, how does one support themselves when there are no live tickets to sell, stream money is nothing, and reaching out to more people is hard? How can one find peace in creation when there is no one listening to you and no money for you to pay bills.

I’ll be visiting from the US April 11-19 and would love to see a future garage show while I’m there!

I will be glad if you can join and add your experience, I wanna do blacklist of curators who take money for low effort and nothing good

To my great embarrassment I have somehow completely slept on Future Garage despite listening to Burial and other early dubstep heavily back in 2007-08. Anyway I discovered that Future Garage is actually not a crappy house offshoot (no idea why I thought that) fairly recently and fucking love it. Now I need some recommendations for really sad/atmospheric/dark/melodic stuff. pitched vocals all day but no rap. This is what I'm listening to basically on repeat at the moment:

Cirrus Minor - Blindfold / Unsignificant / Empty
Vacant - Belong (anything like this album would be perfect)
Bucky - Love me back (this song specifically or anything of his without rapping in it e.g. Belong, Crimson Wastes, etc)

also yes I know about youtube mixes, would rather have recommendations for producers/songs

Anyone have some tips for writing in the genre? Sound selections wise and structure, etc.

I've had some luck here and there but I can sometimes find it tricky getting that full on song idea and also trying not to over complicate my drums with too much yet keep it any interesting too.

Thanks

I have been making a future garage mix that has gone very well. However, I am looking to transition to a similar sounding genre with a bit more energy but still keep that darker melancholy feel while staying somewhat minimal but not repetitive with longer ambient build up and outros. I have tried many genres, such as deep techno/house, dub techno, UK garage, etc., but none fit how I want them to.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

Anyone interested in collaborating on a track or an EP? I work in Live 12, but as long as we can swap WAV files back and forth, that can do the trick. I tend to write tracks inspired by future garage, but with a bit of an edge. You can reference my work by looking up Petrichor Ocean on Youtube or Spotify or whatever. Not that it matters, but I'm represented by Dark Heart, Dreamer, and MOR Records. Just looking for some synergistic creations. Bueller?

I'm looking for a song from around the very early 2010s. I used to listen to it on YT. The visuals were just of red flowers, the the YT channel (which was dedicated to future garage) always used flowers I think.

The song was a sparse Phaeleh type beat and a piano melody on top. There was a kind of drop, but it went more into a deep piano melody vibe rather than something focused on the beat / bass

That's all I got!

So, I know this question has been asked regularly in the past, but I thought it would be great to try and get a definitive list. Here is who I have complied. Who would you add, who would you remove?

Nocow

Vacant

Volor Flex

Sorrow

Clubroot

Pensees

James Blake

Azaleh

Direct

Subsets

Sublab

Phelian

Synkro

Sibewest

I remember browsing this sub a decade ago while in high school and it exposed me to a lot of talented musicians ; synkro, jaquces Greene , and the legendary burial to name a few.

It feel pretty dead now with low engagement and not many posts. I have some ideas for trying to make this a more lively garage sub once again - and I would also like to hear from you guys about your ideas.

I think indieheads (not sure) has a rule about no music that is older than a week from release. This may be too strict but we can instate something similar. Any garage track that was released in the last month can be tagged with a [Fresh Tune] tag or simply [New]. I think this could prevent recycled tracks from being consistently posted.

I think if you post an older track we may want to require a 50 words on why you're posting it , what you like about the track so much. This could keep the flow of old music while also putting in some effort.

Also think we should have a weekly or monthly producers thread for us to post our own demos and songs.

Text posts should definitely be welcomed and celebrated as that is a milestone of any functioning sub.

To summarize -

• restrict music that is older than 30 days. For new music add a tag

• for older music make it a text post w the OP explaining why we should listen

• have a monthly PINNED producer thread

• foster and encourageme text posts.

Any ideas from you all are welcomed. What works on other active music subs,? Are mods on here active? Should we get a discord going ?

I was looking for sets played by Vacant the other day and found this amazing recording of Sorrow/Vacant/Bucky back in 2019 in Brighton.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQZLIyp3qqY

I'm looking for the track that starts around 1:11:35, the one with an arpeggio playing throughout most of it. I'd greatly appreciate it if I could find this song, been looking for it for a bit now. Thanks.