I love UK hip hop subculture. I've been thrust back into listening to garage nearly round the clock after watching BBC's brilliant 2011 miniseries, Top Boy. If you're a fan of The Wire (if you've seen it and you're not, GTFO and never come back) I highly recommend it. Catch it on Netflix before it's removed from rotation.
To me, Burial is undisputed king of the genre. This is the kind of stuff I like to listen to in the LS400 while cruising around on dark, rainy nights - menacing, deeply layered, with sharp, crunchy beats, eerie melodies and voice sampling. It's incredibly sophisticated music made with less than £500 worth of hopelessly outdated software on an ancient PC. All beats are laid manually rather than by a digital sequencer, endowing them with a beautiful and totally unique, organic texture.
My ultimate driving soundtrack is also Burial's track:
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I hadn't heard that remix, thanks for sharing.
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