What is Future Garage, Dubstep, Chillstep, 2-step, UK/US Garage | A (Brief) History

We delve into the history of beloved music genres.

On this channel, we love to post playlists that feature future garage and chillstep tracks. Today we’re going to learn what are the roots of these genres: we will visit famous New York club that was deeply influential to US and UK Garage, get to know the legendary tracks of its family tree, understand where does “step” in the genre names comes from, learn what’s the difference between four-on-the-floor and 2-step, discover classic dubstep sound and trace it all back to chillstep and future garage.

Feel free to leave a comment and tell which genre you’d like us to break down deeper. There is a lot more we want to cover and if this video gets enough likes and comments, a new one will come out sooner. If you want some music to help you work, study, or to be inspired, check out our special featured playlists.

⌚ Timestamps
► 00:23 Paradise Garage
► 01:10 UK Garage
► 02:48 2-step
► 03:33 Dubstep
► 05:06 Chillstep
► 05:55 Future Garage

Songs
- Bon Iver - Holocene (Random Trip remix)
- Motown Sounds - Bad Mouthin'
- Tuff Jam - Feel My Heart
- Ekko - All Night
- Ordinary People - Baby You Make My Heart Sing
- Big Boom - Dubstep
- Michael FK & Liam Thomas - Hold Me

Sources

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Genre: Electronic music
Style: Garage
, Future Garage
, Dubstep
, Chillstep
, 2-step

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[Optinon]

This was great, had to subscribe after seeing this, but just had to point out that future garage has been around since at least 2005. Chillstep was heavily inspired by future garage. Also I felt that there was a bias against modern dubstep since you only mentioned dubstep up to 2014 when it died in mainstream popularity. Either that or you guys are only listening to og dubstep. Since about 2016-18 dubstep (deep, heavy and everything in between) has had a massive resurgence, and is a lot more respected than it was from 2010-2015 when it was just seen as a trend to the mainstream audience. I hope you guys can check out some modern dubstep because there's a lot of extremely creative artists and multiple newer sub-genres out there now

[kryptocide-]

im just here for the future garage history :D

vacant, sorrow, 4lienetic, direct, phelian, aether, noclu, Tim Schaufert, and i consider some of fijiwiji as future garage. 🔥🔥

[reinsphoenix]

chillstep is more floaty and even uplifting, most future garage is alot deeper and sadder although you could always find up/down feel in both if searched.

[lafluerpeter]

Between 2 step and dubstep there was a early conception from artists like El B, Youngstar and Artwork.

2 step garage from the late 90s early 00s was very M.C orientated which led to the birth of the grime scene when garage faded away.

The beauty of the garage scene in the 2 step era (which I still mix) was it's rawness in production akin to jungle, where quite a few people had access to a PC and a dodgy copy of early FL studio, or Music 2000 on the PS1 which (if to be believed) musical mob made pulse x on.

[Bowserdorf]

This was an informative and very well sourced video! Might I suggest a video on the more recent dubstep developments that have really came into their own since late 2010s such as melodic riddim, briddim, future riddim, colour bass, tearout, and freeform bass (aka weird bass, alien bass, space bass). So many of these are really going into their own directions enough to not even be labeled as a subgenre of dubstep, but more of their own unique things. All indebted to brostep and riddim of the late 2000s/early 2010s so that could be a way to start the conversation.

[elghs]

This is a 2 year old video, so probably too little too late on the suggestion train, but do you have any videos about Future Garage music? Your channel, specifically the video of the robot working in his flea market stand set somewhere in a rainy town is what made me fall in love w/ the genre.

[pworminkle]

thanks a lot for this, ive always been wondering how dubstep became brostep and how it connected back to house. this definitely cleared things up for me!

[marknielsbeats]

It's blows my mind that the pioneer himself (Burial), doesn't even refer to himself as a future garage artist.

[CoajaCristiandance]

of course future garage can be dance. with popping animation dancestyle

[salvadorjuarezjr.]

dubstep and its subgenres are very much alive

[MOVIEDAVE]

Can you do a breakdown of Future Garage and Chillstep?

[adriennewinter]

Really enjoyed this, thank you and please make more!

[DJRooftopKim]

Thank you for this video, very helpful in understanding why and where those genres appeared from

[braugustus]

I never knew garage started in the US. I thought it was UK born and raised 😌

[JuliaMitomi]

The video I didn’t know I desperately needed

[Shawol]

Very cool video. Really helps me explain to people that I don’t necessarily like all of EDM but specific parts, like Dub Step and Chillstep.

[eltonjohnson]

Garage always felt "busier" to me than house, especially where the percussion is concerned.

[jezzzalenko]

Well produced and informative video, thanks!

[Cliff-M-]

Excellent content. I’m new to the channel and loving the playlists.

[TayoAjayi]

Could you add Future Bass to the list as well? Great work!