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AG Presents: Dubstep with Serious Jorge By Jimmy O’Hara It’s London, 1997. You’re grooving with close friends in a dimly-lit function beneath the bustling streets of U.K. life. Like any lover of early electronic music, you soak up the burly, eccentric basslines of 2-step and U.K. garage — two beloved genres in their prime at…

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A Genre’s DNA Drives Inner & Global Discovery: KENNY99 Communicates the Interconnected Creativity & International Community Cultivated by Garage By Jimmy O’Hara Spending much of his youth in Pocomoke City by the beaches of Maryland’s Eastern Shore, Kenny Fisher aka KENNY99 is no stranger to plentiful melting pots of music. People in Kenny’s community jammed…

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It’s Spring 2021 and American Grime is officially introducing our newest additions to the label’s merchandise line! We’ve added 2 new hoodie styles, one in black with the AG logo in yellow embroidered over the chest. The other, a grey hoodie with the AG logo in black, embroidered over the chest. We’ve also added Covid…

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Kozee Honors the Role of Black & LGBTQ+ Garage Pioneers through Reflective Guest-Mix By Jimmy O’Hara It’s summer 1978. You’re venturing through New York City with friends on a vibrant night filled with LGBTQ+ music festivities. Scuffling between secret queer-friendly safe spaces, your posse passes 84 King Street, intrigued by an electronic event emitting funk-infused…

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Jett Delivers Empowering Garage Mix, Merging Mental Health Hurdles with Women’s Liberation in Music By Jimmy O’Hara & Sarah Styles From childhood to adolescence, Tara Algios aka Jett studied music theory and multiple mediums, cultivating a lifelong passion for mixing and sound design. By early adulthood, however, mental health challenges interrupted Jett’s commitment to music.…

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VISCRIT REVISITS HISTORY IN MERE MINUTES THROUGH MIX FILLED WITH SWINGS & BREAKS By Jimmy O’Hara & Sarah Styles When you think of garage music, the UK might come to mind. However, the house enthusiasts of Chicago and New York City derived the origins of garage a handful of years before its transatlantic introduction to…

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Topher The Alien Pays Tribute to Ancestors and Descendents of Garage Through Dynamic Podcast By Jimmy O’Hara & Sarah Styles One way to envision garage’s role in the evolution of electronic music: Imagine it’s the trunk of a family tree. Grounding the genre are its animated, extraverted roots: the likes of house, jungle, breakbeat and…

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American Grime Amplifies the Art & Sound of Garage Through Six-Week Podcast Series By Jimmy O’Hara & Sarah Styles It’s spring 1993. You’re shuffling through an intimate family of like-minded music lovers filling a dimly-lit warehouse, tucked cozily away within the streets of London. A percussive, breakbeat rhythm pulses through the dance floor. Momentum from…

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MC Jumanji links up with Philadelphia’s LUDGE, pumping out these socially distanced visuals for a catchy lockdown anthem called Quarantine.

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