Garage house (originally known as "garage";[2] local terms include "New York house"[3] and New Jersey sound) is a dance music style[4] that was developed alongside Chicago house music.[5] The genre was popular in the 1980s in the United States and the 1990s in the United Kingdom, where it developed into UK garage and speed garage.[6]
In comparison to other forms of house music, garage includes more gospel-influenced piano riffs and female vocals.[6] It has a more soulful R&B-derived sound than Chicago house.[4]
Garage house was developed in the Paradise Garage nightclub in New York City and Club ZanzibarinNewark, New Jersey, United States, during the early-to-mid 1980s. There was much overlap between it and early house music, making it difficult to tell the two apart.[7] It predates the development of Chicago house,[1] and according to All Music, is relatively closer to disco than other dance styles.[4] As Chicago house gained international popularity, New York's garage music scene was distinguished from the "house" umbrella.[4]
According to Blues & Soul, contemporary garage music started with Boyd Jarvis and Levan's The Peech Boys.[10] Jarvis, using the Visual moniker, was behind 1983 recordings "Somehow, Someway" (Prelude Records – PRL D 650) and "The Music Got Me" (Prelude Records – PRL D 650), the latter especially influential,[10] which later was sampled by mainstream house music record producers Robert Clivillés and David ColeofC+C Music Factory.[11][12]
The popularity of the genre in the UK gave birth to a derivative genre called UK garage.[6]
^Saunders, Jesse (Nov 1, 2007). House Music: The Real Story. SandlerComm. p. 118. ISBN9781604740011. "However, New York did not truly develop a recognized House music scene of its own until 1988 with the success of DJ Todd Terry—not until then did they understand what House music truly was all about. They did, though, have Garage.
^ abcVerderosa, Tony (2002). The techno primer: the essential reference for loop-based music styles. U.S.: Hal Leonard Corporation, 2002. p. 36. ISBN0634017888.
^Ann Dupuis, Anne De Bruin (2003). Entrepreneurship: new perspectives in a global age. U.S.: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 2003. p. 79. ISBN0754631982.
^Sylvan, Robin (2002). Traces of the spirit: the religious dimensions of popular music. U.S.: NYU Press. p. 120. ISBN0814798098.
^ ab"untitled". Blues & Soul (526–537). Napfield Ltd., the University of Virginia '(originally)'. 1988. [...] term as garage music now started about five years ago with the first Boyd Jarvis records and the group Visual who did the songs "Somehow, Someway" and "The Music Got Me"
