I know that this is an almost impossible task, but what is your favourite garage record?
Certainly feel like UKG doesn’t get the credit it deserves, at least in NL, where I live. Is it still being played a lot in your local club?
My pick, mostly because of the incredibly punchy kicks:
Hearing Call Super play this one in De School is a firm highlight for my past year of clubbing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wSPzkCCZI4 this one is insanely good
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7PSf8QqlUw starts this set of with wiley and flowdan mcing
Potentially this, but too much to even divulge into. Dem 2, Ray Hurley, Steve Gurley, Mike Millrain, El-B, Zed Bias, FOS Project… too much
Elgato does potentially one of my fave garage sets ever at 41:30 here. 2010 man what a year for stuff like this
Too much indeed! I thought it’d be nice to start this thread however, because it’s great to discover other people’s favourites / a way in for the uniniated.
Anyway, here is one of my fav garage mixes:
These selections are uniformly great, loads I didn’t know.
Almost certainly something by El-B for me, could pick any one of about a dozen tunes. Absolutely perfect balance of heaviness, melody, swing:
In terms of being under-appreciated, it feels like lots of garage reference points got extremely overplayed / inescapable here in the UK by about 2011 with Disclosure etc, and it’s had a slight backlash / fallen off the radar a bit since then as result. Don’t think it’s necessarily overlooked, just on the downward side of the inevitable hype cycle.
The one from Horsepower Productions is an eternal fav: https://youtu.be/QFxdkHRpz7Q
Yeah El-B is insane! Also a fan of this previously unreleased cut on the reissue of ‘The Club’:
And re: hype cycle: interesting point of view, could definitely be the case. Kinda feel like it’s coming back a bit now tho, with DJs like Call Super and Ben UFO playing it out a lot and labels like Dr. Banana releasing reissues and (crucially) new interpretations of UKG.
more horsepower + bonus hurfyd on the visuals 
this one from '01 (got reissued on BH a few years back), real tuff breaks!
Having grown up in Portland, Oregon, UKG was something of an “exotic” treat. I still remember buying the first So Solid Crew album at an import shop. All of which is to say that I love this stuff and as much as it was nice to have the Portland clubs/raves playing the mix of hyper DnB & happy hardcore that a 14-year-old could experience in the early 00s, woulda been badass to come up with this ish.
It kind of straddles the line between breakbeat garage + broken beat but i love the DJ Hype mix of Etiene De Crecy’s ‘Scratched’