UK Garage can be sublime and it can be beautiful. Sybil’s cover of the Dionne Warwick song remixed by the legendary Steve Gurley somehow manages to tickle, overpower and awe all in the same sitting.
The secret is in the coupling of the vocal and the bassline – they don’t so much “work” together as sing together in a duet, with sparse, twinkling chords and shuffling drums filling in the gap between them. Noodles of Groovechronicles reissued Gurley’s VIP Mix along with Grime mixes from DJ Ski and CJ Reign and there’s been no shortage of touch-ups circulating on SoundCloud and hiding in DropBoxes for years.
