Pure Garage
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Pure Garage is a successful series of UK garage
compilation album
s. Nearly all of them are mixed by DJ EZ
.
In January 2000, Warner Music
chose Kiss 100
's DJ EZ
to mix Pure Garage, a new garage compilation CD
. Pure Garage
went on to receive platinum record sales and peaked at number 2 in the UK national compilation chart. The Pure Garage series is the most acknowledged and best selling UK Garage compilation series to date. As of September 2007, the Pure Garage series had sold over 1.7 million records. Pure Garage Rewind Back To The Old Skool was released on 3 December 2007, after just 2 weeks on sale it had already earned itself Gold Disc
status with over 100,000 copies sold. The latest Pure Garage compilation, The Very Best Of Pure Garage, was released on 1 December 2008 and is the first Pure Garage CD that isn't mixed my DJ EZ, instead it's mixed my Matt "Jam" Lamont. In March 2011 a new compilation was released, named Pure Garage Anthems, mixed by Jason Kaye Of Top Buzz
.
Some titles were also released on cassette
and vinyl
.
UK garage
UK garage is a genre of electronic dance music originating from the United Kingdom in the early-1990s. UK garage is a descendant of house music which originated in Chicago and New York, United States. UK garage usually features a distinctive syncopated 4/4 percussive rhythm with 'shuffling'...
compilation album
Compilation album
A compilation album is an album featuring tracks from one or more performers, often culled from a variety of sources The tracks are usually collected according to a common characteristic, such as popularity, genre, source or subject matter...
s. Nearly all of them are mixed by DJ EZ
DJ EZ
DJ EZ is a DJ from Tottenham, North London, specialising in UK garage music. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest DJs ever to grace the UK garage scene.- Biography :...
.
In January 2000, Warner Music
Warner Music Group
Warner Music Group is the third largest business group and family of record labels in the recording industry, making it one of the big four record companies...
chose Kiss 100
Kiss 100 London
Kiss is a UK radio station broadcasting on FM and Digital Radio, specialising in hip hop, R&B, urban and electronic dance music. It also broadcasts on DAB Digital Radio around the UK & nationally on Freeview, Sky and TalkTalk TV...
's DJ EZ
DJ EZ
DJ EZ is a DJ from Tottenham, North London, specialising in UK garage music. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest DJs ever to grace the UK garage scene.- Biography :...
to mix Pure Garage, a new garage compilation CD
Compact Disc
The Compact Disc is an optical disc used to store digital data. It was originally developed to store and playback sound recordings exclusively, but later expanded to encompass data storage , write-once audio and data storage , rewritable media , Video Compact Discs , Super Video Compact Discs ,...
. Pure Garage
went on to receive platinum record sales and peaked at number 2 in the UK national compilation chart. The Pure Garage series is the most acknowledged and best selling UK Garage compilation series to date. As of September 2007, the Pure Garage series had sold over 1.7 million records. Pure Garage Rewind Back To The Old Skool was released on 3 December 2007, after just 2 weeks on sale it had already earned itself Gold Disc
Music recording sales certification
Music recording sales certification is a system of certifying that a music recording has shipped or sold a certain number of copies, where the threshold quantity varies by type and by nation or territory .Almost all countries follow variations of the RIAA certification categories,...
status with over 100,000 copies sold. The latest Pure Garage compilation, The Very Best Of Pure Garage, was released on 1 December 2008 and is the first Pure Garage CD that isn't mixed my DJ EZ, instead it's mixed my Matt "Jam" Lamont. In March 2011 a new compilation was released, named Pure Garage Anthems, mixed by Jason Kaye Of Top Buzz
Top Buzz
Top Buzz are a British DJ / MC team, which performed at rave events in the 1990s.Top Buzz was originally formed in 1988 by MC Patrick McPhee and DJ Mikee B, playing at house events, before being joined by DJ Jason Kyriakides several years later...
.
Pure Garage CDs
- Pure Garage (2CD) - Released: 31 January 2000
- Pure Garage II (2CD) - Released: 3 July 2000
- Pure Garage III (2CD) - Released: 13 November 2000
- Pure Garage IV (2CD) - Released: 5 March 2001
- Pure Garage V (2CD) - Released: 29 October 2001
- Pure Garage Presents Bass Breaks & Beats (2CD) - Released: 3 December 2001
- Pure Garage Platinum The Very Best of... (3CD) - Released: 9 December 2002
- Bass Breaks & Beats 2003 (2CD) - Released: 30 December 2002
- Pure Garage Classics (3CD) - Released: 24 November 2003
- Pure Garage Presents Four to the Floor (2CD) - Released: 29 December 2003
- Pure Garage Presents The Main Room Sessions (3CD) - Released: 16 May 2005
- Pure Garage Rewind Back to the Old Skool (4CD) - Released: 3 December 2007
- Pure Garage Presents Pure Bassline (3CD) - Released: 30 June 2008
- The Very Best Of Pure Garage (4CD) - Released: 1 December 2008 (mixed by Matt "Jam" Lamont)
- Pure Garage Presents 100 Garage Classics (5 cd) - Released: 28 December 2009
- Pure Garage Anthems - Released: 28 May 2011 (mixed by Jason KayeTop BuzzTop Buzz are a British DJ / MC team, which performed at rave events in the 1990s.Top Buzz was originally formed in 1988 by MC Patrick McPhee and DJ Mikee B, playing at house events, before being joined by DJ Jason Kyriakides several years later...
)
Some titles were also released on cassette
Compact Cassette
The Compact Cassette, often referred to as audio cassette, cassette tape, cassette, or simply tape, is a magnetic tape sound recording format. It was designed originally for dictation, but improvements in fidelity led the Compact Cassette to supplant the Stereo 8-track cartridge and reel-to-reel...
and vinyl
Gramophone record
A gramophone record, commonly known as a phonograph record , vinyl record , or colloquially, a record, is an analog sound storage medium consisting of a flat disc with an inscribed, modulated spiral groove...
.