Released: 2000
By the start of the 21st century what had become known as UK Garage had been totally commercialised, draped in a Union Jack and could be heard on pretty much every waltzer at pretty much every travelling fair across the country. Pumped up, bassed out and snatching dancehall rudeness, it had become club music’s apex predator. The inverse relationship between popularity and quality was also firmly in effect.
Angus Campbell and Ian Wallman met at least some of the criteria as UKG producers, naming themselves after the Birmingham postcode they came from. They were also suitably faceless in a world where white labels and selectas were the arbiters of deciding what went; working with the likes of Beenie Man and Ms.Dynamite, as big clubbing began to feel stale, they understood the new basics of one room, one tune and one party.
Girls Like Us was everywhere in that summer of 2000, the sound of a movement hearing the champagne corks popping. Lightweight? Maybe. Repetitive? Yeah. An absolute owner of any dancefloor it was introduced to? Completely. Being British and having it was never supposed to sound this good.
The Voice Of Unreason 
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