1. Dizzee Rascal

    Dylan Mills, known professionally as Dizzee Rascal (born 1985 in Bow/East London), is an English MC/rapper and producer. His (largely self-composed) music is a blend of garage MCing, conventional rap, grime and ragga, with extremely eclectic samples and more exotic styles.

  2. Grant Nelson

    Grant Nelson (born April 27, 1971, in England) is a DJ, producer and remix artist. Grant is heralded as one of the godfathers of UK Garage due to his numerous club hits on his Nice 'n' Ripe record label in the early 90's. It was his sound along with a few others that gave birth to the then known as 'Sunday Scene' which went on to become UK garage.

  3. Dj Ez

    DJ EZ (pronounced E-Zed) is a DJ from Tottenham, North London specialising in UK garage music.

  4. Dj Zinc

    DJ Zinc is a drum and bass/Breakstep DJ from the United Kingdom. DJ Zinc is renowned for both his skills as a DJ and for the quality of his productions and remixes. He rose to prominence in the period of drum and bass production dominated by the hip-hop-influenced Jump-Up style, although he has continually positioned himself at the cutting edge of the music by embracing a variety of styles in his versatile DJ sets.

  5. El-B

    El-B (real name Lewis Beadle) is a british electronic music producer, who produces mainly hip hop and UK garage. He is also noted as a pioneer of the dubstep genre. He runs the Ghost Recordings label and is also part of the duo El-Tuff and the band Groove Chronicles. He has been relatively inactive since 2004, but played a comeback set at The End in London in June 2006.

  6. Danny Byrd

    Hailing from Bath in the South West of England, Danny Byrd has been involved in the Drum & Bass music scene since the late 90's. Seen as a pioneer of soulful and vocal liquid funk, Danny had his first release on DJ Ron's Picasso imprint back in 1998 with "Manhattan", quickly moving onto join up with the Hospital Records camp in the year 2000. It was with Hospital that he really made his mark with the singles "Do it Again" and "Changes", …

  7. Lisa Maffia

    Lisa Maffia (born 16 June 1979 in South London) originally came to the public's attention as the main female member of So Solid Crew. Whilst in So Solid, the singer notched up 5 top 20 hits, including a platinum selling single "21 Seconds" and a platinum selling album "They Dont Know". She was born to an Italian mother and a black father. Her own first solo album, "First Lady" was released in August 2003, …

  8. Benga

    Benga (real name Beni Uthman) is a UK garage music producer from Croydon, and is part of the Big Apple Records label. He has been described as an important name in the development of the dubstep style for his fusion of the already existing South London dubstep sound with the newer East London born grime sound, and was also one of the first dubstep producers when the style was emerging in the early 2000s.

  9. Sweetie Irie

    At the age of eighteen, Sweetie Irie signed a solo record deal with Island Records, releasing a number of singles such as, ”Money Honey”, ”On & On” (with Aswad), ”Margar Man” and ”New Talk” (with Jo 90). Through his music Sweetie has travelled the world performing at events such as Jamaican Sunsplash, Notting Hill Carnival, international shows in Grenada, Trinidad and all the way to Japan Splash. He has collaborated with various artists such as Aswad, …

  10. M. J. Cole

    M.J. Cole is Matt Coleman (born 1973), a UK house and UK garage producer and remixer. In his youth, Cole learned to play the oboe and piano, and attended the Royal College of Music. He also played piano on the BBC's Young Musician Of The Year. He later discovered computers and turntables, and ended up working as a sound engineer. M.J. Cole is regarded as one of the innovators of the 2Step or UK Garage sound, popular during the late 1990s and early 2000s.

  11. Dj Spoony

    DJ Spoony ("born Jonathan Joseph in 1970 in the London Borough of Hackney ") is a British DJ, and former BBC Radio 1 presenter. Spoony's broadcasting career started on London Underground (a leading pirate radio station in the mid-nineties). he then joined Kiss 100, where he became a member of the "Dreem Teem" with Mikee B and Timmi Magic. The Dreem Team then brought UK garage to Radio1. His weekend breakfast show allowed listeners to join the Early Doors Club, …

  12. Dj Abstract

    Dj Abstract is a drum and bass artist based out of San Francisco. Active as a dj from 1994, he became known primarily as a producer, first within drum and bass and later expanding into other genres, including techno, 2 step, and electro. His real name is Alexander Posell.

  13. Courtney Pine

    Courtney Pine (born 18 March 1964) is a British jazz musician. At school he studied clarinet, although he is known primarily for his saxophone playing. Pine is a multi-instrumentalist, also playing the flute, clarinet and keyboards. His recent music has attempted to integrate modern British music like drum and bass and UK garage with contemporary jazz styles. He runs his own band and integrates many comtemporary musicians in his performances.

  14. Mc Romeo

    MC Romeo (born Marvin Dawkins, 1 November 1980, London) is a British UK garage music MC. He first found fame in the garage group So Solid Crew. He subsequently had a solo career, firstly with the single "Romeo Dunn" which reached no. 3 in the UK charts in 2002. He also appeared in the reality show "The Games" in 2004, following in the footsteps of fellow So Solid Crew member, MC Harvey.

  15. Michaël Canitrot

    Michaël Canitrot is a French DJ artist specializing in UK garage. He is the co-founder of So, Happy in Paris ?, which aims to create parties based on "human warmth, conviviality and, above all, dance and music celebration".

  16. Conner Reeves

    Conner Reeves is a British singer-songwriter. He is best known for his 1997 Wildstar album "Earthbound". He scored five top 30 singles in the UK singles chart, was nominated for a BRIT Award and performed as support act for many singers such as Whitney Houston. After his recording contract was terminated, Conner wrote songs for UK garage act Artful Dodger and singer Joss Stone.

  17. Lsk

    LSK (born Leigh Stephen Kenny on 9 August, 1977 in Leeds, United Kingdom) is a singer, songwriter and record producer based in Leeds who uses a mix of reggae, punk rock and UK garage. He has been compared to The Streets, which is mentioned in a song on his second album "Outlaw". He collaborated with Faithless on their 2004 album, "No Roots", he perfomed with the band on the subsequent tour and continues to feature at Faithless concerts.

  18. Claudia Webbe

    Claudia Webbe is Vice-Chairperson of New Scotland Yard's Operation Trident Independent Advisory Group after pioneering its development in the mid 1990s. Following the recent targeted murders of children in South London (February 2007), Webbe was called on to give a number of media responses and was featured throughout on BBC, BBC News 24, BBC Radio 4, BBC Breakfast, ITV, Channel 4 News and Sky News amongst others.