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UK Garage: Tuff Jam

Bethan Cole, i-D, August 1997

IT HAPPENS like this: just when you're sitting comfortably, just when you least expect it, just from where you least expect it, along comes a music that raises previous models of sound to the ground, sets dancefloors alight with an unstoppable kinetic energy and vibrance and imprints a whole new rhythm on the landscape of dance.

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