2-step is back sorta, a lot of it as an outgrowth of the bassline scene - e.g. DJ Q plays a lot of this stuff.
What interests me is that (Dem 2 aside) the sound that has been revived is garage at its most artificial and sugary and 2000-pop-crossover primed, the foundational text seems to be the Sunship remix of "Flowers". And indeed Sunship's been smashing it with some very similar remixes of stuff like Alex Gaudino's "What A Feeling". But yeah, it's all muscular beats and "Show Me Love" basslines, plasticky and sparkly. The very opposite of "future garage".
What interests me is that (Dem 2 aside) the sound that has been revived is garage at its most artificial and sugary and 2000-pop-crossover primed, the foundational text seems to be the Sunship remix of "Flowers". And indeed Sunship's been smashing it with some very similar remixes of stuff like Alex Gaudino's "What A Feeling". But yeah, it's all muscular beats and "Show Me Love" basslines, plasticky and sparkly. The very opposite of "future garage".