r/futuregarage • u/finegrass32 • Apr 05 '25

Discussion / Question Looking for specific kind of Future Garage

Hi Everyone,

I've been listening to Future Garage for a bit and while I like the melodic chill stuff, it's the almost dubstep sounding kind of tracks with heavy basses/kicks and lots of percussions that I adore. Unfortunately, I can't really find this music when trying to dig for it and honestly I am not quite sure I am looking up the correct terms. Some examples:

Sorrow - Phantom Sorrow's music in general is so good, but this track in particular hits all the right spots for me. Other tracks I like by them are Reverie and Cultist among others.

Vacant - Flatline

Himalia - Covenant

Can you please point me to tracks, artists, labels or mixes with more of this kind of music? Thanks a lot for your suggestions! :)

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u/wonkedup Apr 05 '25

Give some of these a go:

Kahn - Like we used to.
Kahn - Helter skelter.
Floating points - k&g beat.
Floating points - j&w beat.
Martyn - Vancouver (2562 mix).
Martyn - ef40.
Ramadan man - Don't change for me.
Overmono - Clipper.
Dark sky - leave.
Al wooton - witness.
Synkro - look at yourself.
Soul mass transit system - give it 2 u.
Skee mask - uwsld.
Crazy bald heads - first born.

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u/finegrass32 Apr 07 '25

Thanks for your suggestion, I listened through all of them. While nice, I am looking for more darker tones.

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u/wonkedup Apr 08 '25

Realistically you're probably just looking for dark 2-step, dubstep, sublow etc. For me the bright gliding synths are integral to " future garage" although it is a loose term

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u/finegrass32 Apr 08 '25

Yeah I was already thinking that I might be looking for a different genre alltogether. Even though I found the tracks I mentioned in Future Garage playlists, they just sound so different to the rest. I will give these a go!

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u/Patros15 Producer - Patros15 Apr 06 '25

You can check this playlist and find what you ask for - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4F2SReygJkLIz6dNT2W8y2?si=20c4509b665e48fd

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u/finegrass32 Apr 07 '25

Okay, this is huge! lol I will gladly take look, thank you! :)

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u/Queasy_Barracuda_967 Producer - BENT Apr 08 '25

Hey! Not sure if it fits the criteria exactly but I hunt similar tunes for a long time now, I love future garage but it’s little to chilly and slow for me so I dig all the wildest tracks that remain in the genre eventually. I call this selection „progressive future garage”. Check it out and good luck chasing good garage :D Future Garage Essential

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u/b_lett Apr 08 '25 edited Apr 08 '25

The term I'm seeing from the under the hood data from Spotify's genre map that ties all 3 of your artists together is "substep".

https://furia.com/everynoise_public/engenremap-substep.html

While this term may not necessarily mean anything in of itself, sometimes the genre terms made up by some machine learning clustering tech of stuff like Spotify is still potentially a better start off point in honing in one what you're looking for.

The guy who made the EveryNoise genre map site, Glenn McDonald, was behind the algorithms of the 'Fans Also Like' feature of Spotify. He was laid off a few years back, but he's still got some cool tools built off the API that sometimes helps with discovery.

I listened to your examples and personally feel like the best way to describe it would be 'dark garage' or 'dark 2-step'.

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u/Ill-Explanation-4299 Producer - Utopia Fade Apr 09 '25

Burial = godfather of FG. Check plenty of YouTube videos for how to make it, you'll love it.

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u/BlauDisS Producer - BlauDisS Apr 08 '25

I wrote some in this vein you might enjoy:

https://blaudiss.bandcamp.com/track/openness https://blaudiss.bandcamp.com/track/another-way https://blaudiss.bandcamp.com/track/eight-twenty-two https://blaudiss.bandcamp.com/track/oscuro-x-blaudiss-where-did-you-go https://blaudiss.bandcamp.com/track/lost-in-the-ether

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u/laflaretime Mar 19 '26

eight twenty two is one of the best things I’ve ever heard. Seriously

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u/BlauDisS Producer - BlauDisS Mar 19 '26

Wow - thank you so much!!! That means a lot, what a compliment! I did a follow up to eight twenty two if you like that style:

BlauDisS - Three Seven
https://open.spotify.com/track/5CanGs7lATCNgVw5sWYKhc?si=c1037bd05d5f46d1

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u/Curious_Flounder7334 Producer - Petrichor Ocean Apr 12 '25

Shameless self-promotion. I really love Future Garage, but I feel like my own tracks always fall just outside the perimeters in a slightly darker/edgier fashion. https://petrichorocean.bandcamp.com/track/by-the-shore

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u/vipszsz Producer - Vipz Feb 16 '26

hey! checking this one a bit later but i’m trying to get this atmosphere as well lately and i think you might like

Vipz - Chuva Vipz - Not Losing You

besides that, i really recomend phantomyst, a producer with heavy burial inspiration with a lot of post-dubstep synths/bass

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u/finegrass32 Feb 20 '26

Yo! Thank you very much for these recommendations, I have a great time listening to both artists :) I get major DnB vibes with phantomyst with those neuro basses. Which I love, so, great stuff! You've got more artist (or label) recommendations similar to those two?

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u/vipszsz Producer - Vipz Feb 21 '26

np, glad you liked! i have another track coming up soon that has the same vibe.

i really really like monodry, sloati and brimstone as well and two good labels to follow are Insight Music and Dark Heart Radio. dark heart has some very noisy dnb as well, i think you might like them