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1Xtra's UK Garage 30 @ 30 Vote

What was your greatest UK Garage track of the last 30 years? All was revealed!

2024 marks 30 years since the birth of UK Garage! To celebrate, we asked you to vote for your your greatest UK Garage track of the last 30 Years. To help find out, 1Xtra and Heartless Crew have reached out to friends and colleagues within the genre and industry to compile a longlist of over 100 UK Garage tracks - instrumental and vocal - that have spanned the 30 year period from 1994 to present day.

From that longlist, we then narrowed it down to a shortlist of 60 seminal tracks for you to decide from.

You voted and chose your top 30 tracks - did your favourite make the cut?

**Listen Now: Heartless Crew announces the top 30 @ 30 UKG tracks!**

1Xtra's UK Garage 30 At 30 - Top 10

1. 21 Seconds - So Solid Crew

2. Little Bit of Luck - DJ Luck & MC Neat

3. Flowers (Sunship Edit) – Sweet Female Attitude

4. Rewind – Artful Dodger feat. Craig David

5. Gabriel - Roy Davies Jr. feat. Peven Everett

6. Has It Come To This? - The Streets

7. Do You Really Like It - DJ Pied Piper & The Master Of Ceremonies

8. Sweet Like Chocolate - Shanks & Bigfoot

9. Moving Too Fast - Artful Dodger feat. Romina Johnson

10. Sincere - MJ Cole feat. Elisabeth Troy

1Xtra's UK Garage 30 at 30 - Full shortlist

Heartless Crew and esteemed industry friends chose over 100 tracks and we've narrowed it down to a shortlist of 60 seminal tracks for you to decide from. The list is a snapshot of the genre and some of your favourites may be there - and some may not have made this cut!

  • 138 Trek - DJ Zinc
  • 21 Seconds - So Solid Crew
  • A London Thing - Scott Garcia, MC Styles
  • All I Want (Sunship Mix) - Mis-Teeq
  • As I Am (Todd Edwards Mix) – Sound of One
  • Battle – Wookie feat. Lain
  • Body Groove - Architechs feat. Nay Nay
  • Booo - Sticky feat. Ms Dynamite
  • Call It Fate - K Warren feat. Richie Dan
  • Champagne Dance - Pay As You Go Cartel
  • Cheque One‐Two – Sunship
  • Crazy Love - MJ Cole feat. Elisabeth Troy
  • Do You Really Like It - DJ Pied Piper & The Master Of Ceremonies
  • Down on Me – Wookie
  • Dreams - Smokin Beats feat. Lyn Eden
  • Enough is Enough – Y Tribe feat. Elisabeth Troy
  • Envy (They Don't Know Vocal Remix) - So Solid feat. Ms Dynamite
  • ­Fill Me In - Craig David
  • Find The Path [In Your Mind] - New Horizons
  • Flowers (Sunship Edit) – Sweet Female Attitude
  • Gabriel - Roy Davies Jr. feat. Peven Everett
  • We Can Get Down (Groove Chronicles Mix) – Myron
  • Girls Like Us - B-15 Project feat Crissy D & Lady G
  • Good Rhymes - Da Click
  • Gotta Get Thru This - Daniel Bedingfield
  • Has It Come To This? - The Streets
  • Imagine (Club Asylum Remix) - Shola Ama
  • Just In Case (Dubaholics Remix) - Jahiem
  • Know We - Pay As You Go Cartel
  • Ladbroke Grove - AJ Tracey
  • Lessons (Steve Gurley Remix) - NCA Presents Robbie Craig
  • Little Bit of Luck - DJ Luck & MC Neat
  • Little Man – (Exemen, Wookie Remix) – Sia
  • Melody - Masterstepz
  • Moving Too Fast - Artful Dodger feat. Romina Johnson
  • My Desire (Dreem Team Remix) - Amira
  • My Love (10o Below Mix) - Kele Le Roc
  • Never Gonna Let You Go – Tina Moore
  • On My Mind - Jorja Smith, produced by Preditah
  • Please Don't Turn Me On - Artful Dodger feat. Lifford
  • Pleasure - Brasstooth
  • Rewind – Artful Dodger feat. Craig David
  • Shut The Door – Todd Edwards
  • Sincere - MJ Cole feat. Elisabeth Troy
  • I’m Sorry! - Monsta Boy feat. Denzie
  • Spirit Of The Sun (Steve Gurley Remix) - Lenny Fontana
  • Straight from the Heart – Doolally (Shanks & Bigfoot)
  • Summer Of Love - Lonyo
  • Sunshine (Wookie Main Mix) - Gabrielle
  • Sweet Like Chocolate - Shanks & Bigfoot
  • Sweet Sensation - Peekay
  • Taboo (MJ Cole Mix) – Glamma Kid feat. Shola Ama
  • The Boy Is Mine (Architechs Remix) - Brandy and Monica
  • The Heartless Theme - Heartless Crew
  • Things We Do For Love – Sticky feat. Kele Le Roc
  • Together – 24HR Experience
  • Troublesome - DJ Luck & Shy Cookie
  • Tumblin’ Down - Tuff Jam feat feat Xavier Barnett
  • We Can Make It Happen (New Horizons Remix) - NCA Presents Robbie Craig
  • Woman Trouble - Artful Dodger feat. Robbie Craig and Craig David

Our longlist is comprised of UK Garage defined tracks - vocal and instrumental - over a 30 year period as chosen by our expert panel:

ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ On Air: MC Bushkin, DJ Fonti, DJ Target, Spoony, Sir Spyro, Sian Anderson

ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Off Air: 1Xtra Music, Digital and Social Teams, PlayMaker Group

And a selection of esteemed music artists, DJs, producers and MCs from the world of UK Garage and beyond.

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