UK garage is having one of those years where the shuffle never quite leaves the room. Two-step swing, rolling low end, and that slightly rude bounce have been leaking into festival sets and late-night radio all season. Into that moment steps Jiqui with COME THRU, a Bassrush Records cut tagged UK garage from an artist most bassheads already know from the heavier side of the map.
That contrast is the hook. Jiqui is a Vancouver native now living in California who has spent the last few years as one of the more consistent names in bass music. The official story is a hybrid lane: dubstep and trap productions sharp enough that they keep turning up in sets from people who do not need to take chances. Collaborations with Effin, Space Wizard, TYNAN, Kayzo and others sit next to releases on Bassrush, Cyclops Recordings, Monstercat, SubCarbon, and HypnoVizion. Support has come from Excision, Illenium, Zeds Dead, Crankdat, Levity, and Tape B. If you have been in a bass tent lately, there is a decent chance a Jiqui record has already gone past you whether you clocked the name or not.
COME THRU arriving under a UK garage flag, and on Bassrush, is interesting because it points to how that family of sounds keeps trading ideas. Classic UKG grew out of sped-up US garage, jungle pressure, and chopped vocals. The current wave has been stretching it again: shuffled hats, mid-bass character, and tempos that sit comfortably next to both club house and heavier bass programming. Producers who already live in sound-design-first bass music often treat garage as another pocket rather than a costume change. The title itself is a club invitation. Come through. Get in the room. Do not overthink it.
What we know about the live side matches that restlessness. Jiqui has played Bass Canyon, Rampage Open Air, Lost Lands, and Forbidden Kingdom, and has joined national tours for Tape B, Kayzo, Ray Volpe, and Space Wizard. The bio describes the show as an eclectic experience rather than a single-genre dump, which is the kind of claim that only works if the catalog actually moves. Festival bills in this lane reward people who can jump from weight to bounce without losing the crowd. A UK garage record in that toolkit is not a random pivot so much as another tool for the same job: keep the floor moving and make the low end feel expensive.
None of this requires invented lyric breakdowns or pretend play-by-play of a mix we were not given bar by bar. The submission is the song, the genre tag, the label, and a career that is already documented. That is enough. Bassrush has long been a home for records that want to hit hard and travel. Putting COME THRU there tells you how they hear it: not as a quiet experiment, but as something meant to sit next to peak-time programming.
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COME THRU is Jiqui showing the garage side of a catalog most people met through dubstep and trap. If you care about where UK garage goes when bass producers pick it up, this is one to sit with. What do you think of this artist’s sound? Let me know in the comments.
