UK garage, abbreviated as UKG, is a genre of Electronic music which originated in England in the early to mid-1990s. The genre blends styles such as garage house, R&B, jungle and dance-pop. Garage tracks also commonly feature 'chopped up' and time-stretched or pitch-shifted vocal samples complementing the underlying rhythmic structure at a tempo usually around 130 BPM. Dubstep, UK Funky and Future Garage are genre's which have evloved from UKG especially since they tend to incorparate 2 step rhythyms - a rhythmic pattern generally associated with UKG.