Garage — also called New York Garage or US Garage — is a late-1980s soulful house variant named for the Paradise Garage club in New York, where DJ Larry Levan defined the sound. Garage tracks lean on gospel-style vocals, lush keyboards, and a slightly looser, more swung kick than Chicago house. Tempos are typically 120–125 BPM. The style fed directly into UK garage and into the mid-90s vocal-house resurgence on labels like Strictly Rhythm and Nervous. Modern garage usually refers either to the New York lineage or to the UK garage variant, and the two share rhythmic DNA but differ in tempo and bass weight. Soul, gospel, and disco traditions sit at the centre of both.