Originally Posted by roly

yeah house originated in a club in chicago called the warehouse hence the name. frankie knuckles used to play at a club called paradise garage in new york and played a more soulful vocally house that became known as garage.

Originally Posted by Wikipedia

Usage of the term "garage" is different in the US to in the UK, where it refers to the 1980s New York house movement.

The evolution of house music in the UK in the mid 1990s led to the term, as previously coined by the Paradise Garage DJs, being applied to a new form of music also known as speed garage. In the late nineties the term UK garage was settled upon by the scene. This style is now frequently combined with other forms of music like hip hop, rap and R&B, all broadly filed under the description urban music. The correct pronunciation of UK garage is IPA: [ˈɡærɪdʒ] (rather than the American pronunciation [ɡɚˈrɑ:ʒ]), as this is the most common pronunciation of the word in the British Isles.

Artists like DJ Luck and MC Neat, Oxide and Neutrino, So Solid Crew , Ms. Dynamite, Lisa Maffia, The Artful Dodger and numerous others have made garage music mainstream in the UK, whilst Dizzee Rascal's and Wiley's arrival raised the profile of grime, an offshoot of garage. However on the East London underground scene garage is distinctly different, it has a much more raw sound, placing a greater emphasis on electronic beats and rhythms.