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1
i know they play this a bunch at seattle bouldering project. i've been wondering if it was in fact a named genre. not really a fan.
2
Is it Groundhog Day? They did this back in the 90s.
3
Electro swing is boring as fuck.
4
Hey Mike,

There is an Electro Swing night in Seattle! It's Speakeasy Electro Swing Seattle (facebook.com/electroswingseattle) and is hosted by Seattle's very own Electro Swing band Good Co (goodcomusic.com). The nights feature DJs, live bands, burlesque, and circus acts.

Electro Swing definitely has a wide variety of styles associated with it and honestly some of it isn't too interesting. But there is a lot of great stuff out there if you look around a bit (or have a good guide). You can't go wrong with any of the Bart and Baker compilations

The next Electro Swing night is March 19th at Columbia City Theater. Be happy to comp you a ticket if you'd like to check it out!

5
It's completely terrible. I always end up wondering why they don't just play the damn swing song, because the generic beats add nothing. It's swing for people who want to bob up and down to the music instead of swing dance, maybe?
6
This sucks almost as much as Deep Forest
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What #5 said. Because it doesn't 'swing' at all. The only thing remotely swing-oriented about this soulless and monotonously mechanical sound is a slight emphasis on the back beat. Otherwise, it don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing - and this doesn't.
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Completely agree. The fact that early hiphop beats actually derived from attempts to make drum machines "swing," combined with many jazz songs having similar/interchangeable chord progressions, really gives the whole concept of electro-swing potential, but most of the execution that I've heard is horrible, simply because it's lazy. We need to be exploring more approaches like Cut Chemist/Jurassic 5's "Swingset," or this thang: https://soundcloud.com/gimp-limpin/swing…. But even these are not that fun to actually swing dance to. They're just too inorganic.
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Nothing about the term "electro-swing" compels me to listen to any of it. I imagine it's terrible.
10
Water Aerobics . . . I did not see that coming.
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Reading the comments here it seems a lot of people are happy to dismis something without actually listening to it. That's a loss for you. Re the article - it's very limiting to base your understanding of a genre on a couple of randomly selected uploads to YouTube. These seem to be done by people who have no connection to the scene, but a good eye for a little self-promotion. There is a VERY broad wealth of amazing music in this new genre that ranges from contemporary swing bands with maybe a scratch DJ to Swing-Hop (and extension of the early Hip-Hop meets Jazz experimentation cited above in Swing Set) to the slightly formulaic sampling of a swing classic and laying it over a house beat. Among all of this - some music is more exciting and original than others, but there really is a burgeoning scene here and anyone interested in music will find a little deeper digging will turn up some truly remarkable new fusions... I will post some suggestions to get you started properly below...
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I listened to the sample, and it’s indeed boring, pointless and terrible.

I love me some electronic music—though this is really sub-par by that standard—but I also wouldn’t mind hearing the swing songs that end up in the background here. The effect is like watching an English language documentary that’s overdubbed with another language on Arte. You keep straining to hear your native language, but after two seconds the interviewee’s voice becomes this loud monotonous german voiceover.

There is absolutely nothing new about this. It was indeed already tried in the ’90s, and some of it ended up on car commercials. But then, people have entirely given up searching for “new” anyway.

Name one thing new that has happened musically in the last twenty years… I didn’t think so.

Makes me think of the sad, sad phenomenon of steampunk—the embarrassing subculture where people starved for attention wear stovepipe hats, fingerless gloves and welders goggles.

That said, of course it probably is a thing. If the Oklahoma Republicans can vote to ban AP American History in public schools, then this can become a thing.
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The recommendations within this thread strike me as basically less interesting versions of Luke Vibert & BJ Cole's stuff, without the chops.

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