tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-80542011777711937392024-03-13T15:21:14.307+00:00Jack the CadAn independent guide to Vintage RemixAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16467321603084666369noreply@blogger.comBlogger102125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8054201177771193739.post-61965364544690474852018-03-19T21:04:00.000+00:002018-03-19T21:07:25.211+00:00MistaTrick - Interviewed by Max Golfar<br />
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<span lang="EN"><b>MistaTrick</b>: My name is Mista trick and I am a swing and bass DJ. I'm from London but now live in Bristol and I'm all about funky drum and bass.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN">MAX<b>: You weren’t always a Swing’n’Bass guy, so would you be able to tell us about how your DJ career started and where your musical roots stem from?<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span lang="EN"><b>MistaTrick</b>: My musical roots stem from the UK garage scene in 2000s where I DJ'd under the name of<a href="https://soundcloud.com/djhalo"><span style="color: #1155cc;"> DJ Halo.</span></a> When I was 16, I ran a pirate radio station from my back garden and I learned so much about DJs and MCing. I then went onto Leeds Uni & DJ'd in pretty much every club by the end of the three years I was there. I'd mainly play R&B and hip-hop and at legendary house parties where the basements would always be drum and bass. I remember the first rave I went to was at the West Indian Centre in Chapel Town in Leeds;<a href="https://www.facebook.com/subdub1/?ref=br_rs"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"> </span></a><a href="https://www.facebook.com/subdub1/?ref=br_rs"><span style="color: #1155cc;">Subdub</span></a>. The bass on that system was just mental. </span><br />
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<span lang="EN">I ended up doing some commercial Djing in the West End and pretty much hated it - it's soul destroying playing music that you're not passionate about for 8 hours. I then started going to festivals and Boomtown changed my life and introduced me to the beautiful sound of Electro Swing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN"><b>MistaTrick</b>: After going to Boomtown I found out one of my friends was in a swing band called<a href="https://www.facebook.com/elleandpocketbelles/"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"> </span></a><a href="https://www.facebook.com/elleandpocketbelles/"><span style="color: #1155cc;">Elle and the Pocket Belles</span></a> and I asked if I could remix one of their tracks called Swinging Together which was then released on Ragtime Records. We got loads of bookings as a collab band but I decided to create Mista Trick Live for the harder Electro-Swing tracks. The change has been a journey trying different ways of doing the sets and I'm always learning and one day I want to play live kit. One major factor I have is that I want to create more original tracks similar to the likes of Scratchophone Orchestra, Jenova Collective & Caravan Palace. This is why we're <a href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mistatrick/mista-trick-live-album-fundraiser" target="_blank">kickstarting our album and we need all the support we can to make this dream a reality.</a><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN"><b>MistaTrick</b>: Wow, so many. I think, at the moment, London Elektricity Big Band. They killed it at Glastonbury. The musicians are insane. Ed Solo tracks are always big tunes in the clubs. The reggae/jungle vibe is just perfect in so many ways and I feel that's what can be created in a swing/jazz style.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN"><b>MistaTrick</b>: I was on Reason for years but then moved to Logic 9 (standard) and I dabble in Ableton. The warping function is second to none.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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MAX:<b> You also started your own festival last year, what was that like putting it on?</b></div>
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<span lang="EN"><b>MistaTrick</b>: Oh yeah, that! Sometimes I don't know how this happened! I love sharing people's talent and showcasing the scene.<a href="http://www.underthehillfest.co.uk/"><span style="color: #1155cc;"> Under The Hill</span></a> is a collab with my old family friend, James, and Amy, our incredible marketing expert. Funnily enough, putting on a festival isn't easy, I worked so hard I gave myself meningitis straight after!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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MAX:<b> What is Under The Hill all about and when is the next edition happening?</b></div>
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<span lang="EN"><b>MistaTrick</b>: Last year was really successful, we had 500 people attend. We managed to secure a license for up to 3000 this year and it's going to be just as good. We're also opening for one day more on Friday evening till Sunday morning. We'll be showcasing some incredible live bands and superstar DJs. I also want to reach out to anyone who wants to get involved, from sound, lighting, stalls and traders.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN">We also want local bands (Hereford and Worcester) and <a href="http://www.underthehillfest.co.uk/artist-competitions/" target="_blank">we are running a dj competition. </a><a href="http://www.underthehillfest.co.uk/"><span style="color: #1155cc;"><o:p></o:p></span></a></span></div>
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<span lang="EN"><b>MistaTrick</b>: Depending on when you may be reading this, I play all over the shop at a few London gigs, Bristol and the odd city in Europe. And a handful of great festivals. Also, Canada is going to be fun. Check Facebook and follow me on bands in town - great app for gigs. I also run a venue at Boomtown with Marcus Gear from Subsonic called<a href="https://www.facebook.com/littlepharmaboomtown/"><span style="color: #1155cc;"> Little Pharma. <o:p></o:p></span></a></span></div>
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<span lang="EN"><b>MistaTrick</b>: You're a G!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN">Mista Trick’s Facebook: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/mistatrick/"><span style="color: #1155cc;">https://www.facebook.com/mistatrick/</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN">MistaTrick Live's KIckstarter: <a href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mistatrick/mista-trick-live-album-fundraiser">https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mistatrick/mista-trick-live-album-fundraiser</a></span></div>
<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16467321603084666369noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8054201177771193739.post-88941421663165324842017-10-24T21:44:00.000+01:002017-10-24T21:44:07.189+01:00There's a new crew in town - Interview with the Swinghoppers<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;">I had the great opportunity to catch up with one of the Vintage Remix scenes new exciting acts, The Swinghoppers. The group consisting of: </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10.5pt; vertical-align: baseline;">Offbeat, Pye (AKA Pieman), Sharleena Ray and DJ Awesome Wells, they come together to combine the sounds of 1930’s Swing with Hip-Hop. I spoke with them about their latest EP release and got to know a bit more about who the Swinghoppers are. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #212121; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.5pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>Pye</b> - The Swinghoppers is a new group that aims to fuse the feel good vibes of 1920s Swing music with the swagger and energy of golden era Hip Hop! It’s a collaborative project between Offbeat (Rapper), Pye (Beatboxer), Sharleena Ray (Singer) and DJ Awesome Wells (DJ). All of us have a deep love for both of those genres (and know lots of other people do too), so we just want to mix them together and create something that's exciting and fun to listen to.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #212121; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.5pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>Offbeat</b> - I’ve been rapping over Electro Swing for a couple of years as a solo artist (<a href="http://jackthecad.blogspot.co.uk/2016/04/guest-blog-offbeat-but-on-point.html" target="_blank">you can check out an interview I did with Jack the Cad on my own here</a> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #212121; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.5pt; vertical-align: baseline;">). I’d wanted to put together a band for ages but didn’t know any musicians who were right for it. I met Pye at Boomtown in 2016, through a mutual friend (a DJ who goes by the name of Dutty Moonshine). We hit it off straightaway and discovered we just lived round the corner from each other! When we got back to Bristol we met up a couple of times and discussed the project. He mentioned he’d been working with a singer called Sharleena and eventually we all met. It wasn’t until then that I even thought of forming the band with vocalists rather than instrumentalists. The final element we needed was a DJ who understood both hip hop and swing music inside out, as well as knowing how to rock a party. Then it hit me, I'd met Awesome Wells through my solo career and he fits the bill perfectly. We arranged a meeting, we hit it off straight away and we’ve been performing together ever since.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #212121; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.5pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>Offbeat</b> - Thanks! The E.P. is called ‘Welcome to the Family’ and is available to download for free from our website (</span><a href="http://theswinghoppers.com/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.5pt; vertical-align: baseline;">http://theswinghoppers.com</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #212121; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.5pt; vertical-align: baseline;">). We called it that because it’s really an introduction to what we do, we’ve got a couple of classic Hip Hop tunes we’ve Swingified and vice versa. We’ve deliberately picked songs that everyone knows but then put our own unique spin on them, so for example the opening track ‘Minnie’s Revenge’ is a reimagining of Minnie the Moocher, but instead of Minnie being a victim, she’s actually a femme fatale who’s playing the other characters off against each other. We’ve made a film noir style video for it as well which is a lot of fun and you can check here </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.5pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://youtu.be/dJJurzwpgPg" style="text-decoration-line: none;">https://youtu.be/dJJurzwpgPg</a></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #212121; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.5pt; vertical-align: baseline;">In terms of how the E.P. came together, we actually used a producer called Odd Chap who’s based in New Zealand. He’s produced a lot of my solo stuff and I love working with him, so it was an obvious choice to bring him in for this E.P. as well. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #212121; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.5pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>Pye</b> - For me working on the E.P. was really special. I performed as a rapper when I was growing up but for the last 10 years I've been pretty focused on beatboxing, working on solo stuff, as well as working with bands, such as The String Project. Anyway, I was a bit apprehensive when I suggested to the others that I write some lyrics for The Swinghoppers. But they were really cool about it so I sat down and started turning some dusty old brain cogs to see what came out. As soon as I put pen to paper it felt right. It was like a door being reopened and suddenly I was able to explore a creative side of myself which I'd been neglecting for the better part of a decade. Hopefully that experience comes across and you can hear the joy and the freedom of it in the E.P.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #212121; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.5pt; vertical-align: baseline;">That all sounds very businessy, but from a musical point of view I just love working with these guys. They’re so talented, passionate and knowledgeable that it genuinely feels like a privilege every time we perform together.</span></div>
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Swing n Bass maestro, film maker and Jack the Cad contributor Fizzy Gilespie, aka Max Golfar*, has made something a little bit different. We're all about showcasing the really interesting stuff, the innovative and the new, so this is a bit of a no-brainer.</h3>
<b>Fizzy</b>: This mix has been a project of mine I’ve been putting together for quite some time now. This is probably the longest I have spent on a mixtape before. The hardest part of it was finding the tunes - this is probably the most obscure and niche side of the Vintage Remix spectrum, even more so than Swing Drum’n’Bass.<br />
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I was initially turned on to this sound by the Catjam boys, so a big shoutout has to go them. Without those guys, I would not have discovered this sound. Dutty Moonshine & Extra Medium are also pushing this sound, so I implore you all to go and check these guys out. These are the people really trying to expand the scene into a new and unique sound. Anyway, I hope you enjoy the mix, it ain’t your typical Swing mixtape! ;-)<br />
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<b>Jack:</b> Just thought I'd jump in here and say a couple of words. When I asked for volunteers to help with contributing to this blog I made it clear to those replying that journalistic integrity was paramount - this would not simply be a chance for people to push their own music or events - and that if they wanted to have their stuff mentioned they'd need to find an editorial argument to make it fit.<br />
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With this in mind, let me say that when Max sent me this mix I immediately suggested he do a little commentary about it, and that was down to merit, not favouritism.<br />
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In a scene that is flooded with identi-kit sound, and lots of people making fairly insipid music that's neither rooted in a particular musical tradition or place (think of all that euro-house-swing) it is refreshing that there's a sound that is not only unlike anything that went before (beyond the vintage feels) but that is also undeniably British.<br />
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Garage's first incarnation came during my teenage years and it has, like dubstep and other uniquely British forms of dance and urban music, had a profound and lasting impact on global music scenes. Lots of Garage was terrible - I'm looking at you Daniel Bedingfield - but its so full of energy that the great stuff was sure to be picked up again. In the last year or so it has definitely enjoyed something of a resurgance.<br />
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Now Essex-based badboys CatJam have started playing around with it it and seems that they've claimed this little corner of the vintage remix world as their own in the same way that MistaTrick and C@ in the H@ have done with the swing'n'bass sound. Certainly their new EP Songs To Make You Purr lays down a strong marker, making use of instantly recognisable vintage remix and electro-swing samples and garage trops they've made something really interesting. With the addition of the likes of Hypeman Sage - garage MC and Dutty Moonshine vocalist - and Offbeat - Bristol's chief swinghopper - on mic duties you've got what can only be described as a proper party-starting release. It seems unlikely that the release of this EP coincided with Max making the mix: before then he'd have struggled to find enough tunes!<br />
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Caravan Palace are one of the giants of Electro Swing who hail from Paris, France and have placed flags of their fame all over the world. One just can’t expect to buy a ticket on the day of the concert if you are going to watch Caravan Palace perform in your city. If you hear that Caravan Palace are coming to your city, you must buy tickets as soon as you get an internet access and a credit card.<br />
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A few months ago I heard that there would be a TD Toronto Jazz Festival during the months of June and July which sort of interested me because of my recent love of vintage music but I prefer a very specific sub-genre of jazz: swing music. Little did I know that Caravan Palace would be one of many performers participating in TD Toronto Jazz Festival.<br />
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Among my 500+ list of ‘friends’ on Facebook, only a few people seemed to show interest in the upcoming Festival. If I had not added the main vocalist of this band, Zonia, on my Facebook, I would not have known that Caravan Palace were coming to Toronto and were part of the festival. TD stands for Toronto-Dominion and it is one of the 5 major banks in Canada. If TD sponsors an event, it got to be worth it.<br />
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I was very excited. Caravan Palace had come to Toronto before but somehow I missed it. I purchased the ticket which was a pretty decent price considering how famous they are – just about three times expensive than a small regular Electro Swing night in Toronto. After buying the ticket, I found out that one my close friends (not just a Facebook ‘friend’) was also coming which got me even more excited and motivated. I think the excitement and motivation was a result of the fact that she was the only other brown person who knew what electro swing was!<br />
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I have been closely following Caravan Palace for almost 6 years and am well aware of their music style. Except a couple of songs, e.g. Beatophone, they don’t really rely on house beats to make their music known. Their use of vintage + modern instruments in a very inimitable way makes them really unique – some of the examples, which come to mind, are Rock It For Me, Jolie Coquine and Dramophone. Their music is also very vocal heavy and Zonia really can sing at any pace while the band members keep up with their live instruments.<br />
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Parking was impossible to find outside Toronto’s The Phoenix Concert Theater – where they were performing. After driving around aimlessly, I managed to find a spot after getting some assistance from a couple who also going to see Caravan Palace. However, they did not know what electro swing is [(!) Ed.]. When I entered the theater, I noticed hundreds of people standing and dancing to Benny Berigan’s Snake Charmer and, later, some songs by Parov Stelar. It was an empty stage and Caravan Palace, who were supposed to begin at 9:00pm, were still backstage. The standing crowd shouted for them while they danced to house beats being mixed by DJ Richard Medicineman – one of the few organizers of electro swing nights in Toronto who also runs Toronto Vintage Society.<br />
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Eventually, the seven-piece band appeared on the stage which was introduced by a host with the words including “electric sound” and “music from 1920s”. The term “electro swing” was never used and I wish it had been. This could have helped some of the unknown, but boundary-pushing, producers from all over the world. Oh well, I think it was still somewhat accurate description of Caravan Palace who can’t REALLY be called an electro swing band because of their musical style even though they are one of the most well-known among electro swing fans.<br />
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Despite I have been following their music for a long time and even have bought their CD from a now-closed called HMV, I could not recognize their first song. But, God, their performance was amazing! The DJ had a giant LED-based Caravan Palace’s logo in front of his cool and complicated equipment which lit up as the beat dropped or as the tune glitched (during Je M’Amuse). It really added to their performance I must say. Zonia was high on electro swing and gave a mind-blowing performance in every song she performed. There was even a slow Jazz track during which she sat on a chair with her legs crossed and basically turned on every person in the audience with her voice!<br />
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I had seen some of their live performances on YouTube and Rock It For Me probably has highest number of views. As soon as that classic swing tune began, I knew they were going to rock it for us. I literally yelled out, “Whooooo!” during the very sudden and unexpected quiet moment in the audience (while they waited for their next song to start but they were still quiet). Many people turned around and looked at me and I yelled out the next word, “Finally!” This was during the middle of their performance and the word “Finally” sort of expressed my frustration. I had gotten a bit disappointed by then. My disappointment was not due to their performance (which was out of this world throughout) but was with the use of really heavy house beats in almost every song. For ONE second I started to wonder what would happen if I had hacked their DJ equipment and played my really amateurish house track which I made in few minutes. I was sure that people would dance in the same way knowing Caravan Palace were standing in front of them even though my shitty beats would have been playing through their hacked system.<br />
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Rock It For Me had more jazz in it followed by their signature solo + pair swing/Lindy Hop/Charleston dance routine which they had done to this song around the world. The timing was exquisite and that was probably my favorite performance of the night. Later, the songs turned back to them singing-their-guts-out-while-band-members-played-their-hearts-out-through-not-so-dinstinctive-musical-instruments-but-people-only-danced-hard-when-the-beat-dropped.<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16467321603084666369noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8054201177771193739.post-72313639694409199932017-07-06T13:14:00.000+01:002017-07-10T14:53:19.385+01:00Julien IncontroL - Syed meets a pioneer<div class="MsoNormal">
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<span lang="EN-CA">In one of my earliest posts, I went over my specific musical journal as a listener only. After living for six years in Canada, when I discovered House Music, I went crazy and listened to every 4x4 beat I could get my hands on: classic 1980s through newest releases. When it started to bore me and when “We Speak No Americano” went past my listening limit, I turned to Saxo-House. There was not enough good Saxo House out there but it kept me hooked for a while. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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</span> <span lang="EN-CA">Over the time, I came across many electro swing tracks by IncontroL and, as a swing house fan, he became one my favourites of all time. Julien IncontroL is a French producer + DJ, a former French resident who lives in New Caledonia, Canada now. Though some of his swing house tracks (some with Wolfgang Lohr, a German electro swing DJ/producer) made him really well-known in electro swing community (most of its newest members mostly start with swing house), he has taken upon various vintage music styles/genres including minimal swing, swing hop and electro blues among many others. His brand new album, Let’s Fall In Love, contains something for every electro swing listener. Every song is refreshingly unique and no two songs sound the same. He really has pushed the boundaries when it comes to blending different elements of vintage musical styles even including the vocals. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">S: No no, not a problem. Thank you. Well, it’s a bright new day in <a href="https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/New+Caledonia/@-32.6962662,160.4287929,4.77z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x6c27e2693f1a32cb:0xf6d0f68fd5937aec!8m2!3d-20.904305!4d165.618042" target="_blank">New Caledonia</a>, eh [it was 7:15pm in Toronto and sun was setting in about 2 hours]. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><b>S</b>: Just want to start here: I have been listening to your music for a very long time. You know one of your songs, Le Swing Ist King – I don’t know if I am pronouncing it correctly – that was the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">first </i>song that got me into electro swing in the very first place a long time ago. Back then, I used to search for Saxo House music and then you used saxophone in this (track) and it really opened my path towards electro swing because of that. I have noticed that you and Wolfgang Lohr worked on many songs before. You, as a New Caledonian resident, and him, as a German resident, how did you guys meet?<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><b>J</b>: Actually, I just came back to New Caledonia two years ago. When I met Wolfgang, I was living in France actually. I was DJ’ing in Switzerland and Germany very often. I just sent a message to him: “I really like what you do (so) maybe we can do a track together”. It was very nice and easy. He said, “Yeah, come to my place and we can start a project”. We started on internet and, then, when I went to Berlin, we worked on this song: Le Swing Ist King. This is between French and German – French and German words in the same sentence. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><b>S</b>: [Looking at IncontroL’s earliest post on Soundcloud which is an electro swing mix] Were you producing when you got into electro swing?<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><b>J</b>: Yes, yes. I started to produce when I was maybe 18. It was the beginning of Soundcards and computers – you know you could buy a Soundcard for cheaper price. It was home studio when I started to play with different things. Yeah, sure, I did. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><b>S</b>: Many of your earlier electro swing tracks can be put into the category of swing house, especially You Got me Voodoo, Indian Chief, Baton Rouge, etc. I am personally a huge fan of your swing house tracks. What attracted you towards Swing-House in the beginning over other sub-genres of electro swing music in your earlier days? <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><b>J</b>: Do you mean what track inspired me?<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><b>S</b>: I mean, what inspired you about Swing House as compared to other forms of electro swing music in your earlier days? Why did you begin with swing house?<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><b>J</b>: When I first discovered it – do you know G Swing?<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><b>S</b>: Yes, definitely. For sure.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><b>J</b>: </span>It is in my CD collection here. I bought the CD and I was with one of my best friends. The first time we came across electro swing was through Caravan Palace. I was living in Paris and a few people knew them. We just went to a show and we saw them live. It was very exciting and it was very good to see this music being played this way. I really thought that this was a great (way of) mixing: DJ’ing and mixing with swing music at the same time. [Julien is also looking for the album through his collection] I don’t know where the album is. It is somewhere in there. We discovered Caravan Palace. Then we looked on internet and found G-Swing – that project really inspired me the most. Most of the tracks were swing house and swing hop. I don’t know when I started to produce [swing house]. I like all genres of music.<br />
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<span lang="EN-CA"><b>S</b>: For sure, I noticed. You have many variations on your Soundcloud page.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-CA"><b>J</b>: My album is also very different.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-CA"><b>S</b>: Exactly, I was going to talk about that actually [laughs]. Before we get into that, you probably see the posts on Electro Swing public page (on Facebook), many electro swing artists have criticised the 4x4 swing house music and they have claimed that, because of this, electro swing may die one day or it is not evolving when everyone keeps making swing house. What is your personal opinion on that?<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-CA">J: I think that in some way they are right. I like swing house. For me, it was natural to make swing house music. There are many great artists who make great swing house music but I also think most of the artists making swing house music are not taking it very seriously. They don’t have much of jazz and swing culture. They are doing it like McDonald’s songs – doing it very quickly, and just taking a loop/sample and putting it together. </span><br />
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<span lang="EN-CA">I think most of the people do not know the story of jazz. They just do it because it is trendy and they want to do something which could have play counts on the Soundcloud and ‘likes’ on Facebook. I think they [electro swing listeners/artists/DJs criticising excessive production of swing house music] are right in that way. I think people who criticise swing house music also like and play some of these tracks (the nest ones). There are great tracks in swing house. I would say 90% is not good.</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-CA">As a DJ, when I look for swing house, it is getting harder and harder to find good tracks. If you are open minded and a music lover and a good DJ you just select good music, call it swing hop, swing hop, electro jazz or whatever… [laughs].<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-CA">S: As an electro swing artist, how hard is it for you to remix or cover the older swing tunes as compared to creating brand new swing tunes with the help of people who can play musical instruments? Some artists are taking older swing tunes and some artists are actually hiring people to [play musical instruments for their tracks] or they play [instruments] themselves including piano, trumpets, sax, etc.? What is your approach towards [making] electro swing music these days? Do you think it is more effective to dig the older tunes or spend some money and hire people [to have a bigger band to play the music]? <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-CA">J: I like to do both. Sometimes, I play the guitar and get friends playing saxophone or [other] instruments. But, it does not really matter. If it is good, you are happy with it, people like it and have a good time listening/dancing to it, it is fine with me. To me, it is not important. I think, if you are using samples, you can play on the samples. Then, it creates new harmonic landscapes and you can go in other directions. It is very interesting to have samples in the beginning, take them off, play/get inspiration from the samples, and go in different directions. This is something I personally do sometimes but there are many different approaches. If the result is good, whatever you way you get there…<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-CA">S: What are some of the challenges you have faced as an electro swing artist? <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-CA">J: <o:p></o:p></span>Maybe, [one of the challenges] is getting new ideas and make them grow – not stay in the same [for example] swing house like you said. You could make more than one tracks easily but try other things. When we started, we were very excited about electro swing. [After making] more and more, [now] it is more like global beats, world music, [special] kinds of old tunes, special vibrations – I think I would not even say that I am [an] electro swing [producer/artist/DJ] only. The challenge is to make new songs and keep being happy making them. The best challenge for musicians/artists is to just do new things and not [use] the same recipe: “Oh, this is working so I will do this, this and this again”. In Swing House, maybe that is [what the] critics [are saying]: “[They] just add the noise and just do the same thing over and over”. As a good artist, try different things. Songs are evolving/changing and that is what I am trying to do.<br />
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<span lang="EN-CA">S: Thank you for sharing your album with me. I really appreciate that. Thank you. I did listen to it and it is beyond amazing. I have noticed that your new album has a very refreshing unique style of electro swing/vintage music bordering electro blues with some swing hop in it and some minimal swing. There are a lot of different/unique and refreshing styles merged/blended together. Tell me a bit about your new album and what kinds of surprises the listeners can look forward to?<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-CA">J: If they know me from before, the surprise would be that it is not really club music. It is more downtempo. This is the kind of music you want to listen to in your car or at home. The surprise is that every track is different. There are different styles of music [in the album]. I really hope that people take time to listen to it from beginning to end because when you are doing an album, you are trying to imagine a little story. I am trying to create a journey. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-CA">S: It’s a great album. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-CA">J: Thank you very much. I hope people enjoy the music because that is basically what we try to do: make people enjoy the music. It was great to work with all the musicians [involved in this]. It was really nice to meet all these people and do all this together. More importantly, many artists contributed to this album.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-CA">S: Was this album, if you don’t mind answering, self-funded?<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-CA">J: Yeah. I got money from a music contest in New Caledonia. [As] I told you [that] I came back 2 years ago to New Caledonia. When I came here, there was a music contest here. I won some money in that because I applied at the contest and they liked my project. I got some money which allowed me to make some CDs and pay for good mastering. Mainly, it was from that money that I won and the rest was [paid] by myself. There was no fund-raising. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-CA">S: Could you please tell me about your any upcoming tours or future plans – maybe to play some of the songs from your new album around the world? Do you have any plans?<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-CA">J: <o:p></o:p></span>I have some friends who asked me to come back to play in Europe. For now, I am going to stay in New Caledonia. Next time, when I come to Europe, I will get some shows like a mini tour. I think I can organize something. But, right now, I am doing a live set to play the album here in New Caledonia. It is a small country. There are not so many people but there are good musicians [here]. It is more like experimenting stuff: how to play the album with this kind of setup [showed me his setup] including mixer, loopers, turntables, a guitar, etc. I want to leave room for live improvisation. I will use loopers too. I will take some elements from the album and try to play it live. This is big challenge for me, something exciting and maybe I’ll come to tour in Europe or somewhere else. Ever since I came here, my life has changed so much. I am going to bed early [laughs]. I got away from the clubs because it was too crazy for me. I just want to take time and live with the nature. It is a different lifestyle totally. I really enjoy making music. For touring, I don’t know – I have no plans yet, we’ll see…<br />
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<span lang="EN-CA">S: I know your album has been released on bandcamp. Has it been released on any other places where we can get it from?<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-CA">J: It will be everywhere: Itunes, Spotify, Google Music….everywhere. There will also be some CDs from CD Baby. They are not made yet. I think I will get them in 15 days or a month – I don’t know. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-CA">S: Will your CDs be available in the other countries as well?<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-CA">J: You can buy CDs off CD Baby and they can send it anywhere in the world. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-CA">S: That’s perfect. Thank you so much Julien for speaking with me. You are one of the earliest electro swing artists I know of. There are a lot of new people/DJs and copycats but you, Wolfgang Lohr, Parov Stelar, etc. are one of the earliest ones who brought this (music) around the world. I remember one of your songs was posted on the electro swing page (called Big Voodoo) and everyone was going crazy trying to figure out who made that song. You had shared that song a long time ago. It has been an honor speaking with you. I hope you have a good rest of the weekend.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-CA">J: It is my pleasure. Thank you so much for taking time and doing this. Just keep on listening to good music. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-CA">S: I will. Thank you so much. Have a good one.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-CA">Please, give his album a listen when it gets released on June 30<sup>th</sup>. I was lucky to hear it earlier and loved every bit of it. There are some mind-numbing brilliant tunes in there. Please, as Julien IncontroL said, take some time to listen to it. You will enjoy it and will want to play in your car or to just dance to it!<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<iframe seamless="" src="https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=3075951752/size=large/bgcol=ffffff/linkcol=0687f5/tracklist=false/transparent=true/" style="border: 0; height: 470px; width: 350px;"><a href="http://incontrol.bandcamp.com/album/lets-fall-in-love">Let's fall in love by incontroL</a></iframe><br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16467321603084666369noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8054201177771193739.post-76478018468937690162017-06-16T11:54:00.000+01:002017-06-16T11:54:46.539+01:00Passed Clouds - A Story of a Dying Club Culture<h3>
Tally ho, you lot. Normally I like to keep this blog fairly lighthearted and try to avoid getting too political about things, but today is a bit different.</h3>
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<i><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-small;">Below you'll see a short film made by one of our talented correspondents - Max - about the steady decline of club culture in the UK. I know that a lot of you are based overseas (bad luck), but the principals discussed in this film are pertinent to all big cities.</span></i><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-small;">The last few years have seen a number of famous and not so famous clubs close their doors in the face of heavy handed local authorities, outdated licensing laws and the predations of planning authorities.</span></i><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-small;">The club that this film focuses on, Passing Clouds, was the sort of venue that our scene relies upon. We're never going to be in a super-club like Fabric, which can rally the support of thousands of passionate followers. We need these open-minded venues to support our scene, which the mainstream are not going to back.</span></i><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-small;">In fact, Passing Clouds was one of London's top vintage remix venues - in my top five places to check if I wanted a last minute night out. Around the same time that PC closed its doors for the last time, another of vintage remix's first homes shut down, the Bedroom Bar.</span></i><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-small;">As Chris Tofu indicates in the film, the developers and incomers are not interested in preserving cultural hotspots if they can make more money by turning them into flats, while in the unlikely event that a venue doesn't disappear during a 'regeneration' project, the chances are they're going to want to play mainstream, middle of the road music. They're risk averse, these developer types.</span></i><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-small;">Anyway - Check out the film, and have a read of Max's 'Director's Notes' below. And if there's a venue near you that's under threat, stand up and do your bit to protect it, lest we all have to listen to Deadmau5 and his ilk forever more.</span></i><br />
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‘Passed Clouds: A Story Of A Dying Club Culture’ is a
documentary about Club Culture and the closure of clubs throughout the UK.<o:p></o:p></div>
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This documentary was originally made for my final university
project, and it is about an issue which is very close to my heart. Nightclubs
and grassroots music venues are seeing their doors shut, up and down the
country, many of which receive no fanfare at all.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The documentary intends to bring a focus on to clubs such as
Passing Clouds and bring attention to other grassroots venues that have faced
similar fates. As a DJ myself, I performed at Passing Clouds and Bedroom Bar
only a few weeks before they each had to shut their doors. I had some of my
first ever gigs at those venues, and to see them get shutdown was totally
devastating. <o:p></o:p></div>
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It is fantastic to see people rally to save clubs such as
Fabric, but unfortunately most clubs don’t have the following or financial
capabilities to keep their doors open in hard times. <o:p></o:p></div>
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The closures come down a few key reasons: the price of
property, increases in rent, drugs, noise issues, as well as local councils
enforcing difficult to meet restrictions & being unsupportive of the
nighttime industry. <o:p></o:p></div>
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In the documentary I speak with a number of industry
professionals who share their thoughts on the closures and the reasons behind
them, as well as sharing their personal anecdotes of what club culture means to
them. <o:p></o:p></div>
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I also explore how clubs and music venues play an invaluable
economic role to our society, but even more importantly, how they play a
significant role in bringing people together and creating communities which
otherwise might not have existed without these venues & spaces.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Last year the BBC made a short documentary on the topic of club
closures, but I felt that it trivialised and failed to truly show the meaning
that club culture plays in many people’s lives. One of the key problems I found
with was their choice of interviewees. One on whom was Steve Aoki, an American
EDM DJ. I felt he was highly unqualified to speak on the topic of UK club
culture, and that his fame was the only reason for being in the documentary. It
ends up coming across as very corporate and unrepresentative of real
underground scenes. My documentary attempts to try and look at the topic from
the people who are really involved in the scene, and to give an unfiltered view
into how the people who are really being affected feel (Rather than a multi-millionaire
DJ who doesn’t even live in this country).<o:p></o:p></div>
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The main purpose of the documentary is to inform people about
the significance that club culture plays in many people's lives, and to show
that it is more than just going out and getting pissed with your mates on a
Friday night; but rather it is about music, love & human connection.<o:p></o:p></div>
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It doesn’t matter what music you like, whether it’s Electro
Swing or Jungle or Techno, if you care about your subculture, it is time to
stand up and protect it, because if things keep going the way they are, there
will not be anything left to protect. <o:p></o:p></div>
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If you are interested in reading more about the topic, here are
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Nighttime Industries Association: ‘<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Forward Into The Night</i>’:<o:p></o:p></div>
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Mayor of London’s <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">‘Rescue
Plan For London’s Grassroots Music Venues’</i>: <o:p></o:p></div>
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Last but not least in this year's Swingamajig preview are the mighty Chicken Brothers - pioneers of the scene in Liverpool and festival fields around the land, scratch maestros and all-round good eggs. One member of the flock has just flown back in from Oz, setting a new world record for 'Longest Flight by a Chicken' in the process, so the answers are a little brief, but entertaining and informative none-the-less.</h3>
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<b>Jack: You’ve played a few Swingamajigs now – can you share your best memory of the festival, if you can remember any of them?</b><br />
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Our favourite memory would have to be at the first ever Swingamajig — playing the closing set with an audience made up of loads of UK producers, DJs and performers all getting down and interacting. A particular highlight of that set was when Odjbox approached us to request some Odjbox... He also went on to say that we were top of the list of people to play the electro swing office Christmas party, being "the dj's DJ..."<br />
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<b>Jack: The Chicken Brothers have a habit of popping up during other people’s sets – have you got any guest appearances planned?</b><br />
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Not due to do any cameos at Swingamajig this year as we will be working all day helping to run the event in different areas. But we will be on hand to play the opening set at the after party, and as a reverse cameo we have our newest member Mike coming down on rooster duties [I think that means MC duties. Ed.].<br />
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<b>Jack: You have a hand in loads of events and festival stages and so on. What is it that sets Swingamajig apart from other festivals?</b><br />
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Swingamajig is special to us because we have been involved in it from the beginning, and now help to run various areas of the production as well as perform. It's filled to the brim with our favourite acts, producers and DJs. Plus the crowd are next level awesome! It's a solid date in the diary every year.<br />
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If you've got your ticket yet, I think there's still a few left, but don't delay. There's so much more to do in addition to the music. I've been asked to take part in some sort of table-football event, so watch out for that; there's dance classes, <i>something called the </i><b><i>Bacon Cheeseburger Pie</i> </b>which sounds life-changing (or perhaps life-ending), and performances from the likes of Oh My God It's The Church, magicians and all sorts of scantily clad ladies. The festival's tagline is 'A show like no other'. They're not wrong. It is, as Odjbox said, the vintage remix world's office party, so there'll be some tired legs and sore heads come Monday morning.<br />
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Next up in the Swingamajig preview series is Mike aka Dutty Moonshine. Mike is not only a pioneer of the vintage remix sound, but he's also one of the most energetic and innovative people in the scene, always pushing boundaries. He's got a reputation as a shit-stirrer and a party-starter, is wanted for crimes against electro-swing, nature and common decency. Approach with caution. </h3>
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<b>Jack: How important a role has Swingamajig played in bringing new vintage remix acts to the world?</b><br />
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<b>Dutty Moonshine:</b> The vintage remix worlds owes a lot to two places, the Mayfair field of Boomtown and the big, bad and heavy Swingamajig.<br />
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Swingamajig is one of those places that when you get asked to play it is a nod of recognition. The guys running it have such a finger on the pulse and they're providing such an amazing platform for some of these artists - to play in front of 4000 fans of the scene - that all the acts should be turning up with chocolates and flowers for the production team.<br />
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When Swingamajig says you're good the world listens.<br />
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It's also a who's who of the scene, so many people in the crowd run events or are acts that may have played previous years or the near future, bring your A game or don't bother coming.<br />
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<b>Jack: Youve played at Swingamajig a few times, but i gather this time its not a swing set... what can people expect?</b><br />
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</b> <b>Dutty Moonshine: </b>They can be expecting what I'm good at, mash up DJ-ing! It was mash up DJ-ing that got my early contacts which helped me launch Dutty Moonshine; it was mash up DJ-ing that gave me the idea of fusing big dutty basslines with swing music and it is mash up that will forever push me forwards to work out what you can and can't do.<br />
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I'm going to be rocking a big-ass-multi-genre party set and I'm bringing backup in the shape of DJ Binge. He's the DJ in the big band on stage and he's the DJ that inspired me hugely back in the day with his style.<br />
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Tom (of Electric Swing Circus and Ragtime Records) specifically asked me do a party-style set because while Swingamajig is a vintage remix festival it's also so much more. Hence seeing acts like Document One and Freestylers on the bill. Tom knows this is what I'm best at and he's asked me to unleash the fucking mayhem!<br />
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He also knows Dutty Moonshine is one of the few acts that can follow the Correspondents when it comes to high octane energy music. I hope you're getting your cardio in now, you thought my vintage remix sets were good wait until you hear this set!<br />
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We're going to be slaying party and bass tunes on 4 decks like there's no tomorrow.<br />
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</b> <b>Jack: Describe Swingamajig in three words.</b><br />
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</b> <b>Dutty Moonshine: </b>Decadent Dastardly Mayhem<br />
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Next up, find out what the motherclucking Chicken Brothers have to say...<br />
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When I was asked if I wanted to cover Swingamajig again this year there was only one sensible answer. A big fat, hairy yes.</h3>
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There'll be the usual JtC review appearing at some point after the event, [watch out for the traditional '<a href="http://jackthecad.blogspot.co.uk/2015_06_09_archive.html" target="_blank">I don't remember what happened after this...</a>' line] but by way of a preview I've been in touch with some of the people playing at this year's festival to ask them what makes it such a special event.<br />
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Speaking for myself, I love any event where a huge chunk of the vintage remix family are together in one place; I feel sure that having all these amazing artists together in the same place has provided the catalyst for some cool collabs and innovative projects. The crowd at Swingamajig are always a super-friendly, stylish and hard-partying lot, the importance of which cannot be overstated. But what really makes the event special, for me, is the time, care and attention that the Ragtime Records and ESC put into it all - they love this scene, they love this sound, and that really shines through.<br />
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First up, I spoke to Jo, aka Madame Electrifie, who played at the first ever Swingamajig way back in 2013.</h4>
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Madame Electrifie: There are too many to try and remember, it’s been great to see electric swing circus grow and develop into the amazing live act they are now over the years. And Smokey Joe and the Kid are a definite contender, I’m really looking forward to seeing them again this year.<br />
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It’s quite crazy how long it’s been running, I just had to check back and see that the first one was 2013 which is mad. I remember the first year was like a huge meeting point for all these artists that I was aware of musically but had never seen in person, I made so many long-term friends from that event, people I’ve since had the privilege of playing alongside many times. I was unable to make it last year so I am really interested to see how much it has grown since my last visit.<br />
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I like the fact that although Vintage Remix and Electro-swing are still at the heart of the event, the festival has grown and adapted as the scene has. There are some people who have been involved in the scene right from the start, so of course their sound and influences have developed over that time, which is great as it would be a bit repetitive otherwise. The festival has developed to accommodate that development whilst still offering a good slice of vintage action for the new comer. Bringing in acts from the Ghetto Funk and Breakbeat world really helps add another dimension to the programming, which is important to add some variation to the event and keep in interesting.<br />
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My first ever swingamajig set was so much fun, way back when! Although I couldn’t see over the decks if I remember, which happens far too often!<br />
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This year I’m playing before The Freestylers (WAAAAA!), one of my favourite acts of all time, so I’ll be visiting some old-skool breaks influences and splicing these with my all-time favourite floor filling electro swing tracks that have rocked previous years at Swingamagic – it’s one place you know the audience will want to hear them, so it’s going to be a bit nostalgic, but in a good way, and you know, banging too!<br />
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Next I spoke to one of the UK's most up-and-coming electro-swing DJs, Emma Clair</h4>
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I’m honoured to be playing the closing set on the Vintage Terrace with my partner in crime, Andy McBain who will be bringing an element of live performance to our set with his amazing clarinet skills! (shameless plug haha)<br />
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Argh.. there are so many amazing acts on the lineup, it’s hard to single anyone out! But, for me, it has to be Elle & The Pocket Belles! I’m in love with their song “Swinging Together”, and I still regularly play it in my DJ sets.<br />
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I’m also really excited about seeing Sam & The Womp – they definitely bring the ‘fun’ element to Electro Swing, which is something I always try to push too!<br />
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Also The Electric Swing Circus (honest – Tom didn’t ask me to say this, it’s actually true) – They absolutely blew me away when I booked them to play at Prohibition earlier this year, so I can’t wait to see them in action again! <br />
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I’ve heard good things about Vicky Butterfly, so I am looking forward to seeing her do her Burlesque thing.<br />
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The Swing Era Dance workshops are definitely on my list of things to check out!! I’m hoping to pick up some moves to bust out on the dancefloor… that’s the plan anyway…<br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><br />Recently, I wrote about the specific journey that I went through, which started from songs of Jennifer Lopez through to UK Garage swing. The journey has continued. I have been listening to a lot of Swing House and Swing n Bass but a Vintage Remix artist made me curious about slow jazz music with soft downtempo beats. I looked more into it and also found some similar songs by Boogie Belgique and Neroche who also specialize in blending Jazz music and hip hop beats. I started searching for similar music and found myself listening to a lot of Trip Hop, which originated from Bristol. UK. I asked on the public Electro Swing group on Facebook if the birth of electro swing had anything to do with much older trip hop sound. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-CA">Milan: </span></b><span lang="EN-CA">Actually, I do have some time. We can have a casual Sunday conversation. By the way, it has been a great Saturday. The gig was really good.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-CA">Milan: </span></b><span lang="EN-CA">It is actually…do you know the city where is the city I played? Do you know where I am now….besides Serbia? Do you have any idea?<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></b></span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-CA">Milan: </span></b><span lang="EN-CA">Actually, there is a really big world famous festival called Exit Festival. Do you know about it?<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-CA">Milan: </span></b><span lang="EN-CA">It has been going on for 10 years now. It is one of the major festivals in Europe. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-CA">Milan: </span></b><span lang="EN-CA">Yeah, yeah. If it is the festival and it is during the summer then everybody comes to it. It is right beside the city where I am now. I just wanted to tell you that.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-CA">Milan: </span></b><span lang="EN-CA">So, we are from the same generation. Then, I don’t have to tell you how we grew up. There was not so much internet. We really had to dig in order to find the stuff. It took half an hour to 45 minutes to download one .mp3. You had to really connect with people, from the music, to actually gain access to the quality stuff. Then, he introduced me to the labels like Ninja Tune and artists like Kid Koala, DJ Krush – all that Trip Hop/Hip Hop stuff. And, then, when he introduced me to those artists, we told each other to listen to songs, I was like: “Man, this is really good stuff”. That was like the melting pot of the music. I was introduced by my mother and this was like the upgraded version where it combined those styles. And, then, you have all these…you can probably tell by my music, I am a huge old hip hop fan – the golden era sound of the 1990s. (Some of the) hip hops groups were House of Pain, Funkdoobiest, Cypress Hill, DJ Premier<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>- that is the sound I was after.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-CA">Milan: <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><span lang="EN-CA">You asked me about revisiting vintage…I can tell you why I started with production of that music. I needed that sound. I needed to hear it. I heard it from other producers and I liked it. I really needed to put my imprint on this. I liked the story of electro swing. It was a totally new genre which was representing the combination between old and new which was really….I was like, “Oh my God, this is it!” This is what I do. This is what I like. I like the classic stuff. Now, we live in 21<sup>st</sup> century. That really brings me back. It gives you a feel that you live in that time because I am really a huge fan of 1920s, 1930s and 1940s. I can see (some good material from) 1950s but that would be like mid-1950s. Till the end of 1950s – that is it for me as far as Jazz and Swing is concerned. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-CA">I just wanted to mention a couple of things I have in my mind about this subject. For me, I love that organic and warm sound. For me, jazz and swing were warm music. When it is Christmas time and it is winter, it has that something… I love (that) romantic dreamy abstract vibe. Of course, I love to dance. I played some dance tunes yesterday. That is not what I, Mr. Woox, am trying to do as an artist. L’Orange is one my favourites. That sound, he is after something – of course, I am going to do my style, my imprint but that is the vibe I am after. I love the noir. I love noir movies. I have seen The Godfather 500 times. When I was 11 years old or younger – Casino and those movies, I really loved. It is kind of like natural thing (for me). <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-CA">When I was starting out or, I shall say, when I joined the electro swing circle about four or five years ago, I found it mega-dope. I listened to UK Garage-based electro swing bands which I found to be good. After a year or two, I could not really dig it. I was searching for certain vibe. That music was too aggressive for me. I am not all that bass heavy or dubsteppy. I want you to get a feel what vintage revival means for me. It is about keeping the warmness and authenticity of that era through organic drums, etc. but not too much electro stuff: crazy synths, etc. It has to preserve that (warmness). <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-CA">Milan</span></b><span lang="EN-CA">: Thanks. On the other hand, I understand that every genre has to go pop at some time. Same thing happened to hip hop. Look at the hip hop now. It is fucking ridiculous. The trash, they call hip-hop these days, make me sick. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-CA">On my Soundcloud, I have this saying, “Swing is maybe the only music where suffering looks glamorous. We think that a certain song passed through our life, but it's actually the other way around. We passed through its eternity." This is where I have the moment of inspiration. This is what really matters to me. I do music. I did all my stuff ever since I made my Soundcloud account. I did this from the heart and my soul. I really wanted to do that so they can be eternal and classic. I don’t want hype. Of course, positive hype is good but I will not follow the trend just so I can be: “SUCCESSFUL DJ BIG MR. WOOX” who needs to play Trap Swing to be booked. I like to be honest. I like to say what is on my mind.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-CA">Milan: </span></b><span lang="EN-CA">I just took the term “Ghetto” because I feel that this term is about ghetto music: I think of Brooklyn, I think of Bronx. (I think of) old neighbourhood (and) old ghettos. Then, this would be my soundtrack for that (setting) when you see it in a movie or music video. It is from the ghetto or for the ghetto. It does not necessarily have to involve heavy basses. It is kind of my own interpretation of that word. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-CA">(To answer your question), in the beginning, when I was doing my first mix, I was messing around with Swing and Bass and everything. As I told you before, I am not getting too old but I think of myself as a prolific listener. I make music. I play my music. I play music from other people. I am still a listener. I can dance to it (new music) but, as I am growing older, it is not my vibe anymore. In my hometown, my crew (from Yugoslavia) is known for doing some really good drum and bass. I went through that phase. I feel like it is for kids (laugh). It is like Call of Duty and Modern Warfare stuff (laugh). I am not saying that this is bad music. On the contrary, every now and then, I can listen to jungle but this is not something I like in terms of production and DJ sets. I play hip hop, house tempo and everything in between: from 80bpm to 126bpm maximum. I don’t like 128bpm – the standard club BPM. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-CA">For sets, I can tell you what I played yesterday. I started with classic stuff: jazz and swing records. Then, I went into my production which was jazzy and swingy. Then, I played some unreleased beats which were soulful, funky and jazzy. They were not deep and jazzy but more like funky and jazzy. Then, I constantly was raising the tempo up and then I finished up with funky/deep/jazzy vibe. I love to do a special intro song and a special outro song. It is very important to me – which song I begin with and which song I close my set. I did it all night yesterday but it was not for 8 hours. I played for four to five hours. You can tell a story, man. I had five hours. I had so many tracks I played. It has ups and downs. It is not like that I am playing a deep house set and I have an hour and the half, and I am going to drop bombs at you. It is all quality music but it has a story. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-CA">SF: I like the way you think. Where does your name Mr. Woox come from?<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-CA">Milan: </span></b><span lang="EN-CA">My last name is hard for you to pronounce but it is pronounced as ‘woo-i-no-vich’. It has that ‘woo’ in the beginning. I know you guys cannot pronounce it. My nicknames are “wooky”, “wooxy” – in high school, I was “wooxy”. Then, I thought that this could be really nice. I imagined it visually how would it look like on a billboard. Then, I thought that everybody has that prefix “DJ” in front of their name. “DJ <this> DJ <that> He is a fabulous DJ <blah blah> or DJ <flamingo>”. There are too many DJs. Naturally, I am a DJ. Also, one of my biggest influences was Mr. Oizo, who is a French electro pioneer and really dope, and, of course. Mr. Scruff. I had a pleasure of meeting him two years ago. We were playing at a festival in Croatia which had nice music and good crowd. I admire him a lot and it was an unbelievable feeling when I met him. He is down to earth and a really amazing person. I had a chat with him. I told him that I had “Mr” in front of my name partly because of him. He was cool. Everybody has “DJ’ who play techno or tech house music. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-CA">SF: “Mr” sounds classy.<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-CA">Milan: </span></b><span lang="EN-CA">Yeah, I am trying to get that vibe. So, I thought that I could take that and take something from my last name. Does it sound good to you?<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-CA">SF: It does. It sounds very cool to me. Your name has that vintage vibe in it. Woox is derived from your current nickname and “Mr” has that vintage vibe. In my opinion, it perfectly describes the genre itself.<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-CA">Milan: </span></b><span lang="EN-CA">Yeah. If you look at my soundcloud profile picture and see the cover… of course, I could put out a picture of me DJ’ing as shown on Skype (the picture of Mr. Woox DJ’ing on a boat). This was like paradise. It was a cruise shop floating on Croatian islands. My friend, if you ever come, it is unreal – it is like Eden. For example, If I put that picture, many girls would like it (laughs). I don’t want to achieve that. I want you to listen to music and not look at me.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-CA">SF: Yes, I do.<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-CA">Milan: </span></b><span lang="EN-CA">Do you know the story of it? The whole sound is jazz and swing. You also have Bioshock and some other good games that use jazz and swing music. I am trying to get that abstract feel. You see the guy with a coat and a hat, and there is a clock. I talked about eternity before and this guy (in the picture) is trapped in time. Then, you look at the cover and you see this big city from the future but it is from the past. It is all blended together. Then, the music is the soundtrack for my imagination I have/had.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-CA">SF: You mentioned earlier that the (music) genres die eventually. There was swing. Then, there was rock and roll. Then, there was disco. Then, there was house. Even house music is unrecognizable now. I am a huge house music fan.<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-CA">Milan: </span></b><span lang="EN-CA">The track you linked me (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6jdcp41DRk"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Sisko Electrofanatik - Cocaine (Original Mix)</span></a>) was awful. I need to link you good stuff. Of course, there is bad material. I tell everyone that you have to dig. There is so much dope music that you would not believe. You just need to dig. Of course, you need a proper source. I have tons of great music coming out. I am most grateful of my Soundcloud stream. Whenever I am down, I go there and I find gems. Also, I can tell you that, for my productions, I use hardware but, at the moment, I don’t have turntables at the moment which I want to change, of course. I am going to get me a pair of those. I download the original tracks. I found really cool sources where I draw my samples from. Also, I find such great things which I cannot find anywhere except fucking YouTube (laugh). By listening to my music, it is hard to tell where the samples are from. You listen to it and like/dislike it. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-CA">SF: Where do you think this scene is heading in next 5 to 10 years?<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-CA">Milan: </span></b><span lang="EN-CA">There is a small digression. I am optimistic generally in life. I like the movement which started electro swing. But, as we discussed many times before, I think it is starting to maybe run out of the good ideas. Let me break it down so you get a proper feel of what I am trying to say. I think most of the classical stuff has already been sampled. Now, worst producers will try to flip that sample and it gets worse. In most cases, I rarely come across something which is new and makes me go, “this is the track I want to have in my set”. Soundcloud had groups before. Nowadays, they are related. Now, for example, when I click on my track, on the right side, it says “related tracks” (not groups anymore). I think those tracks are listed by the tags. I would not agree that they are listed by tags because if you listen to those tracks, they don’t have any resemblance. They are not the same vibe but they are being put as related tracks. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-CA">Before, I was really following and was active in those groups. You had groups like “Swing Hop”, “Electro Swing UK”, “Ghetto Swing” and “Swing House”. Producers would upload their songs in those groups. As far as I am concerned, it was better. If I wanted to listen to Ghetto Swing, I would go into that group and pick good songs. I think that nowadays it is really hard for me to come across (good songs). If you take a look at my sets, Nick Hollywood said under one of the songs: “Really good work…” I think that the obvious was being missed here that the tracks in my mixtapes are rarely online. For example, I played Parov Stelar yesterday. I will do the afterparty of Parov Stelar. He will do the concert and then he will be in Belgrade. I will play in the after party. I am just going to try and not be better than him. I love him. He is the godfather of electro swing. Now, he has gone to pop (music). He is doing filling up the concert rooms. He has 5000 people, minimum, when he is doing the concerts. I think industry does that to you. At some point, you have to (play for) masses/wider audience. My stuff is for concerts. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-CA">I think this scene has potential but it lacks some really unique and fresh production that will be constant so that, in one week, you have at least seven dope beats to play. There is that lack of tracks. I played so many times where I was booked for electro swing. If I play for more than 2 hours, I have to mix it with something else. It feels boring. It started to feel boring especially those happy trumpets for those crazy drunkards who just want to dance (laughs). Sometimes, I am not happy. For me, Jazz is that mellow shit when I am in love or broken-hearted or when I want to dream. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-CA">SF: I do get that feeling. One time, I said that your music is like the porn of electro swing. <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-CA">SF: That was a great comment and very funny. <o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-CA">Milan: </span></b><span lang="EN-CA">That kind of emotion is what drives me to make music. Somewhere or some part/corner of the world, two people in love are making love to my music. Now, I am immortal and can die (laughs). That is my biggest ambition actually: to become immortal and die.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-CA">SF: Do you have any new stuff coming soon or any surprises coming?<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-CA">Milan: </span></b><span lang="EN-CA">Well, with regards to what is going on in my life music-wise, I will be heading to Belgrade in two to three days where I am going to meet with my partner in beats and my good friend: The ROA. We are Laidbackz. He is the other half of Laidbackz. We called ourselves that because we did not want to put “Mr. Woox and The ROA”.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> <o:p></o:p></b></span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-CA">SF: So, Laidbackz is you and The ROA working together, right?<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-CA">Milan: </span></b><span lang="EN-CA">Yes, yes. If you look at my Facebook wall, you will see that he is a really dope graphic designer. You can check what he did. We were sitting and talking about music. We are both big fans of Gorillaz. We wanted to do that too with Laidbackz. We are trying to get that. He is the left one and I am the right one. It does not necessarily have to be like that but I have seen it a lot that, when you are on stage, it is good to have something which makes you unique. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-CA">If you look at the actual swing scene these days, everybody puts suspenders [that’s braces to us Brits. Ed.] – the stuff which hold your pants – and immediately, you are an electro swing DJ. I am trying to somehow stand out from all that. I am trying to be very unique and I know it is hard because there is always something which cannot be avoided.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-CA">SF: I think your music is going to last longer than the current electro swing trend because you are very unique. Whenever people join the Electro Swing group, they are looking for mostly swing house. When they see something different…<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-CA">Milan: </span></b><span lang="EN-CA">Yeah. They are looking for the stuff that is already being put out there. I don’t understand either. They want to listen to Parov Stelar and Caravan Palace. Goddamnit, we have been listening to that stuff for six years. I understand that some people are new to it but it is fucking crazy. They don’t need you to like them. They don’t need you to repost their tracks. They have made it. I will always support and will return the comment under my songs. I love to find many people in my hometown and other places who come to me because they know I am about music and respect my work. Many rappers ask me about opinion and I always give honest feedback. I never lie to them. I won’t call them dope if I don’t think they are dope. If you ask for an opinion, I will give it to you and will give it honestly. This is how it should be done...<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></b></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-CA">I am enjoying this conversation.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></b></span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-CA">SF: Where are your future gigs? Are you going to play in other countries?<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-CA">Milan: </span></b><span lang="EN-CA">Today, I am going to head to Belgrade. I am going to spend a day with my partner. We are going to finish a couple of tracks. We have a 7-track EP which is so good. I think, you will be blown away. I am being modest, they are very good. Each of them is a story for itself. It is unbelievable. If I do an EP, it is seven tracks. In most cases, (for example) House EP has 3 tracks and that is it. Their lengths are different but you hear the same kind of sound. I love that we can make soundtrack EP and all tracks are connected in a certain way but they are all telling a different story. We have that EP ready. I am waiting for C@ in the H@ to respond. We talked about releasing it on his Ragtime Records. I feel it is a very good label to do it especially because they don’t have such kind of vibes on their label yet. C@ in the H@ told me that he liked the tracks very much. We are waiting - he has sent a couple of tracks to High Focus Records. They are really big. We are waiting for the answer in general to see who will do it. We are going to record that and master it. I hope it will be out in some day in April (2017).<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-CA">Then, after Belgrade, I am going home to Velika. I think I am crossing my towns. I should be a resident DJ at a very nice location at sea during the summer. If that comes in, I will be settled for an entire summer. However, they are very backed up. I think they liked my story because they have that lounge bar and I am the guy for them (laughs). If I become a resident there, I would give my best to the owners and to bring somebody as guest to do sets – so we can do a good story. For example, Kiwistar comes from France who makes really cool stuff. By having an international guest, you can make a story with it. He popped up in my mind because we are friends. I will play at some festivals maybe and some single parties every now and then.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-CA">SF: Thank you so much for your time. I really appreciate it. <o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
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Duke Skellington is an American electro-swing producer and DJ from Los Angeles, and he is also part of the production duo The Vaude Villainz. He is also a promoter for Electro Swing events in the West Coast of America and runs his own podcast with Professor Watson, called the Jitterbug Jukebox. I caught up with The Duke, and spoke about a few things such as the American Electro Swing scene, his own music productions and his history behind how he got to where he is now as a producer, and we also spoke about some of the projects that he is working on.</h4>
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What is the American electro-swing scene like, could you tell me a bit about it?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I have my best insight in California, what I can say about it is that in LA it is growing. We have a core of people. It’s weird, a lot of people like the sound but they don’t know it is an actual scene. I went out to see Parov Stelar and I saw Caravan Palace and it was massive! Jam packed, really big arenas, it was crazy; but as far as the local electro-swing events, we haven’t figured out how to tap into that group yet.<br />
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I think what it is, these people hear groups like Parov Stelar and Caravan Palace, they don’t know it’s a scene, they think it is like house music with a bit of swing in it, and they say ‘I like it’! They think of these supergroups as being unique to themselves, rather than part of this global movement. I think there needs to be an education process in bridging the gap between those artists and your Dutty Moonshines and Catjams, the artists doing really great music, but they’re not as massive as those guys… yet.<br />
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Me and a couple other buddies, The Gentleman Callers of LA and a guy from Swingtronic, Marshall, we had a meeting at the beginning of the year. We have some big strategies in place to take over and bridge those gaps and to build the networks and throw the events! LA is tough though, it’s big and it’s super spread out. If we throw a big event in Downtown LA, all the people in the West Side and Long Beach, they don’t want to drive out to it because they don’t want to deal with drinking and driving and it’s super expensive to get a taxi! So we’re trying to bring electro-swing to every little community in LA, and we’re looking to build our base.<br />
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I feel with other cities in America, except San Francisco, they are right there with us, I think they are in a similar place, but I think they just don’t have as a big of a crowd.<br />
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We throw these parties called <a href="https://www.facebook.com/trapezeworldwide/">Trapeze</a> parties, it’s like a warehouse rave, but with electro-swing mostly, and we have burlesque dancers in between, we have magicians sometimes too. We have a bit of a circus element. We have a certain crowd of what we call ‘Burners’, some gypsy, some hippy, artsy, folky kind of people, all kinds of ages, from late teens to thirties. A real hodgepodge of people coming to our electro-swing events.<br />
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Trapeze events: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/trapezeworldwide/">https://www.facebook.com/trapezeworldwide/</a><br />
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What have you found Los Angeles crowds respond best to at electro-swing/Vintage Remix events?</h3>
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That’s tough… there are different crowds that respond to different things. I’ve DJ’d at different events, like Swingtronic for example is an event which is people who are mainly into classic Swing and are into classic Swing dancing, but also there is a part of the night where we bring in electro-swing, and when I am DJ’ing there, I play less grime-y and less bass heavy stuff and more classic electro-swing like your Parov Stelars, and a lot of the Freshly Squeezed stuff. It can be House-y but it doesn’t get too electronic. Although, when I do Trapeze, I get really bass heavy and grimey, I bring out the stuff that crosses over into the really really glitched out and nasty stuff and people love it! If I were to talk about Americans in general, if I had to pick a majority, I would say they lean more towards the more electronic and bass-y stuff, but there definitely is a crowd for more ‘classic electro-swing’.<br />
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Where did the name Duke Skellington come from?</h3>
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I was just doing plays on words and with old Swing artists names, and I was actually going to go by ‘Duke Skeleton’, and I was talking to a few friends about it but they kept saying ‘Duke Skellington’ and I was like why do you keep calling me that? I was then like, ‘wait a minute…’ if everyone is saying that, maybe there is something to it. So I did a poll with a few of my friend’s who I really value their judgement and I asked them what they preferred and they unanimously said they preferred ‘Duke Skellington’.<br />
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The plan for this year is a want to put out a free remix tune every month. It will be free for thirty days and each tune I want to ramp it up so that I can get more followers and stuff… on top of that, under The Vaude Villains I am releasing an album on Ragtime Records, four songs are coming out in the next month or two. Also, some stuff on Green Queen, on a compilation, it’s a song called Turtle Glitch, it’s a remix of a song called Turtle Twist. It’s a really fun track. I would like to have a 4 song EP out this year under Duke Skellington that is going to be mostly original joints, I want it to be with vocalists, and as much as I love doing remixes, I think I’ve got to break out of doing the remix thing and put out some originals too, so I can put my stuff out there in its own lane.<br />
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How long have you been producing and have you produced under different aliases before? </h3>
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Yeah I’ve been producing since I was 15 or 16 years old in the late 90’s doing electronic music, back then the scene was so different… even before that I was a piano player and I wrote my first actual Swing song when I was 14. <br />
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I was into Swing music before I was even into electronic music. In the 90’s there was this style of music called The Swing Revival, Neo Swing. There were bands like Royal Crown Revue, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, Squirrel Nut Zippers, and I was super into it! I was then playing in bands and then I got bored of the band scene, and then I got into electronic music. I never really thought those two worlds would collide and I always thought I would have to choose one and never thought they would end up blending together. <br />
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Since that time, since 1999, I’ve done a few different genres. I was really into Aphex Twin, what they call IDM. I did music under the name ‘Chad Cells’. It was very IDM-y and Aphex Twin-ish. I still have a soft spot in my heart for that guys music. I also used to rap! I did Hip-Hop for a long time, been in different Hip-Hop groups and put out some releases. All throughout that time I’ve experimented with House, DnB, a little Dubstep before it got too big, pretty much everything under the sun.<br />
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Because of my age I’ve done a lot - I was in the military, I have a kid - so there were different points in my life where things would take me in a different direction and I couldn’t focus on music as much as I wanted to. So there was a certain point where I was like, I can’t let life keep taking me away from what I am passionate about, so in the last few years I’ve really started buckling down on production and I’ve been trying to learn new ways to do things in a quicker way and a more efficient way.<br />
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I think there is a point in every producer's path where they go ‘man it’s good but it doesn’t sound like the stuff I’m DJ’ing, it’s not quite there’. I think every producer gets to that. Either one of two things happen, they either quit or they go ‘you know what, I’m not going to stop until I figure that out’. That’s where that fire got lit in me, where I’m like ‘I’m going to figure this shit out’. I thought my songs would be good but they would have something missing. I’ve been developing these techniques to figure out what other people do and trying to apply that to my own stuff. I feel that’s been a big part of my evolution in the last few years, I feel my production skills have gone up. I’ve only been doing electro-swing for about two years, but it now feels like a natural style for me. <br />
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Which artists influence you and your music? In the electro-swing community, and outside of it too.</h3>
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So definitely Aphex Twin and Squarepusher were my early influences for sure, outside of ES that is. Inside of ES it would be… you know what, it would be that song by Gramophonedzie ‘Do Right’, I heard that song maybe four or five years ago, I thought it was amazing and I didn’t even realise it was a genre. I loved hearing the old and the new mixed together. That kind of planted the seed, so that song influenced me back then. I now think songs like Swing Break, those more glitchy Swing tracks, everybody from Howla to WBBL to Phibes, those guys all doing there thing have been very influential to me. <br />
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So you run your own podcast called the Jitterbug Jukebox. Could you please tell me a little about it, what it is, and what you discuss on your show?</h3>
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Jitterbug Jukebox is a podcast with me and my partner Marshall AKA Professor Watson, and basically we’re focusing on the music from the 20s to the 40s and the subcultures that surround it and also in its current form of Electro Swing, which is big in Europe and it is building here in the US. We focus on interviewing artists, fashion, dancing; Marshall’s a professional Swing dancer, so he talks about Electro Swing and Swing dancing and how those areas go together. We want to do more historical sections on artists from those eras, that maybe people don’t know about their history. We’re focusing on Swing music from the past to the present and we try and cover it from every angle.<br />
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I’ll be blunt, there isn’t a strong scene for it, people don’t even know it’s a thing. It just gets lumped into Electro Swing in general. Drum and Bass though, I have friends who have been doing DnB for almost 20 years! I had a conversation with one of my buddies who has a DnB radio show, and his feeling on it is, and I don’t know if other people feel like this but, he thinks the UK is so prominently doing DnB that when he throws an event, he says he can’t get people to come out to it unless there is a big UK headliner. There is a core of people who love DnB, but they kind of look to the UK… but I know there are a lot of producers in the US who do DnB, but I’m sure there are American producers who have been successful with it, but I haven’t gotten too deep into American DnB producers. What I do understand though about the DnB scene out here is that they do very much look to the UK. Whilst other things like Trap, that may not be so much the case. I used to be into Jungle in the late 90’s, that was the shit! I was getting my mind blown every event I went to!<br />
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What music, other than electro-swing do you particularly like?</h3>
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I’m an Old-Skool Hip-Hop kind of guy, so definitely Hip-Hop. It’s funny my 9 year old son, he gets me listening to songs I would never listen to. They are like the pop radio Hip-Hop stuff, but I probably know more lyrics and songs that are on the radio than I have ever known in my life! <br />
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I actually tried to show him how easy it is to make a Trap beat, I build 808’s and I have drum kits, so I said if you want to make music like this, this what you have to do. So I started messing about, so I then decided I’m gonna make this into a Swing and Trap tune, it’s almost there!<br />
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Sam Baker asks if the electro swing can play a similar role in combatting toxic politics as the original sound.</h2>
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As we envelop ourselves in the re-creation of a genre long thought dead, reviving fashions, songs, and slang, it’s brutally important that we do not ignore the deeper meanings and the historical parallels, as well as the differences between our world and those of ages past.<br />
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Swing has meant many things to many people throughout it’s century-old history. To many Americans, it represented the opulence of the Twenties, and later an escape from the desolation of the Thirties. For blacks in Harlem, it meant a means to own their own personage in an era where most minorities were kept from owning land and exercising their right to vote. In Europe, it was a cultural travel-agent, allowing people to leave their homes and scoot across the Atlantic and the English Channel by means of the short-wave radio and innumerable local dance halls. Even the Nazis couldn’t quell the thirst for swing’s syncopated rhythms and blasting brass.<br />
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The music known today as electro swing is often very much apart in terms of performance from the genre we celebrate. Today it is mostly DJ/Producer-centric, albeit with a handful of stellar live bands and live-electronic hybrids; however, the early days of swing and jazz in general were a free-for-all of wild improvisation and musical conversation. What it’s lost in spontaneity though, it has made up for in community forged through means never before imaginable. Early swing made a world tour by way of the radio, and to this day has continued to step in time with the forefront of technology.<br />
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Swing bands, once eschewing even amplification, have now taken up the mantle of electronic bass and digital performance. DJs freely meld together sounds from the early years of jazz and swing with sounds so forward they sound as if they’re from a future which has yet to come. And somewhere in this tug and pull of yearning for the past whilst reaching for tomorrow, something is cooking the likes of which haven’t been seen since the hot houses of New Orleans’ Red Light District on the eve of the Great War and the birth of the modern era.<br />
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Swing is distinctly American, and yet it is not. The rhythm and the melodies came largely from traditions rooted deeply in Africa, fuelled by Hindu cannabis spread by the Spanish, and nurtured at the breast of a largely French city before steam boating up the Mississippi and out through the arteries of a nation still searching for it’s voice and identity. Today, we see and hear the results of it’s curation to and by the rest of the world and the results have been astounding.<br />
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Unlike many other popular musical movements, such as hardcore rock and mainstream EDM, the progenitors of electro-swing and neo-vintage connect across borders and disparate cultures, almost instinctively. This reminds us all of the fact that we are global citizens first, and national citizens second.<br />
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In the era of European fascism, swing was a bridge between increasingly separated worlds. Men like <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%BCnter_Discher" target="_blank">Günter Discher</a> risked life and limb to collect and share the sounds and styles of swing, eventually spending three years in a concentration camp for his brazen defiance of the Nazi’s cultural control.<br />
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Swing wasn’t outright banned, but was controlled and scrutinised, it’s patronage punished. It was “nigger-kyke” music in the eyes of the Nazis so those who enjoyed and proliferated it were identified as enemies of the state, routinely being beaten, arrested, and thrown in concentration camps.<br />
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Now, we face a wave of democratic nationalism which threatens to undo more than a half century of multicultural integration and democratic advancement. As people seeking power aim to split people across ethnic divides, it’s all the more important to highlight what we share with our fellow humans. <br />
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We are not, as many people like to claim, at the gates of fascism. Fascism took hold as a reaction to a very real threat of communism, in an age where Bolshevists had just violently stripped entire classes of people of their land, wealth, and titles and in which Communists clashed with authorities in the streets of Germany using guns and grenades. Hitler, for example, was able to play off these fears and invoke Article 48, allowing for suspension of democratic rule in the face of a state crisis.<br />
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Things may seem grossly divided, but we aren’t embroiled in the often-fatal political violence of the 30’s. We are; however, seeing a rise of ethnic nationalism which threatens to undermine and unravel the European Union, as well as the relative peace enjoyed in America. The far reach of this is hard to predict, but it would certainly lead to less stable markets and more polarised populations. Unlike the fascists, the modern nationalists seek power through democracy, as opposed to trying to unseat it. It’s a crucial difference and important to avoid alarming sensationalism which only further divides us. This still doesn’t bode well for free and prosperous societies, as even those nationalist surges which do well by economic indicators leave behind those they characterised as out-groups to scapegoat in the pursuit of power.<br />
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So here we are, swinging into the future with our hearts in the past. As we, strap on our suspenders, don our stetson hats, and groove to house beats beneath the swing-era hits, let’s remember where we come from and keep close to heart where we can grow from here. As the <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swingjugend" target="_blank">swingjugend</a> </i>of Germany did, we must strive to highlight what we share in common, and express ourselves through voice of art and dance, transcending class, creed, and borders. Those who seek to divide us don’t stand a chance if we continue to come together over what we love — building bridges instead of walls.<br />
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— I would like to thanks Benjamin Studebaker, longtime friend and current PhD candidate at Cambridge, for taking the time to discuss the histories of fascism and nationalism in modern times.—Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16467321603084666369noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8054201177771193739.post-11810578107449601062016-12-05T16:40:00.001+00:002016-12-05T19:47:51.474+00:00All Aboard the South London Soul Train<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Jack went to the South London Soul Train to catch the Dutty Moonshine Big Band live in concert</h2>
It Is a pretty cool time in the UK vintage remix scene right now. With the release of the new <a href="http://jackthecad.blogspot.co.uk/2016/11/guest-post-captain-flatcap-album-preview.html" target="_blank">Captain Flatcap album</a> just over a week ago, any concern that the scene might be turning in on itself that I may have had started to dissipate. Add to that the imminent prospect of new music from <a href="http://jackthecad.blogspot.co.uk/2016/11/electric-swing-empires-max-golfar.html" target="_blank">Electric Swing Circus</a> and reports from the festival scene that Jenova Collective are going from strength to strength, plus the arrival on the scene of <a href="http://jackthecad.blogspot.co.uk/2016/10/the-high-priest-of-funk.html" target="_blank">Tuxedo Junction</a>, and things are starting to look really interesting.<br />
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If ever there was an act that I felt could potentially develop a following outside the vintage remix scene it is the Dutty Moonshine Big Band. Having played sets on some pretty massive festival stages (Glastonbury’s Shangri-La and Boomtown’s Town Centre), they have had the sort of exposure that they’d need. But perhaps more importantly their music is varied enough to create an hour-long set that feels at one and the same time part of a unified concept but with enough variety that it doesn’t get repetitive.<br />
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I had the chance to put this theory to the test this weekend past as I headed along to the South London Soul Train at the CLF Art Café in Peckham. As you might guess from the night’s name, this ain’t no vintage remix night. Now, Dutty Moonshine might not be the easiest thing to come to terms with if you’re not familiar with them, so I was interested to find out what the crowd would make of them.<br />
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As I often do when I’m attending a gig for journalism reasons, I went by myself. This is a great way to ensure that a) I don’t get too hammered, meaning I don’t have to make up half of the review, and b) it forces me to talk to other people at the gig, which helps to get an impression of what people make of it.<br />
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I’d been to the Art Café before for a Correspondents gig a few years ago. It really is one of the coolest venues in town. Set over three floors, it is a far cry from the trendy clubs in Shoreditch that often host Vintage Remix nights – no snazzy sofas, no quirky light fittings, no overpriced cocktails. The concept is simple: put a stage and a bar in, and let the people dance. The bare concrete of the stairwells helps to create an underground-y vibe. Furthermore, it is conveniently close to my house, so that’s a big tick.<br />
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The next thing to say is that the crowd is undeniably cool and sexy. I lost count of the number of times I had to double-take as some vision of loveliness sashayed past en route to bar or dance floor. The style is very relaxed: unlike many vintage remix nights, I was the only person in the place wearing a trilby, so far as I could tell. What’s more, everyone was super-friendly, being more than happy to chat to me. Of all the people I spoke to, maybe six or seven in total, not one had heard of the Dutties before, and no one was there specifically to see them.<br />
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When the band came on stage shortly after midnight they got a warm reception, and if there were any doubters, once they’d played their first couple of numbers the doubts were banished and the dance floor was jumping. There’s no doubt in my mind that if you really want to make a vintage remix night pop you need MCs, and in HypeMan Sage Dutty Moonshine have one of the finest. His delivery and presence on stage are fantastic, as is his appreciation for the original sound. Tracks like ‘Caravan’, ‘Bonklet’ (for which Captain Flatcap stepped out from behind the decks, where he was deputising for Dutty Moonshine’s regular disc-botherer, and gave his flute a tootle) and ‘SuperSharpSwinger’ were definite favourites with the crowd. My personal favourite Dutty track, “Yeah, Yeah” was received with similar enthusiasm. By the end, the chant of ‘one more song’ shook the floorboards, and for an encore the gang delighted the crowd with a Game Of Thrones / Mary Poppins medley that was weirdly heavy and amusing at the same time.<br />
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Once the set was over I hung around for a short while. If you’re a vintage remix fan and you’re in London but can’t find a specific vintage remix event, the South London Soul Train is as good an option as anything. It has a certain griminess to it that’s very appealing, and if you like old tunes in modern contexts like I do you’re laughing. It’s a welcoming, fun crowd, the drinks aren’t stupidly expensive, and getting home (at least, if you live where I do) is easy. The atmosphere is similar to one found at a vintage remix night – no aggro, no posing, just people dancing and having fun together. The next Soul Train pulls in on 17th December with a James Brown special… I’ll be there with (Crimbo) bells on.<br />
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From Jennifer Lopez to Garage-swing: Syed Fakhare Haider's upbringing in conservative Pakistan left him ill-prepared to get a grip on UK vintage remix, so he spoke to Mike Rack, the outspoken driving force behind Dutty Moonshine and the Dutty Moonshine Big Band, to try to get his head around the vintage remix pioneer's sound.</h2>
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I was not raised in North America and I come from a country where almost all of the population is not aware of what swing music is - Pakistan. The only possible way I could have been introduced to such music is through movies but I had not seen more than, maybe, two or three movies back home. Do not get me wrong, I could afford as many movies as I wanted but I was raised in a strict household. The only western music I had listened to was two songs by Spanish-speaking Jennifer Lopez, a couple of songs by Nigerian-born Swedish musician called Dr. Alban and, of course, several songs by Michael Jackson – he was famous everywhere. My world revolved around Eurodance, reggae, Latin and pop – although I did not know the names of these genres at the time. Since I was little, I was in search of songs with beats and had no idea what they were called.<br />
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After moving to Canada in 2004, I got introduced to free movies in Toronto libraries. That is when I went nuts with movies and saw everything I could get my hands on. I was introduced to American vintage culture through several movies and did not think much about swing music. It was all very confusing – these movies showed war, great depression, prohibition and, yet, they seemed to enjoy this strange music in their leisure times. It was a lot of information to digest for someone who JUST saw all of this for the first time.<br />
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Over time, I discovered ‘beats’ and started listening to Trance and Techno. I still did not know what I was listening to. One day, I discovered this gem called “We Play House Music” and I knew this is what I had been looking for all my life. It had the perfect ‘tempo’ (a term I learned very recently) and I knew what this music was really called. I went nuts with house music and tried to listen to everything I could find. Over time, too much melody was not doing it for me and, later, I found out that it was all progressive house which got me bored.<br />
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In 2010, “We No Speak Americano” became a huge hit. However, my love for electro swing only came when I decided to search for similar tracks and came across songs by IncontroL, Jamie Berry, Klischee, Minimatic, Parov Stelar, Caravan Palace, Dunkelbunt and Electric Swing Circus. I could suddenly imagine myself in a time I had - even my parents had not - lived in. Maybe because I had seen over two thousand movies in just 6 years and was able to suddenly imagine I was in that world.<br />
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"their music was as rebellious to electro-swing as swing was to the existing sounds of that time"</h2>
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I had been listening to the same swing-house and traditional swing for about three years when I came across Dutty Moonshine. I listened to their most famous track <i>Taking It Back </i>(nearing 2 million views on YouTube) which started with the phrase “What is this Dutty Moonshine of which you speak?” I did not know either.<br />
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I say that this is the perfect introduction to this band because they really broke all the rules when it comes to vintage remix. It was like nothing I had heard of during my journey through the genre. I did think: “Wait, this is not electro-swing! What is this Carol of the Bells tune doing in there?” I did search more of their songs but could not understand how they were electro-swing. I did not understand because they were not sampling older existing tunes and putting house beats into it. They were not clap-your-hands-parov-stelarring it. I must admit that, other than <i>Taking It Back</i>, I could not get into their music, perhaps because of my background in music which, though it is very short, was rich of European and North American house music – not UK-based sounds.<br />
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Through Dutty Moonshine and this blog, I discovered more non-swing-house not-so-traditional-swing artists from the UK. I knew their music was as rebellious to electro-swing as swing was to the existing sounds of that time. Later, I came across this set by Dutty Moonshine called “Kicked Out of the Club” which seemingly referred to suggestions that Dutty Moonshine was not making electro swing. For a North American it was actually very hard to understand their music or their influences. I really could not put my finger on what genre they were and, in this interview with Michael Rack (the founder of Dutty Moonshine), I found out that they actually invented a genre as well!<br />
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Check out the transcript of our chat:<br />
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<b>Syed Farkare Haider</b>: Good Evening. How are you?<br />
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<b>S FH:</b> So, I've been listening to your music for a long time, man. To be honest, as a person who was not raised in the UK – I mean, I know a lot of your influences are from UK Garage and other UK-based sounds, so, this is why for me, personally speaking, I am a swing-house fan. So, it is very hard for me to understand your music or, let’s say, C@ in the H@. So my first question is that I understand you have a very long history of speaking against Electro Swing – the term itself. So, Mike, can you please explain why you have the problem with the term? What is your beef with electro swing? Was there ever a time that you can say that Dutty Moonshine was actually an electro swing act as opposed to a vintage remix band?<br />
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<b>MR: </b>Alright. When I first started doing it, we called ourselves Swing and Bass. We never called ourselves electro swing because we played a lot of swing and we played a lot of bass. Electro swing says that the genre can only be house music and lots of people are already making house. It is so much more. (With the term) electro swing, it puts limitations on the genre – it creates a limit. And, it shouldn’t be limited. Jazz and Swing were the original base and were never limited – everything from Dixieland to Charleston to Blues to Big Band to all the crazy stuff. It was such a good variety and electro swing is too limited as a genre and the name itself ruins it.<br />
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<b>S FH:</b> That’s fair enough. I personally started listening to swing house initially but, later, I discovered drum and bass swing and I, oh my God, I fell in love with it.<br />
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<b>MR: </b>I do play some swing house. I like all stuff. Everything is good. People put a limit on themselves when they shouldn’t limit themselves. They have so much more to discover.<br />
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<b>S FH:</b> I could not agree more. I know you guys, recently – in 2015 to be more precise, morphed into <a href="http://jackthecad.blogspot.com/2016/12/all-aboard-south-london-soul-train.html" target="_blank">Big Band.</a> How did that come about? Were you guys trying to follow in the footsteps of Benny Goodman and others? What was your influence and how did you go about doing it?<br />
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<b>MR: </b>Yeah, you know instantly that it was done out of a swing base. To go big was big bands. Big band was the thing. That is why we did it. There are a few electro swing bands out there or natural big bands doing electro swing. It is a tribute to the original days. It was a tribute to what it was based on and, of course, the delivery of the music. It is awesome. Anyone who has seen the big band show, they have gone like: “Yeah, that’s the shit, innit?!” It is something else. It is much more impressive than – having a 7-piece brass section paired with MCs. That is not something you play over saxophone playing with house music. That is some serious stuff.<br />
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<b>S FH:</b> I have seen your performances on YouTube. I was really looking forward to having you here in October but, maybe, next year – hopefully, in Toronto.<br />
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<b>MR:</b> I think we can get the big band over there at some point.<br />
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<b>S FH:</b> Yeah, for sure. I hope so. So... UK has a history of innovative scenes – UK based vintage remix is a case in point. As a North American, I do not understand a lot of UK based stuff. UK sounds were blended with swing in your songs and many other by UK-based bands. Do you think that it’s because of UK’s history in innovative scenes, it makes UK-based vintage remix bands harder for people from anywhere else, i.e. other parts of Europe and North America, to understand?<br />
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<b>MR:</b> I think you got some excellent observation skills. England, I talk about and always thought, is the dance capital of the world. Yeah, there are famous places. New York is famous for disco, Ibiza is famous for its trance and there are all these famous countries. America is famous for its trap music. In England, there are a lot of genres. It is a small country and such a lot of artists. I think it’s the capital.<br />
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What it means is that the 80% of the stuff, rest of the world does not get behind it and find it difficult to get. They do not understand and conceive it. But the other 20% would shape the future of the scenes/of the sound. You think about dubstep. We invented dubstep. America has now changed it to something else but we invented it. When dubstep was getting big, we had other stuff: we have grime – it all came about around the same sort of time. All of the stuff that we make and the rest of the world blow it to something bigger. So yeah, it will be difficult for people to understand the English stuff. I think England is very good for quality control.<br />
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<b>S FH: </b>Oh yeah, definitely. I remember I was reading history about trip hop and it started in Bristol actually – where you are from.<br />
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<b>MR: </b>And, drum and bass. That also started in Bristol.<br />
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<b>S FH:</b> I know you guys chose to self-fund your album. Is there a reason behind that?<br />
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</b> <b>MR: </b>This is the first time we have completely self-funded. We had some labels in the past. Let me answer this question carefully.<br />
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<a href="http://jackthecad.blogspot.com/2016/12/all-aboard-south-london-soul-train.html" target="_blank">Read Jack the Cad's review of a recent Dutty Moonshine Big Band gig</a></h3>
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Let me think – we are self-funding it this time because we want more creative control. We want to control what we can do with this music and who can use it, and how it is available for people to use. We've got a big community, e.g. PlayStation and computer games, they have asked if they could use our music. We have got a problem because, in theory, it actually belongs to record label. It is pretty hard for us to have control over what we can give. In any scene – let’s say if we have a friend who is in charity and wants to use our song, we can say, “Yeah, use that”. If it is something big like Cartoon Network who recently used one of our tracks, we say, “Yeah, you can have it, if you pay a lot of money for it!" Many big companies and labels do that but it is a lot of paperwork and hassle. You feel like that you do not have a direct hands-on control over it most of the time. With this album, we will have direct control with what happens with the creative process and what happens in the aftermath.<br />
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It is also money directly going into our pockets. If we got a label, we have to split – we have to pay distribution costs, we have to pay for publishing, commercials and, also, you have to split 50/50 with the label. Before anybody is paid, there is 50% to 60% gone already. With the self-release, every bit or penny spent on it will directly go into our pockets.<br />
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<b>S FH: </b>A lot of DJs these days, among the famous ones, are re-visiting the older vintage music/sound starting from swing all the way to disco. What do you think makes it so effective revisiting the old vintage sounds?<br />
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<b>MR:</b> That could be an hour-long conversation. It is a good question. Let me think how to answer this without turning it into an hour-long debate. I think – two things: they may sound negative but they are not meant to be negative. I also revisited old music. My management, the guys who manage me, invented Ghetto Funk.<br />
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Number one – people do not like change. They like old stuff. What you are doing is giving them something slightly new but it’s something comfortable.<br />
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The second one is that a lot of people are fucking lazy. With the latest software and computers, it is pretty easy now to take apart existing sound on which musicians spent ages working on scales, the lyrics, the brute chords – all that sort of stuff. We can turn it into something else. We can hack it up, splice it, sample it, rip it into pieces and turn it into something new which is actually pre-made. So, yes, the producers are slightly lazy and they like to be comfortable. You can say that giving a new life to something old – something glorious and making it into a completely new thing is kind of hacking music. Hacking music is you take something and you hack it. Same thing about being lazy is that you are hacking music to bring more life into it.<br />
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That is my main two things. It is a lot easier for a 17-year-old Timmy in his bedroom to take apart some of the most famous Bee Gee disco tunes and drop breaks in it. Suddenly, he's got a dance floor banger that is going to get crowds hyped and stuff. Whereas, it is really hard for Timmy who maybe did not study music, to come up with something new – you know, if every 17-year-old kid could just come up with a number one hit, we would have a really bizarre music scene. You can remix number one hits and turn it into something else.<br />
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<b>S FH: </b>Which track best sums up the Dutty Moonshine’s ethos in your opinion? In your opinion, what is the best track by Dutty Moonshine? This is personally my own question. Maybe, it is a stock question – hopefully, it is not. I am just curious – one song which really sums up Dutty Moonshine’s ethos.<br />
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<b>MR:</b> I can think of a couple but they are not out yet. They are going to be in the album. I would say that there is a tune called “Yeah Yeah”.<br />
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<b>S FH: </b>I love that one. It was a free download. I really love that one so much.<br />
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<b>MR: </b>We did it live. We also had a band in the middle. We also had a vocalist do stuff too. Unfortunately, we do not have that version – we have to find that video somewhere. At the moment, there is something that people can listen to is “Yeah Yeah”. Also, there are the ones coming out – they are not so hectic but “Yeah Yeah” is pretty damn hectic. Garage is a big thing in England. Our album is going to have three swing-garage tracks. One of them is Duke Skellington’s cover of Caravan. There is a small snippet of it on Facebook – one of the videos from boomtown, you can hear some rough audio of the song. That is a very good representation of what a big band is.<br />
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<b>S FH:</b> My last question would be about your plan on upcoming gigs/tours mostly in England and, also, other countries in Europe and North America.<br />
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<b>MR:</b> I am going to be doing – I am looking around March, I will be coming to California. I am not doing a whole massive tour in America and Canada just because it takes a lot of time. I will do a long weekend and go back. I will do the California bit. I will probably going to come to Montreal in March/April – spring time. I am going to be hopefully in China in May. As well as tour of California in March, I am possibly going to do a Scandinavian tour which is Norway, Iceland, Finland and stuff like that. I was also going to go to Australia but Australian government have just changed the visa policy and it is not financially sensible for me to do it. I need to be a lot more bigger than I am for me to go to Australia. I did an Australian tour earlier this year and I was going to go again next year but, now, I can’t because of government policy changes. So, yeah, China and long weekend in California, a small Northern Europe tour, basically as well as festivals and crazy stuff all over the place.<br />
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<b>S FH: </b>Thank you, Michael. Thank you for your time. I hope you come to Toronto one day because the scene is getting bigger here.<br />
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<b>MR:</b> Cool! Peace, man.<br />
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My journey to house music took almost half a decade and, similarly, my journey to electro swing took another five years. I am slowly coming to appreciate UK-based vintage remix bands/artists who have influences from styles of dance music that haven't made it across the Atlantic. If you are only into what is mostly made these days: swing house, then you may want to give chance to some UK-based artists/bands who are creating entirely new vintage sounds. Benny Goodman, Andrew Sisters, Louis Prima and other famous names were innovators, so why do we accept unoriginality from modern artists? Show support to such artists and have an open mind about their music!<br />
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The Electric Swing Circus have just released their brand new EP ‘Empires’. Max Golfar caught up with head honcho and guitarist for the band, Tom Hyland, about their new release.</h3>
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<b>MG: Who are ESC and what is it all about?</b><br />
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<b>Tom: </b>We are a six piece live electro swing band, two girls, Vicky and Laura (vocals), myself Tom (guitar), Chandra (drums and keyboard), Rashad (samples, MPC & synths) and Pat (bass & bass synth). I should say as well, Bridge, our sound engineer, there’s seven of us and we all do everything together. <br />
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We started off in September 2012, just jamming around a mate's house and we heard electro-swing and we said: "This is amazing, let’s try make something like this."<br />
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We love electro swing and what we do is we take 1920-50s styles and give it our own twist. We don’t want to be another Caravan Palace, we love them, but we want to push the boundaries and do something different! I do consider Electric Swing Circus to be a rock band.<br />
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<b>MG: You guys are just about to have your first release in 3 years, could you tell me what’s it called and how you went about making it and what is it out?</b><br />
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<b>Tom:</b> It’s called the ‘Empires EP’, it is a single with 3 remixes on it. It is out November 23rd. It took about two years to make. This is a real labour of love. <br />
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We did our first album back in 2013, and that we recorded in two weeks and we spent a lot of time mixing it and producing it and getting it right. We kinda rushed it and we just had to get a CD out. <br />
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This time we took a lot of time over it. We went to the studio and we recorded it, and we listened back and it didn’t have the same sort of energies that it had when we played it live. So we scrapped it and recorded it again. Tried some different things and that didn’t work and so we scrapped it and recorded it again. Scrapped some of it, recorded that again. Eventually we kind of worked out a couple of ways that we can translate when we can use to translate that live energy. <br />
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"Electric Swing Circus is all about energy on stage"</h2>
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You know that sound you get when the speakers are cranked and everyone is dancing in the room, we wanted to get that onto the record. We’ve been doing a lot of experimentation to try get this record sounding right and I think we got there. Quite excited! <br />
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<b>MG: You've also have a music video out for the single. What was the process of filming that like?</b><br />
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<b>Tom: </b>The guys who filmed it are from Rum pictures, mates of mine from school. They are genius filmmakers! They made the First Person Shooter viral video you might have seen. They’ve done loads of really cool stuff and they have also done all of our music videos in the past. It’s great working with them again. <br />
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We went down to Plymouth and there is a studio down there they used. We basically hung out for the day, shot a load of footage and they edited it together. It looks cool! It’s not something we’ve done before. The first set of videos were us performing, and the second one, which was ‘Valentine’, had a storyline to it. This one was done in a studio in front of a green screen and it’s more kaleidoscopic, things appearing, it’s just something a bit different for us! Electric Swing Circus is all about live energy on stage and we tried to get that message through the video. <br />
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<b>Tom: </b>Aries is great, he is Birmingham based and he is very supportive of the Birmingham music scene. I think it is really good for someone who has had a lot of success, does travel the world and do what he does, right from the start he has been really supportive of Ragtime Records and Electric Swing Circus. It was awesome to have him on board for this. <br />
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Father Funk is also one of my favourite producers, does amazing stuff. C@ in the H@, my record label partner and one of my favourite favourite DJ’s and producers as well. For me it is amazing to have these guys on this EP. It is who I would want if I could pick it. I think these guys make absolutely amazing remixes and make amazing tracks in their own right as well.<br />
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<b>MG: What was your first experience of Electro Swing?</b><br />
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<b>Tom:</b> Deep Henderson by Nick Hollywood. It used to be played all the time, haven’t heard it in a while. It’s an absolutely bangin’ track! Well worked song, wicked samples, goes together really well. Someone shared it on Facebook and I was like “What is this!? How can I get more of this?”. I listened to it on loop for about 10 hours! From there it was through Caravan Palace’s first album, then it went on to stuff like the Electro Swing compilation albums like White Mink.<br />
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<b>MG: You had your Swingamajig vinyl release earlier in the year, how was that for you and should we expect more Electro Swing vinyl anytime soon?</b><br />
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We like putting stuff out on vinyl, it’s fun! It sounds better and we spend a lot of time getting it mastered properly and making sure it sounds right. I don’t know when our next piece is going to come out. What we also usually do is put two tracks on a side so that way we can get maximum volume and maximum sound quality. That’s what we care about with the vinyl, it’s not about a whole album or here’s all this stuff, but rather here is a couple tracks which sound really really good! No plans at the moment for a new vinyl, but surely we will at some point, just gotta work that out…<br />
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<b>MG: You are one of the creators of Swingamajig. could tell everyone what it is, what it is all about and what can expect from it this year?</b><br />
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<b>Tom:</b> Swingamajig is a four thousand person, one day festival, from the afternoon to the early hours of the morning. It celebrates all things that are vintage inspired, there is a load of music, bands, DJ’s, magic, circus, a proper cabaret stage. It’s multi-venue, but all connected! We have swing dancing workshops, street food, a vintage market. My ideal day out! <br />
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I do all the bookings and I book what I would like to see on a day out. It’s an amazing experience to put that on. We’ve got a party and it is really good. All year out, we’re doing festivals and all this other stuff, when we’re not playing we’re always checking out other stuff and other bands and thinking who we can bring to Swingamajig. That side of it is really nice. We’re a bit of a family! This year, it is going to be a really big one!<br />
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It’s my dream! I get to organise a party for my mates. What more could you want? Cabaret stuff was a big step forward for us this year. We’re going back to the same space next year, we’re going to tweak a few of the spaces and make them work a bit better. <br />
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There’s this thing about being able to do an event where there's 16-piece Swing bands and Jungle DJ’s, but it kind of all works and there is a flow to it. Some people want to see more of this, and some people want to see more of that but no one only wants to see this or that. They all want to mingle.<br />
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There is the broad age range too, a lot of older people doing there thing and it’s really nice for younger people and older people not just being like “Oh, I’m here with a bunch of 20 somethings” or “I’m here with a load of old people” it’s really broad and that is really nice as well. <br />
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You also don’t have to be part of the Electro Swing scene or the Vintage scene to enjoy yourself, it’s just for people who want to have fun on a day out! It’s not like some events where people are like ‘this is a 30’s event and you’re wearing a 20’s suit’, it’s not like that, everyone is welcome, everyone can do what they want, let’s just have some fun!<br />
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Swingamajig Festival:<br />
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A few days ago I received a promo copy of the Captain Flatcap album, which was released today on Scour Records. To say that there were some nerves as I downloaded the files would not be overstating things. I’ve been a big fan of the Flatcap sound since I first discovered their remixes a few years ago. I enjoyed their early releases, including collaborations with Dutty Moonshine. Was this full length album going to live up to the early promise, or would it be one of those that leaves one feeling shortchanged? Full-length albums are few and far between in this scene, so when one disappoints it really feels like a kick in the teeth. It can be hard to sustain originality across that many tracks, especially if the act don’t look to push the boundaries of what vintage remix can be.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I’m very pleased to report that Captain Flatcap have sidestepped this pitfall with considerable flair. They’ve managed to weave together such a wide variety of influences, from ska to hip hop by way of folk and dnb, glitch, electro-house, plus a healthy dose of swing, all the while maintaining a style that is recognisably Catflap. <o:p></o:p></div>
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I genuinely find it difficult to pick an objective favourite out of these tracks. I imagine that traditional electro-swing fans are going to feel most at home with tracks like ‘Coconut Affair’ and ‘Are you Me’, which sounds to my ear very much like some of the Jenova Collective’s work. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<a href="http://www.junodownload.com/products/captain-flatcap-lp/3265808-02/" target="_blank">Go out and buy this album now</a>. Seriously. Do it.<br />
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Captain Flatcap's Tom Rotherham joins us for a guest blog to let us know a bit about what to expect from their new self-titled album. </h4>
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Hi everyone, Tom Rotherham here from Captain Flatcap, guest blogging about our upcoming album and paying tribute to Jack the Cad for having me on his superb Guide To Vintage Remix – thank you! For those of you who don't know me, I'm trumpet and guitar player and co-producer (alongside my brother Chris) in Captain Flatcap.</div>
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'What is Captain Flatcap?!' can be a hard question to answer but I'll endeavour to be concise. Musically, it is [*inhales deeply*] multi-genre, vintage-remix, instrumental, electronic dance music! It is the live 3-piece band. And the DJ. And the production duo... besides of course being my brother Chris, the Captain... who wears a flatcap... confused? Just watch <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkanhB9VLp0&feature=youtu.be" target="_blank">this interview</a> from earlier this year.<br />
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"we grew to realise we are fundamentally a dance music live band, and it wasn't until the term <i>vintage remix</i> came about that we felt truly well-placed in the scene"</h2>
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<a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-iT5aHYGLiTw/WDMS_TCyEuI/AAAAAAAABAM/WP5RBf-a1fYAxjalmpUE6AZ5xLix6iFIgCLcB/s1600/Character2.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-iT5aHYGLiTw/WDMS_TCyEuI/AAAAAAAABAM/WP5RBf-a1fYAxjalmpUE6AZ5xLix6iFIgCLcB/s320/Character2.png" width="257" /></a>It feels great to say that we'll be releasing our self-titled, debut but long-time-coming album on the 24th of November 2016 on Scour Records! Of course, this feels like a real milestone for us. Chris started the band four and a half years ago, and we released the studio session video of 'Funky Farmers' and not long after that our remix of 'Dragons' by Caravan Palace, which, combined, got us noticed in the electroswing scene. Although we are (since 2010) big Caravan Palace and Dutty Moonshine fans, we never intended to be an electroswing band. Rather we grew to realise we are fundamentally a dance music live band, and it wasn't until the term <i>vintage remix</i> came about that we felt truly well placed in the scene. Since we started out we've experimented with combining all sorts of vintage styles – swing, ska, funk, folk etc. - with different styles of dance music and the album is almost a portfolio of much of what we've tried to do.<br />
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There's something for everyone on the album - with the Spanish guitar + ska + DnB party antics of 'Are You Me?', the Russian mandolin electro voyage of 'Sergei's Journey', the trademark Flatcap electroswing sound of 'Coconut Affair' and the filthy squelchy glitch of 'Awakening' - as you'd expect it features a multitude of instruments (including the classic flute an trumpet parts,) and a variety of genres and tempos.<br />
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"it would be nice to hear more music that's come from deeper than the surface of infinity"</h2>
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Chris's inspiration formed the core of the record. He started eight of the ten tracks and brought out their basic compositional essence ('Coconut Affair' and 'Boom Bap Boxing' were the only two I produced completely independently). In November 2015 Chris told me he was ready to release the album, but I certainly wasn't. The next 6 months were filled with tireless and sometimes argumentative work, composing and recording but mainly producing the album, smoothing out every rough edge and sitting frustrated in a makeshift cabin studio in Australia whilst all around us, outside, was a music festival... six months after that and a festival season later, it is finally ready!<br />
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Our aims for the LP and and how and why we've made it take me back to our childhood. My brother Chris and I have always had very similar musical tastes, especially when it comes to dance music. We grew up listening to the same bands and receiving classical music tuition in our instruments. We were at first both very apprehensive of dance music but gradually came round to it via artists like Justice and Infected Mushroom who combine more traditional musical elements like melody and harmony with the power and timbres of dance music.<br />
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We both became obsessed with dirty electrohouse, with its complex, layered sounds and melodies; this is what inspired Chris to write the first Captain Flatcap tune 'Funky Farmers' and it helped to form the basis of Flatcap's creative ethos. Our electrohouse days also had a huge influence on our production style; despite being a band, we produce our tunes like typical dance music (strong beats, little live band feel), because that's what our music is – dance music. These days I don't dive deep into listening to any particular genre, what I love is finding things I haven't heard before, anything that's different. The ecstatic fascination I felt when hearing both Caravan Palace and Dutty Moonshine's first electroswing tracks (the latter aren't available any more!) for the first time are now something I chase. So, I think of <i>vintage remix</i> and combining genres as a way of finding this. Both Chris and I agree that a huge part of Captain Flatcap is about making music that we would enjoy, and I've found when writing for Flatcap that it's like I'm making the unknown music for which I've been searching but can't find.<br />
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A suggestion Jack the Cad made to me for this blog was that if we have a point to make with this album, make it here.<br />
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After reflecting, something small occurred to me. We don't really have a point to make, we don't think music should be made any particular way, we just do it like this because we like to... But... the reason we've taken to v<i>intage remix </i>and combining genres is because it opens a world of infinite possibilities; to me, vintage-remix means the allowance to literally combine anything in the whole world of music. Ever. And now with technology and electronic music, a whole new world of music has opened up.<br />
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That's pretty mind-blowing if you think about it, so, at least for us it would be nice to hear more music that's come from deeper than the surface of infinity, people can allow themselves to be thrown into it a bit further. The only rule I follow (although it's subjective) is that you have to work to create a convincing, unified expression when combining genres; you can't just play Edvard Grieg's 'Morning' and System of a Down's 'This Cocaine Makes Me Feel Like I'm On This Song' simultaneously and expect their aesthetics to merge! It's worth saying here that a fair bit of our music is unplanned or comes from happy coincidences. We use whatever we have available (e.g flute!) and try random things and just go with it and make it work (we hope!)<br />
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It is an honour, a pleasure and privilege to be releasing the album with Scour Records! It's not only our first LP but Scour's as well, so we're really happy to be working together to reach the same milestone. We're also stoked to have collaborated with the amazing rap duos Too Many T's and Great Scott, vocalist and album designer Isabel Drake, and glitch-hop connoisseur William Breakspear. They've all made the album truly special – big up! Over the summer we performed all three vocal collaborations - spontaneously playing new music live on stage has a reliable magical energy, I'll never forget each performance and you can expect more live collab performances to come!<br />
<br />
So once again, the Captain Flatcap self-titled, debut album is out on Scour Records on the 24th November 2016, exclusive to Juno. Soon after that, physical CD copies will be available to buy from our <a href="https://captainflatcap.bandcamp.com/" target="_blank">bandcamp</a> page. These are worth a special mention - they contain sleeve notes, beautiful artwork designed by Roo and Isabel Drake and a free poster - a collage of memorable Flatcap moments! On the 12th of December the album will be available to buy on all other outlets.<br />
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Finally, we want to say a huge thank you to everyone who's helped us get the ball rolling and everyone we've met in the <i>vintage remix</i> scene - it's a beautifully warm, inviting unpretentious community – big up!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16467321603084666369noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8054201177771193739.post-85452264389484280132016-11-16T10:35:00.002+00:002016-11-16T10:49:47.604+00:00A right old Rumpus: Mr B causing a scene<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<h3>
Max Golfar gives you the inside track on Chap-hop's leading light, and catches up with him for a chat.</h3>
<div class="normal">
<h4>
<br />
Your favourite chap is back again. After a summer of Gentlemanly escapades and multiple festivals every week, the original rhymer, Mr.B, has brought us an early Christmas gift in the form his new album ‘There’s A Rumpus Going On’. </h4>
</div>
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<br />
<br /></div>
<div class="normal">
<br />
Mr.B The Gentleman Rhymer has once again delivered his own unique signature take on Hip-Hop by adding that ‘chap’ flair, known as it’s own genre ‘Chap-Hop’. </div>
<div class="normal">
<br /></div>
<div class="normal">
When Mr.B isn’t having a perfectly made cup of tea or playing a game of cricket, he is writing the finest rhymes to create a right Rumpus for us to enjoy. 14 full songs on the album which is some of his most creative work yet. The production value is immaculate and the rhythmical flow is as smooth as ever. </div>
<div class="normal">
<br />
<hr />
<h3>
LA beats and general wobbly instrumental, old stool hip-hop, music hall and George Formby</h3>
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<hr />
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<br />
The <a href="http://www.thechaphopshop.bigcartel.com/product/there-s-a-rumpus-going-on-cd" target="_blank">whole album</a> is a great listen and each song is unique. For me the standout songs on the album are ‘So Many Reggie Perrins In The Arse End Of Space’, ‘Hitler Gifs’, ‘Ollie and Stan’, ‘We Need To Talk About Kanye’ and ‘Youth, Truth, Gin, Vermouth’.<br />
<br />
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Unlike Mr. Reginald Perrin ever was, we are treated to a beguiling set of hip-hop beats through the album. ‘Hitler Gifs’ had my sides bursting, it’s not often I feel the need to dance whilst giggling. ‘Ollie and Stan’ has some jungle breaks half way through, which was a cool change up of pace on the album. Perhaps we’ll start to see Mr.B MC’ing over some heavy Jump Up next? Ok probably not, but this certainly got me skanking nonetheless.</div>
</div>
<div class="normal">
<br />
Do you ever feel sad? Well Mr.B has treated us to a track that is 100% guaranteed to make you feel better, titled ‘The Happy Song’. I dare you to try listen to it without having smile on your face the whole way through.</div>
<div class="normal">
<br /></div>
<div class="normal">
‘We Need To Talk about Kanye’ starts off with a tribute to Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody, which suits really well with Mr.B’s delightful chap-y vocals. Kanye West is yet to respond to the track, but the logical assumption is that he is afraid to rear his head after the roasting Mr.B has delivered.</div>
<div class="normal">
<br /></div>
<div class="normal">
Mr.B is currently on his album tour, having already done one and a half months, with another month and a half to go. Expect to see our favourite Gentleman Rhymer everywhere from London to Birmingham and even Manchester, travelling to all gigs via his Penny Farthing of course! </div>
<div class="normal">
<br />
Overall, a really fun and enjoyable album, and one I would highly recommend. I was lucky enough to see him perform at Bestival this summer, and if you get the opportunity to catch The Gentleman Rhymer, do so, as you won’t regret it! A charming chap who puts on a great show. I managed to catch up with Mr.B to talk about his latest album, along with a couple other topics including his influences. Check out our interview together below, but first, here's an acoustic version of one of the album tracks.</div>
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<b>Congratulations on the release of the album, how long has this been in the works and would you say that this is your best work yet?</b> </div>
<div class="normal">
<br /></div>
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This one has taken a while. I started it in the middle of last year, but then decided to do Mr.B’s Christmas Album, so started again earlier this year and throughout the summer, whilst doing about three festivals a week. It was somewhat hectic and the closest I have ever felt to actual ‘work’. Sorry to do a four letter word there.</div>
<div class="normal">
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<b>The production quality is fantastic, so I'm sure many people are wondering what production software did you use to put the music together?</b></div>
<div class="normal">
<br /></div>
<div class="normal">
This album was largely put together on Reason 9, which is nice and easy for a luddite like me. I have recently started using Logic, but it appears to be terribly glitchy. Things disappearing and all that sort of thing. I shall persevere though.</div>
<div class="normal">
<br /></div>
<div class="normal">
<b>Which artists inspire you and your work? </b></div>
<div class="normal">
<br /></div>
<div class="normal">
Of late I’ve been listening to a lot of lo-fi hip-hop, LA beats and general wobbly instrumental things. My overriding influences remain the same though - old stool hip-hop, music hall, George Formby, Ronald Frankau...</div>
<div class="normal">
<br /></div>
<div class="normal">
<b>Would you have any stories of your years with your school chum Acid Ted, that you would like to share? </b></div>
<div class="normal">
<br /></div>
<div class="normal">
Glad, almost all of them have been forgotten amidst a fun of Absinthe. Heart of gold though, even if he’s a tad flighty.</div>
<div class="normal">
<br /></div>
<div class="normal">
<b>Other than Hip-Hop and Rap, what does Mr.B like to listen to in his spare time?</b></div>
<div class="normal">
<br /></div>
<div class="normal">
All sorts. Last week in the motor car I listened to Duke Ellington, Elvis, Parliament and Nirvana, as well as the new Tribe Called Quest album, which was a timely reminder of how great hip-hop can be.</div>
<div class="normal">
<br /></div>
<div class="normal">
<b>Kanye or Trump?</b></div>
<div class="normal">
<br /></div>
<div class="normal">
They both have titanic egos, but one is a racist, misogynist bigot and now in charge of everything, so I don’t fear The Kanye, just give him a bit of a ribbing every now and again.<br />
<br /></div>
<div class="normal">
To be honest I have a soft Spot for old Westy. I think if one is making music one ought to think it’s the best music there is. Otherwise why bother? Just listen to someone else’s. </div>
<div class="normal">
<br /></div>
<div class="normal">
<b>What is next for Mr.B?</b></div>
<div class="normal">
<br /></div>
<div class="normal">
I’m back in the studio working on the next Mr.B The Gentleman Selector long player, the second in the Chapstep series. It’s called Absinthe House and, like its predecessor ‘Acid Ragtime’ it’s a chap’s take on dance music (another love of mine). I think this one is going to be something of a winner.<br />
<br />
<b>Links and whathaveyou</b><br />
<br />
Mr. B’s Facebook:<br />
<a href="https://www.facebook.com/gentlemanrhymer">https://www.facebook.com/gentlemanrhymer</a><br />
<br />
Buy a CD copy of the album:<br />
<a href="http://www.thechaphopshop.bigcartel.com/product/there-s-a-rumpus-going-on-cd">http://www.thechaphopshop.bigcartel.com/product/there-s-a-rumpus-going-on-cd</a><br />
<br />
Digital Download and Mr.B’s other work:<br />
<a href="https://mrbthegentlemanrhymer.bandcamp.com/">https://mrbthegentlemanrhymer.bandcamp.com</a><br />
<br />
The Gentleman Rhymer’s Soundcloud:<br />
<a href="https://soundcloud.com/gentlemanrhymer">https://soundcloud.com/gentlemanrhymer</a><br />
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</style>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16467321603084666369noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8054201177771193739.post-42474507984702406982016-11-16T10:35:00.001+00:002016-11-16T10:38:00.724+00:00A right old Rumpus: Mr B causing a scene<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<h3>
Max Golfar gives you the inside track on Chap-hop's leading light, and catches up with him for a chat.</h3>
<div class="normal">
<h4>
<br />
Your favourite chap is back again. After a summer of Gentlemanly escapades and multiple festivals every week, the original rhymer, Mr.B, has brought us an early Christmas gift in the form his new album ‘There’s A Rumpus Going On’. </h4>
</div>
<div class="normal">
<br />
<br /></div>
<div class="normal">
<br />
Mr.B The Gentleman Rhymer has once again delivered his own unique signature take on Hip-Hop by adding that ‘chap’ flair, known as it’s own genre ‘Chap-Hop’. </div>
<div class="normal">
<br /></div>
<div class="normal">
When Mr.B isn’t having a perfectly made cup of tea or playing a game of cricket, he is writing the finest rhymes to create a right Rumpus for us to enjoy. 14 full songs on the album which is some of his most creative work yet. The production value is immaculate and the rhythmical flow is as smooth as ever. </div>
<div class="normal">
<br />
<hr />
<h3>
LA beats and general wobbly instrumental, old stool hip-hop, music hall and George Formby</h3>
<div>
<hr />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="http://www.thechaphopshop.bigcartel.com/product/there-s-a-rumpus-going-on-cd" target="_blank"><img border="0" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-1xI7Vnqcsl4/WCwwubU8z1I/AAAAAAAAA_w/w2iwY6lu7voS_jkfJ9b0xDBhK7xV_7fDwCEw/s1600/61RzTY8PeDL._SS500.jpg" /></a></div>
<br />
The <a href="http://www.thechaphopshop.bigcartel.com/product/there-s-a-rumpus-going-on-cd" target="_blank">whole album</a> is a great listen and each song is unique. For me the standout songs on the album are ‘So Many Reggie Perrins In The Arse End Of Space’, ‘Hitler Gifs’, ‘Ollie and Stan’, ‘We Need To Talk About Kanye’ and ‘Youth, Truth, Gin, Vermouth’.<br />
<br />
<div class="normal">
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
Unlike Mr. Reginald Perrin ever was, we are treated to a beguiling set of hip-hop beats through the album. ‘Hitler Gifs’ had my sides bursting, it’s not often I feel the need to dance whilst giggling. ‘Ollie and Stan’ has some jungle breaks half way through, which was a cool change up of pace on the album. Perhaps we’ll start to see Mr.B MC’ing over some heavy Jump Up next? Ok probably not, but this certainly got me skanking nonetheless.</div>
</div>
<div class="normal">
<br />
Do you ever feel sad? Well Mr.B has treated us to a track that is 100% guaranteed to make you feel better, titled ‘The Happy Song’. I dare you to try listen to it without having smile on your face the whole way through.</div>
<div class="normal">
<br /></div>
<div class="normal">
‘We Need To Talk about Kanye’ starts off with a tribute to Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody, which suits really well with Mr.B’s delightful chap-y vocals. Kanye West is yet to respond to the track, but the logical assumption is that he is afraid to rear his head after the roasting Mr.B has delivered.</div>
<div class="normal">
<br /></div>
<div class="normal">
Mr.B is currently on his album tour, having already done one and a half months, with another month and a half to go. Expect to see our favourite Gentleman Rhymer everywhere from London to Birmingham and even Manchester, travelling to all gigs via his Penny Farthing of course! </div>
<div class="normal">
<br />
Overall, a really fun and enjoyable album, and one I would highly recommend. I was lucky enough to see him perform at Bestival this summer, and if you get the opportunity to catch The Gentleman Rhymer, do so, as you won’t regret it! A charming chap who puts on a great show. I managed to catch up with Mr.B to talk about his latest album, along with a couple other topics including his influences. Check out our interview together below, but first, here's an acoustic version of one of the album tracks.</div>
<div class="normal">
<br />
<iframe allowfullscreen="true" allowtransparency="true" frameborder="0" height="315" scrolling="no" src="https://www.facebook.com/plugins/video.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fagonymagazine%2Fvideos%2F693788440778015%2F&show_text=0&width=600" style="border: none; overflow: hidden;" width="600"></iframe><br />
<br /></div>
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<div class="normal">
<b>Congratulations on the release of the album, how long has this been in the works and would you say that this is your best work yet?</b> </div>
<div class="normal">
<br /></div>
<div class="normal">
This one has taken a while. I started it in the middle of last year, but then decided to do Mr.B’s Christmas Album, so started again earlier this year and throughout the summer, whilst doing about three festivals a week. It was somewhat hectic and the closest I have ever felt to actual ‘work’. Sorry to do a four letter word there.</div>
<div class="normal">
<br /></div>
<div class="normal">
<b>The production quality is fantastic, so I'm sure many people are wondering what production software did you use to put the music together?</b></div>
<div class="normal">
<br /></div>
<div class="normal">
This album was largely put together on Reason 9, which is nice and easy for a luddite like me. I have recently started using Logic, but it appears to be terribly glitchy. Things disappearing and all that sort of thing. I shall persevere though.</div>
<div class="normal">
<br /></div>
<div class="normal">
<b>Which artists inspire you and your work? </b></div>
<div class="normal">
<br /></div>
<div class="normal">
Of late I’ve been listening to a lot of lo-fi hip-hop, LA beats and general wobbly instrumental things. My overriding influences remain the same though - old stool hip-hop, music hall, George Formby, Ronald Frankau...</div>
<div class="normal">
<br /></div>
<div class="normal">
<b>Would you have any stories of your years with your school chum Acid Ted, that you would like to share? </b></div>
<div class="normal">
<br /></div>
<div class="normal">
Glad, almost all of them have been forgotten amidst a fun of Absinthe. Heart of gold though, even if he’s a tad flighty.</div>
<div class="normal">
<br /></div>
<div class="normal">
<b>Other than Hip-Hop and Rap, what does Mr.B like to listen to in his spare time?</b></div>
<div class="normal">
<br /></div>
<div class="normal">
All sorts. Last week in the motor car I listened to Duke Ellington, Elvis, Parliament and Nirvana, as well as the new Tribe Called Quest album, which was a timely reminder of how great hip-hop can be.</div>
<div class="normal">
<br /></div>
<div class="normal">
<b>Kanye or Trump?</b></div>
<div class="normal">
<br /></div>
<div class="normal">
They both have titanic egos, but one is a racist, misogynist bigot and now in charge of everything, so I don’t fear The Kanye, just give him a bit of a ribbing every now and again.<br />
<br /></div>
<div class="normal">
To be honest I have a soft Spot for old Westy. I think if one is making music one ought to think it’s the best music there is. Otherwise why bother? Just listen to someone else’s. </div>
<div class="normal">
<br /></div>
<div class="normal">
<b>What is next for Mr.B?</b></div>
<div class="normal">
<br /></div>
<div class="normal">
I’m back in the studio working on the next Mr.B The Gentleman Selector long player, the second in the Chapstep series. It’s called Absinthe House and, like its predecessor ‘Acid Ragtime’ it’s a chap’s take on dance music (another love of mine). I think this one is going to be something of a winner.<br />
<br />
<b>Links and whathaveyou</b><br />
<br />
Mr. B’s Facebook:<br />
<a href="https://www.facebook.com/gentlemanrhymer">https://www.facebook.com/gentlemanrhymer</a><br />
<br />
Buy a CD copy of the album:<br />
<a href="http://www.thechaphopshop.bigcartel.com/product/there-s-a-rumpus-going-on-cd">http://www.thechaphopshop.bigcartel.com/product/there-s-a-rumpus-going-on-cd</a><br />
<br />
Digital Download and Mr.B’s other work:<br />
<a href="https://mrbthegentlemanrhymer.bandcamp.com/">https://mrbthegentlemanrhymer.bandcamp.com</a><br />
<br />
The Gentleman Rhymer’s Soundcloud:<br />
<a href="https://soundcloud.com/gentlemanrhymer">https://soundcloud.com/gentlemanrhymer</a><br />
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Chris Inglis, the worlds only vintage remix researcher, considers whether the vintage remix world has its first supergroup.</h3>
One of the newest groups to hit the vintage remix world is Alligatorz – a production duo formed of DJ Greem and Mighty Mezz, of C2C and Caravan Palace respectively. These two have been performing together since the start of the year, and as of last week, have begun to release original music. Upon discovering this act, my first thought was to question whether one could call this the genre’s first ever supergroup.<br />
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Of course, this isn’t the first time that individuals from various vintage remix acts have come together to produce new music. When thinking of other groups to compare, my first instinct is to go to the Dutty Moonshine Big Band: formed of Hypeman Sage, Maria Laveau of the VooDoo Collective, the Temple Funk Collective brass band, and Dutty Moonshine himself. Other examples could include the Swing Towers, a duo formed of Cab Canavaral and Tony Maroni; and Tuxedo Junction, formed of Father Funk and Bear Twists.<br />
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But I would hesitate to refer to any of these acts as supergroups. Let me compare with perhaps the most well-known supergroup of all time: the Travelling Wilburys, formed of Bob Dylan, George Harrison, Jeff Lynne, Roy Orbison, and Tom Petty. What made the Wilburys stand out is the distinction that each of the members had already won significant acclaim as a musician in their own right. The significance is the key point; were one to define a supergroup as simply an act made up of musicians who have already performed in other acts, virtually every band ever could be described as a supergroup.<br />
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So what does significance mean? Well it would differ from genre to genre – each of the musicians from the Travelling Wilburys has enjoyed a degree of success that even the most popular electro swing artist could only dream of. As a fairly niche genre, the popularity one must attain to be considered significant within the vintage remix world, would be considerably lower than for other, more widespread styles.<br />
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I’ve chosen to do a quick investigation into looking at the most popular acts within the genre. I’ve looked at Facebook likes for my methodology, mainly due to the fact that it is the quickest and easiest method I can think of. This of course does not come without its flaws – an artist such as Caro Emerald, for instance, enjoys a much older fan base than many other vintage remix artists, and her Facebook likes would therefore not represent her record sales as accurately – but I think it’s a fair method for a study as brief as this one. Setting the threshold at 100,000 likes, the most popular vintage remix acts appear to be:<br />
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<li>Parov Stelar (1,000,000)</li>
<li>Postmodern Jukebox (890,000)</li>
<li>C2C (624,000)</li>
<li>Gramatik (555,000)</li>
<li>Caravan Palace (345,000)</li>
<li>Chinese Man (299,000)</li>
<li>Alice Francis 250,000 *</li>
<li>Caro Emerald (248,000)</li>
<li>Goldfish (204,000)</li>
<li>Deluxe (145,000)</li>
<li>Mr. Scruff (122,000)</li>
<li>Molotov Jukebox (112,000)</li>
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I may well have missed out one or two acts, and of course there may be some disagreement regarding the eternal debate of what is and isn’t electro swing, but in my brief search I couldn’t find any other acts above the 100,000 mark.<br />
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The results are certainly interesting. An immediate realisation of mine is that the only two British acts are at the very bottom of the list. France is certainly leading the way, with four of the eleven acts being from there. So it is no surprise therefore, that Alligatorz –who we can now conclude are indeed vintage remix’s first ever supergroup – hail from France.<br />
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With each of the members belonging to an act from within the top five most popular vintage remix acts in the world, Alligatorz are bound to have an impact on the scene. I look forward to hearing more of what they’ve got to offer.<br />
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* This post was edited to include Alice Francis in the list.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16467321603084666369noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8054201177771193739.post-51455002933119086732016-11-07T17:19:00.002+00:002016-11-07T17:19:54.408+00:00Swingamajig - 2016 by Chris Inglis<a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ojf4u-y6yog/VYv-A7-_B_I/AAAAAAAAApA/uzI06kSrc8oGM97zH0-rtDxuSttK0rSFwCPcB/s1600/10866250_762142447236134_6033410350960847947_o.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><br />
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Chris Ingliss, the world's only Vintage Remix academic, went to Swingamajig and loved it.</h3>
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<i>A note from the editor: I was supposed to post this back in May after Chris ever so kindly offered to write a review. I clearly failed in this, for which I humbly apologise to all of you, and of course, him. Happily, Swingamajig have just released the official video for the 2016 festival, so I can now publish Chris's report and make it look like this was the plan all along.</i><br />
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Swingamajig 2016</h2>
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Where in past years I’ve attended the festival with a very set idea in mind of which acts I know I want to see, the times that they’re on, and where – this year I decided to take a much more carefree approach and simply explore the festival open-mindedly. One of the reasons I love Swingamajig so much is simply the variety of things that occur simultaneously. For instance, this year I was able to enjoy some relaxed lindy hop social dancing at the Night Owl, and after only a two-minute walk, be able to go wild to the bass-heavy beats of the Black Box. This latter venue was definitely a highlight of the festival for me, particularly because of – after first witnessing the mayhem going on in there – my realisation that it will still only 7pm.<br />
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Highlights of this venue included <a href="https://www.mixcloud.com/MadameBarducci/that-is-rock-n-roll-vintage-remix/" target="_blank">Madame Barducci</a> and Phat Sam, and within the Ragtime Records stage where you’d find the rest of the DJ line-up, I have to give special mention to JFB, Tallulah Goodtimes, and especially Father Funk, whose set I thought was exceptional. Before turning into the Ragtime Records stage, this venue also acted as the Cabaret stage, featuring various performances, including a highly impressive tap dance routine; an amazing straps performance within the circus segment; and some greatly entertaining burlesque acts by the likes of Eliza DeLite and Kitty Bang Bang, all of which added a whole extra dimension to the festival.<br />
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Of course – at least for me – the most important element of any festival is the live music, and this year’s Swingamajig certainly didn’t disappoint. The first act I managed to catch the whole set of (following my mandatory face-painting of course) was the Tootsie Rollers. Having not come across these before, I was very keen to see what they were like, and their phenomenal performance set off the entire festival to a brilliant start. I’d in fact go as far to say that they were one of the best acts of the whole show. As the festival went on, the live acts across both the Main stage and the Arch stage continued to impress. Another special mention I’ll give goes out to the After Hours Band – I’ve seen these guys many times now, but upon happening across their set I found I was not physically able to leave, I was enjoying it so much.<br />
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SwinGrowers also provided a very entertaining set, as of course did the Electric Swing Circus, the organisers of the entire event, and indeed Balkan Beat Box, the overall headliners of the festival. I’ve been to all four Swingamajigs now and the festival just keeps growing and growing. Swingamajig 2016 was everything I wanted it to be, and I without doubt intend on returning next year; I imagine it will be a very long time before I tire of the electro swing scene. For anyone keen on exploring this style of music, I can’t imagine a better introductory event; as this years festival has shown, Swingamajig encompasses everything that there is to love about the genre.<br />
<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16467321603084666369noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8054201177771193739.post-83066191387027636822016-10-31T11:05:00.003+00:002016-10-31T11:08:46.892+00:00MUSIC REVIEW - Party Time - Father Funk<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Max Golfar reviews Father Funk's latest EP.</h3>
Father Funk has recently released his new 5 track EP ‘Party Time’ on Scour Records, and it lives up to expectations. When you hear one of these tracks, you’ll definitely know that it is time to get down.<br />
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With funky riffs and wobbly basslines throughout, you can instantly hear the Father Funk touch. It’s upbeat, happy and easily danceable music. I remember watching a Deekline interview and him saying that breakbeat isn’t dead; Father Funk is certainly proving that with his signature Ghetto Funk Breakbeat sound.<br />
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The first track on the EP is ‘Party Time’, it starts with a very uplifting build-up and kicks off the album with a different style of bassline to traditional Father Funk tracks. This one keeps you on your toes with plenty of variation throughout.<br />
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Next up is ‘L-I-V-I-N’, which for me is the standout track. Really strong start to the song, keeps you waiting for the drop and builds up really smoothly. The horns in the main chorus go perfectly with the bassline and neither one overshadows the other. The lyric sampling is non-overbearing and easy to sing along with. This track is a definite crowd pleaser.<br />
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Thirdly, ‘Block Party’, starts off with a strong traditional breakbeat that instantly grabs your attention and gets you moving. Soulful overtones throughout and a subtle guitar in the background which adds interesting layers to the song. A proper house party tune.<br />
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The fourth track ‘Rock The House’ starts off with a simple drum pattern, into another soulful breakdown. Wibbly wobbly galore and fun hype-man samples throughout. I feel like I’m at an American college party listening to this one.<br />
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‘Soul City’ is the closer to this EP, beginning with a groovy bass guitar and wicked piano riff. (Who doesn’t like a good piano riff?) I get some Miami Vice vibes going on this one too. Vocals throughout most of this track, and less of a focus on the wobbly sounds Father Funk usually centres on. A cool contrast from the rest of the tracks.<br />
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<a href="http://jackthecad.blogspot.com/2016/10/the-high-priest-of-funk.html" target="_blank">Read Max's Interview with Father Funk</a></h2>
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All of the songs contain recognisable samples which keeps the tracks lighthearted. I find that too often, a lot of breakbeat has these hard basslines which can be a bit off-putting to the average listener. Contrastingly, Party Time manages to create basslines which aren’t too heavy, but still are powerful enough to give you a severe case of Bass Face.<br />
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For the DJ’s, the tracks are easy to mix and go nicely in many different kinds of sets. Whether you want to add more Wobbly goodness to your next Ghetto Funk set or throw in the occasional heavier tune in your soul or disco set, these will keep your dancefloor full!<br />
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Party Time on Juno:<br />
<a href="http://www.junodownload.com/products/father-funk-party-time-ep/3218629-02/">http://www.junodownload.com/products/father-funk-party-time-ep/3218629-02/</a><br />
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Father Funk’s Soundcloud:<br />
<a href="https://soundcloud.com/father-fun">https://soundcloud.com/father-fun</a>k<br />
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Party Time Minimix:<br />
<a href="https://soundcloud.com/scourrecords/father-funk-party-time-ep-minimix">https://soundcloud.com/scourrecords/father-funk-party-time-ep-minimix</a><br />
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Father Funk’s Facebook:<br />
<a href="https://www.facebook.com/fatherfunk">https://www.facebook.com/fatherfunk</a><br />
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Max Golfar spoke to Will Williamson aka <a href="https://www.facebook.com/fatherfunk" target="_blank">Father Funk</a>, about his various musical ventures, including his new project Tuxedo Junction.</h3>
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Firstly, congratulations on releasing your <a href="http://www.junodownload.com/products/father-funk-party-time-ep/3218629-02/" target="_blank">new EP</a>, was it difficult to make and how long did it take you?</h4>
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Thank you! It's been a long time coming actually, most of my stuff I write really quickly but some of the tracks on this I started maybe as long as 3 years ago. Realistically though it came together in a few months earlier this year. I wouldn't say it was difficult to produce cause I love making music but I certainly tried to push myself to make it some of my best music to date. I've also been making an album and getting the Tuxedo Junction thing started so I think what's really been difficult is working on all these different projects at once! <br />
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What got you into the Ghetto Funk sound?</h4>
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Really if I was going to credit one person it would be Tyler (Stickybuds). Someone played me one of his Shambhala Fractal Forest mixes a few years ago and instantly I was like "this is what I'm gonna do". Hearing him incorporate all my favourite styles of music into a seamless, fun and funky DJ set really inspired me to do the same, I've always been really into cross genre stuff and always made all sorts of music, so the Father Funk thing is kind of me combining all of my influences and production styles into one project. As you can imagine playing the Fractal Forest this summer was a bit of a dream come true, was pretty crazy playing the same stage that inspired me to start Father Funk in the first place. </div>
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What would you say is the best programme for making those funky basslines you're known for?</h4>
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I use mostly Massive and Serum but I'm gonna be a massive hippie and say your mind! Ultimately it doesn't matter what you use to make music, what matters is the outcome, and nothing beats a good idea. Also the most important part is the notes, not the sound, especially with funk. Too many people get caught up in making a crazy bass sound when they should be writing a dope bass line. Sometimes the simple stuff is what works best too. I remember someone asking me how I made the bass in my "Fuck Shit Stack" remix, I was like - dude, it's pretty much just a saw wave and a filter haha.</div>
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Which artists inspire you?</h4>
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That's a tough one to answer. So many. But I think what I am most inspired by is my friends and my peers, people like WBBL, Slynk, Asa, Koan Sound, Featurecast... Seeing my friends killing it makes me super happy and inspires me to push myself too. Also I think I appreciate music on a much deeper level when I know who made it. Besides that though artists that have really inspired my music recently are Swindle, FKJ, Vulfpeck, Exmag, GRiZ, Document One, Haywyre, Skope... I could go on but I think I've waffled enough so far ;)</div>
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You've started a new duo with Bear Twists, could you tell us a bit about that.</h4>
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Yeah <a href="https://soundcloud.com/tuxedojunctionswing" target="_blank">Tuxedo Junction</a>! My latest project, I have a lot of them now haha. Basically me and Angus (Bear Twists) got super into jazz recently, I've always loved it but we've started digging for it a bit more and we were like "why is no electro swing any where near as good as the music it samples?". A lot of it is just one little loop from a classic swing tune made into a house track... There's also so much amazing jazz out there, yet no one digs that deep for samples. Tuxedo Junction is us bringing jazz to the 21st century and doing with it what I'd hoped Electro Swing would have done. I wouldn't even call it Electro Swing as the whole point of it is that we're doing what no one else is doing.</div>
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You run your own night, The Church of Love, what's it all about and how did it get started?</h4>
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Oh man the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/180428995731594/" target="_blank">Church of Love</a>... Another one of my new projects! Damn it's a good time. I think it might have been Aidan from Tremor Soundsystem’s idea, basically it's both of us that do the Church of Love, I've been working with Tremor for a few years now so this is us finally doing a regular thing together. I could easily play in Bristol all the time but as I can pull a big enough crowd to put on my own shows here now I'd rather do that - do a few a year, make them really special and get all my awesome friends to play. It's such an amazing vibe every time and I think a lot of that has to do with the fact that everyone I book and everyone involved are bloody lovely people who love each other to bits. So many smiles!</div>
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What is next for Father Funk?</h4>
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Well the next thing I hope to release is my debut album! Very exciting! It's completely different to anything I've done before (man I sound like a cliché here haha) - fully original, no samples, lots of my guitar playing and a few features from friends playing saxophone, singing etc. I'm really excited to finally get it out there as I've had it pretty much finished for a long time I've just got to make a few final changes and work out how I'm gonna release it. Hopefully it comes out by the end of the year as I'm a bit sick of hearing it already haha. Also got my Shambhala mix coming out soon which I'm SUPER excited about, never thought I'd be uploading my own Fractal Forest mix but there ya go! Oh and we've got <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/180428995731594/" target="_blank">another Church of Love coming up next month</a>, November 12th, with Too Many T's! Busy busy...</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16467321603084666369noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8054201177771193739.post-8982738115086898422016-04-22T14:32:00.001+01:002016-04-22T14:32:59.420+01:00Release: Ghetto Funk presents The Chicken BrothersWe interupt the series of guest posts to tell you to go out and buy this EP right now.<br />
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The Chicken Brothers are known for throwing down some slamming party sets at events like Swingamajig, London's Electro Swing Club and Boomtown, but they don't often release tunes.<br />
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This EP contains four examples of why their sets are so much fun: this is vintage remix at it's magnificent best. Check it out below then buy it.<br />
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Next in this series of guest posts comes from new boy, Bristol-based rapper Offbeat. This guy's just starting out but he's got a really interesting approach and a story to tell.</h3>
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Greetings, Swingers - Offbeat here!<br />
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For those who don’t know me, I take Electro Swing-inspired beats and combine them with the observations of a slightly awkward middle class rapper to create my own fusion of the two genres. My style has been described as “Mike Skinner from The Streets meets Will from the Inbetweeners. With Swing.”<br />
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I rap about everyday things like online dating, reality TV and self help gurus. For me the Swing/Vintage sound is the perfect accompaniment to this, as it has the energy and feel-good vibe that counteracts the seriousness so much Hip Hop has. One of the most common comments I get is “I don’t normally like Hip Hop, but this is alright”. I’m OK with that.<br />
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I am a relative newcomer to the scene, having only discovered Electro Swing in 2014. Until then I had taken a 10 year break from rapping but, upon attending an event with a friend, immediately fell in love with the sound. The friend in question put on his own night at the time and I (drunkenly) proclaimed that if he booked me in a month’s time, I would write enough material to perform a short set, using this wonderful new genre of music. Needless to say, I woke up the next morning and kicked myself but, true to my word, I performed a month later and haven’t looked back since.<br />
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What I have done</h4>
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After meeting a Glasgow-based producer called Calum Matheson, I released my first video at the end of 2014. The video is called “Widlife” and is an Attenborough-esque take on a typical lad’s night out performed over a remix of the Jungle Book’s “I Wanna Be Like You”. I released this with a 4-track EP which was, and still is, available to download free from <a href="http://iamoffbeat.com/jackthecad" target="_blank">my website</a> (there’s lots of other free downloads here too, so check it out!).<br />
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Since then I have released another 3 videos and 2 EPs. The latest video is called “Prohibition!” and sees my character rise to the position of “Swingpin” in an alternate 1920s where Swing music is banned instead of booze. The video is in the style of animated comic and was a lot of fun to make!<br />
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What I’m doing now</h4>
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In addition to the music itself, I like to produce a lot of additional content. I’m a geek at heart, so I’m always fascinated by anything that gives an insight into the creative process of things I’m interested in. With every song I release I also now do a ‘Behind the Bars’ video that explains the origin and thoughts behind each song and I also do a weekly live Q&A on <a href="http://www.twitch.tv/iamoffbeat">www.twitch.tv/iamoffbeat</a>.<br />
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Oh and I’ve also just quit my job actually! After 4 years of running my own business, I came to the realisation it wasn’t making me happy so made the incredibly ill-judged decision to pursue music full time. Only time will tell if this was the right thing to do or not, but I’m hoping that through a combination of gigs, streaming income and merch sales that I can generate enough to make a living doing the thing I am truly passionate about.<br />
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What’s Next</h4>
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I am just finishing off my 4th EP, after which I am going to take a short break from making my own music and focus on some of the additional content I mentioned earlier. I’m lucky enough to have met and supported many of my favourite artists over the last year or so, so one of the things I plan on doing is interviewing them for my YouTube channel to give an insight into their creative processes as well.<br />
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I also have a number of collaborations in the pipeline and plan to focus on these more, before releasing some more of my own solo material towards the end of the year.<br />
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Where you can find me</h4>
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My website is the best place to keep up to date with everything I’m up to: <a href="http://iamoffbeat.com/">http://iamoffbeat.com</a>.<br />
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You can also find me in all the usual Social Media places, but the two I’m probably most active on are <a href="http://www.youtube.com/iamoffbeatuk" target="_blank">YouTube</a> and <a href="http://www.facebook.com/iamoffbeat" target="_blank">Facebook</a>.<br />
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Thanks for reading and I hope to see you at a gig/festival soon!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16467321603084666369noreply@blogger.com0