Electro-swing: glitchy, jazzy, uptempo music

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Thnks 4 da cue. HRD2BLV IDK this is a thing. hearts

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I came across Caravan Palace via Rdio a few months ago. Their song Star Scat was what caught my ear. The video is not an official one, but worth checking out. Long intro though - jump to 1:00 to hear the actual song.

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Yowza! Thank you for my new musical obsession!

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I was listening to Gotan Project as I read your reply. Iā€™m going to check out your mix immediately. Thanks for the list.

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Reddit had a ā€œname some good electroswingā€ post hit the front page a little while back. It is here. There is a pretty solid play list on Google Music here.

Personally, I love the stuff. I have even hit up a few electroswing nights and had a great time out dancing. The only real problem with electroswing is that as a genera, it isnā€™t all that deep. Hit an electroswing night a few times and you will start to recognize all of the songs.

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ā€¦reminds me of Tipsy:

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Electro-swing: Hm. Daughter of a friend has been doing competitive swing dancing. I should make sure she knows about this stylistic fusion.

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I found myself thinking that Bazā€™ Gatsby could have benefitted at times from this.

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By the way, in case anyone had a high-school English teacher who waxed lyrical about symbolism in The Great Gatsby: The reason the light is green is because, when you look across the water from Great Neck to Port Jefferson, that light IS green. Nothing more than that.

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Dont spend much time in the genre, but do love Swing Bop (Tanz Variante) by Der Dritte Raum. Mainly because itā€™s a swing remix of their trance classic Hale Bopp from 1998.

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I found Caravan Palace a while back and thought it was a weird but cool one-off thing. And then the nuts & candy shop across the plaza from my office was playing Parov Stelar, so I had to pick that up too.

Now youā€™re just encouraging what has become a habitā€¦

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Thanks for all the amazing reccos, folks! I think this is my new music quota for the next month or two!

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Now that I poke at things a bit, Der Dritte Raum strikes me as really cool. More on the electro side of electro-swing, but still it, um, means a thing I guess.

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The Hotel Costes CDs are phenomenal. Thereā€™s something like 15 of them now and theyā€™re packed with awesome loungey music shot through with electro-funk. I spend whole days with those on as the soundrack of my lifeā€¦

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Youā€™ll like this one then: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETAKCFtgYTI

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Is there anything in this genre with a darker/harder edge?

Thatā€™d be a cool juxtaposition, IMO

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As many above have said, ā€œif you like that, youā€™re gonna love theseā€ (this one is from Gramatik:)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajBMruEgsY4

Aaaaand hereā€™s a little number on a more restrained, but remarkable inventive swing note, with some amazing climbs and harmony

Mister Overtime (Oliver Remix) - Punks Jump Up

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80MWAD434Y0

Of course thereā€™s always the classicsā€¦

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HamLxGxeDqI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-esGkRNtTlg

Or you may enjoy something a little more obscure!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i83GC_7jVus

Iā€™ll leave you with a couple of more minimal classic Chicago faves from the early 90s!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUbSa0XoIhk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NM99JWyYUNE

If there is better vacuuming the house music, I donā€™t know what it is!

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Yay, electroswing! Couple of recommendations:

Parov Stelarā€™s the guy who started it all, and his songs are fantastic. Try ā€˜The Snakeā€™ (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKWE8duRsYw)

The Correspondents are wonderful, particularly live; try Fear and Delight (which has a fantastic video - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABS-mlep5rY), Cheating with You, and the brilliant What Happened to Soho?

JFB does more dubstep-heavy electroswing; try Swing Bum: (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BMyA6_oi28)

Lastly, I donā€™t know if Molotov Jukeboxā€™s Donā€™t Panic ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bJqNR0nrUE) really counts as electroswing, but itā€™s got the right attitude. The singer is Natalia Tena, who plays Tonks in the Harry Potter movies and Osha in Game of Thronesā€¦

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Funny how this suddenly becomes a thing ā€¦ I was equally clueless and just by chance I came across my old Koop record, did a wiki on Koop, where they are classified as Electro Jazz, I searched that on youtube ā€¦ and voila, I get Electro Swing / Swazz and the like ā€¦ my 9 year old especially like when they mix in the Angry Birdsā€™ tune :slight_smile:

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I would recommend NĆ“ze. The whole album is fantastic.