Electroswing

Electro Swing was built around the turn of the millennium refers to a combination of modern electronic dance music and swing, a style of jazz from the 1920s and 1930s.

Parov Stelar and Caravan Palace are major representatives of this genre. Other important bands are The London Swing Orchestra Remix, the French KKC, the Berlin Dirty Honkers and the Electronic Swing Orchestra. To mention Furthermore, Gramophonedzie, Phos Toni, Shemian, Waldeck and Caro Emerald. Ever since the Australian duo Yolanda Be Cool & DCUP was played in the radio stations of Europe with their hit We No Speak Americano everywhere, the Electro Swing prevailed. The French label Wagram published in 2010 under the name Electro Swing Fever four compilations with the time current recordings and remixes.

Importance

The Electro Swing vocals, instrumentation, typical rhythms and melodies of the swing are usually accompanied with electronic sounds and beats and repeated phrases. The danceability of the Swing is enhanced by the electronic bass line. For some artists, there are also influences from klezmer, gypsy jazz and world music. Partial enough the music, in which is oriented to the 1950s. Therefore is processed in parallel Charleston and Swing also Boogaloo, rock'n'roll or Cumbia. International parties are organized in at least 13 countries, on which is danced to Electro Swing. To an event on 1 May 2012 at the Tempelhof Airport in Berlin attracted more than 10,000 people.

Electro Swing takes its place in a variety of styles of jazz with other styles combine (eg, Nu- Jazz ).

Formation

Back in the early 90s began musicians like to take the Green Keepers and Mike Dixon, jazz and swing elements in their contemporary productions. However, the sound of the tracks produced more reminiscent of funky house than at Swing House. Only the French label G -Swing 1992 brought an album on the market, which could be referred to as Swing House. End of the 90s, the Swing House enjoyed great popularity until he disappeared in early 2000.

The during this time developed Nu- Jazz combines funk and jazz, but also with swing dance, house and techno. One of the best-known representative is the Frenchman Ludovic Navarre aka St. Germain. Many electro swing artists come from the scene of the nu-jazz.

Initially brought some DJs like Chris Tofu already Remix versions of existing Swing - out and lounge tracks. The first Electro Swing works by artists such as Jurassic 5 or Mr. Scruff were mostly one-off experiments and were not referred to as Electro Swing, but rather declared Swing house and nu - jazz. Began in 2005 with artists such as Parov Stelar and Caravan Palace, which strengthened the sound of G -Swing and Waldeck, the triumph of the young genre.

After 1999 in Chicago a Swing House scene was created, the French label BNO had the idea to bring out a complete collection to the new style. Then Eddie Barclay with Swing for Modern Clubbing published the first Electro Swing album. A crucial point was reached in 2009 as the first collective work published, which music magazine Mixmag has been described as the first milestone of the Electro Swing from English dance.

Starting in 2009, many clubs around Electro Swing until 2011, the White Mink and the Electro Swing Club, the first Electro Swing Festival, a one-day event in London, präsentierten.Ende 2011 emerged was in a promotional video of the Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas, a casino in the Deutsche Bank, the song Booty Swing by Parov Stelar used and thus first presented to the European-influenced style of music popular music of the American public.