Electro Swing Roundup

Want to know what we kept going on about? Here’s the video from our recent Electro Swing Ball including footage of Bertie Dastard rinsing it out at 5mins 30secs.

If you fancy seeing me out and about next week I’ll be warming up for The Electric Swing Circus at Birmingham’s Hot Club de Swing on the 27th September.

Right, enough of that, let’s get on to the music.

Free Music Wattie Green has posted three rather nice mixes of Caravan Palace, all ready for download. What a nice chap!

It’s always nice to have something new from the Jenova Collective and now they’re dabbling their feet into ghetto swing. Keep it up boys!

Here’s a nice light hearted tune from Kiss Me Yesterday with Extra Medium on the remix. Download from facebook.

Here’s a nice slab of balkan grooves from DJ Badre:

The new album has come out by Menage Quad. There’s a whole pile of great tracks here in a swing-hop style and it’s available from bandcamp on a name your own price basis. Here’s my favorite:

Loving the gospel flavours on this:

New Releases Skeewiff – Ghetto Latin & Broken Ballroom Skeewiff never seems to disappoint with his new releases and this ones no exception. There’s a whole range of influences going on with this album from latin, swing, tango, rumba, waltz and so, so much more. I’m not sure how many will find their way into DJ sets, it’s more suited to be taken as a whole album.

Highly recommended! Available from Juno.

Boardwalk Empire – Sounds Of The Onyx Boardwalk Empire have created a special music project entitled Sounds of The Onyx that features rare jazz recordings from the Prohibition Era remixed by some of the best contemporary urban music producers. There’s loads of good remixes to discover here and it’s available from itunes.

Scoured Cream Vol#3 On the last roundup two weeks ago I managed to miss out the other big release of the moment which was Scoured Cream Vol#3 from the mighty Spinforth. Most readers of this blog are probably fully aware of it already but in case you’re not there’s a whole load of great glitch, nu-funk and ghetto swing business going on. You can read Bertie Dastards assessment of it in the Free Breaks Blogs reviews section. Available to buy from Juno and here’s my highlight with the rather nice Jump & Jiving from The Phunk Junkies:

Bart & Baker feat Nicolle Rochelle - The Josephine Baker All Stars EP If you like the gentle, bouncy Bart & Baker sound then you should like this EP of remixes in tribute to Josephine Baker. With mixes from James Copeland, DJ Mibor and Bart&Baker themselves it’s worth a look. Available from Juno.

Jamie Berry EP – Teaser There’s a new EP coming from Jamie Berry on the 27th September and here’s the blues tinged Carnival from it which is sounding rather fine.:

DJ Mixes I’ve really enjoyed finding this mix from The Fritz this week mixing up in the ghetto funk end of the swing:

Dutty. Moonshine. In. The. Mix. Oh yes…

Last shout goes to this rather interesting mix which features live accompaniment on clarinet and trumpet:

That’s it for this week. If you’ve got anything you’d like included in future roundups hit me up on soundcloud or facebook. To find out more about my own events check out the Electro Swing Ball.

Electro Swing Roundup