Get your ears round this arsenal of free stuff. Captin Flatcap make multi-genre, instrumental EDM. Creating marvelous mash-ups as well as being a  3 piece live band and Chris Rotherham on DJ duty, expect (in their own words) – ‘Electro-Swing / Ska-step / Filth-folk / Ghetto-funk and Squelchedelic!’ Supplying us with constant, quality giveaways, they have also had releases on Rocstar Records. An ear for only the finest of samples … this is one impressive back catalogue to sink your teeth into!

Awww yeah, I've heard some good mixes in my time as this is up there with the very best. It doesn't get much better than head-nodding-feel-good funk that slaps a biiiig grin all over over your face : ) Crafted with some serious love this mix epitomises everything I love about music, embracing the ethos of hiphopallotment, spreading the vibe...

HUGE thanks to https://soundcloud.com/essexgroove for an hour of pure joy...check it

...and check some words from the men themselves:

Enough snow, enough cold, we want sun and heat on our skins! Laid back, relax & open a beer… here is our set for the Ramp Show, we bring you the sunshine with a soulful & funky selection ending with a reggae flavour, enjoy!!!

Our next big gig:
@ Cassiopeia Berlin on Friday, 13th March. Future Treasure #1 with The Allergies!
https://www.facebook.com/events/1539840906297945/?fref=ts

Cheers Paddy for the request.

Feel free to comment, repost, share and love!
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Tracklist
1. https://soundcloud.com/essexgroove Intro
2. Pstgrd : Showtime - EG Edit
3. Profit Feat. Skitz & Jah Mirikle : True Colours - EG Edit
4. Akshin Alizadeh : a lil bit of truth - EG Edit
5. The CBs : Misdemeanour - EG Edit
6. Sabrosa Soul : Fur Eel - EG Edit
7. Zac Love : Sunflower Sutra - EG Edit
8. Loopmaffia : Chill Deluxe - EG Edit
9. Sard Boogie : Behind The Beat - EG Edit
10. Mister T : Everything Is Wah - EG Edit
11. Mister T : Rastas Funky Well - EG Edit
12. Badboe : Ghetto Funkalicious - EG Edit
13. Funk Ferret : Shadow Girls - EG Edit
14. Father Funk : funk Machine - EG Edit
15. My Neighbour Is : Little Freak - EG Edit
16. Mister T : The Party - EG Edit
17. Badboe : Get On Up - EG Edit
18. Jesswah Feat. Ambush : The Funk Will Bounce - EG Edit
19. Emapea : B-Boy Theme - EG Edit
20. Mister T : Hip Soul - EG Edit
21. dj Maars & Tom Showtime : Lion On My Side - EG Edit
22. Dj Maars & Tom Showtime : Shake ’n’ Break - EG Edit
23. Toots & The Maytals : 54-46 - Kossbow Remix - EG Edit
24. John Holt : Police In Helicopter - Father Funk Remix - EG Edit
25. Pink Turtle : Get Up Stand Up - Captain Flatcap Remix - EG Edit
26. Essex Groove Outro Goodbye
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Our new website is online here : www.essexgroove.com

Electro Swing Roundup – October / November 2014

First off better apologise for last month… starting your own business means that time suddenly becomes very precious and unfortunately last month didn’t make the cut. Still just means that this month is better than ever.

If I was you lot I’d ask for your money back…

Darkside of the Electro Swing Ball Since I’ve been starting to get on top of my work at Vintage Wedding DJ, I thought it was time to get back into another project and so it has to be time to run another event. We’ve been promising to get the scandalous scamps of electro swing up to Shropshire for a while and so we’re delighted to be welcoming Dutty Moonshine up to join us for our next Electro Swing Ball. We’re going in deeper and darker for this one (definitely would suit the readers of this blog well) so if you live anywhere near the West Midlands come join us for one all mighty shakedown. Getting dressed up is de rigueur for our events and we’ve got another cracking lineup which also features Free Breaks Blog’s head honcho Bertie Dastard, ghetto funkster Supabad (who was very appropriately christened James Brown by his parents – how cool???), hosted as ever by the Delightful Mrs Rickard, Liberty Pink as jazz singer extraordinaire and compère, award winning burlesque from Verity Grey, and myself..? Well I’m doing the premiere of my new VJ set called DJR presents Swing The Silver Screen. It’s gonna be stunning.

Slamboree & Caravan Palace @ Electric Brixton, Nov 15th

Also forthcoming is very impressive lineup on the 15th of November down in London-town. The Electric Brixton parties have been building up a great reputation and they return with the new show by festival legends Slamboree topping the bill, (this is one collective that everyone should experience at least once) along with electro swing legends Caravan Palace providing a DJ set, and also plenty of FBB favorites in the shape of Featurecast, Father Funk, Rumpsteppers, DJ Pony Montana, Dr. Malaka and DJ Chris Tofu.  For those haven’t been to the Electric Brixton  – it’s a stunning 1700 capacity period style venue which lends itself to this style of hoedown perfectly and it has been sold out for all of its events recently. I’m going to be down there to experience it all first hand so I’ll be reporting back next month on the biggest shakedown in the swing world.

See you on the dancefloor.

Free Music Let’s kick off with a strong start… The Flatcap boys have been adding some squelch to Get Up Stand Up. Good shit.

Kaptin and his Big Swing Soundsystem have turned a tidy bootleg in here:

Copycat getting funky again:

This is good. Quality swing & balkan vibes with Nikola Vujicic on the remix:

The grime sound of Dizzee Rascal has been matched up with some funky balkan beats on this tidy freebie from Smokey Joe & The Kid. Download.

Liking this, nice deep groove from the debut EP by Mortisville.

I might be pretty godless, but this makes me want to go to church. Yes yes electro-gospel goodness!

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There’s not been that many Frank Sinatra remixes done yet, but this ain’t bad from Phylo. Available from his  facebook.

Grant Lazlo going in deep…

Very housey this but it does have a nice little swing style break in the middle:

Not heard of Finger Tanzen before but this is quite interesting.

Tomahawk back on the electro blues tip:

More Tomahawk:

Okay it’s not strictly swing or vintage but I could see this sneaking in amongst your ghetto swing tracks:

Smoother jazzy styling here from Extra Medium:

Dr Hooka here tweaking Basschimps vintage, bass & hip hop:

There’s a whole mix of style going on with this from very new to very old. You decide.

Not sure how to describe this either. Worth a listen though:

New Releases Sound Nomaden – Madame It’s great to see that Sound Nomaden has finally released his debut album. With a whole range of different instruments used and combining influences as diverse as swing, jazz, folk, ska and even classical there’s lots to check out on here.

Mouthful o’ Jam, Vol. 2 – Selected by DJ Swing Maniac DJ Swing Maniac has been doing great work reminding us all where this music called swing originated on this his second volume of Mouthful o’ Jam. It’s released on Green Queen and is perfect for those 1920’s parties where you want to play some of the original goodness that got it all going. Available from itunes.

DJ Dunya – Xyloswing Good to see DJ Dunya getting a good EP out on none other than Freshly Squeezed Records. Get your good swingy stuff from Juno.

Swingrowers – Midnight Swingrowers have a new single out on Freshly Squeezed – this uplifting and joyous slice of live swing sounds great to me. Get it from juno.

Peps Show Boys / Louis Armstrong / Sebastian Roeser – Electroswing Show Here’s a strong release to check out on Chinchin Germany. Good uplifting and funky stuff. Available from Juno.

Kid Kasino – Trick or Treat EP You may miss Halloween now, but certainly don’t miss checking this out from Kid Kasino. Particularly like Headless Horseman which I’m sure would always fit into a set at any time of year.

Phil Mac – Be There Too Congratulations to Phil Mac for his first release on his own Spare Room Records. Good luck – you deserve to be really successful because your records have always been great. Available from beatport

Frizzo – Betty Swing EP Glasgows Frizzo has a new two track EP out on Billybong. Available from Juno.

Gentlemen Callers of LA – The Harlem Renaissance Forthcoming on Green Queen Music is the this tasty little number. Mixing a solid deep beat with some jazzy licks this record will go down a storm. Remix action is done by none other than Bart & Baker. Available from Juno from the 18th of November.

DJ Mixes With a number of Halloween flavored swing releases out at the moment such as the Kid Kasino one above, there seem to be quite a few Halloween mixes around too. Here’s Cab Canavaral’s offering:

And another solid offering from the prolific Doctor Hooka:

That’s it. See you in a month! If you’ve got anything you’d like included in future roundups hit me up on soundcloud.

Electro Swing Roundup – October/November 2014

Beating The Crates 20141020 by Hong Kong Ping Pong on Mixcloud

Last mondays Beating The Crates hosted by HKPP’s Morphosis featuring a whole host of Ghetto Funking goodness… get involved! Big love to Five Dollar Shake and Tremor SoundSystem for the hospitality last weekend at Timbuk2 in Bristol, we had a ball! xxx

This show is now available to download from the NSB Radio Archives and to stream on Mixcloud!

Tracklist:

01 Loop Maffia – Analog (Original Mix)
02 DJ Maars & Tom Showtime – Funk Haffi Make
03 Prince Fatty presents Horseman – Computer
04 Mr. Bristow feat. Benny Silver – You Don’t Know (Original Mix)
05 Yum Cha – Boom Ting
06 PRofit Feat. Skitz & Jah Mirikle – True Colours (Howla & WBBL Remix)
07 Bam & Mr Dero – The Weekend
08 Club Des Belugas – Let’s Go
09 Guts – Freedom
10 The Niceguys – Stand Up
11 DJ Maars & Tom Showtime – Lion On My Side
12 Yum Cha – Roll Dem
13 DJ Maars & Tom Showtime – Happy Deals
14 Mister T – Hip Soul
15 The Niceguys – Funky Bird
16 Club Des Belugas – Welcome To Brazil (Papa Cobana Hiphop Soccer remix)
17 Father Funk – Where’s The Party At
18 B-Side & Sammy Senior – Kill Em Wit It
19 Lack Jemmon – LViS (VIP Scour Records Freemix)
20 Pink Turtle – Get Up Stand Up (Captain Flatcap Remix)
21 SpekrFreks – Pet Shop Girls
22 Rory Hoy – Ass Shakers Song (Phibes Remix)
23 Prince – Funk’n’Roll (Sammy Senior Remix)
24 Warp9 – Solid_Gold
25 SpekrFreks – Prince Jackson
26 The Niceguys – Yonder
27 Yum Cha – Down Town Scene
28 Laid Blak – Bristol Love (CMC & Silenta remix)
29 Monstafunk – Rockin’ Day & Night
30 Father Funk – Phenomenal Funk
31 Parov Stelar – Clap Your Hands
32 Gypsy Hill ft Op Sa Balkan Band – Bekin Cocek
33 Alexia Coley – Beautiful Waste Of Time (Smoove remix)
34 Eta James – Tell Mama (Copycat’s Remix)
35 Slynk – Can I Come Over
36 Bam & Mr Dero – Dance (instrumental)
37 Rory Hoy – Party On This Side (Skeewiff’s Disco Party Remix)
38 Riva Starr – The Care Song (feat Bob Andy)
39 Freestylers – Saturday Night Flava
40 23 Psi – The Music Ain’t Over (Original Mix)
41 WHAT – Say What Again (Freestylers Raw As Fuck Remix)