Electro swing
| Electro swing | |
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| Stylistic origins | |
| Cultural origins | Early 1990s, United States and Europe |
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| Nu-disco | |
Electro swing combines the influence of vintage or modern swing and jazz mixed with house, hip hop and EDM. Successful examples of the genre create a modern and dance-floor focused sound that is more readily accessible to the modern ear but that also retains the feeling of live brass and the energetic excitement of the early swing recordings.
The mid-1990s saw a succession of hip-hop influenced records that sampled vintage swing. Many of these were one-off novelties and would not at the time have been described as electro swing. "Lucas with the Lid Off" (1994) by Lucas (a.k.a Lucas Secon) is an early example which had chart success and subsequently featured on UK TV advertising (Weetabix). Others such as "Doop" by Doop (1994) was a number one hit in the UK, while Jimmy Luxury coined the term swing-hop with the song "Hi-Ball Swing" in (1999). Songs like Mr. Scruff's "Get a Move On" (1999), Jurassic 5's "Swing Set" (2000), Gry and F.M. Einheit's "Princess Crocodile" (2000), and The Real Tuesday Weld's "Bathtime in Clerkenwell" (2003) all built on this sound, each adding new elements. In the 1990s, the artists Cajmere produced multiple house hits that were greatly influenced by swing such as "U Got Me Up". Many 'lounge' and 'nu-jazz' tracks also borrowed swing music elements. This was developed and built on by artists like G-Swing, Waldeck, and Caravan Palace.
The British 'White Mink: Black Cotton' series was described by Mixmag as "Electro Swing's first landmark moment".
According to Magnetic magazine in April 2016, France, Germany, Austria, the United Kingdom, and Switzerland are some of the countries where electro swing has garnered some popularity, it has not seen popularity in the United States.
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