Hey guys just to keep you up dated on all thats going on in the world of electro swing! theres going to be a BBC radio one electro swing special! This shall all be taking place on 09/10/2010! Featuring will be The Correspondents (in session) Movits! (in session) Nick Hollywood and Chris Tofu!
So make sure you cehck it all out! http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=121649707889217
Tuesday 28 September 2010
Saturday 11 September 2010
Bienvenue a Strasbourg!
Unortunatly for all you lovely people ive resurfaced from the depths of deepest darkest prague to find myself in an internet fuelled france! I think the only place in the world where mcdonalds has a beer garden. Also where I managed to accidentaly order 36 chicken nuggets after they misunderstood my order for 6 mcnuggets as 6 boxes of 6 mcnuggets. Yes I did eat them all in one sitting. Yes I was ill. And yes I will never go to mcdondalds again(for at least a week)
Anyhows, back to the actualy point of this blog, music! I promised a while back a bit of a mix from Odjbox which ive kind of had lying round a while now , Im sorry I wanted to enjoy its exclusivity!
At this point I realise I dont know where iv put the mix, so or a while until i update the post ill have to fob you off with this! Odjbox's latest track!
Saraghina by Odjbox
And know ive found it again with a lot of help from the man himself! But that over tune was just to good to remove from this post just because im forgetful! But i got hold of the man himself and managed to get in a few questions!
And heres the mix so you can listen while you read:
OdjFrocks and Dancing Socks by odjmixbox
And know ive found it again with a lot of help from the man himself! But that over tune was just to good to remove from this post just because im forgetful! But i got hold of the man himself and managed to get in a few questions!
And heres the mix so you can listen while you read:
OdjFrocks and Dancing Socks by odjmixbox
How did you get into electro-swing?"
I didn't even know it existed until a few months back..!
For the past few years I've been heavily getting into swing (Via Duke Ellington, the king of swing!) but I always thought it was a shame that these tunes would probably never fill the dance floors again, so I decided to try remix them in a way that could make them danceable for our modern ears. At the time I saw it more as instrumental hip hop than anything else though... Then when I listened to "White Mink : Black Cotton" I realised that other people were doing exactly what I wanted to do and beyond! From then on I have been a fan of the genre and will have to step up my game!!
For the past few years I've been heavily getting into swing (Via Duke Ellington, the king of swing!) but I always thought it was a shame that these tunes would probably never fill the dance floors again, so I decided to try remix them in a way that could make them danceable for our modern ears. At the time I saw it more as instrumental hip hop than anything else though... Then when I listened to "White Mink : Black Cotton" I realised that other people were doing exactly what I wanted to do and beyond! From then on I have been a fan of the genre and will have to step up my game!!
"What can we expect from you in the future?"
You can expect me to still be making music, but other than that i'm not really sure... However, I know I'm going to experiment with a few other genres from around the world to blend into the electro swing smoothie! Also, I hope to get together an interesting show with live elements alongside good old fashioned dj-ing.
"What are your top picks of tracks/artists right now?"
Keep on eye on... Trio Manouche, Benny Berigan, Theo Krish, Jem Stone, Dutty Moonshine, The Correspondents, Sup Peeps Records and of course Freshly Squeezed Music.... to name just a few!
Top Tracks outside of electrio swing...
Old Seville by Mumbo Jumbo
CollaBo in Pratellanza by Sunshine feat. RibboRes
The Anthem by Onra
Uncle Sam Goddam by Brother Ali
Linda Morena by Quantic & His Combo Barbaro
CollaBo in Pratellanza by Sunshine feat. RibboRes
The Anthem by Onra
Uncle Sam Goddam by Brother Ali
Linda Morena by Quantic & His Combo Barbaro
"what do you reckon we've got to be excited for in the coming year?"
The explosion of electro swing! Really looking forward to hearing emerging artists take on the genre! One of the beauties of Electro Swing is there are no boundaries! Would love to see 'Swing Hop' branch out a bit too...! So in my eyes we've a lot to be excited about!
Thats it for this week but feel free to get in touch with me guys! im at flapper5blog@gmail.com
Friday 20 August 2010
A few links from the road
As i let you all know im busy travelling about at the moment but ive found the time to post up two links from the good people who are Odjbox and Tony Holster!
So in a straight ahead way as possible here they are! You can expect a full interview and mix from Odjbox when i return from Prague! I hope at least, as long as the efforts to set up a french bank account still are not thwarting me at every turn!
Boufee D'air - KKC Orchestra
Bouffée d'air - Le KKC Orchestra
Uploaded by petitlubzh. - Music videos, artist interviews, concerts and more.
Saraghina - Odjbox
Hope your all good!
So in a straight ahead way as possible here they are! You can expect a full interview and mix from Odjbox when i return from Prague! I hope at least, as long as the efforts to set up a french bank account still are not thwarting me at every turn!
Boufee D'air - KKC Orchestra
Bouffée d'air - Le KKC Orchestra
Uploaded by petitlubzh. - Music videos, artist interviews, concerts and more.
Saraghina - Odjbox
Hope your all good!
Tuesday 3 August 2010
Tony Holster Aka TypoBoy
Its been a week since I launched this blog and once again I've been busy skimming the best off the top in terms of electro swing. Have been meaning to get back to you all a lot sooner but an impending move to France has caught me more off guard than anticipated!
This week I'v managed to get in touch with the Parisian DJ Tony Holster, who you may also know as TypoBoy, whos just returned to France after a mini UK tour at places such as the Secret Garden Party. For myself its a bit of a coup to get in touch with him seeing as I've had his website http://www.typoboy.fr/ bookmarked for quite a while! Check it out yourself for new mixes and all!
I got hold of him and managed to ask him a few questions! But First heres a mix you can listen to whilst your reading!
DJ Tony Holster aka Typoboy - Gangsta Swing Mix by Flapper5 blog
You Can also check out;
http://www.mixcloud.com/typoboy/gangsta-swing/
http://soundcloud.com/tonyholster/gangsta-swing-1
http://fairtilizer.com/track/134364
1.what would you say was the first time you heard Electro-Swing and what was your first thoughts?
1. First time I heard Electro-Swing it was just a word. I was playin underground swing house and a girl came to me at the end of my dj set and told me that some of my records were similar to "Caravane Palace" I had never heard about Caravane Palace before that night. I googled it and wow ! that's how I discovered Electro swing ;) And it worked both ways... I was playing records in a club in Paris and Antoine - a member of Caravane Palace (he plays the trombone and machines) came to ask me what was the name of the underground swing house track I was playing !!! ;) The 1st Swing-House mix I've ever decided to play was for my wife's birthday (she loves jazz and vocals). I started spinning records in small venues and was lookin for happy music to mix. I was fed up with all that dark electronic music (minimal tech-house). Everybody was playin' the same sound and it is not such a happy music to play in small venues like Parisian Bars. If people want to listen to that kind of music they just have to go into dark clubs. The first time I played my swing house mix and saw people dancing on it I realized it was the sound of the yesteryears (1920) with the production of the next decade (2020). What a link ! There is also another musical link in my mixes. My parents are from Macedonia and Balkan Music is the 1st music I've ever heard, that's why you can hear Balkan Brass Bands mixed with New-Orleans Brass Bands in my mixes.
2. How did you get started djing?
2. I started djing when I was living in Brussels, It was 6 years ago, I was just scratching a lil' bit at the time... and many DJs and organizers were always at home, afterpartying and mixing, but I was just listening and watching then. The Last week before I left Brussels to go back to Paris, I switched off my cell phone for a week, and learnt to beatmatch... When I came back to Paris my son was born and then I started to mix minimal and tech-house every day for 2 years as a bedroom DJ and I was publishing my mixes at http://www.typoboy.fr/. And the 3rd year I started to mix in small venues in a duet project with Larry Genius called Ventilation Rotative. He was playin lots of Wind Instruments while I was spinning tech-house and minimal stuff. He plays the saxophone (Tenor and Alto), the Flute, toys instruments for kids and even instruments from his own invention. He's a kinda kwezi guy and a good showman hehehe. As I was a lil' bit shy at the beginning, people were rather lookin at his show, that's the way I started DJing...
3. I see that your page mentions the electro swing club de paris? could you tell me a bit more about that? and also the chicken swing?
3. One night I played that underground swing house set at Café des Sports. The program planner immediately asked me for a residency each 1st saturday of each month. This residency is a party called Chicken Swing NOT Chicken Wings. And a year later I asked DJ Tagada to find a place for a bigger party. He asked the owners of the boat where he had started his Balkan Beats Parties 5 years ago. The Electro Swing Club de Paris is the name of the party I organise on this famous and very beautiful chinese boat in Paris. Many famous french artists started there at http://www.damedecanton.com/ It is actually the first, the one and only party dedicated to Electro Swing in France. I was dreaming of a party where people could use fancy dressing, watch for a burlesque show and listen to electroswing bands and international DJs. Nick Hollywood (Freshly Squeezed) and Chris Tofu (Continental Drifts) were already running an Electro Swing Club in London, so we wanted to bring the same kind of music to the french people. We've launched the Electro Swing Club de Paris with my partners from bebop-swing (they organise Electro Swing events in Toulouse and Lyons)
4.What have been your biggest musical influences outside the genre?
4. I'm most influenced by electronic music but I've listened to many music before Electro Swing. My strong interest for music started when I was a child in the 80's, then I went backwards in time with the music of the 70's, the 60's, the 50's etc… until I discovered Robert Johnson the 1st and oldest phonographic recording of blues... and in the 90s I started listening to electronic music. I have also always been interested in the fusion of different kinds of music with electronic music. Mashups and things like that. It's a kind of encyclopaedic way of discovering music. I'm very curious and in music it's important for me to go beyond boundaries.
5. could you give us your top five electro-swing tracks?
1/ Der Dritte Raum's Swing Bop (which is a remix of their own trance track from the 90's!) is for me the ultimate electro swing track... I started to play that track a long time ago and I still play it. To me it's THE electro Swing anthem and the cornerstone of Electro Swing, it's a swing track produced like a house track.
2/ Hollywood Black and Tan from the amazing DJ Tavo (we are actually working together on a track)
3/ Bouffée d'Air from KKC Orchestra which is simply the best electro swing band for me.
http://www.myspace.com/lekkcorchestra4/ Why Don't You is a swing house remix of a jazz standard by Gramophonedzie (he's from ex-Yugoslavia like my parents!).
5/ And watch out for the incoming main track from Max Pashm's first electro swing EP, tha kinda track you listen and five minutes later you are whistling the melody while you're washin your dishes !!! Well... today machines do the dishes... but this one makes you whistle with your dishwasher ! :)
6. What can the world of electro-swing expect from the latter half of 2010?
6. Things are moving quickly. I've listened to "We No Speak Americano" something like 6 months ago but I had never imagined this track would be Number 1 in the UK ! and reach the Top Ten in the world. I've never played that track. As I was not playing Caravane Palace. Many people have theories about music evolution but nobody knows what is gonna happen with electro-swing. I know that I've play that music for a long time now because I love it and for all the reasons I've told you before. Some people think it is a subgenre that will die as quickly as it appeared (should die in 2 years). Some people think it's gonna be like Big Beat (3 main bands in 5 years and will be over in 10 years). Some others think it will be like the Balkan Beats scene (but a Balkan Beat track never reached the top ten). I think we just have to remember that Swing was here before us and will stay forever. It will maybe disappear from the musical horizon but it will never die. The most important thing is that electro swing does not belong to anybody but to each and all of us.
And to clean up the confusion between Tony Holster and TypoBoy
"Typoboy is a graphical project, as I am a graphic designer,
Typoboy is alive man ! he has serif for the feets, he walks, he shoot/spray ink against enemies, etc… it's an animated project and a book for graphic designers childs to learn typography and also typo goodies (like Pucca or hello Kitty)."
This week I'v managed to get in touch with the Parisian DJ Tony Holster, who you may also know as TypoBoy, whos just returned to France after a mini UK tour at places such as the Secret Garden Party. For myself its a bit of a coup to get in touch with him seeing as I've had his website http://www.typoboy.fr/ bookmarked for quite a while! Check it out yourself for new mixes and all!
I got hold of him and managed to ask him a few questions! But First heres a mix you can listen to whilst your reading!
DJ Tony Holster aka Typoboy - Gangsta Swing Mix by Flapper5 blog
You Can also check out;
http://www.mixcloud.com/typoboy/gangsta-swing/
http://soundcloud.com/tonyholster/gangsta-swing-1
http://fairtilizer.com/track/134364
1.what would you say was the first time you heard Electro-Swing and what was your first thoughts?
1. First time I heard Electro-Swing it was just a word. I was playin underground swing house and a girl came to me at the end of my dj set and told me that some of my records were similar to "Caravane Palace" I had never heard about Caravane Palace before that night. I googled it and wow ! that's how I discovered Electro swing ;) And it worked both ways... I was playing records in a club in Paris and Antoine - a member of Caravane Palace (he plays the trombone and machines) came to ask me what was the name of the underground swing house track I was playing !!! ;) The 1st Swing-House mix I've ever decided to play was for my wife's birthday (she loves jazz and vocals). I started spinning records in small venues and was lookin for happy music to mix. I was fed up with all that dark electronic music (minimal tech-house). Everybody was playin' the same sound and it is not such a happy music to play in small venues like Parisian Bars. If people want to listen to that kind of music they just have to go into dark clubs. The first time I played my swing house mix and saw people dancing on it I realized it was the sound of the yesteryears (1920) with the production of the next decade (2020). What a link ! There is also another musical link in my mixes. My parents are from Macedonia and Balkan Music is the 1st music I've ever heard, that's why you can hear Balkan Brass Bands mixed with New-Orleans Brass Bands in my mixes.
2. How did you get started djing?
2. I started djing when I was living in Brussels, It was 6 years ago, I was just scratching a lil' bit at the time... and many DJs and organizers were always at home, afterpartying and mixing, but I was just listening and watching then. The Last week before I left Brussels to go back to Paris, I switched off my cell phone for a week, and learnt to beatmatch... When I came back to Paris my son was born and then I started to mix minimal and tech-house every day for 2 years as a bedroom DJ and I was publishing my mixes at http://www.typoboy.fr/. And the 3rd year I started to mix in small venues in a duet project with Larry Genius called Ventilation Rotative. He was playin lots of Wind Instruments while I was spinning tech-house and minimal stuff. He plays the saxophone (Tenor and Alto), the Flute, toys instruments for kids and even instruments from his own invention. He's a kinda kwezi guy and a good showman hehehe. As I was a lil' bit shy at the beginning, people were rather lookin at his show, that's the way I started DJing...
3. I see that your page mentions the electro swing club de paris? could you tell me a bit more about that? and also the chicken swing?
3. One night I played that underground swing house set at Café des Sports. The program planner immediately asked me for a residency each 1st saturday of each month. This residency is a party called Chicken Swing NOT Chicken Wings. And a year later I asked DJ Tagada to find a place for a bigger party. He asked the owners of the boat where he had started his Balkan Beats Parties 5 years ago. The Electro Swing Club de Paris is the name of the party I organise on this famous and very beautiful chinese boat in Paris. Many famous french artists started there at http://www.damedecanton.com/ It is actually the first, the one and only party dedicated to Electro Swing in France. I was dreaming of a party where people could use fancy dressing, watch for a burlesque show and listen to electroswing bands and international DJs. Nick Hollywood (Freshly Squeezed) and Chris Tofu (Continental Drifts) were already running an Electro Swing Club in London, so we wanted to bring the same kind of music to the french people. We've launched the Electro Swing Club de Paris with my partners from bebop-swing (they organise Electro Swing events in Toulouse and Lyons)
4.What have been your biggest musical influences outside the genre?
4. I'm most influenced by electronic music but I've listened to many music before Electro Swing. My strong interest for music started when I was a child in the 80's, then I went backwards in time with the music of the 70's, the 60's, the 50's etc… until I discovered Robert Johnson the 1st and oldest phonographic recording of blues... and in the 90s I started listening to electronic music. I have also always been interested in the fusion of different kinds of music with electronic music. Mashups and things like that. It's a kind of encyclopaedic way of discovering music. I'm very curious and in music it's important for me to go beyond boundaries.
5. could you give us your top five electro-swing tracks?
1/ Der Dritte Raum's Swing Bop (which is a remix of their own trance track from the 90's!) is for me the ultimate electro swing track... I started to play that track a long time ago and I still play it. To me it's THE electro Swing anthem and the cornerstone of Electro Swing, it's a swing track produced like a house track.
2/ Hollywood Black and Tan from the amazing DJ Tavo (we are actually working together on a track)
3/ Bouffée d'Air from KKC Orchestra which is simply the best electro swing band for me.
http://www.myspace.com/lekkcorchestra4/ Why Don't You is a swing house remix of a jazz standard by Gramophonedzie (he's from ex-Yugoslavia like my parents!).
5/ And watch out for the incoming main track from Max Pashm's first electro swing EP, tha kinda track you listen and five minutes later you are whistling the melody while you're washin your dishes !!! Well... today machines do the dishes... but this one makes you whistle with your dishwasher ! :)
6. What can the world of electro-swing expect from the latter half of 2010?
6. Things are moving quickly. I've listened to "We No Speak Americano" something like 6 months ago but I had never imagined this track would be Number 1 in the UK ! and reach the Top Ten in the world. I've never played that track. As I was not playing Caravane Palace. Many people have theories about music evolution but nobody knows what is gonna happen with electro-swing. I know that I've play that music for a long time now because I love it and for all the reasons I've told you before. Some people think it is a subgenre that will die as quickly as it appeared (should die in 2 years). Some people think it's gonna be like Big Beat (3 main bands in 5 years and will be over in 10 years). Some others think it will be like the Balkan Beats scene (but a Balkan Beat track never reached the top ten). I think we just have to remember that Swing was here before us and will stay forever. It will maybe disappear from the musical horizon but it will never die. The most important thing is that electro swing does not belong to anybody but to each and all of us.
And to clean up the confusion between Tony Holster and TypoBoy
"Typoboy is a graphical project, as I am a graphic designer,
Typoboy is alive man ! he has serif for the feets, he walks, he shoot/spray ink against enemies, etc… it's an animated project and a book for graphic designers childs to learn typography and also typo goodies (like Pucca or hello Kitty)."
Tony Holster is at present planning a show with 2 bad bad girls for the launching of a new electro swing club somewhere in Europe! The show is named : Tony Holster and the Bad Bad Girls!
Thats all for today folks! We should have an interview upcoming with Odjbox soon and an ecclusive mix just for us guys! Im leaving off on travels on thursday for three weeks so hope to get it it up before then, but in any case expect a mammoth post in three weeks!
Tuesday 27 July 2010
Flapper5 - The launch
I should start with a bit of a welcome to you kind folks who have shown up here! It is after all you guys that stick about that will make this place the part of the community I hope it to be! So first up send in your tracks your mixes and all sorts! And in return you can expect allsorts form us here! Planned for the near future we have interviews, exclusive mixes and free track downloads. Also check out my shop to the right where I've started compiling all the electro swing essentials in one place! so no more random browsing to find something new and interesting!
I've been gone almost two weeks burrowing my way through the warren that is the internet to get some tasty treats to start us all off!
First up we have Odjbox. He's already moving the genre in twisting new directions, moving from the sample full swing hop to a more electronic originality that takes the 20's kicking and screaming into the age of computer music production. Check out underbelly at his soundcloud - http://soundcloud.com/odjbox - for a perfect example of this!
Hes kindly sent me over two of his best Special Art and The Witching Hour! Enjoy!
Odjbox - Special Art by Flapper5 blog
OR at mediafire
http://www.mediafire.com/?x9s5ll2o6xx7nmn
Odjbox - The Witching Hour by Flapper5 blog
OR
http://www.mediafire.com/?b6xzk65kh9b56zy
Next up I've managed to get hold of an already emerging giant of the scene in Benny Berigan firmly establishing himself with the amazing Caravan Adaption Ep. Get over to his soundcloud to sample it, you wont be disapointed! http://soundcloud.com/benny-berigan
Hes provided me with a wav of his newest remix, so check it out and leave us so comments here on what you think!
You and I (el bruhn remix) - http://www.mediafire.com/?pmgiq9yi3qvudax
Moving on to what id call our very close cousins in the balkans ive got something I really had to include here even if its an electro swing blog!The Balkan hotsteppers are mixing gypsy and hip hop seamlessly in a balkan mash up theyve come up with these wonders, Intergalactic B-boy stealing the show for me! The boys from belgium, SamRaban and TypsyGypsy have sent me over download links for much of the stuff they've got going on at there soundcloud http://soundcloud.com/balkan-1
Intergalactic B-boy - http://www.divshare.com/download/11872407-89e
Demonix - http://www.divshare.com/download/3601196-2b2
Rio Loco- Toulouse - http://www.divshare.com/download/4854623-f88
Balkan Bange - http://www.divshare.com/download/2747929-468
Last but not least ive got some great videos to share to you, shared to me from Nick Hollywood over at Freshly Squeezed. (check out the website at http://www.freshlysqueezed.co.
Taking the spirit of electro swing itself, cutting up parts of the past and putting them back together again with a touch of modernity these music videos do exactly that, old black and white cartoons mix and mashed with allsorts and music. So check them out for yourselves!
The Gasworks gang - Jem Stone - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qXOiGzdc8c
Teleparp - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtvxPQilEIk
Well thats all for this launch post!
Look out for more in the near future!
Flapper5
Wednesday 7 July 2010
White Mink : Black Cotton
Whilst I'm busy spending my time searching the net for new music I thought I would bring you something to pour your time over! White Mink:Black Cotton has been called "Electro-Swing's first landmark moment" by Mixmag and its easy to see why. Such a landmark moment is therefore a great place to start this blog's
Whilst I'm busy spending my time searching the net for new music I thought I would bring you something to pour your time over! White Mink:Black Cotton has been called "Electro-Swing's first landmark moment" by Mixmag and its easy to see why. Such a landmark moment is therefore a great place to start this blog's
Electro-Swing adventures!
Check out the 30 minute free sample mix of the album!
Various - WHITE MINK 30 min album sampler mix by FreshlySqueezed
Check out the 30 minute free sample mix of the album!
Various - WHITE MINK 30 min album sampler mix by FreshlySqueezed
The album put together by Nick Holywood of Freshly Squeezed fame (along with El Nino and Lady Kamikaze of London's fine Black Cotton and Lady Luck clubs) exists in the form of a seamless juxtaposition between long forgotten classics of the original era and the contemporary movement they've inspired.
It really acts as a who's who of the genre which makes it a great introduction for all those who've had the slice of a few tracks and want a bigger piece of the pie. Strasbourg's Lyre Le Temps present us with a House inspired Hold The Night that really makes the collection if I have to pick favourites. The more hip hop influenced tracks are also in show with an excellent take on the genre from Energie Du Verre with Jitterbug that really reinvents things.
If your out and about in the UK you can look out for several festival appearances coming up at Bestival and
Big Chill. You can also check out Electro Swing every third Saturday of the month at The Book Club in Shoreditch and White Mink will be every third Friday of the month in Brighton from September.
You Can Buy the album here:
Also check out:
If you've got anything to add get in touch! Leave us a comment or send an email over to: flapper5blog@gmail.com
Tuesday 6 July 2010
Hey all and Welcome to Flapper5, (Flappers was taken),
This is a new blog committed to searching out the latest in electro-swing and all styles thereabouts.
After finding that I'm constantly making my friends listen to the likes of Parov Stelar and Movits! , I feel that the next step in sharing the music I enjoy is here with all of you!
Don't let that fool you into thinking that the well established names are all I'll be posting up here though! I'm Dedicated to using my free time to trawl the net, looking for the best of the unknown for fellow electro-swing enthusiasts.
I'm never going to be posting Copywrighted tracks for download. So don't expect any big name free tracks! However I to get in touch with artists and hopefully provide some free promotional downloads with their blessing for you!
The aim here is to not to share my tastes though! Its to help the artists too, by making another platform from which they can reach out! Its also to help promoters advertise their nights to get kids in the clubs! Its all about Spreading the Swing!
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