roSorry to seem out of it quite recently, I've been waiting on somethings to come to fruition that sadly didnt happen! For future reference im hoping to get something sorted for a post every Saturday! so you can go straight from reading this into listening to the great radio show Bart & Baker are presenting every Saturday evening at 21:00 GMT on http://www.jazzradio.fr/.
Also make sure yu check out my shop on the right hand side of the page to check their new compilation CD!
Talking of Bart & Baker, I managed to catch up with and persuade them to give there views on the last year and the year ahead! It might be February, and many of you might of already broken your new year resolutions, but hopefully anticipation for the year ahead is still in the air!
To give it the new year flavour, heres a mix of some of my favourite tracks of the last year so you have something to listen to whilst you read throught he interview!
Swing Set by longland
We all know that with a new year comes not only fresh opportunities but a chance to reflect on the past year. The past year has been the year of electro swing with it sweeping into the mainstream with some amazing tracks. But was your personal highlight to the year?and also the lowest point if you have one?
2010 has been an outstanding year for us. We had our first Cd released (Swing Party) and we did our first serious production with the Slim Gaillard track as part of Electro Swing III, we played at Bestival, produced an excellent party with the Correspondents. We have launch our first radio show. We feel really lucky but most of all totally thankful to all the people that came to our parties, chose to work with us and obviously liked our sound. On the other side of life, Bart lost one of his relative, so maybe that would be the lowest part of the year for us...
So sorry to hear about that. But good to hear about the many highlights! In your many shows, can you pick out any tracks that you couldn't of been without last year?and possibly a favourite?
Mmmm difficult...but maybe the track Douai Madison from 6u5, because it leaded to a good friendship with him. We're big fans of Swing Republic too. Very intelligent production.
What other dj's and producers did you feel had a good 2010?
I think that the whole Electro Swing scene had quite a lot of fun last year. Most of the Djs and producers have made better sets and records than the year before. Take Club de Belugas and Tape Five, they grow better at each release.
Now in January we have already begun the new year with AlgorhythmiKs brilliant jump for swing, but what else do you think we can expect from 2011 in terms of new music and artists? also events?
Someone I know had the chance to listen to the new Caravan Palace, and it's supposed to be even better than the first album, which was already awsome. Also we have some productions still awaiting to be released - it takes time because of the usual copyright issues. So maybe we'll be part of the exciting stuff. In terms of events, that's what's exciting about them..you never really know what will happen !
Do you have anything exciting planned for the new year?
Our agenda is already pretty booked. Our residencies (at Moulin Rouge & Balajo), a new Pin-up themed party at the iconic Alcazar club in Paris and very soon, we'll unveil the new BAL SWING line up.
Thats all very exciting to hear! Im looking forward to hearing more about this new pin-up themed night! Im sure like everyone else reading here I'm very excited to hear about the new line up!
Thats all for this week but check in next Saturday for a bit of a track exclusive straight from Tavo!
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