Swing Diskoteka

Various Artists - Swing Diskoteka: Press Sheet

     

In London, Paris or Berlin – people are swinging again. But as the youth of today has exchanged the gramophone for the turntable, the DJs are the new conférenciers and they proffer electro swing. Tribute is being paid to the classics and masters of their art like Duke Ellington, Fred Astaire, Ella Fitzgerald or Bing Crosby, who are getting sampled and dusted. Often you can hear the odd klezmer clarinete or guitar licks a la Django Reinhardt - Jewish and Gypsy swing. Glamour is returning to the techno catacombs. Burlesque beats. Even dubsteppers need melodies from time to time. But Swing Diskoteka also works while cruising with the windows down. From a music history point of view it’s exciting to see how the different scenes are mixing now. This is even educational, as marginalized or half-forgotten music styles like klezmer, gypsy or now swing are playfully being woven into 2011’s sound carpet. Old school stylers meet rave kids in the Swing Diskoteka. The joie de vivre of swing meets the energy of electro. Finally.