{"id":1835,"date":"2012-11-29T16:09:01","date_gmt":"2012-11-29T21:09:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nowthissound.com\/ntsib\/?p=1835"},"modified":"2012-11-29T16:09:01","modified_gmt":"2012-11-29T21:09:01","slug":"an-electro-swing-sample-platter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nowthissound.com\/ntsib\/2012\/11\/29\/an-electro-swing-sample-platter\/","title":{"rendered":"An Electro Swing Sample Platter"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Europeans looking in on this post are probably laughing at how behind-the-times the topic is, but living in the United States – a country so in love with its musical output that it will only embrace half of Britain’s musical export and a quarter of the musical export of our neighbor to the north, Canada – and being someone who doesn’t often warm up to electronic and dance music, being introduced to electro swing was a whole new thing for me. And I’m going to guess it’s a brand new thing for most of you reading this.<\/p>\n

The discovery, for me, came by way of the video game-obsessive male who shares my apartment – i.e., my 18-year-old son. As a video game-obsessive, his musical intake centers mostly on – wait for it – music from video games. And he discovered his first electro swing artist via a fan-made video of Team Fortress 2 character, the Spy. The background music in the video was from Austrian DJ Parov Stelar, who spruces up old swing samples with effects and beats.<\/p>\n

“Catgroove” – Parov Stelar
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