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There's a subgenre of electronic music I only recently became aware of, though it's been around since about 2006ish, and it's called skweee... It's origins are in Sweden & Finland, though people are now doing their own takes on it throughout the rest of Scandinavia, Europe, and the U.S. Might be described as a funky electro/hip-hop hybrid, typically without vocals. Kind of hard to pin down in words, and can vary pretty greatly stylistically. As a fan of modern tunes feeling bored with most hip-hop, techno, and the over-rated dubstep, skweee kind of feeds on my love of 80s electrofunk a la midnight starr, etc, but with a super contemporary feel.

 

I'm diggin it to say the least. Here's some good introductory selections:

 

 

Daniel Savio, supposed founder

 

 

 

 

Mesak

 

 

 

Melkeveien vs Nino remixed by Slugabed

 

 

 

Fulgeance

 

 

 

Randy Barracuda

 

 

 

Boss Kite

 

 

 

lack of skweee on youtube really, had to do lots of blog searching/downloading to get into it.

enjoy, should it appeal to you

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That sounds good. Scandinavians typically get it right when it comes to music (Abba being the huge exception).

 

Are you familiar with chiptunes? I have something like 30,000 of those...there's a lot of filler but the funk is there if you're willing to dig for it.

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hmmm no shai, haven't heard of chiptunes but i'll be give some of it a listen later.... this skweee stuff is similar as far as there being a bit of filler, but the funky shit can hit quite hard (without ever seeming to take itself too seriously, which i like about it).

 

That track by the french Fulgeance that I posted up there is sounding awesome to me, been a couple weeks... At least after the 30 seconds of weirdness.

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nice tunes viper. v.c. is doin it nicely, this was the tune of his i heard on some compilation, came on again last night while freshly baked. i bugged out heavily. still sounding good today, but definitely one of those particularly dank-activated tunes.

 

 

and skweee doesn't seem like it should be at all labeled as rave music. just scandinavians drinking heavily and gettin funky.

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this shit's existence makes perfect sense to me. like i said i find hip hop cheesy and tired for the most part, techno/dubstep/"rave music" has always been too mechanical for me, and as much as i love old funk/electrofunk, modern shit does have a certain appeal. So here's some loose, funky, freaky, electronic shit, often with the bounce and slump of hip hop, and i'm quite down with a lot of it.

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