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Music Subreddit of the Week #1 - /r/Swinghouse
Every week, we're gonna feature a musical subreddit, with the help of /r/subredditoftheday. For the first week, let me introduce you :
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An old café, between the wars. Surrounded by the cigs' smokes, an old gipsy takes his old faithful guitar to sing the nostalgia and the cheerfulness of his ancestors. A women swing choir with a bad mic soon join him, followed by a big, fat, electro house beat. Cue crazy crowd, it's r/swinghouse.
Could you describe swinghouse in one short sentence for people unfamiliar with this type of music ?
Swinghouse is exactly what the genre states! It's a fusion of swing music with the popular elements of (sometimes electronic) house music.
When did it begin ? Could you link to a tune defining of the genre ?
Swinghouse has been around since the early 90's and has experienced pretty slow growth until to what I believe was the tipping point in '09 with the sudden burst of new artists, albums, and compilations being released.
A great place to start would be with Caravan Palace - Suzy. Another popular tune that is easy to get into is Parov Stelar - Libella Swing
jebuschrast in a comment provides for a great list of music also here.
How the hell could a musical style evolve from so different genres ? Seriously, 1920-ragtime/swing with 1990-house ?Is there any historic precedent of mixing styles separated by a so wide cultural gap ?
That's the beauty of music! It is constantly evolving and changing. Even just taking a look at the list of music related subreddits shows this true. All genres come from experimentation. The artist likes it, their friends like it, then it becomes popular.
As far as mixing styles goes, this happens all the time. Hell, that's the main point of /r/mashups (where I recently discovered this gem Cee-lo Green vs The Fratellis - Fuck Henrieatta. Another extreme example (which I absolutely adore) is this genre called /r/symphonicblackmetal where the heavier elements of metal music is fused with very heavenly/calming music. I actually started another popular fusion subreddit in the past that is also extremely popular in today's music and can be found at /r/electrohouse
Why did you start r/swinghouse ?
I have this music 'problem'. I'll download a bunch of random albums with nearly no relation... Over time, I'll stumble over my music library and decide to randomly pick one. I came across a swinghouse album (sorry, don't remember) and just loved it. I then searched for more, but it only came back with a limited amount. I started the subreddit in order to foster the growth of this genre mainly for my own selfish reasons of finding similar tracks!
afrael asks: What are your plans for the future of the subreddit? (i.e. are you planning any changes to the looks, rules or content of the subreddit?).
btw, great work, I adore swinghouse, it's awesome to discover new songs/bands on reddit :).
Great question. I'm actually looking for help on beefing up the sidebar along with some minor CSS mods. If anyone has any suggestions, feel free to PM! Also, I'm searching for a reddit alien logo for the page.
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Any other thoughts you want to share with us to close this interview ?
I just wanted to give a quick shout out to this thread on r/videos which helped to popularize /r/swinghouse recently! (Playlist)
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Feel free to add more question for him, he'll be around. Thanks a lot CarlinT and /r/subredditoftheday ! Lots of swing for you !