Stickem — Let Skweee­dom Ring! mix. Get it here: http://skweee.com/let-skweeedom-ring

Skweee com­bines sim­ple synth leads and basslines with funk, r’n’b or soul-like rhythms, over­all ren­der­ing a stripped-down funky sound. The name Skweee was coined by Daniel Savio, one of the orig­i­na­tors of the emerg­ing sound. The name refers to the use of vin­tage syn­the­siz­ers in the pro­duc­tion process, where the aim is to “squeeze out” the most inter­est­ing sounds pos­si­ble.

- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skweee

Or slightly less prosaic:

Skweee, or “Scan­di­na­vian Con­flict R ‘n’ B” to give it it’s full title, is a genre and a move­ment that’s emerged around the (respec­tively Swedish and Finnish) labels Flogsta Dan­shall and Har­mo­nia. Sur­fac­ing mostly on 7” vinyl, the sound is a mis­match of booga­loo electro(nics) and mod­ern, Timbaland/Neptunes-style glitch/bling, seem­ingly cre­ated on equip­ment avail­able well before you’d ever heard of Timmy and Phar­rell. Fuzzy-felt 8-bit synths and crunchy, bit-crushed drum hits dry-hump your ears like Rod­ney Jerkins try­ing to craft Bey­once a hit with only an N.E.S. and a mini­disc to hand.

- http://www.clashmusic.com/feature/inside-skweee

This mix show­cases many faces of skweee, from its more synth-pop ori­ented styles to electro-funkin’ licks.

TRACKLIST
Mrs. Qeada (SWE) Dreama­tis Per­sonea
Melkeveien (NO) Fan­tôme
Claws Costeau (FIN) Cold Smokin’ Tofu
Boss Kite (UK) CMYK
V.C. (FIN) 30:00
Ricky Lemon (DEN) Copen­hagen
Belly­belle (USA) Super­cell Strut
LaZ­ER­crotch (USA) Neon Dude’s House Party
Spar­tan Lover (FIN) Zbieg
Wankers United (FRA) Super­fönky
Hybakusha (ESP) Lebannon79
Kid Logic (USA) Poly­ester Shirt
Miramichi (CA) Leggo My Ego
Limo­nious (SWE) Degen­er­ate
Beem (SWE) Automan
Easy and The Cen­ter of the Uni­verse (NO) Yazid
Daniel Savio (SWE) Peo­ple Die Love Don’t
Rigas (SWE) feat. Markis Sage (SWE/FIN) Love Over Gold
Stickem (USA) This Thing Is On – Beat­bully (NO) remix
Mesak (FIN) Sly Film­fes­ti­val (Sotchi Mon­tage)
Sprut­bass (NO) Hot Water Dirty Pits
Randy Bar­racuda (FIN/NL) Overnight Romancin’
Mack­aper (SWE) Tale of Tale of Tales – Joxaren (SWE) remix
Slow Hand Motëm (CA) feat. Pubs Panseno (USA) They Lied

Nice video.

Kerim Khan — Sea­side Ren­dezvous (Seaside-Dub) (320k)

Binary Enter­tain­ment came up with this genre tag called “Dreamwave”. So this one here would prob­a­bly end up in that cat­e­gory if made in year 2009? Check the Binary blog reg­u­larly for get­ting grips with this whole dreamwave thing. Here’s a quick intro­duc­tion to clar­ify what this genre tag might mean:

Tak­ing mod­ern dance pro­duc­tion tech­niques and forms, and apply­ing them to clas­sic, great songs. This isnt any­thing new, in our minds two of the big­ger alter­na­tive records of the last year or so were dreamwave, Cut Copy and Empire of the Sun. Those guys are mak­ing great dreamwave music. It makes peo­ple feel young, pure and sim­ple. And that’s what this music is all about. Often times peo­ple asso­ciate this music with the 80’s, or just being a fad in the end­less cycle of past decades’ reemer­gence in pop culture…but that’s all just a side effect for what it’s really about. Dreamwave is about nos­tal­gia. It’s about hear­ing some­thing that makes you think of the last day of school, get­ting off the school bus and run­ning through bright green lawns that’ll be your play­ground for the rest of sum­mer. It just so hap­pens that we’re all kids of the 80’s. We feel good hear­ing it. We feel at peace, one with inno­cence. We remem­ber what it was like when emo­tions made us feel des­per­a­tion, like every­day was the most impor­tant day of our lives. Before we’ve grown up and moved on to the real world, become jaded by the respon­si­bilites and pres­sures of a more adult life in the 21st cen­tury, we lived in a time of bright skies and big dreams. Dreamwave is music that makes you remem­ber what it was like to fall in love.

- Binary blog: The Dreamwave Hour 2

Also,

Dreamwave itself is kind of an amal­gam of dream­pop and new wave music. That’s where it started and it blos­somed from there. Pitch­fork uses the term and ABC News did a lit­tle fea­ture dur­ing South by South­west last year. We coined it and we’re try­ing to cham­pion it.

- http://blogs.laweekly.com/westcoastsound/synthful/binary-entertainment/

Was talk­ing about how close Mud­dy­loop is regard­ing to authen­tic 80s style elec­tro­funk. Then I found TOPLESS and it didn’t cross my mind that Vamos a Bailar could be 00s. Very con­vinc­ing / authen­tic freestyle + italo –com­bi­na­tion. For more, head to the Top­less myspace. You can fol­low them on twit­ter too. Got to have this!

Just in case this was for­got­ten or you haven’t seen the orig­i­nal video. Feel good despite bit heavy lyri­cal theme.

Lin­dell­tron­ics — Avar­rus­funk (320k)

Tommi Lin­dell is a syn­the­sizer wiz­ard of some sorta from the younger gen­er­a­tion in Fin­land. He has had his fin­ger­prints on many things since early 80s through com­pos­ing, arrang­ing, pro­duc­ing or just by play­ing instru­ments on many many Finnish albums. This Lin­dell­tron­ics thing is more or less a project which has ele­ments of humor innit. “Avar­rus­funk” is nev­er­the­less a great instru­men­tal electro-funk cut from Trendibu­umi album (Trendibu­umi is a Finnish word mean­ing some­thing like trend craze).

The older gen­er­a­tion of Finnish syn­thy heroes? Erkki Kuren­niemi and Esa Koti­lainen are per­haps the biggest names.