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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.