Kissey on: Skweee

November 22, 2007

(ok, only a half re-post this time )

 

map of Sweden and Finland

 

There is a small group of producers out here in the northern-europe, to be exact: mainly in Sweden and Finland (marked red on the map) that are doing a genre called Skweee.

I don’t know how to explain the music better than a romantic, bitter-sweet-electro in a tempo that is more than close to hiphop.

I am a huge sucker for polysaws, I am a huge fan of bitter-sweet-romance. When I first heard or should I type ”experienced” the Dabrye ft Wajeed song Jorgy. I lost track of time. I found myself awakening, when the music was over, from eyeing a wall, closing my mouth that had been paralysed with aah. I hadn’t heard music cry so beautiful in a long, long time…maybe never.

When I listen to Skweee I find this feeling. The sense of songs that are telling me minitales about lonely dancers, about love that can be found but not reached, about finding beauty and ok:ness in the industrial cityscape that you are surrounded by. Finding something heartbeat-earthy in steal. There are 2 labels going strong with this style, a third is one it’s way:

Harmönia and Flogsta Danshall

In Finland it’s becoming big, they have Skweee festivals, skweee radio called “Skweee-like-a-pig” You can say that Skweee is the offbeat/ dillaish-guy’s non-offbeatish scandinavian cousine. Got it? Lol. Some places it’s not at all similar. But then suddenly you can feel and hear things that belongs in old school hip-hop, old school breakdance and lives in the same soundscapes where Detroit and Kraftwerk decide to spend their honeymoon. Sometimes Skweee can be felt as if it goes a little to deep. But I most say that I’m liking it. Old Swedish saying: the taste is like the behind (everyone’s is shaped different)

Check out:

Nation of Skweee there you will find the today known community of Skweee.

Daniel Savio the last track “We call it Skweee” an anthem.

PJVM listen to the secod track shattered glass blues

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Posted by Kissey | Filed Under Music 

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2 Responses to “Kissey on: Skweee”

  1. Tarik on November 27th, 2007 11:25 am

    Nice stuff Kissey. I dig all of the music.

  2. Tarik on November 27th, 2007 6:05 pm

    Check out the wikipedia entry on Skweee.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skweee

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