Talk:Electro swing/Archive 1

Origins
I think Nicolas Repac with his album "Swing-swing" (2004) can be added to the list of pioneers.

But he's not widely known, even in France ... ^^'

Best regards.

GoogiDoogi (talk) 04:18, 20 June 2014 (UTC)

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Requested move
Swing house and electro-swing → Electro Swing – Name needs to be changed from swing house to Electro Swing as Electro Swing is the main genre, whereas swing house is a sub genre Possa61 (talk) 11:18, 14 October 2011 (UTC)


 * Moved - Move appears to be non-controversial. Alpha_Quadrant    (talk)  01:48, 23 October 2011 (UTC)

It looks like the citations requested have been added. Mkantonelli1 (talk) 09:01, 12 February 2012 (UTC)

Rm all links, see External links before adding
All the below links have been removed as people have been treating this encyclopaedic article as a directory listing, which it is not. Check External links and then only add links that are clearly pertinent. If you are unsure, then do not add the link. — billinghurst  sDrewth  06:42, 1 September 2013 (UTC)

Ancestors
Shouldn't Taco and Lou Bega be named as two important ancestors or pioneers to the genre? Both had million-selling hits, and how many of those does electroswing have so far, after all? --87.151.28.164 (talk) 17:47, 13 May 2012 (UTC)

The Jive Bunny records deserve recognition here as well. They were really early (starting in 1989, right in the middle of the Second Summer of Love), highly popular ("Swing the Mood" alone sold over a million copies, reached #1 in many European weekly charts, and even made a dent in the US weekly charts) and musically they have core elements of electro-swing: the sampling and mashing-up of swing tunes, and above all the prominent addition of a fairly consistent, heavy drum beat with a two-feel and (very unusual in actual pre-WWII and WWII swing) a strong backbeat. Thanks partly to that beat, they have the self-aware kitschiness that later electro-swing tracks took and made more archly hipsterish. The Jive Bunny source records are more often early rock and roll than swing (and there's some '70s light-orchestra pop in the mix as well) but there's plenty of swing on tracks like "Let's Swing Again", and of course the most iconic Jive Bunny sample is the "In the Mood" excerpt that begins "Swing the Mood". RW Dutton (talk) 19:50, 30 March 2017 (UTC) The Wikipedia community encourages you to be bold in updating pages. Don't worry too much about making honest mistakes—they're likely to be found and corrected quickly. If you're not sure how editing works, check out how to edit a page, or use the sandbox to try out your editing skills. New contributors are always welcome. You don't even need to log in (although there are many reasons you might want to). Toddst1 (talk) 20:41, 30 March 2017 (UTC)
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This article is horrendously outdated
As a fan of this genre, I can tell you that it is woefully incomplete. In recent years, not only has it expanded to events ranging from UK's Boomtown Festival to America's Electric Forest via the Hangar Stage, but it has also molded and blended with glitch-hop, ghetto funk, and drum 'n' bass. None of this is touched upon, nor are many of the current proliferators of the genre listed here. See: Chicken Brothers, Eugene the Cat, Duke Skellington, Vourteque, and My Pet Monster (some of his work is funk, but much is swing/neovintage based).

This doesn't even touch on the events in America, such as Los Angeles' Swingtronic, Chicago's ROUGE, NYC's Speakeasy Sessions, or Montreal's Speakeasy Electro Swing series, which even made it to Mexico City. Reading this article, one wouldn't even know this genre exists in the United States. It seems that every attempt to update this article gets shot down by people who don't know anything about it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by FrankFitzgerald (talk • contribs) 15:02, 28 December 2016 (UTC)
 * See below commentary below on WP:NOR. Toddst1 (talk) 15:27, 5 June 2017 (UTC)

No original research and promotion
This article has attracted a lot of fans over the past few years who genuinely want to contribute to a good article on the subject, however it has been plagued by folks adding their own opinions and observations as well as spam. As it stands now, after ripping out all the observations, spam and opinions, the article is a mere stub and it is sorely in need of improvement.

Your constructive contributions to this article are both needed and welcome, but please ensure that any additions are well-cited from reliable sources and that any external links comply with wikipedia's policy on external links. Toddst1 (talk) 15:25, 5 June 2017 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 26 February 2018
Yolanda Be Cool had a notable hit single, but has not continued to make Electro Swing music.

The article misses many significant artists within the scene. Notable artists to add:

Swingrowers Bart & Baker Gentlemen Callers Dutty Moonshine Tape Five Duke Skellington Swing Republic Sound Nomaden Peps Show Boys Rosantique Marcella Puppini Kiwistar Alice Francis Klischée Kitten & the Hip Jamie Berry Phos Toni Wolfgang Lohr Extra Medium DJ Dunya C@ in the H@t Djmrautomatic (talk) 18:04, 26 February 2018 (UTC)
 * Red information icon with gradient background.svg Not done: as you have not cited reliable sources to back up your request, without which no information should be added to, or changed in, any article. - Arjayay (talk) 19:10, 26 February 2018 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 28 February 2020
ProleteR as a notable artist. Kwihad (talk) 21:04, 28 February 2020 (UTC)
 * He does not have a Wikipedia article yet. – Thjarkur (talk) 21:49, 28 February 2020 (UTC)