We’ll set the drums first.
You’ll have to get the mic from the studio…
And then some effects and stuff. We’ll see what comes of it…
A few years ago a brand new genre of music was born: skweee.
A genre created by a music collective in Stockholm.
I was skweee long before I heard of skweee.
Three months into it I was told about skweee and decided that it was what I wanted to do.
The name, where does it come from?
The word squeezed… You squeezed your synthesizers. You had few instruments, low quality stuff.
The spelling was just to make it look more fun. And two e’s weren’t loud enough.
This is Pavan,
Daniel Savio,
Mrs Qeada…
and Rigas Den Andre.
They’ve made skweee into concept which even exists in record stores,
but only in Finland for the time being.
But how new is it really?
In my music all the sounds and effects sound old because I use a lot of old equipment,
but the music and rhythms couldn’t be made back then.
Like with all genres there is a starting point…
Cat Stevens…
Cat Stevens made a song shortly before changing name and retiring,
called “Was Dog A Dougnut”
which was a classic and some sort of proto-skweee.
Can you make new music without being retro?
I don’t think so. Even if you have a brand new sound you can always find links backward.
It’s a bit silly when you think about it — you can go “Yeah, but he’s using drums!”
You can always be nitpicky like that.
But you can make very new music, with few reference points.
When you look back you can find a song and say that it sounds really 1997. That must have been new at the time.
If it feels dated it has to have been new back in the day. So you can make new music today too.
That was sick!
Yeah, it was good for a little while…
Yeah, for a little while…
But it was definitely new!