[Script Info] Title: [Events] Format: Layer, Start, End, Style, Name, MarginL, MarginR, MarginV, Effect, Text Dialogue: 0,0:00:02.47,0:00:03.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We’ll set the drums first. Dialogue: 0,0:00:06.00,0:00:08.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You’ll have to get the mic from the studio… Dialogue: 0,0:00:13.06,0:00:18.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then some effects and stuff. We’ll see what comes of it… Dialogue: 0,0:00:19.44,0:00:23.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A few years ago a brand new genre of music was born: skweee. Dialogue: 0,0:00:23.98,0:00:27.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A genre created by a music collective in Stockholm. Dialogue: 0,0:00:27.17,0:00:31.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was skweee long before I heard of skweee. Dialogue: 0,0:00:31.08,0:00:38.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Three months into it I was told about skweee and decided that it was what I wanted to do. Dialogue: 0,0:00:45.96,0:00:49.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The name, where does it come from? Dialogue: 0,0:00:49.05,0:01:01.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The word squeezed… You squeezed your synthesizers. You had few instruments, low quality stuff. Dialogue: 0,0:01:12.80,0:01:20.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The spelling was just to make it look more fun. And two e’s weren’t loud enough. Dialogue: 0,0:01:23.52,0:01:24.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is Pavan, Dialogue: 0,0:01:24.75,0:01:25.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Daniel Savio, Dialogue: 0,0:01:25.99,0:01:27.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Mrs Qeada… Dialogue: 0,0:01:27.20,0:01:29.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and Rigas Den Andre. Dialogue: 0,0:01:29.39,0:01:34.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They’ve made skweee into concept which even exists in record stores, Dialogue: 0,0:01:34.66,0:01:36.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but only in Finland for the time being. Dialogue: 0,0:01:36.99,0:01:39.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But how new is it really? Dialogue: 0,0:01:39.01,0:01:45.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In my music all the sounds and effects sound old because I use a lot of old equipment, Dialogue: 0,0:01:46.90,0:01:51.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but the music and rhythms couldn’t be made back then. Dialogue: 0,0:01:54.44,0:01:58.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Like with all genres there is a starting point… Dialogue: 0,0:01:59.45,0:02:01.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Cat Stevens… Dialogue: 0,0:02:01.81,0:02:07.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Cat Stevens made a song shortly before changing name and retiring, Dialogue: 0,0:02:07.09,0:02:09.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,called “Was Dog A Dougnut” Dialogue: 0,0:02:09.19,0:02:12.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which was a classic and some sort of proto-skweee. Dialogue: 0,0:02:18.46,0:02:22.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Can you make new music without being retro? Dialogue: 0,0:02:22.27,0:02:33.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don’t think so. Even if you have a brand new sound you can always find links backward. Dialogue: 0,0:02:33.08,0:02:40.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It’s a bit silly when you think about it — you can go “Yeah, but he’s using drums!” Dialogue: 0,0:02:40.83,0:02:43.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You can always be nitpicky like that. Dialogue: 0,0:02:43.27,0:02:50.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But you can make very new music, with few reference points. Dialogue: 0,0:02:50.29,0:02:55.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When you look back you can find a song and say that it sounds really 1997. That must have been new at the time. Dialogue: 0,0:02:59.74,0:03:10.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If it feels dated it has to have been new back in the day. So you can make new music today too. Dialogue: 0,0:03:19.84,0:03:21.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That was sick! Dialogue: 0,0:03:21.78,0:03:23.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yeah, it was good for a little while… Dialogue: 0,0:03:23.23,0:03:24.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yeah, for a little while… Dialogue: 0,0:03:25.62,0:03:28.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But it was definitely new!