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