I really wasn’t going to do this… but having just played the first incarnation of my first and only mashup attempt Jeep Jockey Jumparound to a friend (and jazz musician) to a…
Author: <span>Andy</span>
It’s easy to lose sight of the reasons I started this blog. One key reason was simply to share details of some of the music that I’ve been playing, for…
I recently did a few experiments with The Swinger – a neat little piece of Python code which does a little analysis / time stretching / distortion on any track you…
I began this post with the intention of putting together a few quick factors that I take into account when choosing music. Inevitably, it began to turn into something of…
For all my stance on using non-swing music, and on what I think of electro-swing, I am curious about some of the interesting overlaps and experiments with old and new…
I often say that music can make or break a swing dance event. Sound quality can do the same. We play a lot of old recordings, and the sound quality…
Welcome to one of the much debated topics in today’s Lindy communities – what should we play for Lindy? Or, for that matter, for swing dancing in general? Swing? Or…
You never quite know where something’s going to lead you. I fired up Spotify the other day, and it prompted me to look at someone’s blues playlist (to my shame,…