Skweee

In a world with the prospect of Rick Santorum becoming the next American president (it’s probably not going happen, but there still is a chance – at least Bachmann is out of the game) we all have the need for soulful tunes to cheer us up. Luckily Scandinavian Skweee has exactly that. In December the – more

Thanks to founders of the label Laton Anna Ceeh and Franz Pomassl, modern soul musician Mesak has been in town a couple of times now. I’ve always wanted to sit down with him and have a little chitchat about the music he produces, but each and every time one or the other of us was – more

Even though the name sounds like another weird genre invention to generate some digital hype, it’s not. Skweee is actually the name of an obscure genre mix-up of funk, r’n’b, hip-hop and all kinds of freaky 80ies electro sounds and newer glitchy sounds. There has never been a huge blog hype around skwee and the – more

A revealing documentary about a new and unique subgenre from Scandinavia has been put together, entitled We Are Skweee. Sounding like a hybrid of 8-bit and IDM music, Skweee music was best described by Clash magazine as “Scandinavian R&B”. Skweee was founded on the use of vintage synthesisers; the name apparently comes from the process – more