Swanky Tunes Biography

Leave your comment about the celebrity biography Swanky Tunes Smolensk quartet Swanky Tunes was almost impossible. Thanks to his extraordinary perseverance, Vadim Shpak, Dmitry Burykin, Stanislav Zaitsev and Vadim Bagdasaryan achieved not only recognition of the stiff capital critics, but were able to find their listeners. Swanky Tunes - a group that they really waited, a new face of Russian electronic music: lively, unusually positive, in some places romantic - navigable, but completely original and peremptorly dance.

Their bright, melodic tracks have the ability to instantly cheer up, and rockers will envy energy. The story of Swanky Tunes originates in the X in Smolensk. The guys, preferring analogue rarity, have already become a collection, synthesizers missed through the vocoder voices - reminiscent of a forty -fingered Eiffel 65 and Beasty Boys times by Intergalactic played electrics, squeezing out all kinds of creaking sounds from the entire armada of synthesizers and laying them on “broken” rhythmic drawings.

The creativity of the group X takes the listener during the classic hits Yazoo, Ultravox and Human League. Time passed, the music changed. At that time, Fatboy Slim charged all the powerful beautiful waves of the Big Bit and Swanky Tunes decided to try their hand in a new direction. The time of “broken rhythms” begins, crunching plates and samples from the xs.

Pipes, assertive drive of a living bass of a guitar and a peppy rhythm - all in the best traditions of the genre. No less emotions cause live performances by Swanky Tunes. The group was impressed by the Swedish musician Jay Jay Johanson, with whom Swanky Tunes performed in the summer of the year in St. Petersburg at the Stereo-School festival. The team caused a real splash on the Ravi "Eastern Bunch", where it played for a thousandth crowd.

In Moscow, the group first appeared in the m year, participating in the global warming festival. According to them, Swanky Tunes performances were one of the best in the whole tour and they were glad that it was this team that opened the famous Fort Dance to the Swanky Tunes style, representatives of the French scene - DAFT PUNK and AIR - with their home studios, deliberately primitive sound and philosophy D.

Do it Yourself. As a result, unique music, and with a whipping, clinging rhythm and with unexpected melodic moves, starting a dance floor with a floor. The musicians began to record their debut album, and the very first tracks immediately found their hot admirers.

Incredibly, the fact - the children already ready the album for almost three years offered various domestic labels, but cautious representatives of the record - the industry did not want to risk it - the material provided to them seemed too informal. The result was not long in coming. Capital musical critics literally grabbed the Swanky Tunes, on the move, announcing the team of the Russian Daft Punk.

The magazine Rolling Stone writes in his review of the album: “Swanky from DAFT Punk imitators out of their own thinking musicians who can move the listener to another reality, where the world is natural, beautifully, is beautiful.” The album is hung on the label of the European level electric shius, but with the same success it can be called warm fireflaces, where the barrel 4 by 4 tacts is adjacent in tracks with guitar bass and electrophress passages.

The year brought Swanky Tunes and the first awards. The group was recognized as the discovery of the year and their album according to Muzzone. And at the award ceremony, the Rusiyan Dance Music Awards, the first professional Russian prize in the field of dance music, the Swanky Tunes reward was awarded the “Best Musical Collective of the Year” reward, Swanky Tunes showed real themselves - spiritualized, but unobtrusive, new representatives of the electronic domestic scene, and this will not be stared with this.

MEGA-STARS editors.