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AIRMILES 006EP
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Swindle completes his "Trilogy of Funk" series with the Purple Walls EP, joined by soul singer Daley and regular collaborator Terri Walker. It is a full departure from his 140 bpm previous outings on Deep Medi Musik and Butterz, but still retains his signature style he has been honing over the last ten years. The previous EPs in the "Trilogy of Funk" series include: Connecta (AIRMILES 004EP, 2016) and Funk & Grime (AIRMILES 005EP, 2016).
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AIRMILES 005EP
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Swindle's second in a trilogy of EP for Butterz in 2016 leans on his grime roots, featuring veteran MCs D Double E and Ghetts. "Lemon Trees", featuring D Double E, sees the two venture to LA, on a g-funk tip and "Works Haffi Run", featuring Ghetts, has him going in a rare gritty direction. The EP is accompanied by a remix from Flava D of the biggest track from his 2015 album, Peace, Love & Music (AIRMILES 002LP). The "Mad Ting" Remix featured on her recent FabricLive mix (FABRIC 176CD, 2016), and features JME.
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AIRMILES 004EP
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Swindle is a multi-instrumentalist, producer, and DJ from London. Connecta is the first of three EPs in A Trilogy In Funk, a project that showcases three sides of Swindle's tastes and talents. Swindle recorded Connecta in São Paulo, Brazil, with local musicians. "Connecta" features Ricardo China (vocals), F. Prior (percussion), B. Dupre (guitar), Neil Waters (trumpet), and Ben Somers (saxophone); "Copacabana" features Prior, Dupre, and Somers; and "Villa Mimosa" features Prior. This EP also includes DJ Q's remix of the title-track and an instrumental mix of the same.
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AIRMILES 002LP
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Peace, Love & Music is the result of Swindle's experiences touring globally over 2014 and '15. Constantly meeting other talented musicians and seeing new places helped naturally form an album that brings friends and family from across the world together for the first time. The album visits four continents along the way, toasting the grime roots in London with JME, saluting Swindle's love and respect for Glasgow and Mungo's Hi Fi alongside Flowdan, and stopping in Bristol for an uptempo work out with TC and a 16-bit intro from Joker. Los Angeles is close to Swindle's heart as he lived there for two months in 2014, meeting and making music with Ash Riser. The infamous Sub.mission party in Denver is featured on "Denver @ Cervantes (Denver, CO)," with music dedicated to the people who have made it a home away from home for Swindle. His connections in East Asia are strongly represented via Tokyo and the DBS crew, the Philippines with Hilarius Dauag, and the Electric East crew in Shanghai. There's still time to visit Cape Town and Nonku Phiri and link up with the Guerilla Speakerz crew in Amsterdam before heading home to London to finish off with his Swindle live family -- Terri Walker, Joel Culpepper, Jay Wilcox, and his dad, who plays guitar on "Sing Like You're Winning (Outro)." Peace, Love & Music also serves as a homecoming of sorts for Swindle to the Butterz label, which he has been a part of since its inception in 2010. In 2015, the label holds a prestigious Fabric club residency in London and is one of the premier brands in UK underground music. Peace, Love & Music is the first album to be released on Butterz, a landmark release for the label. Musically, Swindle continues on the jazzy path that his records on Gilles Peterson's Brownswood Recordings and Mala's Deep Medi Musik put him on the map for, but expands on the live instrumentation, the tempos, and the breadth of talent featured. Swindle has brought together as many people as possible who share his practice of spreading a positive message through music.
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AIRMILES 003EP
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The first single from Swindle's Peace, Love & Music album, forthcoming at the time of this release. "Mad Ting" toasts London grime with JME; "Global Dance" salutes Swindle's love and respect for Glasgow and Mungo's Hi Fi alongside Flowdan. The single also serves as Swindle's homecoming of sorts to Butterz, one of the premier brands in UK underground music underground music, with which Swindle has been involved since its inception in 2010. Peace, Love & Music, the label's first full-length release, continues on the jazzy path of Swindle's records on Brownswood and Deep Medi while introducing expanded live instrumentation.
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AIRMILES 001EP
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"Airmiles" is the track that helped Swindle enter the electronic music scene back in 2010. Given its name by Elijah on a Rinse FM radio show, and later released on 12" by Planet Mu, it has remained a centerpiece of his and the rest of the Butterz crew's DJ sets. The outro is a perfect balance between high energy club music and jazzy instrumentation. Only available on this limited one-sided vinyl pressing.
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RWINA 011EP
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"London grime producer Swindle follows up his incredible Planet Mu EP with another slab of funked-up grime, this time for a rapidly expanding Rwina Records. Swindle's return marks a slightly stripped-down sound: the funk is meaner, heavier, and nastier. 'Playground' grooves on rainbow synths and leisurely, drawn-out melodies, as a boogie bassline carves memorable phrases in the ground below. All of this is shoved in an approachable half step template that means the track could just as easily slot into any dubstep set as the grime scene in which Swindle dominates. Did we mention there's a killer freestyling organ solo in the breakdown? On the b-side, we're treated to a monstrous remix of SRC's Rwina anthem 'Goin Out,' where that track's quick and vibrant skip is slowed right down to a trickling drawl. The brusque melodic motifs of the original are flattened out into irresistibly squiggling melodic tangents, and the whole thing is given a muscular makeover that turns the 8-bit funk into lifelike grime. The beats are beefed up -- Mario's emphatic 'ohs' hit with every beat like he's in pain -- and the track's bubble and boil over uncontrollably, a volatile concoction that recklessly sends out unforgettable melodic hooks in all directions."
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