20JFG cohort and all round winner Genuine Guy pops back into our lives with this sly deconstruction of the all that’s big and fun and slightly silly about dance music.  The hubris of the edited sample that opens Jealous Swingers gives you a quick wink before diving headlong into all manners of house…or rather disco wobble.  There’s something enormously affectionate about the dance music tropes employed here.  Nothing’s out of place as you pick up snatches of (early) house, acid, even a spot of Mr Oizo snare.  It’s playful without being redundant parody.  More importantly it’s addictive.  The synth line that comes in at 2:41 (after the break) hits that pure streak of joy that great dance music seems able to mine indefinitely.

Genuine Guy – Jealous Swingers

Here’s Genuine Guy’s fantastic (self produced) music video for Jealous Swingers.  The Jealous Swingers EP is out this Autumn on Tigerbass.

Click here to view the embedded video.

20JFG’s affection for Mr Jones has been well documented on these pages over the years and this track reaches back to the dawn of this webzine.  It was in 2004 that he managed to rope in both Dajae and his own alter ego, Green Velvet, to produce one of this humble writer’s all time favourite house records.  Everything about this speaks to the simple ecstasy of dance music.  The pieces are spare and introduced just in time.  Allowed their moment to dance around your head before taking their place in the mix as the next electronic sound drifts in.  Like a procession of hooks lifting you higher as the track progresses before floating away in a fog of snares before THAT reprise blows all the smoke out of the room in a full bore battery of lasers and irresistible basslines.

It’s fair to say that not many records can make your reserved 20JFGer put his hands in the air…in his bedroom.
But every,
single,
time?

Cajmere ft. Dajae – I Need You (Green Velvet remix)

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Berlin based readers – see Genuine Guy doing the dark music loud room thing this Saturday at Raum 18: