Tom: Have you heard of electroswing, Tim?
Tim: I have not, no.
Tom: It’s what would happen if someone took a sampler back to the 1920s. Well, other than the massive sweeping timeline changes and destruction of modern history, of course.
Tim: Well, that’s something I’d never even thought I might one day end up imagining.
Tom: I’d previously dismissed retro-futuristic stuff like this as stuff for Shoreditch hipsters. Then I found myself dancing to it. Which means one of two things: either I was wrong, or I’m turning into a Shoreditch hipster.
Tim: Are you keen to admit to either of those two things?
Tom: Given the choice? I think I’d rather admit that I was wrong.
Tim: Figures.
Tom: Anyway, this is one track off one album from one band in what is becoming an increasingly crowded music genre. Arguably it started more than a decade ago with Mr Scruff and his ilk, and it’s only now turning into something bigger.
Tim: Oh actually, now you mention it, I have heard that one.
Tom: I once saw Mr Scruff at the Eden Project in Cornwall, by the way. He played a five-hour set, and if you got tired, you could go and wander through one of the biomes. It was amazing.