skweee
Sign in to saveright|250px|thumb|7" skweee singles on sale at the Norbergfestival|Norberg Festival 2009 in Sweden Skweee is a musical style, with origin in Sweden and Finland. Skweee combines simple synth/chiptune leads and basslines with funk, R&B or soul-like rhythms, overall rendering a stripped-down funky sound. The tracks are predominantly instrumental.
Key facts
- Music genre.name
- Skweee
- Music genre.cultural_origins
- Late 2000s, Sweden and Finland
- Music genre.instruments
- Synthesizer
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- music genre
- Subclass of
- electronic dance music
- Country of origin
- Finland
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- influenced by
- funk
- inception
- 2005-00-00
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Origins
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right|250px|thumb|7" skweee singles on sale at the Norbergfestival|Norberg Festival 2009 in Sweden Skweee is a musical style, with origin in Sweden and Finland. Skweee combines simple synth/chiptune leads and basslines with funk, R&B or soul-like rhythms, overall rendering a stripped-down funky sound. The tracks are predominantly instrumental.
==Origins== The name "skweee" was coined by Daniel Savio, one of the originators of the emerging sound. The name refers to the use of analog synthesizers in the production process, where the aim is to "squeeze out" the most interesting sounds possible.
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