Review: Mike Swoop – New Love

Providing listeners with a wide pallet of laid back, dreamy and funked out goodies longtime DJ, producer, musician and Minnesota native Mike Swoop gives the world his debut album, the highly agreeable “New Love“.

Having honed his skills as a DJ for Twin Cities’ rhyme collective Diametrix, Swoop is rooted in Hip-Hop, but for his own album he definitely straddles genre lines in order to create the most heavenly loungin’ music I’ve heard in quite awhile. Containing elements from Dancehall, Dub-Step, Afro-Beat, Electronic and even Blues, Swoop cultivates magnetic arrangements that effortlessly get ya head groovin’. The basslines are thick and rolling, the instrumentation is crisp and sultry and every track has it’s own identity.


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