All of the biggest European DJs are abandoning fresh house for jive trance. Well, that's what I like to call them. Spinning jive trance, swing jungle, and buff house makes me feel young again.
Jive trance is the latest genre of dance music to emerge from the clubs and raves of Europe.
Crackly, poppy samples of Count Basie, Glen Miller, and other pre-war luminaries ride on top of frenetic rave beats, propelling the hybridization of dance music into the further reaches of the 21st century. Indeed, Humvee's So Jive and So Clean mix CD has been blowing up huge all over the continent, despite not getting a proper release. Back up a few years to 1999, when DJ Fresche Haus began spinning what he called fresh house. An even funkier take on house, fresh house was a reinvention of sorts of the waning genre. By mixing in records by Al Jolson and other 20s and 30s singers, Haus had created a brand new style.