Swindle Brings Home Rio Gold

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BREAKING: Swindle’s just picked up another gold medal in Rio this summer.

Not for the Olympics… Just a gold medal in pure funk and life in general as he returns to our playlists with yet another stunning international rhythm fusion: Connecta.

Following last year’s Peace, Love & Music escapades, which caught him writing and creating with kindred spirits from across the globe, Connecta marks the start of the Swindle Trilogy, a three-part series that explores more musical adventures. Connecta kicks us off with an all-out Latin riot that comes complete with the budgie-smuggling soul of Copacabana, pure drum wizardry on Villa Mimosa and a DJ Q remix that’s so stinking it makes those green diving pools look drinkable.

It goes a bit like this…

“I was gutted I couldn’t get out to South America to record and write with people in the making of my album so I was sure do it when I toured the album instead,” explains Swindle who considered an album re-package but decided on an EP instead.

The timing is perfect. Sonically each of the trilogy screams summer but culturally too… What with this little world sporting event called The Olympics…

“Mate I didn’t even know the Olympics were in Brazil haha,” laughs Swindle. “It just so happened when we planned the release we realised it was on and thought ‘oh cool, let’s release it then’ I bury my head in music all day long so haven’t got much time for sport!”

But, as the world’s most famous sporting event wraps up this weekend, he has got time to decide which artists in our sporting world would win gold if certain sports were bass music. For a man who doesn’t know sport, he’s smashed it with these picks…