The fight for diverse and conscious voices

http://djsteveboy.com/groovelectric.html
Sometimes things are new because people (re)discover them. DJ Steveboy has discovered swing, or to be more precise swing-house and has put together a pretty decent mix of swing-house tracks. As you'd expect, his selections lean toward the phat horns and funky grooves that I enjoy, as well as some of the nicer vocal bits.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsaLyUTDGTo
Losers (www.myspace.com/losersuk) are a UK DJ/remix duo who got the very odd video for their latest track on boingboing, where I saw it. Their style is a little hard to describe - it's mostly UK whiteboy rap, but with interesting scratch and remixed bits thrown in, and all of it laid over a high-BPM dance layer. It's a shame their page only has samples rather than full tracks.

http://hypem.com/#/track/1057564/NAPT+ft+Louise+Marshall+-+Make+My+Day+Jack+Beats+Remix+
NAPT (http://www.myspace.com/naptuk) are another UK DJ/producer duo with serious funk roots (their label is called Funkatech). Here they've got Louise Marshall (http://www.myspace.com/louiseclaremarshall) an R&B/soul singer doing her thing over some nice dubs and looped electronic beats.

http://hypem.com/#/track/1057980/Vitalic+-+Second+Lives+The+Bloody+Beetroots+Remix+
Vitalic (http://www.vitalic.org/)'s Second Lives gets another life here as an instrumental-only house track remixed by Bloody Beetroots (http://www.myspace.com/thebloodybeetroots). It's got a bit of a high-electronic edge that I wish they had skipped but I still like their grooves. Need to listen to their MySpace stream a bit more.