Radio Ultra Modern

For almost five years, Radio Modern has been roaming the Flemish halls with retro parties in the style of the 1950s: filled dance floors, the Modernettes and their Beauty Boudoir, ladies in floral dresses, men with brats and jive dance steps gradually became commonplace.

Last year, the attention of Radio Modern was attracted when more and more songs with a retro melody reached the charts on the radio. The style quickly gained popularity and was baptized Electro Swing. In 2011, Radio Modern brought this emerging genre to Belgium under the name Radio Ultra Modern: music from the past mixed with the beats of today, developed into a party concept that unites the best of both periods.
Radio Ultra Modern offers you a pumping party for an evening with the refined elements of the past: beats and burlesque, vinyl records and video projections, Charleston dresses and retro-tinged hits from the charts.

The authentic sound of the first Great Depression, mercilessly mixed with the technology of the second.

Radio Ultra Modern evokes the feeling of the roaring twenties, in a version that fills dance floors to the brim today thanks to a modern twist. It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that electro swing!

ELEKTRO SWING

The secret of electro swing is simple: this music transcends boundaries such as age, social status, skin color and nationality. Electro swing unites everyone on the dance floor thanks to its countless crossovers and influences. Old-fashioned downtempo rhythms are mixed all night long in a vortex of pumping electronic beats. The result is an innovative, but authentic sound.

Electro swing is not a genre that is limited to a few aficionados in the underground scene. Lovers of electronics and hip hop appreciate the genre because of the club-oriented danceability and the urban elements that permeate the music. Jazz fanatics can relate to it thanks to the many original influences of jazz, ragtime and swing that form the common thread in electro swing. Those who love world music are drawn to the gypsy swing elements and even people who are not into music genres but just like to dance are sold by the infectious rhythms of classic dances such as the jitterbug or the Charleston.

Electro swing is making waves in the electronic pop and dance scene, as evidenced by two hits that topped the international charts for weeks: 'I No Speak Americano' by the Australian Yolando Be Cool, a reworking of the 1956 classic 'Tu vuo fa l'americano'. Peggy Lee's 'Why Don't You' was also given a makeover by the Serbian Gramophonedzie.< /p>