With their first hit single, The Cremazie All Stars are proud to bring you Blue Drag. Dax Hock, the rhythm man and generally crazy personality of the band says of this pleasure experience, “I think this piece is quite transcendent really. It bring together the new and the old.” The other half and lead man of the band, Davis Thurber says of Blue Drag, “We are really just trying to rock out and give it our all everytime we get on stage or record in The Ax Pad on our iPhone. The piece took us a gruelling 15 minutes to talk out, and about 19 - 147 takes to actually get down. Quite the effort really.”

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This amazing soundgasm is sure to knock your socks off. Enjoy world.

Davis is currently attending the world famous Herrang Dance camp in Sweden. Thanks Dax & Davis!

Filed Under: Song of the Week | Monday, July 13th, 2009

Bobby “Extremely” White recently finished P90X, a 90-day work-out regimen that’s growing popularity with swing dance instructors. Each week, he reviews one of the programs 12 exercises, and gives an update on how it’s going and where it hurts.

DAY 77

At the writing of this post, I began the third week of my final month of P90X, which starts off with a First Month workout week, followed by a Second Month work out week, and then repeats that two-week chunk, ending with a final recovery week.

Over the past few weeks, a few important things have happened. First, I was shopping in the grocery store, about to pick up my favorite $1 food, a box of Swiss Cake Rolls. Over the past year, it has been a ritual that every few weeks I get a box and I was long overdue. But I suddenly thought to myself. “No, I’d rather have a healthy, great-looking body than a Swiss Cake Roll.” It sounds silly, even melodramatic; but anyone who knows what it felt like to say that knows what an important step that was. To celebrate, I got a box of Swiss Cake Rolls. (Just kidding). (more…)

Filed Under: Dance Advice, Dance Trivia, Trends | Friday, July 10th, 2009

Earlier this year, David Trinh (a dancer from Waterloo, ON, Canada) traveled across Asia visiting, dancing and facilitating events and classes in Singapore, Malaysia, Vietnam, Hong Kong, China and Taiwan. Finding himself accumulating video footage and interview notes, he’s decided to create a documentary to show us what’s up in the emerging Asian swing dance communities.

“SEA JAM 2009 in Singapore”, SEA = South East Asia

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Filed Under: Dance Community | Thursday, July 9th, 2009

This week’s song is brought to you by Swing DJ Trevor Hutchison from Perth, Australia. Check out his website at http://www.theswingdj.com/

Song: Tattersfield Stomp
Album: Swingin’ at The Chatterbox
Artist: Count Basie & His Orchestra

My song of the week is Tattersfield Stomp by Count Basie & His Orchestra. It’s a fast hard-swinging track that Basie only recorded once in 1937 live at a dance gig at the Chatterbox Cafe, Pittsburgh. The recording quality is quite poor, but there’s enough there to tell that they were really loose, wild and swinging it! A different band, Ambrose & His Orchestra, originally recorded the same tune as Streamline Strut two years earlier. These are the only recordings I have found of this song so if anyone knows of another version I’d love to hear it! Check out the awesome Basie version on the CD “Swingin’ at The Chatterbox”!

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Thanks Trevor!

Filed Under: Song of the Week | Monday, July 6th, 2009