The combined forces of Basement Jaxx‘s uniquely skewed take on dance music, the Metropole Orkest‘s cutting edge approach to orchestral interpretation took blaze by storm for two nights at Barbican Centre, London. I could give their ‘Do Your Thing’ a retro-swing-orchestration, whereas I coloured ‘Samba Magic’ with some sounds of Brazilian Big Band Styles…
Here is a small ensemble version I created for DE WERELD DRAAIT DOOR, a daily tv magazine: