[amagumori]

i highly recommend looking into UK Garage / 2step if you're into swung dance music. It's essentially the best qualities of 90's and early 00's R&B and D&B put through a dance lens. To me, nothing else in music is more authentically and beautifully 90s-early 00s. Pioneers of the genre such as El-B took the concept of swing and ran with it from a modern electronically produced perspective.

As an electronic musician I also have to say that UK garage producers are absolute masters. It's very, very hard to make swung music that has the qualities of "bump" and "flex" - the prerequisites to a song that viscerally makes you dance - on a computer. "Flex" refers to the way the swing-level expands and contracts throughout a drum phrase. "Bump" refers to the way the flex propels you into the kick and snare.

here's an example of a song by el-b with super tight swing. it's hard to explain without having tried, how hard it is to produce something like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZ3KM5E8wl8

another example:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlNNrXzi60o

and finally, a 2step song, much straighter, but it encapsulates the sound of an era and genre.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVycT8k0tjM