UK-based electro-jazz-hip hop duo the Correspondents had such a brilliant time at last year's Splore festival, they're back for another round.
But where does their sound - a blend of swing, blues, jazz and electronic beats, with hip-hop and R&B influences - spring from?
Frontman Ian Bruce says it started when offsider DJ Chucks started blending old jazz and swing samples with hip-hop and him rapping.
"I don't think either of us were particularly interested in swing. Chucks is really into R&B, and I basically was just obsessed with drum'n' bass for most of my formative years. So the swing influence is quite random, I guess. I think Chucks basically invented this genre we now think of as electro-swing completely by accident.
"He just had some swing samples, and made some really cool beats that went with them. And over the last eight years, that sound has just continued to evolve and change as we've picked up new ideas. We're not restricted by what a certain band or set of instruments can play, so it's really anything goes."
