BIOGRAPHY
Joshua Lampman, aka Faith in the Glitch is the founder of The Speakeasy Sessions and the head honcho of hooch and havoc. Crowds have come to expect FitG to electrify the stage in bespoke steampunk attire and his signature bow tie and mustache. Blending sounds from the Jazz Age with cutting edge house, techno, and dubstep, he weaves a unique tapestry of swing and EDM. These Electro-Swing sets will get the flappers floorflushing and the dapper daddies toe-tapping in a swanky gin-joint, ritzy Manhattan VIP rooftop club, or cutting loose in the most posh night-club in Vegas!
FitG has recently released an Electro-Swing EP entitled “The Chronograph Adventures” full of Neo-Vintage tracks that take inspiration from the prohibition era. You can also catch him on the world’s most popular electronic music radio station, Digitally Imported Radio every first Friday of the month on di.fm/electroswing. The prohibition is over, so grab your glad-rags and get zozzled with FitG!
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Joshua Lampman, born on September 30th, 1982 has been active in electronic music since the late 90s. After having attend his first DJ event, he saw DJ Venom scratching with his elbows. The next day, having saved up his lunch money for years, brought $500 worth of quarters to his local music store and bought his first pair of turntables.
Sample-based Plunderphonics music and turntabilism have been the two biggest influences on FitG's sound. Artists like The Avalanches, Moby, Coldcut, and The Prodigy's mix album “The Dirtchamber Sessions” all wove a tapestry of sound from different artist and times. This sound collage was both futuristic and vintage at the same time. FitG learned to DJ "pre-digital". Vinyl records still hold a special place - “Record digging” is something that would later inform his Neo-Vintage appreciation.
In 2013, attending a NYC dance music festival, FitG discovered Electroswing almost by accident. Sporting his now signature bow tie and curled mustache combo, another dancer said he “most love Electroswing!” FitG went home and looked into this genre still in it's infancy. It combined Plunderphonics, house, techno and all the elements that have molded FitG. It was the perfect amalgam of everything he'd been inspired by – since that day he's dedicated himself to that sound.
Shortly after FitG founded The Speakeasy Sessions in NYC with the goal of spreading Electroswing to as many people as possible. By combining ravers with swing dance aficionados, vintage burlesque, live jazz bands and plenty of hooch, FitG went about creating a music scene. Part Steampunk, Rave, high-class night-club and part Gatsby, Electroswing offers a scene that is as mixed as the sounds they dance to.
