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Sweden - Global Domination Is Near!
Sweden - famous for some of the most beautiful women in the world and the best porn in the world, it is now on the map for something else: thier dance music.
The land of Henrick Larsson and Abba is running amok these days in the dance scene. Fair enough, we all know about 'The Swedish House Mafia' who have dominated the house scene over the last year but it is starting to spread into other genres. And there is one major factor that is in the Swedes' favour that may have them ruling the scene for years to come: most of the DJs/Producers are really, REALLY young.
Ok, so everyone knows about 'The House Mafia' which includes Steve Angello, Sebastian Ingrosso, Axwell and Eric Prydz. They have completely dominated the house scene for the last year or two. And I wouldn't mind, but nealry all of their releases have been of an unbelievably high quality. They have the house scene in the bag, and yet thier 'Mafia' is growing. Newer additions include Rasmus Faber - been making music for a couple of years and really starting to get noticed now, and John Dahlback - this fella is only 20 and has released over 30 EPs!!! Add these to their veteran house producer Stonebridge and you can see why I reckon their dominance looks set to last for a good while yet.
Then we go to the prog house/trance genre, my favoured genre. Sweden's influence in this genre has been steadily growing over the last few years and is now one of the biggest players. Artists like David West, Ozgur Can, Probspot, Inkfish, Martin H, Rouzbeh Delavari and Son Kite have all being releasing great stuff over the last while and for me, no other nation has released as many good prog house/trance tracks over the last year or two. Between Probspot, Ozgur and David West, there have been an unhealthy amount of quality material released. Tunes like 'Foreplay', 'External Key', 'Changed' and 'Larry Mountains' have really raised the standard within the prog trance genre imo.
Trance wise, they are far from dominant but their are many DJs/producers beginning to have an impact i.e. Mike Shiver, Envio, Active 8. Whereas Adam Beyer has been at the forefront of the techno genre for many years now.
Basically, I just cant understand how such a nation with such a small population and relatively average club scene(going by what Axwell, Probspot etc have stated in interviews) has such a large share of the good dance music being released and I think everyone should take notice of Sweden as a major contributor to the scene. I would love to know whether the Swedes are just abnormally gifted for music or whether they just have nothing else to do. Whatever it is, I take my hat off to Sweden as a nation and to all those artists who have accounted for basically 2/3 of my favourite material over the last year or so.
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| Originally posted by djpaulc the prog house/trance genre, my favoured genre. |
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it's strange how you can mention Sweden and EDM in the same post, and at the same time leave out names like Jesper Dahlb�ck, Tobias Von Hofsten, Joel Mull, Cari Lekebusch, Hardcell, P�r Grindvik, Henrik B, Thomas Krome etc...
Considering these names, and what they have done for the scene, not only in Sweden, but also in the international scene, it's easy to understand that Sweden has actually been on the map (when it comes to EDM) for a long time..
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| Originally posted by SYSTEM-J The difference being? |
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| Originally posted by djpaulc Check out the 4000 other threads that discuss the difference between them and then come back to me. |
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| Originally posted by SYSTEM-J Progressive trance is just that: trance. Prog house has been dead as an individual sub-genre for years, so "progressive" and "trance" are interchangable. |
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| Originally posted by verminator it's strange how you can mention Sweden and EDM in the same post, and at the same time leave out names like Jesper Dahlb�ck, Tobias Von Hofsten, Joel Mull, Cari Lekebusch, Hardcell, P�r Grindvik, Henrik B, Thomas Krome etc... Considering these names, and what they have done for the scene, not only in Sweden, but also in the international scene, it's easy to understand that Sweden has actually been on the map (when it comes to EDM) for a long time.. |
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| Originally posted by verminator it's strange how you can mention Sweden and EDM in the same post, and at the same time leave out names like Jesper Dahlb�ck, Tobias Von Hofsten, Joel Mull, Cari Lekebusch, Hardcell, P�r Grindvik, Henrik B, Thomas Krome etc... |
I can't agree on that we're making the best porn, But we have got probably the best good looking women around :|
SVERIGE SVERIGE SVERIGE 
And you forgot Joni Ljungqvist, I love the work he's done so far.
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| Originally posted by Shadowkid And you forgot Joni Ljungqvist, I love the work he's done so far. |
David West is swedish, and inkfish? Nice
Yes Joni Ljungqvist ROCKS MY WORLD!!!!
What I hear about Sweden that people use to explain stuff like this is the phrase "cacoon culture". Alot of people say that in the scandinavian contries the winter places more people indoors where they sit together and produce stuff like dance music and most of the demoscene productions.
I'm not saying they are all introverted geeks or anything, I actually know next to nothing about sweden, but I have heard many people use the phrase "cacoon culture" to explain why they appear dispraportionally productive in the media world. It just seemed to be understandable that people who have more time indoors with their technology would come out with alot of good productions compared to a place where people go outside more and dont have as much access to such things.
Definately lotsa good music and porn coming from over there.
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| Originally posted by nils Antiloop (can't tell if they're broken up or not?) |
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| Originally posted by Zombie0915 Definately lotsa good music and PORN coming from over there. |
After Greece, Sweden looks like a good spot for Dave Seamans next Audiotheraphy CD!
Lets not forget the psy scene..we have some of the finest artists out there, particularly in the progressive psy sector...
Human blue
Ticon
Tegma
Andromeda
Vibrasphere
Son Kite (Kooler, Minilogue)
Atmos
Gaudium
12 Moons
Miraculix
Logic Bomb
Hux Flux
Matenda
S-range
Solarfields
Lucy in space
I'm not too surpised though. Sweden is ranked as the most creative nation in the world with Japan in second place.
Im not trying to be a jerk,
but how do you rank creativity? Where does that figure come from?
I am just curious how it is measured, I am not in any way challenging the idea that you kids are insanely creative.
I'm not sure. There was a segment about it in the economist a couple of weeks back.
The fact that Sweden is very well developed IT-wise might be a factor too
Hejja Sverige! 
Clearly the Swedes are taking over I better learn Swedish.
I'd also like to wish them good luck in the World Cup (they just drew the same group as England).
Mweh, I've never liked Swedish music. Any of it, actually.
That especially goes for Airbase.
yeah as mentioned already Sweden got some of the finest techno, house and progpsy producers. though we lack high quality melodic producers. we do have some but they are mainly copying the dutch sound. in that field Finland is much better than Sweden with good producers such as Orkidea, Slusnik Luna, Beatpusher, Miika Kuisma etc.
the most interesting aspect of this is that Swedens EDM clubbing scene is almost none existing. We have almost no big regular trance or techno clubs. Just like once in a month. Even for big cities such as Gothenburg.
Indeed. Finland is also growing very much in the EDM scene.
Thanks System-J
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