Sprung out of the funky, concrete cubicle ghetto of suburban Stockholm, Kenny Black happened to be the right age to fully appreciate the new sounds that were starting to emerge at around '83 - hip hop and electro music. This new, fresh and distinctly...

Alongside Stockholm's Cari Lekebusch, Joel Mull and Jesper Dahlbäck, Adam Beyer has become synonymous with the hard percussive techno sound of Sweden, which has quite literally shaken the world since the mid-nineties. Remaining on the forefront of techno innovation with deeper and more reduced sound aesthetics in recent years, Beyer...

Håkan Lidbo is without doubt one of the more prolific and diverse producers the electronic music scene has ever witnessed, having released more than 100 records in a career spanning just under fifteen years. From early experiments in the studio and original homemade releases through to becoming one of the most creative and sought...

Hugg & Pepp, the dynamic duo consisting of the two Dahlbäck cousins John and Jesper, started out in 2003 and released their first EP together called 'Bastratt'. Since then they have continuously kept releasing high qualitative releases on their own record label, Dahlbäck Records, working out of Jesper's Globe Studios in Stockholm....

John Dahlbäck was born in Stockholm, Sweden in 1985. He moved to a small village outside Stockholm at an early age with both his mother and father being musicians, and almost everyone in his family was too. He got in touch with house music through his older cousin Jesper Dahlbäck and started to produce his own. His first track got...

In 1998 Aril Brikha put his name down in the book of techno history: His track 'Groove La' Chord' off his debut EP 'Art Of Vengeance' still stands tall as a timeless techno classic, utilizing chord stabs and subtle changes of intensity to maximum effect....

Sweden's Andreas Tilliander first used the Mokira name for his release 'Clip Hop' on Raster-Noton. This album almost single handedly started the glitchy hiphop sound that Mille Plateaux most notably fell for, and made Andreas a respected and revered name...

After a small number of obscure ambient recordings, Stockholm's Axel Willner joined the Kompakt family in 2005 as The Field with the release of his 12" debut 'Things Keep Falling Down'. His combination of dreamy shoegaze psychedelia with 4/4 dance beats...

Mixing deconstructed sounds with funky beats to create minimal dance textures, Stockholm's Mikael Stavöstrand is known as a key figure in the Swedish electronic music scene. His distinct execution of minimal club techno, as well as his production of some...

Harald Björk's music is a naive and emotional, melodic type of minimal techno with a melancholic Scandinavian touch. Harald made a name for himself with his 'Brus' EP on Traum Schallplatten and his live performances, which dive into melancholic melodic...

Swedish singer and songwriter Robyn has started her career in 1994 at age 16, scoring two top ten singles in the US as early 1997. Since 2006 and the release of her self-titled fourth album, Robyn has once again been riding a wave of international success, as an opening act for Madonna's Sticky & Sweet Tour and collaborating with...

John Andersson a.k.a. Zoo Brazil is without a doubt one of Sweden's most prominent and prolific techno exports, with over 100 releases on the world's biggest club music labels to his name. His sound is known to take no prisoners , oscillating between rave-compatible techno and more subtle house grooves, Anderson's music is...

The man with the funky hairdo is Axel Boman, currently one of Stockholm's hottest names in house music, and not only since his 'Holy Love' single became one of the defining releases of 2010 via DJ Koze's Pampa label. Boman has been honing his skills for years with releases on local Swedish label Ourvision and contributions to...

COH is the alias of Russian sound artist Ivan Pavlov which he adopted after moving to Sweden in 1995. COH (pronounced 'son') can be read in both the Cyrillic as well as the Latin alphabet and means sleep or dream in Russian. Pavlov has recorded for labels such as Mego and Raster-Noton, and frequently collaborated with Coil's Peter...

Roll The Dice is the Stockholm, Sweden, based duo of Malcolm Pardon and Peder Mannerfelt (a.k.a. The Subliminal Kid). Producing a sombre and atmospheric brand of electronica that owes as much to John Carpenter as it does to cosmic disco, krautrock and...