| Swedish House Mafia | |
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Swedish House Mafia DJ'ing at Pacha Ibiza 2011 |
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| Background information | |
| Origin | Stockholm, Sweden |
| Genres | House |
| Occupations | Disc jockey, music producer |
| Labels | Virgin, EMI |
| Associated acts | Pharell Williams, Tinie Tempah, John Martin, AN21, Laidback Luke, Knife Party |
| Website | swedishhousemafia.com |
| Members | |
| Axwell Steve Angello Sebastian Ingrosso |
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Swedish House Mafia is a Swedish house music group consisting of the three disc jockeys and producers, Axwell, Steve Angello, and Sebastian Ingrosso. The group officially formed in late 2008.[1]
Angello & Ingrosso met as children in Stockholm; Axwell was not a member until multiple years later after they contacted him after a chance meeting. All three carried on producing tracks as a single body, and with other producers, such as Eric Prydz.
The name "Swedish House Mafia" first appeared on forums and was used to encapsulate the group of producers that were working together in the future. Steve Angello stated, "But we’ve been through everything together. I can always lean on one of their shoulders and they can lean on mine. I can always trust their opinions. When I have a track, they tell me straight away what they think. With Swedish House Mafia, you’re with friends…." [2]
The first production that was released by Axwell, Steve Angello and Sebastian Ingrosso was "Leave the World Behind" featuring Deborah Cox. It was produced with Laidback Luke and released on Axtone Records in 2009.[3]
In 2010 the Swedish House Mafia signed a record deal with EMI's Virgin Records. They released their first official single, "One (Your Name)", under the name Swedish House Mafia on Beatport on 26 May 2010, where it achieved international success, charting at #7 in the UK Singles Chart. The next single, "Miami 2 Ibiza", featuring Tinie Tempah, charted at #4 in the UK Chart in September 2010. Both singles were taken from the "Until One" album; a collection of productions and remixes from both Swedish House Mafia and as the group as individuals. It has achieved a BPI Gold Sales award in the United Kingdom.
In 2010, Swedish House Mafia won the "Best Swedish Act" award at the MTV European Ballz awards 2010.[4]
In 2011, Swedish House Mafia released a new single, "Save the World," featuring John Martin on vocals, which charted at #10 in the UK Chart, released in May 2011.[5]
On 23 September 2011, it was confirmed that the band would play at Madison Square Garden in New York City on 16 December 2011 and Milton Keynes Bowl on 14 July 2012.[6]
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Axwell placed at #12 on the DJ Magazine Top 100 DJ Poll in 2011. In late 2004, Axwell released a global hit, "Feel the Vibe", which was re-released under Ministry of Sound in 2005 with added vocals from Tara McDonald as "Feel the Vibe ('Til the Morning Comes)". In the spring of 2006, Axwell and Steve Angello, under the Supermode alias, remixed Bronski Beat's "Smalltown Boy", producing "Tell Me Why". In August 2007, Axwell teamed up with performer Max'C to create the track "I Found U", which peaked #6 in the UK Singles Chart. Axwell has been producing remixes for other artists - mixes have included Usher's "Burn" (BMG), Room 5's "Make Luv" (Positiva), Clipse & Faith Evans "Ma, I Don’t Love Her" (RCA), Stonebridge's "Put 'Em High" (Hed Kandi), N*E*R*D's single "Maybe" (Virgin), and more recently Hard-Fi's "Hard to Beat", Deep Dish's "Dreams", Pharrell's "Angel", Nelly Furtado's "Promiscuous" and Madonna's "Jump".
Steve Angello placed at #23 on the DJ Magazine Top 100 DJ Poll 2011. Steve Angello's claim to fame came when he released his remix of Eurythmics "Sweet Dreams" in late 2004. Since then he has exploded onto the house music scene. In 2007 his eternal club banger, a remix of Robin S "Show Me Love" was released on Data Records. Angello produces under several different aliases. On his own, he has called himself Who's Who and released tracks called "Not So Dirty" and "Sexy Fuck". He often works closely with his childhood friend Sebastian Ingrosso on many projects. Aside from DJing together, they have also produced under the names Buy Now, Fireflies, General Moders, Mode Hookers, Outfunk, and The Sinners. Most recently, they released "Bodycrash" under their Buy Now alias, sampling the 1978 disco hit "Let's All Chant" by the Michael Zager Band. The track was first played by Pete Tong on his Radio 1 show in late 2007. Eventually, the Dirty South remix of the tune leaked out onto the Internet in January 2008. The track has since received a much larger release via Positiva Records, also including the Laidback Luke remix. He has produced with Eric Prydz under the name A&P Project. Also, he has created a track with his friend Axwell under the name Supermongo, later renamed Supermode. They made a cover of an old Bronski Beat track, calling it "Tell Me Why". This was released via Ministry of Sound's Data Records imprint in summer 2006. Steve Angello's productions can mainly be classified as house ("Summer Noize"), progressive ("Yeah"), Tech house ("Partouze") and electro house ("Raining Again"). He also owns his own record label, Size Records. Angello's brother, Antoine Josefsson, is a DJ and a producer who goes by the name AN21. Together they have released the tracks "Valodja", "Flonko" & "Swing N Swoosh".
Sebastian Ingrosso is ranked at #26 in 2011 on DJ Magazine Top 100 DJ list, and won the award for the highest new entry into the chart in 2009, a record beaten only by Deadmau5 into the 2008 Top 100 DJ list at #11. In 2009, Sebastian Ingrosso saw the releases of Laktos, Kidsos, Echo Vibes and Meich (with Dirty South) on his own imprint Refune, "How Soon Is Now" (featuring Julie McKnight with David Guetta and Dirty South) and the vocal stormer House anthem "Leave the World Behind" together with Axwell, Steve Angello and Laidback Luke, with Deborah Cox on vocals. He has co-written and coproduced the track "Cupid Boy" on the Kylie Minogue album Aphrodite along with Magnus Lidehall, Nick Clow and Luciana Caporaso. Ingrosso has also produced tracks for Lazee ("Rock Away") and Kid Sister ("Right Hand Hi" with Steve Angello). Remixed artists during the years includes Justin Timberlake, Moby, Röyksopp, Hard-Fi and Deep Dish. In 2011 Sebastian Ingrosso released his late summer anthem "Calling" featuring Alesso, which reached #2 on Beatport's Top 10.
| Title | Album details | Peak chart positions | Certifications | ||||||||||
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| BEL [7] |
DEN [8] |
FRA [9] |
NLD [10] |
SWE [11] |
SWI [12] |
UK [13] |
US [14] |
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| Until One |
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6 | 31 | 66 | 8 | 13 | 18 | 2 | 139 | ||||
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart. | |||||||||||||
| Title | Album details | Peak chart positions | Certifications | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BEL [7] |
DEN [8] |
FRA [9] |
NLD [10] |
SWE [11] |
SWI [12] |
UK [13] |
US [14] |
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| One Night Stand |
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to be released | |||||||||||
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart. | |||||||||||||
| Title | Year | Peak chart positions | Certifications | Album | |||||||||
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| AUS [18] |
AUT [19] |
BEL [7] |
DEN [8] |
IRE [20] |
NLD [21][22][23] |
SWE [11] |
SWI [12] |
UK [24] |
US Dance [25][26] |
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| "Get Dumb"[A] (with Laidback Luke) |
2007 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | non-album single | |
| "Leave the World Behind"[B] (with Laidback Luke featuring Deborah Cox) |
2009 | — | — | — | — | — | — | 39 | — | — | — | Until One | |
| "One"[C] | 2010 | 82 | 25 | 2 | 20 | 7 | 1 | 11 | 13 | 7 | 3 | ||
| "Miami 2 Ibiza" (with Tinie Tempah) |
31 | 36 | 3 | 22 | 5 | 10 | 10 | 19 | 4 | 1 | |||
| "Save the World" | 2011 | 82 [31] |
31 | 5 | 15 | 10 | 6 | 4 | 32 | 10 | 1 |
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One Night Stand |
| "Antidote" (with Knife Party) |
— | — | — | — | — | 51 | — | — | — | 24 [33] |
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| "—" denotes releases that did not chart. | |||||||||||||
Notes
On November 29, 2010 Swedish House Mafia released their first DVD documentary called Take One.[34] The movie was filmed over the course of 2 years, 253 gigs and 15 countries by director Christian Larson & Henrik Hanson. Larson commented on Take One by saying "It's not narrated at all. It's just sequences of them and it's made into a story. It's all chronological. It's just me following them around and they become characters in their own film. It all happened pretty naturally. It was pretty easy because they are all such strong characters, all three of them." [35] The documentary starts with Swedish House Mafia in the studio with Laidback Luke working on "Leave the World Behind" and concludes at Ultra Music Festival in 2010 premiering their hit "One" .
| Preceded by Agnes |
Winner of MTV Europe Music Awards for best Swedish Act 2010 |
Succeeded by incumbent |
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