In case you needed more proof that the Sweedish House Mafia are one of the biggest acts in dance music right now, they just confirmed their world-wide One Night Stand Tour for 2012.
The DJ tour includes stops at venues that have always been thought to be too large for a dance music artist including Madison Square Garden in New York City and Milton Keynes National Bowl in the UK.
It was just a few years ago that the top 40 world and the urban scene were calling electronic music dead. And to be honest it was heading that way. The music became stale and all the same. The producers and DJs didn’t seem to care. Innovation wasn’t there. Then came the technical revolution that allowed kids in their parents basement to make dance music with a $100 program on their PC.
A friend who works with Steve Angello just let me know that Steve just threw up a video reflecting back on the year that was.
This year was HUGE for Steve and the Sweedish House Mafia. He remixed “Show Me Love”, had a legendary residency at Pacha Ibiza this summer called the Dark Forrest and who could forget the fist fight he got into with Paris Hilton.
Steve Angello humiliates Paris Hilton, DJs worldwide rejoice
The princess of bottle service culture herself, Ms. famous-for-no-particular-reason, Paris Hilton, was publicly humiliated by Swedish House Mafia man Steve Angello [a] in move that will leave DJs around the world cheering his name till the end of time.
The LA-based diva turned up at the 1OAK party at Angello’s showcase at WMC on Thursday night/Friday morning, and found his music “was not even danceable and was frankly giving me a migraine.” Read the rest of this entry »
Sometime I laugh because DJs like this were just a few years ago, learning their way around a mixer and turntables in their parent’s basements, reading How To guides on everything from mixers, recording their mixes, digital vs analog production, different pieces of DJ and audio production (while playing video games in between). Now they are some of the worlds biggest rockstars, djing all over the world and spending their days recording audio tracks in the studio!
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