Swedish House Mafia: Everything You Need To Know About the EDM Swedes

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• Shame: “When we started out as a band, we went about it in a pretty teenage way…”
• Swedish House Mafia: Everything You Need To Know About the EDM Swedes
• Swedish House Mafia to Release New Music This Friday
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The Swedes’ sophomore release, “Miami 2 Ibiza” featuring Tinie Tempah, earned the super-group their first No. 1 on the Dance Club Songs chart. The group was also holding down an Ibiza residency at Pacha where they performed Monday nights with their own branded series called The Masquerade Motel. Five years after they formed, however, Swedish House Mafia broke up at the very height of their popularity.

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That number dipped to 3.6% before the pandemic, according to the IMS Business Report, and a 2021 IMS analysis of Spotify’s top 200 indicates that dance music is declining almost everywhere. Incredibly, the group created all that on the strength of only a six-track, two-compilation catalog — with its last release, 2012’s “Don’t You Worry Child,” becoming its biggest hit by far when it spent three weeks at No. 6 on the Billboard Hot 100. And then, at the height of its success in 2013, the trio broke up, devastating and shocking dance fans worldwide. In 2008, three artists, DJs, and musicians got together to break every rule in electronic music. Steve Angello, Sebastian Ingrosso, and Axwell, who make up Swedish House Mafia, added swaggering hip-hop beats, a rock ‘n’ roll attitude, and a big-screen-worthy grandeur to house music. Details of the debut album - including its release date - are still vague; but it sees the trio emerging from suspended animation, just as their biggest heroes called it quits.

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"I've never seen a whole festival empty and come to just one stage," says Ingrosso. The three members even stayed in separate hotels to avoid being seen together. But rumours began flying after Angello cancelled an Asian tour and flew to Miami. At the time, the band chose to portray the split as going out on a high. The band are, however, more cagey about who else appears on the album because they’re still finalising everything, but it won’t be long until we find out. This album, named after the feeling of being on stage together again, is “an invitation into our world”, according to Angello.

Swedish House Mafia: Everything You Need To Know About the EDM Swedes

And I got to say, the smaller gigs in a dark club at 4am have definitely been my favourite ones, whereas the big main act festival gigs tend to be a bit too predictable, commercial, and choreographed for my taste. You can refer to their music in more simple terms as Swedish or European House Music, walking in the footsteps of European EDM artists such as Daft Punk and Tiesto. The group split up in 2013 during what you could definitely call the height of their popularity, a decision they’ve said was based on feeling lost as individual artists and not dealing with the increased pressure that came with this popularity.

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As dinner draws to a close, Angello and Ingrosso return from their second smoking break. Paradise Again, says Angello, is “just the beginning,” adding that they have enough music for a couple more albums yet. “You always want people to like your music, otherwise you wouldn’t play it to them,” says Ingrosso. “But the vision of the album, for me, it’s not really important if it sells 400 million [copies] or 10.” As Angello points out, they’ve already achieved something that, for so long, was more elusive. Five years later, it seemed like the group might reunite when it closed out Ultra’s 20th anniversary in Miami. But, as the members now say, behind-the-scenes problems at that show underscored just how much of a change a true reunion would have necessitated.

Swedish House Mafia to Release New Music This Friday

Unsure how to balance the demands of the group with their solo projects, Axwell says that “maybe we weren’t focused enough, or didn’t know what to do”. Either way, two months after closing out Coachella’s mainstage after headliners The Black Keys, they announced their farewell tour. They seem to have come to terms with all of this now though, as they reunited in 2021 with a new single with The Weeknd titled “Moth To A Flame” (which was well-received by fans, having been played over 100 million times in 2021 alone). Axwell and Ingrosso more than a decade ago (2013) started their residency called Departures at Ushuaïa.

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On June 23, 2012, Swedish House Mafia announced their split and revealed that their remaining shows listed on their website would be their last. “Today we want to share with you that the tour we are about to go on will be our last, they said. We came, we raved, we loved.” The news caught much of the dance world by surprise, but behind the magical curtain, things were not as glossy as they seemed.

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I mean, if you move in with your best friend, you will have tension with him too. Now that we’re a little bit older and wiser, we look back and realise we needed a break. Along the likes of fellow Swedes Avicii, Eric Prydz, Adam Beyer, and Miike Snow, SHM conquered the world with their energetic, hyped-up, and very popular twist on progressive and big-room house music.

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Die-hard fans may recognize the new track, as Steve Angello, Sebastian Ingrosso, and Axwell first debuted the single during their show last summer at Ibiza’s Ushuaia nightclub. Steve Angelle also performed the track during his closing performance at the Sahara Stage at Coachella last weekend. The newest part of Swedish House Mafia’s long past with Ushuaïa Ibiza is going to be a historic set of events. The group’s huge sounds and the club’s famously amazing production make their legendary Ushuaïa Ibiza shows one of the summer’s most memorable events. Ushuaïa Ibiza habitué surely remembers hearing their world-famous hits like “Moth To A Flame” and classics from their album “Paradise Again” played under the stars on the venue’s amazing stage. Swedish House Mafia dropped their next and final single, “Don’t You Worry Child,” which went onto become their biggest song by far.

He has been very successful on his own—both commercially and in the “underground” scene—albeit not quite with the same commercial success as SHM. They embraced the name eventually, and teamed up officially for the first time to release Leave the World Behind along with Dutch DJ/producer Laidback Luke in 2009. When they performed together, promoters, fellow DJs, and fans alike started referring to them as the “Swedish House Mafia” (as in jokingly saying “whoa here comes the Swedish House Mafia!”). In January 2024, Tomorrowland announced Swedish House Mafia will be performing at the 20 year anniversary festival called Life. In 2022, the group also received credit for co-writing and co-producing "Sacrifice" and "How Do I Make You Love Me?" off of the Weeknd's fifth studio album Dawn FM, on which 'Moth to a Flame' was featured on the Alternate World edition of the album. It went straight to the top of seven world charts when it came out, including the Billboard Top Dance/Electronic Albums Chart at number one and the UK Dance Albums Chart at number one.

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‘Lioness’ marks the first release of 2024 for the renowned house music group, a follow-up of last year’s single ‘Ray Of Solar‘. Listeners can expect to experience Swedish House Mafia’s signature electronic sound, featuring the vocals of indie singer Niki & The Dove. The 52-date arena world tour would begin November 16 in Dubai and then travel to India, parts of Europe and Europe before arriving in North America in February 2013.