Genres: Dance, Music, Electronic, House
Released: Oct 22, 2012
Until Now is the second mix album from Swedish DJ supergroup Swedish House Mafia. Featuring a mix of their own material - including the singles Greyhound, Save the World and Don’t You Worry Child - the album also includes exclusive Swedish House Mafia mash-ups of tracks by the likes of Steve Aoki, Coldplay, Florence + The Machine and Axwell.
Genres: Dance, Music, Electronic
Released: Oct 26, 2012
Genres: Dance, Music
Released: Jan 15, 2012
The DJ/producer team Swedish House Mafia is the trio of Axwell, Steve Angello, and Sebastian Ingrosso, and they're incredibly talented at turning one song into many. “Antidote”—the second single from their celebrated 2011 live album, One Night Stand—gets put through the remix wringer here. Collaborating with duo Rob Swire and Pendulum’s own Gareth McGrillen (a.k.a. Knife Party), the three-minute radio edit gets things going with hard electro. “Antidote” is an instant banger, where Knife Party’s trademark bass wobble takes the prominent role over layered synths and sirens. The album version plays twice as long, milking the intro’s blending of looped hi-hat and squiggly synth tones before leading listeners to a cliffhanging buildup and drop. With “Knife Party Dub,” the duo makes good on the title with vision-blurring bass while creating a monster of bottom-end destruction. Axwell, Angello, and Ingrosso reclaim control with “Swedish House Mafia Dub,” where previous exaggerations are scaled down for more dance floor accessibility. The “Tommy Trash Remix” chills out the tempo and pitches down the robotic Speak N’ Spell samples.
Genres: Dance, Music, House, Electronic
Released: Oct 25, 2010
Swedish House Mafia's first mix album, Until One, is sure to please clubgoers from Miami to Ibiza (not so coincidentally the title of one of the two songs the Mafia recorded themselves for the mix). The three superstar DJs who make up the group, Axwell, Steve Angello, and Sebastian Ingrosso, all placed in the Top 25 of DJ Mag's Top 100 DJs of 2009 list, and it’s easy to hear why after a spin of the record. It’s filled with the kind of uptempo floor-fillers that dancers crave, mixed one after the other like some kind of sweaty, glittery marathon of thick synths, diva vocal interjections, and fist-pumping breakdowns. It’s a resolutely mainstream experience geared toward pleasing the maximum amount of listeners — the edgiest the mix gets is dropping in Daft Punk's "One More Time" near the end. To that end, the mix succeeds wildly and it’d be a miracle if you made it to the end without getting up to bust a few moves. Tossing in current favorites by Empire of the Sun, Benny Benassi, and Miike Snow along with old jams like "You Got the Love" by the Source and Candi Staton, the DJs have a good feel for dynamics and crowd-pleasing transitions. You can easily hear why they are so beloved by happy dancers worldwide. As producers, they are less successful. "Miami 2 Ibiza" and "One," the two tracks they made for the album, are standard house jams without many distinguishing characteristics (apart from Tinie Tempah’s weak rap flow on "Miami"). Not every DJ dream team is up to the challenge of creating great original tracks, though, and it’s hard to criticize Swedish House Mafia when their mix is otherwise such a blast.
