Monday Choon: Swedish House Mafia - Ray of Solar

The Swedish trio have been playing to packed out crowds across the US and Europe in the past few months all whilst teasing the release of their latest track "Ray of Solar".  Finally after weeks of sneak peeks, the track is finally out and it certainly delivers in true SHM style! The track takes you on a nostalgic journey of the past, present and what we can expect in the future from them. The levels to the track is amazing with the layers of different electronic sounds, coupled with that invigorating bass line just provides momentum for it as it goes along. It definitely has the hardcore SHM excited and with good reason, lets hope this is just a taste of more to come. 

Monday Choon: Axwell /\ Ingrosso - Dancing Alone ft. RØMANS

While everyone waits with bated breath for Swedish House Mafia to release some new music, it seems we have to wait a little while long but that won't be such a bad thing if the duo Axwell /\ Ingrosso release fire tracks like this! Dropped just last week is their latest single featuring Romans, titled "Dancing Alone", the cover art alone will leaving you wondering, with a picture of a young Paris Hilton posing for the pic, all dressed up in her rave gear, doubt she danced alone that night though! The track harks onto their original work with many of the electronic synths and beats in the opening a clear reminder of their music back then, the vocals come in and brings in the modern aspect of the track and just carries itself well throughout. It's a steady progression to a fuse with old and new, it's extremely catchy and one that you're going to be hearing a lot. 

Monday Choon: Axwell /\ Ingrosso - More Than You Know

It's been a while since we heard from the Swedish duo Axwell /\ Ingrosso on the blog and while this track of their's dropped in early June, it's started to gain moment a lot now. The track "More Than You Know" has been playlisted on many radio stations and has been a feature of many live sets at recent music festivals, most notably Tomorrowland. We have the official music video of the song today and while the song is pretty epic, the video is too as it shows the journey of a fan capture through an old video recorder attending one of their shows. 

Monday Choon: Lune - Leave the world behind (Ludovika Bootleg)

Its been little over a year since the world bid it's goodbyes to the Swedish House Mafia, with their last performance at Ultra 2013 bringing an end to their One Last Tour. Since then we've seen new DJ's emerge from the ranks to take the world of electronic dance music by storm but still the sounds produced by the Swedish trio seem timeless. One of my all time favourite tracks from them is "Leave the world behind", released in 2009, it was the song that put them on the mark for greatness. It has emerged that they will be releasing a movie soon, entitled Leave the world behind with Lune doing the cover of the song. It's a different take to the orginal, giving it a very eerie feeling but at the same time done brilliantly well. Today we feature the Ludovika bootleg but watch the original video as well which features the former members. 

Monday Choon: Alesso Vs OneRepublic If I Lose Myself

We're into the teens! Yes, 17 days and counting till Ultra South Africa people! Excitement is mounting all over the country and this weeks featured artist will just add to the hype. Hailing from Sweden, many feel he could have been the fourth musketeer in the Swedish House Mafia but Alesso, although only really kicked off his career in 2011, chose to keep doing things his way and who can fault after producing some pretty cool stuff over the years. He's worked with some of the best in the industry, the likes of SHM, Avicii, Sander Van Doorn and most recently Calvin Harris and at age 22 one can only see him do better in the progressive house industry. The song we chose to feature from him today literally tore through charts and airwaves last year and was dubbed the theme song of UMF2013. He also played on both weekends in Miami and was well received on the main stage, this song features OneRepublic is still a big favourite of mine and many others as well, it just gets you into a good party mood.

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More info on Ultra South Africa:

Cape Town

14 February 2014

Ostrich Ranch

Johannesburg

15 February 2014

Johannesburg Expo Centre, Nasrec

Tickets available from Computicket.

Monday Choon: Steve Angello, Matisse & Sadko - SLVR

It's been been almost 6 months since the trio that formed Swedish House Mafia parted ways, all of whom have gone back to concentrating on their solo careers. Sebastian Ingrosso's latest track "Reload" is a current chart topper and Axwell back in business as well. Steve however was doing gigs but nothing new was ever released, until now that is. His single SLVR (Silver) with Russian DJs Matisse and Sadko which was released in late August is fast becoming a favourite track for DJs to spin in their mixes.