Electronic music of Sweden

The electronic music in Sweden has been heavily affected by the German electronic music. In the fusion of the globe, the ensemble known as S.P.O.C.K has been lively since the late 80s. One of the very current ensembles from Sweden is the Knife, as is Sally Shapiro, which is the stage name of producer known as Johan Agebjorn and a Swedish singer. So presently, the so-named Swedish House Mafia which are Steve Anegllo, Axwell and Sebastian Ingrosso has topped the house music charts and DJ top 10s in the world.

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In the year 2011, the Swedish musician known as Tim Bergling (Avicii) was voted the known DJ all over the globe in the top 100 DJ poll. Other similar musicians of note were Eric Prydz, John Dahlback, Nause, Albin Myers, the duo Dada Life, Adrian Lux, Otto Knows, Tjernberg, Icona Pop, Alesso, Steerner, Rebecca & Fiona, Will & Dan, Sebjack, Cazzette and Jakob Liedholm. The trio Swedish House Mafia is by far the best renowned electronic music orchestra from Sweden.

During in the mid late 2000s Swedish dialect Eurodance & Eurotrance dance music became globally well-known. Most noticeable because in the year 2005, Basshunter became renowned with his eurotrance dance chants, based on long standing themes set during in the mid late 2000s computer centric culture. The Little Dragon is also Swedish.

There are also many techno producers from Sweden; however they are frequently better recognized internationally than around the Sweden. There is a straight distinctive Swedish subgenre of techno, the very popular producer within the genre being Adam Beyer who is the head of the Drumcode label with popular musician such as Cari Lekebusch, Henrik B, Joel Mull and many others.

Another popular producer duo is known as Minilogue which has attained lots of interest worldwide, particularly with their release in the year 2008 known as Animals.

In addition, Sweden is one of the dominating nations in the universe when it comes to chiptunes or bitpop. The music of Chip is the type of music that is made up to run on old game comfort and particular in PCs such as Commodore 64, Game Boy and Amiga.

The Swedish music scene is dominant by musicians such as Machinae Supremacy, The Knife, Slagsmalskulubben, Coma, Crazy Q, Covox, Zeigeist, Role Model, Dubmood, random, Zabutom, and Maktone.

Elektronmusikstudion (EMS), which was previously regarded as Electroacoustic Music in Sweden, and it is the Swedish national center for electronic music and sound art. The research organization began in the year 1964 and it is based in Stockholm.