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artist · d malicious
release · the dark tradition
year · 2003
genre · house
label · wave music
catalogue · wm50113-1
website · www.wavemusic.com
date · 02-may-2006
quality · alt-preset standard
source · vinyl
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a1 dark tradition 8:27
b1 soft machine 6:14
b2 dark transition 5:43
playtime · 00h 20m 24s
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the talented producer and multi instrumentalist mikael nordgren is
a living proof of how global the whole dance music phenomena has
become since it all started back in the days. raised not in some
urban capital area, but in a small village in the midst of rural
sweden, mikael had to search harder than most people to find the
music that eventually would have him release cutting edge dance
music on prominent labels such as wave, ibadan, king street, slip
┤n┤slide and raw fusion. you can thank the house music diaspora
for that... >from the tender age of 10 mikael started this journey
by learning to play a variety of instruments including bass,
guitar, drums and piano. heavily fascinated and triggered by the
house music boom that eventually had reached sweden in the late
80s, his first steps as a song writer were heavily inspired by the
sounds of inner city and s┤express. at the same time he also
discovered the funky soul and jazz sounds of the 60s and 70s and
these are all influences that still can be heard in his eclectic
approach on dance music - inspired as much by albert ayler and roy
ayers as derrick may or underground resistance.
nowadays stockholm based and recording under his aliases tiger
stripes, d┤malicious and 12th floor gives mikael the opportunity
to release stuff ranging from heavy tech house sounds to
percussive afro house, as well as some discofied broken beats
thrown in the mix.
his biggest influences are the underground disco sounds of the
late 70┤s and early 80┤s and that led to mikael contacting the
undisputed king of boogie - leroy burgess - while working on his
first label signed house project slippery people in the year 2000.
leroy was immediately impressed by the soulful garage sound of the
song that would be called 'sweet thing', and flew to stockholm to
work with mikael. the result was so fine that their collaboration
extended to more songs, not everyone yet released. also as
slippery people, mikael recorded the storming garage monster of
'wish i never knew' together with the legendary new jersey diva
adeva.
after that mikael left the slippery people project and moved on to
began experimenting with more techy house sounds and soon came
into contact with legendary producer francois k and the wave
label. there he released his debut as d┤malicious with the seminal
'dark tradition ep'. his sound, inspired by the soulful techno of
detroit┤s finest, was immediately appreciated by a wide variety of
djs worldwide such as laurent garnier, carl craig, derrick may and
matty heilbronn. since then mikael has released two more 12 inches
on wave, 'the loup garou ep' and 'alive/the last song on earth'
and are soon to have a full length album.
under his tiger stripes alias mikael has found a truly unique
sound. in tracks like "spririted away" and "the vulture" afro
rythms, guitars and electronic sounds come toghether like never
before.
mikael has recently worked together with legendary nyc producers
kerri chandler & jerome sydenham in the studio. kerri and mikael
has written two songs together and mikael┤s also playing the
guitar on kerris own song "mental moonlight fiesta".
together with jerome, in 2005, mikael produced "stockholm - go
bang" a track that has received great succes and is getting
rotation from djs like carl craig, osunlade, roger sanchez as well
as pete tong.
he has also done remixes for labels like king street,
slip┤n`slide, southern fried, compost and positiva. songs from
artists like blaze, antonio caballero, koop and king britt has
been re-shaped by mikael into techno anthems and
soulful-dance-bombs.
besides producing, mikael┤s also been running sweden┤s premier
house club go bang! since the autumn of 2001. inviting dj┤s such
as kerri chandler, dj gregory, marshall jefferson, rolando,
osunlade, matty heilbronn and maurice fulton he has provided the
expanding swedish house community with pure quality sounds.
his own fine dj skills are also to be mentioned and mikael has
travelled around the globe playing in japan, uk, us, italy,
finland, lithuania, estonia, denmark and russia. his greatly
appreciated sets varies from electronic to more soulful house
sounds, depending on what the club promoter wishes. although
mikael is best at ease when he can blend these genres together in
his truly unique way.
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