Monokreck describes his style as "open minded house, from glitchy microhouse to deep techno, and all in between". Melting many styles of electronic music together to create a warm atmosphere on the dancefloor.
Kerst is natuurlijk niks zonder een goed diner en een kerstboom! Kerst is niks zonder sneeuw(!), kerst is niks zonder sinterklaas. Maar wat natuurlijk ook niet kan missen om de kerstdagen goed af te sluiten is een dijk :) van een feest.
Soms ben je ergens aan het wandelen en begint het ineens keihard te regenen. Of je wordt achterna gezeten door een groep hondsdolle wezels. Of je loopt heel hard tegen een boom. In deze gevallen is het duidelijk tijd om naar huis te gaan.
While Sweden lesser known for it's house music thereīs a producer thatīs been crafting out his niche in that genre for yours. Working at a rate challenging the track speed of Michael Johnson, Hakan Lidbo (pronounced Haw-kan) has release upwards of 70 house tunes since he put out his first 7" single 12 years ago.
He since done two artist albums, seven mix albums and released several EPs on labels from Sweden, UK, Germany, France, Denmark and the USA. His style is diverse as house music itself. While you may have heard the deeper, trackier stuff that heīs done for te likes of Paper Recordings (All I want) or Loaded (most recently "Walk away" and "Home cooking EP") he?s also parial to harder edged stuff. Just check out Lidbos releases on Hollands X-trax label which he describes as ?baninbg techno?. More recent stuff is a tech house EP ofr Pokerflat in Germany and another 12" for US impint Plastic City.
"Right now i?m very much into house music? says 35 year old Lodbo, chatting from his home studio over in Stockholm. "But if you check the records I buy they are mainly old ones, 50s, 60s, 70s, big orchestras like manchini and Burt Bacharach-style arrangements".
Lidbo makes music alone in his studio. All his productions are sample based and he admits to being a "sample-freak"; lifting bits from old and new records and chopping them up into tiny pieces; and looping sections to create his sound thatīs sometimes deep and dubby, others techy and more pumping and something verging on hte banging.
Hakan first plugged into music biz in the late eighties when he landed a job as an A&R bod at M&W, the biggest independent label in Scandinavia.. Lidbo found the role restricting:
"They only worked with the Swedish market and well as being really hectic I felt that they didn?t really respect what I wanted to do". he says. "So I quit".
in the meantime Lidbo has been producing some of the labels pop releases and working on remixes. "When I quit my job, I found I suddenly had all the time in the world for my music. I had so much of tis music in me so I worked like a madman", he admits.
Lidbo started churning out a track a day. "My personal recod is six in one day" he chuckles. "But that was a very long day". The pace has kept up since then and this working speed is less to do with formulaic productions and more with haveing a focus for what you?re doing.
"Iīm so focused when I get into the studio" says Lidbo. "I don?t think it?s about how much time you spend in there. I work by intuition so I don"t find myself having to pick between this bass drum or that bass drum, this effect or hatt effect.
