Mixes

Stockholm Records made a smart move when they hired a DJ from the biggest radio stations P3, NRJ and Power to do their megamix. And then the safe card, me 😉 That way, all channels would have their own mix to play and even DJs had a lot to choose from. I had earlier made an E-Type megamix a few years earlier, but now he had released additional songs and I split it into two parts, the first with house that then floats over in his typical eurodisco style.

After playing at Trädgår’n for a whole year, and doing several jobs a week throughout the period, Trädgår’n thought that they would manage to take care of the DJ-bookings themselves.Just after I finished, I thought I could record two CDs with songs that rolled a lot during the spring. This is definitely not the World Cup in mix, but very simple live-mixed at home with a denon CD-player and a mixer without filter. As for Trädgår’n, it became a break for almost 2 years, before I returned as a DJ-booker, when they realized that it became unsustainable to have no one who ruled a music profile.

A*Teens was initially called Abba*Teens but was forced to change due to copyrights. The music was Abba covers in new euro-inspired versions. Although the whole idea of this music felt a little uncomfortable at first, it became a huge success. In addition to medley, I also made 2 remixes for the project.

During all years I’ve baptized all the mixes I made and this was called the Bedroom Mix. Partly because it is made at home and is completely live-recorded, but also to reduce expectations. I have never spread this mix and never really intended to spread either. I gathered together a couple of songs, mixed them together without any planning in an hour on a denon player and a DJ-mixer without filters.

A DJ mate Jacob, who worked for me at Trädgår’n, was after a yearmix with all the hits from 1998 to be played on New Year’s Eve. I was not particularly keen to spend several weeks doing one, but I could certainly help Jacob to do something. I ended up mixing it, using some parts of the summer’s P3 program and adding a bit of new mixes, so it would cover most of what was hits in 1998. It’s not the best medley in the world, but it still sums up 1998 on one good way.