Stonebridge
There’s a right time and place for everything. And it would seem for
Swedish DJ and producer StoneBridge that his time is now. The success
of his anthem Put ‘Em High, which garnered him a No 6 in the UK Top 40,
No 1 in the dance charts and no end of rave reviews has only heightened
expectations of what else StoneBridge might have stored in his tank.
Yet when you’re an internationally acclaimed DJ jetting between London’
s Pacha and El Divino in Ibiza, playing regular sets all over Europe,
US and Russia, while running a house label from NY, remixing No 1 hits
for the likes of Enrique Iglesias and Texas; finding the time to make
your first solo album as a producer can be hard. Luckily fate
intervened and brought StoneBridge and ultra-hip UK dance label Hed
Kandi together to produce one of the year’s hottest and most critically
acclaimed debut albums, Can’t Get Enough, that not only consolidates
the impeccable track record of both, but pushes the boundaries of their
unquestionably high standards even further.
StoneBridge had his first DJ experience in 1983 at his sister's
graduation party followed by her friends' parties and StoneBridge found
DJ'ing a consuming passion. He started his own night called Fellini in
Stockholm and soon other DJs frequented the club and there were talks
of setting up a remix service. In 1986 StoneBridge alongside four other
DJ's established SweMix and by 1989 the reputation had spread
throughout Europe and StoneBridge began international remixing for
artists like De La Soul, Rebel MC and Titiyo.
His first UK club hits were his own Jazzy John's Freestyle Dub and Ann
Consuelo's See The Day in the early 90’s, but it was with his remix of
Robin S Show Me Love, which subsequently became StoneBridge’s first UK
top 10 and a worldwide hit 1993, that he moved on to become a major
force. Other big remixes and productions followed like Robin S 'Love
For Love', Chrissie Ward ‘Right & Exact’, Indo ‘R U Sleepin’, House of
Virginism ‘There For You’, Shawn Christopher ‘Make My Love’ and Donna
Giles And I'm Telling You to mention a few.
After years of solid remixing, StoneBridge reinvented himself as a DJ
and Producer in 1997 with a manic DJ tour across the US and Europe and
started up New York based label Stoney Boy Music, which presented a
more clubby sound. StoneBridge also continued to produce a wide variety
of artists including Tatyana Ali & Will Smith and the single 'Boy You
Knock Me Out', with which he scored his second UK top 10, but this time
as a writer and producer. This new direction paid off in 1999 when Coco
& StoneBridge The Beach became an Ibiza anthem and when he scored No 1
club hits with his remixes of Texas ‘Inner Smile’, Mel C’s ‘I Turn To
You’ and Enrique Iglesias 'Escape' in the following years. In 2002
StoneBridge began working on his debut album, Can’t Get Enough, which
was released in August 2004 and so far has given Stone his third UK top
10 hit, this time as the artist, writer and producer with the single
Put ‘Em High. With the the new single Take Me Away (featuring Therese)
ready to go, StoneBridge looks set to have a fantastic year in 2005
with the album licensed to all corners of the world including
Australia, South Africa, Taiwan and the US and an impressive DJ
schedule.
Biography courtesy of Electric Cabaret
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