SWEDISH HOUSE MAFIA

Along with Axwell and Steve Angello, Sebastian Ingrosso makes up the house DJ trio Swedish House Mafia, each having forged successful careers individually (Axwell with the hit Feel The Vibe, Angello with his remix of Eurythmics Sweet Dreams, and Ingrosso for his production work with Kylie and remixes for Justin Timberlake). Surprisingly, the Mafia tag was initially propagated through the keyboards of sexless twenty somethings who intended the tongue in cheek moniker to be a swipe at the trio’s extroverted club personalities.

“We all started to DJ together in Sweden just for fun and all these grumpy computer nerds started posting things like ‘who the fuck do they think they are, the Swedish House Mafia?’ So I guess we have them to thank for that,” Ingrosso laughs.

Ingrosso’s acute geniality is justified, as the three man supergroup having since achieved relative overnight success with their first two club records (One and Miami to Ibiza), which were both prepared using a simple recipe. “We have a saying: Goosebumps never lie” he says “So when we listen to something and I am jumping around and losing it and everyone in the studio has goosebumps, we know we have done something really good!”

Superstar DJ’s, Tick. International Playboy’s, Tick. Now with a debut release under the belt with Until One that features some of the trio’s previous work as well as their collabs with Pharrell and Tinie Tempah and classics they drop in their DJ sets, naturally the iconic threesome would eventually turn their magic wand toward the silver screen. Obviously aided by the fact that (as their lucrative porn industry leads us to believe) everyone in Sweden owns a video camera. The ‘underpants on’ PG-13 version is soon to be released as a Rockumentary called Take One.

“I started to do a lot of Youtube clips, small clips of our shows and things like that. Christian Larson was on tour with us and after a year we had so much footage that we just decided ‘lets show people what its like to be the Swedish House Mafia, lets show them when we are creative, lets show them when we are fighting and lets show them when we are drunk’. Its just a complete picture for our fans.”

As the interview comes to an end, I search the page for my final catechism. If you guys are really the Swedish House Mafia, then who is the Godfather? Ingrosso counters with, “That’s the thing, we are all equal so there are three Godfathers. Imagine one DJ with six arms, we are one.”

Swedish House Mafia’s ‘Until One’ is out now

By Tim Galvin for Pagesdigital.com