shadow. Just two years since he exploded out of nowhere unstoppable ‘Show Me Love’ remix. Or the slew of more
with the infectiously blippy ‘Put Your Hands Up For Detroit’, heads-down techy business that Steve has released on his
Fedde has risen as one of the very hottest names in house Size label.
with artists outside the scene also clambering to work with
him. fedde Le Grand: A man of many musical moods, Fedde
Just putting the finishing touches to his awaited debut LP has kept the planet’s more commercial floors full of raised
‘Output’, the versatile producer will be showcasing a series digits thanks to his groove-charged ‘The Creeps’ with Camille
of ‘mini-concerts’ at his Flamingo Nights on Tuesdays with Jones and his electro-licked r&b bumper ‘Let Me Think
vocalists from the album joining him at Pacha. About It’, which featured the vocals of Denmark’s answer
As for the album itself, well anyone expecting to hear ‘Put to Beyoncé — Ida Corr. Both are basically big room electro-
Your Hands Up For Detroit’, ‘Creeps’ and eight hastily hashed house on a shiny pop-gleaned stick and both went Top 10 in
out copycats are in for a shock. Instead, Fedde has been the single charts.
creatively labouring with A-list artists like The Stereo MCs, But Fedde has proved that he’s equally adept at using his
The Black Eyed Peas’
will.i.am, NYC hip-house spitter Mr V skills to get the more underground floors moving through
and Danish vocalist Mitch Cools to create a mixing pot of tracks like the darker, smoked-out techno vibes of Toolroom
future-pop styles. release ‘Amplify’ and its shuffling tribal-tech flipside ‘Pink
“I was fed up with all the albums coming out that were just Bird’, which have found favour with DJs like Carl Cox and
compilations of house tracks that producers had been play- Mark Knight.
ing in their sets for the past six months — that’s not me,”
Fedde Le Grand
says Fedde. “The albums I personally enjoy are the ones from
people like Daft Punk, Faithless, Groove Armada, Basement PREVIOUS P
Jaxx, the kind of stuff that goes from left to right and every-
ACHA CREDENTIALS
thing in between.” SwediSh houSe Mafia: A Balearic home from home,
the Swedish House Mafia have been causing their unique
So with The Dark Forest and Flamingo Nights competing for brand of mayhem at Pacha since 2005, when Axwell warmed
your Euros at Pacha this summer, we take a closer look at up for Todd Terry and Steve Angello ran his Size sessions
what the contenders have to offer… alongside Erick Morillo’s Subliminal. Last year, they took a
more central stage as star residents at Friday’s Pure Pacha
with P Diddy and Gary from the hit TV show CSI both seen
THE HYPE busting moves to their grooves.
Now the stage is set for the Swedish House Mafia to become
SwediSh houSe Mafia: A three-man anthem factory, stars of their own show and send Pacha into a brave new era
are the Swedish House Mafia the only outfit to have had their of hedonism.
tunes caned by DJs as wide ranging as Ben Watt, Paul van
Dyk, 2ManyDJs, Erol Alkan, Erick Morillo, Funk D’Void, Little fedde Le Grand: For a first timer at the glamorous
Louie Vega and Carl Cox? We wouldn’t bet against it. Pacha, Fedde showed nerves of steel last season. Rockin’
Resolutely flicking two fingers to the underground/over- the booth as one of the leading Pure Pacha residents,
ground debate, the lively trio have only one aim — to get Fedde’s crowning moment was when Black Eyed Peas’
parties jumping. And it is clearly working too.
will.i.am joined him in the DJ booth to rap, hype and toast
Pure party starters, their snowballing hype is fast making throughout most of his set, creating one of the
them the first supergroup of house music’s modern era, season’s classic moments in the process.
with scheduled November tour dates at London’s Brixton For the past two years, Fedde has also played
Academy just a hint of where they’re heading. Right now for MN2S at El Divino and been a star turn
the only limit seems to be their ambition and they’re hardly for Carl Cox at Space, but this time round
short on that. he’s putting all his eggs in one basket by
playing for Pacha alone. Each and every
fedde Le Grand: Rocking dancefloors in his Dutch week, by the way.
homelands since 2001, Fedde has been the global golden
boy of electro-house ever since ‘Put Your Hands Up For
Detroit’ smashed the charts, airwaves and Ibiza floors back THE PARTY
in 2006. Okay, so it was about as Detroit-sounding as your
average Madonna track but steady Fedde has since proved he The dark foreST: Think theatre,
is no one-trick pony by remixing Robbie Williams, The Black think fantasy, think, er, forests. The
Eyed Peas and Madge herself, and collaborating with The Swedish House Mafia boys have got
Stereo MCs and Black Eyed Peas’
will.i.am. The Royal Shakespeare Company
These days everyone from Moloko’s Roisin Murphy, loud- involved in costume design, set
mouth rapper Fatman Scoop to cosmic pop band Empire Of designers are jetting in from
The Sun are all after a piece of Fedde’s finely-tuned studio Los Angeles and London, while
magic. Basically, the boy’s on fire and Pacha know it. fabrics have been sourced from
across Europe. Lifting aesthetic
inspiration from escapist
T
HE HITS fantasies like Pan’s Labyrinth,
expect a risqué stage show of
SwediSh houSe Mafia: Where to start? As Romanesque extravagance,
Supermode in 2006, Angello and Axwell gave the shiny ’80s while a bacchanalian spectacle
pop melodies of Bronski Beat’s ‘Smalltown Boy’ a modern as fairies, wolves and winged
flourish with ‘Tell Me Why’. Then came the old skool piano transvestites will furnish the
rushes of Axwell’s colossal ‘I Found U’ the year after, while platforms and podiums.
the filth-disco bleepery of Steve and Seb’s ‘Body Crash’ (as
Buy Now!) broke them to the Justice-loving crew last year. fLaMinGo niGhTS: Expect
That’s without mentioning the triumvirate’s current anthem dancers and decking to be given a
with Laidback Luke — ‘Leave The World Behind’ — or ‘that’ sleek neon twist and decadent ’80s
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