Only one more day to go people! We’ve managed to blag a few last minute competition tickets – anyone interested in going to see the Swedish Trio at Brixton tomorrow night [6th November] just CLICK HERE to send us an email with your name + three friends [remember we need full names!] Winners will be picked at random and you’ll know by tomorrow morning! Winners will also get themselves a T-Shirt… and there’s talk of some caps kicking about too…..Good luck! 
Steve Angello’s Size imprint has let off more bullets than a John Wayne movie this year so you’d expect nothing less when Don Angello and his younger brother, AN21, set to work on this throbbing horn driven battle weapon.
Valodja has the Swedes trademark power in the mix, probing through to create yet another sexed up tool for you to wreak havoc with.
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Why stop at DJ Mag? Steve is on November’s Tillate Magazine Cover – get your copy here!
Competition time people! To celebrate the release of Sumliminal Sessions Winter 2009 mixed by Steve himself he thought you may want to get your paws on a copy! So we have six CDs to give away to the lucky people who can answer the question below:
Who’s the front man for the record label Subliminal Records?
Answers, along with your full name and postal address can be emailed here (please put ’subliminal’ in the subject box). Winners will be announced on Friday!
In the meantime, if you need to get your copy right now, please see below. Good luck!
After a season of pure madness at Pacha, Ibiza, a top 20 record, and sell out Brixton Academy shows Swedish House Mafioso, Steve Angello drops the first of four post summer monsters to warm those winter cockles. Taken directly from his forthcoming artist album ‘Yearbook’, ‘Tivoli’is a peak timer that builds and flexes into a plethora of synths and white noise engineered for an explosive euphoric moment. Joining this muscle release on remix duty are competition winners Hy2rogen & Fr3cky for a slick tripped out rework of this future underground classic.
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A track with Pharrell, 5 cars, countless watches, a pad in L.A, and he still doesn’t think he’s made it? By now everyone into house music (and some pop fans) will no doubt have heard about Steve Angello. He was the guy behind the re-rub of Robin S ‘Show Me Love’, with fellow producer Laidback Luke, you know the one, the track that went ballistic across every European national chart. He is also 33.3 % of The Swedish House Mafia, the too hot to handle bad boys of Dance music. As a solo artist, Steve’s talents did not go unnoticed by Super star DJ Erick Morillo who quickly became his number one fan. After a great deal of chasing, Erick has finally got Steve to produce an album for his beloved Subliminal label. Here Erick interviews Steve and finds out about the man, his music and what he has done with the new mix.
When you first started out did you wish you could be Erick Morillo?
Erick’s a big inspiration for a lot of DJs, you can see a little bit of him in everyone from David Guetta to us and to anybody. I think he’s a really big inspiration to house DJs.
At what point in your career did you think ‘This is it, I’ve made it!’?
I still don’t think I’ve made it yet. There’s still so much more you can do and you can always achieve and accomplish more than what you’ve done. So I’m still waiting for that moment.
Tell me about your passions outside of music.
I’m definitely into cars and watches and food! I have 5 cars, 11 or 12 watches.
What’s the difference in your sound when you’re playing a stadium to when you’re playing an underground club?
When you play a stadium you can play the bigger music, you can drop the classics such as The Prodigy and The Chemical Brothers and you can do boot-legs and mash ups. I think when you play clubs you can go a lot more intimate and sexy and more bass-line based, more so than you can do at festivals.
Describe the style of your set.
The style I like is to go up and down and left to right with the music and I just try and make the people enjoy themselves and I think the way to do that various from different clubs and different cities and different parts of the world. In South America you have a certain sound, the same goes for America. I think in Europe you have to be more picky because the dance music culture has been there for a much longer time so I think the crowds in Europe are more educated than other places.
What’s this thing with Pharrell? Why are the big Hip Hop stars looking to top European DJs all of a sudden?
I think America has recently seen just how good dance music is. There’s a lot of energy in it with a lot of people having a good time. Me and Sebastian worked with Pharrell, and I worked with him again after that and I think they are trying to explore new genres to get involved in because everybody gets bored of doing whatever they do. So as much as they come to us, we’d like to work with them because they give us something that we don’t have and vice-versa.
Who would be your ultimate pop/rock hook-up?
I don’t set goals on artists. Madonna would be an achievement but there’s so many big acts around that you just have to find the one that fits you rather than just going for the biggest ones.
What is it about the Subliminal sound that you’re so attracted to? What have they got right?
Subliminal has been a label that, since we started DJ-ing, had the biggest output of music that we actually liked. It’s had a big impact on us as DJs because when we started out all the big records were subliminal records with Erick and Harry Choo Choo Romero and Jose Nunez, so I think Subliminal has a big impact on house DJ’s career’s rather than the sound.
Can you outline some of the labels and tracks that have inspired you over the years?
I get inspired from everything from techno to RnB to rock, so it’s a very broad spectrum that we’re looking at. I think that the tracks that we’ve done such as ‘Leave The World Behind’ and ‘Show Me Love’ inspires me for my next record because they’ve been such a big success.
You’re about to release a new mix compilation on Subliminal. Tell us about it and its vibe.
The vibe of the mix is pretty much what I do – I take a 7 hour set and squeeze it down to CDs. It’s like my business card to the scene and I’m just showing what I’m doing. I think it’s pretty much like my set in a club but obviously a shorter version that fits onto a CD.
What tracks and producers can you tell us about that feature on the mix and are any of these guys inspiring you at the moment?
I get inspired by a lot of people and Dirty South is one of my boys from Australia and then we have Joris Voorn, Cyrus D is on there (the compilation) which is Eric Prydz and I’ve got some stuff on there. I get inspired at certain times by artists, I just tend to move on all the time and at this point these guys are inspiring me.
Are there any exclusive tracks on the compilation?
Yes we’ve got Gel Abril’s ‘Marir’ which is an exclusive and we’ve got my track ‘Tivoli’ which is also an exclusive. There’s another one of my tracks called ‘La Candela Viva’ which is exclusive. So yeah, lots of exclusives!
You’re playing with the Swedish House Mafia this November at the Brixton Academy. What’s so special about this?
The biggest achievement with the Brixton show is that we’re actually doing it. The fact that the Swedish House Mafia have managed to sell out a concert in England is a big achievement. It’s going to be fun to do and we are going to give the crowd something they won’t forget.
You are the Chief A&R guy at ‘Size’ Records. What records do you think have put the label on the map and what can we look forward to in 2010?
We’ve got a lot of stuff coming out – my little brother Anton, myself, there’s also tracks from Kim Fai and a track from Christian Smith. There’s a lot of good stuff coming out right now.
I’m assuming you’ve seen the new CDJ that’s coming out in November, and I know that you’re one of the DJs who has resisted from leaving using CDs. Do you think it’s only a matter of time before you start to use the computer based software?
I think you can still play the CDs and I like the fact of having a CD because I don’t want to have to pull up a screen and find the track, but the thing with this new CDJ is that you can connect a little device to it and that then links to all of the players. It has a big screen and it’s very good and you can just scroll down and you can do folders in itunes. It gives you more than just a CD, you can prepare a whole set and you can prepare loops, you can set cue and loop points etc… I think the CD is going to disappear but it’s going to take a while because guys like me are still going to stick around with a case.
What is it about tattoos that you really like?
I love tattoos. Its art, but sometimes I regret ones but others I don’t ha!
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2 CDs of pulsating house and techno from the likes of Joris Voorn, Cagedbaby, Sebastian Ingrosso & Dirty South, DJ T, Cirez D and more…
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