★★★★★
Swedish House Mafia are undeniably enormous. One doesn't simply sell out Madison Square Gardens, after all. In a year that saw them practically raze the Milton Keynes Bowl, perhaps now is a good time for a compendium of original tracks, remixes, exclusive collaborations, club favourites and solo productions...
- www.musicomh.com
2013-04-02
★★★★★
House music's power is in communal experience, from the warehouse parties of the early adopters, through the cult of the DJ with every clubber worshipping at the altar of the 1s and 2s, to the colossal arena gig where thousands can hit that high at once. It comes into its own when you can look around you and see everyone moved by the same pull and thrust of the music, not vogueing alone in your bedroom...
- www.bbc.co.uk
2013-04-23
★★★★★
Apparently this soundtracks the last two years of Swedish House Mafia's rise to popularity. To account for the offensively retrospective nature of this trawl of commonplace dance-floor garbage (we're talking Coldplay, Candi Staton and Justice), I must assume, first, that they spent the last two years in a timewarp somewhere between 1993 and 2006...
- www.clashmusic.com
2010-12-06
★★★★★
A few musical mysteries of the world may never be solved. When it comes to dance music, the biggest one might be--in a similarly vulgar fashion to Ke$ha--how and why commercial house music exists in the first place. Enter Swedish House Mafia: three DJs who are collectively responsible for such club bangers as the mid '00s remixes of Eurythmics' "Sweet Dreams," Bronski Beat's "Smalltown Boy" and Robin S' "Show Me Love...
- www.filter-mag.com
2010-11-15
★★★★★
Swedish House Mafia are made up of producers Axwell, Steve Angello and Sebastian Ingrosso. All three made it into the top 25 of DJ Magazine's top 100 DJ's of 2009 list and are highly regarded in the industry. Until One is made up some their individual hits, re-workings of club classics and original material. The album opens with the summer smash "Your Name" which features N.E.R.D frontman and, arguably, the most stylish man in Hip-Hop, Pharrell Williams...
- hangout.altsounds.com
2010-11-02
★★★★★
Swedish House Mafia are not the first DJs to think they're rock stars; they're not the first to do anything, really. But the alliance of Axwell, Steve Angello and Sebastian Ingrosso embrace that image more than most. They eschew both subtlety and shame in their determination to convince the world theirs is the craziest party ever - their idea of a twist is to chuck such underplayed obscurities as You Got the Love or Satisfaction into the mix...
- www.guardian.co.uk
2010-10-25
★★★★★
A quarter century ago, Chicago DJs invented emphatically raw house music by sampling and re-creating disco riffs declared extinct. On this nonstop, 24-cut collection of tracks and remixes, Stockholm spinners Axwell, Steve Angello, and Sebastian Ingrosso try to write their own chapter of house history. The sources are sometimes unexpected (Miike Snow's unshakably lovely "Silvia") but more often obvious--the piano from Coldplay's "Clocks," the synths from MGMT's "Kids...
- spin.com
2010-10-18
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