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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 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.
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