ENGBERG, IDA/ MULL, JOEL - [P3] SWEDISH SILVER VOL 2 - PART 3

Being the resident Djane in Stockholm’s legendary Cocktail Club Ida worked out the sophisticated style of her DJ Sets for years. “I play deep house, tech house, funky techno, some minimal and sometimes some electro. Everything that touches my soul basically. I'll always keep on playing underground electronic dance music.“, she confesses. Ida Engberg was born in a suburb of Stockholm. She moved around a little, lived in Marbella and in Ibiza for quite a while. Now she settled on an island right outside Stockholm called Lidingö. There’s one question of male fellows Ida has to face eversince she started selecting music: “How come you decided to become a DJ? – I mean since you are a girl and all???" The truth is Ida never really decided to become a DJ. It just happened as she reports: “My first boyfriend at the age of 14 was DJing and I thought it was really cool. He taught me how to mix a little bit but it wasn't until I was 18 that I started to play myself.“ Her first gig was in a club that a friend of her was running. His ordinary resident was sick and Ida just happened to be there. "I said, ’I can play’, he just looked at me and said something like ’Yeah right’. I can't believe I actually convinced him to let me play that night. It was great, I loved it!" A few weeks later Ida got asked to start playing in one of the biggest and most famous after-hours club in Stockholm called The Spy Bar. This was the beginning of her life as a DJ. That was five years ago and a lot of things happened since then. Ida had the great opportunity to have played alongside DJs like Roger Sanches, Damian Lazarus, Jennifer Cardini, David West, John Dahlbäck, Jesper Dahlbäck, Sebastian Ingrosso, Eric Prydz, The Knife, Jo Mills, Joel Mull, Aril Brikha, Anja Shneider, Özgur Can, Steve Lawler, Nic Fanctiulli and Misstress Barbara. "At the moment I'm resident at my favourite club in the whole world called Cocktail Club. It's in the heart of Stockholm and everyone that loves great music and raving should pay a visit there!" More information on Ida Engberg can be found on: Plantage13.com Pickadoll.de http://www.myspace.com/idaengberg Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.

Joel Mull was born Aquarius in Stockholm in 1975. Receiving his first synthesizer at the age of six, Joel has begun his long and successful music career by taking piano lessons soon after. From the age of ten to sixteen, Joel attended Music School in Stockholm, using most of his time playing keyboards and singing in numerous capacities. Joel got into electronic music via Kraftwerk and Depeche Mode. As it is the case with many of the today’s dance music luminaries, his early musical explorations gave him a solid base upon which he would continue building. In 1991, at an outdoor “rave” party in Stockholm, Joel experienced a musical style he had never heard before. In the lights of his discovery of techno, he has found his passion. Soon after, Joel began picking up mostly House and Techno from the Stockholm record shops. Nevertheless, he met Adam Beyer at school, who spent his lunch breaks teaching Joel how to mix and play records with the pair of Technics 1210 he had at home. In 1993 Joel bought an Ensoniq sampler and DJ equipment of his own, and from that moment, he confidently took off into realms of electronic music. Joel found inspiration to pursue a full time DJ career in 1995. From that point on, he has consistently flexed his musical background with his range of productions and superb choice of label releases. After many releases on different labels around the world, Joel felt that it was time to take control over his music and in 1998 a new project was born: “Inside Records.” Since then there has been a continuous release flow of quality dance-floor techno 12” from his studio in Stockholm. Working with Adam Beyer as the duo “Safety Session,” the two have received an overwhelming response to their releases. Being a contemporary musician with rare training and a good ear has led Joel down the path of electronic music. As DJ and live act, Joel has been performing in numerous countries across the Globe. He has become an artist to be watched and followed. Joel Mull is a perfect example of the successful contemporary techno artist. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.