We were doing a lot of session work and we were creatively bored. We started doing covers just as a fun creative outlet for ourselves. It felt like freedom to us,” explains Henrik, a session bass player since age 16, of Dirty Loops’ beginnings in 2008. It wasn’t just Dirty Loops’ clever choice of covers or exemplary musicianship (R&B/pop superstar Brian McKnight even called them “the most musical” band he’s heard) that sent the band on their rising musical trajectory. Rather, it was their distinctive approach to taking a pop song, and, well, “loopifying” it that resonated with everyone. “We chose these songs to cover because we knew we could do something very different to them. If we chose a jazz song and did our thing, it wouldn’t be that different. We like the contrast of genres,” explains Henrik, who cites the Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Flea among his favorite bassists and Tribal Tech among his favorite groups. Though the guys were having a blast putting some jazzy bass slaps and a funky sound on “Just Dance” or transforming “Circus” from a simple pop ditty to a fun fusion concoction, they didn’t think others would get their unique vision. “We thought the combination of fusion and pop was so unsexy that no one would ever listen to it,” laughs Henrik. (He never sang in a band, though, until Dirty Loops.) The only reason we even made a video in the first place was to have something to show bookers to get gigs just to play for fun,” laughs Jonah, who began singing in parents’ church choir at age 1 and playing the piano at age 11. That calling-card video – Lady Gaga’s “Just Dance” – spread like wildfire simply via word-of-mouth. “People thought we had this social media strategy, but we didn’t even have a Facebook page or Twitter at the time. It really just happened naturally,” muses Henrik. Henrik continued “It got serious when we released the first video, that’s kinda like, it was a fun project just for two years, but uhm, around the time when we released the “ Just Dance” video, it got uhm… way more views than we expected because we put it out there to have you know, a booking reference.Soon, record labels and management companies were hitting the band up on their MySpace page, much to the shock of the group. “Well, it started in the Royal Music Academy in Stockholm, and since we were playing with other artists and doing a lot of different projects where we couldn’t really express ourselves lie we wanted to musically, Aron came up to me and said let’s start something fun, just for fun to just go crazy and have a place where we can develop ourselves and just do something fun, and that’s how we started it and just… yah!”, Jonah (Keys/Vocals) said in an interview. The idea to start the band, Dirty Loops, was birthed during the period they were at The Royal Academy of Music, Stockholm, Sweden. They were classmates from cradle, all three of them attended the same music schools and had the same music educational experience growing up. He is also the band’s fashionista! And Aron plays the drums, often seen as the quiet sonic solid backbone of the band. Even now…Lol! This is because he became real popular when he was fairly young. Henrik is the bass player, often seen as the wonder kid prodigy and heartbeat of the band. So Jonah plays the keys and doubles as the singer as well, he is often seen as the voice and soul of the band. They are known for their jazz fusion reharmonized covers of pop songs. Their arrangements borrow from jazz and jazz fusion, gospel, funk, electronica, pop, and disco. This is probably because they integrate different stylistic genres into their music. Their music is one that makes sense across all genres and perfectly fits into the fabric of pop culture. If you don’t know Dirty Loops, well, you know the saying that goes, “Every once in a while a band comes around that defies definition, a band so inimitable in its approach to music that it turns a genre on its head and leaves one wondering, “ WHAT WAS THAT?!” Well, that’s exactly what Sweden’s best-kept secret, Dirty Loops, has done with their debut album, Loopified.” That emerged from their site and has become a statement that defines who they are in terms of nature and definition. They made such covers and uploaded them on YouTube. They started off making reharmonized fusion covers of pop songs just for fun in the garage of Henrik”s house. All three members of the band hail from Stockholm, Sweden. Without further ado, let’s get to it.ĭirty Loops is a Swedish trio band made up of Jonah Nilsson, Henrik Linder and Aron Mellergård. We’ll be talking about one of my favourite fusion bands-Dirty Loops. Hello guys, How’s it hanging at your end ‽ Today I want us to take a break from Feminism and talk about something else.
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