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Antiloop was founded in 1994 by the friends and neighbours
Robin Söderman and David Westerlund. They grew up together on the island
of Lidingö outside Stockholm,
and are friends of each other´s childhoods. Robin and David are both raised
in musical families, and David has also been playing the piano at school,
so that´s probably why they are so talented.
When David reached the age of 17, and Robin was 21, and had been working
as DJ´s for a couple of years, and David had played the piano, they decided
to start producing their own music. Robin was sick and tired of all bad music
he had to play on his gigs as DJ, so that's one reason why they started
producing their own, and according to them, better music. You can say that
David is most the musical of the two of them because of his growth and long practice of the piano,
and that Robin is the one with most experience within the dance music.
Some secrets that most people don´t know about Robin and David,
are that David is almost totally deaf to his left ear, and that Robin has a
driving licence for the truck. Both of them have girlfriends, so they mean
that all groupies are pretty annoying, but that it´s nice to be popular.
Their first big hit, "Beauty & The Beast", was released on their first EP called N.S.F.M.C.
in 1995, and reached the 33:rd place on the Swedish Dance Chart. The
video to "Beauty & The Beast", was shown on TV channels as Z-TV and the huge international music channel
MTV. This was the success they had wanted and worked hard for,
and that they needed to get a good reputation. After "Beauty & The Beast", they
continued producing a couple of hits, for example the singles
"In My Mind", "Nowhere To hide" and "Trespasser", which
has sold very good, and reached even higher on the singles lists
than the success "Beauty & The Beast" did. In My Mind has sold Gold in both Sweden, Norway and France,
and is the biggest hit of Antiloop so far. The video to the song
even claimed a well deserved 7:th place on the MTV Dancefloor. "In My Mind" made
Antiloop more known in Sweden, and of course in the rest of the Europe, because
of the fresh video. The latest single, "Trespasser", which was released in April 1998, is a success so far, and was #1 on the Swedish Dance Charts for five (!) week in a row.
When Antiloop released their first album, LP, in the beginning of June 1997,
they became "Masters Of Swedish Dance Music", and as good as
everyone know them since that. They have appeared in TV shows (Partyzone at MTV etc.), radio programmes and in
and in alot of music magazines as well as newspapers. 1997 was the year when Antiloop really broke through, and their largest success in their music career so far, was probably when
they won a Swedish Grammis, for Best Modern Dance of Sweden 1997. Right now they
are working hard with a new album (infact so hard that they had to cancel their summer tour of 1998), and they are also working hard to popularize their music
in the US, and in South America.
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