It’s June 2012. The Swedish House Mafia played an exciting set on Hackney Weekend Radio 1 when a new message popped up on their website. The dance world was shaken. The Swedish home mafia is very successful and in top form. Within four years, they were rewriting dance music rules, selling New York’s Madison Square Garden in 11 minutes, and booking colossal concerts in stadiums across Europe.
The supergroup consisting of Swedish DJs Sebastian Ingrosso, Steve Angelo, and Axel “Axwell” Hedfors are masters of ecstasy, with hits like Save The World and Don’t You Worry Child taking clubs and charts.
No one believed they called it resignation. Including the group itself, it seems.
“We just decided on the spot that it was time to make this statement public,” Axwell said nine years later. “You can’t choose the right time to spread bad news,” Ingrosso said. “We had a free discussion about it, but [after the show] we decided, ‘OK. let’s end this.”
That’s when the group decided to describe the breakup as a plague. “It’s easy, just to be happy with the machine, the Swedish house mafia,” Axwell told Radio 1’s, Pete Tong. “But we always try to challenge ourselves and do the unexpected… and we haven’t.” let’s repeat ourselves in the end.
However, a documentary about their 52-day farewell tour paints a picture of disappointment and inner tension. At one point, Ingrosso said to the camera: “We’re not good friends anymore, and that’s the truth.” “That’s the truth,” he insisted today. “We are tired; we are tired. Of course, there is tension and irritation.
“Now that we are a little older and wiser, we look back and realize we needed to rest. We should miss him. We should miss making music together again. “A friend of ours said, ‘Come on, guys, we have to meet up,'” Angelo recalled, “and we said, ‘OK, let’s have dinner, just talk.’
When the trio realizes that a public appearance will drive tabloids in Sweden crazy, it meets their then manager, Amy Thomson, in a private hotel apartment. They stay up until four o’clock after a “meat, salad and red wine” stay. In the morning, they were chasing and remembering.
“All the memories we shared were a disaster!” Ingres laughed. “You know when someone makes a mistake or misses a flight, or someone falls asleep. Those are memories we all have.” When they left, the band had agreed to play a one-off show at the Miami Ultra Music Festival in 2018. Three months later, Thomson was “on stage at 6 am in a leather jacket, test lasers don’t burn your back,” he later recalled on his Instagram page. -his.