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DJ Quest plays records before and after the concert at K\u00e4rbes Kitchen & Bar<\/strong><\/p>\n Dirty Loops first time in Estonia!<\/strong><\/p>\n Meet Dirty Loops \u2014 They are longtime friends and music school classmates Jonah Nilsson<\/strong> (vocals\/keyboards), Henrik Linder<\/strong> (bass), and Aron Mellergardh<\/strong> (drums) who hail from Stockholm, Sweden and have made name for themselves with their twisted pop covers beginning with their take on Lady Gaga\u2019s \u201cJust Dance.\u201d That video, which was made in the winter 2010 while the three band members attended Royal College of Music in Stockholm, became wildly successful with over\u00a0<\/b>100,000 YouTube views and 10,000 Facebook shares in the first two month\u2019s of release\u2026\u00a0without<\/i>\u00a0any promotion or social media savvy. The group\u2019s videos have now garnered a total of 19\u00a0<\/b>million YouTube views to date, and their first original single, \u201cHit Me,\u201d has just entered theTop 10 in Japan.<\/p>\n Dirty Loops\u2019 viral covers \u2013 which also include Justin Bieber\u2019s \u201cBaby,\u201d Adele\u2019s \u201cRolling in the Deep,\u201d Britney Spears\u2019 \u201cCircus,\u201d Justin Timberlake\u2019s \u201cSexyBack,\u201d and Rihanna\u2019s \u201cRude Boy\u201d (re-imagined as \u201cPrude Girl\u201d) \u2013 drew the attention of some of the biggest names in music today. Swedish producer\/songwriter Andreas Carlsson signed the group to a management deal; producer\/songwriter David Foster signed the group to his Verve Records and brought them on his tour of Asia in 2012; and the group has a long list of famous fans that includes Stevie Wonder, Quincy Jones, Adam Levine, Dallas Austin, Rodney Jerkins, Brian McKnight, and Avicii.<\/p>\n \u201cThe reason we initially started Dirty Loops was just for fun and for a creative outlet. 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,\u201d explains Henrik, a session bass player since age 16, of Dirty Loops\u2019 beginnings in 2008.<\/p>\n It wasn\u2019t just Dirty Loops\u2019 clever choice of covers or exemplary musicianship (R&B\/pop superstar Brian McKnight even called them \u201cthe most musical\u201d band he\u2019s heard) that sent the band on their rising musical trajectory. Rather, it was their distinctive approach to taking a pop song, and, well, \u201cloopifying\u201d it that resonated with everyone. \u201cWe 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\u2019t be that different. We like the contrast of genres,\u201d explains Henrik, who cites the Red Hot Chili Peppers\u2019 Flea among his favorite bassists and Tribal Tech among his favorite groups.<\/p>\n Though the guys were having a blast putting some jazzy bass slaps and a funky sound on \u201cJust Dance\u201d or transforming \u201cCircus\u201d from a simple pop ditty to a fun fusion concoction, they didn\u2019t think others would\u00a0get\u00a0<\/i>their unique vision. \u201cWe thought the combination of fusion and pop was so unsexy that no one would ever listen to it,\u201d laughs Henrik. He was wrong. \u201cThis has been so surreal. We never meant to be a band. It just happened. 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,\u201d laughs Jonah, who began singing in parents\u2019 church choir at age 1 and playing the piano at age 11. (He never sang in a band, though, until Dirty Loops.)<\/p>\n That calling-card video\u00a0 \u2013 Lady Gaga\u2019s \u201cJust Dance\u201d \u2013 spread like wildfire simply via word-of-mouth. \u201cPeople thought we had this social media strategy, but we didn\u2019t even have a Facebook page or Twitter at the time. It really just happened naturally,\u201d muses Henrik. Soon, record labels and management companies were hitting the band up on their MySpace page, much to the shock of the group.<\/p>\n The buzz made its way to Andreas Carlsson who surprised Jonah with a phone call one day that resulted in the band auditioning for the\u00a0Swedish IDOL<\/i> judge, who has penned hits for Britney Spears, Katy Perry, Carrie Underwood, and others. \u201cHe was the first person who had a vision for what we could do as a band and encouraged us to write our own songs. He understood us,\u201d says Henrik.<\/p>\n Soon after, Dirty Loops had another big success with their twisted take on Justin Bieber\u2019s \u201cBaby.\u201d \u201cAron called me at seven in morning one day saying the video has 125,000 views instantly. We were like, \u2018What the fuck just happened?\u2019 We hoped it would get 10,000 views. Andreas sent the video to David Foster and the next thing we know we\u2019re heading to L.A. to audition for him,\u201d explains Henrik.<\/p>\n While Andreas was the catalyst for Dirty Loops to transition from a cover band to a\u00a0real\u00a0<\/i>band, it was David who was instrumental in pushing the band to their musical best. \u201cWe played an early version of our first single, \u2018Hit Me,\u2019 which was more basic; we hadn\u2019t loopified it yet. David could hear that we were holding ourselves back and encouraged us to really go for it. After that, our sound just came together to what you hear on this record,\u201d says Henrik.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The result is the trio\u2019s 12-song debut album,\u00a0Loopified<\/i>, produced by the band, with executive production from Foster and Carlsson, which shows a quantum leap from being a creative cover band to a band that writes inventive, infectious pop originals. \u201cWe\u2019ve been called many things, but I think our sound is more fusion pop; a mix between everything we\u2019ve ever listened to growing up and now. It\u2019s a mix of classical, jazz, and pop. It\u2019s reimagined, well-arranged pop music. For us, to loopify pop music means to take a pop melody and put it into our Dirty Loops machine and what comes out on the other side is loopified,\u201d explains Jonah, who notes that while he grew up on classical and choir music, the group\u2019s main collective influences are Stevie Wonder, Michael Jackson, and the Pat Metheny Group.<\/p>\n The album\u2019s first single, \u201cHit Me,\u201d took off organically in Japan\u00a0<\/b>in early 2014. \u201cThis was the first original song we did as a band. It came from an older idea I had and we really took our time working on it until we got it just right. Once we did, the rest of the album came easy,\u201d notes Jonah.\u00a0 Lyrically, \u201cHit Me\u201d is about \u201cthe desperation you feel when you don\u2019t get the response you want from someone you like and you lose yourself in the relationship,\u201d explains Henrik.\u00a0 This track, like the other original songs on the record was a true joint effort, with all three Loops collaborating (with assistance from Carlsson on many of the lyrics) to finish the songs.<\/p>\n For Jonah, \u201cIt Hurts\u201d \u2013 one of two ballads on the album \u2013 is a song he\u2019s quite proud of. \u201cThe melodies and choice of chords came from my heart. I wrote this song only on the piano, and it came to me very quickly, which is not the case on any of the other songs, which we work on more like sculpture where you carve out the frame and then go back and sculpt and get the details in until it\u2019s just right,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n Loopified<\/i> also features two new covers, Justin Bieber\u2019s \u201cRoller Coaster\u201d and \u201cWake Me Up\u201d by Swedish DJ\/hit maker Avicii,, who wholeheartedly endorses the band\u2019s take on his 2013 international hit. \u201cI love the Loops\u2019 unique approach to their covers, including the one of \u2018Wake Me Up,\u2019 but also the sound they have captured in their own songs. I\u2019m a big, big fan!\u201d said Avicii.<\/p>\n \u201cOur goal is to keep developing, see no musical limits, and keep having fun. I think if you make something that you yourself really believe in, others will believe it too,\u201d says Jonah. Adds Aron, \u201cWhat would make us the happiest is for people to see that we are trying to do something new, something original.\u201d<\/p>\n As\u00a0<\/b>Quincy Jones simply puts it, \u201cDirty Loops are just incredible!\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n We thank: Embassy of Sweden<\/p>\n","videos":[{"video":"