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Stockholm club and concert guide: May 8 – 10

Weekend club and concert tips from Kalendarium (Click links for more information)

Published: 7 May 2008 19:35 CEST

Elite

House:


It’s time for little old Sweden to welcome the man who has been crowned the world’s best house DJ. Frenchman Guetta is backed up by the Swedish house music mafia with Axwell, Sebastian Ingrosso and Steve Angello.


Reunion

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Cocotaxi invites Russian Spring Break: DJ Yxa and Jeansbjörn to play b-more and blog house music at H62. On the microphone you can hear Stockholm kids M. Sakarias and Lorentz so count on sing-along to Stockholm Serenade. It promises to be a great party with the crowds dancing all night at one of the city’s most ambitious club ventures this spring.


Rock

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It’s Saturday and rock duo Johnossi are playing at Debaser Medis. After a few years’s break, they return with the new album “All They Ever Wanted” and appear in their homeland. They have toured Europe and USA with Mando Diao and Shout Out Louds, but tonight all the focus will be on them and their long-awaited album. Expectations are high and the queue could be long; the last time they appeared here it was sold out.

Happy

Nation Graduation:


Meet Carli, Jexpert, Lucky, Judy Super, Tommie X, Sugamama and Kornel Kovacs for the last time at Marie Laveau’s basement. Sorrow and joy on a sweaty dance floor!

Mosquito

Big Truck:


Thomas Gylling never gets tired of the fight to make Stockholm more fun, happier and more alive. Now he has a large truck equipped with a sound-system, DJs and dancers. Of course there will be music from the Latin American/Caribbean part of the world. Soca, reggae, dance-hall, and salsa will get Stockholm on its feet when the happy truck is driven around.


Everywhere Summer Party:


Everywhere lands steadily and leaves the moving concept for a while. It will be dirty and dark with b-more and blog music from all corners of the world, baile funk, hip-hop, pop, party and a mixture, just like Everywhere wants, a party from the future

happening this summer. On opening night William Hamilton from Risky Bizniz, Rebecca Hedström/Wifebeater Love and Jakob Elmgren/Lili & SUshi will be playing along with resident Niklas Loman.


Le Choix Boys Club:


Le Choix wants to celebrate the beginning of summer with a big party at Grodan. There will be outdoor service, flowers, grass, goodies, and of course really good techno. As usual Le Choix will be there all night and Jonas Asp will play upstairs. It’s just the sun that has to book in for a successful Friday.

MUSIC

Meet the Spanish rapper bringing flamenco and bossa nova into hip-hop

Spanish rapper C. Tangana was taking a big risk when he started mixing old-fashioned influences like flamenco and bossa nova into his hip-hop -- but it's this eclectic sound that has turned him into a phenomenon on both sides of the Atlantic.

Published: 23 May 2021 08:38 CEST
Meet the Spanish rapper bringing flamenco and bossa nova into hip-hop
Spanish rapper Anton Alvarez known as 'C. Tangana' poses in Madrid on April 29, 2021. Photo: Javier Soriano/AFP

The 30-year-old has emerged as one of the world’s biggest Spanish-language stars since his third album “El Madrileno” — the Madrilenian — came out in February. That ranks him alongside his superstar ex-girlfriend Rosalia, the Grammy-winning Catalan singer with whom he has co-written several hits.

C. Tangana, whose real name is Anton Alvarez Alfaro, has come a long way since a decade ago when he became known as a voice of disillusioned Spanish youth in the wake of the financial crisis.These days his rap is infused with everything from reggaeton and rumba to deeply traditional styles from Spain and Latin America, with a voice often digitised by autotune.

“It’s incredible that just when my music is at its most popular is exactly when I’m doing something a bit more complex, more experimental and less
trendy,” he told AFP in an interview.

And he is unashamed to be appealing to a wider audience than previously: his dream is now to make music “that a young person can enjoy in a club or someone older can enjoy at home while cooking”.

‘People are tired’

The rapper, who sports a severe semi-shaved haircut and a pencil moustache, has worked with Spanish flamenco greats including Nino De Elche, Antonio Carmona, Kiko Veneno, La Hungara and the Gipsy Kings.

In April he brought some of them together for a performance on NPR’s popular “Tiny Desk Concert” series, which has already drawn nearly six million
views on YouTube.

Shifting away from trap, one of rap’s most popular sub-genres, and venturing into a more traditional repertoire was a dangerous move — especially for someone with a young fanbase to whom rumba, bossa nova and bolero sound old-fashioned.

“I think people are tired. They’ve had enough of the predominant aesthetic values that have previously defined pop and urban music,” he said.

Parts of his latest album were recorded in Latin America with Cuban guitarist Eliades Ochoa of Buena Vista Social Club, Uruguayan
singer-songwriter Jorge Drexler, Mexican folk artist Ed Maverick and Brazil’s Toquinho, one of the bossa nova greats.

“What struck me most everywhere I went was the sense of tradition and the way people experienced the most popular music, and I don’t mean pop,” he said.

A new direction

C. Tangana started out in 2006 rapping under the name Crema. When the global economic crisis swept Spain a few years later, hard-hitting trap was
the perfect way to voice the angst of his generation. But after more than a decade of rapping, things changed.

“When I was heading for my 30s, I hit this crisis, I was a bit fed up with what I was doing… and decided to give voice to all these influences that I
never dared express as a rapper,” he said.

The shift began in 2018 with “Un veneno” (“A poison”) which came out a year after his big hit “Mala mujer” (“Bad woman”).

And there was a return to the sounds of his childhood when he used to listen to Spanish folk songs at home, raised by a mother who worked in
education and a journalist father who liked to play the guitar. The Latin American influences came later.

“It started when I was a teenager with reggaeton and with bachata which were played in the first clubs I went to, which were mostly Latin,” he said.

Studying philosophy at the time, he wrote his first raps between stints working in call centres or fast-food restaurants.

As to what comes next, he doesn’t know. But one thing he hopes to do is collaborate with Natalia Lafourcade, a Mexican singer who dabbles in folk, rock and pop — another jack of all musical trades.

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