Swedish~ Stereo~

Fresh club project Axento was signed by one of our favorite labels Catchy Tunes having a big catalogue of Swedish pop-tastic releases from Elin Lanto, Lucky Twice, Marie Serneholt, September.
Axento is a duo of DJs Joakim Daif and Fredrik Lindlom who previously were working with Agnes, September and other artists. Also guys have already made a nice remix of Byz's track "Tjena tjena tjena", I'm not keen on original (even though I love Idol Robin Bengtsson) but the mix is quite lovable.
Debut Axento's single is "Lego", quite Avicii-sounding track. I'd say it would be my Top-3 of Avicii's singles if he'd release it. Comparing to Avicii's tracks on the one side milder on the other side more concentrated and directly entertaining for pop-audience but anyway it has a great production and truly infectious melody of Avicii-level.

Schlager-newcomer, schlager-veteran and some schlager-dinosaurs that's what new episode of Lotta på Liseberg was about. Sean Banan has smoothly moved from Skansen to Liseberg with a new single "Sommar I Sverige" while Linda Bengtzing has appeared from schlager-nowhere to strike with her (always) energetic performance of "E Det Fel På Mig". Was also nice to see Melodifestivalen-winners Arvingarna and Christer Sjögren joining Lotta to sing "Don't Let me Down".

Linda Bengtzing - Teddybjörnen Fredriksson
Arvingarna - Semester
Sean Banan - Blommig falukorv
Christer Sjögren - My way
Christer Sjögren - I love Europe
Arvingarna - Bo Diddley/Eloise
Sean Banan - Det gör ont

True Talent star Emma Fällman (working with Danny as a coach during the show) that I was writing about last year here and here finally releases her solo single "Call Him Dick" that we instantly fall in love with!
The main thing Emma has won my heart was incredible attitude of her voice and she has made a right choise trying jazz-pop-direction in her first track. You can compare it with Amanda Jenssen meets Amy Winehouse jazz-pop but Emma goes much poppier and accessible for mainstream radio-fans with an amazing tune sticking immediately. It's a party with a big drums, loud trumpets and fantastic clapping rhythm.

Seems like 2012 is going to be even the bigger year for Avicii. "Seek Bromance" and "Fade Into Darkness" have made him club-sensation of 2011, "Levels" has become absolute world-smash of the first half of 2012. So what does Avicii have for the second half?
You can watch videos to both of his latest mortal weapons right now. The first one is his dreamy collaboration with Salem Al Fakir "Silhouettes" that was rolling around a year before finally being released and the second one is much more straight-forward work with Nervo - single "You're Gonna Love Again" which has got right that explosive sort of chorus that we can suspect to be a key to Avicii's success.

Lovely Linnea Henriksson has got a new single from her debut album "Till mina älskade och älskare" out on the radio,
"Lyckligare Nu" has become one of our favorites of the album right after the first listening, it's just like "Väldigt kär/Obegripligt ensam" was written by Orup ("VK/OE" was also co-written by Linnea) and produced by Carl Wikström Ask and goes pretty in the same vein moving from dramatic jazz-pop verse to a wonderfully happy chorus with a beautiful growth.
Great single chioce and hope there will be some more singles - "Jag vet nåt som inte du vet" or "Mitt rum i ditt hjärta"!