Basshunter
Basshunter at a concert in Poland
Background information
Birth name	Jonas Erik Altberg
Born	December 22, 1984 (1984-12-22) (age 23) Halmstad, Sweden
Genre(s)	Eurodance, Electro, Club, Techno, Dance
Occupation(s)	Singer, producer
Instrument(s)	Singing, synthesizers, FL Studio
Years active	1999–present
Label(s)	Warner Music Group
Website	http://www.basshunter.se

Jonas Erik Altberg (born December 22, 1984, in Halmstad, Sweden), better known by the pseudonym Basshunter, is a Swedish musician and DJ. Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 400 × 599 pixelsFull resolution (1293 × 1936 pixel, file size: 534 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) File historyClick on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time. ... is the 356th day of the year (357th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... This article is about the year. ... Halmstad [hulm-stɑː(d)] is a port, university, industrial and recreational city at the mouth of the Nissan River in Halland, south-western Sweden. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... This article is about a music style. ... Electro, short for electro funk (also known as robot hip hop and Electro hop) is an electronic style of hip hop directly influenced by Kraftwerk and funk records (unlike earlier rap records which were closer to disco). ... Electronic dance music is a broad set of percussive music genres that largely inherit from 1970s disco music and, to some extent, the experimental pop music of Kraftwerk. ... For the comic book character previously known as Techno, see Fixer (comics). ... Dance music is music composed specifically to facilitate or accompany dancing. ... For other uses, see Singer (disambiguation). ... In the music industry, a record producer (or music producer) has many roles, among them controlling the recording sessions, coaching and guiding the musicians, organizing and scheduling production budget and resources, and supervising the recording, mixing and mastering processes. ... A musical instrument is a device constructed or modified for the purpose of making music. ... Harry Belafonte singing, photograph by C. van Vechten Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, which is often contrasted with speech. ... The term synthesiser is also used to mean frequency synthesiser, an electronic system found in communications. ... FL Studio (formerly Fruity Loops) is a digital audio workstation, developed by Belgian company Image-Line Software. ... Events of 2008: (EMILY) Me Lesley and MIley are going to China! This article is about the year. ... In the music industry, a record label can be a brand and a trademark associated with the marketing of music recordings and music videos. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... is the 356th day of the year (357th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... This article is about the year. ... Halmstad [hulm-stɑː(d)] is a port, university, industrial and recreational city at the mouth of the Nissan River in Halland, south-western Sweden. ... For other uses, see Alias. ... For the popular-music magazine, see Musician (magazine). ... For other meanings of DJ, see DJ (disambiguation). ...

Basshunter describes his own music as Eurodance, while others may also interpret it as eurotrance, club, and other electronic music genres. This article is about a music style. ... Trance is a style of electronic dance music that developed in the 1990s. ... Electronic dance music is a broad set of percussive music genres that largely inherit from 1970s disco music and, to some extent, the experimental pop music of Kraftwerk. ...

He has become famous for his songs "Boten Anna" (about an IRC bot) and dota "Vi sitter i Ventrilo och spelar lite DotA" (about Warcraft III's custom game "Defense of the Ancients"), in part owing to their references to geek culture. Boten Anna (Anna, the bot) is a song by Swedish dance musician BassHunter, which appears on his second studio album LOL <(^^,)>. Due to the song, BassHunter became a noted artist in his native Sweden, as well as Finland, Denmark, Iceland, Norway, Poland and the Netherlands after the release of the... An IRC bot performing a simple task. ... Different versions of DotA. Defense of the Ancients (often referred to as DotA) is a custom map for Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne, based on the Aeon of Strife map for the Blizzard title Starcraft. ... Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ...

Basshunter is managed by former Warner Music A&R agent Henrik Uhlman, and is represented in the United States by Mayar Zokaei.

Biography

Jonas Erik Altberg, aka Basshunter, was born December 22, 1984 in Halmstad, Sweden. He lived with his parents and younger brother near Tylösand, a famous Swedish beach. He started to produce music in 1999 with the computer program Fruity Loops, and released his first album, The Bassmachine, through his own home page in 2004. His interest in music became greater as he progressed. After several demo songs spread over the Internet, he started to get phone calls from dance clubs that wanted to hire him as a DJ. In April 2006, he signed his first real contract with Warner Music. He released his first single, "Boten Anna", in Scandinavia and it became a hit instantly. Boten Anna was the first ever Swedish language song to make number 1 on the Dutch Top 40 Chart, and the single Now You're Gone which was an english remake of "Boten Anna" with rewritten lyrics, was number 1 on the UK Singles Chart in 2008. When Basshunter reached 50,000 friends on MySpace he celebrated by releasing "Beer in the Bar - Myspace edit" and chatting via webcam with his MySpace friends through MSN Messenger. Afterwards he mentioned his computer had crashed due to the high number of people he was chatting with. As of 2007, Basshunter has been working on his new album which is rumored to be released around May/June 2008. He has so released a small clip of "Camilla", and "I Can Walk On Water, I Can Fly" somehow found its way onto the internet, though it was not meant to be released yet. is the 356th day of the year (357th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... This article is about the year. ... Halmstad [hulm-stɑː(d)] is a port, university, industrial and recreational city at the mouth of the Nissan River in Halland, south-western Sweden. ... FL Studio (formerly Fruity Loops) is a digital audio workstation, developed by Belgian company Image-Line Software. ... – The Bassmachine – is the first album by Basshunter. ... For other meanings of DJ, see DJ (disambiguation). ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Boten Anna (Anna, the bot) is a song by Swedish dance musician BassHunter, which appears on his second studio album LOL <(^^,)>. Due to the song, BassHunter became a noted artist in his native Sweden, as well as Finland, Denmark, Iceland, Norway, Poland and the Netherlands after the release of the... The Dutch Top 40 (Dutch: Nederlandse Top 40) is a weekly music chart, which started as the Veronica Top 40, because the pirate radio channel Radio Veronica was the first to introduce it. ... Boten Anna (Anna, the bot) is a song by Swedish dance musician BassHunter, which appears on his second studio album LOL <(^^,)>. Due to the song, BassHunter became a noted artist in his native Sweden, as well as Finland, Denmark, Iceland, Norway, Poland and the Netherlands after the release of the... British Hit Singles redirects here. ... MySpace is a social networking website offering an interactive, user-submitted network of friends, personal profiles, blogs, groups, photos, music, and videos. ... A typical webcam Webcams are small cameras, (usually, though not always, video cameras) whose images can be accessed using the World Wide Web, instant messaging, or a PC video conferencing application. ... MSN Messenger is a freeware instant messaging client that was developed and distributed by Microsoft in 1999 to 2005 and in 2007 for computers running the Microsoft Windows operating system (except Windows Vista), and aimed towards home users. ...

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Please Don't Go was officially cancelled in an email to subscribers of the Hard2Beat newsletter. It read "Although we had planned to release ‘Please Don’t Go’ as Basshunter’s next single there have been some technical complications (all very boring, we won’t go into them here!), which have meant that we will be changing the single to something totally different but a bit more familiar to any die hard Basshunter fan. The new single will in fact be ‘All I Ever Wanted’ which you will probably know as the music behind Dota. Basshunter has re-sung the vocals in English with brand new lyrics especially for the UK release!". They also revealed that "the Basshunter Album and new single are well and truly on its way! The Album is going to be a UK rework of the very best Basshunter material but with a few twists and turns".

The New Album

It has been noticed that the new album due to be released on 14th July 2008 will go by the same name as the song 'Now You're Gone'. Track listings have not yet been released yet but rumored tracks are - So In Love, All I Ever Wanted, Now You're Gone, Please Don't Go, Angel In The Night,Life Should Be Easy, Camilla [English version??]. So In Love is a popular song, popularized by Patti Page in 1949. ... All I Ever Wanted is a song by the British synthpop group The Human League. ... Please Dont Go was a song recorded and released in 1979 on the KC and the Sunshine Band album Do You Wanna Go Party. ... The name Camilla, originates from Latin meaning attendant. ...

Discography

Albums

All regularly released albums and their chart peak position in Sweden (SWE), Finland (FIN), Denmark (DEN), Norway (NOR), Austria (AUT), and The Netherlands (NLD). MegaCharts is responsible for the composition and exploitation of a broad collection of charts, of which the Mega Top 50 and the Mega Album Top 100 are the most known ones. ...

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Singles

All regularly released singles and their chart peak position in United Kingdom (UK), Sweden (SWE), The Netherlands (NLD), Finland (FIN), Austria (AUT), Denmark (DEN), Norway (NOR), Germany (GER), Switzerland (SWZ), France (FRA), Eurochart Hot 100 Singles (EUR), Canada(CAN). The Dutch Top 40 (Dutch: Nederlandse Top 40) is a weekly music chart, which started as the Veronica Top 40, because the pirate radio channel Radio Veronica was the first to introduce it. ... The Eurochart Hot 100 Singles has been compiled by Music & Media magazine since March, 1984. ...

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References

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External links

• Official Site
• Official MySpace