BassHunter is the pseudonym of the Swedish musician and DJ Jonas Altberg, born December 22, 1984, in Halmstad, Sweden. A pseudonym (Greek: false name) is a fictitious name used by an individual as an alternative to his or her legal name. ... DJ or dj may stand for Disc jockey, dinner jacket The DeadJournal website, or Djibouti. ... December 22 is the 356th day of the year (357th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1984 (MCMLXXXIV) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Halmstad [hulm-stɑː(d)] is a port, university, industrial and recreational city at the mouth of the river Nissan in Halland in south-western Sweden. ...

BassHunter describes his own music as eurodance, but others also classify it as hard dance. According to himself, he makes the music on his own computer using the program Fruityloops. He started making music in 1999 and he released his first album – The Bassmachine – through his own home page in 2004. Eurodance is a colloquial term for European dance music. ... Hard dance is a term that refers to a grouping of modern electronic dance music genres including hard trance, hard house, nu-NRG, hard-NRG, hardstyle, freeform hardcore and jumpstyle. ... FL Studio (formerly Fruityloops) is a music production software package created by Image-Line Software. ... 1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ... 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Altberg has been diagnosed with Tourette syndrome – a condition he spent a lot of energy dealing with while growing up and has only gradually overcome^[1]. Tourette syndrome (also called Tourettes syndrome, Tourettes disorder, Gilles de la Tourette syndrome, GTS or the more common Tourettes or TS) is an inherited neurological disorder with onset in childhood, characterized by the presence of multiple motor tics and at least one phonic tic, which characteristically wax...

Debut Album: "LOL"

BassHunter has recently released an album entitled "LOL". The track listing is as follows:

1. Vi sitter i Ventrilo och spelar DotA
2. Boten Anna
3. Strand Tylösand
4. Sverige
5. Hallå där
6. Mellan oss två
7. Var år jag
8. Utan stjärnorna
9. Festfolk [2006 remix]
10. Patrik och Lillen - Vitta med hānderna
11. Professional Party people
12. I'm your Basscreator
13. Boten Anna [Instrumental]
14. DotA [Extended Version]

Notable songs

Boten Anna

Cover of the single Boten Anna

BassHunter became a noted artist in Sweden, Denmark and Norway after the release of the single Boten Anna ("Anna, the bot") in 2006. The song topped hit charts and – on the 3rd of May 2006 – was named Norway's official Russ-song^[2]. It was also the most popular song at The Gathering demo party 2006. Image File history File links Basshunter_botenanna. ... Image File history File links Basshunter_botenanna. ... A bot is common parlance on the Internet for a software program that is a software agent. ... 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... May 3 is the 123rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (124th in leap years). ... Russ passing by the Royal Palace in Oslo, Norway Russ (Norwegian) or rus (Danish) is a cultural phenomenon and tradition in the Scandinavian countries Norway and Denmark. ... The Gathering 2006 Logo The Gathering (abbreviated as TG for short) is one of the largest computer party in the world. ...

The Swedish lyrics of Boten Anna tell the story of a female IRC user mistaken for an IRC bot by the vocalist who later finds out the truth; subsequently, however, he states that she will always remain a bot in his eyes. Despite the esoteric subject of the lyrics, the song was well-received by mainstream media, albeit the word bot was frequently mistaken for boat (as many people don't know how to pronounce bot correctly), and the double meaning of channel (IRC channel mistaken for the water body with the same name - channel). The video to the song shows BassHunter riding a pedal boat down a canal which may have further added to the confusion. Coincidentally, there is a brand of plastic boat named Bass Hunter. Internet Relay Chat (IRC) is a form of instant communication over the Internet. ... An IRC bot performing a simple task. ... In physical geography, a channel is the physical confine of a river or slough, consisting of a bed and banks. ... A pedalo is a form of water borne transport, primarily for recreational use, powered through the use of foot pedals. ...

In the Dutch Top 40 in the Netherlands there is currently (end of august 2006, entering the chart at 27) a spoof of the song. It is also called "Boten Anna" and it is by "De Gebroeders Ko", who also made other Dutch versions of known songs like Dragostea din Tei. Although they know the original song isn't about a boat, they translated it as if it is about a boat (a boat called Anna). The Dutch Top 40 (: Nederlandse Top 40) is a weekly music chart, which first started as the Veronica Top 40, because the pirate radio channel Veronica first introduced it. ... Dragostea din Tei (IPA: ) is the most successful single by the Moldovan band O-Zone. ...

A bot named Anna occasionally resides in the IRC channel #BassHunter.se on Quakenet, albeit due to the popularity of the song, the channel, as well as #Anna, has been filled up with bots. QuakeNet is the largest IRC network in the world, with its average number of users well over 200,000 every day and over 180,000 channels. ...

Single

1. "Boten Anna" [Radiomix] 3:29
2. "Boten Anna" [Clubmix] 5:26

The Dutch Top 40 (: Nederlandse Top 40) is a weekly music chart, which first started as the Veronica Top 40, because the pirate radio channel Veronica first introduced it. ... The Dutch Top 40 (: Nederlandse Top 40) is a weekly music chart, which first started as the Veronica Top 40, because the pirate radio channel Veronica first introduced it. ...

Vi sitter i Ventrilo och spelar DotA

This song is about BassHunter and his friends, using the voice communication application Ventrilo while they are playing DotA, a custom map for Warcraft 3. It's a eurodance song, very similar to Daddy DJ's song Daddy DJ or Scatman. Screenshot of the Ventrilo client connected to a server. ... This article is being considered for deletion in accordance with Wikipedias deletion policy. ... Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos, released by Blizzard Entertainment in 2002, is a real-time strategy computer game and the second sequel to Warcraft. ... Eurodance is a colloquial term for European dance music. ... Scatman John John Paul Larkin (March 13, 1942 - December 3, 1999), better known as Scatman John, was a famous stutterer who invented a unique fusion of scat singing and disco. ...

References

1. ^ (Swedish) ”Hitmakaren Jonas: De ville göra narr av mig”, from Expressen, accessed on June 21, 2006
2. ^ (Norwegian) "Årets landeplage", from NRK, accessed on June 21, 2006

Expressen is a Swedish right leaning newspaper founded in 1944. ... Norsk Rikskringkasting (NRK) - the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation - is the Norwegian state-owned radio and television public broadcasting company. ...

External links

• Official site
• (Swedish) Boten Anna at Google Video
• (English) Boten Anna subtitled in various languages