Honkytonks presents Håkan Lidbo
Author: Sara Giampa
Wednesday, October 15, 2003
Hakan Lidbo was recently awarded as one of the 100 best producers of electronic music in the world by Urb Magazine/USA. He is frequently refered to as "the busiest man in the business" and his discography holds more than 200 records and stretches from avant garde click n cuts to well produced vocal pop-house.
Hakan has made music for commercials, film, TV shows, computer games and a ballet.
The Swedish artist moves so skilfully from style to style. Indeed, be might be called the Teflon producer, simply because nothing sticks to him: House,Techno, abstract Ambience, dub, disco - he11 try up a dish or two in each style and move on.
In just a few short years of producing, he's assernbled an intimidating discography, with releases for Skint, Fifi, Transmat, Repap, Force Tracks, Eloge, Plastic City, Tektite and a slew more. Lidbo has range: be's turned out a monster disco rernalke of 'Brazil' (as Alvarado De Jesus) for Street Knowledge, slap- bass slathered vocal House for Paper, and crackling patchcord perversity for Mille Plateaux's Clicks + Cuts 2.
Oh, and an unidentiffled track for Mask 500, the fifth instalment - dedicated mostly to reworks of dodgy Europop - from Skams infamously obscurantist MASK series. All this from a producer who got his start making, well, dodgy Europop. -Wire Magazine UK
Honkytonks presents Håkan Lidbo
Friday 31st October
Support: Mr Geoffrey, Boogs & Mahi
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