Your name:
My name is Johan Dahnberg, but from time to
time I perform under the name DJ SoulKing.
Where are you from?
I'm from Falkenberg, Halland, Sweden.
Name of band:
SoulKing.
Who else is in your band?
You find BenBolt and SadArms
here as well, also known as Lars Hillerström and Björn Karlsson. But, if you
look deeper you'll find more important folks in the band, more or less regular.
Raymond Aguilera, Blind Pony Ricards, Da Happy Toasta, ScratchCat, Harold Easy
and many more. We are family.
How would you describe yourselves?
Very nice people.
Happy and curious. Without limitations if you speak music. We let our music
take the way it like to go. So, the result is very diverse. Smooth pop, jazzy
things, German beer-drinking music, gay house, pub music, electro and so one.
Cool to make; but perhaps hard to wrap in a parcel for the market.
Who are your main influences musically?
French -00 music
like Cassius, Daft Punk and St Germain, and of course Kraftwerk and also we
must mention the British big beat movement with Fatboy Slim and Chemical Bros,
even if they are not the coolest inspirations to out in 2013. But it's true.
And we have a deep interest for film scores and soft jazz, old school hip hop
and 80:s pop and Italio Disco. And progressive 70:s acts like Pink Floyd and
Gentle Giant. So. Yeah. Diverse.
What do you hope to achieve in music?
It would be lovely
to make a living out of it. For me I'm happy when I am in the studio.
So, money, yes, would be nice. But no luxury over the top fame income. But more
goals? A massive radio hit would be nice. And a club hit. I love when people
enjoy my creations. And I can speak for all of us when I say, that we would
LOVE to make music for a movie. Definitely.
What has been the highlight of your career so far, and
why?
Oh, we had a lot of attention in our early phase, when PPQ and Tricatel
released our music; the feeling when our first 7" single arrived from
London was hard to beat. When SoulKing was performing our Astrid Lindgren show
live in the presence of Astrid's daughter (and got a brilliant review in the
newspaper for it) was another kick. But, all the moments in the studio when it
all got perfect, that is what matters most.
And what’s the moment you want to forget?
In fact it must
be our own lack of drive to take care of the small success we had. Of course we
should have took a plane to London and Paris when we were hot there, not just
waiting for someone to call for us. But, that is who we are. Make us
entrepreneurs, and the SoulKing spirit might disappear.
If you had to pick just one of your songs to represent
your music, what would it be and why?
Yeah, thank you for asking after the
upper description of our music... Well, then I must choose Get To
Me from our latest release Just One Of Those Summer Days In The Life Of A Swedish King of Soul. It contains our slow disco beat, our
basic instruments Roland Juno 60 and TR 707, and is a typical vocal chorus
without verse, I guess that is SoulKing song writing in a nutshell ...! Lovely
tune, by the way.
Where can we listen to it?
Where can we find out more about your music?
Try facebook.com/soulkingfalkenberg and you cover most. And our record label White Line Recordings has useful info at facebook.com/whitelinerecordings. We try not to tweet or instagram. As I said, SoulKing is a bad, bad entrepreneur.
Anything else you’d like to say about your band/music
that I forgot to ask?
I love talking about SoulKing, so it's sad there are no
more questions. More to add? Well, SoulKing recorded like a 100 tunes between
1999 and 2005 and after that we basically been wondering what to do of our
production. White Line Recordings releasing our material is
brilliant. And we have made ourselves two promises: To record again, and to
perform live with our most club fit material. Good? Yeah!
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