Me and a friend wanted to see more events and spread the word of the wonderful scene we had found to more people, create our own trips and offer services that people weren't used to. Together with Hardstylers.dk we expanded Hardstylers.com and created Hardstylers.se, an online-community that arranges trips to EDM-events all over Europe. We strive to become top-of-mind whenever someone in Sweden thinks about going on a tourto festivals such as DefQon.1, Decibel and Qlimax.
Together with the Hardstylers family we created a whole new level of videoproduction for the EDM scene in Sweden. With a bigger crew and dedicated people we deliver interviews, aftermovies and reports from events all over Europe. We also create similar productions for other people that wish to hire our services.
Making music videos, syncing video to audio, has been both an hobby and sometimes a passion since before the turn of the millenium. It startet with Club AQUA and Majestiq 12 but has continued to more and bigger projects.
I started shooting at EDM-events in 2008 and quickly became a resident photographer for The BASEMENT in Uppsala. Soon afterwards I was taking pictures at events by Monday Bar and Q-dance. Upon moving to Gothenburg I transferred my residens to Club PEAK. To gain some cheap notoriety I wore an expensive, hand-made screen-replica, Guy Fawkes-mask while shooting. It worked, I was often recognized and people commented on that they had seen me at other events. I retired the mask after about a year.
My first consert-shoot was Black Stone Cherry at Trädgår'n in Gothenburg. I have not been able to shoot as many conserts as I would like to, but I shot for Skindred when they played at Sticky Fingers, again in Gothenburg, and was asked by their promotion-agency if they could use some of my pictures in their material.
In the spring of 2010 I started hosting my own video game related show for the Internet. It was based around European news and new releases, compared to those in North America. Each episode also contained something unique that is ment to entertain more than educate. The show featured music from chip-musician FantomenK, but was solely produced, recorded, animated, hosted and edited by me. The project was abandoned after about a year to make time for other projects.
Late 2010 nidde.nu and tranceclubber.com started a new cooperation, taking the previous cooperation to the next level. The idea was to start shooting video instead of taking pictures. The whole thing ended up being a short show with interviews with attendees, organizers and artists and reporting from events. These videos are edited together with appropriate music, preferably from the event being reported on, and published on YouTube for easy access. The show was edited and co-produced by myself and I often hosted and did camerawork.
In 2009 the first cooperation between nidde.nu and tranceclubber.com took place when tranceclubber.com featured my photographs from Sensation Wicked Wonderland in Copenhagen, 2009. My photos from EDM-events all over Europe were a regular features on the site. This continued and developed to the point where I was a resident tour leader for TranceClubber Trips. Not happy with the slow and cumbersome way things were run I moved on and co-founded Hardstylers.se
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