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Breaking The Waves EP - GLOB007

Pre-order @ https://jobubbles.bandcamp.com/album/molntj-nst

Molntjänst - Limited cassette + digital

Don't Worry It's Gonna Be Alright

Yello - You Gotta Say Yes To Another Excess (Jo Bubbles Social Re-Form) - FREE DOWNLOAD

La Bionda - Be Your Lover (Jo Bubbles Tönight re-edit)

My last escapade to the dance planet resulted in some serious sonic repercussions and still puts a silly smile on my face. I tried to record it but my interplanetary gear was distorted, so I decided to try and capture the atmosphere of the party. Here's what it sounds like.

Music From Dance Planet

Stockholm based DJ and Producer @jo-bubbles spins some slow chugging trance, acid & balearic records from his collection. 

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What’s your ideal breakfast?
French breakfast: Coffee and a cigarette, but the reality is very far from that.

What was the first record (or CD) you ever bought?
It was a cassette with the Swedish pop group Trance Dance (and look where it got me!). I think the first record was when Tears For Fears released their Seeds of Love album in ’89.

What’s your musical guilty pleasure?
No guilt in music for me anymore, but if I were to abide to the rules of the guilty pleasure I would probably say American college pop, like Call Me Maybe by Carly Rae Jepsen.

Does your alias have a backstory?
My alias came from a situation when I quickly had to come up with a name for a track on a compilation. I was watching The Wire at the time and really like this character called Bubbles. The name kinda stuck with me because it’s positive, naive and a little bit cheeky, like my music.

What’s the best thing you’ve ever got for free?
Not an endorsed message, but I was part of the RBMA (look it up if you’re unfamiliar with it) in 2006. That included a free trip to Melbourne, accommodation, food and new friends. And of course a glorious line-up of esteemed lecturing artists.

Do you have a party trick?
No but I’m a really good dancer and that’s usually a party starter. In house parties I’m the guy standing in the corner, deep in conversation.

What’s your current rotation of non-dance music?
I’ve been listening to Ryuichi Sakamoto a lot after his passing. I can’t get enough! Also a lot of slow ambient stuff from artists such as Khotin and Gigi Masin. I’m also really into Laura Groves, Art Feynman and Kendrick Lamar.

Where's your current favourite place(s) in the world (and why)?
As far as cities go, Berlin, because it’s the most open minded place I’ve been to yet. I try not to fly so much these days so favorite places close to home is Norwegian fjords and the forests around my home city Stockholm.

Any other passions besides music?
Cooking, hiking, biking.

What’s something you’re proud of about yourself?
Determination, musicality, openness, sensitivity to injustice.

Describe your Earworm mix
I wanted to step outside my comfort zone but still make something that sounds like me, in a sort of balearic spirit. I really enjoy slow music and wrongspeeders so that’s what I went for. Some of the slowed down trance and acid is defo something I rarely play but I think it came out nicely.

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Tracklist:
The Art of Noise - Opus 4
Sweet Exorcist - Nice
Reptant - Snitches Get Glitches
X-Dream - This (At 33rpm)
Om Unit - Camo
Velv.93 - October
Die Orangen - Krautback (Full Circle’s Fail We May, Sail We Must Remix)
The Grid - Flotation (Progressive Mix)
Adam Pits - A Recurring Nature
Tokyo Black Star - Violent Rush
Eden Burns - Quakka Rock
Chieko Beauty - Make Me Know It (Version)
Guy Contact - Maya Bay

earworm025 ~ Jo Bubbles - 'Slow Flotation'

Mosaic

I've Been A Fool

https://soundcloud.com/jo-bubbles invites you to his world of many influences and expressions; producer, DJ, party organizer and dancing enthusiast. Behind the name is Jonas, a father figure of Stockholm's small but abundantly equipped disco scene.

The Jo Bubbles persona is a fairly new acquaintance among Stockholm’s many DJs, and with the new packaging comes new music from Jo’s studio. This is where his daydreaming of the world’s many colorful dance floors is being translated to harmony. Songs are crisply electronic, relentlessly groovy and naively melodic, far from ”intelligent” and far from the mainstream, but with a solid foundation of throbbing patterns, rhythm and bass. It’s surely “for the dancefloor”, though not for big room fist-pumping.

As a DJ, Jo is grounded in the soul, disco and house sounds of his beginnings in the late 90’s. The foundation is still very much present in his sound but with a broader range spanning dub, techno, and all things quirky and leftfield.

With the release of his first EP on Berlin label TTNoTDB (The Transient Nature of The Disco Business), a home-brewed cassette EP with hidden slow jams and a release on Mark Seven's seminal Parkway Records, under the alias Joey Beads, Jo is gaining followers from across the board with his bubbling proto beats. More to come in just a few fingersnaps!

We’re delighted to have you in our Family, Jo. Due to circumstances your mix was recorded and released quite some time ago and released now, and in many ways it also feels super joyful and sweet to revisit this mix and the memories connected to it.

We really hope to see you again soon. Perhaps on the 9th of December? OK, nice. Deal. For everyone else, find more info in our bio, and make sure to listen to Bubble’s mix while you’re at it!

BRUS 38 - Jo Bubbles

Stockholm’s Jo Bubble has an unstoppable energy for music that walks its own path, taking inspiration from the soulful and the leftfield. Releases on labels like Parkway Records and TTNOTDB show disco + deep house a styles as much as exploring dub, ambient + techno. With close friends, he’s also behind new imprint Make Make Tapes - a new outlet for non-danceable dance music. TIP!

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JO BUBBLES - 26 APR 24

Born and raised in the Swedish province Dalarna, Stockholm resident Jo Bubbles (aka Jonas Dahlström) has previously released music on Parkway Records and put out several selfreleased titles, most recently on the cassette venture Makemake tapes.

On his first outing on Västkransen Records, Jonas opens his toolbox of subtle grooves and tweaking melodies. A journey into electro, dub and italo-infused house, “Hidden Place EP” features three original club cuts and a mind-bending DnB remix from Stockholm’s hardware veteran Parallax Deep. As one of the tougher releases in Västkransen’s catalogue to date, this record doesn’t just offer solid dancefloor material, but a genuine musical treat.

Hidden Place EP

VKR008 Jo Bubbles - Hidden Place EP (snippets)

Born and raised in the Swedish province Dalarna, Stockholm resident Jo Bubbles (aka Jonas Dahlström) has previously released music on Parkway Records and put out several self released titles, most recently on the cassette venture Makemake tapes. 

On his first outing on Västkransen Records, Jonas opens his toolbox of subtle grooves and tweaking melodies. A journey into electro, dub and italo-infused house, “Hidden Place EP” features three original club cuts and a mind-bending DnB remix from Stockholm’s hardware veteran Parallax Deep. As one of the tougher releases in Västkransen’s catalogue to date, this record doesn’t just offer solid dancefloor material, but a genuine musical treat.

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Hidden Place EP
Label - Västkransen
Released - 1st November 2024
BUY FROM - https://vastkransen.bandcamp.com/album/hidden-place-ep

born and raised in the Swedish province Dalarna, Stockholm resident Jo Bubbles (aka Jonas Dahlström) has previously released music on Parkway Records and put out several self released titles, most recently on the cassette venture Makemake tapes.

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PREMIERE: JO BUBBLES - NIGHT OFF (Västkransen)

Release date: 30 November
More info in bio.

MAMA T002 Snippets

Your favorite mixtape is here! Makemake is for your ears as much as for your hips and we decided to put it onto tape, to float out and blend some music that inspires us without the haste of the conventional “DJ mix” breathing down our necks.

Jo Bubbles picks up the series with a relaxed, yet energizing, percussion heavy ride. Beepy arpeggios, squelching synths, mellow strings, some serious low end, and dubby sounds that echo into eternity. In short, a chill out session with comforting grit and undeniable dance floor appeal.

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Makemake Tape #2 - Jo Bubbles

A mainstay on Stockholm's underground club scene, we proudly welcome @jo-bubbles aka Jonas Dahlström with his debut on Globuli.

After a handful of gorgeous disco-meets-acid-house records for local labels like Västkransen and The Transient Nature of The Disco Business, Jonas hands in a fine new chapter for the label. With a unique breezy touch, Jo's sound looks to proper US deep house, 90s ambient techno and early trance for its sonic palette, fusing complex melodies, textural synthesis, stomping, playful grooves and acid lines.

'Breaking The Waves' proclaims the Swedish artist's mission with four bold and colourful tracks - paying homage to his favourite dusty classics, while uploading a host of bright new ideas to the Bubblin' house-techno-disco mainframe.

Dedicated to B-Man, our dear friend Alexis Baytelman.

Jo Bubbles - Breaking The Waves (GLOB007) preview

Moving into the sunlight with some rubbery rhythms and wavey dance moves. Here's an hour of music that blends old school punch with some new elastic soul.

Groove Elastic Mix

Heathenism #10

Who is Jo Bubbles?

Heathenism #11 – I Walk Proud

1. Travis Biggs – Tibetian Serenity
2. Astrud Gilberto – Black Magic (Tangoterje edit)
3. Can – I Want More
4. Daybreak – Everybody Get Off
5. Sweet Thunder – Everybody's Singing Lovesongs
6. L.T.D. – (Everytime I Turn Around) Back In Love Again
7. Al Green – Never Met Nobody Like You
8. Ted Taylor – Ghetto Disco
9. Kofi & Kiki – 24 Hours In The Disco
10. Sarr Band – Double Action
11. Van McCoy – Spanish Boogie
12. Margaret Reynolds – Keep On Holding On
13. Main Ingredient – Evening Of Love

24 Hours In A Disco

Sampler for my first EP, available from May 25 on Bandcamp.
https://jobubbles.bandcamp.com/

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I hope you enjoy it!

<3 Jo

Playdate EP Sampler

Here's a doodle I made with software only, not being able to work in the studio. If you want it, you can have it, but please share, play and promote this music. Contact me if you need a hi-res file.

<3
Jo

Voyager (Free download)

I collected some weirdly shaped beads and now I put them on a string.

Traxxx:
Front 242 - Sample D
Barrington Levy - Name Of The Game (Version)
Mr James Barth - Smooth Talking
Sue Ann - My baby, my
Joël Fajerman - La Route des poles
Cabaret Voltaire -Diskono (on 33)
Tik and Tok - Soulless Synthetic Heart-steps of Unconcerned Androids
Alessandro Alessandroni - Afro discoteca
Naum Gabo - Pictur (The Loving Hand remix)
ZA Talent - Telex
Jiraffe - Out'a The Box
Jackson Jones - Put Your Pants On
Schriekback - Hand On My Heart / Mistah Linn - He Dead (Adrian Sherwood remix)
Dancer - Boom Boom
Impedance - Tainted Love
Young Marco - Video Days
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Put your pants on (in the mix)

Musical throwing stars aimed at the intolerant. Deliberately sloppy mixed for maximum thrashing effect ;)

This Mix Kills Facists

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2025 Dates⬇️
13 September - Bad Dad, Berlin 
6 September - Morfar Ginko
23 August - Riche Lilla Baren w/ Johan Brolund
22 August - Timebar w/ Fredrik
14 August - PLX Tjärö
27 June - Fotografiska
6 June - Makemake Sunset Shenanigans
29 May - Pelago w/ Ophelia
24 May - Spice 99 w/ Fredrik
2 May - Freyja Söder
30 Apr - Hyp Therapy @ Morfar Ginko Basement w/ DJ Døden
5 Apr - Riche Lilla Baren w/ Fredrik Borg
7 Mar - Indigo w/ Lisa Tee & Manú
1 Mar - Makemake Tapes label night at Hosoi
22 Feb - Under Bron, Växthuset
15 Feb - Freyja Söder
8 Feb - Riche Lilla Baren w/ Fredrik Borg
31 Jan - Tranan w/ Fredrik Borg
21 Jan - Snövit, Musik till stöd för Palestina

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