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Mr. Tophat closing the main stage (Amfin) at Gagnef, Skankaloss 2017.

Mr. Tophat closing the main stage at Gagnef, Skankaloss 08.07.2017

Regular Thursdae from restaurant Riche, Lilla Baren pre covid.

Mr. Tophat DJ pre COVID-19 at Riche Lilla Baren, Stockholm

Time Lapse

Time Lapse (DJ Tennis Disko Bang Club Mix - Extended)

Time Lapse (Original Mix)

Dusk to Dawn, Pt. 2

Time Lapse (feat. Noomi)

This Is Pop

Suddenly

Magic In The Night (imperium mix)

Boutique

Boutique (Magnus Larsson Polite Yet Sincere Reimagination)

Mr. Tophat - Mood Switch [JYC - 009]

ON & ON

Fade Away

Bagatellen

MEGA

Robyn has just completed a short run of festivals in North America, including a headline set at Governors ball. Ahead of these shows she invited some of her favorite artists in dance music from across the globe to remix key tracks from throughout her career, she performed these new versions of the songs live. A list of the participating artists, along with the songs they’ve remixed, is below. New tracks coming every Friday.

REMIXES // TRACKS:
Axel Boman - “Hang With Me” 
Cassius - “Dancing On My Own” 
Harry "Choo Choo" Romero - “Love Kills” 
Joakim - “With Every Heartbeat” 
Mr. Tophat - “Main Thing” 
The Black Madonna - “Indestructible” 
The Mekanism - “Don’t Fucking Tell Me What To Do” 
Zhala & Heal the World - “Stars 4 Ever”

Main Thing (Mr. Tophat Remix)

Robyn - Main Thing (MR. TOPHAT Remix)

Circoloco is about as DC-10 as DC-10 gets. From humble beginnings in 1999 the Monday party (which still holds down the same weekly slot today) has become one of the most desirable Ibiza has to offer, irresistible to anyone who likes clubbing in its purist form.

Line-ups overflow with techno talent every week with DJs practically lining up to play; the Circoloco reputation is as strong on the industry side as it is for the clubbers. The careers of Tania Vulcano, Loco Dice and Luciano owe much to their involvement with DC-10 Monday afternoons, which stirred up a buzz that has never died.

Circoloco has a very colourful history, as fancy dress was once an unofficial pre-requisite to attendance. The atmosphere was wild and joyous – a true representation of the ‘anything goes’ ethos of Ibiza. Whilst fewer people dip into the dress-up box these days, the same community prevails of clubbers coming together for sheer joy of music – no frills necessary.

2008/9 saw a difficult time in the party’s progress, as a series of enforced closures and legal issues threatened to cripple it. Circoloco bounced back in 2010 however and has been looking forward ever since. The iconic clown face has since travelled across the globe, throwing Circoloco parties across the continents every year, however DC-10 will always be home.

Mr. Tophat @ DC10, Ibiza - Circoloco, September 2016 (Vinyl 12")

Was released 2012 on Junk Yard Connections in an edition of 300 copies worldwide, no repress.

A piece of music history, life-changing once played and heard in right contexts.

BACK YARD IMPRESSIONS

Mr. Tophat & Art Alfie - King Hassan (Shutted Blinds 3:PM)(2012)

"If anybody would have seen them on that cold dry February morning it would not have been odd to believe he was being seduced by a descended cloud."

KVK100 is the first document of the Swedish label Karlovak and consists of SDIK Baby (A1) and Marlboro Light (B1) with original production by label masterminds Mr. Tophat & Art Alfie.

Resident Advisor's RA Review

"Established in 2011, it's unclear why it's taken Karlovak Records until now to put out their debut release. Run out of Stockholm by production partners Art Alfie and Mr Tophat, the label creates an avenue for the duo to persue their passion for raw house, away from the steelier, more measured aesthetic of their collectively-managed Junk Yard Connections imprint. 

Loud, coarse kicks and upright hi-hats fuse on "SDIK Baby," with as enticing a bassline as you'll hear all year. Potent snapshots of whirling synth and heartfelt female soul vocals all contribute to the track's wonderfully organic, pumping ride. Devastatingly simple, never once does the record's eight-minute casing feel drawn out or overplayed. On the flip, "Marlboro Light" treads a techier domain, as severe stabs lead the dance with metallic, orchestral vigour. Burial-style vocals—albeit in fully unravelled form—add depth to the track's otherwise stern swing."

Mr. Tophat & Art Alfie - SDIK Baby (2012)

Official release note:

"In panic I rushed past the neighbour in the staircase, drunk as always, he is more than willing to lend me his phone. Leaning against the guardrail, gazing down the spiral view as I make my call. No answer."

KVK700 is the seventh episode of the Swedish label Karlovak and consists of “The Best Sense Is The Nonsense (A1)” and “Liberace´s Fever” (B1) with original production by label founders Mr. Tophat & Art Alfie.

RA review:

"This is the sixth EP Swedes Rudolf Nordstrom and Oscar Wedren have released on their own Karlovak label in a little over a year, and their purple patch shows no sign of abating. Both of the tracks here are elongated journeys that clock in at just under ten-minutes, and both continue the rollicking, house-meets-disco mood of their past releases. 

Opener "The Best Sense Is The Nonsense" initially leavens its pounding percussion with ethereal synth effects before a gracefully out-of time piano line and spoken-word voice samples arrive to complete an off-kilter sort of a banger. "Liberace's Fever," meanwhile, is as flamboyant as its title would suggest. A riot from the off, it descends in a hail of tumbling disco strings, echoing vocal snippets, party-hearty brass and a turbo-charged bassline that propels it forth with the kind of vivid melee normally reserved for Mardi Gras."

Mr. Tophat & Art Alfie - The Best Sense Is The Nonsense (2014)

Third instalment on Karlovak Chrome.
Was released in an edition of 300 exemplar, vinyl only.

Mr. Tophat & Art Alfie - Don't Step On The Baby (2014)

Official release note:

"I want her to change her cloths, not because the one she is wearing suits her poorly or does ill justice to her beauty; but as an attempt to restore what she once awaked in me.."

KVK800 is the 8th record on Karlovak from label founders Mr. Tophat & Art Alfie. It consists of Limehouse Afternoon (A1) and B. Karlssons Dub (B1). No surprises here, Tophat and Alfie keeps on in the same direction as they left off with infectious groovy party house.

Mr. Tophat & Art Alfie - Limehouse Afternoon (2014)

Mr. Tophat & Art Alfie - B. Karlssons Dub (2014)

Official release note:

This is the beginning of the end and also the beginning of the beginning. The people in the dark damp cellar room couldn’t quite grasp it. But they could grasp the sordined trumpets coming out of the oversized speakers placed right behind them.

Next up is KVK900 with the much sought after track ‘House Music’. A 14 minute long mesmerizing house journey that’s already been included in Ryan Elliotts Panorama Bar 06 mix. On the B-side you'll find 'The Glitch', a psyched out techbomb stuck in the Karlovak machine.

The end of KVK

This release also marks the beginning of the end for this series. The KVK series is coming to an end with KVK1000 being it´s final release. 
Karlovak will live on though, but through KRLVK, the new Karlovak series featuring originals from other artists such as Radio Slave, Ben Sims, DJ Jes alongside Mr. Tophat & Art Alfie

Was created and requested for Ryan Elliott's Panoramabar 06 mix, 2015.

Official release note from Ostgut Ton:

"Mixed and compiled by Ryan Elliott


I first played Panorama Bar on July 7th, 2007 and I have been playing there regularly since. I remember entering the club and feeling all those things everyone feels when they enter Berghain or Panorama Bar for the first time - excitement, joy, tension, fear… almost every emotion. I’m a lot more comfortable playing there now after all that time naturally, but all those emotions are still present in every set.

Panorama Bar has, to me, always stood for quality house music. I still play many of the same records there that I did in the beginning. Of course many new records have come and gone in those seven years of sets, but my musical direction has never changed. The title of the mix is “Panorama Bar 06 - Ryan Elliott”, it is my version of what Panorama Bar sounds like.

I knew I wanted to have roughly 30 to 40 tracks on the mix. Also, because the mix wouldn’t be a physical CD anymore, I wanted to have two EPs of exclusive material, to add a little more of a physical element. I started the A+R process for the exclusive material in February 2014. I received so much good music that we decided to put five tracks on each of the EPs, totaling 10 exclusive tracks. After that I started going through all my records and folders of music to pick the remaining material. In a perfect world, I could have used any song on the mix that I wanted. But, there is the agreement from the tracks’ owners to consider. Saying that, there were only 2 or 3 records that I wanted to use on the mix that I wasn’t able to for one reason or another. 

The most important thing to me was that the mix actually sounds like a night at the club. That it would contain tracks that I’ve played in the club many times. I wanted the mix to contain a few of my Panorama Bar ‘classics’. Because of the new format of the mix, I was a little concerned that some of the older producers wouldn’t be up for giving their agreement for using their tracks, but for the most part I was pleasantly surprised. Besides a few classics, I really wanted a wide range of songs on the mix. Some old, some new and unreleased, some new and released, exclusives, etc.

I don’t view Panorama Bar 06 as just another ‘free downloadable mix’. This mix is available as a fully mastered wave file, includes full artwork and is complimented by two EPs of exclusive material. Vinyl still exists because it's a fidelity and physical thing for DJs. DJs actually use it to do their jobs. We don’t see many tapes or 8-tracks being sold now and the CD will soon go the same way. I made the mix as long as it should be, without thinking about time limitations. We can do that now!

– Ryan Elliott, Berlin, August 2014 –"

Mr. Tophat & Art Alfie - House Music (2015)

Official release note:

This is the beginning of the end and also the beginning of the beginning. The people in the dark damp cellar room couldn’t quite grasp it. But they could grasp the sordined trumpets coming out of the oversized speakers placed right behind them.

Next up is KVK900 with the much sought after track ‘House Music’. A 14 minute long mesmerizing house journey that’s already been included in Ryan Elliotts Panorama Bar 06 mix. On the B-side you'll find 'The Glitch', a psyched out techbomb stuck in the Karlovak machine.

The end of KVK

This release also marks the beginning of the end for this series. The KVK series is coming to an end with KVK1000 being it´s final release. 
Karlovak will live on though, but through KRLVK, the new Karlovak series featuring originals from other artists such as Radio Slave, Ben Sims, DJ Jes alongside Mr. Tophat & Art Alfie

Mr. Tophat & Art Alfie - The Glitch (2015)

Official release notes:

"MR. TOPHAT
A Memoir From The Youth Pt.I

Express you. Expresso. Self. Selfo. 
A glimpse in the past. Thinking about stuff. In general. Changes and experiments in/of energy. Off/On. 
Why not dig your own rave? Substances altering your mind. Creating an understanding. In general. 
Beat, base, chords who / what is Sandro? Defining an era, changing – on the verge to the next one. 
In and off balance. Having a jazzy “moment”.  Rudolf in the maze. 

We are happy to present to you PP017.
Consum."

Mr. Tophat - Kiss-O-Sandro (2016)

Was originally created by Mr. Tophat & Art Alfie 2014.
Released on Howl January 2017.

Official release notes:

"Howl in full effect, timeless Various tracks from their artists, An homage to the raw original house music slamming, old school vibes"

Mr. Tophat & Art Alfie - Disco Got You (2017)

Official release note:

"It’s a match made in dancefloor heaven: Swedish house maestro Mr. Tophat and pop phenom Robyn have come together for Trust Me, a three-tracker of dark disco and luscious grooves that only an inspired pairing such as this could conceive of. With each track going well beyond the nine-minute marker, Trust Me is the artistic culmination of two artists joining together in the studio and putting pure inspiration to tape, resulting in some of the loosest and most intriguing music either has made in their careers. 

Although Robyn and Mr. Tophat have known each other personally for nearly a decade, the first time they professionally crossed paths was last year, when the latter contributed a few remixes of material from Robyn’s EP with La Bagatelle Magique, Love Is Free. “I wasn’t making my own music at the time, so he forced his way into my studio and said, ‘We’re going to make music now,’” Robyn recalls the beginnings of the pair’s creative process. “It was really nice for me to be submerged into his world and lose myself in something that wasn’t my own.”

Trust Me is certainly situated in Mr. Tophat’s world. The Stockholm-based Junk Yard Connections owner and Karlovak co-founder has spent most of this decade releasing a brilliant stretch of side-long singles with production pal Art Alfie. Those singles’ dense, lovingly handcrafted club vibes are perfectly realized on this EP, with some subtle tweaks to the winning formula—a rich intricacy embedded within a deeper-than-deep sound perfect for peak-hour dancing and 3 AM comedown communions alike. 

The EP also represents a logical progression for Robyn, calling back both to Love Is Free’s dancefloor abandon and the darkly shaded electro-pop of her 2014 collab with Röyksopp, Do It Again. The title track and “Right Time” shuffle and slither with a jet-black slickness as Robyn toasts and intones over the rhythms, while closing cut “Disco Davato” provides an effervescent finale, with zipping samples and crisp hi-hats providing plenty of upwards propulsion. 

Joining Robyn and Mr. Tophat in the studio was Abba’s original drummer, Per Lindvall, who the latter met through a friend at National Swedish Radio. Lindvall lends Trust Me’s tracks a crisp, live feel amidst its sample-based confines—as does bassist (and Per’s brother) David Lindvall, who previously contributed on sessions for Love Is Free. “He can do anything,” Robyn gushes on Lindvall’s contributions.

These contributions only serve to strengthen Trust Me’s disco bonafides, as does Robyn and Mr. Tophat’s appreciation of the genre. “House music is something I’ve been listening to since I was 14,” Mr. Tophat wistfully remembers. “The house songs I like most is house that’s clearly sample-based in disco. That’s the house music that’s really attracted me. For me, it came really natural to discover what’s behind these samples.” “You can hear disco in all club music,” Robyn continues. “It’s the base of so much music that we listen to, and it’s one of the most influential music styles ever. You can hear it everywhere. Disco’s always been in my world.”

And disco will continue to be in her world, as Trust Me far from represents the end of Robyn and Mr. Tophat’s partnership. “We both have ideas of what we can do,” Mr. Tophat says on the pair’s continued work on new material. “There’s a lot of unopened doors.” For now, we can be thankful that they’ve opened us up to their sleek, lovely world on Trust Me—a collection of pure club music, streaked equally with mystery and unbridled ecstasy."

Mr. Tophat feat. Robyn - Trust Me (Original) (2017)

Mr. Tophat - Disco Davato (Original) (2017)

Mr. Tophat @ Goldener Salon, Hamburg (vinyl only)

Mr. Tophat's dj set from the legendary gay club/ sauna 'Technobastun'.
Off-license party in Stockholm warehouse, great atmosphear, great people epic moment! 

Enjoy!

Mr. Tophat @ Technobastun, xXx party PRIDE STOCKHOLM (vinyl only)

Recording form Mr. Tophat and Robyn's back 2 back DJ-set at Moon Motel, Stockholm the 8th of Novemeber 2016 during the release of the Trust Me EP.

Mr. Tophat & Robyn - release Trust Me EP, Friday 8th November 2016 at Moon Motel, Stockholm, SE

Rare Dance Disc

MR. TOPHAT

Born in Sweden in 1990, Rudolf Nordström—better known as Mr. Tophat—has long been a defining force in Stockholm’s electronic music underground. A producer, DJ, and sonic architect, his deep passion for dance music has driven him to create hypnotic, genre-blurring productions that transcend traditional club sounds.

With a history of curating unique musical experiences, Mr. Tophat co-founded the revered Karlovak label with Art Alfie in 2011, a platform for house music built for nights that defy endings. He also helms Junk Yard Connections, established in 2008, a label known for its strictly limited, no repress approach—making each release a sought-after collector’s item.

His solo work has garnered critical acclaim, with both of his solo albums receiving Grammy nominations, a testament to his ability to push the boundaries of electronic music while maintaining a deeply personal and innovative sound. Following the release of "This Is Pop" (PIAS x Twilight Enterprise), he continues to explore new sonic territories, with upcoming music on Karlovak and a highly anticipated new album with Axel Boman, blending dancefloor euphoria with avant-garde textures.

His collaborations span both the mainstream and the underground, having worked with Robyn, Kleerup, XOV, Lune, and Jelly Crystal, among others. He has been spotlighted by major global media outlets, including MTV, New York Times, Entertainment Weekly, Billboard, and Pitchfork, further cementing his status as a forward-thinking artist with a broad cultural impact.

On stage, Mr. Tophat continues to appear at some of the world’s most intriguing venues and festivals—sometimes in grandiose settings, other times in shadowy, elusive late-night sanctuaries. Whether behind the decks or orchestrating immersive live performances, he remains an unpredictable and compelling force in electronic music.

Booking:
hugo@bigwednesday.se

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