Sebastian Ingrosso, Steve Angello and Axwell of Swedish Abode Mafia accomplish at a awash out Madison Square Garden. (Photo: Griffin Lotz for RollingStone.com)
Minutes afore they took the date for their headlining Madison Square Garden show, the associates of ball supergroup Swedish Abode Mafia were clumsy to accept they were absolutely about to play the allegorical arena.
"We said it as a joke," mused Sebastian Ingrosso. "'We should play Madison Square Garden, ha ha.'" "Somebody accept to accept been bashed . . . the one that appointed it," added bandmate Axwell.
Their atheism was warranted: No added cyberbanking ball act had anytime performed at the Garden. For Swedish Abode Mafia's longtime fans, however, the area seemed a accustomed fit: the accumulation had assuredly accustomed at a abode big abundant to bout its ambitions. The 20,000-seat amphitheatre awash out in just nine minutes.
The DJs of Swedish Abode Mafia-Axwell, Steve Angello and Sebastian Ingrosso-began affliction a huge advertisement over the summer, throwing out cryptic clues at their shows and online. A aberrant alphanumeric code, displayed during an Ibiza set, sparked a basic firestorm as admirers accolade to analyze the message. In September, the Madison Square Garden date (along with a summer 2012 appearance at the UK's Milton Keynes Bowl and an accessible mix album) was appear with an over-the-top bivouac and its own website.
Swedish Abode Mafia brought this aforementioned affecting ability to the show itself, creating a comedy big abundant to about-face a two-hour DJ set into an electrifying, floor-shaking, fist-pumping experience. A white sheet hid the date bureaucracy from view, but as the abode lights went down it lit up with active flashes of the group's three-circle logo and the New York City skyline. The area alone to acknowledge the three DJs completely belted by lights and graphics: they stood on a towering convex belvedere outfitted with video screens, and abaft them was another massive semi-circular screen. The massive rig askew the associates of Swedish Abode Mafia, emphasizing the all-embracing beheld acquaintance and music. Even from the nosebleeds, the huge annular structure-perhaps a attenuate nod to their logo-made for arena-sized entertainment.
The trio's set was analogously supersized to ample the space. Classics from the accumulation and its members-"Leave the World Behind," Axwell's "Heart Is King"-were acclimated in unexpected, altogether accomplished mash-ups to accumulate the army on its toes; the group's individual "One," for example, gave a remix of Florence and the Machine's "You've Got The Love" a harder electro edge.
Swedish Abode Mafia's energetic, anything-goes access to their set also avant-garde ball music mainstays, advance whose lyrics admirers would expect to belt out at about any abode show. Daft Punk's "Aerodynamic," overlaid with the angrily singable choir of Diddy-Dirty Money's "Coming Home," acquainted fresh, as did takes on Calvin Harris's "Feel So Close" and Nero's "Promises."
Supremely bland bond kept the crowd's activity top throughout the show, with an about connected bassline active the set. To add to the continuity, the DJs would acquiesce a song to bleed beneath the apparent afore bringing it to centermost stage-the aerial synths of Dirty South and Those Usual Suspects' "Walking Alone" crept into the mix account afore the abounding song played. Three pairs of easily confused beyond the mixer accelerated as the DJs formed in impaired accord to absolute anniversary transition, often switching spots with anniversary other.
Which isn't to say the group's associates didn't accept fun during their set. The boys took turns continuing on top of the booth, singing forth with admirers and dancing. During the high-energy cameos of two bedfellow vocalists-rapper Tinie Tempah for "Miami 2 Ibiza" and accompanist John Martin for "Save the World"-they alone their authority on the decks a bit to ball with their guests. Swedish Abode Mafia's associates themselves took to the mic abundant times as well, cogent New Yorkers how beholden they were to be playing at the Garden. Sebastian Ingrosso cut the music for a moment to echo an SHM attitude started at endure year's Creamfields UK festival: the accomplished army sits down in apprehension of a track's big drop, alone jumping aback up to ball already the exhausted bliss in. The MSG crowd alternate eagerly, of course, with endless cameras flashing and afterglow sticks waving.
For a atom of the admirers at Madison Square Garden, the night didn't end if the appearance did. Swedish Abode Mafia aswell threw an afterparty at Roseland Ballroom; the "Back to the Masquerade Motel" affair was an NYC yield on the group's acclaimed Masquerade Motel shows in Ibiza. The balustrade akin featured "pop-up" canteen account hosted by Manhattan hotspot Provocateur, authoritative the accident feel abundant added like an ad-lib affair than a heavily orchestrated concert.
The group's ambition for Roseland, Ingrosso said beforehand, was to "just wing it and accept fun." Axwell agreed, saying, "We'll just go off the hype and adrenaline we accept from the [Madison Square Garden] show, and see area it takes us."
Swedish Abode Mafia's additional appearance of the night was intimate, in added means than one. A smaller, lower date bureaucracy accustomed the DJs to see and be seen, enabling added alternation with the crowd. On a beneath ablaze note, the attic was arranged with admirers jostling to get added forward, authoritative for a awfully altered acquaintance than MSG's deeply controlled environment. Unfortunately for those who went to both shows, the set was mostly the same, admitting with a few adventurous transitions and added advance befuddled in. (Avicii's "Levels," for one, got anybody dancing and singing along.)
The afterparty aswell featured sets from Max Vangeli and AN21 (Steve Angello's little brother), Jacques Lu Cont and Carl Kennedy. It ended well afterwards sunrise.
For their part, the Swedish Abode Mafia boys accomplished their set belted by accompany and family, binding into the berth together. "New York, we've appear a continued way!" Angello yelled. "We put a bistro in Madison Square Garden."
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