Loopified

by Dirty Loops

Overview

Dirty Loops' full-length debut album, 2014's Loopified, showcases the Swedish trio's ambitious jazz, prog rock, R&B, and electronic dance-inflected pop music. Formed in 2008, Dirty Loops feature the talents of vocalist/keyboardist Jonah Nilsson, bassist Henrik Linder, and drummer Aaron Mellergardh. All three members studied jazz and classical music in college and spent several years working as session musicians before forming Dirty Loops as an outlet to express their own eclectic, far-reaching musical vision. Working with manager/producer Andreas Carlsson (as well as executive producer David Foster), the group has put together an album that's one part jazz fusion trio, one part electronic dance outfit, and one part contemporary pop act. Impressively, it also ends up being much more than the sum of its parts. Dirty Loops certainly have chops to spare and layer each track with enough jazz-informed chord progressions, arpeggiated six-string basslines, frenetic drum fills, and melismatic vocal breakdowns to fill any number of Stevie Wonder albums (to name-drop an obvious influence). Thankfully, they also don't forget to bring the pop melody, and cuts like the leadoff "Hit Me," the energetic club anthem "Sexy Girls," and the buoyant "Take on the World" grab you with immediately infectious hooks built largely around Nilsson's highly resonant, charismatic croon. In reality, the tracks on Loopified aren't really all that dissimilar to any number of modern pop hits from Justin Timberlake or Bruno Mars. The difference is primarily in Dirty Loops' high level of technical skill and jazz-infused progressions that lend a deeper harmonic nuance and maturity to their songs, even when they are singing about "sexy girls in the club." Ironically, besides a few cheeky lyrical asides, there's not too much that's very dirty or even musically messy about Dirty Loops here. On the contrary, Loopified is an innovative, pure musical vision of jazzy, infectious, crystalline-produced, club-ready pop. ~ Matt Collar

Product Details

Release Date:	10/08/2014
Label:	SUPER D INDEPENDENT DIST.
UPC:	4988005849755
Rank:	42097

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Dirty Loops   Primary Artist
Andrej Power   Violin
Simona Bonfiglioli   Violin
Paul Waltman   Violin
Riikka Repo   Viola
Carin Wallgren   Viola
Daniela Bonfiglioli   Violin
Erik Liljenberg   Violin
Tomas Lundstroem   Cello
Nisse Westfelt   Tambourine
Maja Keuc   Vocals (Background)
Andreas Ekstedt   Percussion
Henrik Linder   Bass
Aron Mellergardh   Drums
Jonah Nilsson   Vocals,Keyboards
Simon Petren   Synthesizer
Dan Higgins   Saxophone
Gary Grant   Trumpet
Lars Bryngelsson   Viola
Asa Strid   Cello
Samuel Coppin   Cello
Anna Wirdefeldt   Violin
Asa Wirdefeldt   Violin
William Frank "Bill" Reichenbach Jr.   Trombone
Wayne Bergeron   Trumpet
Erlend Habbestrad   Cello
Filip Jers   Harmonica
Oscar Treitler   Violin
Sergej Bolkhovets   Violin
Erik Arvinder   Violin
Martin Stensson   Violin
Mikael Sjoegren   Viola
Claudia Bonfiglioli   Violin
Erik Holm   Viola
Patrik Swedrup   Violin
Anna Larsson   Violin
Christopher Oehman   Viola
Aleksander Saetterstroem   Violin
Gudmund Ingvall   Cello

Technical Credits

Nisse Westfelt   Mixing,Drum Mix,Drum Technician
Lukasz Gottwald   Composer
Terius Nash   Composer
Urban Naesvall   Drum Technician
Willem Bleeker   Piano Engineer,String Engineer
Anders Pantzer   Assistant Engineer
Henrik Linder   Group Member
Julian Swirsky   Composer
Aron Mellergardh   Group Member
Jonah Nilsson   Group Member
Simon Petren   Mixing
Claude Kelly   Composer
Christopher "Tricky" Stewart   Composer
Paul Epworth   Composer
Johnny Powers   Composer
Rodney "Darkchild" Jerkins   Composer
David Foster   Executive Producer
Mike Einziger   Composer
Adele Adkins   Composer
Mike Einzinger   Composer
Dirty Loops   Composer,Producer,String Arrangements
Aloe Blacc   Composer
Andreas Carlsson   Composer,Executive Producer
Bernie Grundman   Mastering
Christina Milian   Composer
Jerry Hey   Leader,Arranger,Horn Arrangements
Daniel Socorro   A&R
Joshua Gudwin   Composer
Oscar Vallinder   Art Direction
Rickard Gustavsson   Drum Technician
Robin Olofsson   Art Direction
Tilly Thomson   Composer
Erik Arvinder   String Arrangements
Andrew Hey   Engineer
Christopher Bridges   Composer
Josh Gudwin   Composer
Benjamin Levin   Composer
Sebastian Larsson   Composer
Marjorie Maye   Composer
Jonas Akerlund   Photography,Visual Concept
Ronny Lathi   Drum Engineering
Evelyn Morgan   A&R
Justin Bieber   Composer
Christine Telleck   Production Manager
Tim Bergling   Composer