Martin "Bassic" Lindhe (born 20 January 1971,

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and

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, with a style that blends

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and

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. His music is often progressive and suggestive in nature. He is best known for his string of hits on the music website

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, where he during a period of almost two years he was one of the most downloaded artists in the genres

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and

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. He moved to the

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in 1999. In 2020, his family lost their house in

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to the

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and is as of February 2021 living in a rented house. Lindhe is the great-grandchild of the Swedish composer

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Career

19911999: Early career

During his early years Bassic composed a flurry of songs, mostly using borrowed equipment. No music was published until after 1999, and many of these old recordings from this period were lost.

19992002: MP3.com years

He originally uploaded his tracks to

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in the 1990s as a storage solution while moving from Sweden to the USA. Soon after, he was noticed by electronica lovers and gained a large following on

. By the time the service had been taken over by CNET, his tracks had been downloaded over 7 million times.

20022004: Independent years

During this period Lindhe mainly focused on his family and only released a collection of his most popular songs, with some new material, '' Daydreamer'' fro
his own private website
In 2002 Lindhe was nominated for Best Unsigned Artist and Yahoo! Internet Life's "Internet Music Awards" in

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20042007: DMI years

After noticing Lindhe's success at

, Digital Musicworks International persuaded Lindhe to join their roster. After signing with DMI, Lindhe composed and released ''Brighter Than the Sun'', one of his most appreciated and best-selling releases to date. In 2007, Lindhe left DMI claiming they had failed to fulfill their contract with him.

2007present: Independent years

Since 2007 Lindhe has been an independent publisher of his own music through iTunes Store,

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and

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Discography

*''The Complete Chronicles'' (Vol. 1-6) (1991–2003) *''Daydreamer'' (2005) *''Brighter Than The Sun'' (2006) *''Omniom'' (2009) *''Voco'' (2015) *''Motus'' (2015) *''Biochrome'' (2017)

Recording

Lindhe has self-recorded and produced all of his albums, and played all instruments that appear on them. Since 2006, he has exclusively made music using a high-end computer studio with software synthesizers and samplers.

Licensing

Bassic songs have been licensed for commercial use with companies like Jovan Musk,

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game company

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References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Bassic Living people Electronica musicians Swedish male musicians 1971 births People from Borås