SSC - artist

Tommy Spaanheden, aka Stisch, has talent enough. He could easily have been a painter, poet or something in forensic medicine but luckily for us he decided to follow his heart and make beautiful, mind-blowing music.

Since discovering music in the early eighties and becoming its slave in 1991, he has given the world several projects. These include the techno-fueled aliases Cataclysm, Inquisagon, Incosm and Psycogenetic Soundforce, acts which put him on several club charts across Europe. He has also produced lush, funky, vocal soundscapes together with singer Joanna in the part acoustic, part electronic outfit Sirene.

These days however, it is the Stisch moniker that rends most international attention and also where Gothenburg based Tommy puts in maximum effort. He has, during the last year, been on the British Beats Chart top-ten twice with "JFK" and "Welcome to the Beat Shop EP", as well as having the tracks "Television popper" and "Poolswinger" incl on DJ Hyper's "Bedrock breaks" compilations.

Inspired by successful crossover tunes where pioneering electro producers meet great pop singers (e.g. Chemical Brothers vs. Bernard Sumner, Plump DJs vs. Gary Numan and X-Press 2 vs. David Byrne), and surprised that no-one had ever done similar in Sweden, Stisch invited multi-platinum selling and frequently chart topping Weeping Willows' front man and solo artist Magnus Carlson, to co-write and sing on the first single "Beauty in me".

"Beauty in me" is a traditional pop song with a catchy refrain, dressed in a cool electronic uniform. A limited number of advance copies have already excited some of the top DJs in the world, rendered sporadic airplay on Swedish national radio and received praise from specialist media.

"If you want to hear an example of how to do the breaks crossover tune that everyone seems so desperate to deliver, look no further than this," wrote UK dance magazine M8 whilst Update magazine graded the single 4 out of 5.

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