ABSTRACT
By the time of the rise of Swedish superstar DJs such as Swedish House Mafia and Avicii, Swedish electronic dance music (EDM) was well established and had a long history of success and credibility in the underground as well as in the more commercial parts of club and dance culture. This chapter focuses on the Nordik Beat scene, and provides a brief presentation of some of the main contemporary actors in the continued and growing success of Swedish EDM after Nordik Beat. The Nordik Beat scene can be said to be the actual start of Swedish EDM, and definitely the root of its success. There had been some attempts at electronic disco music in the late 1970s, but the big leap in Swedish EDM came with the emergence of styles and genres such as house, techno and hip hop, and the different dance cultures surrounding them.
