Stockholm Has Good Clubs

The Swedes have an unfair advantage: they look like that, they make music like that, and instead of a parade of corrupt politicians they have a glamorous royal family sitting at the top. Stockholm’s Atlantis club concept was running a nice little constellation of interesting acts around this time—Wildlife! among them, and Suck Shaft, whose track "There Are Children Here" lands somewhere in that sweet spot of electro that feels genuinely made rather than assembled from trending components.

It’s the kind of song that plays well at 2am when you’re still deciding whether the night is over. Propulsive enough to keep things moving, strange enough to feel like a discovery. Swedish electro from this period had a particular texture—colder than the French stuff, less knowing, with an undercurrent that could tip into something melancholy if you let it. I’m not entirely sure which side of that line I land on with this one. I still haven’t decided.