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RIP Cristian
Dec 3rd
The Ace of Base fandom have lost one of the world’s biggest Ace of Base fans.
Argentinian Cristian Aranda, known as xyandj, was very active in the Acer community. He was popular, friendly and very generous in sharing all the AOB material he collected. He also participated in various remix competitions. Cristian shared this material at his blog: http://www.aceofbase-xyandj.blogspot.com
A large portion of the music available here at Ultimate Ace of Base was also provided by Cristian.
Our condolences go out to his friends and family.
RIP, amigo.
A.O.B in Canada
Sep 4th
Sorry for the lack of updates lately!
Ace.of.Base recently performed a few concerts in Canada (Gay festival, beer festival etc.) In my opinion, they still butcher original AOB tunes, but they managed to make their own tunes sound pretty good (thanks mostly to Clara…)
You can find lots of videos of the concerts on YouTube, but another great page to check out is AcerAdam’s blog on the concert he went to in Toronto.
There has also been an announcement about some upcoming (November) concerts in South America. Check out the Brazilian site here.
Did you see the concerts? What were your thoughts?
Ulf: relationship with Jenny improving
Jun 17th
Ulf recently gave an interview to UK-based So-So Gay.
Key points from the interview:
- They are still looking for a record company for the UK
- They are still working on the soundtrack for an upcoming film
- Relationship with Linn has always been good, relationship with Jenny improving.
Jenny and I are supporting each other equally nowadays. I really like her album. She’s happy with what she’s doing now; engaged with the church and her kids and husband.
Ace.of.Base are also performing at the Queer Beer festival in Canada next month. Surprisingly there was no mention of this in this interview.
It’s interesting how both Jenny and Ace.of.Base have been catering to the gay markets recently. This was not the case in the past. The cynic in me says that the gay community is now the only community that remember or want to know them…
Read the full interview at http://sosogay.org/2011/interview-ace-of-base/
Ulf’s Fireside talk
May 18th
Ulf gives an interesting discussion on the music industry and the role of social media.
Is a re-release of The Golden Ratio on its way?
May 17th
Now our album is available on all download systems! Playground just told us so.
Gosh what a long time it took!! Embarrassing…
Now Playground is calling the shots and took control again, Universal failed…- Jonas
On the message boards (1, 2), Jonas admitted that he doesn’t expect the album to sell a lot, but he does hope that some "sleepers" (Acers of the past) will wake up and rediscover the music. He has hinted that their may be a Summer re-release of the album and that some new songs will be released "step by step".
It’s nice to see that he hasn’t given up on the album, and it’s interesting to see him come straight out and say that "Universal failed." Jonas mentioned in chat that Souther California is likely to be the new single. "Very pleased with Bingolotto. SC could make a new start-new girls etc."
Singer Wynter Gordon has mentioned that one of her upcoming tracked was "produced by Ace of Base." Jonas said he can’t say much about it, but that "We were not SO involved."
If you haven’t heard it already, check out the newest song Jonas shared from Ace.of.Base, Paradise here.
AOB US record beaten
May 14th
There’s not much happening on the A.O.B / Jenny front, but I thought this was interesting:
Katy Perry has now set a chart record unmatched by anyone else in the history of the Billboard Hot 100. She has spent an entire year, 52 straight weeks, with at least one song in the top 10. This surpasses the past record of 48 weeks by the Swedish pop group Ace of Base. The 52 weeks have come about through the release of four consecutive #1 hit singles. They are “California Gurls,” “Teenage Dream,” “Firework,” and now “E.T.” The album Teenage Dream is only the ninth album ever to generate four #1 pop singles. It has now sold nearly 1.5 million copies and surpasses Katy Perry’s previous album One Of the Boys.
Source: http://top40.about.com/b/2011/05/12/katy-perry-sets-a-record-spending-an-entire-year-in-the-top-10-on-the-billboard-hot-100.htm
HQ Interview from 1999
Apr 14th
Recently I was emailed by a French TV producer and former TV journalist who interviewed Ulf & Jenny in 1999 for a documentary on Swedish music. He was kind enough to upload the video in high quality to be shared here.
Updated: New demos – Ace Thursdays.
Mar 25th
Acers are in Heaven these days, with both Jonas (with permission of the record labels) and Claes (ex Mega records) deciding to upload and share high quality demos and previously unreleased tracks. Jonas has even gone on to say that he will release a few songs ever Thursday for the coming weeks. I’ll update this page with new demos as they are released.
All tracks available on the demos page
December 17-19, 2010
Claes Flowers Presentation CD (Only new/different tracks shown)
10. Love For Sale 1:47
13. Run To Him 2:46 (He Decides demo)*
14. L’amour 1:14 (Jonas version)
15. Hello, Hello 2:10 (Jonas version)
16. Thinking Of You 3:03
17. Golden Eye 3:32
18. Lapponia 3:35
19. Lovesong (Dance in the Moonlight) 3:26
Stay with Me
Emmanuel
Stranger to Love (dance version)
March 3, 2011
Moment of Magic (Slow Version)
Would You Believe (d’Cats version)
Come To Me (Early Instrumental)
Love In December (Alternate Version)
Girl In The Line
March 10, 2011
My Déjà Vu (Instrumental)
For A Thousand Days
Giving It Up
Change With The Light (Original Production)
The Duel
Go Go Go, Dr. Beat
March 17, 2011
Beautiful Morning (Original Version)
No Good Lover (Reggae Version)
L’amour (Original Version)
World Down Under (Fast version)
Da Capo (Original Version)
March 24, 2011
Cuba Cuba Libre
Come to Me
The Challenge
Would you Believe (Ace version)
Would you Believe (Summer version)
Beautiful Life (Instrumental with choir)
March 27, 2011 – Claes
Hypnotised (Ace version)
Hypnotised (TOEC version)
Hear me Calling (Demo 1)
March 31, 2011
(She was) Thinking of You (in HQ)
Hallo Hallo (Ace version)
End of this World
Killer on the Rampage
Walk like a Man (Tech Noir)
… More every Thursday!
All tracks available on the demos page
Check out DJ Calboy’s remixes
Mar 5th
DJ Calboy has done a lot of great Ace of Base remixes over the years. His latest remixes are of Jenny Berggren’s new smash hit Let Your Heart Be Mine.
Check them out: UltimateAceofBase.com/calboy
Results: your favourite MS & TGR tracks
Mar 3rd
Last year, a poll was run on The AceBoards to see which Ace of Base songs were the fan favourites. You can see the results of that poll here. This time, we’d like to know your favourite tracks from the two recent albums: Jenny Berggren’s My Story, and The Golden Ratio by Ace.of.Base.
Imagine you are creating a “Best of” album, showcasing the best songs from both albums. You can vote for the 13 songs on each album, plus “Let Your Heart Be Mine” and “All Night Long“.
VOTING OVER – RESULTS
| 01. Let Your Heart Be Mine* 361 |
| 02. Dying to Stay Alive 276 |
| 03. Gotta Go 270 |
| 04. Black Sea 248 |
| 05. All For You 228 |
| 06. Air of Love 212 |
| 07. Vision in Blue 189 |
| 08. Bla Bla Bla (OTR) 162 |
| 09. Natural Superstar 157 |
| 10. One Day 135 |
| 11. Numb 116 |
| 12. All Night Long* 108 |
| 13. Mr Replay 102 |
| 14. Here I Am 101 |
| 15. Doreen 100 |
| 16. Southern California 94 |
| 17. Give me the Faith 79 |
| 18. Precious 78 |
| 19. Beat of my Heart 78 |
| 20. The Golden Ratio 74 |
| 21. Free Me 69 |
| 22. Going Home 68 |
| 23. Told my Ma 58 |
| 24. Living in a Circus 56 |
| 25. Spend This Night 36 |
| 26. Who Am I 13 |
| 27. Intro (My Story) 7 |
| 28. Juliet 5 |
Let Your Heart Be Mine is the crowd favourite.
Thanks to all who took part. 