Basshunter
For those who are unfamiliar with Basshunter; Basshunter is a Swedish artist that officially broke through world wide with his Swedish hit, 'Boten Anna,' a song about an IRC bot. Many variations have been made on it, and I personally experienced the Dutch version of it live a short time ago - the Dutch version is only nice when it's live.
The Swedish artist, Basshunter, is also known as 'Jonas Altberg,' which is his real name. Jonas is born in the Swedish city, Halmdstad, which can be found at the mouth of Nissan River in Halland in South-Western Sweden. Basshunter is born on 22th of December in the year 1984, which would mean he is currently 21 years old.
Basshunter, who calls his own music eurodance, started making music in 1999 and released his first album, The Bassmachine, in 2004 by using his own home page. There are others who call his music more hard dance.
Jonas Altberg suffered from a syndrom called 'Tourette,' which he had a hard time with when he was still young. This means that he sometimes states his mind unintentionally. He has complete control over it now.
Out here, in the Netherlands, Basshunter broke officially through during the summer with his Summer Hit, Boten Anna, which brought him the number 1 position in the Dutch Top 40, the most important music top in the Netherlands. The Swedish artist also had much success in other countries, but Denmark and Sweden were his best.
Friday, the 13th of October, Basshunter paid a visit to the Netherlands to perform at the TMF (The Music Factory) Music Awards. It is obvious that a big group of the Dutch people has a liking towards the "strange dancing" Swedish artist.
Cover of Basshunter's latest album: "LOL <(^^,)>"
In Basshunter's most recent song, DotA, he is referring to a game that was playing with his friends. According to the Swedish artist himself, he was playing the game called 'DotA' with some background music with his friends to get the inspiration to make the song. DotA is a custom game of the video game called 'Warcraft III.'
Jonas Altberg's, or better known as Basshunter has recently released his latest hit, DotA, which its official name is: 'Vi sitter i Ventrilo och spelar DotA,' which is roughly translated to 'We're sitting in Ventrilo and playing DotA.'
The way Altberg performed during the Dutch TMF awards, it is safe to say that he enjoys the performing and is fond on his own song.
My own opinion of Basshunter is that I am pretty fond of him as an artist, but also as a performer. Even though he performed in the country I live only a few days ago, I stayed at home to follow some different news. In a way, I regret a bit of not seeing him live in Amsterdam, the capital of the Netherlands. A friend told me about Basshunter's live performance in Amsterdam, which I carefully followed on TV.
Basshunter's latest song's clip can be found in the following link, please note what kind of lyrics you would like to see in the clip. You have a choice out of multiple languages, which English, France and Finnish are a few of them. If you are interested in singing the song, the original language lyrics are Swedish.
http://basshunter.m0o.eu/dota/index.php
(and not just me)