Jonas Erik Altberg was born on 22 December 1984 in Halmstad, Sweden. He lived
with his parents and younger brother near Tylösand, a famous Swedish beach. He
started to produce music under the stage name "Basshunter" in 1999 with the
computer program Fruity Loops, and released his first albums, The Old Shit and
The Bassmachine, through his own web site in 1999 and 2004 respectively. His
interest in music became greater as he progressed. After several demo songs
spread over the internet, he started to get phone calls from dance clubs that
wanted to hire him as a DJ. In April 2006, he signed his first contract with
Warner Music, releasing his first single, "Boten Anna". In Scandinavia, the song
became a hit instantly and was the first ever Swedish language song to reach
number one on the Dutch Top 40 Chart. His major label debut album, would chart
all over Europe and launch him into the forefront of dance music[citation
needed]. When Basshunter reached 50,000 friends on MySpace, he celebrated by
releasing "Beer in the Bar - Myspace Edit" and chatting via webcam with fans. In
2007, Altberg released a re-recording of "Boten Anna", titled "Now You're Gone",
featuring entirely rewritten lyrics to appeal to a foreign market. The song
subsequently charted at number one on the UK Singles Chart, and stayed there for
5 weeks. Throughout 2007, Basshunter was working on a new
album, titled Now You're Gone: The Album., after the leading single it was
released on 14 July 2008. He has also released a small clip of "Camilla", while
the song "I Can Walk On Water, I Can Fly" leaked unintentionally. After a
planned release, "Please Don't Go", another single, was cancelled in an email to
subscribers of the Hard2Beat newsletter. The single release was instead switched
to "All I Ever Wanted", an English re-recording of "Vi sitter i Ventrilo och
spelar DotA", in the vein of "Now You're Gone". Within the single newsletter, it
was also revealed that the next album was indeed "on its way", along with the
single, and that the album would be English reworkings of classic Basshunter
songs.[citation needed]
The third double released in the UK was "Angel in the Night" not "Please Don't
Go", which many fans speculated would be released.
The fourth single, "I Miss You" was released on 15 December 2008 alongside the
Christmas single, "Jingle Bells (Bass)".
Basshunter's fifth and final single from the album Now You're Gone: The Album is
Walk On Water. The video was released by Hard2Beat on 27 February 2009. The song
was Digitally Released on April 6 2009 With a Re-Release of the album, featuring
The new radio Versions of the songs Angel In The Night, I Miss You and Walk On
Water replacing the album versions of these songs. It also features New remixes
of Walk On Water plus the music video for Walk On Water and a megamix video of
the previous four singles from the Album.
Basshunter performed a new song titled "Every Morning" at the Dance Nation Tour
in April 2009.
In an interview with a University Newspaper (An Focal at the University of
Limerick) Altberg confirmed that the song would be his next single. It will be
released on the 28th of September. His fifth studio album, titled Bass
Generation was announced on 1 July 2009 on the Hard2Beat website and will be
released on 5 October 2009[2].
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