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Tim Bergling, born in Stockholm in 1989, was posting remixes on forums at sixteen. His first real break came through Pete Tong’s Fast Trax competition, which he won, and his early records came out on Tong’s Bedroom Bedlam label.

“Seek Bromance” in 2010 was the first to travel widely. “Levels”, the year after, was the record that carried EDM into the American mainstream, and True, in 2013, put bluegrass and soul players on dance records with “Wake Me Up” — a move his own audience booed at Ultra before it became one of the biggest records of the decade.

He stopped touring in 2016, citing his health. He died in 2018, aged 28.

The posthumous album TIM followed in 2019, finished from his own sessions, with Aloe Blacc, Imagine Dragons and Chris Martin on it; proceeds went to the Tim Bergling Foundation, set up by his family to work on mental illness and suicide prevention. Any Vegas billing under this name now is a tribute set, not him.

Written from Wikipedia and AllMusic.