Eric Prydz

Eric Prydz, born in Stockholm in 1976, had a UK number one in 2004 with “Call on Me”, built on a replayed Steve Winwood sample, and followed it with “Pjanoo”.

He then spent a decade refusing to be that artist. He records under a string of names on his own labels — Pryda for the melodic, uplifting material, Cirez D for stripped-back techno, Sheridan and others besides — and kept them separate long enough that plenty of people followed one without knowing about the other.

His debut album under his own name, Opus, arrived in February 2016 and pulled both threads together.

The shows are as much an engineering problem as a music one: the EPIC series has run through numbered editions built around holographic projection, a twenty-metre 4K hologram and thirty-two lasers in EPIC 3.0, and HOLO after it. A Prydz set is long, patient and mixed with almost no announcements — the opposite of a festival hour.

Written from Wikipedia and Wikipedia on Opus.