Martin "Bassic" Lindhe (born 20 January 1971,

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and

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, with a style that blends

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and

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. His music is often progressive and suggestive in nature. He is best known for his string of hits on the music website mp3.com, where he during a period of almost two years he was one of the most downloaded artists in the genres

, new age, mood music and progressive trance. He moved to the United States in 1999. In 2020, his family lost their house in Boulder Creek, California to the

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and is as of February 2021 living in a rented house. Lindhe is the great-grandchild of the Swedish composer

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Career

19911999: Early career

During his early years Bassic composed a flurry of songs, mostly using borrowed equipment. No music was published until after 1999, and many of these old recordings from this period were lost.

19992002: MP3.com years

He originally uploaded his tracks to MP3.com in the 1990s as a storage solution while moving from Sweden to the USA. Soon after, he was noticed by electronica lovers and gained a large following on MP3.com. By the time the service had been taken over by

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, his tracks had been downloaded over 7 million times.

20022004: Independent years

During this period Lindhe mainly focused on his family and only released a collection of his most popular songs, with some new material, ''

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In 2002 Lindhe was nominated for Best Unsigned Artist and Yahoo! Internet Life's "Internet Music Awards" in New York City.

20042007: DMI years

After noticing Lindhe's success at MP3.com,

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persuaded Lindhe to join their roster. After signing with DMI, Lindhe composed and released ''Brighter Than the Sun'', one of his most appreciated and best-selling releases to date. In 2007, Lindhe left DMI claiming they had failed to fulfill their contract with him.

2007present: Independent years

Since 2007 Lindhe has been an independent publisher of his own music through iTunes Store, eMusic, Amazon MP3 and Bandcamp.

Discography

*''The Complete Chronicles'' (Vol. 1-6) (1991-2003) *''Daydreamer'' (2005) *''Brighter Than The Sun'' (2006) *''Omniom'' (2009) *''Voco'' (2015) *''Motus'' (2015) *''Biochrome'' (2017)

Recording

Lindhe has self-recorded and produced all of his albums, and played all instruments that appear on them. Since 2006, he has exclusively made music using a high-end computer studio with software synthesizers and samplers.

Licensing

Bassic songs have been licensed for commercial use with companies like

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, Microsoft, The History Channel, U.S. Army and the Canadian game company BioWare.

References

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