Armand Darius Anders Jakobsson (born 4 November 1991), known professionally as DJ Seinfeld, is a Swedish

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DJ and record producer.

Musical career

Jakobsson started making music in

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at the suggestion of a friend. He began experimenting with exploring the possibilities of music on his laptop. When he returned to Malmö after his studies, his interest in making music would intensify thanks to the encouragement of his old schoolmates. A move to

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and the end of a relationship, resulted in extended sessions and lots of watching of the classic American sitcom ''

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''. Jakobsson took his stage name from that TV show, which had been as a temporary side project of the same name, but fully adopted 2016 when he released his first recording.

Musical style

In his music, DJ Seinfeld uses sounds from films or series, borrowings from

acid house Acid house (also simply known as just "acid") is a subgenre of house music developed around the mid-1980s by DJs from Chicago. The style is defined primarily by the squelching sounds and basslines of the Roland TB-303 electronic bass synthesiz ...

and

deep house Deep house is a subgenre of house music that originated in the 1980s, initially fusing elements of Chicago house with the lush chords of 1980s jazz-funk and touches of soul music. Its origins are attributed to the early recordings of Larry Heard ( ...

, as well as distortion effects. He has also used the stage names Birds of Sweden and Rimbaudian.

Discography

Studio albums

* ''Time Spent Away from U'' (2017) * ''Mirrors'' (2021)

Compilation albums

* ''DJ-Kicks: DJ Seinfeld'' (2018) * ''MIRRORS (REMIXED)'' (2023)

EPs

* ''Season 1 EP'' (2016) * ''Sunrise'' (2017) * ''Galaxy'' (2019) * ''Lilium'' (2019) * ''Parallax'' (2019) * ''Mezcalita'' (2020)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Seinfeld, DJ 1991 births Living people Musicians from Malmö 21st-century Swedish musicians Swedish house musicians Swedish DJs Swedish electronic dance music DJs Swedish record producers