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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 38. Chapters: 7 Samurai (artist), Ace of Base, Adolphson-Falk, Alcazar (band), Alice in Videoland, Antiloop, Atrium Carceri, Basic Element (music group), Boeoes Kaelstigen, Code 64, Coph Nia, Dahlia's Tear, Da Buzz, Detektivbyran, Endless Shame, Familjen, Freestyle (Swedish band), Glam Sam And His Combo, Gravitonas, Hoffmaestro & Chraa, Jj (band), Kammarheit, Karjalan sissit, Kill Squad vs. Doubleheader, Kite (band), Laser Inc, Little Dragon, Lo-Fi-Fnk, Mats/Morgan Band, Miike Snow, Mind: state, MissMatch, NASA (Swedish band), Niki & The Dove, Pluxus, Raison d'etre (band), Roll The Dice (band), Safri Duo, Sally Shapiro, Sanctum (band), Skudge, Slagsmalsklubben, Solid Base, The Embassy (band), The Knife, The Rice Twins, The Sound of Arrows, Twice a Man, Ultracity, Vanbot, Yaki-Da, Zeigeist. Excerpt: Ace of Base is a pop band based in Gothenburg, Sweden. Its original lineup consisted of Ulf "Buddha" Ekberg, and three siblings, Jonas "Joker" Berggren, Malin "Linn" Berggren and Jenny Berggren. They released four studio albums between 1993 and 2002, which sold over 30 million copies worldwide. This makes them the third-most successful band from Sweden of all time, after ABBA and Roxette. Happy Nation / The Sign is one of the best-selling debut albums of all time, and was certified nine times platinum in the United States. It was the first debut album to produce three number 1 singles on the Billboard Mainstream Top 40 chart: "All That She Wants," "The Sign" and "Don't Turn Around." Following the formal departure of singer Linn in 2007, the band performed a series of concerts as a trio in Europe and Asia from 2007 through 2009, before Jenny revealed in November 2009 that she would be taking indefinite leave from the band to focus on her own solo career. Jonas and Ulf have since recruited two new female vocalists, Clara Hagman and Julia Williamson. The new line-up released their first album together The Golden Ratio in September 2010. In 1987, following a number of years as part of a new romantic and punk covers band called G Konrad, Jonas Berggren formed a band with two friends, Johnny Linden and Niklas Trank for a school project; his sisters Linn and Jenny joined as singers. The new band went through several names: Kalinin Prospect (after an avenue in Moscow); CAD (Computer-Aided Disco); and Tech-Noir (French for black technology, after a nightclub in the film The Terminator). They toured the clubs of Sweden with their new self-written material, techno inspired by the likes of The KLF and Snap!. Johnny left the group in 1989. Niklas made his departure known by failing to appear at a gig at Baltesspannarparken on 6 August 1990; he preferred to attend a Rolling Stones concert on the other side of town. Jonas asked his friend Ulf Ekberg to stand in for Niklas. The new
