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About Me

Swedish born, Rikard "Rico" Fredriksson started his first electronic project back in 1996. Inspired by a close friend who was making trance music under the guise Antiloop, Rico started producing music of his own. A drumÂ´n bass track called "flowerpower", was chosen as "demo of the week" on Swedish national radio P3.This sudden national support caused by this demo play, inspired Rico to take things to the next level and so he locked himself right back in his studio, determined to master the art of studio production further. A few years, and a lot of learning later, Rico managed to get some remixes done for fellow swedish producers Antiloop and Pinnochio.Probspot's first original release, "You and Me", was released in 2002 on the North American label Dedicated Musique. In 2003 Probspot won the remix competition of Solid Globe Northpole held by Fundamental recordings which resulted in a vinyl release. A Probspot track called You Want Me won a talent competition held by Hard To Find Records. This resulted in lots of plays by DJs such as Markus Schultz, Ben Lost, Niklas Harding and James Cosgrove.2004 started out big with an exclusive record deal with Lost Language, resulting in probspot album, organic waveforms mid 2005. The much succsessful Foreplay EP was released in June 2004 and got great reviews from both DJs and producers. Another Probspot track called Blueberry got signed and released on Electronic Elements (Armada) and resulted in a new alias, Rico Soarez for upcoming productions on Armada.With lots of successful tracks and remixes and DJ support from Paul Van Dyk, Markus Schulz, Armin Van Buren, Paul Okenfold, Above & Beyond among others, Probspot is considerd one of the top producers within the edm community today.

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Member Since: 8/25/2006
Band Website: probspot.net
Band Members: Rikard "Rico" Fredriksson
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Sounds Like: To buy probspot tracks and remixes go to beatport.com.
Record Label: Lost language, Curvve Recordings
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

probspot interview with audiopioneers

http://www.audiopioneers.net/?p=38
Posted by probspot on Fri, 11 Jan 2008 03:05:00 PST

probspot - stalker just released!

Released on Curvve records. With an amazing remix from Fine taste.
Posted by probspot on Fri, 21 Sep 2007 05:19:00 PST

insignia - piano in the rain(probspot mixes) sept 13th

Insignia feat Stephen Pickup - piano in the rain, with probspot vocal and dub mix. release date sept 13th. Five am records
Posted by probspot on Thu, 30 Aug 2007 01:42:00 PST

vadim soloviev - dash (probspot mix) aug 16th

The probspot remix of Vadim Solovievs new track dash will be released on the 16th of august on binary finary recordings. www.binaryfinaryrecordings.com ...
Posted by probspot on Mon, 09 Jul 2007 04:36:00 PST

Paul Van Dyk + Probspot = another sunday

yup, it´s not just a mashup for his DJ sets. It will be included on PVD´s new album. It´s called "another sunday" The probspot track Paul used is "probspot feat. Ben Lost - blows my mind (dub mix...
Posted by probspot on Sat, 16 Jun 2007 05:58:00 PST

emjae - necromancer probspot mixes

The vocal and dub mix of necromancer have just been released. Get them at www.beatport.com/emjae The probspot vocal mix is nr 7 on beatport progressive house chart atm....
Posted by probspot on Sun, 25 Feb 2007 04:12:00 PST

Rico Soarez & Andrew Bennett - light of hope

rico soarez & andrew bennett - light of hope is now available on beatport. nr 5 on progressive house chart atm. dont miss the awsome remix by jody wisternoff (way out west)...
Posted by probspot on Thu, 04 Jan 2007 04:45:00 PST

heatsink EP out now

Heatsink EP has just been released. Get it as mp3 at audiojelly : http://www.audiojelly.com/index.cfm?action=compilations.cfm& amp;id=1857 or as vinyl : http://www.juno.co.uk/ppps/produ...
Posted by probspot on Sun, 12 Nov 2006 05:11:00 PST

probspot - heatsink EP nov 10th

Hello everyone! The new probspot EP will be released on the 10th of november. On primal recordings ( http://www.primal-recordings.com ) A review of the EP: Rikard Fredriksson, aka Probspot, is n...
Posted by probspot on Wed, 25 Oct 2006 05:34:00 PST