The Evolution of Alesso

Alesso is one of the best DJs and producers in the world and has produced some of the most iconic EDM tracks of all time. Over the years his sound has evolved, his style has changed, and he has masterfully adapted to the times and trends. With how his style has shifted over his career, we thought it was time to have a look back to the beginning to see how he has evolved as an artist and how he’s managed to continuously be successful for so long.

He initially gained some recognition in 2010 with his ‘Alesso EP’ which caught the attention of Sebastian Ingrosso who contacted him about working together. From there on Ingrosso acted as a mentor to him and helped him improve his productions and DJing skills. Alesso found success incredibly fast with his remix of Nadia Ali’s ‘Pressure’ in 2011 that the likes of Armin van Buuren, Tiesto, Calvin Harris and Swedish House Mafia started playing it in their sets. This would kick off several years of unstoppable success for him with the releases of some of his most successful tracks. Only a year on from the release of ‘Pressure’, Alesso would collaborate with the legendary Sebastian Ingrosso to make what has become an absolute classic, ‘Calling (Lose My Mind).’ This track would gain him even more praise along with establishing his style of euphoric progressive house.

However, he had more tricks up his sleeve which he would unveil with heavier tracks such as the addictive ‘Tear The Roof Up’ and ‘Clash’ that showed his insane talent for being able to hop between genres which he continues to do today. His rise to stardom came quickly as in 2012 he would join Madonna at a few of her shows on her ‘MDNA’ tour which really spread his name around the world. After ranking 70^th on the DJ Mag Top 100 DJ’s list in 2011, he made a monumental 50 place jump up to 20^th the following year. Over the next few years his reputation kept on growing and in 2015 he would bring together several years of work into the masterpiece that was his debut album ‘Forever’ reaching new heights as it would hit number 1 on the US Top Dance/Electronic Albums.

After this success he surprisingly changed his style quite drastically to making a lot of chilled out dance pop, but he did find a great deal of success in this change. Most notably his collaboration with Hailee Steinfeld ‘Let Me Go’ garnered great critical reception reaching number 2 on the Billboard Hot Dance/Electronic Songs chart and has since crossed the 1 billion stream mark on Spotify. Also, in 2018 he would realise a lifelong dream as he got the honour of performing the closing set at Tomorrowland ending his set with ‘Calling (Lose My Mind)’ which made for an epic end to the festival. More big pop collabs followed with the likes of Katy Perry, Zara Larsson and Liam Payne though something else was starting to creep back into the picture.

Alesso began to make a massively welcome return to his euphoric progressive house sound with releases such as ‘One Last Time’ alongside DubVision and the club mix of ‘Leave A Little Love’ with Armin Van Buuren. Gradually the epic house bangers started to outnumber the pop songs and the DJ from Stockholm started to grow back into the EDM scene. The last few years have now seen some of Alesso’s finest work with his beautiful progressive house anthem ‘Only You’showing his ability to draw out a whirlwind of emotions with his music and his fantastic ‘Hypnotize EP’being a haven of club bangers. He’s back to being one of the top EDM artists with him now climbing 19 places up the DJ Mag Top 100 DJ’s list in the last 2 years and also performing more huge headline sets at the biggest festivals in the world including closing out Creamfields in 2024. Alesso is undoubtably an icon of electronic music.