“I’ve always had a genre-fluid approach when it comes to both my productions and my DJ sets,” starts Malin Linnéa, DJ, producer and singer-songwriter from Sweden, currently based in CMDX. “For me this is the most interesting way to create and present music but I’ve noticed it confuses many label heads who are not always as open-minded,” she says. But now, she clearly found her way through and rises as a potent voice in the electronic music scene, creating an emotive sound palette that fuses old school deep house, indie dance and seductive rhythms. This week, she unveils her two-part musical opus, her latest EP “Fate & Fiction”.

“With Orb my intention was to make a driving track with a rolling bass but also with some feel-good housey elements, such as the emotional vocal snippets and the subtle but slightly euphoric organ. I had just purchased the Soundtoys collection at the time and I was obsessed with manipulating sounds,” she says on the first track, “Orb.” The second track and EP title track, “Fate & Fiction”, was where she wanted to look at her roots and the time she got into house music.

“I initially wrote the lyrics and melody and sang myself, but then last year I met Sage who is an incredible jazz singer in Mexico. She managed to upgrade it to a whole new level. Overall I try to always create contrast in music – I like the play between dark and light, masculine and feminine. If you have a very beautiful vocal or chord progression I always try to add something a little rough and dirty to balance it out.” The EP is out now via Brazilian label, Sonido Profundo.

Listen to “Fate & Fiction”…