Mr. Tophat

Swedish DJ, producer and artist and Rudolf Nordström (b. 1990), artist name Mr. Tophat, is the uncrowned king of the club scene. Wedding underground and mainstream in a heady mix of the lushly experimental and dancefloor beats, Mr. Tophat absorbs genres and makes them his own. A noughties club kid, Mr. Tophat spent his teens commuting between the iconic clubs he today regularly DJs at, including Berghain and the Panorama bar. Steeped in this rave and deep house tradition, his productions have seduced the new generation of global clubgoers with a mixture of 90s house, rave and disco, to mention just a few key genres. Alongside performing as a cult DJ, Mr. Tophat has played at festivals like the Governor’s Ball in New York, teaming up with Swedish pop queen Robyn. In 2017, the pair released an EP, Trust Me, to great acclaim. Mr. Tophat also lent his producer’s talent to Robyn’s 2018 album, Honey. In 2019, the two reunited again on Mr. Tophat’s own epic debut album, Dusk to Dawn. A three LP dark-disco odyssey, it features live instrumentation from some of Sweden’s finest classical musicians like Mats Bergström and Per-Erik Adamsson, and appearances from additional collaborators like Axel Boman and Kleerup. Instantly lauded by the international music press, Dusk to Dawn’s sprawling and compelling neo-romantic soundscape was called “dark, luxuriously twisted” by Mojo in the UK and “boundlessly artistically ambitious” by Sweden’s biggest newspaper, Dagens Nyheter.