Eric Prydz

Eric Prydz

Eric Sheridan Prydz (* 19th July 1976 in Täby ) is a Swedish House - DJ and producer .

Career

Prydz started making music in Stockholm at the age of nine . After breaking into his school and stealing keyboards , Prydz ended up in a boarding school for difficult-to-raise children.

Encouraged by his friend Steve Angello , Prydz began producing his own tracks very early on. His musical interests were initially strongly influenced by the sound of Depeche Mode . Only when a friend of his older brother brought him a mixtape from Ibiza in 1989 did Prydz change his style towards house.

In 2004 he produced the track Call on Me , which is best known for the erotic style elements in the music video. The focus of the video is the lascivious course instructor played by the Australian dancer Deanne Berry , who during the aerobics class in her black string body attracts the glances of the only male course participant. The song is largely based on samples from Steve Winwood's 1982 hit Valerie . DJ Falcon and Thomas Bangalter ( Daft Punk ) originally sampled, recorded and released Call on Me as a white label . The track was already playing when Eric Prydz was commissioned to remix it , but Bangalter's label Roulé had not cleared the rights to the samples. Prydz 'label Ministry of Sound got the rights himself, and Winwood was so enthusiastic about the track that he re-recorded his vocals especially for the single release. However, Bangalter and DJ Falcon do not appear in the credits.

On September 25, 2004, Prydz reached the top of the UK singles chart with this recording and held this position for five weeks with one interruption. Prydz holds the record for the lowest number of singles sold, with which an artist ever reached number 1 on the UK singles chart. When he returned to number 1 on October 17, 2004, he beat Daniel Bedingfield's previous record from January 2002 with 23,519 singles sold. A week later, he set his own brand even lower with 21,749 singles sold.

On November 1, 2004, he also entered the German single charts at number 1 .

Eric Prydz also produces under a few other stage names, such as B. Pryda, Cirez D, Sheridan or Moo . Prydz is also part of various groups, including A&P Project, Dukes of Sluca, Groove System, Hardform and AxEr . The last name stands for a joint project between Eric Prydz and his DJ colleague Axwell . In addition, he now also maintains his own labels Pryda , Pryda Friends and Mouseville .
In late 2006 the new single Proper Education was released with a sample of Pink Floyd's Another Brick in the Wall .

In 2008 he landed a worldwide club hit with Pjanoo , which was also used as the soundtrack of Grand Theft Auto: The Ballad of Gay Tony.

In 2011 he released the remix Never Let Me Down Again by Depeche Mode on their remix album Remixes 2: 81–11 , as well as the song 2Night . This was a release of the new album Pryda , which was released on May 18, 2012 in Germany.

Discography

Albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)						Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US	SE
2012	Pryda	-	-	-	UK40 (1 week) UK	-	-	First publication: May 21, 2012 pres. Pryda
2016	opus	-	-	CH48 (1 week) CH	UK23 (2 weeks) UK	US164 (1 week) US	-	First published: February 5, 2016

EPs

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	SE
2002	EP2	-	-	-	UK98 (1 week) UK	-	First release: November 2002 placed in the single charts
2003	EP3	-	-	-	UK81 (2 weeks) UK	-	First release: July 7, 2003 placed in the single charts
2018	Elements	-	-	-	-	-	First published: May 18, 2018 as Pryda

Singles

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	SE
2004	Woz Not Woz	DE63 (5 weeks) DE	-	CH84 (4 weeks) CH	UK55 (9 weeks) UK	-	First published: May 5, 2004 with Steve Angello only published outside the UK in 2005
	Call on Me	DE1 (21 weeks) DE	AT1 (23 weeks) AT	CH2 gold (30 weeks)CH	UK1 platinum (41 weeks)UK	SE1 gold (28 weeks)SE	First published: October 18, 2004 Cover of the song Valerie by Steve Winwood (1982)
2006	Proper education	DE4 (16 weeks) DE	AT20 (15 weeks) AT	CH12 (22 weeks) CH	UK2 (11 weeks) UK	SE7 (13 weeks) SE	First published: December 29, 2006 vs. Pink Floyd
2008	Pjanoo	DE34 (15 weeks) DE	AT22 (14 weeks) AT	CH31 (11 weeks) CH	UK2 gold (15 weeks)UK	SE6 (13 weeks) SE	Initial release: September 5, 2008 Theme song for the game GTA IV: The Ballad of Gay Tony
2011	Niton (The Reason)	DE66 (2 weeks) DE	-	-	UK45 (2 weeks) UK	-	First published: February 11, 2012 Guest singer: Jan Burton
2014	Liberate	-	-	-	UK71 (1 week) UK	-	First published: July 28, 2014

more publishments

2003:

• Slammin '
• Sunrize (A&P Project)

2004:

• Human Behavior / Lesson One²
• Control freak ³
• Deep Inside ³
• Diamond Girl ³
• Spooks / Doit ²
• In & Out
• High On You (Sheridan)

2005 :

• 123 (AxEr)
• 321 (AxEr)
• Knockout ³
• Re-match ³
• Teaser / Lollipop ³
• Aftermath ²
• Nile / Sucker DJ²

2006:

• Fatz Theme / Flycker (Sheridan)
• Ferriberri ( Sebastian Ingrosso feat. Eric Prydz)
• Remember / Frankfurt ²
• Punch Drunk ³
• Deep Inside ³

2007

• Horizons ³
• Genesis ²
• Teaser ³
• Ironman / Madderferrys ²
• Muranyi / Balaton ²
• Rymd / Armed ²
• Mouseville's Theme ³

2008:

• Europe / Odyssey ²
• Stockholm Marathon / The Journey ³
• Läget ³
• Evouh / Wakanpi / Rakfunk ²

2009:

• Animal / Miami to Atlanta / Loaded ²
• On Off / Fast Forward ³
• Melo / Lift / Reeperbahn ²
• The Tunnel / Raptor ³
• Waves / Alfon ²
• On Off / Fast Forward ³

2010:

• Bauerpost / Glow ³
• Exit ³
• Rymd 2010 / Inspiration ²
• Emos / Viro ²
• The End / MSBOY ²
• Niton / Vega²
• Illusions / Glimma ²

2011:

• Full stop ³
• Tomorrow (Cirez D & Acki Kokotos)
• Sirtos Madness (Cirez D & Acki Kokotos)
• Mokba ³
• Mirage / Juletider / With Me ²
• 2night ²

2012:

• Alone ²
• every day
• Recommendos² / Bergen ²

2015:

• Tether (vs. Chvrches)
• Liberate
• Generate
• Neuron / Loving You / Run / Rebel XX - (Pryda Vol.1 EP) 2
• opus
• TID / Rush / Clapham / Annexet / Welcome to my House - (Pryda Vol.2 EP) ²

2016:

• Breathe (feat. Rob Swire )
• Last Dragon

² = As Pryda
³ = As Cirez D

Remixes

2002:

• Outfunk - Echo Vibes (Eric Prydz Remix)
• Star Alliance - PVC (Eric Prydz Remix)
• Par-T-One vs. INXS - I'm So Crazy (Eric Prydz Remix)

2003:

• Harry's Afro Hut - C'mon Lady (Eric Prydz Remix)
• Outfunk - Lost in Music (Eric Prydz Remix)
• Steve Angello - Voices (Eric Prydz Remix)
• Snap! vs. Motivo - The Power (Of Bhangra) (Eric Prydz Remix)
• M Factor - Come Together (Eric Prydz Remix)
• The Attic - Destiny (Eric Prydz Remix)
• Futureshock - Pride's Paranoia (Eric Prydz Remix)
• Oliver Lieb & Shakeman Pres. Smoked - Metropolis (Eric Prydz Remix)
• Pet Shop Boys - Miracles (Eric Prydz Remix)
• Aloud - Sex & Sun (Eric Prydz Remix)

2004:

• Duran Duran - (Reach Up for The) Sunrise (Eric Prydz Remix)
• The Shapeshifters - Lola's Theme (Eric Prydz Remix)
• Mutiny & Lorraine Cato - Holding On (Eric Prydz Remix)
• Alter Ego - Rocker (Eric Prydz Remix)

2005:

• Axwell - Feel The Vibe (Eric Prydz Remix)
• Howard Jones - And Do You Feel Scared? (Eric Prydz Remix)
• Inner City - Good Life (Eric Prydz Edit)

2006:

• Switch - A Bit Patchy (Eric Prydz Remix)
• Paolo Mojo - 1983 (Eric Prydz Remix)
• Double 99 - RIP Groove (Cirez D Remix)
• Michael Jackson - Thriller (Eric Prydz Bootleg)
• Duran Duran - Nice (Eric Prydz Bootleg)

2007:

• Jamiroquai - Feels Just Like It Should (Cirez D Remix)
• Arno Cost & Arias Vs. Robin S. - Show Me Magenta (Axwell & Eric Prydz Chariots Re-edit Mash Up)
• Sven Väth - The Beauty & The Beast (Eric Prydz Re-edit)

2008:

• Christian Smith & John Selway - Total Departure (Cirez D Remix)
• Paolo Mojo & Jim Rivers - Ron Hardy Said (Eric Prydz Remix)

2009:

• Sébastien Léger - The Beautiful People (Eric Prydz Remix)
• Calvin Harris - Flashback (Eric Prydz Remix)

2010:

• Faithless - Not Going Home (Eric Prydz Remix)
• Felix da Housecat - Thee Anthem (Eric Prydz Remix)

2011:

• Eric Prydz feat. Jan Burton - Niton (The Reason) (Pryda 82 Mix)
• Depeche Mode - Never Let Me Down Again (Eric Prydz Remix)
• Depeche Mode - Personal Jesus (Eric Prydz Remix)
• Digitalism - Circles (Eric Prydz Remix)
• Henry Saiz & Guy J - Meridian (Pryda Remix)

2012:

• M83 - Midnight City (Eric Prydz Private Remix)

Awards for music sales

Golden record  Denmark 2020: for the single Call on Me  France 2005: for the single Call on Me

Platinum record  Australia 2004: for the single Call on Me

Note: Awards in countries from the chart tables or chart boxes can be found in these.

Country / Region	gold	platinum	Sales	swell
Awards for music sales (country / region, awards, sales, sources)
Australia (ARIA)	-	platinum1	70,000	aria.com.au
Denmark (IFPI)	gold1	-	45,000	ifpi.dk
France (SNEP)	gold1	-	200,000	infodisc.fr snepmusique.com
Sweden (IFPI)	gold1	-	10,000	sverigetopplistan.se
Switzerland (IFPI)	gold1	-	20,000	hitparade.ch
United Kingdom (BPI)	gold1	platinum1	1,000,000	bpi.co.uk
All in all	5 × gold5	2 × platinum2

swell

1. ↑ Deanne Berry - Australia's hottest export product since Fosters. (No longer available online.) Da Surf, archived from the original on January 2, 2010 ; Retrieved January 21, 2010 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ discogs.com [1]
3. ↑ ^{a b c} Chart sources: DE AT CH UK SE

Web links

• Eric Prydz Live in Cologne, February 2012
• Interview with Eric Prydz in Hamburg (2011)
• Homepage
• Eric Prydz at Discogs (English)
• Eric Prydz at laut.de