Jeremy Olander at I-KANDY, Delhi

As a valiant advocate of modern progressive house and its transferable underground tendencies, you would struggle to find an artist more illuminated on the global club circuit than Jeremy Olander. But with a journey that started in North America and that found its peak among Sweden’s fertile house elite, it comes as little surprise that the Pryda protégé has made such sharp professional and geographical maneuvers throughout his zestful career.

Through a love for Elvis Presley, Michael Jackson and East Coast American hip-hop, Jeremy lapped up influences from across the musical spectrum. Though he never conceived that music could muster a career for him, each respective genre mustered crucial emotions for the aspiring producer, the culmination of which led Jeremy on a quest for musical absolution that only a technical approach could truly satisfy.

Matched with an obsession with technology and the peaking action of such European assets as Joachim Garraud and The Prodigy that surrounded him, his choice to opt for composition over computer-based strategy opened a new world for the impending Swedish heavyweight. When that love for music and technology combined, Jeremy truly found his element, testing and trialing its resonance right through to his now global standing as progressive house music’s golden boy.

Where his DJ persona is concerned, Jeremy has always referenced the greats as an essential understudy. From the peaking homeland sets of Steve Angello to those journey-like constructions of John Digweed, his live persona has always risen above the champagne lifestyle and gimmick-ridden culture of live dance music. Be it such high-profile festivals as Creamfields or South West Four, or the trail of his debut North American tour alongside Pryda Friends peer Fehrplay, an emotional connection between the underground and his own progressive stylings have kept Jeremy buoyant amidst the flood of talents now facing global dance music.