Baba Stiltz

Hailing from Stockholm, Sweden, producer Baba Stiltz makes music that evades straightforward classification. Much of his work falls under house, spanning introspective and often somber cuts to energetic, disco-tinged tracks, while he also explores downtempo electropop and regularly supplies beats to Swedish rapper Yung Lean. Born in 1993, he started creating music during childhood and spent several years training at a ballet school before issuing his first material around age 15. As Bethlehem Beard Corporation he produced quirky electro-folk-pop, releasing the albums When the Beards Met in Bethlehem in 2008 and I Hate My Village in 2011 on the Flora & Fauna label. He also participated in the Scandinavian abstract electro-funk movement known as skweee, adopting the pseudonym Mrs. Qeada for his initial output in that vein, which began with three digital EPs on Body to Body in 2008 and continued with a 7" on Flogsta Danshall in 2009. From 2011 onward he dropped those aliases and issued music under his own name, including two further singles for Flogsta Danshall. House productions arrived in 2013 after he signed with Studio Barnhus, the Swedish label founded by Kornél Kovács, Axel Boman, and Petter Nordkvist. Several 12"s followed on that imprint as well as Born Free and Under Bron, leading to his debut album Total in 2014. The record highlighted his broad stylistic range, from shimmering cosmic house to downbeat electropop. Additional singles such as "Cherry" and "Keep It Lit" emphasized his club-focused approach, while the 2017 EPs Is Everything and Can't Help It on Studio Barnhus brought his vocals, albeit Auto-Tuned, into greater prominence.