Sebastian Ahrenberg, better known as Seba is a drum and bass

Drum and bass

Drum and bass is a type of electronic music which emerged in the late 1980s. The genre is characterized by fast breakbeats , with heavy bass and sub-bass lines...

 producer

Record producer

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 and DJ hailing originally from Ingarö

Ingarö

Ingarö is an island in Värmdö Municipality, Stockholm County. The chief settlement is called Brunn. With an area of 63 km2, it is the 16th biggest island in Sweden. Petroglyphs indicate that the island has been inhabited since the Nordic Bronze Age. For most of the 20th century the resident...

, an island just outside of Stockholm

Stockholm

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, Sweden

Sweden

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. Seba is also the owner of Secret Operations, a drum and bass record label

Record label

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Musical career

Seba's first professional release was Sonic Winds, a collaboration with Lo-tek on LTJ Bukem

LTJ Bukem

LTJ Bukem is the stage name used by the drum and bass musician, producer and DJ Danny Williamson . He and his record labels Good Looking and Looking Good Records are most associated with the jazzy, atmospheric side of drum and bass music....

's Good Looking Records

Good Looking Records

Good Looking Records is a Jungle/drum & bass record label, formed in the early nineties by pioneering DJ/producer LTJ Bukem.Artists who have released on this label include LTJ Bukem, Tayla, Furney, Redeyes, Q Project, Peshay, Big Bud, Nookie, Makoto, Intense, Artemis, New Balance, MC D.R.S., PFM,...

 in 1995. The duo released Universal Music on Good Looking, after which Seba went on to produce a string of solo releases on various Bukem-owned labels.

Secret Operations

In 1997 Seba created a club night named Secret Operations in the basement club Tuben in central Stockholm. Two years later Operations released Case One, a CD compilation of works by Seba (under the pseudonym Forme) and other artists.

Svek

From 1999 to 2003, Ahrenberg has released a number of mostly house music

House music

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 works on the Swedish Svek label attributed to Seba and Forme. He has also joined with Jesper Dahlbäck (aka Lenk) for the collaborative house music effort known as Sunday Brunch. The two would release a number of tunes on vinyl as well as full length CD entitled No Resistance in 2002.

Return to drum and bass

In 2002, Seba began releasing drum and bass records again. For the first time on the Secret Operations label as well as various others. While no longer under Bukem's eye, Seba's music retained its deep atmospheric sound while sometimes adding a more aggressive edge not often heard in his earlier works. Operations first release was Pieces, a collaboration between Seba, Lenk and an uncredited Robert Manos as vocalist. Manos had previously recorded with the duo for Sunday Brunch, but this was the first of many times he would join Ahrenberg on a drum and bass project.

Sebadox era

In 2004 Seba joined forces with drumfunk all-star Paradox

Paradox (artist)

Paradox is the pseudonym of Dev Pandya, a producer from the UK who has in recent years championed a new sub-genre of drum & bass known as drumfunk, which focuses on either finding obscure breakbeats or re-sampling much used drum & bass breakbeats from their original source and transforming them...

, and the two put out a large number of albums from 2004-2006, with 2005 seeing an especially large amount of releases. A compilation of their work during this time was released on the CD Beats Me in 2006. Vocalist Robert Manos also contributed his talents to a number of works during this time frame.

Selected discography

• Seba & Lo-tek - Sonic Winds / So Long - 1996
• Seba & Lo-tek - Universal Music - 1997
• Seba - Connected / Catch the Moment - 1998
• Seba - Planetary Funk Alert / Camouflage - 1998
• Seba - Valley Of The Moomins - 1998
• Seba - Waveform / Soul 2000 - 1999
• Sunday Brunch - Honung - 1999
• Sunday Brunch - After the Rain - 2000
• Seba & Lenk - Pieces - 2002
• Seba - Make My Way Home - 2003
• Seba & Lenk (featuring Robert Manos) - 16 Stories - 2004
• Seba & Paradox - You Didn't See It Did You? - 2004
• Seba & Paradox (featuring Robert Manos) - Move On - 2005
• Seba & Paradox (featuring Robert Manos) - Last Goodbye - 2005
• Seba - Forever - 2006
• Seba (featuring Robert Manos) - Heaven Sent - 2006
• Seba & Krazy - Nebula - 2007
• Seba - Return To Forever - 2008
• Seba & Kirsty Hawkshaw - The Joy (Face to Face) - 2010
• Seba - Welcome To Our World - 2011