The Gunn Show: Showing some love to Sweden’s hottest DJ

Stockholm-based superstar DJ Gunn Lundemo trots the globe spinning eclectic beats among giants of the international club scene, but this out and proud 24-year-old’s talents hardly top off at the turntables.

GO: How would you describe the kind of music you play at your parties?
Gunn: The music is both commercial and electronic. It’s pretty alternative. It can be like Daft Punk-y, but it can also sound like very funky music that we listen to today—very new disco-ish, but very versatile. We just play around with whatever we feel like and aren’t really assigning a genre to what we do.

GO: Do you choose personal favorites when you’re playing a set or do you put on what you think the audience is going to like?
Gunn: A little bit of both. … It depends where and when. I can do a minimal techno set at eight in the morning in Berlin, or I can do a totally soul Motown set at a brunch, or a really commercial hip hop and R&B set—I’m very eclectic and I love to mix everything. I still manage to do it after all these gigs. It’s been over 1,000 [gigs in] over 200 or 300 different cities; I don’t even know how many.

Gunn and a group of partygoers in Stockholm for Pride

GO: So let’s talk a little bit about Stockholm Pride. How did you get involved with producing the main stage?
Gunn: Well, I’ve been producing in so many clubs every year, and I bring a lot of artists from abroad. [Stockholm Pride noticed] what I’ve been doing, and last year, I did the official dog tag for [the event]. It’s a type of jewelry that a famous person or designer gets to make every year. Just the year before, Jean Paul Gaultier did it. So I did that, and basically, the first 6,000 people who bought a ticket for the festival got this dog tag for free. That was a huge thing for me.

GO: Who were you most excited about booking for Pride?
Gunn: Obviously Ruby Rose. And then the circus show that I booked for the last 50 minutes. I saw them in Barcelona two years ago, and I was like, “I’m gonna book you guys!” so I made it happen. And the Orlando tribute was my “baby” piece.

GO: What were your biggest challenges organizing the stage at Pride? Did anything go wrong or unexpectedly?
Gunn: We got a little bit behind schedule in the second part of the evening, and we couldn’t go past midnight—not even one minute or we’d need to pay a very big fine. But I asked Ruby if she could make her set a half-hour shorter and she really, really helped me out by saying yes. Ruby Rose saved my night!

GO: You’ve been playing in the U.S. more recently with Daniela Sea.
Gunn: We met at the L-Beach Festival [in Germany on the Baltic Coast], I think, three or four years ago, and we had a good connection. Then I brought her to Sweden to teach her how to DJ. We thought it was so much fun that we decided to start doing it together, and now we’re working collaboratively abroad. We DJ’d in Belgium, Austria, San Francisco, New York. … We like each other a lot and have a really good time together.

Gunn with Daniela Sea

GO: Was it something specific that connected you and Daniela?
Gunn: How we think is so similar, and we really want just to have fun. We just wanna slap the face of anyone who makes you feel bullied in different groups of people. We want to give happiness and nothing else. We don’t want to look beautiful or be cool or whatever; we just both want to be two nerds who have fun and travel.


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