briqs
My Musical Journey
Chapter 1 – Introduction
My name is Robin Vadström, and I’m a producer, songwriter, and artist from Gothenburg, Sweden.
My alias briqs is the creative home I’ve built for my music today – a name that came to me in 2020 thanks to my girlfriend Julia, who used “briqs” as her profile name on Spotify. It immediately stuck and felt like the perfect symbol for what I do: building sounds, emotions, and songs piece by piece – like little building blocks.
This is the story of how I went from a piano in a living room in Hisings Backa to clubs, studios, and stages in Gothenburg, Berlin, and across Europe – and how every step along the way led to what I create today as briqs.
Chapter 2 – Backa and the First Seed
Gothenburg, Hisings Backa.
A living room with an old upright piano that had found a new home. The sound of the family’s car radio playing everything from rock to pop to opera. And a little boy glued to the TV when Eiffel 65’s “I’m Blue” played on the music channels.
That’s where curiosity began.
Chapter 3 – The Piano and the Guitars
The piano became a place where imagination took shape. First, simple melodies like Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, then songs that demanded more feeling in my fingers.
When I was nine, my dad brought down two of his old guitars from the attic – one nylon-string, one steel-string – and let me try them out. My fingers burned, the strings cut, but one day Smoke on the Water finally came together. Suddenly, there was something more than just notes.
Chapter 4 – The First Click in FL Studio
When I was 13, a friend showed me a YouTube video of Basshunter making music in FL Studio.
It was the first time I saw how electronic music was actually made.
I downloaded a copy of the program, opened it up, and started clicking in boxes – without really understanding what I was doing. It looked a lot easier in the video.
This was where my close friend Kasper and I began experimenting together. Night after night, we sat in front of the computer, trying things out, making mistakes, and slowly learning how it all worked.
The result was our first joint project: Twistechz, a hardstyle duo where we uploaded our early songs to YouTube.
They were very amateurish – something we can laugh about today – but they meant everything to us back then. They were our first real steps into music production, and the spark that kept us going.
Chapter 5 – Teenage Pause and the Return
Teenage years brought mopeds, late nights, and new circles of friends. Music took a back seat for a while.
But when I started high school at Lindholmen Technical Gymnasium, I ran into Kasper again after several years.
He had kept making music – gotten really good – and showed me everything new he had learned in FL Studio.
I was hooked all over again. This time, I was making more EDM and complextro, inspired by artists like Skrillex, Zedd, Porter Robinson, and Knife Party. The music started to sound better and better, and producing became more fun than ever.
Chapter 6 – The Nights in Högsbo
In 2016, I took the next step and moved into a small studio in the Högsbo industrial area.
It was an intense time. I worked as a carpenter from 7 AM to 4 PM every day, and from 4 PM to 3 AM, I was in the studio making music.
I practically lived there. It was exhausting – I slept very little – but I learned so much about songwriting, arrangements, and how to build catchy melodies. I met lots of fun and interesting people and songwriters, which gave me new perspectives and lessons. And I had an amazing time.
Chapter 7 – From Hobby to Full-Time
Three years later, everything started to bear fruit.
Lofi beats and ambient music reached audiences around the world and generated enough streams for music to become a full-time job.
Chapter 8 – Guitars and Dragons
That same year, I moved into a studio run by Fredrik Nordström, known for recording and mixing metal bands such as Bring Me the Horizon & In Flames.
Here I learned a lot about recording techniques, acoustics, and how a professional studio operates.
Together with Kasper and his brother Jakob, we started a band called Good Fortune – an indie rock-like project where I could explore a different side of my musical creativity.
Chapter 9 – The Birth of a Name
In 2020, the name that would become my artist identity was born.
My girlfriend Julia used “briqs” as her Spotify profile name, and it instantly stuck.
It felt like my name, like the missing puzzle piece in my journey.
Chapter 10 – Club is Calling
In the fall of 2021, the gear was moved to Never Ending Project on Ringön, where club culture was present in every room.
The studios were run by Jonas Rathsman, and it was there that I got my first real close-up experience of the club scene.
Raves, house, and club music became a new driving force, and my sound shifted once again.
Chapter 11 – Dancing on Lego
In 2022, a guy from the studio, Oscar, asked me if I wanted to do a collab album with him. The album would be called Dancing on Lego.
We started making music that sounded far from standard club tracks, but Vocals, arrangement and hooks where there and we knew there was something special.
Oscar sent two of the tracks to Super Flu for feedback – and they wanted to collaborate. That was the starting point for our DJ duo Dancing on Lego.
The tracks we created together – All Good Alright and Dear Friend – gave us real recognition and were played by major DJs such as Miss Monique and Vintage Culture.
The releases did well, and we started playing events and raves around Gothenburg, on Ringön, and later in Norway and Denmark.
Chapter 12 – Berlin and the Decision
In 2025, Oscar, Julia, and I moved to Berlin to be closer to the club culture.
That year, we had our biggest hit yet – Before My Eyes, a collaboration with Goom Gum – which was played by some of the biggest names around the world. Suddenly, people started reaching out to us. We got a manager, bookings started coming in, and it felt like things were really taking off.
But behind the scenes, both Oscar and I were going through a tough period in life, and the deeper we got into the project, the more complicated our collaboration became.
Eventually, I decided to step away from the project. At the end of 2025, we moved back to Gothenburg.
Chapter 13 – Homecoming and the Beginning of Something New
Gothenburg once again became home base.
A chance to breathe, to reflect on the journey that started in a living room in Backa and took me through industrial areas, studios, stages, and dance floors all across Europe.
It was here, at the end of 2025, that briqs became more than just a name.
It became my focus, my project, and my platform for all the music I want to create today.
The story continues.
