‘Sign’ of the times: How Ace of Base became ‘90s pop sensations from a cassette malfunction

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“All That She Wants,” the reggae-pop smash that would launch the quartet from Gothenburg, Sweden, to international stardom in 1992.“That was one of the songs we tried to get a record deal from,” Ulf Ekberg, founding member of Ace of Base, told The Post. “But we were rejected by every single record company in Sweden.”But there was something in the special sauce of Denniz Pop that made the quartet Ekberg formed with siblings Jonas, Jenny and Linn Berggren feel like he could be their secret weapon.“We heard his skills, how he worked with drums and so forth,” he said, “and we were good at melodies, but not good at rhythms.“That he got the tape stuck in his car … it was kind of this perfect serendipity situation to go to Stockholm and record with him.

The magic from Denniz Pop, what he did, he just signified everything. Because now we can go all in.”And so they did, as depicted in the new docuseries “Ace of Base: All That She Wants,” which is streaming on Viaplay through Amazon Prime.