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What is your favorite song by the classic band of talented musicians known as “Ace of Base?”

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That would be the little-known single “Mr. Ace”, which was front man Jonas Berggren’s calculated attempt to fuse contemporary mainstream sensibilities with a then-burgeoning popularization of the “safer” side of electronic music. Despite its ominous undertones, soothing overtones, and neutral midtones, the track sums up all of the best, worst and irrelevant in one of pop’s most accessibly enigmatic bands.