Michael Zenesty Opens His EP We Had Nothing, We Had It All with Seven Minutes for Dancing or Stillness
The Swedish Songwriter and Spiritual Explorer Spreads Four Tracks Over 21 Minutes
When Everything Was Possible, the first track on We Had Nothing, We Had It All, runs for exactly seven minutes. Michael Zenesty, a songwriter from Lund, Sweden, released the four-track EP on 18 October 2026. The whole record lasts 21 minutes and 25 seconds.
Michael Zenesty’s We Had Nothing, We Had It All sits in the playlist below, among nu-disco, French house and disco records, and Michael Zenesty’s artist profile collects everything written about him. The EP came to this desk through PopHits.Co Music Charts, which verifies independent artists and places their releases across its network of music news sites. Press play on the EP, then read on.
Track lengths like that tell you which room a record is meant for. Michael Zenesty describes his project as a meeting point of organic house, Afro-inspired rhythms, electronica, soul and ambient music. He makes it sometimes for dancing and sometimes for stillness. So this piece starts with the organic house wave and then shows where his EP fits on it. Last come the acts closest to him.
Organic House Slowed the Dance Floor Down Before Michael Zenesty Released We Had Nothing, We Had It All
The wave is a quieter branch of house music. Organic house puts acoustic instruments and natural sounds at the front. It also aims for the deeper, more meditative and sometimes slower side of the genre. It borrows freely from deep house, melodic house, electronica and afro house.
Lee Burridge gave that mood a home. The British DJ, a regular at Burning Man, began the All Day I Dream series in 2011. Then it grew into a touring festival. In 2021 he added a second label, All Day I Dream in Waves.
That is the setting where a seven-minute opener makes sense. A long track gives a dancer time to settle, and it gives a DJ room to blend in and out.
Where Michael Zenesty Fits, From Reiki Sessions to the Synthesiser
So where does the Swedish artist fit? Away from music, Michael Zenesty works as a medium and a Reiki healer, with sessions online across Sweden. He has also worked with people for more than 25 years. He calls himself a spiritual explorer. His songs start from the same place: consciousness, personal growth, freedom, travel and what he calls the inner journey.
He also says plainly how the music is made. He writes the concept, the lyrics and the creative direction for each release. Then he uses AI-assisted production tools alongside that human songwriting and direction. Michael Zenesty, credited as Michael Johansson, wrote the words and music of the EP. He also produced it and played the synthesiser himself.
The four titles read like a short sequence. After the opener comes Now It’s Your Turn, at five minutes and 27 seconds. Then Open Your Heart runs four minutes and 17 seconds, and Just Me runs four minutes and 40 seconds. On 15 November 2026 his Spotify page counted 4,707 monthly listeners.
The two worlds meet on his own website too. In October he introduced his new music there as a passage through ambient soundscapes, emotion and consciousness. He made it, he wrote, for meditation, relaxation, focus and inner exploration. The EP carries that purpose onto the edge of the dance floor.
Avicii and Monolink Stand Closest to the Swedish Electronic Songwriting on We Had Nothing, We Had It All
The nearest acts show two sides of his approach. Avicii proved in 2013 that a Swedish songwriter could put organic sounds at the centre of dance music. He wrote Wake Me Up with Mike Einziger and Aloe Blacc, as the lead single from his debut album, True. He first played it live with a band at the Ultra Music Festival in Miami, which angered part of the crowd. Then the song became a worldwide hit.
Monolink Plays the Same Double Role of Songwriter and Producer
Monolink, the German artist Steffen Linck, works as a singer-songwriter and an electronic producer at the same time. His music moves between ambient, techno, electronica and house. Michael Zenesty plays the same double role on the EP, because he writes the songs and then produces them.
From the ElectronicMusic.News curator team: “We added We Had Nothing, We Had It All to our nu-disco, French house and disco playlist. Its long tracks give the list a slower, more inward stretch.”
Start with the seven-minute opener, and give the EP the full 21 minutes it asks for.
Follow Michael Zenesty on Spotify and Instagram, and read about the rest of his work on his website.
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