A double headlining show from the crew at Rotation in anticipation of their upcoming event at Yellow on the 16th October featuring two of Scandanavia's best known electronic producers, Jesper Dahlback and Jori Hulkkonen.
Jesper Dahlback is one of Swedens main producers of electronic music and has been DJ'ing and producing since the late eighties. He started producing techno in 1991 and in 1993 formed the Stockholm based Globe Studios together with Peter Benisch and Adam Beyer and were later joined in 2001 by Joel Mull. In 1995, he started to work with Swedish techno label Planet Rythym along with Cari Lekebusch and began co producing with Adam Beyer. Soon after, he started DK with Thomas Krome. DK is also home to producers like Alexi Delano, John Selway, Jori Hulkkonen and DJ Sneak to name a few. In 1996, he met with Stephan Grieder who had just started the label SVEK and began experimenting with house music, vocals and acoustic instruments.
After releasing several twelve inches under his pseudonym, The Persuader, he made his first album for the label called 'Stockholm' during which time the label SVEK was been nominated for the Swedish Grammy awards twice as well as being label of the year in Mixmag. He has done remixes and records for F-Comm, Poker Flat, Kanzleramt, Earthtones, Drumcode, Missle, Intec, Yoshi Toshi and 2020 Vision to name a few and is currently working on a second solo album. He has recently been playing in famous clubs and venues all over the world and recenty played at Metamorphose this year in Japan with Thomas Krome.
Jori Hulkkonen comes from the north of Finland, a small town called Kemi. In 1989, he began producing music. He started a small independent label Lumi in 1993 with Ari Ruokama. In 1995, he began releasing on Cari Lekebusch's Hybrid and Trainspotter's Nightmare labels and Italy's ACV's Out Of Orbit offshoot. In 1996, he got in touch with F communications and released his critically acclaimed Selkasaari Tracks (F communications) later that year which is an original blend of Detroit soundscapes and Chicago influenced jacking beats.
Production continued and in 1997, Jori released probably his biggest record so far: Jii Hoo Let Me Luv U on F Communications, a record played and praised by DJs and music lovers worldwide. In 1998, Jori reinvented his sound once again on his The Spirits Inside Me album, (F communications) a record that permanently established Jori as a household name in the scene. In 1999 he produced on various labels and did a load of remixes. Now, he lives in Helsinki where he has a monthly residency in Finlands number one club Kerma, has two radioshows on national Radiomafia radiostation and DJ bookings that take him all over the world. In the last year he has been in the studio putting the finishing touches on a new album on F communications which features vocal contributions from Chris Udoh of The Wamdue Kids and Paul Oxley, and a collaboration with Tuomas Salmela, (2020 Vision).
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