Jori Hulkkonen (born 28 September 1973) hails from the northern town of Kem… Read Full Bio ↴Jori Hulkkonen (born 28 September 1973) hails from the northern town of Kemi, Finland. Raised up around the Arctic Circle, below freezing point and under the influence of a coctail of synthpop and early electro, house and techno handily available from the Swedish radio, Jori quickly developed a taste, and more importantly, a passion for electronic music. With no musical education or any backround in playing any instruments Jori started to experiment with electronics in 1988 and soon became addicted to making music.
After running his own label Lumi Records with likeminded friends (Tuomas Salmela, Jukka Hautamäki and Ari Ruokamo) in the early 90's, he then released some raw jacking Chicago oriented tracks on labels such as the Italian ACV and Swedish Cari Lekebusch's Hybrid before signing an artist contract with Laurent Garnier's legendary F communications imprint, and releasing his debut album Selkäsaari Tracks in 1996.
Aside from his increasingly versatile, more listening oriented album releases under his real name on F communications, Jori has had a habit of releasing more DJ-friendly music under dozens of various pseudonyms on labels such as Vinyl Piece, Get Physical Music, Turbo, Sähkö/Keys Of Life, Dessous, Stickman and Rekids just to name a few. Jori is also known to collaborate on frequent basis with fellow-Finn Tuomas Salmela, when they are known as Step Time Orchestra, DisCemi, or Fancy Robots for example.
One pseudonym/collaboration in 2001, namely as Zyntherius with a certain Tiga on DJ Hell's Gigolo imprint resulted the quarter of a million selling Sunglasses At Night, a version of Corey Hart’s 1980s hit, including a Top Of The Pops performance.
Jori is also known as a very busy remixer. Remodelling tracks since the mid 90's for artists such as The Presets, Goldfrapp, Chromeo, Robyn, M83, Cabaret Voltaire or José Gonzales (who returned the remix favour by doing a vocal on Jori's 2005 album Dualizm) has kept him in demand whenever a floor oriented re-vamp has been needed. He has worked on remixes to Telepopmusik's second single Love Can Damage Your Health.
And then there's also the DJ-persona who has travelled around the world on all continents for over a decade bringing the latest, rarest and classic (or soon to be) jams for the dancing audiences in all the quality clubs and festivals. Jori also holds a slot on the national radio YleX in Finland since 1998 where he plays a selection of what's in his recordbox.
2008 looks like yet another busy year for the man DJ mag dubbed as "the most underrated producer in the world": already out is his ninth artist album, Errare Machinale Est (F communications/Pias), his most ambitious yet. Featuring vocals from artists as diverse as John Foxx (of Ultravox -fame), Jimi Tenor, Ernesto and Justine Electra, it combines many aspects of Jori's current musical interests from downtempo singer-sonwriter stuff to uptempo abstract avantgarde synthpop. In addition, he's working on a dancefloor targeted album for the Canadian label Turbo, this time under his Fenno-Baron guise.
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His selfwritten bio for Turbo CD 028 / Jori Hulkkonen - MAN FROM EARTH:
The world we live in, on a very fundamental level, is flawed. On the eve of my tenth album release I'm still writing my own bio and wondering if I should refer to myself in third person, analyze the past 15 years and justify bad career moves as artistic integrity, and promote myself as the unsung hero of techno and house; a mere victim of poorly timed strokes of genius (numerous!) and being born in the wrong part of the world. Well, sarcasm never really did become me, and irony works only if unnoticed. Double fail. It's easy enough to google up some old Jori Hulkkonen bio with real biographical info, or check out my discography from my website so I'll spare you the boring details of my "career". Ever since the late 80's when my obsession with all things music started to manifest itself with an increasingly verstaile record collection and eventually some synths and experiments in songwriting, it has been quite clear to me that I'm destined to create my life's work within the business. The problem is that as an idealist cynic with tight grip on realism I'm well aware that 'the biz' is a sinking ship more or less, and I'm already dancerously close to the waterline. But the good news is that I stopped caring.
Here's why:
Having released my first proper artist album in 1996 for the French label F communications (defunct now since 2008, with my album "Errare Machinale Est" as their final release -coincidence?), I've managed to do something I never thought would be possible, something that I'm the most proud of all things in my career: never becoming popular. After nine albums, dozens of pseudonym releases on superhot labels (like Rekids and Get Physical just to mention a couple from the past few years), close to a hundred remixes, my own radioshow on national radio for more than a decade (in Finland though, so it may not count), thousands of DJ gigs all over the world under my belt (OK I never actually counted but a quick calculation tells me it must be close to 2000 now), producing and writing songs for the likes of Tiga (whom I created in the first place), and having a reputation as a producer who can make an 808 kickdrum sound like a jazzy flute, you'd expect that there was a time when I was The Shit. But I never was! Sure enough there's a lot people who never were "big", but are they still working? Releasing albums, singles, getting remix requests and DJing all over after 15 years? No. But I am. And this I see as my greatest achievement and there's a lesson to be learned everyone: If you never become trendy it's impossible for you to become untrendy. Will all this change now though with my hotter than hot new album on Turbo, or the buzz around my Acid Symphony Orchestra (a piece I wrote for ten tb-303's and a 707, conducted by me)? Or the rumoured collaboration with Chris Lowe of the Pet Shop Boys?
It remains to be seen but I'm dedicated to give my best shot to not let it happen.
Man From Earth, my tenth studio album, is the first "Jori Hulkkonen" album not released on the now defunct F communications.
How will this change of label affect my sound? Is this the end of ballads, jazz and ambient? Of course not -not even for me - but the album is a deliberate (as in not forced) departure from the bedroom vibes with focus on jams for the dance crowds.
Recorded at my alppIVhouz studios, most of the tracks were intended for 12" singles so they are not album tracks as such, therefore the album is maybe not as coherent and subtle as some of my previous efforts. But what it may lack in atmospheric synthpads, "scandinavian mooddesign" and social commentary it makes up in catchy basslines, sizzling hihats and semi-danceable tracks.
After running his own label Lumi Records with likeminded friends (Tuomas Salmela, Jukka Hautamäki and Ari Ruokamo) in the early 90's, he then released some raw jacking Chicago oriented tracks on labels such as the Italian ACV and Swedish Cari Lekebusch's Hybrid before signing an artist contract with Laurent Garnier's legendary F communications imprint, and releasing his debut album Selkäsaari Tracks in 1996.
Aside from his increasingly versatile, more listening oriented album releases under his real name on F communications, Jori has had a habit of releasing more DJ-friendly music under dozens of various pseudonyms on labels such as Vinyl Piece, Get Physical Music, Turbo, Sähkö/Keys Of Life, Dessous, Stickman and Rekids just to name a few. Jori is also known to collaborate on frequent basis with fellow-Finn Tuomas Salmela, when they are known as Step Time Orchestra, DisCemi, or Fancy Robots for example.
One pseudonym/collaboration in 2001, namely as Zyntherius with a certain Tiga on DJ Hell's Gigolo imprint resulted the quarter of a million selling Sunglasses At Night, a version of Corey Hart’s 1980s hit, including a Top Of The Pops performance.
Jori is also known as a very busy remixer. Remodelling tracks since the mid 90's for artists such as The Presets, Goldfrapp, Chromeo, Robyn, M83, Cabaret Voltaire or José Gonzales (who returned the remix favour by doing a vocal on Jori's 2005 album Dualizm) has kept him in demand whenever a floor oriented re-vamp has been needed. He has worked on remixes to Telepopmusik's second single Love Can Damage Your Health.
And then there's also the DJ-persona who has travelled around the world on all continents for over a decade bringing the latest, rarest and classic (or soon to be) jams for the dancing audiences in all the quality clubs and festivals. Jori also holds a slot on the national radio YleX in Finland since 1998 where he plays a selection of what's in his recordbox.
2008 looks like yet another busy year for the man DJ mag dubbed as "the most underrated producer in the world": already out is his ninth artist album, Errare Machinale Est (F communications/Pias), his most ambitious yet. Featuring vocals from artists as diverse as John Foxx (of Ultravox -fame), Jimi Tenor, Ernesto and Justine Electra, it combines many aspects of Jori's current musical interests from downtempo singer-sonwriter stuff to uptempo abstract avantgarde synthpop. In addition, he's working on a dancefloor targeted album for the Canadian label Turbo, this time under his Fenno-Baron guise.
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His selfwritten bio for Turbo CD 028 / Jori Hulkkonen - MAN FROM EARTH:
The world we live in, on a very fundamental level, is flawed. On the eve of my tenth album release I'm still writing my own bio and wondering if I should refer to myself in third person, analyze the past 15 years and justify bad career moves as artistic integrity, and promote myself as the unsung hero of techno and house; a mere victim of poorly timed strokes of genius (numerous!) and being born in the wrong part of the world. Well, sarcasm never really did become me, and irony works only if unnoticed. Double fail. It's easy enough to google up some old Jori Hulkkonen bio with real biographical info, or check out my discography from my website so I'll spare you the boring details of my "career". Ever since the late 80's when my obsession with all things music started to manifest itself with an increasingly verstaile record collection and eventually some synths and experiments in songwriting, it has been quite clear to me that I'm destined to create my life's work within the business. The problem is that as an idealist cynic with tight grip on realism I'm well aware that 'the biz' is a sinking ship more or less, and I'm already dancerously close to the waterline. But the good news is that I stopped caring.
Here's why:
Having released my first proper artist album in 1996 for the French label F communications (defunct now since 2008, with my album "Errare Machinale Est" as their final release -coincidence?), I've managed to do something I never thought would be possible, something that I'm the most proud of all things in my career: never becoming popular. After nine albums, dozens of pseudonym releases on superhot labels (like Rekids and Get Physical just to mention a couple from the past few years), close to a hundred remixes, my own radioshow on national radio for more than a decade (in Finland though, so it may not count), thousands of DJ gigs all over the world under my belt (OK I never actually counted but a quick calculation tells me it must be close to 2000 now), producing and writing songs for the likes of Tiga (whom I created in the first place), and having a reputation as a producer who can make an 808 kickdrum sound like a jazzy flute, you'd expect that there was a time when I was The Shit. But I never was! Sure enough there's a lot people who never were "big", but are they still working? Releasing albums, singles, getting remix requests and DJing all over after 15 years? No. But I am. And this I see as my greatest achievement and there's a lesson to be learned everyone: If you never become trendy it's impossible for you to become untrendy. Will all this change now though with my hotter than hot new album on Turbo, or the buzz around my Acid Symphony Orchestra (a piece I wrote for ten tb-303's and a 707, conducted by me)? Or the rumoured collaboration with Chris Lowe of the Pet Shop Boys?
It remains to be seen but I'm dedicated to give my best shot to not let it happen.
Man From Earth, my tenth studio album, is the first "Jori Hulkkonen" album not released on the now defunct F communications.
How will this change of label affect my sound? Is this the end of ballads, jazz and ambient? Of course not -not even for me - but the album is a deliberate (as in not forced) departure from the bedroom vibes with focus on jams for the dance crowds.
Recorded at my alppIVhouz studios, most of the tracks were intended for 12" singles so they are not album tracks as such, therefore the album is maybe not as coherent and subtle as some of my previous efforts. But what it may lack in atmospheric synthpads, "scandinavian mooddesign" and social commentary it makes up in catchy basslines, sizzling hihats and semi-danceable tracks.
The Moment
Jori Hulkkonen Lyrics
We have lyrics for 'The Moment' by these artists:
Aaron Ray I only spit whats real and true And one thing…
Adama The ultimate test is now And I'm gonna learn somehow I…
Adani & Wolf Its automatic when I'm in the fuckin building Microphone mut…
Ami-Claire I've taken you for granted Cause now it's basically over And…
Angel City I was the night That pierced the eyes and walls That threw…
Anna Wise Or I could think about the moment Moment, moment, moment, mo…
Anne Clark Late april Late evening Powder blue sky Cools and fades …
Arnim & Lynne Oh, yeah She never cried, she only tried To fly beyond her…
Art of Noise Fuse is lit Now the fuse is lit (Now) The art, the…
Baillie & the Boys 몇천명이 이 노래를 욕해도 내가 지금 널 바꿀 수 있다면 난 지금 무슨…
Basik Ft. Eligh Moments like this, moments like this Swishing out smoke from…
Ben Kenney hold up, stay a while you've given certain things to…
Big K.R.I.T. Like a shooting star I know who you are And I'll…
Bridear You decide for yourself I'll be waiting here for you T…
C-Scripture 행복을 줄 수 없었어 그런데 사랑을 했어 네 곁에 감히 머무른…
Cafe Del Mar Vol. 10 Commence par une relation amicale Un amour bloqué par des ra…
Charlie Puth theres a moment when you find out who your true friends…
Chris T-T Tell me if this moment Tell me if this moment feel…
Civilized Creature No other moment but this moment with you You got…
Claseria My friend, leave yourself behind Beat inside me, leave you b…
Conception Somewhat desolate The story ending We were a nation wide Su…
Coptic Rain See the day burning in my eyes Filled with anger Filled wi…
Cornell C.C. Carter 행복을 줄 수 없었어 그런데 사랑을 했어 네 곁에 감히 머무른…
Cosmicity My lips on yours. I will not let go. Your hair falls…
Daybreak Embrace Now that you're waking I meld into you I'm paralyzed All we'…
DespA I think it is the moment to shine, I think…
Dingdong Avanzado As far as i remember You were but a dream A thought…
DjT.O 走り出した瞳が目指すのは 一度しかない "Glorious 1-one- moment" 勝利でしか掴めない奇跡 同じ…
Ē This year, I'm ready (Let's go) No more being friendly Ready…
Elysian Fields I was lost I was found I was free I was bound The moment…
Fickle Friends We got a problem Let's get a few things straight Well I…
Four Five This year, I'm ready (Let's go) No more being friendly Ready…
franklin kirk Sing ya'all Now we are never alone Your blood it makes us…
Freddy & Francine If you’re gonna scream, scream with me Moments like this nev…
Fusilier Live for the moment I live for the moment Losing my…
G.I.F.T.E.D 잘 지냈지? 조금은 어색해 요즘 좋아 보여 인사 나누며 사실 궁금한…
Get Stellar I can tell what you're thinking about But then I always…
GOLDHOUSE There is a color I can't forget I've only seen it in…
Greeley Estates So here So here you are now In the wake of your…
grey miller How can you forget Moments in the moonlight, Moments of…
In This Moment Can we run away tonight And hide from tomorrows The glas…
J-Building 心痛又回來了 但這次很溫柔 像甦醒的河流 你只是點點頭 一切盡在不言中 那些傷口 你可有愛過我 我像所有女人 糾纏著愛的…
Jay Jody 10Staxx (10Staxx) There is something 'bout this moment I ne…
Jim and the Povolos This is the moment, a feeling I've never had before This…
John Martyn It could be the moment When you tell me that you Understand…
June 퇴근 시간 전에는 시간이 너무 느리게 가는데 왜 집에만 오면 시간이…
Jung Yong Hwa Oh, I can see Something happen if I turn a corner Breathe…
Just Jinger Catch me understand I'm falling inside out And still I don'…
K-Def Don't walk away I'm falling down Don't walk away I'm fallin…
K-Style Don't walk away I'm falling down Don't walk away I'm…
Kat. Finally, the day has come いま⼦供の頃の夢の中 みな叫びをあげて声を枯らす さぁ世界へ向けて …
Keely January to December, we'll have moments to remember The New…
Kirk Franklin My savior, my king You're my protection My eyes, my direct…
KITCHEN - Tame Impala In the end, it's stronger than I know how to…
ksi Just hopped out the bank, I'm rollin' Pockets swollen, it's …
KT (Bandit go stupid on the beat) This is my moment Ready for…
KXV The time is now We are the moment (Show me what you…
L.O. Moments after sunrise resting calmly in my bed Sunlight's cr…
Leah Haywood It's all ebb and flow and give and take It's up…
lily 길을 잃어버린 듯 헤매이다 지쳤어 너를 만나기 전까지 없을 것만 같았어, 다시…
Lim Kim When you're feeling down so low Memories, they fill in place…
Lisa Stansfield I don't believe in me I don't believe in you But I…
Loudspeakers I stand on my own And think about everything What I have…
Lyncs I was waiting by the front door Just a text when…
M-E Ne parles pas de nous comme si j'étais ton khey J'ai…
m11son I'm too busy livin, there's no need to panic though She…
Manafest CRAZY DREAMS, A THOUSAND RINGS SAYING THINGS IS IT JUST…
Mark Beling These pages are so heavy to turn The easier the lesson,…
Mark Joseph I've got roads to pave But there's lions in the way cnd…
Matt Foster The Moment I might have known In a better moment But…
Miracle of Sound I've gazed across the waves Beyond the shores that hold…
Moment The Can we run away tonight And hide from tomorrows The glass i…
Mono Without air still breathing The feeling The story The m…
Motsa It's so much pain that I feel everytime I think…
Mr. Saxobeat (Ahhhh, ah) (Ahhhhh) (Ahhhhh) (Money, we got it) No I can't …
My Name Is George I'm just a man with a head full of perfect…
Nine Days I can see that someone Went and left you hanging from…
Nordista Freeze Do you want me baby? You know I want you I could…
Of Blood and Mercury How long must I wait for Me to come around and…
Of Gentlemen & Cowards Over in this moment now frozen in time This future that…
Of Kings and Misfits (Ah) Seven miles beneath Got a mild relief Can my eyes belie…
OFFICE - Tame Impala In the end, it's stronger than I know how to…
On the Rise You can meet the moments Just a couple…
On the Rocks Back and fourth I go up and down the carousel ride not…
R S Thomas PRESENT MOMENT (CARPE DIEM) Words & Music by Thomas R. COSGR…
Rahsaan Patterson Love lately ain't what it seems It's easy to get your…
Ready To Fall Thinking all about our future days When we'll finally be con…
Reginald Wilson Mario Marchetti 50% faith 50% fear Now is all that matters 'cause the moment…
Remme We're back where we began So give it all from the…
Rene Rodrigezz The nights over, but I don't wanna leave, Turn the…
Renn Olympus Freak mode, top ten Baby here we go again I'm done Fuckin wi…
Rhys Byrne I'm sorry if I don't cry The tears are too shy So…
RichFraz Exquisite view from the top floor Dream vivid always in sequ…
RJ Benjamin Do you remember it like I do Do you remember what…
Ryohu R-Y-O-H-U Oh yeah Uh-hah, oh yeah, come on 掴めよ only you 束の間…
SafetySuit From when I wake in the morning till I go…
Saint Motel You′ve been good You've been good to me So sad like a…
Savatage - Trans-Siberian Orchestra In this world of circumstance Children never fear forever An…
Sean C. Johnson Moment's Grasp Verse cnother sleepless night cnother day w…
Set Collins My friends They drive fast cars They live like superstars I&…
SHAH FRANK Pictures, selfies, outfits ready, We packed all night, roadt…
Shylock I’m gettin’ ready Ready for the moment to come I won’t give…
Sidney Bos Tragically it seems to be the case That things often go…
Sketchy Bongo Yeah you Yeah you (You) Yeah uh Give me some of that (Some…
Skinshape I wake up blind and I try to move As my…
Spontania 前触れぐらいあっていいのに 不意にすれ違ったオレいい歳 こいてパニック 顔真っ赤っかに 内心まるで穏やかじゃない 羅列す…
Stefanie 孫燕姿 这一刻 回头看见自己 这一路的风景 百感交集的我 下一刻 又将飞向哪里 渐渐疲惫的羽翼 为你披上了勇气 放心离开我 我会…
Stevie Hoang I lay awake Watching you sleep here beside me Its a beautifu…
Sun Yan Zi 这一刻 回头看见自己 这一路的风景 百感交集的我 下一刻 又将飞向哪里 渐渐疲惫的羽翼 为你披上了勇气 放心离开我 我会…
Sun Yan-Zi There's a place I know fairly well. It's a home away…
Super Junior/슈퍼주니어 (Super Junior) 又到了终点站 这一秒 长过千年 凝固了时间 我在那个千年 等待下次街边 和你的相遇 在空荡荡的月台等着最后末班地铁 任凭…
T-Max 행복을 줄 수 없었어 그런데 사랑을 했어 네 곁에 감히 머무른…
t.e.a This year, I'm ready (Let's go) No more being friendly Ready…
T.P.I. Deewana jeha hoyi firda Tera naam lainda java Har gali nu mo…
Tame Impala In the end, it's stronger than I know how to…
Tasha Cobbs Leonard Reach out and touch the Lord As he goes by You will…
Terra Naomi The wayward wind winds home at last Feels the same and…
The Angels My Vanity Moments, the mirror's all broken It's a Blue Hell,…
The Earth And Everything In It I'll tell the story of her loving It's so great you're…
The Foreign Exchange Rewind I'm thinking back to all the good days Don't wanna go…
The Gentle Storm "Dear diary, Please forgive my melancholy mood, but today …
The Heavies Never you know There's never enough to go around Time doesn'…
The Margarets It's alright to cry tonight Sometimes tears have to fall Som…
They. You got my attention Can't come to our senses, ayy I can…
This Century I've been hanging on to a dream And saying things that…
Toad The Wet Sprocket Shame doesn't become you There are no mistakes in the final…
Too Far Gone I gotta get it in check I want to wring my…
Toronto Is Broken I’m not asking for your time I’m just craving for you I…
Trans-Siberian Orchestra In this world of circumstance Children never fear forever An…
Troy Lux You've been on my mind lately I can't help but dream…
TSO (BEETHOVEN) In this world of curmumstance Children never…
Under The Flood I woke just to watch you sleep The way you breathe, The…
USAO & Shandy Kubota Time is on my side But I don′t know it The clocks…
Vargo Now's the moment to let go of every burden that weighs me…
Various Artists In your eyes In your mind sarangi geuryeojyeo uri meolli iss…
Ventura Lights This could be the moment that you've waited for You've wast…
VROMANCE 참 몰랐어, 다 몰랐어 익숙해진 탓에 모든 것들이 당연했던 그때 마음도 널 조금씩 덜어내다 끝자락에…
W.E.T. Instrumental…
X5 Feat. Mr. Fang (Ahhhh, ah) (Ahhhhh) (Ahhhhh) (Money, we got it) No I can't …
YanZi 这一刻 回头看见自己 这一路的风景 百感交集的我 下一刻 又将飞向哪里 渐渐疲惫的羽翼 为你披上了勇气 放心离开我 我会…
Yanzi Sun 這一刻回頭看見自己 這一路的風景百感交集的我 下一刻又將飛向哪裡 漸漸疲憊的羽翼為你披上了勇氣 放心離開我 我會記得這一…
Yungen We'll be singing in the moment, As loud as we can, Making…
孫燕姿 In your eyes In your mind sarangi geuryeojyeo uri meolli iss…
孫燕姿 (Stefanie Sun) 这一刻 回头看见自己 这一路的风景 百感交集的我 下一刻 又将飞向哪里 渐渐疲惫的羽翼 为你披上了勇气 放心离开我 我会…
炎亞綸 有 多久了 我们没见面 但闭上双眼 还有错觉 你吻我 那瞬间 还在唇边 阳光依旧 像回忆般温热 是这场风 让细节 复活了…
陶喆 This magic moment, so different and so new Was like any…
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Lo-Fiction That night you kissed the moonlight For the first time and…
Science Across this city, I come to see you There′s been a…
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