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Performing 02.30 - 03.30 at Main hall
It’s been years since Jori Hulkkonen has played a live set in Finland, but in 2003 all that is about to change. JH has been preparing a new and improved live set just himself and his machines on stage.
Jori Hulkkonen was born in the early 70's in a small Finnish town called Kemi, he's truly one of the last pre-perestroika generation kids. Having the cold war, the Inari missile-incident and the Tschernobyl disaster -just to highlight a few -just right next door, Jori found his aesthetics for escapism from the ever-so-imminent nuclear war in the early and mid 80's music; new wave, synthpop and new romantics mixed with some traditional Finnish pop and rock. All things synthetic, distant, dark, cold, gloomy, but yet beautiful seemed appealing, everything from Visage to the Cure, and Pet Shop Boys to John Foxx.
"I can still recall the first time I heard West End Girls by the Pet Shop Boys on radio, and the sensation it gave me. Those chordchanges in the intro and when that baseline comes in... magic. It was basically then I started seriously thinking about making electronicmusic."
In addition, Jori hosts a two hour show, Klubi, on national radio YleX, once every two weeks, and he also has his new album, Different, out now on F communications. Featuring three different vocalists, Tiga, Jerry Valuri and Nick Triani, plus a collaboration with Tuomas Salmela, the record boasts a wealth of musical ideas that continue the tradition of Jori combining house and techno influenced production with more bedroom oriented soundscapes.
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