Jori Hulkkonen
F com - Turbo - Get Physical - Rekids / Turku
• His brandnew DJ Mix
Enjoy!
• RADIO
"For me radio has always been a big source
of inspiration; eversince I heard Depeche Mode or Inner City for the
first time on Swedish P3, or Basement Jaxx on RadioMafia... therefore I
find it only natural that in a way I'm contributing now back to the
thing that got me started in the first place."
In 1998 Jori
Hulkkonen was proposed to host a radioshow on the national radio
channel RadioMafia. The show was a monthly, one hour show with a DJ mix
of records currently in Jori's bag, simply titled Jori Hulkkonen. The
show ran until early 2003.
In 2000 Jori was asked to widen his
repertoire and he started doing another show, Klubi, also on
RadioMafia. This two hour show was aired every two weeks, and was more
eclectic musically, plus it featured guest mixes and live sets. In 2003
RadioMafia changed its name to YleX. Klubi ran there on Friday nights
up until the end of 2006 when the channel changed its profile again to
slightly more mainstream.
From the beginning of 2007, Jori's new
slot on YleX is on Tuesday nights again -simply titled 'Jori
Hulkkonen', with his uncompromising 90 minute selection once every two
weeks.
Check www.yle.fi/ylex/ for playlists, webcasts, etc.
In
the last few summers Finnish RadioMafia-listeners have been enjoying
live broadcasts from Midnight Sun Soul Festival, the first Finnish
electronic music festival hosted by Jori Hulkkonen and his long time
collaborator Tuomas Salmela. Between 1999-2001 the festival was located
in the sunny beach of Nallikari in Oulu, but due to financial and
political reasons the show had to relocate to Kemi for 2002. The new
venue, Mansikkanokka Beach Resort, turned out to be the perfect
location and now the festival was a massive success. So massive infact,
that the boys decided that it just couldn't get any bigger or better
and decided to call it a day. A chapter in Finnish radio and
musicfestival history had ended.
Additionally Jori has done
radiospecials for RadioMafia/YleX, such as "20 vuotta, 20 biisiä" (20
years, 20 tracks), an introspective journey into the history of
electronic dancemusic, from 1980 to 2000, and dedicated specials to
artists such as Depeche Mode and Pet Shop Boys.
Apart from RadioMafia/YleX dozens of DJ mixes have been made for various radiostations all over the world.


