Jori Hulkkonen
Juri Hulkkonen (born September 28, 1973 in Kemi , Finland ) is a Finnish DJ and music producer . He gained fame in German-speaking countries with a remix of the song Sunglasses at Night , which he created together with Tiga under the name Zyntherius .
Life
Hulkkonen began producing electronic music in 1988 . The first publications followed in 1993. In the same year he founded his first music label with LUMI Records , but was later signed to Cari Lekebusch's label Trainspotter's Nightmare . In 1995 he switched to F Communications , Laurent Garnier's music label . In 1996, Hulkkonen's first studio album Selkäsaari Tracks was released .
In 2001 he and Tiga released a remix of Corey Hart's song Sunglasses at Night under the name Zyntherius , with which he achieved his first chart success in Germany and Great Britain. His albums Different , Dualizm and Errare Machinale Est , released afterwards, were able to place in the Finnish album charts .
Together with Jimi Tenor , he made the feature film Nuncio in 2014 .
Discography
Studio albums
Chart placements
| year | title |
Top ranking, total weeks, awardChartsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) |
Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|
 FI
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| 2002 | Different |
FI29 (1 week) FI |
First published: September 2, 2002
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| 2005 | Dualizm |
FI34 (3 weeks) FI |
First published: April 14, 2005
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| 2008 | Errare Machinale Est |
FI40 (1 week) FI |
First published: March 23, 2008
|
More albums
- 1996: Selkäsaari Tracks
- 1998: The Spirits Inside Me
- 2000: When No One Is Watching We Are Invisible
- 2009: Man From Earth
- 2012: Negative Time
- 2015: Oh But I Am
- 2017: Don't Believe In Happiness
- 2018: Simple Music for Complicated People
Singles
Chart placements
| year | Title album |
Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes) |
Remarks | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 DE
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 AT
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 CH
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 UK
|
FI
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| 2001 | Sunglasses at Night |
DE24 (14 weeks) DE |
AT45 (7 weeks) AT |
- |
UK25 (3 weeks) UK |
- |
First published: November 19, 2001
as Tiga & Zyntherius |
Web links
- Jori Hulkkonen at laut.de
- Fifteen Questions Interview with Jori Hulkkonen. Retrieved May 13, 2019 .
- Jori Hulkkonen at Discogs (English)
- Jori Hulkkonen on MusicBrainz (English)
- Jori Hulkkonen in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hulkkonen, Jori |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Zyntherius (pseudonym) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Finnish DJ and music producer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 28, 1973 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kemi , Finland |