JesperDahlback

Agent : Olivia Capmare
Links : Website | Myspace
Music : Mix

Biography

Jesper Dahlback is one of Sweden’s leading DJ/producers with a lengthy back catalogue to his name, including co-production on two Tiga albums, the Hugg and Pepp project with cousin John Dahlback, and remixes for the likes of Rex the Dog, Zoo Brazil, Arnaud Rebotini of Black Strobe, Thomas P Heckman, Robyn, The Knife, and Depeche Mode.

Jesper has music in his genes – his grandfather, father and uncle are all musicians as are most of his cousins – but it was the musical movements in Detroit, Berlin and London that inspired him to start producing techno, back in 1991 in his bedroom studio. Completely hooked, by 1993 he’d formed the Stockholm-based Globe Studios together with Peter Benisch and Adam Beyer (following a chance meeting on the train to Love Parade…) and has worked there ever since.

In 1996 Jesper started the imprint, Blank, mainly for his own material, and simultaneously launched joint venture DK with Thomas Krome - one of the first labels in Sweden with a techno house crossover approach and the home of producers Alexi Delano, John Sealway, Jori Hulkkonen and DJ Sneak, to name a few.
  
In addition to making music for various techno labels around the world and working with Planet Rhythm, Jesper met up with Swiss-born Stephan Grieder who had just started the Svek label. The duo started to experiment with different sounds, drawing on house music’s roots, utilising vocals and acoustic instruments. Jesper now describes his sound as “ranging between the analogue sounds of the roland sh101 and the precision mathematics of my computer. I’m a researcher and developer of unheard sounds! Since the founding of Globe Studios, I have always been looking for new ways to bend the rules and test the unknown. When I DJ, I just play my own productions blending old classics with new unreleased demos.”

A producer first and foremost, Jesper‘s DJ dates find him weaving a soundscape of his productions, remixes and collaborations with new material at every gig, as well as musical elements and sounds worked through the set.

“The most exciting element is that there’s no genre boundaries in the music I make today. I like exploring different territories in sounds and breaking new ground. Sometimes I work only with my synthesizers, sometimes on collaborations with other people playing instruments or on vocals. My sets are so varied because I keep bits of demos, sometimes I’ll go back and re-write them, sometimes just experiment, and I use them to make my DJ sets more original every time,” says Jesper.

His latest projects include co-producing an album with Alexi Delano for Harthouse, and releases on labels such as Turbo Recordings, Minus, Get Physical, Poker Flat, and AFU. One of his favourite current ventures is his part in Jori Hulkkonen’s Acid Symphony Orchestra, a 10-strong collective working on 303 machines. Hulkkonen conducts the group like an orchestra and August sees them warm up for Kraftwerk in Helsinki. For more on the Acid Symphony Orchestra see www.myspace.com/acidsymphonyorchestra www.myspace.com/acidsymphonyorchestra and check out www.jesperdahlback.com www.jesperdahlback.com for the latest news and tunes.