Diskjokke: Biography

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• Röyksopp
• Todd Terje
• Rune Lindbæk
• Rune Linbaek
• UNKLE
• DJ Spooky
• Skylab

• Prins Thomas
• Goldfrapp
• Dimitri from Paris
• Lindstrøm

Genres:

Electronic & Dance Music, House Music, Club Dance Music

Decades Active:

2000's

Hailing from the small town of Svelvik, located just southwest of Oslo, Norway an unlikely but proven city to breed and export influential electro artists Joachim Dyrdahl, otherwise known as diskJokke, makes acid house beats perfect for moving dancefloors and lays down chilled cinematic pop ideal for lounging. At five years old Dyrdahl started playing the violin, and at 14 he started spinning records. After going to school to study mathematics in a Trondheim university, he relocated to Oslo and started combining his classical and electrodisco backgrounds as a producer. He met up with Prins Thomas, who released two of diskJokke's tracks as 12" singles on his Full Pupp label. As word spread, Get Physical offered to put out two more of his 12"s on the label's Kindish imprint. He took the position of resident DJ at one of Norway's premier clubs, and appeared on a Sunkissed compilation, resulting in subsequent offers to do remixes for other artists. Eventually, one of these led to a connection at Smalltown Supersound, an upandcoming label that put out discs by Lindstrøm (one of Dyrdahl's main inspirations). After picking ten of his most groovy tracks, Smalltown released his first fulllength in Norway in late 2007, and made plans to release Staying In overseas in March of 2008. An 11minute diskJokke remix of Bloc Party's "Sunday" was scheduled for release later that year on Vice Records.

- Jason Lymangrover, All Music Guide