Tom Holkenborg
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Junkie XL (also JXL) is musician Tom Holkenborg, born in Lichtenvoorde, The Netherlands on 8 December, 1967.
He resides in the United States. After producing and touring with the Dutch group Weekend at Waikiki, he split with them in 1995 and began writing his own tracks as Junkie XL in 1997. He has worked with many electronic music artists, including Sander Kleinenberg, DJ Tiësto and Sasha.
In 2002 he left The Netherlands to live and work in the United States where he works on soundtracks for movies and computergames.
He uses the name JXL in those cases where the term Junkie might cause offense.
Biography
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His remix of Elvis Presley's Little Less Conversation was used in a Nike ad for the 2002 World Cup. He also produced a remixed version of the Sims theme music for the computer game The Sims 2: Nightlife, and the entire soundtrack for the Xbox racing game Forza Motorsport. He has also provided music for the films Kingdom of Heaven, Domino and DOA: Dead or Alive. His song "Today" was featured as one of tracks on EA's Burnout: Legends, apparently before the album was released. "Today" is also on EA's Burnout: Revenge. He also produced a remix of the Destroy All Humans! theme which can be heard on the credits or from the soundtrack.
There are also 2 tracks remixed by Junkie XL found on the Need for Speed: Carbon soundtrack. His works were also included in the videogame Test Drive 5.
JXL is responsible for the SSX Blur original soundtrack; Blur is Electronic Arts' snowboarding game for the Wii.
While JXL is considered to be an electronic music artist, he is surprisingly connected to the heavy metal culture: apart from providing remixes to both Fear Factory and Rammstein, he was signed to the metal-label Roadrunner Records and appeared on Roadrunner United.
Currently he is signed to with Artwerk, the new label started up by Video game publishing giant Electronic Arts who for this new venture teamed up with Nettwerk One Music to establish a new music label based in Los Angeles. [1]
As from September 2007, the composer and one-man band Tom Holkenborg, alias Junkie XL, is joining the ArtEZ School of Music as its special teacher of 'Composition & Music Design'.[2]
Discography
- Saturday Teenage Kick (1998)
- Big Sounds of the Drags (2000)
- Radio JXL: A Broadcast From the Computer Hell Cabin (2003)
- Today (2006)
- Castbreeder - a bootleg live album
Selected singles
- "Today" (the title track from his 2006 release Today)
- "Future in Computer Hell" (featured on Sasha's Global Underground 013: Ibiza)
- "A Little Less Conversation" (remix of Elvis Presley's original as JXL)
- "Zerotonine" (featured on Dave Seaman's Global Underground 016: Cape Town)
- "Beauty Never Fades" (feat. Saffron of Republica)
- "Breezer" (with Sasha, featured on Deep Dish's Global Underground 025: Toronto)
- "Obsession" (with DJ Tiësto)
- "Feuer frei! (Rammstein vs. Junkie XL remix)" (B-side on Rammstein's Feuer frei! single)
- "Crusher" (feat. Saffron of Republica) - Theme song of Quantum Redshift
- "Outrageous" (JXL Remix) on the Limited Edition of Britney Spears Greatest Hits: My Prerogative Album with the Bonus Remix CD.
- "Action Radius" (the track from the game Need for Speed: Underground)
- "And Then We Kiss" (Junkie XL Remix) featured on B in the Mix: The Remixes by Britney Spears.
- "What Goes Around..." by Justin Timberlake.
- A remix of "Colossus of Rhodes" from the God of War 2 soundtrack, which was included as an extra on its release.