Junkie XL — настоящее имя Том Холькенборг, родился в Нидерландах в городе Лихтенворде в 1967 году. Он живёт в Нидерландах и пишет музыку в стиле прогрессив-хаус. После того как он поработал продюсером голландской группы «Weekend at Waikiki» и ушёл от них в 1995 году, он стал писать свои собственные композиции под псевдонимом Junkie XL в 1997 году.
Играет на клавишных, ударных и гитаре. Основал индастриал группу Nerve (1993-1995, 2 альбома), в 1996 году опробовал себя в проекте A Forest called MULU вместе со знаменитым флейтистом Chris Hinze’ом, а в 1997 году запустил собственный проект, названный Junkie XL (вариант JXL часто используется когда применение слова Junkie является нарушением, т.к. переводится как наркоман, XL - xpanding limits - расширяя границы). В 2002 году Том переехал в США, где начал работу над саундтреками к играм и фильмам.
Сразу после переезда он начал плотно работать с играми, особенно с играми от ЕА (Electronic Arts), в результате чего его треки звучат в Need for Speed (Underground, Carbon, ProStreet, Shift), Burnout (Revenge, Paradise), The Sims 2: Nightlife (ремикс на главную тему), SSX Blur (сноуборд симулятор для Nintendo Wii) и почти во всей линейке игр FIFA и NHL. Помимо продукции ЕА Junkie XL так же работал над ремиксом заглавной темы God Of War 2 для SCEE и засветился в треклисте пятой части Test Drive.
Трек Little Less Conversation был использован компанией Nike для рекламной акции на Кубке мира по футболу 2002 года. Но JXL не просто электронщик, он так же занимался работой с Fear Factory, Rammstein, и работал на метал-лейбл Roadrunner Records.
С 2007 года музыкант 3-в-1 еще и преподает музыку и композицию в ArtEZ School of Music. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.
Junkie XL (also known as JXL) is musician Tom Holkenborg, born in Lichtenvoorde, The Netherlands on 8 December 1967. After producing and touring with the Dutch group Weekend at Waikiki, together with Phil Mills he founded the industrial band Nerve and released 2 albums (1993 and 1995). After he and Chris Hinze under name A Forest called Mulu recorded trip-hop/ambient album 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 computer games.
He uses the name "JXL" in those cases where the term Junkie might cause offense.
Some of his better-known songs include:
* Today (the title track from his 2006 release Today)
* Future in Computer Hell (Part 2) (featured on Sasha's Global Underground 013: Ibiza)
* A Little Less Conversation (remix of Elvis Presley's original)
* Zerotonine (featured on Dave Seaman's Global Underground 016: Cape Town)
* Beauty Never Fades (feat. Saffron of Republica, featured in a promotional video of the game EvE-Online)
* 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.
* Beauty On The Fire (Remix for the Natalie Imbruglia single)
* 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.
He has produced a remixed version of The Sims theme music for the computer game The Sims 2: Nightlife as well as 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 Burnout Legends' EA Trax, apparently before the album was released. He has also produced a remix of the Destroy All Humans! theme which can be heard on the credits or on the soundtrack.
There are also 2 remixes by Junkie XL on the Need for Speed: Carbon soundtrack. He composed the entire SSX: Blur soundtrack.
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 is signed to metal-label Roadrunner Records and has appeared on Roadrunner United. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.