Pierre Jerksten is a Swedish

disc jockey A disc jockey, more commonly abbreviated as DJ, is a person who plays recorded music for an audience. Types of DJs include Radio personality, radio DJs (who host programs on music radio stations), club DJs (who work at nightclubs or music fes ...

known for hosting radio shows and his work under his alias Hertz.

Disc jockey

Jerksten started out as a DJ 1989 in Gothenburg but became famous in Sweden when he participated in DMC DJ Championship and ended up as number 2 in Sweden and Europe and the following year was number 1 in Sweden and number 5 in the DMC World DJ Championship.

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During the 90s he produced and remixed artist like

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featuring

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, Clubland, Alexia & Tellus on over 200 records. He was nominated as best Swedish producer, best Swedish remixer, and best Swedish House/Techno Artist by the

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in 1996.

Radio and Television

Jerksten's career as a weekly host on National Radio P3 started in 1996. Until 2011, he hosted shows including P3 Mix, P3 Remix, P3 Klubb and P3 Dans. He also wrote music to the programs Fotbollskväll, Hockeykväll, Packat & Klart, and Trafikmagasinet, that were broadcast on National Swedish Television, SVT.

Hertz

The greater part of the 2000s was devoted to his own record labels Sway, Q-Records, Abyss Records, Atom, M4M, Hz Trax and his alias Hertz. Pierre has been releasing on labels such as

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, Toolroom Records, Underwater Records, Drumcode, Recycled Loops, Craft Music,

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, Virgin & Universal. He also done events and festivals around Europe, among those at

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, Awakenings, Fabrik, Florida 135, Le Zenith & The Matrixx.

References

External links

* * https://www.discogs.com/artist/37037-Pierre-J * https://www.discogs.com/artist/12827-Hertz * http://defected.com/video/314/uberfett-el-zoomah-full-length-2008/ {{DEFAULTSORT:Jerksten, Pierre 1972 births Living people Swedish electronic dance music DJs People from Gothenburg