Jean-Louis Patrik Huhta (born 30 April 1965) is a Swedish musician. He has played in various bands going back through the mid 1980s, ranging from
punk
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Genres, subculture, and related aspects
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and art music to
grindcore and
funk.
Career
Huhta began his musical career in the early 1980s as a member of
Freddie Wadling
Berndt Arvid Freddie Wadling (2 August 1951 – 2 June 2016) was a Swedish singer born in Gothenburg, whose over-thirty-year musical career extended from punk to classical ballads.
Band member
Wadling played bass in a number of bands during ...
's post-punk band Cortex.
He later joined the hardcore band
Anti Cimex
Anti Cimex were a Swedish crust punk band, based in Skövde, Gothenburg, Linköping, and Malmö, at different times, that formed in 1981.Peter Jandreus, ''The Encyclopedia of Swedish Punk 1977–1987'', Stockholm: Premium Publishing, 2008, p. ...
, in which he played percussion between 1984 and 1987. Since then, he has participated in various groups and experimental art projects. Together with Texas Instruments, he created rhythm-based industrial noise and as a member of the art collective
Lucky People Center,
he found his way to contemporary dance music. He has also dabbled in funk, hip hop, and
go-go music with
Stonefunkers. With The Skull Defekts, he toured the United States in 2009.
Personal life
Huhta's father hails from
Trinidad
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, and his mother was from
Tervola
Tervola is a municipality of Finland.
It is located in the province of Lapland, Finland. The municipality has a population of
() and covers an area of of
which
is water. The population density is
.
Neighbour municipalities are Keminmaa, Ranua, ...
, Finland. He moved to Stockholm from Gothenburg in the 1990s and lives in
Copenhagen
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, Denmark since 2018.
Selected discography
As Jean-Louis Huhta
* ''Between the World and Death'' (2007)
* ''No History No Future'' (2015)
As Dungeon Acid
* ''Bliss'' (2012)
* ''Live Somewhere in NYC'' (2016)
* ''Dungeon Acid'' (2019)
With Zbigniew Karkowski and Lars Åkerlund
* ''Horology'' (2013)
* ''A Bird in the Hand Is Worth Two in the Bush'' (2016)
References
External links
*
1965 births
Living people
People from Gothenburg
Swedish male musicians
Swedish people of Trinidad and Tobago descent
Swedish people of Finnish descent
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