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 a nightclub or music f ...

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

Disc jockey

Pierre 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

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During the 90s he produced and remixed artist like

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, Meja,

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Featuring

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, Fatima Rainey, Clubland, Alexia & Tellus on over 200 records. Constantly nominated as best producer and remixer in Sweden.

Radio and Television

The career as host on National Radio P3 started. During 15 years you could hear him on shows like P3 Mix, P3 Remix, P3 Klubb and P3 Dans until the year 2011. He also wrote music to the programs Fotbollskväll, Hockeykväll, Packat & Klart and

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that were broadcast on National Swedish Television, SVT.

Hertz

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

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, Toolroom Records, Underwater Records,

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, Recycled Loops, Craft Music, Tresor, Virgin & Universal. He also done many 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 DJs Electronic dance music DJs