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8 Tracks For A Nuclear Winter Garden – JORI HULKKONEN

 
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Over the years, Finnish DJ and producer Jori Hulkkonen, also a member of the Sin Cos Tan band, has released sounds via F Communications, Turbo and My Favorite Robot Records. Also, since 2004 he has run an outdoor, intimate party at a 14th Century museum in his hometown – of course. Under the name Nuclear Winter Garden, the night finds him playing extended sets of jazz, folk, classical, avantgarde and indie sounds a world away from his usual DJ duties. It is those sets that have inspired this new album. 

Here, he gives us 8 tracks that aptly represent this moniker.

Nuclear Winter Garden's self-titled album will be released via My Favorite Robot on 2nd March, pre-order your copy here.

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Scott Walker - Farmer In The City (High Quality Audio)

One of the records that really define what my Nuclear Winter Garden nights are about. Gloomy, beautiful, timeless and scary.

  • Scott Walker - Farmer In The City (High Quality Audio)

    One of the records that really define what my Nuclear Winter Garden nights are about. Gloomy, beautiful, timeless and scary.

  • David Michael Cross - Nuclear War (Part 2) - 2003

    One of DMX Krew’s sideprojects, David Michael Cross wrote a soundtrack to Cold War. Why Not.

  • Diamanda Galas Gloomy Sunday

    In the 1930’s some radio stations banned this song as it caused a wave of suicides whenever it was played. Urban myth or not, this is no cheerful chant.

  • Suicide || "Frankie Teardrop"

    I occasionally play this at my Nuclear Winter Garden Nights and it always sounds equally disturbing on a big system. Frankie ain’t doing that well, you see.

  • Zombi 2 Theme

    Soundtracks have always been very close to me, and there’s just something amazing about these post-apocalyptic Italian scores of the 70’s and 80’s

  • Nightsatan - Ninja Apocalypse

    Nightsatan are a Finnish band who do ‘lasermetal’. I produced their first album where this track is taken from. If a 12 minute track can ‘sum things up’ then this track sums up what lasermetal as a genre is.

  • Aphrodite's Child - The Four Horsemen (Video)

    Did this track get here because Demis Roussos just sadly passed away? Possibly, but both the album and song title fit the theme here. And it does bring in a bit versatility.

  • Klaus Nomi - Cold Song Live 1982

    Shit don’t get much more apocalyptic than this. Klaus Nomi was an amazing character both musically and visually. He was one of the first AIDS-victims from the music world and that tragedy just adds emotion to this performance.