Jean-Louis Huhta


Jean-Louis Patrik Huhta is a Swedish musician, drummer, producer and DJ.
Huhta has a history in various Swedish bands going back through the mid 80s, ranging from punk and art-music to grindcore and funk.
Huhta started his musical career in the early eighties as a member of Freddie Wadling's post-punk band Cortex. He later joined the Swedish hardcore band Anti Cimex, in which Jean-Louis played percussion between 1984 and 1987. Since then he has participated in various bands and more or less experimental 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 the contemporary dance music. He has also tried his hand at funk, hip hop and go-go music with The Stonefunkers. With The Skull Defekts he toured the United States in 2009.

Current projects

Dungeon Acid – his solo acid techno project.
Audio Laboratory with Ebbot Lundberg, Henrik Rylander, Per Svensson.
Brommage Dub with Jesper Dalhbäck.
High Boys with Joachim Nordwall.
Ocsid with Carl Michael von Hausswolff and ex-Wire bassist Graham Lewis.
Groups that he had previously been a member of include: Cortex, Anti Cimex, Texas Instruments, Stonefunkers, Flesh Quartet, Disco 3000, 413, Lucky People Center and The Skull Defekts.

Discography

Partial discography, not including a myriad of 12" releases.

As Jean-Louis Huhta

• Between the World and Death.

• No History No Future

As Dungeon Acid

• Bliss

• Live Somewhere in NYC

With [Zbigniew Karkowski] and Lars Åkerlund

• Horology

• A Bird in the Hand Is Worth Two in the Bush

Personal life

His father hails from Trinidad and has a large blues and soul music collection. His mother was from Tervola, Finland. He is living and working in Copenhagen, since 2018. In his teens, Huhta became a fan of SPK, Einstürzende Neubauten and other electronica pioneers. He says this musical mixture can be heard in his music and drumming style.
His younger brother is rapper ADL.