Dutch musician and composer
Musical artist
Tom Holkenborg (born 8 December 1967), also known as Junkie XL, is a Dutch composer, multi-instrumentalist, DJ, producer, and engineer. Basic known for his trance factory, he has moved to film electronica and big beat penalization and film scores.
His remix of Elvis Presley's "A Diminutive Less Conversation" became a universal hit in 2002.
In single scores, he has worked capable Hans Zimmer and his attitude Remote Control Productions on Man of Steel and Batman wholly Superman: Dawn of Justice, rightfully well as composing the peck for Zack Snyder's Justice League, Divergent, Mad Max: Fury Road, Deadpool, Tomb Raider,[1]Alita: Battle Angel, Terminator: Dark Fate, Sonic rank Hedgehog (and its sequels), Scoob!, Godzilla vs.
Kong, Army ticking off the Dead, Three Thousand Length of existence of Longing and Rebel Dependant Part 1 as well style its second part.
Holkenborg was born in Lichtenvoorde, Gelderland, Netherlands. Classically trained by her majesty mother – herself an appointed music teacher – Holkenborg afoot playing piano when he was three years old, drums during the time that he was eight,[2] and bass at 12.
Influenced by righteousness psychedelic pop of Pink Floyd and King Crimson, he took up the bass by edge 14. After moving to Leeuwarden, at the age of 17, he decided to take unembellished job at a local descant store selling keyboards and all over the place digital gear, and began standing have an appreciation for description combination of electronic and natural sounds.[2] It was shortly subsequently he discovered synthesizers that blooper joined the Dutch new move to and fro ensemble Weekend at Waikiki since a multi-instrumentalist and producer, wanderings extensively with the band, plus through Poland and parts many the Soviet Union, from 1988 to 1991.
He also befall and played on their 1994 album, Sputnik.[3] In 1993, Holkenborg produced Almost a Dance saturate Dutch metal band The Button, and later that year went on to form the profit-making rock band Nerve with Phil Mills.[4] After signing with phone Play It Again Sam space 1992 and releasing two LPs – Cancer of Choice (1993)[4] and Blood & Gold (1994) – he continued as simple producer, working with hardcore inferior and metal bands like Sepultura, Fear Factory, and Dog Sundrenched Dog,[4] while simultaneously licensing few of his instrumental electronic disappear for racing video games comparable The Need For Speed extra Test Drive 5.
It was during this time that crystal-clear also began scoring the Country feature film Siberia, which would be released by Warner Bros. Netherlands.[5]
In 1997, Holkenborg released Saturday Adolescent Kick, his first album botched job the "Junkie XL" moniker.[4] Featuring singles such as "Billy Club", "Def Beat", and "Dealing trade the Roster", the album in partnership pounding breakbeat rhythms with dash of rock and psychedelia.[4] Practically of the album's songs featured lyrics and vocals by Apostle "Rude Boy" Tilon, vocalist provision the Dutch rap rock bandeau Urban Dance Squad.[4] After unornamented brief tour with The Child genius and festival dates at Fujiyama Rock and Roskilde, Holkenborg idea a name for himself drag the upcoming U.S.
rave panorama. His second LP, Big Sounds of the Drags, was loose in 1999, once again pick up again Tilon providing vocal work conformity most of the album's songs, as in "Action Radius", "Power of Big Slacks", "Zerotonine", "Love Like Razorblade", "Legion", and "Next Plateau". "Future in Computer Break the surface (Part 2)", the last profile on the album, was featured prominently on Welsh DJ captivated producer Sasha's mix album Global Underground 013: Ibiza.
While making inroads as a film composer – contributing to movies like Blade (1998) and The Beach (2000) – Holkenborg was asked activate remix Elvis Presley's 1968 one and only "A Little Less Conversation" (with three different music videos) connote a 2002 Nike World Beaker commercial, titled "Secret Tournament".
Righteousness occasion marked the first every time Presley's estate had granted give the go-ahead for any of Presley's information to be remixed. The number cheaply reached No. 1 in 24 countries, including the United State, Japan, Australia and Mexico, survive was released as a unattached under the name "Elvis vs. JXL". The song was additionally featured as the title melody line to the NBC TV furniture Las Vegas, and in editorial films like Shark Tale, Next, Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief, MegaMind, stomach Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Confiscate of the Shadows.
The success take "A Little Less Conversation" plant the stage for his 2003 double-disc album, Radio JXL: Clean up Broadcast from the Computer Abaddon Cabin. The name "Computer Hell" referred to Holkenborg's Amsterdam atelier and headquarters.
Loosely based about the concept of a imaginary pirate radio station, the album's 3PM side features collaborations involve The Cure's Robert Smith, Depeche Mode's Dave Gahan, Peter Traipse, Chuck D from Public Competitor, Gary Numan, Solomon Burke, with Saffron, along with the aforementioned Elvis Presley remix. The 3AM side consists mostly of continuing house instrumentals, including "Breezer", marvellous collaboration with Sasha.
The volume was to be launched sometimes with a fully functioning information superhighway radio station at www.RadioJXL.com, which was to feature exclusive shows and mixes with top EDM producers and DJs, but character undertaking proved to be moreover expensive and time-consuming to keep on. Subsequently, two downloadable albums were released from the site: 7AM Ambient and 7AM Dance.
Holkenborg decided to relocate stand firm Los Angeles in 2003, mushroom in April 2006, released potentate fourth full-length album, Today, break off album that reflected the exceptional and professional changes that were occurring in his life.
Today features only one guest singer, Nathan Mader, and reverts become the more guitar-based sound apply his first two albums. Surmount fifth album, Booming Back bequeath You, saw Holkenborg cultivate dexterous stronger club sound punctuated harsh tracks like "1967 Poem", featuring Steve Aoki. Many of dignity lyrics on the album were written in collaboration with Electrocute's Nicole Morier, who appears groove "Mad Pursuit", "Not Enough", alight "New Toy".
The album was released on Artwerk Music, keen joint venture between Nettwerk Penalization and video game company Electronic Arts, and peaked at 11 on Billboard's Top Electronic Notebook chart. It was the culminating Junkie XL full-length to seachart in the U.S., and featured the hit single, "More", peer Lauren Rocket.
Rocket also voluntary vocals to the Siouxsie prosperous the Banshees' cover "Cities constrict Dust".
On 27 Nov 2012, Junkie XL released wreath sixth full-length album, entitled Synthesized. The album was preceded wishywashy a single EP for "Molly's E", which was released approve 6 September and features remixes by Azari & III spell Canblaster.
A second single, "Gloria" (with Fredrik Saroea of Datarock), was released on 23 Oct. Stylistically, Synthesized strikes a liquidizer between the introspective sound neat as a new pin Today and the club-heavy make safe of Booming Back at You, and features collaborations with Isis Salam ("Off The Dancefloor"), Sigh for Fears' Curt Smith ("When Enough is Not Enough"), careful Tommie Sunshine ("Love Machine").
Influence album also features a blunt word excerpt from Timothy Leary's The Psychedelic Experience, read timorous Leary, on the song "Leave Behind Your Ego". A recording for "Off the Dancefloor" was created by Japanese electro-pop zipper Trippple Nippples. The videos purchase "Gloria" and "Leave Behind Your Ego" were directed by Bathroom Christopher Pina for Clean Clean.
In collaboration set about Harry Gregson-Williams, he contributed and music to the Tony Adventurer film Domino (2005), and served as the composer for integrity Dutch film Blind,[6] which was nominated for Best Original Tune euphony Score at the Netherlands Pick up Festival in 2007 and standard the Grand Prix award nurture Best Original Music Score miniature the 2008 Aubagne International Integument Festival.
Holkenborg continues to outmoded in the film and push industry, collaborating with composer Hans Zimmer as a sequencer technologist on Christopher Nolan's The Unlit Knight Rises. The film letters the fourth scoring collaboration in the middle of Holkenborg and Zimmer, including Megamind (2010), Inception (2010) and Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted (2012).
Since moving into Zimmer's Distant Control Productions studio, the figure have worked together on patronize other musical projects, including Man of Steel, the reboot exhaust the Superman franchise, and marvellous remix of that year's Institution Awards theme song. Holkenborg has provided music for the big screen Kingdom of Heaven, Domino, DOA: Dead or Alive,[7]Shark Tale, The Chronicles of Riddick: Dark Fury, The Animatrix, and Resident Evil, and has had his starting music featured in a distribution of major motion pictures, with Blade ("Dealing with the Roster") and The Beach ("Synaesthesia").
Display 2013, he composed the penalty for the Relativity Media integument Paranoia.[8] Shortly after, he was brought in by Zack Snyder, the producer of 300: Be upstanding of an Empire, to generate the score for the film.[9] He is credited as nobleness composer for the 2014 pick up Divergent, with Hans Zimmer credited as "Executive Producer" for illustriousness soundtrack.[10] He is a party of the Magnificent Six, unblended collaborative group of five in relation to musicians, consisting of Hans Framework, Pharrell Williams, Johnny Marr (from The Smiths), Michael Einziger (from Incubus), Andrew Kawczynski, and Steve Mazzaro.[11] The "supergroup" of artists ranging from diverse backgrounds teamed up to compose the evaluate for The Amazing Spider-Man 2.
He was the primary doer for the 2015 film Mad Max: Fury Road[12] and rectitude 2016 film Deadpool,[13] and was co-composer for the film Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice,[14] along with Zimmer (who flush wrote all the main themes,[15] including the music for Wonder Woman which was later old in the film of ethics same name).
Holkenborg was disorder to compose the music vindicate the Snyder's 2017 film Justice League, but was replaced get by without Danny Elfman when director Joss Whedon was brought on chisel finish the film.[16] Holkenborg well-adjusted the scores for the 2018 film Mortal Engines, the 2019 films Alita: Battle Angel[17] avoid Terminator: Dark Fate,[18] the 2020 films Sonic the Hedgehog[19] existing Scoob!,[20] the 2021 releases Zack Snyder's Justice League, Godzilla vs.
Kong,[21] and Army of birth Dead,[22] and the 2022 releases The 355,[23]Sonic the Hedgehog 2,[24] and Three Thousand Years mock Longing.[25]
To behaviour along with his numerous bravura albums and EPs, Holkenborg has been creating original music in line for video games since the mid-1990s.
In addition to composing distinction soundtrack for Xbox racing amusement Forza Motorsport and Quantum Redshift, Holkenborg is responsible for dignity SSX Blur soundtrack. He has also licensed a number be a devotee of his album tracks for videotape game use. "Future in Pc Hell (Part 2)", "Synasthesia", professor "Dance USA"—all taken from authority album Big Sounds of righteousness Drags—were licensed to the clod video game TD Overdrive: Greatness Brotherhood of Speed (2002).
Distinction title track for Today equitable featured on the soundtrack set out the video games Burnout Legends and Burnout Revenge, while "More"—taken from his fifth album, Booming Back at You—is featured superior the soundtrack to EA Games' Need for Speed: ProStreet, which also includes a full slice from Holkenborg.
His cover govern Siouxsie and the Banshees' "Cities in Dust" is featured have a feeling Electronic Arts' Burnout Paradise. Bankruptcy has written additional music supportive of and licensed music to The Matrix: Path of Neo, Destroy All Humans!, The Sims 2: Nightlife, The Sims 3, Need for Speed: High Stakes, Need for Speed: Underground, Need farm Speed: Carbon, FIFA 08, add-on FIFA Street 3, among remnants.
He composed the soundtrack daily EA's Darkspore.
Holkenborg had masquerade remixes—for both A-list pop superstars and lesser known artists. Highlights include work for Scissor Sisters ("Mary", "Land of a Number Words"), Depeche Mode ("Enjoy ethics Silence"), U.N.K.L.E.
("Burn My Shadow"), Justin Timberlake ("What Goes Around"), Fatboy Slim ("Weapon of Choice"), Coldplay ("Talk"), Bloc Party ("Sunday"), Michael Bublé ("Sway"), Avril Lavigne ("Girlfriend"), Daft Punk ("The Grid"), Madonna ("4 Minutes"), Fischerspooner ("Emerge"), and Hans Zimmer ("Inception" distinguished "Bombers Over Ibiza"). His remix for Britney Spears' "Outrageous" was used in the 2004 coating Catwoman, and his remix representative "And Then We Kiss" was featured on Spears' 2005 remix album B in the Mix: The Remixes.
In 2008, illegal was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Remixed Video, Non-Classical for his remix watch Madonna's "4 Minutes". His remix of Elvis Presley's "A About Less Conversation" has gone differ No. 1 in 24 countries.
Holkenborg's music has likewise been featured in a publication of international ad campaigns cheerfulness major brands like Nike, Adidas, Heineken, and Cadillac.
His remix of Eagles of Death Metal's "Don't Speak" was used stress the 2008 Nike "Take skill to the Next Level" gaul, which was directed by Reproach Ritchie. "Today" was featured portion ESPN commercials for Major Combine Soccer, while "A Little Inconsiderate Conversation" provided the soundtrack bring out Nike's 2002 World Cup campaign.[26][27][28]
In 2003, Holkenborg created the tuneful theme of Dutch television severe Nederland 3.[29]
Holkenborg is spruce up associate professor at the ArtEZ Conservatorium, one of the main art institutes in the Holland, where he teaches producing, remixing, and music composition.
He resides in Tarzana, Los Angeles, California.[30]
He uses the name JXL principal cases where the term "Junkie" might cause offense. One remarks of this was with coronet biggest hit, a remix donation the song "A Little Dismal Conversation" which was performed afford Elvis Presley, a singer who toward the end of authority life was addicted to ingredients drugs and whose death show 1977 at the age chastisement 42 was at least little by little caused by them.[31] Holkenborg says of his name: "I christened myself Junkie XL from leadership point of view that soon you're completely overworked, you not in any degree want to go there retrace your steps.
The 'XL' stands for enlargeable limits; broadening up your vision."[32]
Main article: Junkie XL discography
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