Biography
Joni Ljungqvist, born in 1987 in the south part of Sweden, started making music at the age of 12. Founding out later that electronic dance music was his passion, he quickly got his hands on ReBirth and started making his own tracks. Doing this for five years and at the same time evolving as a musician, his music started to get noticed more and more around on the internet. But it wasn't until the summer of 2004, when Joni at he age of 16 made a collaboration with Norwegian DJ and producer Terje Bakke, he got his first deal.
Markus Schulz picked up their tune, called 'Fanatic' for the Electronic Elements label, part of Armada. 'Fanatic' got released on the Coldharbour Selections 3 vinyl. Later on he's had success with both his JPL, Ljungqvist and LNQ aliases, as well as smaller aliases such as External Art, Illustrator and Dauntless.
Having produced the debut album of swedish champion in Poetry, had a number of tracks in the dutch dance chart, remixed producers like Antidote, York, Andy Prinz, Jones & Stephenson and Will Holland among others, and finally having released over 15 singles, 15 remixes and been on compilations like Tiëstos 'In Search of Sunrise 4 & 5″, Ferry Corstens 'Passport: Kingdom of The Netherlands / United States of America', Markus Schulz 'Miami '05″, Phynns 'In Trance We Trust 11″, Airwaves 'Planet Trance Vol. 2″ and Pedro Del Mar & Dj Shahs 'Mellomania 4,5 & 6″ among others, the future looks very bright for the little swedish boy, now 19 years old.
Stating that 'he's engaged to music forever and not anyone else', promises that there will be more music, in any direction taken.