Joel Eriksson is an accomplished music producer from Sweden. He has gained recognition as a composer of game, film and pop music. Born in 78 he began to work on music for games early in his career. In 2000, he made the music for the acclaimed EA game, Battlefield 1942. This innovative WWII themed multiplayer game gained cult and commercial success, spawning a much loved series. The theme song is an iconic piece of music. It has been covered by orchestras and fans all over the world and appears in the sequels of the game franchise. Away from games, Eriksson has made music for films and TV. In 2006, he scored the music for the feature film, 7 miljonärer. Inspired by a love of groovy sounds, Joel Eriksson started the Gonkyburg movement with Quant and released records as Jol, with singles for the Swedish Dot label in 2000. The Moody Aow album followed for the Danish April Records imprint in 2003 and The Life in the sun Ep for DNM in 2006. Joel met Erik Niklasson from Plej and they formed The Similou. In 2004, the duo had a pop hit in the shape of All This Love, which was released on Sony in the UK, and climbed the charts in the UK, Australia and in Sweden. The Similou toured extensively in Sweden and were the support act for the Backstreet Boys in Stockholm at Globen. In parallell Joel was involved in song writing projects and co-wrote hit songs for Japanese boy band Arashi. Currently he works on new JOL songs, video creations and game music. Written by Jon Freer
