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Shaun Baker |
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American |
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New York City |
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After leaving the UK in the eighties and setting up home in Germany Shaun Baker began his Dj career first playing in small clubs and working his way up to larger venues.
It did not take long before he was playing his power packed Dj sets Worldwide for example in Ibiza, Majorca, Taiwan, Thailand, Japan, Corfu, Holland, France, England, Poland, Austria, Switzerland and all over Germany.
The music producing side of his career started in 1997. The first productions being mainly commercial Dance tracks, some of the first tracks where very successful reaching peak positions in many European Dance Charts.
Shaun’s first entry in the sales charts came with “Explode” project Jordan & Baker
(2 entries in the German sales charts) Explode produced together with Gambas (Trak MusiK) has advanced to being a classic Trance track finding its way into many big name Dj boxes and still being played as a dancefloor filler to this date. And now 2005 Explode has been remixed by E-Craig and Steve Murano and is ready to take the World dancefloors by storm.
Explode was also very successful in Holland, France, Switzerland, Poland, Spain and various other countries.
2005 finds Shaun teaming up with Melino Entertainment, the first co-production with Melino “XPLODE 2” resulted in breaking all German Dance Chart records by reaching the number 1 positions in all the German Dance Charts making “XPLODE 2” the Dance Chart Hit of 2005 in Germany, Xplode 2 also entered the German sales charts and stayed there for 9 weeks.
The follow up Push/Deep is already making big waves in the Dance Community and also entered the German sales Charts. Not content with just producing he also writes songs and small vocal parts for his own productions and performs the speaking parts himself, but not only for his own productions also for other producers such as Dumonde, Helmedach, Dj Shah, Marc van Linden, Dj Tom, D’Gor, Headhunter, Sandra Flyn, Join Forces to name a few.
Other musical outlets he has involved himself in are presenting the TV Music Show
Club Inferno (German tv) and in his earlier years working part-time as a Radio presenter at BFBS.
Shaun Baker prides himself on not just being a Dj but also an entertainer a man who can adapt to small & large, commercial & progressive venues, he is truly in love with the music and likes to describe his musical style as “universal music” as he has no interest in being confined to one music style as he can feel comfortable playing “groovy house” in a small house club in Taiwan or playing Trance to 20,000 people at an open air event like Sopot Beach party in Poland.
Anyone who has seen Shaun Baker at “work” will find him hard to forget due to his unique turntable style and his extrovert personality. Seeing, hearing and believing. Shaun Baker is an Artist of Alphabet City Records. Sushi Tunes/Ministry of Sound (Berlin). A45 Music
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