Shaun Baker
Shaun Baker is a DJ from the north of England, the mid-1980s, settling in Germany and hangs in clubs since 1986.
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Career
Musical beginnings and first successes
He began his career as a DJ in smaller clubs. Shaun Baker was in the years 1998 - 2000 Resident DJ in the former Greater disco A30 in Ibbenbüren. He quickly became popular and began early to write your own songs through which he became known worldwide. By the time he regularly creates, among other clubs, scattered in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, France, Great Britain, Poland and the Netherlands.
He had his breakthrough in 2002 with the club hit Explode, which was represented in a version of the Jordan & Baker project in the German charts. Composed and produced by DJ Bonito was Explode (now a part of Darius & Finlay) and Claudio Macalvo in a recording studio in Austria. Explode reached number 61 in the German single charts.
2005: Musical breakthrough
Since 2005 he works with fixed Sebastian Wolter together as producers. With him he had his until then most success Xplode 2, which was in almost all dance charts of the year in 2005 at number one in the sales charts and entered the top 40. In the summer of 2006, the single Bakerman, a cover of Laid -back classic appeared. For the original music video from 1989 was worked up new, the Laid Back in a parachute jump is playing their instruments. Director of the video is Lars von Trier. Bakerman made it back to lead all dance charts and peaked in the German sales charts 39th place
The next single V.I.P. appeared in February 2007 and was in all German download charts in the top 30 in Poland and the Czech Republic VIP was for many weeks at No. 1, the sales and radio charts and led in both countries at the charts of the year 2007. In the same year he founded with his producer Sebastian Wolter Uptunes the label, which is specialized according to the homepage to dance music. On Uptunes appeared in October 2007, then the next Shaun Baker Power publication, with which he wanted to wear the high demand for a vocal version of his coined by him Xplode style statement by its own account. Power was in various dance charts in Germany 1st place and had long, the German download charts in the field of dance. According Uptunes he is preparing the next album, which will first appear in Poland and the Czech Republic, and later the world.
2008: Number - one with Hey Hi Hello
The next single was called Hey Hi Hello and was the follow-up to VIP. Among Hey Hi Hello Hamburg's DJ and producer Alex Christensen has contributed a remix. Hey Hi Hello won the prestigious Sopot Hit Festiwal in Poland and was then for six weeks at # 1 on the Polish radio and sales charts. In the Czech Republic Hey Hi Hello also reached number 1 followed the album 1, which already was in the first weeks after release in both countries gold status. The album also contains the song Could You, Would You, Should You, which was released in Germany on 28 November 2008 at Maloy. It is based on the original instrumental film music of composer Karel Svoboda from the German - the Český fairytale Three Nuts for Cinderella.
In 2009 they had the single Sunshine 2009. It is a remake of the 2000 hit Sunshine, the Dance Nation. Even this single could back up go into the dance charts and also reached the German single charts. In Austria, Switzerland or similar countries the remix could not achieve placements.
End of April 2010 Shows Mir 10 ( Explode 3 ) was then published. A re- remake of the classic " Explode theme ". However, this is the first vocal version. This time of Darius & Finlay and Danzel were involved in the English version or the Seaside Clubbers in the German version. This song was to be found in the sales charts, he was also one of the official World Cup final songs.
2013: Project - DF & S
In April 2013, together with Darius & Finlay they put the project DF & S in motion. The title of DF & S is composed of the name of Darius, Finlay & Shaun Baker. The first single of the project is called Bang Bang ( Explode ), which they recorded with the singer and rapper Ron Carrol Ceresia. This is the now- fourth part of the " Explode publications ". Already after a few hours of the title could rise into the Top -40 of the German iTunes charts.