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“ My sound and the music that I produce all comes from my roots and history” Affirms FRED BAKER, the name behind massive classics as Y-Traxx, GrooveZone and many more..
Born and bred in the north of Belgium, Producer/DJ Frédéric De Backer aka FRED BAKER has been carefully developing his original, melodic and soulful music signature that’s deeper than the Atlantic Ocean since he was just a teenager. Embracing a musical, less is more ethos to all of his studio work, frédéric’s motivation in the studio or behind the deck has been to always add a new wrinkle to dance music’s vibrant fabric. Years after years and records after records, Frédéric fastly became a major producer and dj in Belgium and France.
But it all started for Frédéric De Backer in a big way when he produced in 1996, the Ibiza’s classic baleric trance anthem called Y-TRAXX “ Mystery Land”. The track was played and caned to death by the non Trance Master Paul Oakenfold among many others during the summer 1996 in Club such as Pacha, Space, Cream. The result, the track was licensed on FFRR’s own Pete Tong Label inside London Records and as featured on more than 15 majors compilations the same years including Cream, Clubbers Guide to Ibiza, Global Underground and last but not least was the anthem of the “ Kevin and Perry Go Large ” motion pictures compilation.
And now in 2002, Virgin decides to release the anthem once again with this time a powerfull vocal version together with a couple of new remixes.
The next integral step in Frédéric De Backer’s voyage came when he produced the Legendary club anthem GROOVEZONE “ Eisbaer ” released on 1997 on Positiva Records. Massive for the likes of Judge Jules, Pete Tong, Seb Fontaine to name a few, the track fastly became a classic in the UK. Soon after, the rest of the world started being crazy on it !! GROOVEZONE was signed in 24 countries and became a top seller with more than 300 000 singles copies. The a.m track was remixed by Jark Prongo, Viper, Plastik Park, Alexander Purkart and Housetrap. The follow up called ICU was also a succes and recieved remixes from the Belgian Trance master Yves De Ruyter and the BC Crew.
The same year and boosted by the succes, Frédéric De Backer striked back and produced the huge trance monster GLOBAL TRANCE MISSION “ Dream Mission” played till death by many Dj’s worldwide including Graham Gold, Paul Oakenfold, DJ Tiesto, Pete Tong, M.I.K.E., Ferry corsten and last but not least Seb fontaine who licensed it for his own SPOT ON Records and remixed it as “ Fontaine & Vern Remix”
Soon after was the turn of THE EFFECT “Day Mission” directly Picked up and lincensed by Virgin Records Ltd UK. THE EFFECT was featured on many top UK’s compilations in the meantime and was a big succes in Clubs such as CREAM, GATECRASCHER.
With his production career in full motion, Frédéric De Backer decided to do some collaborations with others talentued artists but at this time, he made the famous Trance “ Screen Series” including Yellow Screen, Red Screen, Blue & Green Screen was born. Soon after that, he developed many other projects such as Madrid Inc (licensed in several countries and has attracted the attentions of the worlds stage, with the track My Sunday..s Love being featured on in the July Summer Edition of Ministry Magazine..s free covermount CD.
Fred Baker was also the producer of many remixes for the likes of Sinead O’Connor, Corvin Dalek, Praga Khan, Circuit Boy, Tony Hadley (ex Spandau Ballet), Todd Terry, Kay Cee, Miro, Niels Van Gogh, Lotus, D-Note, Lost Witness, Amber, Laysia, Dj One Finger, Jaimy & Kenny D, Timo Maas, Dillinger & Capone, Urban Electro Squad, A Split Second, Zippora, Blank & Jones, to name of few. Inevitably with time, his sound will continue to evolve... It's for that he've just signed with three of the biggest trance labels in the world like Magik Muzik (with Dj Tiesto !), Armada (with Armin Van Buuren !) and Vandit (with Paul Van Dyk !)… TIESTO “Adagio For Strings” was also remixed by Fred Baker and became a Massive Anthem in 2005… and 3 tracks on the second DJ Tiesto in Concert DVD !
Vincent Gorczak, Greg Nash, Eddy Airbow, Terry Bones, Greg Kalas, Tom Wolff, DJ HS, Laurent Warin, Club Red, DJ Vince & many others are also some artists and projects involved with Frédéric De Backer aka FRED BAKER.
Whether producing and original track, remixing someone else’s production and working on some movie soundtracks, Frédéric De Backer has an instinctive feel for what is fun, and what the dancefloor will respond to. It’s that love for the music and for trance music in particular makes his productions work and keeps the faithful returning to the floor.
Possessing a firm knowledge of the past and a desire to make an impact on the future, it’s an exciting for Frédéric De Backer.
At the end of 2005, for his second year of solo career, Fred Baker was ranked at the 129th place in the DJMAG Chart… and 3 tracks on the new DJ Tiesto in Concert DVD !
In 2006, the Trance World is burning !!! Everybody's now talking about!! Fred Baker produced the SENSATION ANTHEM 2006 « Forever Friends » on his own new label :
BAKER STREET RECORDS.
In collaboration and support by ID&T Belgium, signed by the Universal major company for Benelux, Fred Baker is rocking the dancefloors !!!! He is one of the pioneers of Trance music in the world and also one of the biggest producers / remixers of the electronic music scene. Travelling all around the world as DJ (Uk, Scotland, Ireland, Lebanon, Switzerland, Turkey, Czech Republic, Poland, France, Israel, Canada, USA, Germany, Argentina, Australia, Japan and many more !!! …)
2007 has been the year of the new GrooveZone “Eisbaer” remixes by Paul Oakenfold and Fred Baker himself… signed on Perfecto label.
And finally, after several bombastic tunes as “Atlantis City” & "Lunar Eclipse" with Greg Nash on Spinnin Records, Fred Baker will release his solo album signed worldwide by PIAS and the 1st single taken from the album is called “Sunshine”… Fred Baker and Robert Miles will rock all dance floors !!!!
Right now, It’s all about the future for this man and his music, and it’s just the beginning….
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