Fred Baker (DJ)
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Frédéric De Backer is better known as Fred Baker. He is a Belgian trance DJ who has worked under many aliases including Iguana, Forever Friends and Odyssey among others. Along with his own productions, he has produced several tracks with artists such as Greg Nash and Vincent Gorczak.
He is currently highly recognised in the trance community for his tech-trance style music. However, he has produced several techno-style and hard house tracks under various guises.
His career took off back in 1996 when he, along with Laurent David & TC Process, produced the hit anthem 'Y-Traxx - Mystery Land'. This track received a large amount of play time from Paul Oakenfold in some of the biggest clubs including Amnesia and Space. The track was also featured on more that 15 major compilations that year.
In 1997, he released another huge anthem, 'Groovezone - Eisbaer' which was played by top DJ's such as Seb Fontaine, Judge Jules and Pete Tong. Eisbaer was signed in 24 countries and sold over 300,000 copies.
Fred Baker has become a big name in the electronic music scene and has had tracks signed with Magik Muzik (label of Tiesto), Vandit (label of Paul van Dyk) and Armada (label of Armin van Buuren). He has also had the recent record, Forever Friends released on his own label, Bakerstreet Records.
[edit] Discography
[edit] Productions and Co-Productions
- 2003 Mr Sam vs Fred Baker presents As One - Forever Waiting (Magik Muzik)
- 2003 Fred Baker - My Thing (Magik Muzik)
- 2003 Eclectic Kid vs Fred Baker - Now Or Never (Scanner)
- 2004 Terry Bones vs Fred Baker presents Water Planet - Introspection (Vandit)
- 2005 Fred Baker vs The Keyboard Kids - All Of Us (Beat This Records)
- 2005 Fred Baker presents Iguana - Beautiful Sunshine/Sweet Moonlight (Monster Tunes)
- 2005 Fred Baker vs Nyram - Confirmation/Recognition (In Trance We Trust)
- 2005 Fred Baker & Vincent Gorczak - La Part Des Anges (A State Of Trance)
- 2005 Fred Baker - Total Blackout/Hold Me Now (F.B.I)
- 2005 Fred Baker vs Greg Nash - The System EP (2 Play)
- 2005 Fred Baker vs Greg Nash - Three Track EP (2 Play)
- 2006 Fred Baker - Forever Friends (Bakerstreet Records)
- 2006 Fred Baker presents Odyssey - Magic Pad (Go For It)
- 2006 Fred Baker vs Greg Nash - Eclipse (2 Play)
