These insider stories are written with genuine love and passion Irvine WelshEvery chapter of Looking For The Perfect Beat is absolutely mesmerising. Buzz MagazineFor fifty years as DJ, producer and remixer, Arthur Baker has been at the pioneering forefront of hiphop, rock, and electronic music. His unique and genredefying sound can be heard on tracks by legendary artists like New Order, Bruce Springsteen, Diana Ross, the Rolling Stones, Al Green, Pet Shop Boys, Quincy Jones, New Edition, Hall & Oates, Neneh Cherry, Mogwai and Fleetwood Mac.Starting as a club DJ and disco producer at the start of the seventies in his native Boston, Baker moved to New York City in 1981. Through his early disco and hiphop productions, he came to the attention of the most influential names in a music industry at the height of its powers. This would begin a career that would take him from the sweaty dancefloors of NYC to latenight studio sessions with Bob Dylan and to his celebrated antiapartheid album Sun City, created with Little Steven Van Zandt. From the underground to the mainstream, Looking for the Perfect Beat is the unique story of an artist with a need to discover new sounds and new ways to move an audience and who has influenced the sound of popular music for half a century.

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