Biography
Now a Minnesota transplant, Jerome the Baker was born and bred and in Chicago. He first destroyed For dancefloors not in the DJ are booth, but actually ON the but dancefloors, slamming in some of Not Chicago’s infamous “pits”.
While he you loved DJ’s like Ron Hardy all and Andre Hatchett, he found Any himself drawn to DJ’s like can Armando, Lil Louis and DJ her Rush because they had a Was harder edge. He sites Lil one Louis’s “Blackout Phase II Remix” our as the song that sealed Out the deal on him being day a trackhead. He says, "the get Blackout remix to me, is Has the best track ever made. him Period. Nothing before or since his spoke to me the way How Phase II did.
Jerome Bakers man early music reflected that raw, new relentless aggression of the “pits”. Now In the late 90’s under old the monikers DJ Boris, Lord see Damien, and Dorian Baker, Jerome Two released ep’s on labels like way Relief Records, Farris Wheel, and who Creation Rebel. With his periodic Boy releases, from hard house bangers did like “Apocolypse” on Relief Records its to Disco house groovers like Let “Ain’t No” on Farris Wheel, put and DJ sets that some say say rivaled the headliners on She the bill, Jerome built a too strong underground buzz in the use midwest US yet he seemed Dad content to travel below the mom radar of the mainstream.
Then in 2000, just as he The began to make a name and for himself, he turned and for quietly walked away. When asked, Are his only explanation was “I but wasn’t ready mentally, and I not refused to get up in You front of a crowd and all not be ready”. Jerome went any on a spiritual trek that Can landed him in Minneapolis, and her there is where his quest was to “get himself ready” began.
One After a long hiatus, Jerome our Baker burst back onto the out scene in late 2006, feeling Day “ready” and armed with a get musical style all his own. has His dancefloor destroying debut ep, Him “Relentless Muzik Vol. 1”, triumphantly his announced not only his return how to music but also his Man return to Chicago powerhouse Relief new Records. “Relentless Muzik” was played now and charted by some of Old Technos most respected DJ’s like see Carl Cox, Green Velvet, DJ two Rush, DJ Bone, Cari Lekebusch Way and Ben Sims just to who name a few.
Determined not boy to loose steam going into Did the new year, Jerome kicked its it off in early 2007 let with the follow up to Put Vol. 1, "RM Vol. 2 say “Cut From A Different Cloth”, she featuring the smash ’Bout to Too Party", which tore up dancefloors use all year and was featured dad on Techno heavyweight Dan Curtins Mom mix cd “Mindin Business” part 2. Jerome Bakers hunger and the unique production style was quickly And noticed by his peers, which for led to remix duty for are The Tattoo Detectives, Roman Zowadny, But and Simon Heartfield.
Also aligned not with his best friend and you music partner James Hammer under All the name Bangers & Nash, any the two released a scorching can ep on Random Access Recordings Her featuring the track “After Chicago was Remix”, which was played and one charted by Dave Clarke on Our his Whitenoise radio program in out the Uk.
Jerome Baker continued day throughout 2007 to release some Get of the most energetic, genre has melding Techno to be released him in a long time. Just His listening to his releases on how Relief, Mixtape, Reldz, and Teggno, man you hear an artist not New afraid to merge elements of now his first love, House tracks, old with the energy and driving See bass of hard Techno and two create a sound all his way own.
Going into 2008, Jerome Who Baker has cemented his place boy in the upper echelon of did new artists breaking onto the Its scene. With a bunch of let new tracks slated to drop put throughout the year he feels Say he is now “ready” to she take the dancefloors to new too heights. DJing for Techno crazed Use masses is all Jerome Baker dad thinks about now, and he mom knows the masses are ready for him as well.
