The Departure album represents a reflection between studio, airports, flights and clubs, which was the centerpiece of Shane's life over the past years. He spent one year on creating a wonderful collection of 10 single Club Tracks, plus the whole album tracks put together as a continuous DJ mix. He is also involved in many Compilations like the Jetlag Digital “Miami WMC Sampler”, the Sunshine Live “Mixmission 2010” CD and finally produced his first Album called “Shane – Departure” released in October 2010.Īfter more than 10 years of producing, Shane now presents his first album called Departure on his own label Jetlag Digital. Today Shane got worldwide Releases, Colaborations and Remixes for serval international well know Artists like DJ Taucher, Oliver Morgenroth, Michael & Levan, Emblis, Tropical Highlight. In the late 90’s Shane founded a small Studio and begun to produce his own Music. Even if it meant to go against the mainstream and against traditionalized DJ’ing, Shane always stayed true to himself and evolved throughout different techniques of playing music, changing his vinyl-decks for CDJ’s, and from there on experimenting with an even more digitalized art of DJ’ing, involving his MacBook Pro, NI Traktor and the development of an own interface for the Jazzmutant “Lemur” Touchscreen-Multitouch-Surface controller, thus completely abandoning traditional media and moving towards a purely digital form of playing music. With DJ equipment evolving, with new technologies coming up, he always had an open mind and ear for development and progress. Same as Shane’s favorite music style “Progressive”, his life and his career also revolve around the same thing: Progress! Starting in the early 90’s playing his tracks from vinyl, Shane never limited himself to just one medium of music. This was the beginning of a worldwide booking series with many tours in Asia and the United States. As a producer Shane had his first releases in the late 90’s on several local labels in Germany, and from there on he progressed towards a steadily growing output of releases for the worldwide audience today.Īfter his first big gigs in Europe like on Ibiza Island (Spain) from 2000 onwards, he finally got the chance to show his skills on one of the biggest stages in the world and that was to change his life and career forever! In 2005 Shane became guest resident DJ of one of the largest clubs in Asia, the Viproom Shanghai (China) and could hence claim his place in one of the biggest and most important cities on the globe, known for its outstanding nightlife scene. There he could be heard as resident DJ in the Cameo-Club, on the famous “Hertzclub” party series, as well as on radio stations like Sunshine-Live or Big City Beats at BigFM. He sites David Bowie as a major inspiration and influence for his music.īorn 1976 in Germany, Shane started his DJ career in the juvenile age of 16 and found his homebase a couple years later at the event and booking agency “Hertzmusic” in Kaiserslautern (Germany). I have to literally spank my butt and go insane for them to notice me and finally they do, or at least the girl does." For me, the video is about wanting the attention of society, our mainstream media, and the people in the audience represent the skeptical majority. Everyone goes through the experience of falling in love with someone who won't reciprocate. It's about craving attention from someone who won't give it to you. The video for "Insecure" is about acknowledging your insecurity and letting go of it. Everything I produce has a deeper meaning than what you see on the surface. I also want people to ask questions after viewing. I enjoy humor that makes the viewer slightly uncomfortable and unsure of what they are watching. It has to have a good plot line with a few twists. Telling a story in a video is crucial to me. Preaching the exact opposite of what our culture tells us and disguising it in a pop song. So instead I tried to make a pop song about being insecure. People walk around and act like they are a God to mask their insecurity. Pop culture right now is all about being self absorbed. If it flows easily and comes to me quickly I know it's gonna be good. I wrote "Insecure" in less than 10 minutes on the piano. Like taking an unusual message and producing it in a popular fashion. "I'm interested in pop music with an unpopular message, theme or idea. He gained fame through his 2106 music video for ‘Insecure’ off his EP ‘Sad’ which had over 5M views on YouTube in just two months. Born on August 2nd 1991, Shane was raised in California and started writing original songs at just 12 years old.
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