Arthur Baker

Arthur Baker is one of those behind-the-board architects whose fingerprints are all over music you love without knowing his name. Helping shape early hip-hop with Afrika Bambaataa and Planet Patrol, then crossing the Atlantic to work with New Order, shows a producer unafraid of genre borders. His remix résumé, touching Prince's Paisley Park orbit and the Pet Shop Boys, reads like a tour of 1980s dance culture. What I respect most is that range and longevity; this Boston native helped define how studios sculpt rhythm. For me, you simply can't tell the story of modern dance music without him.

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Name (English)

Arthur Baker

Name (Japanese)

アーサー・ベイカー

Reading

あーさー・べいかー

Born

April 22, 1955 (age 71)

Origin

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Occupation

songwriter / disc jockey / record producer / composer / musician

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Taurus / Goat

• Official sitehttps://www.arthurbaker.net
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur%20Baker%20(producer)
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A2%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B5%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%83%99%E3%82%A4%E3%82%AB%E3%83%BC
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q708548

Tags

• Massachusetts
• songwriter
• disc jockey
• record producer

Last updated

November 2, 2026

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