Baauer

Harry Bauer Rodrigues was born in Philadelphia in 1989 and spent parts of his childhood in Germany and the UK before settling in Connecticut. He had been making dance tracks since he was thirteen when he put out “Harlem Shake” as a free download in 2012.

The record became a meme, and then a chart problem: in February 2013 Billboard began counting US YouTube views towards the Hot 100, and “Harlem Shake” was the first song to reach number one under the new rules.

He has spent the years since working well away from it. Aa, his first album, came out on LuckyMe in 2016 — “Day Ones”, with the London grime MC Novelist and the New York rapper Leikeli47, is the one to hear from it — and Planet’s Mad followed on the same label in June 2020.

His sets are club music built from unfamiliar parts rather than a run of recognisable records, and he does not play the one everybody knows.

Written from Wikipedia and Billboard.