DJ turned record producer and remixer Arthur Baker is one of the pioneers of dance music in the 1980s, working with an array of artists from Afrika Bambaataa, Freeez and Hall & Oates to Neneh Cherry and the Pet Shop Boys. He also transformed the sound of New Order, whom he has continued to work with on and off for the past 40 years.
Baker’s new project, Dance Masters, is a series of curated compilations that celebrates the art of the remix. The first instalment focuses on Shep Pettibone, the man who shaped the sound of the 80s dancefloor through his reworkings of tracks by the likes of Madonna, George Michael, Whitney Houston and Duran Duran.