Looking for the Perfect Beat: Remixing and Reshaping Hip-Hop, Rock and Rhythms

For fifty years as DJ, producer and remixer, Arthur Baker has been at the pioneering forefront of hip-hop, rock, and electronic music. His unique and genre-defying sound can be heard on tracks by legendary artists like New Order, Bruce Springsteen, Diana Ross, the Rolling Stones, Al Green, Pet Shop Boys, Quincy Jones, New Edition, Hall & Oates, Neneh Cherry, Mogwai and Fleetwood Mac.

Starting as a club DJ and disco producer at the start of the seventies in his native Boston, Baker moved to N...