dj Shakka - shakka@rakkateer.com

5:23:2010

dj Shakka spins on Siesta Key Beach for the Vinyl Music Festival Warm Up Party : Sarasota FL

Listen to Old School DJ Shaka Classic "Money for Nothing" Remix on You Tube!!!! Special Thanks to TruShane69 for putting this up on You Tube!!!

Classic dj Shaka Remix of Take Me Away on You Tube

"EveryBody In The House"
Superfly & Shakka Remix
On YouTube

Big Props to abrown212 for making this great break dancing video with the 1998
hit release
"Why u Bumpin" - Shaka

DJ Shakka's BIO

Shawn "Shakka" Schulte comes from a long line of musicians on both sides of his family. His grandfather Frank Schulte was a singer in a 4 piece quartet singing group called the "Bosstones" long before the Mighty Mighty Bostones became a staple in the music industry. His father and uncle were lounge singers for the better part of Shakka's upbringing. On Shakka's mother's side, his grandfather was a jazz musician and regularly performed in shows playing the sax and clarinet. It is no surprise that Shakka would be inclined to pursue a music career with this background.

Shakka was first taught to play the piano for about 3 years in his early childhood, then later in grade school he would go on to learn to play the sax. At around 12 years of age, Shakka was given a Run DMC tape as a gift, which launched his desire to learn how to produce music and scratch on the turntables. After hearing EPMD's "You Got's to Chill" Shakka decided to piece together various audio equipment and built his first home recording studio.

At the age of 13, Shakka started writing lyrics to go along with hip hop sound beds he had been making in his bedroom studio and began to record them while regularly entering talent show contests at school. As the years went by, Shakka started going to legitimate recording studios to transfer his home recordings to professional quality recordings. By 16 he had wrote a theme song for SADD for his high school and later that year managed to get a guest spot on the local college radio station WSMU. Shakka produced hip hop until he moved to Florida when he was 21, enter the techno scene.

Shakka didn't know much about electronic break beat until he moved to Florida and heard DJ Icey's music. Shakka immediately connected with Iceys sound. Shortly after moving to Florida, Shakka landed a DJ gig at a local sports bar which would be the place he would later meet DJ X who was also from the north east. The two got together in 1996 and produced their first techno track called "What we gonna do" and pressed it on vinyl in 1997. The record was a hit, selling over 3,000 vinyls at the time.

Shakka and DJ X went on to produce and press records on Xquizit Records over the next couple of years. Shakka also teamed up with Superfly Jeff and formed the label Party Wax and continued onto produce and publish even more records.

Next, Shakka took Paul Simon's "50 ways to leave your lover" and created a radio dance remix. This remix was published through DJ X and Big 3 records and went on to become a Billboard hit. The song is ranked in Billboard magazine Hot Club Play and Hot Radio Club Play charts.

Currently, Shakka is the President of Rakkateer Enterprises, Inc., which he owns with good friend Jollero (Marcin Klapyta). Rakkateer is a mob of artists from around the world. Rakkateers are producers, dj's, visual artists, writers, vocalists, models, clothing designers that are joined together through a common goal to bring art to the masses.

Shakka recently launched his private record label under Rakkateer Enterprises called "Wicked Hot Records", a label dedicated to producing all original dance music from breaks, to house, to drum & bass. Be on the lookout for hot new electronic music on the Wicked Hot Records label in 2010.

Stay tuned to Rakkateer.com for Shakka's latest musical works........