Ian has remixed music for legends such as Roachford, System F, Bimbo Jones, Jon Fitz, Moonbeam and Jay Robinson and has been supported by DJs such as Roger Sanchez, Kissy Sell Out, Stonebridge, Armin Van Buuren et al. Here is his story…

Ian Round is a music producer, remix artist, DJ and educator with over 20 years of experience.  Starting his career at the age of 16 DJing at parties Ian soon progressed to DJing in clubs and bars across Birmingham and the Midlands.  It started when Ian completed a course in ‘Creating Music Through Technology’ at Birmingham’s Academy of Music under the tutelage of Lee Fisher, a House Music and Ibiza DJ legend and Austen Kilburn a renowned Birmingham sound engineer.  Ian learned his trade spinning vinyl on Technics 1210s and producing music on Properllerhead’s Reason and Cubase.  Whilst plying his trade DJing Ian set up a record label ‘Monkey Beats’ along with fellow DJ ‘Stu Morton’, a staple at Three Shades Records and Hard to Find recording in Birmingham during the booming vinyl era of early noughties.  With an ear for the zeitgeist of dance music Ian and Stu found and released numerous records from local talent including the now famous Jay Robinson.  Releasing several of his own tracks alongside successful remixes of artists on the label roster Ian proved himself to be a talented remix artist.  

Alongside running a record label, remixing and producing Ian had a career beyond the studio in mind.  In pursuit of this Ian followed up his course in Birmingham with a Degree in Music Technology and Audio Engineering soon followed by a PGCE where Ian would start his educational career teaching the next generation of music producers, DJs, composers and Sound engineers.  It was during his degree that Ian would secure his first release with American label Portamento, ‘Eivissa’ was an uplifting piano led house track. In 2007 Ian’s track ‘Dancin’’ was noticed by Manuel De La Mare from Hotfingers, an Italian label.  With the release of this track came support from House Music legend Roger Sanchez.  

During his career in teaching Ian has continued to produce and release music as well as win remix competitions including a remix of System F - ‘Cry’ which secured a full release on Ferry Corsten’s label, Premier.  Ian soon followed this up with a winning entry in another competition remixing Bimbo Jones and Beverly Knight’s ‘I Found Out’.  Since then Ian has continued to remix and produce to this day.

DJ. Producer. Artist. David Guetta is a musical trailblazer, an international icon and the most cherished electronic artist of our generation. He has over 75 million monthly listeners, 50 billion streams, 40 million albums sold worldwide, 14 Grammy nominations and 2 Grammy Awards plus 110m followers across his social channels. He has been voted the world’s best DJ in the DJ Mag ‘Top 100’ four times and has won the accolade for best electronic artist at the MTV Europe Music Awards six times. 

Guetta is the #1 streamed DJ on Spotify and steadily in the Top 10, with a peak at #4 of the most listened to artists in the world on the platform. Guetta has collaborated with the world's biggest stars including Sia, Nicki Minaj, Rihanna, Justin Bieber, Ariana Grande, Bruno Mars, Black Eyed Peas, Shakira, OneRepublic, Kid Cudi, J Balvin, Becky Hill, Raye, among many others. Such work has resulted in numerous hit singles both in the dance/electronic space as well as in the pop world, with 12 tracks achieving over 1 billion streams including “Hey Mama” (3.4 billion), “I’m Good (Blue)” (3.5 billion) and “Titanium” (2.8 billion). 7 of Guetta’s singles have also reached the #1 spot on the UK singles chart.

A master creative across genres, Guetta has also gone from strength to strength with his underground-focused Future Rave project and he is additionally working on new music for his underground alias Jack Back. 

As he continues to dominate the global charts and play some of the most exciting sets of his career, all while expanding his creative vision, exploring new sounds and evolving as an artist, David Guetta demonstrates time and time again why he is the most cherished electronic artist of our generation.

selected is a house-dedicated record label founded June 2013 in Berlin

—

submit your demo:
inbox[@]selectedbase.com

general inquiries:
info[@]selectedbase.com

Will Cranham is following