Kill Paris

Baker was born in a small midwestern town in Indiana, United States. At the age of 15 he learned how to play guitar and went on to fine tune his creative drive to pick up traits on the piano, bass, and drums. Baker attended college in Tampa, Florida, but still kept involved with music in addition to his coursework.

After he finished up school in Florida he moved to the country music capitol of the world, Nashville. Listening to Kill Paris’ recent recordings it might come to a surprise to hear that he acted as a bass player for several country singer-songwriters, but provided the context of his location it seemed like a logistical move.

Parallel to his escapades as a backing musician he worked on his own songs and gradually built up the concept of Kill Paris. He gigged around town with these newly formulated ideas, primarily performing as a DJ but also creating a fuller sound with guitar, bass, keyboards, and a variety of effects pedals. Distraught at the consistently low turnout for these shows, Baker moved back to Florida, this time to Sarasota with his friend and music companion Jake Dubber (Shock to the System).

The crowds that Baker played for in Sarasota were not much larger than the ones in Nashville (due to a large extent on the small size of the city), but it offered him a chance to work on his chops as a performing artist. Most importantly it rekindled his passion for the art. After a year of living in Sarasota he relocated to Indiana where he found a job at a local music store. During his time at the store he became a certified trainer in the music recording program Ableton and held teaching seminars and 1 on 1 lessons about the software. The work soon began to tire on Baker and within a year of his employment he left to pursue a music career in the hyperactive city of Los Angeles, California.

It was here that Baker’s sound coalesced into it’s definitive form. His sound embodied upbeat glitch tunes, which were underlined by funky bass lines catchy enough to send a jolt of dance fever through anyone in audible range.

Under the moniker Kill Paris, Baker put out his 1st EP “To A New Earth” through Skrilllex’s record label OWSLA. The EP “Falling In Love Again” came out in 2013 and just a year later he released his 3rd studio EP “Foreplay”. Baker’s next recording is set to be released through his self-formed label “Sexy Electric”.