In 1999 he decided to do his first solo single called “Claps”. The track when straight into the Top 5 of all dance charts and got support by most important DJs in Europe.
Some weeks later “Claps” entered German Sales Charts without a video!
From this commercial success DJ Shah played an important role in the German dance scene. His follow up singles “Commandments” and “Riddim” both reaches top 3 positions in all dance charts. His latest productions have been supported by Paul Van Dyk, Armin Van Buuren, Judge Jules, Ferry Corsten, Tiesto and many more leading DJs of the scene. He also acts as a remixer for acts like Armin Van Buuren feat. Ray Wilson, York, Cosmic Gate, Josh Gabriel (Gabriel & Dresden), Johan Gielen, System F, Thrillseekers,
Solarstone, Three Drives, Matt Darey, Luticia McNeal, Sash, Lost Witness and Future Breeze amongst others, as well as for labels such as Positiva, Vandit or Armada. In October 2005 he gave his debut on Tiesto’s own label Blackhole with ‘Shah & Laruso pres. Global Experience’, after releasing various other tracks on other international 1st class labels in 2005 such as Ministry Of Sound UK or Ultra USA and reaches #23 in UK’s sales charts with the project Commander Tom. Furthermore he signed a deal with Armada for his solo single ‘DJ Shah meets Jan Johnston – Beautiful (Glimpse Of Heaven)’ as well as a second project ‘Sunlounger’. Besides the follow up single of Global Experience, Blackhole also signed his project ‘Savannah’ for the world.
At this moment the international press describes him as one of the hottest names of the moment. Shah is the only German producer and DJ featured on Tiesto’s new ISOS5 compilation, the world’s leading dance album. Tiesto writes on his own website about DJ Shah, âGreat producer from Germany, DJ Shah makes another killer!â Two
other tracks are included on Armin Van Buuren’s new ASOT2006 compilation.
DJ Shah also runs his own record company Shah-Music with the labels Tsushima, Tsushima Limited, Innovative, Shah-Records, Shah-Music Digital as well his very own Magic Island Records imprint where he releases 100% of finest Balearic/Tribal tunes.
Together with Pedro Del Mar he runs Germany’s leading radio show “Mellomania”. Broadcasted each Monday night from 8-12pm; they have an audience of more than 1.5 million listeners monthly. They do also run monthly shows all around the globe, e.g. in USA, Argentina, Australia and UK. As a DJ he plays around the world. USA, Greece, Spain, Thailand, France, Hungary, Turkey and Ibiza are just a few countries where he is spinning his very unique and innovating special live sets that can be described as a journey through electronic
