Love,Shaun

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Love,Shaun creates emotional dance music that transports listeners to a visceral place. For the Scottish producer, that place takes root in his own studio, which comes alive when he's in create mode. As he's making music — blurring genres such as house, breakbeats, garage, and rave — the walls beam with projections of footage from festivals and raves, where crowds heave and burst in unison seemingly at his command. "With the lights off and different colors, it provokes you," he says. "You feel like you're making a song for those people."

Shaun's debut single on Astralwerks, "The Rush," delivers spellbinding…

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Love,Shaun creates emotional dance music that transports listeners to a visceral place. For the Scottish producer, that place takes root in his own studio, which comes alive when he's in create mode. As he's making music — blurring genres such as house, breakbeats, garage, and rave — the walls beam with projections of footage from festivals and raves, where crowds heave and burst in unison seemingly at his command. "With the lights off and different colors, it provokes you," he says. "You feel like you're making a song for those people."

Shaun's debut single on Astralwerks, "The Rush," delivers spellbinding euphoria that could easily rouse real-life crowds. From a slow, haunting open with a fleeting vocal, transcendent chords and rapid percussion lift the track to its strobing, '90s-house release, creating alternating moments of communal captivation and unraveling. Its atmospheric essence represents how, for Shaun, dance music goes much deeper than dancing. "It's about people hearing it and actually feeling good, feeling something that takes them out of their day for a minute," he says. "And I think that's probably the most important thing because it does that to me when I make it. I want people to feel the same way."

Raised in Glasgow, Shaun started playing music at 12 years old as a hobby when his grandfather bought him a Casio keyboard. "He was like, 'If you want to make a living off music, you have to write your own songs,'" he recalls. "It was such random advice, but it stuck with me." Despite playing multiple instruments, Shaun had initially planned for a football career and played in professional youth leagues. But as he immersed himself in the local music scene, it was at an electronic show — with a heavyweight lineup of Four Tet, Caribou, Nathan Fake, and James Holden — that he saw his life's new path in making dance music: "It felt like I was listening to what music should sound like 20 years from now."

That path, however, had some detours. Shaun joined various indie bands and moved to London after signing a publishing deal, where he worked as a producer and songwriter for other artists. By taking studio sessions, collaborating with big names, and writing across various genres, he learned the ins and outs of song creation. In private, he continued to hone his club-forward sound, inspired by left-of-center artists like Jamie xx, Four Tet, Odesza, and Bicep.

When the pandemic hit, Shaun returned to Scotland where he resumed songwriting for hire. One morning, he had an epiphany: "I had this gut feeling that I'd never actually fully expressed myself," he says. In need of an outlet, he began uploading his once-secret demos to social media in late 2022. Songs like the sunny "Good Times" and yearning "Waiting" quickly found a massive online audience who connected to the music's raw emotion and soaring yet melancholic sound. His first gig, a Coachella 2023 party alongside tastemakers Kaytranada and Anderson .Paak, validated the work he'd kept to himself for so long. "What I've learned from this process," he says, "is that you need to trust yourself and write shit that you actually like."

After years of experimentation, Shaun is finally making music on his own terms. "The Rush" is just the start… With more music and live events on the horizon, it's inevitable that the dance world will love Love,Shaun.

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