He has also compiled several compilation albums, as well as the series "Rasmus Faber Presents", introducing new artists to the Japanese market such as Simon Grey, Opolopo, and Richard Earnshaw.Ī mutual interest in Japanese anime with Victor Entertainment A&R Hirofumi Iwanaga, then lead to projects outside the dance music scene. The album was a big success, and kick started regular DJ performances around the country several times every year.Įxpanding his collaboration with Victor Entertainment, Rasmus continued to release two compilation album follow ups with his own material, called "2 Far" and "So Far 3", two DJ mix albums "Love:Mixed" and "Love:Mixed 2", and his own artist album with its remix version "Where We Belong" and "Where We Belong - RaFa's Epic Journey".
In 2006, after starting a collaboration with Japanese record label Victor Entertainment (JVC Music), Rasmus Faber released a CD called So Far, compiling many of his more prolific works to date. Rasmus Faber has made remixes for, among many others: Kaskade, Axwell, Miguel Migs, Junior Jack, Dennis Ferrer, and Sandy Rivera. Together with Alf Tumble, in 2011, Rasmus released Wilder Side, which featured soul legend Candi Staton. Later tracks released by him include Get Over Here (also available in a remix version by Axwell), Are You Ready, and Good Times Come Back. This success, and subsequent requests to perform as a DJ, lead Rasmus into starting his career as a DJ. The first single on the label was the track Ever After, featuring singer Emily McEwan, which was a successful club hit worldwide. He also started his own label Farplane Records in 2003. After its success, his career and reputation grew quickly, and Rasmus started collaborating with big dance label Defected Records, and achieved further success and notoriety with his remix of Junior Jack's E Samba. His first single Never Felt So Fly, together with singer Melo, was released in 2002 on UK record label Black Vinyl Records. After working in the studio as a session musician with different Swedish dance music producers, Rasmus decided to start producing himself. He also took great interest in the evolution of 2-Step and UK Garage. Various encounters with DJs and artists lead to an interest in dance music, particularly the kind of house music that allowed for fusing of the genres he had been playing as a musician, such as jazz and Latin. There he also attained many of the skills that would fuel his career as a jazz pianist, arranger, and composer.Īt age 20, following his musical education, Rasmus Faber started working as a session musician, and as a pianist and musical director for local acts in Sweden.Īt age 25, Rasmus decided to quit this career to focus solely on his own artistry, while still performing as a pianist in his own musical projects and in his DJ sets.Īround age 21, Rasmus got involved in the Stockholm club scene as an organiser.
In his late teens Rasmus attended one of Sweden's most renowned music colleges/high schools, Södra Latins gymnasium where he met a lot of the musicians he would continue to work with throughout his career and to this day. His schooling also included choir singing and music theory. Rasmus started playing piano on his own at age 7, and started taking jazz piano lessons soon thereafter. His father was jazz saxophonist Gunnar Bergsten, and mother free-lance journalist Mia Faber. Rasmus Faber was born in Stockholm, Sweden.