Sharam 'Get Wild' album

With the arrival of his long-awaited debut disc GET WILD, released on Ultra Records, revered electronic music trendsetter SHARAM makes his boldest studio statement yet. With superstar collaborations with everyone from Diddy and Tommy Lee to Daniel Bedingfield, SHARAM’s ability to draw such a vast talent pool is as impressive as his longstanding reputation for mesmerizing club crowds from Miami to Ibiza.

Currently making waves in the blogosphere is the disc’s landmark “She Came Along,” which meshes elements of Patsy Cline’s legendary country song “Strange” with vocals by hip-hop sensation Kid Cudi. The end result is one of the most uniquely infectious songs of 2009.

VIBE.COM picked it as a Top 5 track along with selections by Yung L.A. ft. Ricco Barrio, Ace Hood ft. T-Pain, Jadakiss and Kid Daytona. THEFADER.COM also took note of the track stating, “Kid Cudi got with Sharam Tayebi…And believe it or not, it's pretty good and seasonally appropriate…Couple it with Bosco Del Ray and 77Klash's ‘Round N Round’ and you could argue (dubiously) that there is a country club movement underway.”

“I’ve always been a huge, huge Patsy Cline fan,” the Washington D.C.-based SHARAM says of the single. “She’s one of a kind. I had the idea to sample her for three years but I was looking to find someone who could match her. I had the track and I was searching for the right person to fit it. After trying different artists, Cudi just nailed it, putting a really cool and interesting twist on it. He’s a very unusual artist, because he’s very much a hip-hop fixture, but he has an amazing voice. It’s a great contrast with Patsy Cline. It wouldn’t have worked if someone was just rapping, but his singing style was perfect.”

One of only a handful of electronic music producers that can move effortlessly between the nocturnal world of underground dance floors all the way to the crossover radio hits. Always unpredictable, SHARAM (known to many as one half of Grammy Award-winning DJ super-duo Deep Dish) will never conform to anything other than his own high standards, so one can only help but to wonder what he’ll come up with next.

On April 7, ULTRA Records will release GET WILD, his long-awaited debut studio album on which he sticks to his mantra that there should be no divisions within dance music. SHARAM's body of work features new material from different landscapes in dance music including collaborations with Daniel Bedingfield, P. Diddy, Tommy Lee and Kid Cudi.

This spring, look for SHARAM to bring his "Get Wild – The Live Show" to select major markets across North America as part of his album tour. He has produced a show incorporating guest appearances by the featured artists on the album and visual elements from a spaghetti Western-themed short film which he wrote and directed. The show also incorporates videos for the title track "Get Wild" and the single “She Came Along” with Kid Cudi which he also directed. In other cities he’ll perform his world renowned DJ sets weaving in and out of the various original titles from his debut album. The tour will kick off March 20 in Austin during SXSW and will pass through Miami during WMC, as well as Los Angeles, New York City, San Francisco, Boston, Chicago, Minneapolis, Toronto and more.

Get Wild will be available in two formats: a single-disc version and a collector edition consisting of 22 original songs spread over two CDs, titled WildDish and SideDish, of which only 2500 will be made. The songs range from house gems like "Get Wild" (Essential Miami WMC Tune of 2008), the techno-infused summer anthem "Texi" (hailed as one of the top Ibiza records of 2008) and its darker sibling stormer "Crazi" (praised by the who’s who of the techno scene as the sleeper record of the fall of 2008), to releases such as "Patt With Diddy," a new version of his hit single “PATT” featuring the hip-hop artist and "The One" with Daniel Bedingfield. “PATT” and “The One” hit Top 10 and Top 20 respectively in many international markets.

Other tracks of note include “Sweat” which highlights Tommy Lee’s amazing piano wizardry, long-time Deep Dish collaborator Morel who lend his sensuous voice to “I Love The Way You’re Breaking My Heart” and Anousheh Khalili--from Deep Dish’s hit singles “Say Hello” and “Flashdance”--who appears on “Don’t Say A Word” and “Be The Change,” a track inspired and dedicated to Anousheh Ansari, the first private female space explorer. The album’s next single is “She Came Along,” a collaboration with Kid Cudi featuring vocal samples of “Strange” by the immortal Patsy Cline.

While taking a break from Deep Dish, one of the most successful U.S. dance duos in history, Washington D.C.-based SHARAM continues to delight and confound critics in equal measure. His much-talked about DJ sets continue to rock the world’s finest clubs such as Warung, Brazil Ministry Of Sound London, Amnesia Ibiza, Space Miami and many more.

Sharam tour dates
*denotes live show
Fri 3/20 Austin, TX Light (SXSW)
*Sat 3/21 Las Vegas, NV Rain
*Wed 3/25 Miami, FL Cameo
Sat 3/28 Miami, FL Space

Wed 4/1 Detroit, MI Nove
*Thu 4/2 Boston, MA Roxy
*Fri 4/3 San Francisco, CA Ruby Skye
*Sat 4/4 Los Angeles, CA Avalon
Wed 4/8 Minneapolis, MN Spin
Thu 4/9 Toronto, ONT Guvernment
*Fri 4/10 Columbus, OH Boma
*Sat 4/11 Chicago, IL Crobar
Wed 4/15 Tampa, FL The Kennedy
Thu 4/16 Orlando, FL Firestone
*Fri 4/17 New York, NY M2 (Formerly Mansion)
*Sat 4/18 Washington DC Fur
Wed 4/22 McAllen, TX Shine
Thu 4/23 Newport Beach, CA Red nightclub
*Fri 4/24 Salt Lake City, UT The Rail
*Sat 4/25 San Diego, CA 4th & B
Sun 4/26 El Paso, TX Studio 69

Fri 5/1 Vancouver, BC Celebrities

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