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Origin
  
Role
  
Musician

Name
  
Guru Josh


Associated acts
  
Seal and Adamski

Years active
  
1981–2015

Albums
  
Infinity

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Born
  
6 June 1964Jersey (
1964-06-06
)

Died
  
December 28, 2015, Ibiza, Spain

Music group
  
Guru Josh Project (2007 – 2009)

Genres
  
Acid house, House music, Techno

Similar People
  
Mad Mark, DJ Antoine, Darren Bailie, Igor Blaska, Coco Star

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Paul Walden (6 June 1964 – 28 December 2015), commonly known as Guru Josh, was a Jersey musician, active in the British post-acid house scene, best known for his début single "Infinity", initially released in 1989 on Walden's record label, Infinity Records. The song was re-released in 1990 by BMG Records, and re-release in 2008 by Darren Bailie who then created the Guru Josh Project.

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Biography and career

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Walden was the son of a Jersey dentist, Harold Walden. After studying dentistry in 1981, he began his career as an entertainer and keyboard player at the Sands nightclub in Jersey, performing under the name of Syndrone and Animal and his Crazy Organs. In 1988, Walden tried ecstasy for the first time at a London pub where he was playing a gig with his rock band Joshua Cries Wolf, subsequently switching from rock to house music. Soon after, he joined forces with the likes of Seal and Adamski.

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In 1989, Guru Josh released "Infinity," also known as "Infinity (1990's... Time for the Guru)," from his debut album Infinity. The song was originally produced for a friend of Guru Josh's who was organising a warehouse party of the same name, and gained attention when it started to be played by Haçienda DJ Mike Pickering. The song achieved success in Europe, especially in Germany, the UK, Portugal and Austria. The song was later re-mixed and re-released on multiple occasions (the most popular remix by Klaas), still receiving particular success in 2011.

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Guru Josh released several other singles in the 1990s including "Freaky Dreamer," "Holographic Dreams," and "Whose Law (Is It Anyway?)," which reached number 26 and number 12 in the UK and Germany, respectively. "Hallelujah" was released in 1991. Shortly after this, Guru Josh diversified into also doing multimedia production creating the Dance in Cyberspace series of music videos under the name of Dr. Devious and also VR, in collaboration with Darrel Jameson, Guy Labbé, Dave 'Flipping Mental' Evans, Marcus Pennell and others.

Following the success of "Infinity", Guru Josh moved to Ibiza, concentrating on art and running a promotions company.

In 2007, he was part of Guru Josh Project, formed by Darren Bailie and signed by Big City Beats. The group consisted of Paul Walden, Anders Nyman, and Darren Bailie. In 2008, "Infinity" was re-released as "Infinity 2008", which was remixed by the German DJ Klaas. It experienced widespread success, peaking at number one on the Belgian, Dutch, French and Danish singles charts, the Czech airplay chart and the Eurochart Hot 100.

In 2010, he released a new single entitled "Frozen Teardrops". In March 2011, he released "Love of Life", with a more modern and punchy house style, and it has been remixed by Sgt Slick, Digital Freq, and The Fusion & DJ Dima June.

In 2012, saw the release of a remix of the 1989 original of "Infinity" called "Infinity 2012" by Guru Josh, with the main remix done by DJ Antoine. This single was then used by Langnese for a large marketing campaign promoting a new product launch during the summer of 2012 in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

Guru Josh created the 3D glass art under the name of "Louie Fabrix", sold in small exhibitions in New York, Madrid, Paris and Berlin.

Death

Walden died on 28 December 2015 at the age of 51. His death was ruled as suicide. He was found by his manager prior to heading home to see his father.

Albums

  • Infinity (1990) No. 41 UK, No. 80 AUS, No. 15 AUT, No. 23 GER, No. 79 NED, No. 22 SWI
  • References

    Guru Josh Wikipedia