Rick J. Jordan
Rick J. Jordan is a German music producer, composer, multi-instrumentalist, audio engineer and sound designer, who is most well known for his work in the German band Scooter.
Youth and early years
Rick Jordan learned to play the piano at age five, and in adulthood completed his studies as a sound mixer.Music
Before Scooter, Rick founded the band Celebrate the Nun, together with H.P. Baxxter. He also played keyboards in the Hanover bands Laser, Megabyte, Die Matzingers and Never Delay.Scooter
Rick Jordan was mainly responsible for co-composing, sound design aspects and melodic production elements for Scooter until the beginning of 2014. He was doing the engineering mixdown for all Scooter and related productions from 1994 until he left the band.Jordan left Scooter around late 2013–early 2014, and his last concert with the band was on 24 January 2014 in Hamburg.
From mid-2016 to early 2018 he produced instrumental music from the "Classical Crossover" genre together with the Bulgarian concert pianist and composer Alexander Raytchev. The first work, Glassmærchen, was premiered in Berlin on 15 December 2016.
Since then Rick J. Jordan has been a producer, and as bassist he is a member of the indie rock formation Leichtmatrose.
In 2020 Jordan produced a new version of the song "Nein, meine Söhne geb' ich nicht" by Reinhard Mey together with 17 other artists, including Reinhard Mey himself. The resulting music video asked for donations for the NGO Friedensdorf International in the credits and was viewed over 5.5 million times on Youtube.
Discography
List of productions outside of Scooter and Celebrate the Nun:- 1985 – Die Matzingers – Neandertal
- 1991 – S.A.X. – Marrakesh
- 1992 – La Toya – Let's rock the House
- 1993 – Fine Time Poets – Unicorn
- 1994 – Hysteria – The Flood
- 1994 – Community feat. Fonda Rae – Parade
- 1994 – Clinique Team feat. The Hannover Posse – Summer of Love
- 1994 – Holly Johnson – Legendary Children
- 1994 – Tony Di Bart – The Real Thing
- 1994 – Ru Paul – Everybody Dance
- 1994 – Adeva – Respect
- 1994 – Tag Team – Here It Is, Bam!
- 1994 – Crown of Creation – Real Life
- 1995 – Kosmos feat. Mary K – Codo
- 1995 – Prince Ital Joe feat. Marky Mark – Babylon
- 1995 – Nu Love – Can you feel the Love tonight
- 1995 – Chiron – I show you
- 1996 – Sunbeam – Arms of Heaven
- 1996 – Sunbeam – Dreams
- 1996 – DJ Hooligan – I want you
- 1998 – Clubtone – Put a little Love in your Heart
- 1998 – D.O.N.S. feat. Technotronic – Pump up the Jam
- 1999 – Chrome & Price – Sunrise
- 2008 – Sheffield Jumpers – Jump with me
Personal life
They had a daughter born on 21 August 2007, named Keira.