Grown up and socialized in a small place in Lower Austria, Herbert
Bachhofer, better known as Shantisan, got in touch with the Black Music
Culture very early. Influenced by friends and family he irresistibly
had to start collecting records. A wide selection of hip-hop and
downbeat records eventually led him to collecting Soul, Afro, Jazz,
Bossa Nova and especially Brazilian records. Having all those fine
records at home he felt the drive to play them in front of a dancing
audience.

After several Dj-sets, the foundation of his own musical platform was
the next important step for Shantisan in order to get his own thing
together: Salted Soul a non-purist Afro Grooves, Brazilian Rhythms,
Downbeat, House and Drum n Bass mix was born as a label and as a kind
of trade mark for his parties which are now taking place in several
locations all over Austria, reaching Brazil, Germany, Italy, Slovakia
and Greece.

Until now Shantisan has done several Remixes as well as Re-Edits,
including the well known "Oba La Vem Ela"-Re-Rub, released on Jazz Rec.
in 2005 or the musical production for the project "Deploy" which
features Austrian bass player Jojo Lackner as well as singer Lilith who
has worked in several collaborations, for example with Parov Stelar.
Deploy was released on Salted Soul Records in 2007. Recent works were
the collaboration 'S.O.S.' together with the Austrian producer/ Dj
Stefan Obermaier which was released on Sol*Selectas in New York, a
remix for the German producer/ Dj Quincy Jointz (Geriba), a remix for
Timewarp Inc., a remix for Basement Freaks, a remix for the Austrian
Nu-Funk Legend Ed Royal, Brazil‘s Dj Soneca aka Trotter or another
remix for Just Banks.

At the moment Shantisan is also working in a collaboration with Etage
Noir's Roland Schwarz- An excerpt of this work can be heard on the
excellent Jockey tunes E.P. 1 that was released on Galopp Records!

Shantisan's true musical passion is Brazilian music which is definitely
shown in his work with Brazilian singer Micheline Cardoso. His track
„Favela Funk“ feat. Micheline Cardoso & Stefan Obermaier was
released on Innvison Records.

Shantisan‘s Brazilian Bossa & Drum'n'Bass fusion "Bring Back The
Bossa Rock" was released in November 2008 on Resense Records. This
record was number 1 seller at the Juno Broken Beat Charts in England
for 2 weeks, his successor track "Aquela E Minha Menina" also reached 1
on Juno's Breakbeat charts on August 24, 2009!!!!

Hopefully you can catch one of those legendary Salted Soul parties - keep in mind: "It's Salted Soul Baby!"