The Ian Carey Project is a side‑project of house DJ Ian Carey.
Carey grew up in a small town in Maryland, USA about 2 hours from Washington DC. He had been exposed to music at a young age, as his father was a live sound engineer and ran a sound reinforcement company and had engineered for such groups as Kool & The Gang and The Duke Ellington Orchestra.
Carey became involved with dance music while in college. He had already experimented with the graffiti‑writing scene in Baltimore, MD, where he met a number of hip‑hop DJs, which led to him becoming involved in DJing. He was also introduced to house music while working at a record store.
Carey's first self‑produced single was «Rise» which went gold in the UK, which influenced Carey to move to England.
The most notable achievement of the project so far is the 2008 house/electronic hit «Get Shaky», which has been on the Australian ARIA Singles Chart for 11 weeks, debuting at #65 and peaking at #2. The track also spent 12 weeks in the ARIA dance charts, peaking at #1.