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2pointzero Music offers composition in a broad range of musical styles. This video gallery features a small selection of clips from feature films, shorts, tv commercials and music promos to give a flavour of the diverse talents we are able to call on to work with you on your project. This video player is very simple to use, just click on the right hand menu to select the clip you wish to see. Click here and please make sure you have your speakers on.

More information about the previous works of the artists and composers featured is available on the composers page.

2pointzero Music offers composition in a broad range of musical styles. This video gallery features a small selection of clips from feature films, shorts, tv commercials and music promos to give a flavour of the diverse talents we are able to call on to work with you on your project. This video player is very simple to use, just click on the right hand menu to select the clip you wish to see. Click here and please make sure you have your speakers on.

More information about the previous works of the artists and composers featured is available on the composers page.

2pointzero Music offers composition in a broad range of musical styles. This video gallery features a small selection of clips from feature films, shorts, tv commercials and music promos to give a flavour of the diverse talents we are able to call on to work with you on your project. This video player is very simple to use, just click on the right hand menu to select the clip you wish to see. Click here and please make sure you have your speakers on.

More information about the previous works of the artists and composers featured is available on the composers page.

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djhistory.com + links

djhistory.com

spend an afternoon wandering thru this site from the authors of "last night a dj saved my life"

milliondollardisco.com

great disco boogie resource with lots of top downloadable dj mixes and some very rare vinyl goodies for sale

dimitrifromparis

His musical influences are deeply rooted in 70s Funk and Disco sounds that spawned todays House music

discomusic.com

  DiscoMusic.com is the premiere gathering place for 12" Disco record collectors, world famous Disco DJs, remixers and artists along with hustle dancers and fans of 70s and 80s nostalgia to interact, discuss and immerse themselves in dance music.

 

djhistory.com

spend an afternoon wandering thru this site from the authors of "last night a dj saved my life"

milliondollardisco.com

great disco boogie resource with lots of top downloadable dj mixes and some very rare vinyl goodies for sale

dimitrifromparis

His musical influences are deeply rooted in 70s Funk and Disco sounds that spawned todays House music

discomusic.com

  DiscoMusic.com is the premiere gathering place for 12" Disco record collectors, world famous Disco DJs, remixers and artists along with hustle dancers and fans of 70s and 80s nostalgia to interact, discuss and immerse themselves in dance music.

 

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NEW WEBSITE - NOW LIVE @ WWW.2POINTZERO.TV

We are delighted to announce the launch of our brand new bespoke website. We have uploaded a wide selection of film clips and audio clips, there's biography information on the writers featured and more information on our company.

2Pointzero Music is a brand new company run by Mike Sefton and Chris Bangs who both have wide range of experience in most areas of the music industry. We have a first class selection of quality composers whose services we can call on and we can commission, produce, record, master, license and publish music for Branding, Film, TV, Radio and Games etc. All our pieces of music are Copyright Clean, so we are able to clear both Masters and Publishing in a hassle-free manner

Please visit our new bespoke website @ www.2pointzero.tv

CHRIS BANGS - 2POINTZERO MUSIC

Chris Bangs:  Writer, producer, DJ, Chris' career spans the last 2 decades, during which he has crammed in working alongside such luminaries as, Paul Weller, Linda Clifford, Galliano and Mick Talbot as a writer/producer, Paul Oakenfold, Pete Tong and Gilles Peterson as a DJ and as a musical trendsetter with his invention of "Acid Jazz", Chris was responsible for many of the early recordings on Talkin' Loud, Acid Jazz, Wall of Sound, 2 Kool and various other innovative record labels.

Rare Groove ... acid jazz ... hippy house... Talking Loud ... the Balearic beat - all influential sounds, scenes and styles that went off with a BANGS ! No doubt about it, Chris Bangs has been a pioneering and inspirational figure in the British underground dance scene of the 80s and 90s and helped to light up the burgeoning black music dance scene of the early eighties. Bangs' name became associated with many celebrated events - from The Special Branch, Cock Happy and Doos At The Zoo to his own Bournemouth Bank Holiday sessions, the Caister, Prestatyn and Rockley Sands Weekenders and even the original Corfu and Ibiza 'summers of love'.

Towards the end of the 80s, Chris really hit pay dirt as a musical trend -setter with the invention of acid jazz as a producer and artist responsible for many early recordings on Eddie Piller's Acid Jazz label and Gilles Peterson's Talkin' Loud (producing Galliano's celebrated debut album) His success internationally enabled Chris to set up his own studio and production company, Thin Air. His talents were soon spotted outside of the acid jazz scene with Paul Weller utilising Chris's production skills. This liaison led to a partnership with Weller's former Style Council-er Mick Talbot as SoundscapeUK - one of a whole range of projects marked by the Bangs stamp that have secured commercial and critical acclaim from the USA, Japan, Europe and Australia.

Today, Chris can be found in his studio surrounded by his records and a host of musical collaborators so don't be surprised if he's too busy to talk. Instead, try asking the aforementioned Piller, Weller, or Peterson as well as the likes of Paul Oakenfold, Pete Tong, Nicky Holloway, Danny Rampling and many more for a genuine endorsement of one of our true pioneers.

ACID JAZZ - HOW IT STARTED

Who coined the phrase Acid Jazz?

Ask Gilles Peterson ... He said

"I was with Chris Bangs at one of Nicky Holloway’s nights. One room, five DJs, 1,000 people. Paul Oakenfold was before us. He was wearing a smily t-shirt and on it was ‘Get on one matey, acid’. Everyone was going nuts listening to acid tracks by Phuture. Chris Bangs and I were like, ‘Fucking hell, this is wild, what are we going to play? We’re on next’. There was a fusion of rare groove, acid house and growth in club culture that was making it quite an interesting period. Oakenfold left everyone in rapture, we put on this old 7-inch by Mickey & the Soul Generation which was a rare groove record with a mad rock guitar intro and no beat. I started vary speeding it so it sounded all warped. Chris got on the microphone and said, ‘If that was acid house, this is acid jazz’. That’s how acid jazz started, just a joke. That was really where acid jazz became acid jazz, it wasn’t a music form, it wasn’t anything, it was just a joke to counteract acid house. By calling our thing acid jazz we actually created a name for what we were doing that was contemporary with the acid house scene.

‘Within a few months of acid house happening, we were putting on parties of our own called Cock Happy. We were doing the acid house thing but to a different soundtrack. All the people who were the key people in acid house, the first prophets of that scene and that lifestyle, they were all regulars at my clubs."

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London in the mid 80s had a thriving warehouse party scene and a lot of club nights. They ran the spectrum of music from upfront soul to hip hop but there was a strong liking of old funk and soul which eventually became labelled as Rare Groove. In the south east this became popular enough to propel the likes of Maceo and the Macks‘ Across The Tracks into the national charts. However there was really nothing happening outside the capital and when black America’s latest discovery hit these shores with a vengeance it all but wiped out rare groove.

Its prevalence also almost wiped out another one of London’s clubbing experiences - jazz dance. However with their eyes on the main chance DJs Chris Bangs and Gilles Peterson started playing funky jazz, a touch of soul and hip hop instrumentals alongside their more normal latin and soul jazz grooves and called it ‘acid jazz’. With clubs such as the Cock Happy and Talking Loud at Dingwalls they attracted not just their old following but a bunch of renegades from rare groove and in fact anyone who didn’t want to bow to the tyranny of the 4/4 beat.

Chris Bangs Selected UK Artist / Production Discography

Inc-redible Records (Sony) 
Chris Bangs featuring Rita Campbell - Warm Weather

Go Discs
Paul Weller - Above the clouds (Prod)

See the video

Azuli Records
Boogie Boy - Girl in a dream
Rita Campbell -Runaway Love (kidstuff mixes) (Prod)

Hed Kandi
Anthea - Words and Beats (Prod)

One Little Indian
Linda Clifford - Going back to my roots / Sunshine (Prod)

Junior Boys Own
Praying - The Path featuring Marcel
Spirit of the Boogie - Rainbow Seeker
Trieste - Too high in the sky

Talking Loud
Wild & Peaceful - Bassic / Hip-ology
Galliano - Album in pursuit of the 13th note (Prod)

Sony
Espiritu - Album Tracks (prod)

London
Barrie k Sharpe /Diana Brown - Tell it like it is

Sony (USA / France)
Joelle Ursull - album tracks

Low Pressings
Galaxy 21 - Rhythm Tracking

Onion Records 
Album - Chris Bangs - Takin' Care of Business

Acid Jazz Records    - 12"Singles 
Exstasis - Psychadelic Jack (that's where it's at)
Johnny Dayglo & Nirvana - Free Your Mind
Quiet Boys feat Galliano - Let The Good Times Roll
Layzee Muthas - Cut & Run jazid
Quiet Boys - Modal / Mellow Blow jazid
Quiet Boys feat Camelle Hinds - Make Me Say It Again Girl
CeCe  Rogers -  Come on and dance (Remix)

Acid Jazz Records - Albums
Hippy House and Happy Hop  (all tracks by Chris Bangs)
1989  Quiet Boys - Can't Hold The Vibe  1992 
Hippy House And Happy Hop vol 2 (all tracks by Chris Bangs)
1992  Quiet Boys - Bosh  1995

Acid Jazz Exclusive Compilation Tracks 
Break 4 Jazz - Break 4 Jazz - Totally Wired 2
Two Darn Hot - Retroactive - Totally Wired 6
BE Someone - Be Someone /w Ceri Evans - Totally Wired 8    

Dadhouse Records
Touch the Sun - Original Soulboy feat. Monica Vasconcelos 
Sweet Girl Like Me - Original Soulboy
Spirit of Your Love - Astral
High on Sunshine - Original Soulboy
TD Project - Spiritual

NRK
Joeski and DJ Chus - El Amor (Remix)

Fluid Ounce
Vogado Project - Mas fuerte que el sol (Remix)

Estereo
Marlo - Wait til morning (Remix)

2 Kool    Records - 12" Singles 
Mr Electric Triangle - The Cuddly EP TKT12 1995 
Mr Electric Triangle - Is The 'Erb Dope? TKT15 1995 
Mr Electric Triangle featuring Anthea Falling - Limited 10" blue triangular vinyl TKT 34 1995 Yada Yada - Closer To The Source TKT 26 1995

2 Kool    Records - Albums 
Mr Electric Triangle - Kosmosis Of The Heart TKT20 1995 
Yada Yada - Subculture TKT 30 1996 
Mr Electric Triangle - Kosmosis In Dub (Mixes) TKT38 1996 
Quiet Boys - Dazzle TKT61 1997   

Delancey Street Records    12" Singles 
The 13th Sign - Take me to a Distant Bass DST014 1995 
The 13th Sign - The Big Bloo (green vinyl) DST018 1996 
The 13th Sign - Pressures Featuring Anthea DST028 1997   
Album  The 13th Sign - Da Story Never Ends KOB1003

Rare Groove ... acid jazz ... hippy house... Talking Loud ... the Balearic beat - all influential sounds, scenes and styles that went off with a BANGS ! No doubt about it, Chris Bangs has been a pioneering and inspirational figure in the British underground dance scene of the 80s and 90s and helped to light up the burgeoning black music dance scene of the early eighties. Bangs' name became associated with many celebrated events - from The Special Branch, Cock Happy and Doos At The Zoo to his own Bournemouth Bank Holiday sessions, the Caister, Prestatyn and Rockley Sands Weekenders and even the original Corfu and Ibiza 'summers of love'.

Towards the end of the 80s, Chris really hit pay dirt as a musical trend -setter with the invention of acid jazz as a producer and artist responsible for many early recordings on Eddie Piller's Acid Jazz label and Gilles Peterson's Talkin' Loud (producing Galliano's celebrated debut album) His success internationally enabled Chris to set up his own studio and production company, Thin Air. His talents were soon spotted outside of the acid jazz scene with Paul Weller utilising Chris's production skills. This liaison led to a partnership with Weller's former Style Council-er Mick Talbot as SoundscapeUK - one of a whole range of projects marked by the Bangs stamp that have secured commercial and critical acclaim from the USA, Japan, Europe and Australia.

Today, Chris can be found in his studio surrounded by his records and a host of musical collaborators so don't be surprised if he's too busy to talk. Instead, try asking the aforementioned Piller, Weller, or Peterson as well as the likes of Paul Oakenfold, Pete Tong, Nicky Holloway, Danny Rampling and many more for a genuine endorsement of one of our true pioneers.

ACID JAZZ - HOW IT STARTED

Who coined the phrase Acid Jazz?

Ask Gilles Peterson ... He said

"I was with Chris Bangs at one of Nicky Holloway’s nights. One room, five DJs, 1,000 people. Paul Oakenfold was before us. He was wearing a smily t-shirt and on it was ‘Get on one matey, acid’. Everyone was going nuts listening to acid tracks by Phuture. Chris Bangs and I were like, ‘Fucking hell, this is wild, what are we going to play? We’re on next’. There was a fusion of rare groove, acid house and growth in club culture that was making it quite an interesting period. Oakenfold left everyone in rapture, we put on this old 7-inch by Mickey & the Soul Generation which was a rare groove record with a mad rock guitar intro and no beat. I started vary speeding it so it sounded all warped. Chris got on the microphone and said, ‘If that was acid house, this is acid jazz’. That’s how acid jazz started, just a joke. That was really where acid jazz became acid jazz, it wasn’t a music form, it wasn’t anything, it was just a joke to counteract acid house. By calling our thing acid jazz we actually created a name for what we were doing that was contemporary with the acid house scene.

‘Within a few months of acid house happening, we were putting on parties of our own called Cock Happy. We were doing the acid house thing but to a different soundtrack. All the people who were the key people in acid house, the first prophets of that scene and that lifestyle, they were all regulars at my clubs."

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

London in the mid 80s had a thriving warehouse party scene and a lot of club nights. They ran the spectrum of music from upfront soul to hip hop but there was a strong liking of old funk and soul which eventually became labelled as Rare Groove. In the south east this became popular enough to propel the likes of Maceo and the Macks‘ Across The Tracks into the national charts. However there was really nothing happening outside the capital and when black America’s latest discovery hit these shores with a vengeance it all but wiped out rare groove.

Its prevalence also almost wiped out another one of London’s clubbing experiences - jazz dance. However with their eyes on the main chance DJs Chris Bangs and Gilles Peterson started playing funky jazz, a touch of soul and hip hop instrumentals alongside their more normal latin and soul jazz grooves and called it ‘acid jazz’. With clubs such as the Cock Happy and Talking Loud at Dingwalls they attracted not just their old following but a bunch of renegades from rare groove and in fact anyone who didn’t want to bow to the tyranny of the 4/4 beat.

Chris Bangs Selected UK Artist / Production Discography

Inc-redible Records (Sony) 
Chris Bangs featuring Rita Campbell - Warm Weather

Go Discs
Paul Weller - Above the clouds (Prod)

See the video

Azuli Records
Boogie Boy - Girl in a dream
Rita Campbell -Runaway Love (kidstuff mixes) (Prod)

Hed Kandi
Anthea - Words and Beats (Prod)

One Little Indian
Linda Clifford - Going back to my roots / Sunshine (Prod)

Junior Boys Own
Praying - The Path featuring Marcel
Spirit of the Boogie - Rainbow Seeker
Trieste - Too high in the sky

Talking Loud
Wild & Peaceful - Bassic / Hip-ology
Galliano - Album in pursuit of the 13th note (Prod)

Sony
Espiritu - Album Tracks (prod)

London
Barrie k Sharpe /Diana Brown - Tell it like it is

Sony (USA / France)
Joelle Ursull - album tracks

Low Pressings
Galaxy 21 - Rhythm Tracking

Onion Records 
Album - Chris Bangs - Takin' Care of Business

Acid Jazz Records    - 12"Singles 
Exstasis - Psychadelic Jack (that's where it's at)
Johnny Dayglo & Nirvana - Free Your Mind
Quiet Boys feat Galliano - Let The Good Times Roll
Layzee Muthas - Cut & Run jazid
Quiet Boys - Modal / Mellow Blow jazid
Quiet Boys feat Camelle Hinds - Make Me Say It Again Girl
CeCe  Rogers -  Come on and dance (Remix)

Acid Jazz Records - Albums
Hippy House and Happy Hop  (all tracks by Chris Bangs)
1989  Quiet Boys - Can't Hold The Vibe  1992 
Hippy House And Happy Hop vol 2 (all tracks by Chris Bangs)
1992  Quiet Boys - Bosh  1995

Acid Jazz Exclusive Compilation Tracks 
Break 4 Jazz - Break 4 Jazz - Totally Wired 2
Two Darn Hot - Retroactive - Totally Wired 6
BE Someone - Be Someone /w Ceri Evans - Totally Wired 8    

Dadhouse Records
Touch the Sun - Original Soulboy feat. Monica Vasconcelos 
Sweet Girl Like Me - Original Soulboy
Spirit of Your Love - Astral
High on Sunshine - Original Soulboy
TD Project - Spiritual

NRK
Joeski and DJ Chus - El Amor (Remix)

Fluid Ounce
Vogado Project - Mas fuerte que el sol (Remix)

Estereo
Marlo - Wait til morning (Remix)

2 Kool    Records - 12" Singles 
Mr Electric Triangle - The Cuddly EP TKT12 1995 
Mr Electric Triangle - Is The 'Erb Dope? TKT15 1995 
Mr Electric Triangle featuring Anthea Falling - Limited 10" blue triangular vinyl TKT 34 1995 Yada Yada - Closer To The Source TKT 26 1995

2 Kool    Records - Albums 
Mr Electric Triangle - Kosmosis Of The Heart TKT20 1995 
Yada Yada - Subculture TKT 30 1996 
Mr Electric Triangle - Kosmosis In Dub (Mixes) TKT38 1996 
Quiet Boys - Dazzle TKT61 1997   

Delancey Street Records    12" Singles 
The 13th Sign - Take me to a Distant Bass DST014 1995 
The 13th Sign - The Big Bloo (green vinyl) DST018 1996 
The 13th Sign - Pressures Featuring Anthea DST028 1997   
Album  The 13th Sign - Da Story Never Ends KOB1003

Who coined the phrase Acid Jazz?

Ask Gilles Peterson ... He said

"I was with Chris Bangs at one of Nicky Holloway’s nights. One room, five DJs, 1,000 people. Paul Oakenfold was before us. He was wearing a smily t-shirt and on it was ‘Get on one matey, acid’. Everyone was going nuts listening to acid tracks by Phuture. Chris Bangs and I were like, ‘Fucking hell, this is wild, what are we going to play? We’re on next’. There was a fusion of rare groove, acid house and growth in club culture that was making it quite an interesting period. Oakenfold left everyone in rapture, we put on this old 7-inch by Mickey & the Soul Generation which was a rare groove record with a mad rock guitar intro and no beat. I started vary speeding it so it sounded all warped. Chris got on the microphone and said, ‘If that was acid house, this is acid jazz’. That’s how acid jazz started, just a joke. That was really where acid jazz became acid jazz, it wasn’t a music form, it wasn’t anything, it was just a joke to counteract acid house. By calling our thing acid jazz we actually created a name for what we were doing that was contemporary with the acid house scene.

‘Within a few months of acid house happening, we were putting on parties of our own called Cock Happy. We were doing the acid house thing but to a different soundtrack. All the people who were the key people in acid house, the first prophets of that scene and that lifestyle, they were all regulars at my clubs."

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

London in the mid 80s had a thriving warehouse party scene and a lot of club nights. They ran the spectrum of music from upfront soul to hip hop but there was a strong liking of old funk and soul which eventually became labelled as Rare Groove. In the south east this became popular enough to propel the likes of Maceo and the Macks‘ Across The Tracks into the national charts. However there was really nothing happening outside the capital and when black America’s latest discovery hit these shores with a vengeance it all but wiped out rare groove.

Its prevalence also almost wiped out another one of London’s clubbing experiences - jazz dance. However with their eyes on the main chance DJs Chris Bangs and Gilles Peterson started playing funky jazz, a touch of soul and hip hop instrumentals alongside their more normal latin and soul jazz grooves and called it ‘acid jazz’. With clubs such as the Cock Happy and Talking Loud at Dingwalls they attracted not just their old following but a bunch of renegades from rare groove and in fact anyone who didn’t want to bow to the tyranny of the 4/4 beat.

2Pointzero Music - On acid Jazz blog

Here's something that has just blipped on my radar that may well be worth keeping an eye on. For those of you with a passion for Acid Jazz, the name Chris Bangs should ring a bell or two. Chris was one of the pioneers of the "genre", along with Gilles Peterson and Eddie Piller.

Chris Bangs has just teamed up with Mike Sefton to form a new music publishing & production company called 2.0 Music. Their blurb says

"We are a One-Stop music production and licensing solution for TV / Film / Sync / Sonic Recognition / Branding / Audio tags / Websites / Online ads and Viral marketing / Games etc. We own and/or control every right you will ever need .... Global and Solar System , Present and Future in the masters and publishing, so we can negotiate with our clients for super quick "Copyright Clean" usage. We can also create Bespoke music for special projects, ad campaigns, TV themes and Film."

The website has been launched today, not much happening there yet, but definitely something worth keeping an eye on.

New 2.0 Music Website
Chris Bangs Website
Mike Sefton's Website
2pointzero Music Blog .

New Homepage / Blog Launched Today

Mike Sefton's new pages are now live 28 feb 2008 - Watch for new developments soon!