Chris Coco has been in the music business almost thirty years. He is a producer, DJ, musician, broadcaster, journalist to name a few activities this Renaissance man is involved with. He could be credited with pioneering the early acid house scene in the 80's at the Famous Coco Club in England. Covering the club scene for DJ Magazine allowed him to set the bar for the industry and all that followed. As a freelance DJ and producer Chris has performed on every continent except Antarctica. Through the 90's his list of compilations include Real Ibiza Series, Solar Spectrums Series, Blue Balearic, Dub Club, Chillin at the Playboy Mansion, Ministry of Sound Sessions and The Big Freeze. A steady gig on the popular late night weekend show Blue Room on BBC Radio1 with Rob Da Bank allowed Chris to connect with his fans. As a DJ on Robbie William's World Tour , Chris performed with the band at all 64 shows including San Siro, Milan: Parc Des Princes , Paris and The Bowl, Milton Keynes. Including Bank Holiday Chillout, music documentaries for BBC Radio 2, presenting Live Work Music for Ministry of Sound Radio and starting a new band called City Reverb Coco was very busy between 2006-2008. In 2008 his band City Reverb released singles Central Heating and City of Lights. They released their album Lost City this month February 2009. Chris Coco is working on a new solo and acoustic album. Watch out for his eclectic chilled-out balearic, acid house mix set.

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Berlin's Jazzanova collective formed in 1995, after DJing with one another at a club called Delicious Doughnuts. Alexander Barck, Class Brieler, Roskow Kretschmann, Stefan Leisering, Axel Reinemer, and Jürgen von Knoblauch shared a common goal of blending their collected inspirations together to create a new, sophisticated sound, with debts owed to nearly every form of dance-oriented music from the past several decades. Like a lot of upstart producers and underexposed jazz-funk ghosts of the past, Jazzanova got their first major break from BBC disc jockey Gilles Peterson, who played the group's first production, "Fedime's Flight," on his program in 1997. The same year that "Fedime's Flight" broke out in the dance underground, Jazzanova teamed up with the Munich-based Compost label to form JCR (Jazzanova Compost Records).

In addition to functioning as the primary outlet for Jazzanova's own work, JCR released material from Koop, Victor Davies, the Underwolves, and Rima; looking to the past, the Polish Jazz and Vocal Jazz from Poland 1965-1975 compilations brought jazz from '60s and '70s Poland back into circulation. In 2002 the culmination of five years worth of work, their album sustained the group's reputation with tracks full of meticulous beatcraft. Remixed, released just a year later, featured remixes of In Between and 12" tracks from peers Kyoto Jazz Massive, Ayro, King Britt, and Bugz in the Attic. In 2005, the jazz label Blue Note gave the group access to their classic back catalog for the double mix CD Blue Note Trip. Amidst scads of other mix albums, compilations, and Sonar Kollektiv product, their second full production album, Of All the Things, appeared in 2008.

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