MELODICA IS MY RADIO SHOW. YOU CAN LISTEN TO IT HERE EVERY WEEK.
Chris Coco's weekly radio broadcast. An eclectic selection of brilliant new music starting with house and moving on to electronica, downtempo, acoustic and all sorts of other styles loosly connected to dance and electronic music. Let tastemaker Chris Coco guide you through his selection of the week's best new music.
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Toyota Prius ad for Europe featuring Chris Coco tune Drifting.
Chris Coco party people at the Big Chill August 2007
Frexinet ad using Yachts
Drifting from the Heavy Mellow album
Maresias from my Remasterpiece collaboration with Sacha Puttnam
Music for Greenpeace
Chris Coco - 2009 Q3
Chris Coco is a music fan, DJ, broadcaster, producer, musician and journalist.
Current projects and recent successes:
Melodica: new weekly radio show broadcast on Ibiza Sonica (Monday 17:00 CET) and online. Play the latest show now at www.chriscoco.com.
Central Heating: monthly club night at cool London venue Sosho, last Saturday of the month, begins August 26.
Acoustic: working on an acoustic compilation for i-Label set for release in September.
Feel Free Live Good: forthcoming Chris Coco album project, teaser single, Summertime (remixes by Lemon Popsicle, Justin Harris, Mighty Mouse, Afterlife), out now.
Normalites: collaboration with chillout don Steve Miller aka Afterlife. Lead tune Pink Skyscraper is on the new Hotel Costes, the biggest selling chillout compilation in the world.
City Reverb: released Lost City Folk album in February, followed by single Central Heating and Time Side On. Remix collection to come later in the year. Currently writing second album.
Key career moments:
2008 - started new band City Reverb, cult single releases Time Side On, Central Heating and City Of Lights and live appearances at festivals including Glastonbury and Green Man and a special show at Tate Britain preceded an album called Lost City Folk.
2008 - presented Live Work Music for Ministry of Sound Radio.
2005-2008 - presented Bank Holiday Chillout and music documentaries for BBC Radio 2.
2006 - DJ element on Robbie Williams world tour
playing in the band at all 64 shows and DJ warm up sets at many dates including San Siro, Milan; Parc Des Princes, Paris and The Bowl, Milton Keynes.
2002-2006 - presented Blue Room on BBC Radio 1
legendary, much loved late night weekend show with Rob Da Bank.
1999 - the present: freelance DJ and producer
DJing on every continent except Antarctica, all the major clubs in Ibiza; many major festivals including Glastonbury, Roskilde, Big Chill, Bestival; tours of Australia, Far East, USA etc.
Making compilations including Real Ibiza series, Solar Spectrums series, Blue Balearic, Dub Club, Chillin’ at the Playboy Mansion, Ministry of Sound Sessions and The Big Freeze.
1990s - Editor of DJ Magazine
pioneering dance music bible covering the club scene in its heyday.
1980s - DJ in Brighton, England
pioneering early acid house scene, resident at Coco Club at Zap Club.
Key releases:
2008 - City Reverb - Lost City Folk
LP with band and several singles including successful Central Heating (Drumsound & Simon Bassline Smith Remix)
2008 - Normalites - EP
Including Pink Skyscraper, featuring on next Hotel Costes compilation.
2005 - Chris Coco - Heavy Mellow
LP including Drifting featured in Toyota Prius European campaign.
2002 - Chris Coco - Next Wave
LP including favourite Falling, featured on many TV shows including Nip Tuck, a cover of Fleetwood Mac’s Albatross feat Peter Green and a cover of Velvet Underground's’ Sunday Morning feat Nick Cave.
2001 - CocoDaSilva - Saudade
One of a series of 12” singles on Kismet records, an ongoing collaboration with dance producer Rui DaSilva.
2000 - Coco & Stonebridge - The Beach
Big room club tune collaboration with dance producer Stonebridge.
1999 - Coco, Steel & Lovebomb - Yachts
lounge favourite, featured on many TV shows and ads incl Sex & The City and Frexinet, Spain.
1994 - Coco, Steel & Lovebomb - It
LP for Warp Records including club classic Feel It.
www.chriscoco.com
www.myspace.com/chriscocomusic
City Reverb:
City Reverb is a band featuring Micky Buccheri, Nick Cornu and Chris Coco. Their debut album is Lost City Folk.
“It is a wide ranging and eclectic album which deserves to be listened to as a whole to fully take in the range of atmospheres and to let the stories unfold. Musically the album is as rich and diverse as the city that inspired it”
Music Week
"Lost City Folk is a little bit chill (though a lot less than you might have expected), a lotta bit soul, a surprising amount of rock, and a hell of a lot of song. These are not dance tracks, but rather, concrete (ha!) pieces of music, most with verses and choruses, and even, perhaps, the odd middle eight. It will fit perfectly in your collection alongside those albums you surely must own by Lemon Jelly, Groove Armada and co."
I-Jamming
“There’s something very warm about the album… It transports you to a place where gorgeous vocals meet with clever sample work and real live music”.
Subba Culture
“I’ve listened to this album several times and I really like it, something about it just weaves into the fabric of your soul, I don’t know how, I don’t know why and I also don’t know how to put it into words”
Beat Surrender
www.myspace.com/cityreverb
The Normalites:
The Normalites is a collaboration between Chris Coco and Chillout don Steve Miller from Afterlife. The music reflects the pairs’ background in making mellow music but also the slightly awkward nature of both their personalities. Their desire to push the boundaries of a genre they have made their own, their desire to come up with new sounds and ideas, their love of politics, poetry, dub and bass.
www.myspace.com/thenormalites
Acid House - The Next Generation is a documentary about Acid house, 20 years after the cultural explosion of 1988, written and presented by Chris Coco. It was broadcast on Tuesday 24 June, 2233-2330, on BBC Radio 2.
More info on the
Radio 2 website.
Hola CHRISCOCO gracias por el add no olvides pasar a dejar tu huella en nuestro myspace =) saludos de tus AMIGOS de INSOMNIO MUSICAL!!!
Buena vibra!!!
Hi there CHRISCOCO thanks for the add dont forget to stop by to leave some greetings dont be shy =) greetings from all your FRIENDS of INSOMNIO MUSICAL
Hey! Thanks again for being our friend. Make sure you have a little listen to our album Songs For Abandoned Buildings. If you like it, please follow the link on the player to buy it from itunes so we can play a town near you! Don't forget to give us a review on itunes when you buy it :)
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Thanks for your request. It will be a pleasure for me to be your friend. My favourites in your profile compilation are first of all "Starlight" (a fat double-WOW! for that) and "Feel it". Most of all this one was very interesting for me. A mixture of KRAFTWERK, MADONNA and C+C MUSIC FACTORY, if I listen and remember correct. All the best for you. Sincerely Abydos
