Additional Info

• Recording: STEREO
• Format: Single Case

Tracklisting

CD

1. Astral Space
2. Be Someone
3. Give It All U Got (Feat. Mick Talbot)
4. Righteous
5. Retro Active
6. Take Four
7. Let The Good Times Roll (Feat. Galliano)
8. Mellow Blow
9. Prayer Mat
10. Batu Casa
11. Roaring Fast (Feat. Caz)
12. Break 4 Jazz
13. Renaissance
14. Let The Good Times Roll Disco Mix (Bonus Track)

This year 2008 marks the 20th Anniversary of the birth of Acid Jazz records with the 7' single release of Galliano's ' Frederick Lies Still '. To celebrate this anniversary they are releasing a new CD compilation of Chris Bangs' work for the label with the tracks selected, edited and remastered by Bangs himself. ACID JAZZ CD AJXCD 204

Bangs was widely credited with the birth of 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.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, ‘Fuck acid house, this is acid jazz’. That’s how acid jazz started, just a joke.

‘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."

Tracks come from Bangs' ubiquitous jazz funk alter ego The Quiet Boys, including the Galliano collaboration " Let The Good Times Roll" a Hacienda fave from back in the day and found here with a mix not included on the original 12".

Also included are 3 tracks from the totally wired compilation series. Bangs would collaborate on one off tracks for this series , often some of his simplest groove inspired work