The Early Days.
Originally named Plug'd Music in 1995, we were the music and sound design scoring division of H-gun Labs, a bleeding-edge production studio in Chicago that had a significant influence on the cross-over between music-videos and commercial spots throughout the 1990's. ABOUT H-GUN LABS
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From 1995 to 2005, Jim Colao and Kenny James worked on dozens of commercial music projects mostly through H-Gun Labs. View spots Jim and Kenny produced on our Best of Commercials and Best of Demos pages.
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One major highlight was in 2000 when Jim Colao wrote music that aired on Super Bowl Sunday to launch the "Go Midas" ad campaign. It's only :15 so don't sneeze or you'll miss something.
The voice of the "driver" at the beginning of the spot was also done by Jim. |
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Also part of Plug'd Music, was H-Gun Labs co-founder Ben Stokes, who has created amazing visuals for several major recording artists in the past 25 years. See Ben's mesmerizing animation and music-videos at Holofonic.
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Rounding out the Plug'd Music crew was "fun-tone" songwriter Robert Coddington, and the father of funky industrial dance music, Jack Dangers, a.k.a. the mastermind of MEAT BEAT MANIFESTO. Get the latest on Jack at MBM
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Ben Stokes also has as underground collaboration with Jack Dangers, known as TINO CORP. This is seriously deep from two of hard techno's founders.
Find out about Tino Corp. at Ben's site Holofonic |
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the middle years.
Since 2004, Eric William's Super Soul project known as The Monte Carlo Method, has produced over a hundred dance tracks with old-school R&B vibe and new-school club dynamics. MCM's entire library, including the latest EDM tracks, will be available soon as a volume of work or by individual song downloads. Visit our LIBRARY PAGE to hear, buy, or license tracks.
Around the same time, Jim Colao connected with Kurtis Productions and created several documentary scores for the HISTORY CHANNEL series called "Investigating History." View 3 different segments on our DOCUMENTARY SCORES page, along with an excerpt from a controversial feature-length documentary that includes music by Kenny James and sound design by Jim Colao.
Today.
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Fans of NAKED RAYGUN will be happy to hear the new punk songs that NR's original drummer Jim Colao has written in the last couple of years. Now being co-produced with Eric Williams, you can hear an excerpt from the newly revamped and renamed Jim Colao song, "Only in the USA-hole."
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Kenny James is back in the U.S. of A, funkin' it up again in Oakland with a new line up of top players for TRUE FUNK SOLDIERS. Kenny's other persona, "Invisible Mann," is racking up fans on REVERBNATION with his new Volume 11 release of down tempo funk. Currently voted #7 in the Chill section of EDM, it moved up fast as soon as the songs were posted.
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Jim, Eric, and Kenny are collaborating with various international musicians on an underground sounding mix of hard electro beats and processed analog instruments like horns, bass, guitar, and vocals.
By playing beats on drum pads, the grooves turn out organic and natural. The recorded drum tracks are shared with other musicians to add their inspired hooks or leads or raps, etc. |
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