Today's band is Babylon Zoo.
The most famous song ofc is "Spaceman".
Babylon Zoo were a British rock band of the mid-1990s from England, fronted by Jas Mann.
Jas Mann had formerly been in an indie music band, called The Sandkings, which he left in 1992, because of musical differences.
Babylon Zoo was signed to Phonogram Records after A&R rep Clive Black heard their first three-track demo tape in May 1993. When Black moved to Warner Bros. Records in 1993, he took Mann's contract with him. An album had been prepared and sleeves for a single, "Fire Guided Light", were printed, but Babylon Zoo's debut was put on hold again when Black moved once more to EMI in 1995, where the band were signed on to a seven album contract.
However, promotional copies of the song "Spaceman" had already been distributed, and was chosen to tie in with the release of a new Levi's jeans TV advert. The single went straight to Number 1 on the UK singles chart and also went to Number 1 in the single charts in twenty-three countries. Many people having heard the song on the Levi's advert believed the song to be a fully electronic song like the clip heard in the advert (which was merely a section of the song speeded up).
An album, entitled, The Boy With the X-Ray Eyes was produced at Mann's New Atlantis Productions music/artwork/video centre. It was released in 1996 and included new-age tracks such as "Is Your Soul For Sale?" and "I'm Cracking Up I Need A Pill". It debuted at #6 on the album charts and reached the Top 20 in 17 countries including Australia, New Zealand and Canada.
In 1997 Jas Mann was lampooned on the channel 4 TV series, Brass Eye.
Three years later, 1999, a follow up album was released entitled King Kong Groover, but Mann decided not to promote the album as he was not getting support from his label EMI since the departure of the man who had signed him, Clive Black. Mann subsequently decided to move to India and work for an aid agency.
In 2005, it was announced that a new Babylon Zoo album, Cold Clockwork Doll, would be released sometime in the near future. This album has yet to be released.
((Info from Wikipedia.))
Jasbinder "Jas" Mann (born 24 April 1971, Dudley, West Midlands) is a British song-writer, musician, singer and record producer.
Mann is of Indian descent and is Sikh. His final years of state education were undertaken at Pendeford High School, where he developed a passion for music. He formed his first band at the age of 15 with friend Adam Toussaint called The Glove Puppets, and personally funded a 7" vinyl single, sold through local record shops in 1987.
The Sandkings, another Wolverhampton band with a strong following, were keen to sign Mann as their vocalist, and he joined them in 1988. The Sandkings, named after a 1981 collection of sci-fi short stories by George R. R. Martin (called Sandkings), released seven singles and an EP with Mann between 1988 and 1992 as well as an album. They were moderately successful, scoring three Top 10 hits in the UK indie single chart.
They were the opening act for The Happy Mondays and The Stone Roses in the early 1990s, but Mann left the band in 1992 because of creative differences.
In 1997, Mann (along with other UK celebrity figures) appeared on Brass Eye, a UK television series of satirical spoof documentaries, which aired on Channel 4. He appeared in the "Drugs" episode, in a non-drug-related credit sequence roll. He stated that he had never "written a spherical song", and agreed with Morris' assertion that he might have a few more genes than normal people. He was introduced as "the man who was totally Babylon Zoo, The Chungwit, the biff-boff and the puff pastry hangman," and responded when asked if he was a genius, "I will become a genius."
In late 1999, he moved to Chandigarh, India and spent time in ashrams working as an aid worker helping build shelters for deprived areas.
Mann then moved to Myddle, Shropshire and claimed he would never want to live anywhere else "regardless of how rich or successful I may become and despite extensive world-wide travel to promote my music". However, in 2006, Mann moved to the Mojave Desert saying the solitude "enhances creativity and calms my whirling mind"[1].
Mann also wrote the theme music for Channel 4's Speedway Grand Prix programme, screened on Saturday mornings throughout the speedway season (2000/01).
Mann co-owned a record company, Hub Records, and released three songs under the name of Mariachi Static in 2003. In 2005, he announced he would be issuing a new Babylon Zoo album, Cold Clockwork Doll, although this has yet to be released.
In 2002, he moved to Los Angeles, where he has been writing film scripts and working with the likes of Cuba Gooding Jr. and Stephen Dorff.
Mann started his film company Immortal Features in 2006. He shall be releasing his first feature film The Whisperers in 2009.
((Wikipedia.))
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Jas Mann had formerly been in an indie music band, called The Sandkings, which he left in 1992, because of musical differences.
Babylon Zoo was signed to Phonogram Records after A&R rep Clive Black heard their first three-track demo tape in May 1993. When Black moved to Warner Bros. Records in 1993, he took Mann's contract with him. An album had been prepared and sleeves for a single, "Fire Guided Light", were printed, but Babylon Zoo's debut was put on hold again when Black moved once more to EMI in 1995, where the band were signed on to a seven album contract.
However, promotional copies of the song "Spaceman" had already been distributed, and was chosen to tie in with the release of a new Levi's jeans TV advert. The single went straight to Number 1 on the UK singles chart and also went to Number 1 in the single charts in twenty-three countries. Many people having heard the song on the Levi's advert believed the song to be a fully electronic song like the clip heard in the advert (which was merely a section of the song speeded up).
An album, entitled, The Boy With the X-Ray Eyes was produced at Mann's New Atlantis Productions music/artwork/video centre. It was released in 1996 and included new-age tracks such as "Is Your Soul For Sale?" and "I'm Cracking Up I Need A Pill". It debuted at #6 on the album charts and reached the Top 20 in 17 countries including Australia, New Zealand and Canada.
In 1997 Jas Mann was lampooned on the channel 4 TV series, Brass Eye.
Three years later, 1999, a follow up album was released entitled King Kong Groover, but Mann decided not to promote the album as he was not getting support from his label EMI since the departure of the man who had signed him, Clive Black. Mann subsequently decided to move to India and work for an aid agency.
In 2005, it was announced that a new Babylon Zoo album, Cold Clockwork Doll, would be released sometime in the near future. This album has yet to be released.
((Info from Wikipedia.))
Jasbinder "Jas" Mann (born 24 April 1971, Dudley, West Midlands) is a British song-writer, musician, singer and record producer.
Mann is of Indian descent and is Sikh. His final years of state education were undertaken at Pendeford High School, where he developed a passion for music. He formed his first band at the age of 15 with friend Adam Toussaint called The Glove Puppets, and personally funded a 7" vinyl single, sold through local record shops in 1987.
The Sandkings, another Wolverhampton band with a strong following, were keen to sign Mann as their vocalist, and he joined them in 1988. The Sandkings, named after a 1981 collection of sci-fi short stories by George R. R. Martin (called Sandkings), released seven singles and an EP with Mann between 1988 and 1992 as well as an album. They were moderately successful, scoring three Top 10 hits in the UK indie single chart.
They were the opening act for The Happy Mondays and The Stone Roses in the early 1990s, but Mann left the band in 1992 because of creative differences.
In 1997, Mann (along with other UK celebrity figures) appeared on Brass Eye, a UK television series of satirical spoof documentaries, which aired on Channel 4. He appeared in the "Drugs" episode, in a non-drug-related credit sequence roll. He stated that he had never "written a spherical song", and agreed with Morris' assertion that he might have a few more genes than normal people. He was introduced as "the man who was totally Babylon Zoo, The Chungwit, the biff-boff and the puff pastry hangman," and responded when asked if he was a genius, "I will become a genius."
In late 1999, he moved to Chandigarh, India and spent time in ashrams working as an aid worker helping build shelters for deprived areas.
Mann then moved to Myddle, Shropshire and claimed he would never want to live anywhere else "regardless of how rich or successful I may become and despite extensive world-wide travel to promote my music". However, in 2006, Mann moved to the Mojave Desert saying the solitude "enhances creativity and calms my whirling mind"[1].
Mann also wrote the theme music for Channel 4's Speedway Grand Prix programme, screened on Saturday mornings throughout the speedway season (2000/01).
Mann co-owned a record company, Hub Records, and released three songs under the name of Mariachi Static in 2003. In 2005, he announced he would be issuing a new Babylon Zoo album, Cold Clockwork Doll, although this has yet to be released.
In 2002, he moved to Los Angeles, where he has been writing film scripts and working with the likes of Cuba Gooding Jr. and Stephen Dorff.
Mann started his film company Immortal Features in 2006. He shall be releasing his first feature film The Whisperers in 2009.
((Wikipedia.))
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