CJ Crew are a dance music DJ duo, consisting of Chris Bucknall and John Briley. Other aliases include Big Vin & Hugh Jardon, Chi K Monkey, Chi K Munki, Connie and the Plainsman, Demanche Noir, Muff and the Munchers, Nancy and the Boys, The Orff Ki Ensemble, Pyan Issim, Pynck Hobo, Terry and the Physicist, Umi Ghoulies, and Wine.
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CJ Crew
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CJ Crew have made a number of appearances on Toshiba EMI's ''Dancemania
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'' compilation album
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s, mainly those of the ''Speed
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'' sub-series, and on several soundtrack albums for the ''Dance Dance Revolution
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'' series and '' Martial Beat'' series. Their first appearance on the ''Dancemania'' series was on the 2000 compilation of '' Dancemania Speed 4'' with two remix tracks, one being "Change The World
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" and the other being " Livin' La Vida Loca".
Chris Bucknall also appeared as a keyboardist on Pete Haycock
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's 1987 album ''Guitar and Son'', and DJ Angel's two albums, ''Love Thing'' and ''Tell Me On Sunday'', both issued in Germany
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in the mid-2000s. John Briley produced a compilation album, entitled ''Brainwaves'', issued in the United Kingdom
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in 1978.Discogs
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Brainwaves
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John Briley started his musical career as a vocalist with various bands. His band 'Limelight' were signed to the Deram label with John having a solo deal with Decca Records.
John presented the rock show Extravaganza on the BBC before commencing a path into the recording industry with labels that encompassed Transatlantic, Ariola, Arista, Polydor, then becoming MD of Zomba/Jive managing the career of Mutt Lange, working on the Def Leppard 'Hysteria' project, before becoming a board member and Senior Vice President at EMI / Capitol Records in London and Los Angeles.
Acts that John was instrumental in the success of include Annie Lennox and Dave Stewart, Sky, Kiki Dee, Joan Jett, Krokus, Billy Ocean, Haircut 100, Radiohead, Blur, Iron Maiden, Queen, Duran Duran and many others.
John's first success as a producer was the multi-million selling album by the Brighouse and Rastrick Band's 'The Floral Dance'.
Appearances
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Dancemania
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''
*''Speed
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'' : ''4'' (2000), ''6'' (2001), ''7'' (2001), ''8'' (2002), ''9'' (2002), ''10'' (2002)
:'' Best 2001 Hyper Nonstop Megamix'' (2000)
:''Speed G'' : ''1'' (2003), ''2'' (2003), ''3'' (2004), ''4'' (2005), ''5'' (2005)
:'' Classical Speed'' : ''1'' (2002), ''2'' (2004)
:''Christmas Speed'' (2003)
:'' Speed SFX'' (2003)
:''Speed Deka'' (2004)
:''Speed TV'' (2004)
:''Speedrive'' (2006)
:''Speed Buyuden'' (2006)
*'' Covers'' : ''01'' (2005)
'' DDR'' soundtracks
*'' Dance Dance Revolution 4th Mix Original Soundtrack''
*'' Dance Dance Revolution 5th Mix Original Soundtrack''
*'' Dance Dance Revolution Party Collection Original Soundtrack''
References
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