Tony Charles

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Tony Charles – Just Good Music Show

Just Good Music - Tony C

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Tony Charles – Real Hip Hop Show & Neil Charles on Rotation – House & Garage Show

Tony & Neil Charles (B2B)

I’ve been involved in the music industry for 30 years

I began getting into music at a very young age listening to Jazz Funk & Soul & Disco, listening to the birth of Hip Hop and House & Dance Music has given me great knowledge of all forms of music. Also having the privilege of having use of Technics 1200 turntables from 8 years old I began to practice the craft of mixing. The DJs I was influenced by and played with are the legendary Dj Froggy, Derek B (Boland) and their peers like Dancing Danny D, Trevor Nelson and Steve Jackson, Tim Westwood, Seb Fontaine the list goes on… By Age 11 I was watching a learning in a studio environment seeing Derek B’s Bullet From A Gun Album Being Constructed and Produced. (The First British U.K. Rapper on Top Of The Pops)I learnt how to use AKAI Samplers, Keyboards and Recording Equipment & Analogue Mixing Desks way before our Computers and Digital World Began. By age 16 I was DJing at parties and even being sneaky getting gigs in bars & pubs because I looked older than I was.
Around 17 I started getting into music production also with the first piece of computer music software I could get hold of on my old Atari St and an AKAI S1000 sampler with a little MIDI keyboard.
At the End of that year, I progressed to playing in Nightclubs in Essex & London, around the U.K. and overseas in the summer at that young age was an amazing experience to be able to have. I have played a lot of underground venues and also venues that have become legendary with people in the know. Ministry Of Sound – Hanover Grand – Legends – Satellite Club -The Cross & all over London & the Surrounding Counties
Getting more into music production I started to hone my skills and put out white label remixes in the world of House & Garage progressing onto doing Remix work for Concept Records of The Lighthouse Family and Remixing tracks from Neo & George Micheal. Eventually being signed to Dellerous Records by Dancing Danny D, Getting in the top 20 Dance Chart in 1999 with a Remix cover of the SOS Band – The Finest.
The label had hits by Tina More – Never Gonna Let You go & Juliet Roberts – Bad Girls, So Good & Free Love and Martha Wash – Carry On.
Also now working on new Dance Music material and looking to work with new Artists in the future

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