Production Music Tracks 1980 - Present

Mai 18

Stratovarious

Flower Heros

ZimmerFrame

This track is often requested by Red Dwarf fans and features in the opening sequence of Ouroboros in series 7

Lost In Space 'Ouroboros' Red Dwarf

The Fourth Man

Happy Polar

Naija

Veno Marioghae - Nigeria Go Survive

GRUPO CONTROLE DIGITALA FESTA E NOSSA

Beware, Discomatin is back. In 2018, the Parisian crew of diggers and DJ’s originally known for their edits goes official with fully licensed and remastered reissues. For this new adventure, they chose an incredible in-demand French boogie EP from Diva, an eighties funk band from Bordeaux.  
Diva only released one EP with La Nuit, a sentimental, almost poetic boogie banger with great synth, guitar and vocal parts. The track could honestly have been a radio hit in the eighties with some real promotion. Today, it’s still time to make it right and it is already an anthem in the French underground disco scene.   
 Originally on the B side of the 1985 original release on Cactus, "La Nuit" is here available with its two different versions (12’’ and 7’’ mix) and comes also with “Prise Au Piège”, a more synth-pop influenced funk track which gave its name to the original release. 
 The band was formed by Gabrielle Andriampanana, Alex Louisor and Olivier Renoir. Before Diva, these last two already played together in the local new-wave band Bolton which was one of the first of the area to use synthetisers. Even if they had a small recognition at the time, the original release stood quite underground. Thanks to Discomatin, it’s now available to the real connoisseurs and still with the fantastic illustrations of French artist Camille de Cussac on the back cover. Preorder here : https://discomatin.bandcamp.com/album/la-nuit

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PREMIERE : Diva - La Nuit (Version Longue Spéciale DJ)

Mi Ré Do La

Venogrooveilike

Nigel Bates started his career in production music in 1980 and was signed by Chappell Music Publishing.
His first album on Chappell, Electronic (Chap 101) was hugely successful worldwide, Music Week quoted one of the tracks Stratovarious as being the most successful library track of its time.

Nigel's music has been featured on over 100 music production albums and has been used on TV & Film productions such as Childrens Hospital, BBC Click, Dancing with the Stars, Ramsey Kitchen Nightmares, Top Gear, Jeremy Clarksons Extreme Machines and Motorworld, Gossip Girl, My Family, The Office USA, Bargain Hunt,Teenage Kicks, Red Dwarf, SpongeBob SquarePants, Terminator 2, Ace of Hearts (2008), Neighbours, Dawson's Creek, Danger Mouse, Mr Bean, Scooby Doo, WWE, Ray Mears World of Survival, Extreme Survival and Wild Food, Anthony Bourdain (No Reservation), Place in the Sun, Jewel of the Nile, Oprah Winfrey, Horizon, Survival, Galley Slaves, Knots Landing, Balamory, Prime Suspect, Cold Case Files, Sons and Daughters, Rough Science, Celebrity Deathmatch,, Rex Hunt, Graham Norton in New York, Animal Planet, National Geographic, Emmerdale, Fort Boyard, The New Adventures of Superman and many more.

Nigel has been fortunate to have worked with some great recording engineers and musicians on these projects, Ben Fenner, Tim Summerhayes, Neil Costello, Pete Smith, Herbie Flowers, Kevin Jarvis, Chris "Snake" Davies, Ron Asprey, Chris Payne, Sean Lyons, Tom Fenner, Dirk Campbell and Malcolm Mortimor. He has also co-written on occasions with Ben Fenner, Chris Payne and Paul Williams.

Nigel's works are published by Carling Music Publishing, Universal Music, Sony, BMG, Warner, President Records, Parry Music, PMOL, Performance Music, Destiny, Coverdrive and Musinc.

Stratovarious

Nigel Bates Composer