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About Me

Christ On A Bike (aka C O A B) started in March 2004, as a jokey pretend band formed with four non-existent members but with a wealth of material made using Acid Pro and additional instruments and found sounds over several years.The joke became serious when after releasing a 20-strong 1st LP, "Heaven's Cycle" in the same month, there was a number of people from downloaders online to friends and relatives that said the songs were good enough to come form a "real" band! The seed was sown.Going under the names of Chris Sakes and Holly Ghast, the band ditched the other "members" and became a real electronica act, who's influences ranged from house and jazz, through commerical pop, club and dance music into punk and reggae.Their next LP (Oct 2004) was a 12 strong album of grooves and melodies entitled "Me, You & Jesus 2" carrying on the "christ" motif. However, the songs were much stronger with better production and it even harvested four singles of superb quality.The band released their 3rd LP in just 18 months, "The Beat Conductor" in 2005 and were reviewed by NME and the Italian press, even courted by Parlaphone Records at one time. Their new LP "A Geminus Vita" was released October 2006 spawning four mammoth singles of pure electro pop and grooves. You can still buy it at www.christonabike.net .Now (2007) they release their twin LPs of instrumental melodies and left field wackiness in "Child's Play" and "Adult Games". Check out the title track here which you can download for free!!!! Child' Play can be bought for just Â£5.00 from http://www.christonabike.net/Shopping.htmThis is a band that will make you dance, religiously!!!!!

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Member Since: 10/12/2005
Band Website: christonabike.net
Band Members: Chris Sakes - samples, electronics and additional vocals Holly Ghast - samples, electronics and additional keyboards
Influences: Bowie, Kraftwerk, Sparks, Wire, punk, reggae, house artists, Naked Music, jazz, club/dance stuff, various DJs, Thomas Dolby, Stranglers, Radio Stars, Orbital, Roxy Music, Brian Eno, Bill Nelson, Kraut Rock, dub, AFOS, new romantics, electronics, Monty Python and Spike Milligan (A God)!
Sounds Like: Orbital, Chemical Brothers, synthpop artists!
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Want to remix our songs?

Hello everyoneWe are looking for people to remix tracks from our next two LPs, Child's Play which is due out Feb 26th and it's sister LP Adult Games, due out in April 2007. The remixes will form part ...
Posted by Christ On A Bike on Sat, 24 Feb 2007 10:33:00 PST

New LP Child's Play is released 26/2/07 _ buy it at CD Baby

Hi all Child's Play LP Our new LP Child's Play will be released on 26th February 2007 and will be available at both our shopping page and at CD Baby website. This LP of twelve weird and wonderfu...
Posted by Christ On A Bike on Mon, 19 Feb 2007 03:57:00 PST

New songs added! Introducing "Child's Play"

Hello everyone! Happy New Year! What a year 2006 was for Christ On A Bike. Our most commercially successful LP ever. Our first remix project for another artist. Our appearance in the Italian press. Ou...
Posted by Christ On A Bike on Fri, 12 Jan 2007 01:29:00 PST

New Lp - "A Geminus Vita"

Hello everyone Well its been a hectic week or two following the release of the new LP "A Geminus Vita", this month, our 4th Lp in just two and a half years. We've been trying to advertise it...
Posted by Christ On A Bike on Tue, 24 Oct 2006 11:39:00 PST

New single "I Can't Hear You Calling" released 29th August 06

Hello everyone Our new single "I Can't Hear You Calling" is released August 29th 06. This is a six-track CD with two versions of the main song which is not the same as the track which will be on the n...
Posted by Christ On A Bike on Mon, 28 Aug 2006 06:02:00 PST

New single released 29th August 06 "I Can't Hear You Calling"

The third single to be released from the forthcoming 4th LP by Christ On A Bike is "I can't Hear You Calling". Hear it here and but from various sites the download or buy the CD at www.christonabike.n...
Posted by Christ On A Bike on Thu, 10 Aug 2006 12:31:00 PST

Everytime - new single reaches No.22 in Soundclick Dance chart

This week (10/7/06) our new single "Everytime" has reached No. 22 on the Soundclick dance chart. this is pretty considering there are more than 10,000 songs in the chart! The song has dipped in t...
Posted by Christ On A Bike on Wed, 12 Jul 2006 01:12:00 PST

New single "Everytime" released 30th June - how to buy it!

Christ On A Bike are proud to announce the release of "Everytime", the 2nd single from their forthcoming LP "A Geminus Vita". The song can be heard here and is sold as a full 6 track CD at their site ...
Posted by Christ On A Bike on Thu, 22 Jun 2006 01:46:00 PST

Cassandra Allen mixes delivered with satisfaction!

The band delivered their first set of remixes for another artist last week. Six different remixes of the song " Give Me Some Love" were completed for DJ/producer Cassandra Allen. Cassandra has stated ...
Posted by Christ On A Bike on Sun, 11 Jun 2006 02:13:00 PST

Even more Radio action for COAB - Spotlight!!!

The band were the featured new artists this week (25.5.06) "in the spotlight" section of The Loco Show on New Artist Radio. DJ Dark who is rapidly becoming our favourite all time DJ, paid a little tri...
Posted by Christ On A Bike on Fri, 26 May 2006 03:00:00 PST