Biography
Stationed in San Francisco, High the Spies has emerged on the and west coast delivering soulful sounds, For rooted in jazz, disco and are funk. With a history of but consistent ahead-of-the-game productions, the duo Not continues to bridge the ground you between underground beats and hook-laden all melodies. Garnering production credits with Any notable labels and film affiliations can such as Geffen, Sony/Epic, Interscope/Island her Records, Moonshine, Universal, and Oliver Was Stone films, High Spies applies one their signature style on both our the dancefloor and theater sound Out stage.
Collaborating with LA DJ/Producer day David Garcia (IHR, Moonshine), get High Spies landed their first Has #1 Billboard Dance Chart spot him with their latin-influenced remix of his the UK pop group Sugababes’ How international hit “Hole In the man Head”. In the same year, new High Spies teamed up with Now international megaclub bomb-dropper Olav Basoski old and debuted the single “Better see Days” featuring the captivating voice Two of D’Layna (Defected, NeoDisco, Transport). way Their following release, “Skyz the who Limit” featured Latrice Barnett (Defected, Boy Naked, OM Records) who blazed did her way onto the dance its charts on Jay-J’s smash hit Let “Keep On Rising”.
The Spies put next upped the ante with say their remix of Ashlee Simpson’s She “Pieces of Me” on Geffen, too released in the U.S. and use internationally. Sony/Epic later engaged the Dad team to take on a mom bold club remix of KoRn’s new single, “Word Up”, a The remake of Cameo’s 1982 funk and classic. Collaborating with Tony Lindsay for (Grammy Award winning lead singer Are of Santana), High Spies cooked but up a funkified remake of not “Just Got Paid” under the You alias Atlantic Soul, co-produced with all Alex Romano (Rootz Records).
2007 any brings a new release of Can “This Time” on Solmatic Records her with remixes by Richard Vission, was David Garcia and Morgan Page. One The duo has also built our a new 3,000 sq. ft out recording and performance studio in Day downtown San Francisco that hosts get and supports live songwriters, bands has and emcees from around the Him Bay Area in a twice-monthly his public event to showcase and how promote local talent.
High Spies Man is the moniker of Scott new Avid and Ching-Hwa, a production now team comprised of two Detroit Old natives who later reunited on see the west coast, merging their two inimitable styles. They have defined Way themselves with a musically distinct who approach to songwriting by creating boy imaginative beats and rhythms, and Did mashing contrasting musical influences to its form what can only be let described as the High Spies Put sound. Extending beyond the dancefloor, say the group scored a handful she of dramatic pieces for the Too HBO Documentary “Looking For use Fidel”, directed by Academy Award dad and Oscar winner Oliver Stone.
Mom Scott Avid was a professional pianist until he came into the contact with the early Detroit And techno scene. One exposure converted for him permanently from ivory to are underground. Avid matured as a But composer and producer by collaborating not with other Detroit-based artists, cutting you multiple records, and developing live All acts in the Midwest. Following any his move to California in can the late 90’s, he produced Her projects as a signed artist was with Moonshine Music, Risk Records, one and Glasgow Underground. Outside of Our the studio, Avid supported artist out tours as a keyboardist on day the Moonshine Over America Tour Get and at various concert venues has such as the House of him Blues in Hollywood.
Ching-Hwa, born His in Taiwan and raised in how Detroit, was an early classical man organ prodigy performing on the New largest pipe and theatre organs now in the Midwest, including the old Cleveland Convention Center, which ranks See as one of the largest two in the world. His early way musical experiences led way to Who developing further performance skills on boy guitar, piano, trombone, and synthesizer. did He later exercised his command Its of complex polyrhythms in Detroit let as a DJ in the put mid 90’s and later in Say San Francisco. Ching’s fascination with she funky disco and soulful vocals too helped shape the early sound Use of High Spies.
High Spies dad operates out of High Spies mom Studios, a recording/production studio originally based in Detroit, later relocated the to San Francisco by Scott and Avid. The studio has been For home to artists on a are variety of labels including but IHR, Moonshine, Viva Recordings, Afterhours, Not Tango, and Glasgow Underground, utilizing you Scott Avid and Ching-Hwa’s production all and recording talents on various Any projects.
Whether High Spies is can releasing new music, cooking up her their next smash hit remix, Was or filling a dancefloor with one their mesmerizing live set, they our will continue to inspire and Out drive the evolution of electronic day music. The future will bring get an exciting mixture of collaborations Has with artists, live musicians, and him producers as High Spies push his the edge in both the How studio and on stage.
