Chris Lang

Chris Lang
Audio Engineer, Music Producer, Music Mixing Specialist and Composer

Chris Lang launched his television music career in 1993 with the founding of the first of two major music catalogs for TV called Chronic Trax distributed by Universal. Chronic Trax is known for its authentic hard hitting urban, youth oriented and retro sound and feel. Lang created Killer Edge, a second more mainstream TV music catalog featuring orchestral to rock tracks two years later in order to round out the appeal for the world TV market.

Both catalogs are distributed globally by Universal Music Group through their subsidiary, Killer Tracks. They have collectively grown to over 4000 copyrights. Lang’s music is heard on literally hundreds of diverse TV shows including the themes to “Wife Swap” and “Big Brother 2”, background music on “American Idol”, “Access Hollywood”, NFL, Fox Sports, ESPN, and Food Network just to name a few as well as a wide following in the European and international TV and film market.

Lang created the LA RIOT music for TV catalog which was released by the major distributor Megatrax at the National Association of Broadcasters Convention in Las Vegas, Nevada in the spring of 2009. This catalog ushers in a new era in music publishing with over 2500 titles and is growing quarterly.

In 2011 Lang moved his company headquarters to the North Dallas Texas area. Lang opened Emerald Sound Recording later that year. ESR is a high tech analog hybrid state of the art recording, mixing and mastering room featuring vintage mid 1970’s API and Neve equipment.

Lang’s latest music for TV venture is the catalog Big Guns which is produced and recorded entirely in the North Dallas area at the ESR studio.

Chris Lang’s musical career includes other prestigious credits, a few of which are:

Mixing specialist for producer Giorgio Moroder on Elton John’s “Duets” album of the song Don’t Go Breakin’ My Heart which Elton John sang with Rupaul. The song climbed to Number 5 on the Billboard dance charts.

His band The Original Bass Brothers was signed to Platinum Records in 1996. Lang recorded “The Best of the Bass Brothers” Volumes One and Two which both performed well on the DJ and underground Electronic Music circuit.

Lang created the LA RIOT brand of samples and loops in 1993. The analog recordings of live musicians playing a wide range of instruments and styles are used to create new songs when a live musician is not unavailable. There are currently over 35 titles in the LA RIOT name. They are sold worldwide at notable music stores including Guitar Center and web retailer Sound FX Loops. These sounds can be heard on literally hundreds of music compositions from Hip Hop to dance music and rock music over the last twenty years.

In addition to running a successful Recording Studio Lang is an expert in all of the equipment used in both recording and live performance from Microphones to Pre-amps, Compressors, Mixing Consoles, Amplifiers and Studio Monitors with an emphasis on Guitar, Bass and ProTools, Sequencers and Plugins.

Lang wrote and produced the musical “Shag With a Twist” in 2005. The musical ran at the LA Theatre Center in Los Angeles for a year and a half before it was moved to Las Vegas, Nevada where it ran for another year.

Lang is also the owner of Mic Sentry which is a custom manufacturer of Microphone Slip Covers used worldwide.