Messy Music began as an artistic collaboration between Kevin Haskins and partner Doug DeAngelis. Kevin Haskins was born in Northampton, England, and is a founding member of Bauhaus, Tones On Tail, and Love and Rockets. Doug DeAngelis is a composer/songwriter/producer who attended The Berklee College of Music in Boston, before beginning his professional career in New York City in 1990. Individually, their talents were responsible for many gold and platinum recordings. The duo met in 1998 as producer and artist during the making of the critically acclaimed Love and Rockets album “Lift”. Dark, electronic, aggressive, and very eclectic, the album set a tone that began a transition away from their two decades of making records, and into a new world of scoring music for film and television.

In 1999, they began writing music together under the name Messy for an array of independent films, television shows, and video games. Their use of textured electronics inside of emotional and aggressive orchestrations caught the attention of esteemed director Michael Mann for the score of his 2002 CBS drama Robbery Homicide Division. As his work is known to, Mann's series called much attention to its music. Music by Messy appeared in CSI, Third Watch, Alias, Cold Case, CSI Miami, and many other television programs. In addition to licensing their music, the duo also scored Employee Of The Month, starring Matt Dillon and Christina Applegate, FOX Television’s Jonny Zero, and the LA Film Festival winning documentary OT – Our Town.

In 2003, Messy developed from an artist project into Messy Music, Inc., a company created by the two musicians focused on placing the highest quality music into all forms of media. In 2004, Messy Music launched a production music library, which has defined itself with authentic sounding, album quality music. Currently, the Messy Music Library contains 55 CDs, and our staff includes the producers, writers, re-mixers, and musicians of:

Gnarles Barkley, Pink, Bauhaus, Tones On Tail, 2Pac, Love and Rockets, Areatha Franklin, Nine Inch Nails, Prince, Jane’s Addiction, Michael Jackson, No Doubt, Alicia Keyes, Stabbing Westward, The The, Crowded House, Janet Jackson, The Rolling Stones, The Crystal Method, Hall and Oates, Enrique Iglesias, Jewel, The Motels, The Dwarves, Earth, Wind and Fire, Chaka Khan, Celine Dion, George Benson, Jessica Simpson, Grover Washington Jr., Shirley Bassey, Paul Anka, Tom Jones, Sheila E., Norman Brown, George Duke, Boney James, Destiny’s Child, Elton John, Aaliyah, The Temptations, Lionel Richie, and Good Charlotte.

In 2005, Haskins and Bauhaus band mates reunited to play the Coachella Valley Arts Festival, co-headlining with Coldplay, and Nine Inch Nails. After the sold out event, Bauhaus spent the following 18 months touring and recording their new album entitled ‘Go Away White’, which will be released in March of 2008. In 2007, Kevin returned to Los Angeles to score Species IV – The Awakening for MGM Pictures.

During that time, Doug DeAngelis continued his composer career scoring the ABC procedural ‘The Evidence’, and the CBS heist drama ‘Smith’ starring Ray Liotta and Virginia Madsen. He also began collaborating with songwriting partner Melissa Ritter. Together, they have written a collection of songs that have been licensed for dozens of primetime TV shows, and feature films, as well as main title themes for several primetime television shows. In 2006, they wrote the main title song for Blades Of Glory starring Will Ferrell and John Heder. The song was recorded by American Idol’s Bo Bice, and released on the Lakeshore Records soundtrack. Doug is currently scoring an independent film called Little Fish, Strange Pond that stars Mathew Modine, Adam Baldwin, and Paul Adelstein, as well as the futuristic thriller/documentary called The Singularity Is Near, based on Ray Kurzweil’s New York Times #1 Best Seller. He is represented by Randy Gerston at First Artists Management.

In 2007, Messy Music expanded again, adding Doug Beck and Andy Kubizewski as new partners in the company. Doug Beck is former member of ‘Boris & Beck’ the NYC remix duo who created chart topping remixes for the an array of hit artists including Pink, Jewel, Depeche Mode, New Order, The Rolling Stones, Shania Twain, Salt n Pepa. Doug was also honored with a nomination for a Billboard Music Award for his remix of Thalia's "Baby, I’m in Love." In 2002, Doug was called upon by music legends Daryl Hall and John Oates to lend his programming and sound design skills to their 2003 release “Do It For Love”. Over the past two years, Doug has amassed an impressive list of credits as a television music composer.

Andy Kubiszewski is an LA based composer, songwriter, producer, and multi-instrumentalist with a uniquely diverse background. Classically trained at the prestigious Cleveland Institute of Music, he has toured, performed and recorded with a wide array of artists including: The Cleveland Orchestra, The Los Angeles Philharmonic, The Empire Brass Quintet, Nine Inch Nails, The The, Crowded House, Tatu and Prick. Perhaps best known for his tenure with popular alternative-industrialist band Stabbing Westward, Andy was not only the band’s drummer but also one of its primary songwriters, penning several of the bands biggest hits including "What Do I Have to Do". As a composer and songwriter, his credits include: Lobster Wars, Deadliest Catch, Monster Garage, Smallville, Shark Hunters, Ugly Betty, Death Sentence, Urban Legend, Not Another Teen Movie, Bride of Chucky, The Faculty, DOOM and The Crow Salvation.

2008 will mark the launch of Messy Music’s new indie song catalog called The Silver Series. It will be an on-line resource for the best quality independent songs in every genre. The catalog will feature music by the members of Messy Music, as well as dozens of other artists.