New (old) mix

Dug this one up the whilst clearing out the Cosmic Loft... Enjoy. 

Minus seven demo - MP3  by  nbalfe

He So Crazy...

Looking forward to some proper house music tonight from the South London young gun... Plenty of this: 

And of course to lots of fun with Rik, Dave and Chaz in the TCT TTB NYE face off.

Seasons greetings

Chris Rea - Driving Home For Christmas - The Revenge Dub

Merry Christmas!

(Thanks to Ali for this one...)

Dubhousedisco

Loving this one at the moment:



As featured on our radio show... Listen again here.

NEW YEAR'S EVE

Last year I spent NYE on a beach in Brazil while my mate DJ'd to 100,000 people inbetween taking the piss out of the trance DJ that was booked on the same bill.

This year things are taking place a little closer to home. We are joining forces with a couple of London club tribes who know a thing or two about throwing a party.

Secretsundaze [no spaces]
- Giles and James are joined by Delano Smith and Wbeeza in the basement.

Tothebone [also no spaces!]
-We are upstairs with Charlie, Rik and Dave. Purveyors of fine music and casters of pod. Check out their latest show here.

Buy tickets here

LTD EDITION STAMPS?!

Randomly came across this on the world wide web...it appears some postage stamps have been made in our honour.

Perfect for sending off your 'record wants' list to Santa in Greenland!

Friday tunes - Redux special

As you've probably already seen, we have a party coming up with Andy Whittaker, the man behind Redux (as well as 20:20 Vision, Lunar Jam, and who knows what other mysterious exploits), we thought we'd treat you to a couple of tunes... Especially since it's a Friday.

The first is a tasty little download for you all... A track of the DrrtyHaze 'Make My Body Hot' 12", remixed by the Popular People's Front. It's a great little package, with three solid tracks - track it down!

Download DrrtyHaze 'New York City Jacks' PPF Remix

The second is a pure un-adulterated slice of Balearica, amongst the finest records of it's time and one that I rarely leave home without. Sit back and spend seven minutes pretending your standing on the hills of Formentara, looking out as the sun rises over the Mediteranian (whilst very, very high).

11 December / WAOTCT ft. Redux

Hope you can join us for the next edition of Who’s Afraid of the Cosmic Truth where we’ll be joined by Andy Whittaker and Dave O.

Andy 'Ticker' Whittaker is the good honest Yorkshireman behind the legendary 20:20 Vision label (along with Basics resident Ralph Lawson), and the mysterious Redux imprint - signing the likes of Greg Wilson, Toby Tobias and Pete Herbert.

In addition to playing over the globe, he is resident at Asylum (Leeds), where they’ve played host to everyone from Metro Area to Horse Meat Disco.

In his spare time he’s splicing together old Cosmic records, and putting on parties in pubs as part of Lunar Jam. A man after our own heart, obviously! http://www.myspace.com/lunarjam

Dave O, meanwhile, is a bit more of a mysterious character. One of the original resident’s at All Nations House, a basement club in deepest darkest Hackney, where back in the day they’d be busting out reggae with bass so low it’d shake all the way to Clapton. Who knows what the All Nations sound will bring...

The party will be held in our secret loft again – get down early to guarantee entry. And regular attendees please note it's FRIDAY this time.

See you there!

Ministry Radio - October

Ministry-October-09 by Thecosmictruth on Mixcloud

We're playing catch up. Here is October's show. This month's show to follow (along with d/l links for all previous shows).

Click on the widget and it not only plays the show, but cleverly provides the full tracklist. Technology today, eh?

THE COSMIC LOFT

Alas, in January one of the founders and longest serving resident of the Cosmic Loft will leave.

What a time we've all had there. Great food, amazing music, and memories to treasure forever. We've had guest appearances by many past Cosmic Truth guests (Moonboots, Balearic Mike, Danni Crazy P), and many of the wider disco fraternity (Eric Duncan and Lee Douglass to name a couple).

It's been a magical few years having that as a base - and quite fitting that we recently found out an interesting fact concerning the history of the building. No, its not built on the site of an ancient Indian burial ground (that we know of). Lowlife had their first UK party in the premises! We'll let Bill and Frank explain...

Hot Blood

Tonight, Lovebox and Electric Minds join forces to pay tribute to one of the true legends of modern music, Arthur Russell. A man who made his mark in downtown NYC in the mid 80s with pioneering music that was often as eerily avante garde as it was vibrant and energetic. He produced some of the most seminal dance records of all time, such as Dinosaur L's Go Bang, and Loose Joint's All Over My Face, as well as pushing sonic boundaries, and exercising his love for the ciello with a series of experimental, but still utterly beautiful pieces of music.



The mark he made has inspired many, and his contemparies still cite his influence to this day. One such contemporary is author and academic Tim Lawrence, who will introduce Wild Combination - a documentary about Arthur Russell - tonight at the Hot Blood event.

Following that, the event will showcase tracks from the excellent Go Bang Arthur Russell tribute compilation, with live performances from Killer Whale and My Tiger My Timing, as well as DJ sets from Maurice Fulton, Faze Action, Yam Who?, and many more, including ourselves.

To get you in the mood, here's a reworking of one of our absolute favourite Arthur Russell tracks, Get Around To It.

Pocket Knife 'Get Around To It' (Ray Burst Remix)

Mid week mini mix

Been a little quiet on the blog for a while... Sorry about that. Full details of where to catch us next coming soon, but in the time, here's a little youtube mini mix to make up for the distinct lack of friday over the past few weeks.

The mix is inspired by a request I got recently for something "slow, chuggy, and really sleazy", which definitely beats the much more often heard "got any R'n'B"!









And whilst we're on the subject of slow and sleazy, here's a rare cosmic mix from Ivan Smagghe, that our friend, cosmic family member and artistic director, Mr Samuel Muir, sent to us this morning.

Ivan Smagghe - Resonance Festival DJ Set

Paradise...

Or at the very least, Kensal Rise. We hear it's nice this time of year, anyway.

We're playing at Wandy's Heartbeat night over in the West tonight. Come along if you're over that way.

Dalston Superstore

Last Saturday we went out to St John's restaurant and filled ourselves full of meat. We then went to play at our favourite gay bar. *Insert 'fill/meat' joke here*

Later in the night/morning we ended up at the HQ of Diesel Radio hanging with Franz Ferdinand and Craig Charles off the telly (and crack pipe) fame.

Funny old world.

Picture this:

The trunk of Gino’s Porsche 930 is packed with uncut cocaine he needs to take from Marseille to Rimini in 48 hours for the biggest party of the summer, the police is on his case though, and so is DJ Marcello, who rocks the Mediterranean air-waves with the latest, cheesiest and weirdest disco shit.

Gino is no dodgy dealer, he is the driver, wide lapels, Carrera Aviators surely stuck in his black raven toupee and Lucky Striker dangling from his lips, Sartre meets less than Zero, the Visionary is the awesome sound of his head trip as he speeds down treacherous coastal roads towards a palace of white marble where all the beautiful people spin to trashy and blissful sounds under the silver moon.

[Thanks to 20JFG]

This weekend..

First of all, thanks to everyone who came along to our party last Saturday. And thanks in particular to Marcus King and Casionova for keeping the disco machine working all night! Ace vibes! Details of our next party coming soon... Stay tuned.

So, this weekend...

Friday night, we're playing at the Future Disco launch party at the Queen of Hoxton, with some of the stars of the compilation, including Faze Action playing live, Crazy P, Severino and loads more. Let us know if you fancy coming down.

Details here

Saturday night we're doing the Bad Passion pre-party at the CAMP with Brighton's favourite trouble maker DJ AD, plus Phoreski and Strangefruit continuing the fun downstairs in the basement.

Details here

Sunday, if we're still standing, we'll be playing hang over records at The Book Club on Leonard Street. Come join us for a bloody mary.

Whilst we're at it, next Saturday you can catch us at Dalston's favourite Superstore, sandwiched between Ben Rhymer and Severino. Meaty!

Details here

And if that's not enough, we're on the wireless tonight at 7pm. Great tunes. Bad gags. What more do you need? www.ministryofsound.com/radio

See you soon!

Body... Get Your Body...

...down to the party tonight!



Thanks to Celine for this one... And check out the excellent Faze Action edit.

How to make Tuesday feel great

Just seen this video for the first time ever, after reading a short interview with Daniel Wang on records he'd love to play, but never gets the chance. Well Danny should get himself over to the Cosmic Loft. I went through a period of playing this tune nearly every Saturday morning for about four months. In fact it featured on one of our mixes, which I'll have to dig out and re-post.

Any way, if you partied a bit too hard this weekend, just take five minutes out of your life to watch this video and listen to Herb's funky composition. I promise you'll feel pretty good afterwards.



[Thanks to Feel My Bicep for the link in the first place]

Rainy Monday Music

We missed the Friday tune on Friday... So here's one for a rainy Monday morning. A nice little psychedelic number from 1968.

Mass debating

Are you a DJ?
Do you like listening to blokes talk to each other about obscure disco records?
Do you have a beard?

If the answer to any of the above is 'yes', then you should check out Bill Brewster in conversation with J.P. Massiera, tonight at the City Arts and Music Project, London.

(and if you like that, you might like this too...)

Party Flyer

Uber cosmic creativity in action, thanks to our in-house designer - Mr Sameul J Muir.



Watch this space (or this space) for full party details x

Italodiscoparty!

!!!NEWSFLASH!!!

We've just confirmed Casionova as our superstar guest for our next party, which takes place on October 10th. Stay tuned for more info, but suffice to say we are very excited about this cyber cosmic meeting of minds.

So, to celebrate here's a stonking italo boogie tune, with a video of utter brilliance to match.



Friday tunes don't get much better!

Future Disco // 16th Oct

Killer line-up alert!

Faze Action, Crazy P, Sexy Sevvy and a host of others (including us).

Come down to the Queen Of Hoxton on 16th October to celebrate the launch of ex-Azuli and all round lovely chap Sean Brosnan's new Future Disco compilation, the second in the series.

Info about the party here.

Pick up the CD (out 28th Sept) here.

Nice N Slow - September mix

The recent radio sessions have been great fun, but don't you just sometimes feel that you need to hear a load of records played at sub-100 bpm, strung together with no talking over the top?

Was that a 'yes'?

Well might we suggest you take a look at a new feature of this here blog. On the right you'll find we've utilised a previously idle section of the site, and its now home to our latest mix - a sultry sideways glance at the sonic stratosphere.

September Radio show - stream

Here's last week's show for streaming. Its a Bestival special - hurray! In reality, this equates to the opening track being Kraftwerk (in homage to their distinctly average outing on the main stage on Sat night), and a play for the track 'James Rowntree' gave us when we DJ'd after him - a rather nice edit/mix of Michael Jackson. Given that the track in question is one of my favourite records of all time, its a miracle that upon being presented with it, the CDR wasn't immediately used as a frisbee. It's actually a quirky, infectious take on the original. Ah, also included, there's a version of the Faze track which we opened proceedings with.

Also on the show, we debut our remix of Skinny Lister, a band who are signed to Sunday Best, the label who oversee the Bestival event.

See what you think by listening to the show on the widget here:

Ministry-September-09 by Thecosmictruth on Mixcloud

August Radio Show - stream

OK - doing a bit of jumping around here while we get into a groove.

Here we have LAST month's Ministry Of Sound radio show. Please be sympathetic to our average chat as its our first foray into radio (ignoring our hijacking of the Tirk radio show at last years Bestival, and our Cosmic Corner feature on Disco Bloodbath's Diesel radio show).

Stream...

Ministry-August-09 by Thecosmictruth on Mixcloud

Download link to follow

Tracklist:

John Forde 'Stardance' (EMI)
Mark Seven 'Travelogue' (Twelve Inches Of Delight)
The Invisible 'London Girl' (Accidental)
World Premiere 'Share The Night' (Easy Street)
Lexx 'Mahogony' (Das Volt & Danny Clarke Remix) (LNA Recs CDR)
Delia Gonzalez & Gavin Russom 'Relevee' (DFA Mix) (DFA)
COSMIC CLASSIC - Gatto Fritto 'Invisible College' (Fritto Morto)
M Craft 'The Music In Me' (Playgroup Mix) (White)
Popular People's Frint 'Dirty' (Break For Daze Dub) (PPF)
Phreek Plus One 'Bumpin'' (Compost Black)
Free Disco ' Hippe Can Dance With Boogie' (Electric Minds)
Ashley Beedle pres London Heavy Disco Revue 'Riot On Broadway' (Out Here Audio)

Radio (or 'Great music, rubbish chat')

Click here to listen again to our show. Though because this is the Ministry 'listen again' function, if you do if anytime after this Thursday you will in fact then be listening again to somebody else's show. We're going to sort a direct download and streaming service. Here's the tracklist:

Kraftwerk 'Showroom Dummies' (EMI)
Skinny Lister 'Plough & Orion' [Cosmic Truth Re-Lion Mix] (CDR)
Mike Anthony 'Why Can't We Live Together (Part II)' [Dream Mix] (Sunnyview Recs)
Michael Jackson 'Don't Stop Til You Get Enough' [Kane Edit] (CDR)
COSMIC CLASSIC - John Ozila 'Funky Boogie' (Disques Vigue)
Clap Rules 'Buio Omega' (Dissident)
Jarvis Cocker 'Disco Song' [Pilooski Mix] (CDR)
Supermax 'African Blood' (Elektra)
Tensnake 'Holding Back (My Love)' (Running Back)
Wild Geese 'Macho Disco Master' (Flashback)
Faze Action 'I Wanna Dancer' [Special Disco Mix] (Faze Action Recs)
Willie Colon 'Set Fire To Me' [Inferno Dub] (A & M Recs)

OMFG!

Bestival 2009

Bestival has a cosmic theme this year.

We are playing.

Come hunt us down and compliment us on our capes.*


*Thanks Sibyl!

Electric Elephant

Just re-adjusting to life back on shore.

Sunshine music

Reports are starting to come in about the wonderful Electric Elephant festival, which took place last week, August 28th, 29th, and 30th, in Petracane, Croatia. Whilst budget flight loads of London (and beyond's) disco fraternity easyjetted their way to the Adriatic, the Cosmic Truth split ranks with Richie heading for the Sun, and Nicky holding the fort at home, and manning the decks at Secret Sundaze.

Richie should be back immently, so expect full reports soon, but the stories of blissful sunsets, boat parties on crystal seas, and beach bar sessions that go on into the night, I thought I'd post some Friday sunshine music.

Here's one from Jason Boardman's (half of Aficionado) set on the beach. I can feel the sea lapping at my feet...

Thanks to Matthew Burgess for the track ID.

Mystery Man

Been spending a fair bit of time on the excellent Testpressing site recently and whiled away many a mid-week moment with the tunes and mixes they host. The Balearic Mike Whirlpool mix is a big favourite.

Since we missed the Friday tune last week, here's a chuggy little cosmic number from the mix.

Get grooving:

Tiger Tour pics

What a great day and night. Thanks to everyone who came down, and special thanks to all the DJs, Danielle Moore, Ashley Beedle, Pete Herbert, Phil Mison, Andy Newcombe and Toru.

And thanks to Tiger for the hangover too!

Bank holiday raving

Secretsundaze this weekend... After the massive bank holiday opening party we played at in May, we are very excited!

We're doing the upstairs space with the Late Night Audio boys, Danny Clark and Toby Tobias.

Downstairs, the line up is about as good as house gets, with James & Giles, Steve Bug from Poker Flat, Canadians Guillaume and the Coutudumonts playing live, and the house legend that is Doc Martin playing an exclusive London gig.

The setting is THAT club, secluded somewhere in the Greenwich peninsula, which means there's no need to worry about keeping the sound up nice and loud on the huge terrace, all day and night!

Get in touch if you fancy coming down.

Friday tune... Part two

In preparation for our party tomorrow, here's one of Ashley Beedle's lesser known tracks from way back in 93. See you there tomorrow!



And for a limited time, you can grab an MP3 of one of his bigger hits here... Just in case you haven't got it already.

Friday tune... Part one.

This one is for last week... Proper deep, soulful, Detroit house from Dixon, Parrish, Wilhite and Pitman. Lush.

The Invisible - Mercury rises!!!

Massive congratulations to our friends (and former guests at our sister party 'Instrumental Works' last December) on their Mercury Music Prize nomination.

In the interests of keeping things fair, it ought to be here that we reveal the other nominations.

BUT because under our roof you play by our rules (and we always know best), take it from us that the other artists up for the award are not worth bothering with.

Here's one very good reason why they get our vote: The Invisible 'London Girl'

If you like what you hear, please support the band and pick up the album from their shop (and treat yourself to a T-shirt while you're there perhaps).

Finally, they are a friendly bunch, so become friends in cyberspace >The Invisible Myspace<

Radio Tracklist

John Forde 'Stardance' (EMI)
Mark Seven 'Travelogue' (Twelve Inches Of Delight)
The Invisible 'London Girl' (Accidental)
World Premiere 'Share The Night' (Easy Street)
Lexx 'Mahogony' (Das Volt & Danny Clarke Remix) (LNA Recs CDR)
Delia Gonzalez & Gavin Russom 'Relevee' (DFA Mix) (DFA)
COSMIC CLASSIC - Gatto Fritto 'Invisible College' (Fritto Morto)
M Craft 'The Music In Me' (Playgroup Mix) (White)
Popular People's Frint 'Dirty' (Break For Daze Dub) (PPF)
Phreek Plus One 'Bumpin'' (Compost Black)
Free Disco ' Hippe Can Dance With Boogie' (Electric Minds)
Ashley Beedle pres London Heavy Disco Revue 'Riot On Broadway' (Out Here Audio)

Ministry Of Sound Radio

Every month we're going to be providing a show of sonic stimulation going out on the mighty MOS radio under their Nu Disco banner.

Alternate weeks the music will be provided by a roster of Cosmic Truth friends such as the lovely Cosmo, the Idjut Boys and Toby Tobias of Late Night Audio and Rekids fame. Full details >here<.

The first show is going out tonight at 7pm - with us handing the batton over to Sir Dom of Chung and newly-wed Sean Brosnan after an hour.

To listen click >here<. And if you missed it going out live, don't worry. There's a listen again option on the site, and we're going to work out a way of hosting the shows on the blog.

Leave the 'face for radio' gags alone...

Tiger Chilli Crab Tour - This Saturday!

We've been drafted in to curate and host the London leg of Tiger Chilli Crab UK tour.

Get down to Big Chill Bar, E1, where there will be more than twelve hours of dub, disco, Balearic, rare groove, house and more, from some of our favourite DJs.

Not only do you get a full day and night of amazing music, there will also be free beer for anyone who buys some of the authentic far eastern food that will be served up from the custom-made Tiger tour van. Not bad.

Saturday Aug 22nd (12pm - 1am)

Ashley Beedle
Danielle Moore
Reverso 68
Discobox
The OffKeyHat
Toru
Hosted by The Cosmic Truth

Oh and its free entry all day.


Check out >here< for more info on the national Tiger Chilli Crab tour.

PARTY VENUE - ALL CHANGE

Due to a last minute balls up with the venue (don't ask) we've had to move the party... But don't worry, as it will be taking place at our favourite Peruvian water hole - the basement of 578 Kingsland Road, E8 4AH. 

We've had two mental parties there before, so hopefully this one should be just as good. 

Look forward to seeing you down there tomorrow. 

This Saturday

The party will take place in the loft on the top floor of 70 Hoxton Street, London N1 6LP. The password is BEARDO.

Sign up to the Facebook event page here to get your name on the list - don't forget, it's free!

Here's a link to a mix from Ben Gatto Fritto to get you in the mood.

See you on Saturday!

Why not?

I was going to post a new track for this week's 'Friday' tune. But this is such a belter that it gets the vote instead. Carly Simon with 'Why'. Well Balearic! 

This one's for Moonboots, by the way, Bringing sunshine to Stretford 365 days a year!

Summer time

Whilst Dickie's been off spreading the Cosmic message to our oriental bredren in China and Hong Kong, jet setting disco crustacean that he is, I've been making the most of summer in Blighty.

As well as another excellent session with Greg Wilson and the Hellfire Club boys, there was impromptu set at Lovebox with Danny from Late Night Audio, standing in for Toby Tobias, who fancied a lie-in.

 

Last weekend, it was up to Cambridge for the extremely mental Secret Garden Party. We had a bit of a Chocolate Vanilla / Cosmic Truth collaboration happening on the Where The Wild Things Are stage, as we kept the system warm between the bands. 

There were some great performances over the weekend, including the ever excellent Invisible, celebrating their recent Mercury Music Award nomination (congratulations lads!), and Cosmic favourites, the Golden Silvers.  

Another highlight were Canadian three-piece Caribou, who I saw for the first time on Saturday night, and was completely blown away. Pounding rhythmic drums, coupled with layered Beach Boys-style harmonies. This band come very highly recommended! Check them out... 

The rest of the weekend was spent wandering the site, checking out the various sporadic happenings that make the Secret Garden Party such a crazy place. From Lancashire hippies passing around peace pipes, to late-night swing speakeasies, to gypsy bands hanging from tree tops... It's not your average weekend. 

Today, half of the East End seem to be heading to Field Day. Amongst the many excellent parties this evening, the Electric Minds 4th birthday party gets our seal of approval, especially since label boss Dolan Bergin will be joining us at our next Cosmic Truth session on Saturday 8th August. 

Enjoy the weekend!

Last Friday's Friday tune

This one's in homage to the Minkioni girls, who host one of the (officially certified) finest Field Day after parties in London this evening.

Prog synth new wave kraut disco scenes from our favourite female selectors!

Ain't Gonna Feel Easy mix

After the full-on club work out that was the What's That You're Doing? mix, we thought we'd balance things out a bit with something a little calmer.

This time, the pace is set a lot slower, with melancholy grooves from John Martin, AMO1, and Flayer amongst others. What's more, our favourite Mancunian music bloggers were kind enough to host it for us.

Head over and check it out.

Cosmic 2.0

We're getting with the times. Slowly.

We're late again...

For the second installment of our new Friday tune - albeit 24 hours or so behind schedule - we have Tony Esposito with Kalimba De Luna from 1984.



Thanks to Dave O for recommending this one; A track that makes you think of sitting on a terrace in Italy, with loads of great mangiare, vino e amici.

Who needs punctuality when you have music like this?

Who's afraid of August 8th?

Having bigged up the amazing Invisible College track in a previous post, we’re very excited to announce that for our next party, we will be joined by the master mind behind this epic piece of music, Ben Williams a.k.a Gatto Fritto.


Since we heard whispers that the track was getting a re-released on Ben’s own Fritto Morto label, we’ve been itching to get him down to one of our parties. The perfect blend of jangling guitars, fuzzy keys, and warm, analogue bass, this track pretty much defines everything we’re about musically. If you don’t know it, check it out on the myspace music player.

But Gatto Fritto are by no means a one hit wonder. Having released a string of excellent tracks on Dissident, including Cosmic Truth favourites such as the rolling funk of Clem’s Bounce and bleepy Hungry Ghosts, plus a host of other tracks either out now or lined up for release on his own label, it seems that the vaults at Fritto Towers must be bursting with incredible music, waiting to be set free.

The party will take place at an as yet un-named location, although it shouldn’t take too many clues to work out where for those in the know. All you need to know is that it’s a nice, intimate space, with good sound, reasonable bar, smoking terrace, and best of all, it’s free to get it in too.

Here’s some snaps from the last party to give you an idea of the vibe.


Stay tuned for full venue details, and the password.

The Bank Robbery

No, not a recount of how we spend our nights when we're not DJing, but an utterly incredible piece of music by the one and only John Carpenter from the seminal Escape From New York soundtrack from 1981.

I recently picked up the dark and druggy edit of The Bank Robbery, by Lory D on Italian (I think) lable Subdance. And with the bass of this track still throbbing in my head, I dug out the original soundtrack, and what a blinder it is.

For anyone who doesn't know it, here's the scene where the music is taken from:


And for a very limited time, you can grab an mp3 of original track here.

Enjoy.

The Return of Invisible College

Possibly the greatest dance record of 2007, in our eyes one of the tracks that truly defined the ressurgance of the spacey / cosmic / beardo / whatever disco sound.

Coming of like the sound of a John of Rupescissa playing guitar, walking the corridoors of a secluded monestry outposted on the hills of Formentara, Invisible College builds and builds with gothic and uplifiting sounds pieced together to form an epic piece of music to completely loose your mind to. Each instrument is added one by one, be they analogue synths, vintage fx, and rattling drums, held together by a fuzzy, warm resonance, as if the whole thing is bouncing off the stone walls of chapel as you face the alter. The whole thing builds into a rich cacophony of layer upon layer of sound until about eight minutes in the whole thing drops back to just the lush jangling of the guitar for the breakdown.

The track was originally put out as a single sided, super limited release on the much-lorded Dissident imprint, and was immediately snapped up by anyone with more than a drop of taste. But as is the Dissident mantra, the label doesn't own the music, the artists do, and after almost three years of waiting, Gatto Fritto have re-released the track on their own Fritto Morto label.

If you pay for only one track throughout July, then make it Invisible College. An absolutely timeless recording that we personally could not live without.

Check it out on Juno here.

Saturday tune

The first in a new series for the cosmic blog, where we post one tune a week, as sourced by the cosmic groupies. Feel free to send in any tracks you want to share.

Normally we'll do this on a friday, but it would be a out of character if we were on time...

DJ Magazine

We've had a namecheck in the latest issue of DJ Mag. The article is all about the thriving disco scene in London Town, focusing on the Tropicana night ran by our dear friends Danny 'The Menace' Clarke and Neil 'Ravemaster General' Thornton. Fact fans will know the night from the weekly Sunday sessions held at the (then newly re-vamped) Horse & Groom last year, where we held a little residency. This year they have been concentrating on their 'Escape From New York' roof parties at The Queen Of Hoxton just down the road, and have showcased some great international talent including DFA darlings Holy Ghost and Chinatown's Brennan Green.

We couldn't do a post about DJ Mag without some gratuitous shots of flesh. In the name of decency, and so as not not detract from the gravely serious issue of disco diatribe, we won't upload any shots to the blog- but for those who are interested click >here< for the chance of seeing The Cosmic Truth in their speedos. Maybe.

PARTY DETAILS

The venue for the party this weekend will be the top floor of 70 Hoxton Street, London N1 6LP.

It's a really nice intimate loft space, but make sure you arrive nice and early to ensure you get in before we reach capacity. It kicks off at 9pm so you have plenty of time.

It's another free party, but you'll need the password - just say THRODDY at the door, and head striaght up to stairs.

See you on Saturday!

Berlin

Thanks to the Handsome boys for the invite to play on Friday. Additional thanks going to Nicole & Sasha Funke for sorting Watergate, and Will Saul for the Panorama Bar hook up. Quality music all weekend long. Last but OF COURSE by no means least, it was amaze to see our homegrrrl Tamara Moustache Mamas on her new turf.

Oh and farewell Bar 25. Trusseeeee.

This weekend

Look out, look out... Time for our next party.

This time we roll up at a very nice little loft space, somewhere in East London with, with our friend Mike Keelin on warm up duties, and a very special guest on hand too...

Stay tuned for full venue details later on this week.

What's that you're doing?

It's been a little while, but here's the latest instalment of our mix tape series. Taking in all corners from 80s electro p-funk, crazy synth tracks, new beat, a strong dose of disco - and was that a bit of techno you heard in there? - this time, it's all about the club!

The Cosmic Truth 'What's That You're Doing?' mix - June 2009.

If you like this, then come and catch us play this weekend at the Handsome Party, Loreley Club, Berlin on Friday 12th, or next week back in London at our next Who’s Afraid of the Cosmic Truth party on June 20th. Full details to be announced...

Here’s the track list. Enjoy!

Try to Find Me - ‘Make Dance’ - Golf Channel
Soul Vigilantes feat. Xan Blacq - ‘Background Noise’ (Pilooski Remix) – Lovemonk
Muravchix - ‘Tropical Warrior’ - Dissident
Paul McCartney & Stevie Wonder ‘What’s That You’re Doing?’ Polydor
Mark E - ‘Smokescreen’ - Sonar Kollectiv
Swayzak - ‘Stonger Love’ – White Label
Frank Hebly - ‘De Tuinslangboogie’ – Megatron Music
Richard Gateaux - ‘Fetish B’ - Fat Fuk
Depeche Mode - ‘Never Let Me Down Again’ (Aggro Mix) – Mute Records
Who’s Who - ‘Hypno Dance’ - Out
Ilija Rudman - ‘Dance Dissorder’ (Faze Action Mix) - Bear Funk
The Earons - ‘Land of Hunger’ (Dub) - Island Records
Das Volt - ‘Gestures’ (Fabrizio Mammarella Remix) - Late Night Audio
Capracara - ‘King of the Witches’ (Rub-N-Tug Mix) - DFA
Faze Action - ‘In The Trees’ (Carl Craig’s C2 Remix) - Juno Records
Lindstrom - ‘Where You Go I Go Too’ (Prins Thomas Edit Part 2) - Feedelity
Chilly - ‘For Your Love’ - Supersound

The rain is pouring down, the sky is crying

Saturday afternoon... The perfect time for an outdoor party. Come listen to us, ToTheBone, and Joe Body Hammer play old chicago house records, crackly disco, and the odd west african folk song (Charlie) in a pub beer garden. 

ToTheBone Radio turns 2, and Dave and Charlie's birthday. 

The Eagle, Eagle Wharf Road, London

2ish - 10ish.

Maybe bring an anorak...   

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