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...