Posts Tagged ‘ cosmic disco ’
Yup, the time has come! Sunday is the day I spin two cool hours of Cosmic Disco at Picnik Electronik, from 14h to 16h! Trust me, this set is SO going to fit with the weather and the venue! BUT REMEMBER! Sunday’s edition is at JARDIN DES FLORALIES, not at the Calder stabile, as usual! ATTENTION! The reason Sunday’s [ READ MORE ]
I give in! I’m jumping on the bandwagon and I sing their praise: The Phenomenal Handclap Band. After seeing their name pop left and right over all my usual Web sources and friends’ FB statuses and tweets, I decided to check out their eponymous album. So I forked over 10$ to iTunes (didn’t feel like waiting for [ READ MORE ]
The newly repaired SL1400 and the subsequent trip down memory lane I’m going through these days — digitizing favourites from my vinyl collection — has made me wonder whether it would be a cool idea to spin a set of classic oldies at Picnik électronik on August 16th. Part of my reflexion comes from the fact [ READ MORE ]
A large part of the genotype of Cosmic Disco (of which I am, humbly, the champion around these parts) is based on the Dub Mix, a concept that emerged in the late 70s and early 80s and which was borrowed from the Jamaican Dub, itself a product of the many technological breakthroughs in studio recording. What, [ READ MORE ]
Just a few months after the second iteration came the third of the series, Third Sun from the Rock. This one’s birth was tougher. I re-recorded it twice before I was entirely satisfied with it technically, while musically, I stretched out the boudaries of the genre even more, going as far as including tracks that didn’t readily [ READ MORE ]
After recording volume one, the urge to make a second iteration of the Cosmix Series (it was clear to me that thios was going to be a series) rapidly became intense and Second Orbit was born a mere 6 months after its predecessor. I find that this mix is more refined and focused, compared to the [ READ MORE ]
It’s around 2005 that I discovered this new sound whose name (or names, as the case may be) I was still unaware of and which blew me away. Slowly, I started researching, digging virtual crates and it took me a good year before I felt confident enough to try my hand at mixing the tenors of [ READ MORE ]