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Monsieur Seb’s Cosmix vol. 5: Universal Boogie

Monsieur Seb — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 14:00:33 +0000

Yes yes yes, boys and girls, it is finally here!

I was itching and scratching to get a new Cosmix iteration out since my set at Picnik Electronik (which was basically Cosmix vol. 3.5) and the ensuing Cosmix vol. 4, last August.

It took a while to put it together and find its groove — I do put a lot of thought and research into that series — but what a groove it found for itself!

This, my dear friends, is definitely the grooviest of the Cosmix series, so far!

You are about to download and listen a massive 2 hours and 38 minutes of tasty bits, the danciest, most straightforward of the lot, but then again, maybe not…

All together, the first three tracks alone take up 35 minutes of the total runtime and about a very groovy hour later, there’s a nice psychedelic break so you can light up a fat spliff before you start dancing again and get worked up for that one-two-three, jab-body blow-uppercut finale that’ll leave you dehydrated and, hopefully, ecstatic. I DO strongly reccomend that you listen to this mix in one sitting to fully appreciate it, otherwise the overall groove I was talking about before kinda gets lost…

Personnally, I’ll be bold and daring and say it IS flat out, no competition, my favourite mix in the Cosmix series so far.

Two little tracklist notes:

• The very first track was kindly offered by the artist even though it is still unreleased, and I have promised Dominique to help him get this track signed, so if you have any interest in releasing it or know someone who might, please contact me at dj@monsieurseb.com.

• As you’ve noticed, I take as little credit as possible when recording a mix, after all, I do them to introduce you to artists you might not know. Now, you’ll also notice that one track in the playlist has no links. The ting is, with that one, I have no idea how it got in my iTunes library. I subscribe to dozens of music blogs and such, and when I tried finding a relevant link for this track, I came up basically empty handed. If you have something to suggest, please do!

As usual, you can stream it
Cosmix 5 or download it by right-clicking the image above.As always, your donations are welcome to help me pay for the file hosting!

TRACKLISTING

Monsieur Seb’s Cosmix, volume IV: Welcome to Planet Khizmyazz

Monsieur Seb — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 00:00:44 +0000

Yes, boys and girls, bipeds, quadrupeds and dodecapeds!

The new installment of the Cosmix series has landed!

It has been gestating since… well, since I released the previous installment of the Cosmix series!

Get your space helmets on, cadets, because I pulled all the stops on this one: it doesn’t attempt to please anyone or anything but the most weirdly disco neuron hiding in your brain — hence the title, and if you don’t get it right away, just repeat the name of the planet out loud a few times :p

At just under two hours, it’s the shortest mix in the Cosmix series, so far.

Lots of psychedelic fun is included, I strongly suggest… Heck no! I strongly RECOMMEND, that you don’t listen to this while straight.

I sincerely hope you enjoy, and if you don’t, try again: it’ll grow on you!

You can stream it Cosmix 4 or download it by right-clicking the image. As always, your donations are welcome to help me pay for the file hosting!

TRACKLISTING

Buzz In (Optimo Remix) – Boris

Double Fisted (Prins Thomas Disko Miks) – Scotty Coats & Wes the Mes
Neeve – Projections & Woolfy
Is Sorrow (Black Machine’s Lucifer Rising Dub) – Black Devil Disco Club
Sparkling Stars – Petar Dundov
Vuelo – Skatebard
The Simple Life – The Juan MacLean
Goin’ Underground (Extended version) – Partners in Crime
Don’t Sleep – Zepp001
They Prefer The Disco – The Bionics
Dancing In Outer Space (The Revenge Rework 2) – Atmosfear
The Deep End (Holy Ghost! Day School Dub Mix) – Curses!
Spaghetti Circus – Still Going
Love Don’t Dance Here Anymore – Tiga
Space People – S. Mallia
Red Heart (Vlad Nayward Edit) – Tele Music
exp3 (aka Two Sequencers Are Better Than One) – John Daly
Mancry (Justus Kohncke’s Epic Diskokraut Club Mix) – Freeland

Bonus points and a special mention in one of my posts for the first person to leave a comment saying where I got the inspiration for the name of that planet in the title!

Monsieur Seb’s Cosmix: 3rd Sun from the Rock

Monsieur Seb — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 14:00:22 +0000

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 fall within those boudaries.

Let’s put it this way: I was offering people to include them within those boundaries, if they were willing to stretch those boundaries alongside this DJ.

The presence of Swag’s edit of New Jersey Deep by Black Science Orchestra or Lullabies in the Dark’s Iridium are telling examples.

The jury is still out on whether this one or its predecessor is the better mix: they both have their strong points, and they both boogie!

Hope you enjoy!

You can stream the mix Monsieur Seb’s Cosmix: 3rd Sun from the Rock or “right-click/save as” on the image to download it.

Hyper linked tracklisting is here

Monsieur Seb’s Cosmix: Second Orbit

Monsieur Seb — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 14:00:56 +0000

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 previous one, but that’s explained by the fact that I was still discovering and exploring the limits of the genre, six months earlier.

Here’ I’ve started to define what my Sound is going to be within this genre, as well as exploring and paying hommage to the roots, as witnessed by the inclusion of tracks by Kano and Alan Hackshaw.

You can stream the mix Monsieur Seb’s Cosmix: 3, 2, 1, liftoff! or “right-click/save as” on the image to download it.

Hyper linked tracklisting is here

Monsieur Seb’s Cosmix: 3, 2, 1, liftoff!

Monsieur Seb — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 09:00:43 +0000

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 the genre.

As it happened, it was the first mix I recorded with my newly acquired Torq Xponent and the mix that made me decide I was doing away with the restriction imposed by the 75 minutes time limitation of the CD, which itself replaced the good old cassette tape, cutting out yet another 15 minutes from what used to be a good DJ mix.

From that point on, I have not recorded a mix shorter than 1h45 minutes, and all three Cosmix iterations are close to 2 hours and 30 minutes.

Bon voyage!

You can stream the mix Monsieur Seb’s Cosmix: 3, 2, 1, liftoff! or “right-click/save as” on the image to download it.

Hyper linked tracklisting is here