In the beginning there was Jack…

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!

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TRACKLISTING

1. It’s All Over Now Except for One Last Bit – Dominique Leone (Unreleased)
2. Gimme (Kango’s Autostrada Dei Laghi Mix) – Headman & Dieter Meier
3. Venus – Roberto Rodriguez
4. Untitled Love (Instrumental Mix) – Still Going
5. The Way You Move (Greg Wilson Version) – Social Disco Club & Maia
6. PARTY★NIGHT – ID:69
7. Bumpin’ – Phreek Plus One
8. This Feeling – Lovebirds
9. Baby Can’t Stop – Lindstrom & Christabelle
10. Jetstream (Lindstrom Remix) – Doves
11. You’ll Disappear (Ilya Santana Remix) – The Phenomenal Handclap Band
12. Space Summer (Plastique De Reve Sweet Remix) – Ludan Dross
13. Hot on the Heels of Love – Throbbing Gristle
14. 45:33 (Theo Parrish’s Space Cadet Remix) – LCD Soundsystem
15. Looking For What – Lindstrom & Christabelle
16. A Brag Mount – In Flagranti
17. Cold Coke feat. Sauveur Mallia – Pierre-Alain Dahan, Slim Pezin, Marc Chantereau, Georges Rodi, Jean Pierre Sabar
18. Heart Break Dancing – Downtown Party Network
19. Far Beneath London – Padded Cell
20. The Pretender (Holy Ghost Remix) – Datarock
21. Black Flag (Emperor Machine Remix) – Duchess Says
22. Horns Of Innocence (Xavier Naudascher Remix) – Rebotini

Andy Meecham’s Emperor Machine project debuted on DC Recordings in 2003 with the ‘Pro Mars’ 12″, but it was Vertical Tones And Horizontal Noise – a series of six 12″s released between 2005 and 2007 and collected on an album of the same name – that caused the world really to really sit up and take notice. Combining pure analogue experimentation with aspects of cosmic disco, smack-rock, kosmische, free jazz, ambient and house, Meecham created something akin to a total, all-encompassing psychedelia. These days the ‘Machine isn’t simply a solo studio project: it has a live band incarnation, which toured to great acclaim last year and will be hitting the road again this summer, including a date at Glastonbury. Space Beyond The Egg reflects – to some degree – the more organic, improvisational direction that The Emperor Machine has take, without compromising what made it great in the first place.

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