Let’s be clear right from the get-go:

This is the best Cosmix iteration since the serie’s inception.

Period.

I could very well stop here and let the music do the talking, but I still feel like making introductions for this monster…

Yes, monster.

Nothing short of that.

Why?

Well, for one, because its 43 tracks make for a three hours and fifty-three minutes listening experience.

And also because, even though many hours of preparation were involved, it was recorded in one straight take with no edits or touch-ups, and nothing but a bowl of cafe latte in this DJ…

Needless to say I am extremely proud of the final result of this session, for the following reasons (among others):

• The track selection is (humbly) flawless. It ranges from your basic Boogie to Jazz-Funk influenced Electronica to downright Deep House and Electro and even a few that are impossible to categorize, all the while keeping to the spirit of the Cosmix series.
• The mixing is (again, humbly) spot on. As usual, there are many long, drawn-out mixes, the longest one clocking in at 5 minutes (by that I mean that two tracks play at the same time and at the same volume for 5 minutes).
• I felt like it was ages since I had recorded the last Cosmix, even though it’s not even been 6 months.
• I was afraid the series was dying from lack of interesting material, but these 43 tracks have given me hope for the future.

Still, that being said, I haven’t given away one iota if this mix’ intensity and the music still has the whole stage to speak for itself and make you its slave!

Oh! And if you’re wondering about the lysergic thing, well… Let’s just say there’s plenty of acid sprinkled throughout…

P.S.: Yes. the title of the last track IS a message…

Enjoy!

As usual, you can stream it
Monsieur Seb’s Cosmix volume 9: Lysergic Emanations from Outer Space or download it by right-clicking the image on the right.

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TRACKLISTING

Monsieur Seb’s Cosmix volume 9: Lysergic Emanations from Outer Space

1. Gladys Knight (Alex Barck Remix) – Prommer & Barck (2011)
2. You Know I Know It – Tensnake (2011)
3. Fine Taste Cliche – Danel (2010)
4. Get Together (Ooft Deep Dub) – Bubba & T-Bone (2011)
5. Express – Black Van (2011)
6. Love – Alphabet City (2011)
7. Pinisi – Midnight Savari (2011)
8. White Dwarf – Marco Passarani (2011)
9. Repitition (Art Of Tones Remix) – Evan Evans (2011)
10. Do You Believe? (James Curd Instrumental Mix) – Poolside (2011)
11. Love The Freak (Loose Fit Remix) – Duffstep (2011)
12. Shower Show – Chicken Lips present The Rhythm Odyssey (2011)
13. Berlin Sunrise – Daniel Wang (2004)
14. Hot On The Heels – Soft Metals (2011)
15. Acid Reflux (Prins Thomas Diskomiks) – Ulysses (2011)
16. 90 Seconds – Kael Misko (2011)
17. Soho Phaze (Faze Action Edit) – Elixia (2011)
18. Kilimanjaro (The Revenge Reekin’struction) – Letta Mbulu (2011)
19. This Groove Is On The Loose (My Cousin Roy’s Way Past Due Mix) – Greyship Daviz (2010)
20. No One Belongs Here More Than You (Ewan’s Balearos Maximos Remix) – Martin Dawson & Glimpse (2011)
21. Discuss – Stopmakingme (2010)
22. Teamgeist Feat. Patrick Pulsinger – Wolfram (2011)
23. Going To Chicago – Weekend Express (2011)
24. Bozak – Rune Lindbaek & Frisvold (2010)
25. Chick Chick – Toby Tobias (2009)
26. Galactic Juju – Kid Who (2011)
27. Yeah (Jay Shepheard Remix) – Ooft (2011)
28. Vacuum Phenomenon (Ytre Rymden Dansskola Remix) – Kelton Prima (2011)
29. Stockholm Syndrome – Beatfanatic (2010)
30. In Your Eyes (Black Strobe Instrumental Remix) – James Curd & Ziggy Franklin (2011)
31. My House (Stopmakingme Remix) – Hercules & Love Affair (2011)
32. Into Your Face – Downtown Party Network (2008)
33. Good Day Today (Diskjokke Remix) – David Lynch (2011)
34. Galli (Give It Up) – Bottin & Rodion (2010)
35. Love Papers – Toby Tobias (2011)
36. New Years Eve – Chaim (2010)
37. I Want It (Lindstrom & Prins Thomas Remix) – Locussolus (2011)
38. I’m Gonna Make You Dance – Wagon Cookin’ (2010)
39. Dayshift (Oliver’s Nightshift Remix) – Juan Atkins (2011)
40. Killing Jokes – The Glimmers (2010)
41. KKK – G.A.N.G. (1983)
42. The Car – Gianni Rossi (2011)
43. Start It Again – Datassette (2001)

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!

As usual, you can stream it
cosmix4 or download it by right-clicking the image on the right.

As always, your donations are welcome to help me pay for the file hosting!

 

TRACKLISTING

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

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 a CD, but stupid me, I didn’t think of checking on eMusic, first, if they had it, and they did) and gave it a good listen.

WHOA! Cool!

What’s more, I discovered in the meantime that the band is fronted by Quinn Luke, better known (to me at least) as Bing Ji Ling, a name I discovered through the Ubiquity’s Rewind series of covers complilations, where he had notably done a very cool cover of AC/DC’s (You Shook Me) All Night Long.

Now, I’ve read here and there that TIHCB were come kind of 70s revival band, but if you ask me, they are just doing an americanized (I mean that in a nice way) version of Cosmic Disco!

In other words: if you like the Handclap band and don’t know Lindstrøm & Prins Thomas, you need to get into them, and if you know L&PT but haven’t heard of the Handclap band yet, don’t waste any more time!

BBE Music's Night Dubbin 3CD compilation

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, then, is a dub mix? It’s basically a dancefloor friendly remix of a track stripped down to it’s core elements, and back then, it’s the DJs themselves that created their dub version in the studio during the day in order to spin them at night. The luminaries of the genre are all well represented in the track selection (as well as interviwed in the generous booklet), with, first and foremost, François K(evorkian, a hero of mine), the legendary Larry Levan, Paul Simpson, John Morales and Nick Martinelli (as M&M), Shep Pettibone and Tee Scott.

BBE Music just released an amazing 3CD compilation of such seminal Dub Mixes from that era. CD1 is a mix CD by the Idjut Boys while CD2+3 contain 21 unmixed tracks in their full length glory. That’s 6 more in total than the mix contains! Now that’s value for your money — and if you buy it direct from BBE Music, the package only costs 9£ + 3.46£ S&H (to Canada), which, with a rough currency exchange rate, comes to about 25$!

I can’t stress enough the high quality of this compilation and it’s historic value, for most of these records are no doubt hard to find, to say the least.

The subtitle of the compilation is “a dubbed out collection of classic 80s dance music”, but I propose this one instead: “a priceless compilation of trippy disco and early electro mixes by the masters of the genre”.

Below, I propose to you one of the tracks that really flipped me out upon my first listening session of the Idjut mix. I’d never heard of this track or even the RAH Band (RAH standing for Richard Anthony Hewson) and it totally blew my mind!

The RAH Band – Clouds Over the Moon (Super Nova Mix)

The RAH Band – Clouds Over the Moon (Super Nova Mix)

Further readings

• An interview with Dimitri and the Idjuts in the Village Voice
• AMG’s entry on Night Dubbin

Further listenings

• Monsieur Seb’s Cosmix, 3, 2, 1, liftoffMonsieur Seb’s Cosmix, 3, 2, 1, liftoff
• Monsieur Seb’s Cosmix, Second OrbitMonsieur Seb’s Cosmix, Second Orbit
• Monsieur Seb’s Cosmix, Third Rock from the SunMonsieur Seb’s Cosmix, Third Rock from the Sun
• Lindstrøm & Prins Thomas Radio One Essential MixLindstrøm & Prins Thomas Radio One Essential Mix

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!

As usual, you can stream it
cosmix or download it by right-clicking the image on the right.

As always, your donations are welcome to help me pay for the file hosting!

 

TRACKLISTING

Monsieur Seb’s Cosmix — Recorded Live January 2nd 2008

1. Kids with Sex Bits (Monsieur Seb’s mashup of Kids with Guns (Quiet Village Remix) [Gorillaz] and Dave’s Sex Bits (Quiet Village Remix) [Toby Tobias]
2. Music (In My Mind) – Lindtrøm feat. Christabelle
3. Mount Pleasant Lane (Spuns Manthrax) – Mudd
4. Illusion (Lindstrøm Dub) – Imagination
5. Let’s Practice – Lindstrøm feat. Solale
6. Rex Drums – Christian Prommer’s DrumLesson
7. Barbie’s Back – Golden Bug
8. Sentimental Breakdown – Doc L Junior
9. Secret Pillow (Prins Thomas Remix) – Bermuda Triangle
10. Clairevoyage (16th Rebels Of Mung Medley) – Dominique Leone
11. Get Innocuous! (Soulwax Remix) – LCD Soundsystem
12. Original Highway Delight (Mungolian Jet Set’s Miami Camp Mix) – LSB
13. Jurassico (Prins Thomas Miks Del 1 & 2) – Nemesi
14. Dragon (Shit Robot Remix) – Dondolo
15. Stratus Energy (Special Disco mix) – Faze Action
16. Another Station (Todd Terje Remix) – Lindstrøm
17. All Flowers Must Fade – Daniel Wang
18. Erodyne – Metro Area
19. Erotic Discourse (2020 Livestyle Reversion) – Paul Woolford aka Bobby Peru
20. Speak & Spell (Putsch 79 Remix) – Will Saul
21. Nummer Fire En – Lindstrøm & Prins Thomas