Archive | 2008

Stephen Hawkins – Disco Noir

Stephen Hawkins is a clubnight based in Malmo, Sweden and consists of Emil Broome, Harry White & RevK. The guys sent us this nice mixtape which fits quite nicely into the cosmic disco vibe and gives a great example of what sounds you can expect to hear over at their night. Head over to their [...]

Cosmic Disco – Best Of 2008

As 2008 draws to a close and we take stock, it’s safe to say that it’s been one heck of a year at Cosmic Disco HQ. We’ve featured some rather special mixes and interviews, flown in some of our favourite bands and DJ’s and made plenty of new friends along the way. There’s going to [...]

Analog Basement – On The Road Again

Analog Basement is a little corner of the internet where they say ‘Occassional sounds are brought up from the basement’. A record collector hailing from NYC Mark aka Basement Chimney (Dream Chimney) has been trying for some time to rectify two of his fondest earliest musical memories – Dark Side of The Moon & the [...]

Cosmic Jane – Children of Criminals

Experienced crate digger and edit-meister extrordinare Craig Smith aka Cosmic Jane kindly provides an excellent selection of Cosmic/Balearica to sooth you into the weekend. Residing on the moors high above Hebden Bridge he’s doing all he can to convince the locals there is more to music than tech house and reggae.  A man to our [...]

Victor R – Cosmic Terror Dystopia

Hailing from the small Agrarian province of Asturias in the northern part of Spain, Victor Ramos (aka Robot Disco Dystopia) is a 22 year old DJ who’s mixes have been generating some interest around the net. With a sound that leans heavily towards Acid, Techno, Electro, Italo & Chi-House, Victor has now started to make [...]

Disco Outcasts – Cosmic Disco Mix

Fellow Mancunians – Disco Outcast aka Stefano & Leo have been plying their trade on the local club circuit for some time and have over the last 12 months settled into a Saturday night residency at sleazy disco dive bar – Purple Pussycat where you can expect to hear the finest in disco, funk, boogie, [...]

Diggers Guide Update!

It’s been a while since we last posted in the ‘Diggers Guide’ section and that’s mainly because we are still clawing our way through the stock at two of our favourite shops: Custard Cube & Endless Music. Here’s a quick update: Custard Cube Records Custard Cube: Unit 23, Accrington Victoria Market Hall, Peel Street, Accrington, [...]

Sanjero – Check My Machine Part 1

The dropbox mixes keep on a-comin’ and the quality is as high as ever. This week’s mix comes courtesy of David Sanjero and his ‘Check My Machine’ mix. Sanjero – Check My Machine Cook Country – Star Wars Hot Rocks – Bless My Soul Jimmy Spicer – Dollar Bill (Instrumental) Lowrell Simon – Love Massage [...]

Baggy – Dig For Victory

It’s been quite some time since I last posted one of my own mixes and I’m still (Albeit slowly…) working on the final installment of the Space Race series which will be a ‘Best of’ mix featuring my favourite tracks taken from the previous 9 editions. In the meantime I threw together a little compilation [...]

Zyron – Cosmic Disco Exclusive

Zyron provided us some great music back in March 2007 so it was great to hear back from the man himself, especially as he had a spanking new mix for our ears. Featuring a staggering 28 tracks within 100 minutes is a challenge for anyone but friend of the site Zyron pulls it off with [...]

Todd Jackin' E Cosmic Disco Mix

A day late on this one so please accept our sincerest apologies. Right, without further ado, we are going to let the mix do the talking. It’s another installment from our excellent series of ‘Dropbox’ mixes from German DJ Torsten Schneider aka Todd Jackin’ E. Tracklist is currently unavailable so spot away… Todd Jackin’ E [...]

Tom Savarese – Land's End, Cornwall

This weekend’s guest mix sees the second in a series of exclusive new mixes from DJ legend Tom Saverese. During his disco days, Tom had a reputation as one of the finest musical programmers around, pushing the very latest sounds to the thousands of dancers who would flock to hear him play. With a commitment [...]

Sugamouth – One Too Many DJ's

Yorkshire based producer Andrew Porritt aka ‘Sugamouth‘ first cut his clubbing teeth at northern institutions such as Hard Times and Back 2 Basics. In addition to being inspired by the music played at these clubs, Andrew is influenced by the work of Prins Thomas, Francois K, The Glimmers, Angel Moreas, Jazzanova & (One time Manchester [...]

Clipper – Carnival in Space

This week’s guest ‘Dropbox’ mix comes all the way from Sofia, Bulgaria. Selected and mixed by 24 year old DJ Clipper, he first started to appreciate electronic music through the Bulgarian parties of the late 90′s and as a direct result began to DJ in 2004, heavily influenced by Gigolo artists in addition to spending [...]

Love in C-Minor – DJ Sets

Once again, massive thank you’s go out to all those who managed to make it down to The Deaf Institute last Friday for what was an amazing party where POLLYester, Mooner, Kaput & Niles all played absolute blinders. For pictures of the evening click here. In attendance were a number of journalists and the first [...]

DJ Russo – Analog Space

Great music is great music and here at Cosmic Disco we like to present sounds mixed and compiled by those you may have yet to hear from. Via our new ‘Dropbox’ facility we have already had some really strong productions and mixtapes sent to us and to kick things off we have DJ Russo who [...]

Tom Savarese Guest Mix

Tom Savarese was one of the pioneers of the 1970′s disco scene. A legendary DJ in every sense of the word. For those of you in need of a little history lesson: *Takes deep breath* Voted the No.1 Disco DJ by Billboard Magazine’s music forums on several occasions. The first DJ to edit a top [...]

JAZ – Show Me On The Doll Part 5

As mentioned previously on Cosmic Disco, JAZ is one of our favourite mixmeister’s. We are pleased to bring you part 5 of his ‘Show Me On The Doll’ mix series, of which preceding parts of this series have been featured on sites such as Lovefingers and Talking in Stereo. Not content with cooking up brilliant [...]

Shahrokh Sound of K – Dripping Point

DJ, producer and music club owner – Shahrokh Dini teams up with Andreas Kohler (aka Andy Fabulous) as ‘Shahrokh Sound of K’, the deep house project formed back in 2006 that can be found on the influential Compost ‘Black Label’. Where Shahrokh started DJ’ing back in 1995, Andreas was a student of classical music, working [...]

Cosmic Disco Presents… Love in C-Minor

We finally set up our stall at Manchester’s Deaf Institute on Friday 17th October with Germany’s POLLYester (LIVE), DJ Mooner (Compost/Elaste Slow Motion Disco) & DJ Kaput (Rocktronik) in addition to support from your very own Cosmic Disco residents. With influences taken from Italo, Punk & Disco, POLLYester are the bastard love child of The [...]

Niles – Slow Motion Technology

Me on mixing duties again this week but this one is about as far away from last week’s as you are ever likely to get. A 70 minute plus collection of slowed down techno, pitched up downtempo and ethnic sounds. There’s some re-edits, a couple of disco-y numbers in there and some Afrobeat. Take it [...]

Jacques Renault Guest Mix

This weeks guest mix comes courtesy of NYC resident – Jacques Renault. After working as a buyer at Chicago’s legendary Gramaphone Records, Jacques exposure to house music led him back to searching out classic disco and relocating himself to it’s spiritual home – New York City. Voted ‘Best NYC DJ’ by Papers Night Life Awards, [...]

Niles – Stop:Reject

An uptempo ‘party’ mix for you this week. Featuring tracks from all the kids’ favourite genres of the moment there’s some Nu-Disco, some Italo, some Fidget/Wonk (really, I don’t make these genres up), some Disco, some Electro, some Acid and some Techno. There’s even a few cosmic disco re-edits. The tracklist is in order in [...]

Electrospective – Manchester Pre-Rave 82>88

Highly recommended event taking place this Saturday, 30th August at Islington Mill, Salford. There’s no charge for attending the daytime sessions then it’s a measly £6 for the evening party which kicks off from 10pm. Get your tickets from Fat City, Piccadilly Records or online at Quay Tickets. Here’s the spiel: Manchester District Music Archive [...]