Drawing on material that’s over 30 years old, David Byrne arrived in Manchester last night for yet another sold out show of the UK leg of his world tour to perform works from his vast output during the sometimes turbulent partnership with uber-producer Brian Eno. After a 28 year break (‘My Life In The Bush [...]
Jose Luis is a B.A Economics student all the way from Mexico City. Not content with concentrating solely on his studies, he’s also been making music for almost 3 years laying down Acoustic, Bossa, Experimental and Synth Pop, stating he works with ‘Sounds’ and not just ‘Genres’. With a full length record already to his [...]
Those thoroughly nice people over at A Hole in the Sky asked me to do them a mix and it’s just gone up on their site so please, go take a look and listen and scope their blog while you’re there. Usual mixture of Funk Rock, Space Pop and Cosmic plodders. http://www.aholeintheskyblog.blogspot.com/
As the weekend is almost upon us here’s a quick heads up on a couple of the best parties that demand your attention: First up we have I-N-S-I-D-E, a new party that not only has some of the best guest DJ’s scheduled to headline but has a great concept to help push it forward. What’s [...]
Needing no introduction to regular Cosmic Disco readers we have the ever (And very highly) consistent The Cosmic Truth as they bring Mancunian leg-end Balearic Mike to the big smoke on Saturday 28th March, bringing a little sunshine into Londoners lives. The Cosmic Truth have worked hard to gain a reputation for organising some of [...]
Today’s mix is kindly provided by Bretton Bird, one part of Pearl Flash. The guys host a monthly party, every first Friday of the month at Old Blue Last, London. Their next installment is on Friday 3rd April where they have Jupiter playing for the very first time in the U.K after they support Metronomy in [...]
Antoni Maiovvi is a lone survivor, the last bastion of human existence. He sees this landscape through a visor of green vectors. When hes not tracking down and killing the beasts that tore his own family limb for limb, decorating the backdoor of his house to his baby daughters garden play-frame in a rough coat [...]
Something a little different to kick off your week… Carl Sadd aka ‘Jim’ll Mix It’ first stop on the road to musical enlightenment came in the form of the Hacienda in the mid-90′s at he tail end of Manchester’s hedonistic Acid House scene. What followed was a journey through numerous genres of dance music but [...]
Good friend of Cosmic Disco, Silvestre provides this weekend’s guest mix with a selection of Nu-Disco nuggets. Midweek resident at Manchester’s Disco Dive Bar – The Purple Pussycat, Silvestre’s Sonorama Beatdown mix showcases his sound perfectly. In addition to to playing at The Purple Pussycat Silvestre is also a member of the Close Encounters collective [...]
The nice chaps over at Futuresonic have this year asked us to DJ with no other than cosmic legend Danielle Baldelli as part of their programme of club based events. After seeing/hearing Baldelli in the flesh at Electriks and Horse Meat Disco over the last 18 months it’s safe to say Danielle is a DJ [...]