Cosmo sessions by Adil Hiani & guests, guest of the week @soel-sadiki (Plangent records)

Cosmo session 059 guest SOEL 24-12-18

All inquiries: contact[at]cosmorecords.com
Booking requests b[at]cosmorecords.com
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Founded in 2009, Cosmo Records is a Moroccan electronic music label desiring to create touch points between Western, Latin,  West-African and Oriental music.

Owing to its unique creative process, the label is seeking to spearhead a revolutionary form of blending various musical spectrums. In so doing, world famous electronic artists and traditional musicians meet in Morocco's finest music studios to produce original sounds at the confluence of music styles ranging from minimal, tech house and house to the psychedelic practice of Bamako's Kora.

Artists are brought from a wide diversity of backgrounds, which makes any track of the label’s music a fascinating journey where experimental sounds coming out of the most technical devices keep echoing traditional ambiences.

More than anything, Cosmo records acts as a bridging artist community fostering the dialogue between sophisticated western music and ancestral afro-oriental sounds. That undoubtedly gives the label’s universe its unique touch. The Cosmo touch.
Words by Reda Cherif.
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Operating out of Casablanca, Morocco, Cosmo records has made its purpose clear; to fuse experimental house and techno with traditional African musicianship in a cultural dialogue that spans generations and continents in search of thrilling new musical forms. 

Over the past years, Cosmo has called upon some of the finest producers in the most adventurous corners of 4/4 dance music to collaborate with players of the kora, guembri, lute and many more forms of percussion and melodic instrumentation. The chosen artists congregate at the Cosmo recording studios in Casablanca, which acts as a hub for these disparate musical energies to come together in a fusion of seasoned, learned performances and hyper-modern electronic processes. 

Amongst the most notorious artists that have contributed to the label so far are Masomenos, RADIQ, Argenis Brito and Pier Bucci, while Moroccan producer Adil Hiani provides a local focus to the electronic side of the creative process, as well as conducting the A&R for the label.
Words Oli Warwick.

For an artist who takes such an analytic approach to electronic music, Danny Geiyer imposes remarkably little ego onto his craft. A well-traveled house and techno DJ with a globe-spanning repertoire, he’s opted to humbly collect and share experiences rather than glorify his role as a selector.

A current PhD candidate in the field of mechanical engineering, Danny’s grasp of music is rooted in his comprehension of physics itself. It hasn’t translated into rigid or sterile music by any means; consisting of obscure records from such locales as South Africa and Iceland, each of his mixes takes the listener on an introspective journey.

It was only a matter of time before music came to play such a prominent role in Danny’s life. While growing up in Queens, New York, his parents had encouraged more scholarly pursuits – but as a teenager, he more or less taught himself to beatmatch on instinct while switching between YouTube videos of songs. Only later on in life would it occur to him that he had, in essence, been DJing.

Attending a performance by Erick Morillo during a NASA internship in Los Angeles on his 21st birthday marked the tipping point at which he finally dove headfirst into electronic music. After the event drew to a close, he rode his bicycle to Guitar Center and purchased a Hercules DJ RMX live controller to begin immersing himself in the finer points of disc jockeying.

Danny landed his first DJ gig at a Rochester, New York nightclub called Decibel Lounge in 2012. He held down a residency at nearby O Lounge soon after, and eventually added such venues as Suite B and Sandwich Bar in Orlando, and Bar 13 in Union Square, New York to his résumé while traveling between the two locations. Although the aforementioned controller will always have a special place in his heart, he now has two CDJ 2000s, a DJM 2000, a Stanton Turntable and a Moog Sub 37 at his disposal.

He became more deeply involved in house and techno after a trip to the Netherlands to attend the 2015 edition of Amsterdam Dance Event helped him hone in on a more specific career direction. Then, after making the acquaintance of Steyoyoke label boss Soul Button and discovering that the imprint’s releases spoke to his own sensibilities, he traveled to Berlin to attend the Steyoyoke 4th Anniversary celebration and forged connections with many of its signees.

In September of 2016, he uploaded a techno mix to his SoundCloud account without realizing the opportunity that doing so would afford him. Within ten minutes, the curator of the Berlin Deep Selected contacted him and asked him to take it down so that they could feature it as the 13th episode of their radio show. Danny has allowed his DJ career to grow organically, and sincere, authentic partnerships such as these have come to define his musical career as a result.

In addition, as his knowledge of music has deepened Danny has found that it overlaps more with his research than he may have initially suspected. His PhD dissertation deals largely with the induction chaotic oscillations in non-linear systems – which, in layperson terms, is a way to make order out of chaos at the macroscopic level. The conclusions of his research apply predominantly to technological advancements in fields like structural health monitoring and wildlife tracking, but he’s begun to conceptualize ways to build systems of synth parameters along what are called “chaotic attractors” to yield sounds that have yet to be used by contemporary electronic music producers.

As forward-thinking as he is, though, Danny Geiyer’s passivity as a DJ speaks to his deep understanding of the fundamental tenets of the artform. His natural musicianship shines through in every performance he delivers, so it’s only a matter of time before his name is well known among house and techno enthusiasts.

I’m crazy about music . 
Mostly listen to deep- progressive- afro-house music and all kinds of techno ❤️ 
Looking for like-minded people in music and good music of course 🤗

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