Written and produced by Billy Cosmosis (William Bryan Halsey)
Recorded at the Vibrazone studio aboard Narrowboat Auriga, England

Cosmosis Chill: Tropical Psytrance . Deep mystic grooves for dancing on tropical beaches or swinging in hammocks under palm trees.

Inner Realms

Cosmosis Chill - Inner Realms

Extracted from an improvised one hour live jam performed by sax wizard Ahmad Schiftner and myself at Etnica's Sound Farm studio, Ibiza 🎹

The result of an experiment to see what would come out by mixing up live dub, funk beats, jazz and a pinch of psychedelia 😎🎵🤟

Look out for more mix downs from the same live session.

Alto sax:  Ahmad Schiftner
Guitar, Live loop mixing, dub delay FX: Billy Cosmosis

Written, produced and mixed by William Halsey (Billy Cosmosis)
Mixed aboard Narrowboat Auriga, England

https://cosmosis.bandcamp.com/track/jazzadelic-dub

Jazzadelic Dub - Cosmosis Chill

*Hot off the press*   A brand new track in Cosmosis' unique trademark style: full power melodic Psytrance with a twist of Goa.

Warning: Dance floor mind-melter

Written, produced and mixed by William Halsey (Billy Cosmosis)
Mixed aboard Narrowboat Auriga, England

144 bpm

Cosmic Gypsy

Cosmosis - Cosmic Gypsy

Retrodelic Vibes 8

The Cave of Medusa

Cosmosis Chill DJ Set  - Mixed by Billy Cosmosis
Track List:

1 Contact - Cosmosis
2 The Himalaya - Cosmosis Chill
3 Parvati Pines - Cosmosis Chill
4 Turn On Tune In - Cosmosis Chill (Live performance by Cosmosis, Quantica & 5 Sonic Species ) 
6 Afterglow - Cosmosis
7 Dubstation - Cosmosis & Quantica (live mix)
8 Floating - Cosmosis Chill
9 Roswell - Cosmosis
10 Shanti - Cosmosis Chill
11 Stratocruise - Cosmosis Chill
12 Govinda - Cosmosis Chill
13 Wishing on a Star - Rose Royce - Cosmosis Chill version
14 Drops of Light - Cosmosis Chill
15 Flying High - Cosmosis Chill
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Guitars - Billy Cosmosis

Cosmosis Chill DJ Set - Mixed by Billy Cosmosis

Not my usual stuff but hear it out!  My version of "I'm the Slime"  by Frank Zappa.    More appropriate for our times  than when it was first recorded - for obvious reasons to anybody paying attention over the past 3 years...   Enjoy!  :)  BIlly Cosmosis   Watch the video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdAA6YgNAuw

Vocals, guitars, production:  Billy Cosmosis




I am gross and perverted
I'm obsessed 'n deranged
I have existed for years
But very little has changed
I'm the tool of the government
And industry too
For I am destined to rule
And regulate you

I may be vile and pernicious
But you can't look away
I make you think I'm delicious
With the stuff that I say
I'm the best you can get
Have you guessed me, yet?
I'm the slime oozin' out
From your TV set

You will obey me while I lead you
And eat the garbage that I feed you
Until the day that we don't need you
Don't go for help, no one will heed you
Your mind is totally controlled
It has been stuffed into my mold
And you will do as you are told

I'm The Slime

I'm The Slime - Billy Cosmosis

Classic Cosmosis floor filler from the mid 90's.   

Crank it up loud! 

Composed by Bill Halsey and Jez Van Kampen

Cosmosis - Gift Of The Gods 1996 [Free Download]

Banging psychedelic mayhem meets the deep south delta blues and morphs together in an ecstatic screaming 303 acid line filter-fest as Carlos Santana waxes lyrical about the first time he heard a recording of Jimi Hendrix playing the blues...

Taken from the Cosmosis album:  Psychedelica Melodica



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Martian Blues - Cosmosis

Old school Goa vibes - first appeared on Return To The Source compilation album in 1996

Cosmosis - Telekinetic - 1996 [Free Download .wav]

One of the tracks often dropped by the ADJ's  from Alpha Centauri in the disco bar on the edge of the universe.   Best enjoyed whilst sipping slowly on a Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster...

Originally Released on Transient Records 1996

Cosmosis - Alien Disco 1996 [Free Download]

A trippy little number with a hint of Goa and more than a dash of funk. A Bootsy driven bassline funks forwards as a bodaceous babe contemplates the various pros and cons of the Goa partay...

A colourful, cosmotic collaboration concocted by Cosmosis and Colorshape.

First appeared on Flying Spores Volume 1 compilation on 6-12-14

All Funked Up

Cosmosis & Colorshape - All Funked Up

Classic Cosmosis Goa dance floor anthem from the mid 90's. Released in 1996 on the Cosmology album (12" vinyl and CD ) 

Also appeared on 6 other CD compilation albums.

Cosmosis - Key To The Innerverse - Retro Goa '96

Chill tune on the end of the Cosmology album. 

Bonus trivia factoid:
This is the album's reprise, as such it contains all the vocal samples from the other album tracks...

Cosmosis - Afterglow

The (rare) original mix of Ancient Knowledge by Cosmosis & Burn in Noise

Written & produced by William Halsey & Gustavo Manfroni @ Burnie's studio, Brasilia, Brazil.



Cosmosis & Burn In Noise  - Ancient Knowledge (original mix)

Storming old school Cosmosis Goa Trance tune from 1997 caught at the point where the sound at parties was gradually developing into something harder and less melodic, later to be called "Psytrance" 

Released on Transient 5 in 1997

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Reality Check - Cosmosis '97

Cosmosis track released 1998 on 12" vinyl

Trivia:
No one ever noticed that that fierce synth riff that rips in @ 5.05 is pays homage to Led Zeppelin's "Whole Lotta Love"  Which surprised me as it's such iconic riff. Same key too.   
Just shows what you can get away with by a bit of sneaky re-contextualization  :)

Cosmosis - Pigs In Space (Retro - 1998)

Soaring high on rarified mystical vibrations. Deep in the high Himalayan valleys if you sit quietly in the windless silence you can just hear distant echos: the sound of Parvati pining for Shiva...

Produced by Cosmosis   Guitar: Billy Cosmosis

Parvati Pines - Cosmosis Chill

"Pyrokinetic" the second studio collaboration between Hypnocoustics & Cosmosis

Appears on the forthcoming Hypnocoustics album: Transformational Structures on Liquid Records - December 2015

Photo: Cosmosis & Hypnocoustics @ Somuna Festival, Switzerland

Written & produced by Hypnocoustics & Cosmosis.  This mix by Joe Hypno.

Hypnocoustics & Cosmosis - Pyrokinetic

Feel the lerve... :)
I wrote this a few years ago. Not at all the usual Cosmosis thing...  It's an unashamed guitar fest and a nod to some of my musical influences;  there's some elements of Steve Hillage, Floyd, Hendrix and others floating about in there... 

Written & produced by Billy Cosmosis
Guitars: Billy Cosmosis
Guitar gear:  Plank:  Ibanez S670FM -> Axe FX amp modeller.  Vox model WahWah pedal.

Unconditional

A vintage Cosmosis track written years ago, that I never released mainly because the tempo shifts and time signature changes makes it impossible for most DJ's to mix.    But hey, occasionally some musical ideas ask to be allowed to develop naturally without considerations about making it DJ friendly.  This was one of those... 

Carlos Santana refers to his somewhat "discomboobulated" state before his gig at Woodstock after foolishly ingesting some cardboard. 

Written by William Bryan Halsey @ The Vibrazone. 
Programming, guitar & mixing - Cosmosis

Discomboobulated

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Discomboobulated - Cosmosis

Phat, melodic Goa in the "victory tune" style written especially for those sunrise sets.

From the Fumbling For The Funky Frequency album.  
Written, produced and mixed by Billy Cosmosis @ The Vibrozone, Switzerland.

Fumbling For The Funky Frequency

Cosmosis - The Eternal Now

Music created by Cosmosis - Tracks mixed by Cosmosis 

Cosmosis Live! [ Free Download! ]

From the sleeve notes from the Psychedelica Melodica album:

8. Spanish Gypsy

Until quite recently I lived the Sierra Guadarrama mountains in Spain for several years where I was exposed to a lot of excellent Flamenco music, which is the music of the Gypsies or Romani. 

Being a guitarist myself I couldn't help but get sucked into figuring out how to play this style on guitar. While I was learning, I was struck by the similarity between Flamenco and North African and Indian music and when I analysed it, I found that they share certain musical scales. (interestingly the Romani were originally a nomadic tribe from northen India that travelled to Europe in the12th century) 

Another musical conjunction was the similarity (to me) between the harmony and rhythm of the opening bars of that quintessentially Spanish dance the Pasa Doble and a lot of Trance built on a gallop rhythm. 

So the original inspirational spark began with the possibility of combining all these musical threads into one piece of music. So, I started by creating the melody on a Flamenco scale, over the rhythm of the Pasa Doble with it's semi-tone harmonic movement and mixed that with certain elements of the older Indian influenced Goa-trance sound, but built it all on a foundation of the big kick and bass from the more modern Psytrance sound. 

Later I dusted off the (steel strung) acoustic and recorded some melodic guitar parts using some newly learned Flamenco licks to emphasis the Gitano flavour. 

The track you hear is the result of this weird musical synthesis of Goa, Psy trance, Flamenco and the Pasa Doble.

Billy Cosmosis


Spanish Gypsy  - Cosmosis [Free mp3 download!]

"We have to keep it rockin' so no one comes-a-knockin..."

From the sleeve notes of the Psychedelica Melodica album:

4. Dance of The Cosmic Serpent

The title is inspired by anthropologist Jeremy Narby's book " The Cosmic Serpent" in which he suggests among other things that the global network of DNA based life is actually a conscious entity and furthermore that the human mind can enter into communication with this DNA consciousness via trance states, enthogenic experiences etc. and by doing so receive detailed and specific information and wisdom.  (think shamen for example)

The dance of the cosmic serpent in the title refers to the total manifestation of this underlying consciousness via the massive variety of lifeforms on planet Earth including us - human beings.  The total of all lifeforms is the dance, the manifestation of it.

This idea along with an already existing notion of mine to create a track purely based around a strong central melody were combined for this track. I derived the melody from an Arabic sounding scale because to me it sounds kind of wiggley and serpentine and often seems to suggest snake charmer music.

Given that I wanted the tune to be the centre piece I approached the composition in a different manner.  Rather than starting out with the kick and bassline as I often do, instead I sat down with a guitar, decided on the implied harmonic movement ( G major, G# major, F minor) and made sure that I had definitively composed the entire tune before booting up the sequencer. Once I had the melody fixed, I built the track up around it. 

Billy Cosmosis

Dance of the Cosmic Serpent - Cosmosis  [FREE DOWNLOAD]

Down At The Crossroads - Cosmosis [FREE DOWNLOAD] 1998

"Dissolution" is the 4th in a series of tracks taken from a multitrack recording of a live electronic studio jam session between Cosmosis & Quantica recorded in February 2018 

Eric Quantica: Ableton laptop - loop triggering, synth cutoff tweakage, live synth. 
Billy Cosmosis: Electric guitar & pedals, synth, arpeggiation tweakage.

Post production editing, tweaking & mastering: Cosmosis

"The cloud-capped towers, the gorgeous palaces,
The solemn temples, the great globe itself—
Yea, all which it inherit—shall dissolve,
And like this insubstantial pageant faded,
Leave not a rack behind."     The Tempest - William Shakespeare

Dissolution

**Watch video**  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wn0kVJEyiJs               
   
"The Sweet Side of Darkness" (108 bpm)- the second track created from a live electronic jam session between Cosmosis, Quantica & Sonic Species - Ibiza, May 2018  - Guitar solos from the live session.  Video: https://youtu.be/LfH2QLHdesM

wav available at the buy link.
 
Billy Cosmosis: Electric guitar & pedals, synth, arpeggiation tweakage
Eric Quantica: Ableton loop triggering, synth cutoff tweakage, live synth
Joe Sonic Species: Synths, bass guitar & trippy noises 

Post production tweaking & mastering: Cosmosis

The Sweet Side of Darkness

Raw and uncut...  Recording direct from the mixer: Cosmosis and Ajja live on the Chill Stage at Neverland Festival, Israel, October 2012

Alien Jams - *Live* - Ajja & Cosmosis - @ Neverland Festival - Israel

Synergy by Cosmosis 1998  Originally released on Transient Records on double vinyl and CD format. Cover painting by Tim Dow.

From the sleeve notes:

7. Down At The Crossroad. 

After an interview on a dance radio station in Greece last summer, Jez and I were taken to lunch by the radio D.J and a few radio staff. After a while of chatting, the interviewer asked in a rather concerned tone whether what she had heard was true, about psychedelic trance in fact being a devil worship cult. I looked at her in the eye and replied with a look of po faced seriousness, that it was indeed true, and if she was ever to come to the U.K. that Jez and I could take her to one and we could all worship the devil together. At which point she physically jumped about 2 inches off the chair as if I had suddenly sprouted a pair of red horns and a tail. I took the next 5 minutes explaining to her that I was joking and that it wasn't true. Poor woman to this day I don't think she believed me. I must say I thought the d.j.s and producers on the trance music scene were beyond such judeo/christian superstitions, looks like I was wrong. After all, I suppose the devil does have all the best tunes  :)

7 Down At The Crossroads - Cosmosis

Synergy by Cosmosis 1998  Originally released on Transient Records on double vinyl and CD format. Cover painting by Tim Dow.

From the sleeve notes:

3. Spores From Space (a microscopic trace) 

Did magic mushroom spores travel across the void of space carried by solar winds? Or were they brought by benevolent extra terrestrials with our own interests at heart, with the intention of providing us with a tool to allay our self destructive nature? Or is this just a load of old cack? If so, Albert Hoffman must be an alien in disguise or at the very least, an undercover agent working for them.

3 Spores From Space - Cosmosis

Dubbed out live studio jam.  Recorded in Ibiza winter 2018  by 
Cosmosis & Quantica  (Abraxas) 


Eric Quantica, Ableton, Bass, synthesizer tweakage
Billy Cosmosis, Ableton, Screaming electric guitar, dub delays

Written & produced by Cosmosis & Quantica    
Mixing: Billy Cosmosis

Dubstation

Cosmosis Chilll - Tropical Psytrance:   Deep mystic grooves for dancing under palms on warm moonlit beaches  😎         
Available here: https://cosmosis.bandcamp.com/track/flying-high-cosmosis-chill
Cover art:    GTgraphics.de
Written and produced by Billy Cosmosis (William Bryan Halsey)
Synths & Guitar: Billy Cosmosis
Recorded in the Vibrazone aboard Narrowboat Auriga, England

Flying High

Tropical Psytrance: Deep mystic grooves for dancing under palms on warm moonlit beaches 😎
Available here: https://cosmosis.bandcamp.com/track/shanti
Trippy guitar:  Billy Cosmosis
Recorded at the Vibrazone studio aboard Narrowboat Auriga on the inland waterways of England

Shanti

*Cosmosis + Quantica + Sonic Species*
A live remix/ jam.   *Live* performance captured in the studio. Ibiza 2018.   

Billy Cosmosis:          Guitar, Dub delay, Ableton loops
Eric Quantica:            Synth Pads, loops
Joe Sonic Species:    Synth 
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Mix and mastering:   Billy Cosmosis

Tropical Psy: Deep funky grooves for dancing under palms on warm moonlit beaches
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Turn On, Tune In

A live Saxadelic mix of Turn On, Tune In
  
Extracted from an improvised one hour live jam performed by sax wizard Ahmad Schiftner and myself at Etnica's Sound Farm studio in Ibiza 🎹   

The  result of an experiment to see what would come out by live mixing dub, funk beats, jazz and a pinch of psychedic 😎🎵🤟

I'll probably mix down and release a few other extracts and eventually the whole session.

Alto Saxophone:  Ahmad Schiftner
Live looping / mixing, dub delay & FX:  Billy Cosmosis

Post production mix & mastering: Billy Cosmosis 
Mixed aboard NB Auriga

Turn On Tune In (live Saxadelic mix)

Turn On Tune In - Cosmosis Chill - Live Saxadelic Mix *Free Download* (limited time)

Psychic Deli, Vol. 2

Kinda Weird (Original Mix)

Bill Halsey, the man behind Cosmosis  (side projects: Abraxas, Mumbo Jumbo ) is a former professional guitarist from London. 
As a pro guitarist he performed TV and radio shows, played with many bands, playing Rock, Funk, Jazz, Blues, Pop and Hip-Hop, and toured with bands around Europe and Australasia.
 
Bill says : "Being a session muso was a game of extremes; some of the bands that I played with contained some of the most incredibly talented musicians that I ever had the pleasure to blag my way onto a stage with. On the other hand many of the bands were way beyond bad and I ended up having to commit some of the most heinious musical crimes known to man on a very regular basis - in the name of making a living..."
 
Honing his writing and recording skills by composing and and recording pop tracks for ten years before an epiphany with dance music in the early 90's caused him to pursue creating electronic music.
 
Much in demand for live appearances playing his unique style of full power Psytrance, during the last 20 years Cosmosis live shows have occurred on dance floors quite literally all over the globe, in such places as:
 
Japan, Taiwan, Brazil, Israel, India, Bali, Germany, Australia, New Zealand, Colombia, United States, Egypt, Switzerland, Hungary, Sweden, Slovakia, Denmark, England, Spain, Canada, Serbia, Scotland, Belgium, Finland, Holland, Greece, South Africa, Russia, France, Turkey, Ireland, Cyprus, Mexico and Portugal, Croatia, Bulgaria, Austria, Italy, Macedonia and plays regularly in many of these countries
 
Bill now divides his time between making full power dance music in his studio, lazing about in a hammock with his acoustic guitar in the garden drinking Oolong tea, and touring the full power Cosmosis show on dance-floors and festivals worldwide.

Currently based in Ibiza  at "The Vibrozone" where he continues to create music both solo and in collaboration with other producers.

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