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Very pleased to host a mix from legendary DJ Colleen 'Cosmo' Murphy !

Originally from Massachusetts, she attended New York University where she was Program Director and a DJ at the university radio station WNYU.

Colleen has been a radio host, DJ and programme director since the age of fourteen and today hosts "Cosmodelica" and "Classic Album Sundays Worldwide" on Worldwide FM and "This Women’s Work" series for Public Radio International. Cosmodelica was selected by Time Out as one of the 10 best shows in London.

She is the writer and host of BBC 6 Music’s album series "Sounds of a City"and BBC Radio 4’s documentary series "Turntable Tales"]

Unfold Japan, a radio series she hosted for Worldwide FM and Asahi has been nominated for an ARIA Award in 2020 Audio and Radio Industry Awards for Best Branded Content.

As a DJ, Colleen was mentored by David Mancuso at his seminal Loft parties in New York City and became one of his most trusted friends and artistic collaborators. Together they co-produced the compilation series David Mancuso Presents The Loft Volumes One and Two, and worked together on David’s record label The Loft Audiophile Library of Music. In 2000, David told Time Out New York City “She is very devoted and very pure about the music. She’s one of the only people I would trust, both with the music and with the equipment, to fill in for me.” She was asked by David to help manage his legacy and continues to be one of the musical hosts at The Loft in NYC.

She is also the cofounder of the Lucky Cloud Loft parties in London which she co-founded with Mancuso and friends and DJs internationally on the world's best sound systems and dance floors.

In 2019, Colleen was nominated in the DJ Mag North America Hall of Fame and launched Love Dancin’ Sound System with Trojan Sound System's Daddy Ad at Gilles Peterson’s We Out Here Festival, sharing some of her musical and sonic passions to dancers outside of her existing communities.

As a producer, Colleen has remixed Roisin Murphy, The Rapture, Candi Staton, Phenomenal Handclap Band, Cantoma, Horace Andy or Chaka Khan & more under her Cosmodelica moniker and as DarkStarr Diskotek (with Ashley Beedle). Along with former Captain Beefheart guitarist Gary Lucas, she recorded and produced as Wild Rumpus.

She has also mixed her own compilations - New York Afterhours: A Later Shade of Deep(Nervous Records 1998), The Disco-Tech of DJ Cosmo (Yellow Productions 2003) and Psychedelic Disco-Tech: They Live by the Night as Darkstarr with Ashley Beedle.

Colleen's Classic Album Sundays platform tells the stories behind the albums that have shaped our culture and in some cases, our lives. She founded it as a stance against the increasing devaluation of music and sound. What began as a passion project is now the world’s most popular album listening event with satellites in four continents and the website and social media channels host content on classic albums and artists such as interviews, videos, playlists and more. BBC Breakfast Television remarked, “Classic Album Sundays treat our best loved records like great symphonies.”

Colleen and Classic Album Sundays are one of the leading pioneers and inspirations behind the resurgence of vinyl, listening venues and high quality sound.

She has hosted events with talent such as Jarvis Cocker, Pink Floyd’s Nick Mason, Jazzie B OBE (Soul II Soul), Sister Sledge, Lisa Stansfield, Thurston Moore and many more.


Colleen 'Cosmo" Murphy will be playing at Campo Sancho Festival 29th - 31st July.

LYO#207 / Colleen 'Cosmo' Murphy

Prins Thomas (@prinsthomas) recorded live at Platforma Wolff on 02.07.2022.

Prins Thomas at Platforma Wolff • 02.07.2022

Not-for-profit party, reissue label and DJ duo Heels & Souls take the reins on the Secretsundaze show this month, running street soul, kwaito, house and plenty more besides over two hours. There's even an exclusive announcement of a forthcoming release live on air.

Heels And Souls on NTS Radio 12/01/23 (Covering for Secretsundaze)

HEADSTREAM RADIO FROM STUDIO EXOTICA @ DESA POTATO HEAD 
BALI, INDONESIA 09 MAY 2023

HEADSTREAM radio / DR.DUNKS w ERIC DUNCAN

3h out of our all-night-long together with Trujillo and Norm (@bayetecontact and @memorabiliarecords) at @palomabar earlier this month. Joined by @user-826154001 &  @steven-hickey halfway!

TASCAM DR-40X

Trujillo B2B Norm & More! Live At Paloma Berlin (02.06.23)

Optimo live from The Beach Stage at Love International 2023. 

First 3 hours of their 6 hour set on the Beach.

Live from the Adriatic 2023: Optimo

Yesterday’s breakfast show on Refuge is online now. 

It was nice to be back on those airwaves, especially with Moe dropping in with tunes and chats. And let me know how you liked the “interview” segment…might do more of that next time. 

Shout outs to everyone sending me music, and thanks for listening to the show! 🎶

The Breakfast Show on Refuge Worldwide - 2023 September 12

7inch special for this one with the og and master of groove @raphael-top-secret 🙃
We'll be taking you on a musical journey through psychedelic soul, aor, boogie and more!

cover from Black Level - Walkin' 7".

@lyl_radio - november23

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LYL RADIO - Mellow Madness w/ Clémentine & Raphaël Top-Secret 07.11.23

Live from the beach stage at Worldwide Festival Sète, 2017.

Previously broadcast on Best of Worldwide Festival on WorldwideFM: http://worldwidefm.net/show/best-of-worldwide-festival-john-gomez-01-09-17-10am-12pm-bst/

Live at Worldwide Festival Sète, 2017

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