Colleen ‘Cosmo’ Murphy is a highly respected and experienced musical selector and curator, founder of the album listening event and content hub Classic Album Sundays and an authority on music, sound and the vinyl renaissance.

She was mentored by David Mancuso at his seminal Loft parties in New York City. Together they co-produced the compilation series David Mancuso Presents The Loft 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 is one of the musical hosts at The Loft, the co-founder of the Lucky Cloud Loft parties in London and DJs internationally on the world’s best sound systems and dance floors.

Classic Album Sundays tells the stories behind the albums that have shaped our culture and in some cases, our lives. Colleen founded Classic Album Sundays 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.”

She has been a radio host and DJ since the age of fourteen and today hosts Balearic Breakfast, Cosmodelica and Classic Album Sundays Worldwide on Worldwide FM. She also wrote, co-produced and hosted the Classic Album Sundays series ‘This Women’s Work’ for PRX, ‘Sounds of a City’ series on BBC 6 Music and ‘Turntable Tales’ on BBC Radio 4.

She has put together her own compilations including New York Afterhours ‘A Later Shade of Deep’ for Nervous Records and The Disco-Tech of DJ Cosmo’ for Yellow Recordings. Her latest compilation, ‘Balearic Breakfast Volume 1’ is coming out on Heavenly Recordings on the 10th of June and can be pre-ordered here.

As a producer Colleen has remixed Roisin Murphy, Mildlife, Hard Feelings, A Certain Ratio, Secret Night Gang, The Rapture, Fat Freddy’s Drop, Beardyman, Candi Staton, Two Bears, Phenomenal Handclap Band, Cantoma, Horace Andy, 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.

Lumberjacks Tapes 033: Colleen 'Cosmo' Murphy

We've been searching for a proper way to post all this stuff from 5 Mag's 18 years of history that slipped through the cracks. This series, SYNC, is our way to revisit that history in a respectful way and not just dump a bunch of content back on the internet without context. We could think of  no better way to start than with this lost mix from the great Paul Johnson.

There was never a time that we asked Paul Johnson for a favor and he turned us away. You could hit him up at 5am for a mix, an interview, a booking, a DJ chart, a free track or to sit for several hours for a video interview, as he did for our 5 year anniversary project. He was usually still up, and he almost always complied. He wasn't just a brilliant artist &mdash; maybe the best house music DJ and creator that Chicago ever produced. The guy gave of himself and his time like no one else. 

This was not an original 5 Mag mix. Paul used to post mixes to SoundCloud almost weekly and delete them when they reached 100 downloads. This one he called "Jive Turkey," and it was posted just prior to Thanksgiving weekend in 2012. We embedded this mix for a shortlived feature called "ChicagoCast," highlighting new mixes from figures in the Chicago house scene. Paul later deleted it, and when I asked about it he sent it over for us to repost. It seems to have fallen completely off the map since then; according to Google it's not available anywhere and this might be the only copy, or at least the only one we could find.

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SYNC: Paul Johnson - Jive Turkey (2012)

Here is my set for Kerri Chandler's Kaoz theory night at Hemkade 48 during ADE 2024, i had a chance to open up the night and hopefully set a nice vibe.

Dj Deep KAOZ THEORY ADE 2024

Jeremy Underground - Live in Kiev 16/07/2011

Had the pleasure of supporting @jeremyunderground at The Vault in Pygmalion Dublin for New Year's Eve 2024. He later invited me to go B2B with him until the end which was an absolute honour. A true inspiration as always and a master at his craft. Relive the magic here! Thanks everyone who made it early for my set and stayed until the end. That was special.

Opening Set For Jeremy Underground Live @ The Vault Pygmalion Dublin - NYE 2024

Dat 'Kerri Chandler' Vibe Mix #4 [Vinyl Only]

Tracklist:
1. Kerri Chandler & Jerome Sydenham - Espirito Du Tempo (MC) [IRC 009]
2. Kerri Chandler & Jerome Sydenham - Powder (Remix 2) [SF-XX 3]
3. Kerri Chandler - Look Inside [LAR 073]
4. Three Generations feat. Chevell - Get It Of (Underground Mix) [0-86125]
5. Carolyn Harding - Pick It Up (Kerri’s Original Club) [KSS 1026]
6. Kerri Chandler - Love Will Find A Way (Players Mix) [SOW 414]
7. CeCe Rogers - Brothers & Sisters (Club Dub) [0-10068]
8. Kristine W - Feel What You Want (Kerri Chandler Mix) [CHAMPX12 304]
9. Kerri Chandler - Get Up [ET 018]
10. Kerri Chandler - Moving In [DT 1645]

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Dat 'Kerri Chandler' Vibe Mix #4 [Vinyl Only]

Pilates Riddim - Roll Up - DJ Ruction Remix

Download & tracklist here: http://blrrm.tv/tuBP3t

Jeremy Underground Boiler Room London 5th Birthday DJ Set

An Exclusive DJ session from Chez Damier for the back to basics 21st birthday at 
The Garage November 24th 2012

full story here - 
http://www.ralphlawson.co.uk/blog/2012/12/11/chez-damier-life-after.html

Chez Damier - Back to Basics Mix

2019-11-09 Live At Mona In Berlin (Nick V)

Very proud to have one of the greatds of house doing a mixtape for our series. Detroit's own Rick Wade steps up for an hour of pure an pristine house music. Be sure to check out his remix on the newe Crackazat EP on our label: https://crackazat.bandcamp.com/track/alfa-rick-wade-remix

Heist Mixtape #37 | RICK WADE

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