Here's my latest offering to the Shuj Roswell catalog. A departure from the Electro Hip-Hop Soul stylings that many have grown accustomed to. For this release, I really wanted to set a minimal LoFi Hip-Hop vibe while recording and producing the musicians from my live band: Eric Imbrosciano on drums, Sarah Mount on Saxophone, and the brothers, Mark and Matt Wilkolak on Trombone and Trumpet respectively. I also reached out to the good homie, Brisco Jones, who can be heard on the cuts. This EP is sample free and contains all original music.
Session Recording Engineer - Sam Goodman, Chris Wright
Mix and Mastering - Mark Cooley and Chris Wright, Violet Studios
Album art by Karlyle Walker

Shuttlecock

EDM/ electro hip hop etc.

Shuj Roswell Live - Playlist

6/17/22 - Sonic Bloom - Hummingbird Stage (Friday 3:45-4:45pm)
Deep Space Disco > 
Interstellar Jam >
Deep Space Disco
Everybody Loves The Sun >
It Never Rains In LA >
Happiness (Troubled Faces)*
Murdered Out >
Ric Flair All Night
Goodbye, Baby
Run On For A Long Time
Let’s Get Free
Summer Breeze
Jus Because
Super Best

*Pretty Lights

Guitar: Mark Cooley
Drums: Eric Imbrociano
Saxophone: Mike Chiesa
Trumpet: Jim Chiesa

Shuj Roswell Live - 6/17/22 - Sonic Bloom - Hummingbird Stage

Shuj Roswell Live - 12/16/22 - Cervantes Other Side
Let's Get Free
Goodbye, Baby
Ain't Nuthin Stronger
Ric Flair All Night >
Big Booty Bomb
Murdered Out^ >
The Big Heavy# >
PL vs. Led Zeppelin*
Tell Me#
So Wonderful
Love 2 Love You remix >
Bump n Hustle*
Super Best

^ Run This Town Edit
# Debut
* Pretty Lights Flip

Guitar: Mark Cooley
Drums: Eric Imbrociano
Saxophone: Mike Chiesa
Trumpet: Matt Wilkolak
Emcee: J.Shook

Shuj Roswell Live - 12/16/22 - Cervantes Other Side

An unofficial Pretty Lights album.
Pre-Taking Up Your Precious Time

Starting Moving

Toxic

An unofficial Pretty Lights album.
Pre-Taking Up Your Precious Time

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPqTdOERX3c&list=UU3v95SU-AFq0a0qNZf8w0OQ

Take Two

An unofficial Pretty Lights album.
Pre-Taking Up Your Precious Time

OG Rustified

Retaliation

An unofficial Pretty Lights album.
Pre-Taking Up Your Precious Time

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dR7qEd-jll0&list=UU3v95SU-AFq0a0qNZf8w0OQ

First Week

This is my contribution to the PLF Producers, Oops All Swirls! compilation

To my musical ear, Pretty Lights production is already perfect so I had some reservations about submitting a remix for this project when first approached by Jordan
 After giving it some thought, I decided to treat this more like an edit than a remix. I wasn’t interested in creating a new version or altering something I already considered flawless. But an edit gave me room to rearrange and re contextualize rather than replace
 I chose my favorite Pretty Lights track, High School Art Class, and immediately started digging through live versions from the past two years. I pulled out moments that stood out to me most and began weaving them together with elements of the original studio production
 What ended up happening was the creation of a new swirl from my favorite swirls while still keeping true to important elements and transitions in the song
 Once I had the arrangement locked, I recorded some original guitar lines and as a final touch, layered in some of my favorite Bob Ross quotes to act as a gentle guide through the track, because who better to teach Art Class than Bob Ross?
 Big shout out to Jordan and Mikey Thunder for giving me the opportunity to be a part of this collab
 Catch me with my live band at Levitt Pavilion opening for Moontricks on Friday, Sept 19th at 7pm! Free Show!

Pretty Lights-High School Art Class x Bob Ross (Shuj Roswell Edit)

Shuj Roswell Live - Levitt Pavilion
Denver, CO 9/19/25
(w/ 💻🎸Mark Cooley, 🥁Eric Imbrosciano, 🎺Matt Wilkolak and 🎷Kyle Cervantes)

Set 1: Flying High Above The World > Memory of A Free Festival [1] > Let’s Get Free [2]> Ric Flair All Night [3] > The Plug [4] -> Run On For A Long Time [5], So Wonderful [6] > 2001 [7] > Country Roads [8], The Big Heavy, Jus Because [9] > Super Best, We’re The Super Best

Notes:
[1] David Bowie, Mark welcomes the audience and tells a story about a trip through the three phases of Twilight they’re all about to embark on
[2] Contained samples of Digable Planets - Escapism (Getting Free)
[3] Contained samples of The Fly’s - Got You Where I Want You
[4] Bonobo cover
[5] Contained a Johnny Ringo quote from the film, Tombstone and a sample of Bon Jovi - Dead Or Alive 
[6] Contained samples of Lil Peep - Life Is Beautiful, Benson Boone - Beautiful Things, Shuj Roswell - Murdered Out
[7] Contained samples of ABBA - Super Trouper, Mark teased TV On The Radio - Golden Age and Phish - Sand on guitar
[8] Pretty Lights edit, Contained samples of B.o.B - Airplanes, Mark on vocals during “Show me home Colorado” breakdown
[9] Contained samples of Earth, Wind & Fire - September

Shuj Roswell Live - 9/19/25 - Levitt Pavillion, Denver, Co

My mom used to play Elton John’s music all the time. I grew up on it. His songs played a large part of my musical childhood. In fact, I’m told that the first song I ever sang was, “B-B-B-Bennie and the Jets.” Having not listened to much of Elton’s music in recent years, I found myself truly inspired having gone to see the movie, Rocketman. The music brought back intense feelings from both my childhood and where I find myself in the present moment. I immediately went into the studio and started work on this remix.

As a musician, I’ve always related deeply to the original song which was inspired by the 1951 science fiction short, The Rocket Man, by Ray Bradbury. The story depicts the complex relationship between technology and psychology, and in particular, an astronaut's love of the stars. A man ventures into space for three months at a time and returns to earth for only a few short days to see his wife and son, deeply torn between his love of space and his family. The song imagines what his long adventures, while filled with loneliness, would be like. I've always viewed this as a metaphor for the life of an artist. 

This remix makes a great precursor to the release of my next full-length album, Setting Fire To The Stars. (Coming this fall). It's a sci-fi themed record that vibes on the darker side of our feelings. Thoughts of anxiety, depression, loneliness, and social isolation are recurring ideas in both the lyrics and music found on this album. Subjects that many of us are all too familiar with. 

So here's my remix of Rocket Man for you. I hope you catch a new vibe off my interpretation of the original classic.
🚀👨‍🚀

Shout out to my good homies, Moon Suk Lee, for the original artwork and Brett Shredmunds for the title work.

Mixed and Mastered by Mark A. Cooley and Chris Wright at Violet Recording

2019

Rocket Man (Shuj Roswell Remix)

Mark A. Cooley - Production/Guitar 
Brisco Jones - Turntables 
Eric Imbrosciano - Drums 
Sarah Mount - Saxophone 
Matt Wilkolak - Trumpet 
Mark Wilkolak - Trombone
Session Recording Engineer - Sam Goodman, Chris Wright
Mix and Mastering - Mark Cooley and Chris Wright, Violet Studios
Artwork: Karlyle Walker

It Never Rains In LA

World Beater

Booking: shujroswell@gmail.com

Shuj Roswell is the latest musical creation of Denver's own, Mark A. Cooley. Releasing his debut album on Michal Menert's Super Best Records label in 2015, he carefully curates vinyl samples of 60's and 70's funk and soul as a foundation for his production. Fusing traditional sample based hip-hop techniques with warm analog synthesis and hard hitting beats, he sets the table for a sound within the Electro Soul movement he calls, Funk-tron-a-delic.

When playing out, Shuj Roswell Live takes the musical experience to the next level by bringing live instrumentation into the mix. Mark plays guitar and is accompanied on stage by drummer and good friend, Eric Imbrosciano. Eric comes from a hip-hop, funk, and jazz background originating from his early years gigging in and around the New York music scene. He injects a soulful vibe into the Shuj Roswell live sound from laid back hip-hop grooves to drum & bass breaks. Eric also performs in the jazz-fusion quartet, Space Orphan. You might have run into him as he hosts several open jams around the Denver area

In addition to his drummer Eric, Shuj Roswell Live consists of emcee, J. Shook, who’s recorded vocals on several Shuj Roswell tracks and a rotating who’s who on saxophone, trumpet and trombone. Mark recorded with and sampled his live band in the studio on the EP, Shuttlecock

Shuj Roswell has performed along side the following artists: Daily Bread, Michal Menert, Maddy O'Neil, Marvel Years, Late Night Radio, Break Science, Exmag, Blockhead, Adam Deitch, Borahm Lee, Chris Karns, Funkstatik, Birocratic, Alvin Ford Jr, Russ Liquid Test, The Werks, Paul Basic, Tnertle, Kevin Donohue (Sunsquabi), Mux Mool, Mark Farina, David Murphy (STS9), Lucid Vision, Nosaj Thing, and Analog Son among others

It Never Rains In LA

Shuj Roswell (Super Best Records)