Billy Cosmosis
Martian Blues - Cosmosis
updated
"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
Until the rights to you are sold"
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Eric Quantica - Synth Pads
Joe Sonic: Burbling noises / resonance fx
Billy Cosmosis: Electric guitar
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 & Sonic Species )
5 Afterglow - Cosmosis
6 Dubstation - Cosmosis & Quantica (live mix)
7 Floating - Cosmosis Chill
8 Roswell - Cosmosis
9 Shanti - Cosmosis Chill
10 Stratocruise - Cosmosis Chill
11 Govinda - Cosmosis Chill
12 Wishing on a Star - Rose Royce - Cosmosis Chill version
13 Drops of Light - Cosmosis Chill
14 Flying High - Cosmosis Chill
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Warning: Dance floor mind-melter
Written, produced and mixed by William Halsey (Billy Cosmosis)
Mixed aboard Narrowboat Auriga, England
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144 bpm
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An experiment to see what would come out by mixing up live dub, funk beats, jazz and a pinch of psychedelia ππ΅π€
Buy link: cosmosis.bandcamp.com/track/jazzadelic-dub
I plan to make more mix downs from the same live session. Once I've mixed them all down individually and tidied them up, perhaps I'll release the complete jam session as a mix.
Billy Cosmosis: Guitar, Live loop mixing, dub delay FX:
Ahmad Schiftner: Alto Sax:
Written, produced and mixed by William Halsey (Billy Cosmosis)
Mixed aboard Narrowboat Auriga, England
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Buy link: cosmosis.bandcamp.com/track/inner-realms
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Nothing to do with Cosmosis - but what the heck... :)
A bit of a struggle to play chords on that little toy keyboard! But it's all I have to hand right now.
I'm currently exploring how to create music with more space. I've identified it as a particular weakness in my own music composition - I feel compelled to fill every semi-quaver of every bar with sound for some reason.
I suppose it's not surprising really given I've spent the last quarter of a century producing high energy, high tempo dance records. Anyway, I'm learning to dial it right back and allow sounds to breathe and occupy their own space unimpeded...
The tune is the classic The Look of Love (Bacharach & David) I lifted Dusty's melodic phrasing from her superb 1967 Dusty Springfield version.
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Buy link: islandbeachmusic.bandcamp.com/album/never-let-me-go-the-mixes
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Label: Island Beach Music
Vocals: Melissa Mylo
Production, Mixing, Guitars, Mastering: Billy Cosmosis
BUY: islandbeachmusic.bandcamp.com/album/smooth-operator-islander-slamjam-dr-funkenstein-feat-melissa-mylo
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While I lived in Ibiza there was a lot of excellent musical talent around. I couldn't resist and ended up collaborating with and producing some of my favourite local artists under my musical alter ego Dr Funkenstein. Good fun was had...
Written by William Halsey, Ahmad Schiftner & Alisha Todd
Produced, mixed and mastered by: Billy Cosmosis at The Vibrazone, Ibiza, Balaeric islands.
Buy: islandbeachmusic.bandcamp.com/track/nothings-gonna-take-me-away-drum-bass-mix
Vocals: Alisha Todd
Alto sax + keyboards: Ahmad Schiftner
Bass guitar, Electric guitar, + programming: William Halsey (Billy Cosmosis )
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Cover of the Fleetwood Mac classic using a looper + pedals
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Btw I did figure out the logic of the warning buoys - eventually.
1. When heading *upstream* keep the red buoys to port and green to starboard ( correctly correllating to the intetnational navigation light colours )
2. When heading *downstream* the opposite applies.
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Suffer from claustrophobia? Don't watch π
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Built 1795 -1805. Still the highest navigable aqueduct in the world.
*Warning* video may produce vertigo/anxiety π
Improvising with a looper pedal.
Spot the herons!
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I got a bad case of..... Lockdown Blues..." π΅ π
---- The Band ----
Loop Pedal - Rhythm
Birds: Backing vocals
Swan - Guard duty
Billy - Plank spank
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Loopers are fun
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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. With this track I had decided to give myself free rein to develop the idea and not constrain the musical ideas by considerations about making it DJ friendly.
Carlos Santana refers to his somewhat "discomboobulated" state before his gig at Woodstock after foolishly ingesting some cardboard...
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Gotta keep the troops entertained in these difficult times :)
Track List
1. X1 - Process
2. Extra Mundane - Oforia
3. Drugs & Babes - Synchro
4. Metal Sense - Domestic
5. Human Oscillator - Synchro
6. Panic in Paradise - X-Dream
7. Twisted Love - Wizzy Noise
8. As a Child I Could Walk on the Ceiling - The Delta
9. The Beast - Spawn
10. Klein Aber Doctor - Atmos
11. Out Here We Is Stoned - X-Dream
12. The Loin King - Infernal Machine (Man With No Name remix)
13. Feel The Universe - Juno Reactor (Koxbox remix)
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There's been of of live dj sets streamed lately. Not something I'm particularly interested in watching myself. However, several people have said I should make one or two. So... good idea?
This might not be quite what you're expecting π± Summer βοΈlockdown tune .
It's the result of an experiment to see what would result by live mixing dub, funk beats, jazz with a pinch of psychedelia ππ΅π€
It's an extract from an improvised one hour live jam session performed by myself and sax wizard Ahmad Schiftner at Etnica's Sound Farm studio in Ibiza πΉ I'll probably mix down and release a few other extracts and the whole session - eventually.
Saxophone wizard: Ahmad Schiftner
Live looping / mixing, dub delay & FX: Billy Cosmosis
Post production mix & mastering: Billy Cosmosis
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Exploring the remote rural Ashby canal in December 2019. Just to give some winter perspective - living on a boat isn't all sunshine and rainbows (though it IS always warm and cosy inside)
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Boat Instagram: http://instagram.com/boatface_slim
Uploaded for the soundtrack rather than the video.
The hypnotic chugging engine on a spring day accompanied by the twittering birds overhead is relaxing in a pleasant, dreamy way... Zzzzzzzzzz π
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Venturing through Blisworth Tunnel. Dug by hand with picks and shovels between 1793-1805. At 2.8km long it goes under the hills between Blisworth village and Stoke Bruerne. A major feat of engineering at the time, it enabled the Grand Junction canal to become the main transportation route for heavy goods between London and the Midlands. (Recorded before the Covid 19 mess)
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Rockin' down to Rugeley - braving the zombie apocalypse in order to avoid imminent starvation...π
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Well, it could be worse...Β πβοΈπ¦
This music came from a series of improvised electronic studio jam sessions in Ibiza, autumn 2018. Using loops, laptops, live synths, guitars and dub delays.
Usually just Eric Quantica and I, but occasionally we managed to rope Joe Sonic Species into joining in.
The live jams were recorded to multi-track and later, the best performances were selected then edited down to sensible lengths, e.q'd, generally tarted up then finally mixed down to produce the individual tracks you hear on this album.
Enjoy,
Billy Cosmosis
buy: cosmosis.bandcamp.com/album/ibiza-jams
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Music for gazing at sunsets...
Here's my hammock version of the Rose Royce classic. Free download for all Cosmosis Chill fans here:
soundcloud.com/cosmosis-official/wishing-on-a-star-dr-funkenstein-cosmosis-chill-free-download
Guitar: Billy Cosmosis
Produced by: Cosmosis
Written by: Billie Rae Calvin
Tropical Psy: Deep funky grooves for dancing under palms on warm moonlit beaches
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A live Tropical Psy remix. Performance captured live in the studio Ibiza 2018.
(photos from the recording session)
Buy: cosmosis.bandcamp.com/track/turn-on-tune-in-2
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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"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 Ibiza February 2018
Available: cosmosis.bandcamp.com/track/dissolution
Eric Quantica: Ableton laptop - loop triggering, cutoff tweakage, live synth.
Billy Cosmosis: Ableton, Electric guitar, arpeggiation tweakage.
Post production editing, mixing & mastering: Cosmosis
"The cloud-capped towers, the gorgeous palaces,
The solemn temples, the great globe itselfβ
Yea, all which it inheritβshall dissolve,
And like this insubstantial pageant faded,
Leave not a rack behind."
The Tempest - William Shakespeare
COSMOSIS
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Cosmosis Chill: Tropical Psytrance: Deep mystic grooves for dancing under palms on beaches in the tropics
*Available now: cosmosis.bandcamp.com/track/shanti
Written and produced by Billy Cosmosis
Trippy delay guitar: Billy Cosmosis
Recorded in the Vibrazone aboard Narrowboat Auriga, England
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Released: February 25th 2020
COSMOSIS
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Wearing my experimental "Cosmosis Chill" hat, I thought I'd try combining a mix of psychedelic synth vibes with a funk drum groove, a harder kick, a funk bass line all over a 2 chord vamp with a sprinkling of mellow bluesy guitar improvisation on top. This music is the result... What would you call it? Psy-funk? Electro-Psy? Funkadelic Derangement Syndrome? Billy Cosmosis
Billy Cosmosis: Sequencing synths and electric guitar.
Composed, produced and mixed by Billy Cosmosis
Buy wav: cosmosis.bandcamp.com/track/stratocruise
COSMOSIS
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Released May 2018
Started life as a dubbed out live studio jam recorded onto multitrack. Subsequently edited down and produced and mixed.
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
Mix: Billy Cosmosis (William Bryan Halsey)
Available: cosmosis.bandcamp.com/track/dubstation
Released: December 2019
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Cosmosis Chill: Tropical Psytrance . Deep mystic grooves for dancing under palms on beaches in the tropics.
*Available now: cosmosis.bandcamp.com/track/flying-high-cosmosis-chill
Written and produced by Billy Cosmosis (William Bryan Halsey)
Recorded in the Vibrazone aboard Narrowboat Auriga, England
Cover art: GTgraphics.de
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Released February 14th 2020
COSMOSIS
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Video by George @ Monkey Business Studios
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Track: Dubadelic - Cosmosis Quantica, Sonic Species
Wav: cosmosis.bandcamp.com/track/dubadelic
Mixing and mastering: Billy Cosmosis
Recorded live at Quantica's Studio, Ibiza - Autumn 2018
Movie shots: Ibiza
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Essentially:
4 laptops - all running Ableton Live.
1 x laptop = master recorder
3 x laptops with Launchpads & midi controllers as clip and vst synth sources.
All laptops tempo synced via "Link" function.
5 sources - 3 x stereo laptops, stereo guitar fx, Bass guitar
Mixer - Behringer X Air 18 - i/o to master laptop via USB (18 simultaneous i/o)
Headphone amp distributes 3 x "more me" mixes plus one master mix to the main monitors..
Recorded live at Quantica's Studio, Ibiza - Winter 2018
Dawn mist shots: Ibiza
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"The Sweet Side of Darkness" by Cosmosis Quantica & Sonic Species Basic tracks recorded live at Quantica's Studio, Ibiza - summer 2018 Mixed by: Billy Cosmosis
Buy wav (full version): cosmosis.bandcamp.com/track/the-sweet-side-of-darkness
Time lapses and nature shot in Ibiza
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Music: Ethereal Dubstation by Cosmosis, & Quantica Mixed by Billy Cosmosis
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Bandcamp: http://cosmosis.bandcamp.comβ
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Track: Dissolution - Cosmosis & Quantica : soundcloud.com/cosmosis-official/dissolve-cosmosis-quantica
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Wav for sale here: cosmosis.bandcamp.com/track/drops-of-light
Created using the nicely spec'd arpeggiator on the DM12 plus some subtle parameter tweakage π΅βοΈ πΉ πΆ
Delay feedback and level controlled by Expression pedal
Filter mapped to Mod. wheel. Resonance to Pitch wheel.
Other parameters mapped to er... themselves
Nice proper analogue VCF filter on the DM12. It reminds me very much of the Roland Juno 60/106.
In fact the whole Deep Mind's synth architecture is based on a Juno 106 - plus the addition of a rake of other useful stuff - a second LFO, double the polyphony, a bangin' FX section, another 2 envelopes etc.
Recorded straight from the stereo outputs.
Post E.Q: Added a 5db bass parametric bump at 80hz.
Plus a smidge of compression at 4:1 to reign in the loud sections - for most of the track it didn't cross the threshold.
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End animation ( and Cosmology artwork ) Nagma Nadia Van Kampen
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Title TLDR:
Short answer: They certainly can be, but best avoid the common pitfalls.


