
Cosmo Vitelli - Beats In Space - Aug 2007 - Part 2
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2fjeff
Genre: House
Date of Set: Aug 30th, 2007
Filesize: 61.62 MB
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Biography of Cosmo Vitelli
This musical artist was born in 1974 in Montreuil, France under the name Benjamin Boguet & was accidentally born in Montreuil France, (the location was accidental because his parents lived in the Côte d’Ivoire in Africa at the time). Benjamin spent the first ten years of his life in Africa, but he best remembers the imported records his father bought, from Stevie Wonder to Marvin Gaye. Eventually they returned to a small city in France and Benjamin grew restless. He found refuge in the town’s specialty record store where he discovered albums by the Clash and everything on the Def Jam label. He enrolled in University to study English, but knew his future lay elsewhere. “I taught myself music from age fifteen. I was serious: I knew I’d be a songwriter one day and I took that task very seriously. Those were the days of baggy sound: My Bloody Valentine; Sonic Youth; and then Massive Attack. I wrote music articles which was a good excuse for moving to Paris in 1993.”
The year of 1993 also proved to be a turning point for Benjamin. He embraced house music, yet he refused to dismiss songwriting as a whole. He played guitar with indie group Perio and also produced demos in his room using his 4-track machine. In 1997, the Solid record label, which had just released the 'Superdiscount' classic, fell for one of Benjamin’s (now known as Cosmo Vitelli) demos, thus releasing his first self-titled 12-inch. The track title (“Don’t eat animals anymore, eat children”) wasn’t the only thing to score a bull’s eye, with the music’s sound equally embraced: Lo-fi electro with a crazy tendency. “For me, the titles were obvious!” The following year saw the arrival of his second maxi single, “We don’t need no smurf here”, voted “Single of the week” in the UK’s own NME.
Cosmo Vitelli then achieved two dreams: recording with Jalal from the Last Poets and having his work remixed by Afrika Bambaataa. At the same time, he produced several remixes himself (for Superdiscount, Bosco, Benjamin Diamond, etc.) and became a reputable DJ, playing in Paris (Rex, Pulp, etc.) on a regular basis, as well as in Rome, Cologne, Glasgow, Nottingham, etc. With “Clean”, Cosmo Vitelli embarks upon the next stage of his ascension, a full artist album. Expect to see Cosmo behind the decks throughout ‘03 and to hear his music in clubs, on the radio and anywhere high rollers take their biggest risks.

Tim Sweeney - Beats In Space - Aug 2007 - Part 2
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2fjeff
Genre: House
Date of Set: Aug 30th, 2007
Filesize: 61.62 MB
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Biography of Tim Sweeney
Sweeney was born March 13, 1981 in Raleigh, North Carolina. DJ and producer Tim Sweeney spent the early years of his life in North Carolina, Georgia, and Maryland. He enrolled at New York University in 1999 in order to study music technology and became a regular presence on WNYU via his Beats in Space program. He also held down internships with pioneering turntablist Steinski and the DFA label, in addition to becoming a skilled club DJ. After contributing saxophone to the DFA remix of Radio 4's 'Dance to the Underground' and mixing the DFA showcase disc that came with the April 2003 issue of Muzik, Sweeney's name became familiar to those outside New York. Along with DFA co-head Tim Goldsworthy, Sweeney put together the mixed disc that was issued as part of 2004's DFA Compilation #2. He contributed to Rammellzee's Bi-Conicals of the Rammellzee as well.