Cosmic 043 - Daniele Baldelli & Claudio Tosi Brandi (1981)

Live recording from the infamous Cosmic club in Lazise, Italy in 1981.

Daniele Baldelli
In the late ’70s Baldelli took up a residency at Cosmic, a nightclub by Lake Garda, and rose to stardom with his experimental mixing style. He combined an extremely diverse range of genres, from European electronica to reggae, synth pop to African folk, often played at improper speeds and mixed with effects and drum machines. Baldelli’s worldly and hypnotic sets fathered the cosmic sound, a movement that set itself apart from the Italo disco scene. The DJ and producer who is now considered an innovator in the Italian disco scene for developing a unique, 'funky' and 'tribal' aesthetic by playing eclectic, esoteric records at drastically altered speeds, often slowed way down, and sometimes adding drum machines and effects. He developed the style he like to call "Cosmic Sound" . He start to be a Dj in 1969 . He was resident DJ at the Baia Degli Angeli (1977–1978) and Cosmic (1979–1984) discothèques in Northern Italy - Lasize (Lago di Garda) he released scores of mixtapes during his tenure at the latter. He was mostly unknown outside of Italy until a surge of English-language press coverage in the second half of the 2000s.

Claudio Tosi Brandi
Also known as DJ T.B.C. It was 1978 and after have studied guitar in conservatory, played in groups and worked in at a radio station (Radio Sabbia) for a year Brandi decided to become a DJ in a period it was a profession that did not exist. He started to work in the mythical Papillon a discotheque in Riccione, it was the period of the Baia degli Angeli
(Bay of the Angels) with the two DJ Americans Bob Day and Tom Season (first mix DJ's in Italy). In that period the discotheques where divided in two
musical kinds; the disco and the funky music but he played all styles (Funkattaro), and even what now seems an authentic performance to put 45 to 33 and viceversa. His style got noticed and soon he would play at various locations aslike the Cosmic (1980-1984).

Future Woman by Rockets is blocked due to the copyright hounds from 41:09 till 44:02.