Monthly Archive for January 2008

 
Thursday, January 31st, 2008

Makossa and Megablast - Kunuaka

Welding together growling bass, stinging beats and Ras T-Weed’s trademark toasting, Kunuaka is a moody meld of Afro-electro future funk.

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Thursday, January 31st, 2008

Speeka - Bonfire

Bonfire is a delightful offering of sleepy rhythms melted slowly with hushed, whispering folk.

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Thursday, January 31st, 2008

Cosmic Boogie Mix #5

Download or stream the fifth Cosmic Boogie mix, compiled by Gavin Kendrick. With music from Reverso 68, Makossa and Megablast, Frankie Knuckles and more…

 
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Wednesday, January 30th, 2008

Cosmic Boogie / February 2008

February sees the return to action of the Cosmic Boogie Collective, with 4 dates @ Geisha bar, including Valentines night where there will be 50 copies of an exclusive “Love from Cosmic Boogie…” CD given out to all the people who attend, with all your disco, eletcrofunk and proto-house love classics.

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Friday, January 25th, 2008

Cosmic Boogie Mix #4

Download or stream Cosmic Boogie Mix #4 - a very disco affair. All the different flavours of disco you could hope for, recorded live in the home studio by Stu Robinson. Featuring Uncle louie, Eumir Deadato, Gwen Guthrie, The Earons and Jimmy “Bo” Horne…

 
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Friday, January 11th, 2008

The Building Blocks of Boogie

Back in mid-80’s London, the term Boogie was used to describe a style of dance music, mainly from the early 80’s, but also the late 70’s, that was popular on the black scene. Many of these tracks had originally featured at the time of their release at specialist club nights in venues like Crackers and the Electric Ballroom, but had subsequently been revived during the Rare Groove era.

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Friday, January 11th, 2008

Cosmic Boogie / January 2008

Basically - were taking a break. After a heavy christmas schedule, January is the month of relaxation and our weekly Thursday at Geisha Bar has been put on hold until the much more sociable February kicks in. We return on Thursday, February the 7th, and are using the time in between now and then to work out our cosmic boogie master plan for the coming year.

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Friday, January 04th, 2008

Cosmic Boogie Mix #3

Download or stream the third Cosmic Boogie mix, recorded live at Geisha with music from Christian Prommer’s Drumlesson, Mr. Fingers, Daft Punk, DJ Genesis, Osunlade, Kutiman and more…

 
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