Cosmic Disco

Cosmic discocitation
journal=Stylus Magazine
url=http://www.stylusmagazine.com/articles/beatz_by_the_pound/31-2006-best-of.htm
title=Beatz By The Pound #31: 2006 Best Of…
last=Gill|first=Michael
date=December 22, 2006
accessdate=2008-04-21 “Looking over to the blogosphere, the largest hipster tremors came from the rediscovery of the Italian ‘Cosmic Disco’ sound (a mid-tempo stew of balearic disco pioneered by Beppe Loda and Daniele Baldelli)…”] citation
journal=The Stranger
url=http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Content?oid=161437&mode=print
title=Data Breaker (music reviews)
last=Segal|first=Dave
date=February 20, 2007
accessdate=2008-04-21 “Originally championed by Italian DJ Daniele Baldelli, cosmic disco funkily trudges along at about 80–105 bpm, as if Robitussin replaced coke as the producers' and dancers' drug of choice. In these slow-mo dance anthems, every element somehow becomes more dilated and psychedelic.”] (also called "Cosmic music,"citation
last=Shapiro|first=Peter
title=Turn the Beat Around: The Secret History of Disco
publisher=Faber and Faber, Inc.
place=New York
year=2005] "the Cosmic Sound,"citation
journal=The Guardian
url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/2006/jun/10/restandrelaxation.miami.unitedstates
title=Head space goes to Miami
author=Mylo
date=June 10, 2006
accessdate=2008-04-21 “Dave smokes and provides the soundtrack - late 70s mixtapes by Daniele Baldelli from Rimini, original purveyor of the ‘Cosmic Sound’, which is to say disco 45s played at 33 rpm.”] , etc.) is a style of dance music named after the "Cosmic" nightclub in northern Italy, which the cosmic disco scene was centered around.citation
journal=Time Out New York
url=http://www.timeout.com/newyork/article/clubs/5277/puff-daddy
title=Puff daddy
last=Tantum|first=Bruce
issue=568
date=August 17, 2006
accessdate=2007-11-12 and citation
journal=Time Out Chicago
url=http://www.timeout.com/chicago/article/16718/fully-loda
title=Fully Loda
last=Tantum|first=Bruce
issue=78
date=August 24, 2006
accessdate=2007-11-12 “The Afro sound is sometimes lumped in with the similar ‘cosmic disco,’ another wide-ranging sonic "cioppino" that was centered around Lazise, Italy’s Cosmic Club in the same era, championed by DJs such as Daniele Baldelli and Stefano Secchi.”] citation
journal=Pitchfork Media
url=http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/feature/10255-space-disco
title=Space Disco
last=Leone|first=Dominique
date=February 6, 2006
accessdate=2008-04-21] The Cosmic scene's most notable DJ was Daniele Baldelli, who was hired as Cosmic's DJ in 1979; "Stylus Magazine" has described Baldelli and Beppe Loda as Cosmic Disco's pioneers. The Cosmic Sound included a very diverse range of musical styles, from electro and funk to jazz fusion and Brazilian music. Peter Shapiro described Baldelli's music as a "combination of spaced-out rock and tribal percussion." One genre that was usually "not" part of this mix was Italo disco, which Baldelli believes was generally too mainstream and commercial. The music's speed has been characterized by different sources as slow and mid-tempo; Baldelli himself states that he usually played at 90-105 bpm. Baldelli would also play 45 RPM records at 33 and vice versa.cite journal
title=Daniele Baldelli
url=http://www.danielebaldelli.com/press_files/wax-poetics_2005_spring.pdf
last=Brewster|first=Bill
journal=Wax Poetics
issue=Spring
year=2005
accessdate=2007-11-06] Cosmic music has been cited as a "touchstone" for contemporary "space disco" artists like Lindstrøm collaborator Prins Thomas and Andy Meecham of Chicken Lips. It has also been cited as an influence on some later Italian house songs, such as Sueño Latino.

The Cosmic club itself was located in Lazise, a small town on Lake Garda. The club had a capacity of 1000 and decor inspired by American clubs like Odyssey 2001 (where Saturday Night Fever was filmed) and Studio 54.

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* citation
title=Adriatic for the People
url=http://www.danielebaldelli.com/press_files/seven.pdf
last=Oldfield|first=Louise
journal=7 Magazine
publisher=DMC Publishing
publication-date=2002-09-02
accessdate=2007-11-06
* citation
url=http://www.redbullmusicacademy.com/TUTORS.9.0.html?act_session=97
title=Daniele Baldelli - Elevator Ride
publisher=Red Bull Music Academy
date=October 4, 2004
accessdate=2007-11-07 (includes video, in two parts)
* citation
url=http://www.discopia.com/portal/issues/issue3/baldelli/view?navBatchStart=30
title=Daniele Baldelli (Cosmic Disco) interview
last=Wang|first=Daniel
date=October 2004
publication-date=May 2005
accessdate=2007-11-05
publisher=Discopia
issue=3
* citation
title=Cosmic – Ein italienische Parallelwelt
url=http://www.elendundvergeltung.com/pdf/Cosmic.pdf
author=Mooner
journal=Elend&Vergeltung
issue=2
year=2005
publication-date=March 2007
accessdate=2007-11-07 (in German); citation
title=Cosmic – An Italian parallel world
url=http://www.gdfn.net/djmooner.html
author=Mooner
year=2005
accessdate=2007-11-07 (in English); also published in Romanian, in the magazine "OMAGIU".fact|date=November 2007
* citation
url=http://www.afrofunky.com/01_News/Interview(ENG)1-7.html
title=Interview with deejay legend Beppe Loda (English version; questions 1–7)
author=Dr. Nishimura
year=2006 and [http://www.afrofunky.com/01_News/Interview(ENG)8-16.html questions 8–16] ; both retrieved on 2007-11-05
* citation
url=http://www.discopia.com/portal/issues/current/loda/view
title=DJ Loda (Typhoon/Cosmic) Interview
last=Campbell|first=Jeremy
publisher=Discopia
date=2006
publication-date=August 19, 2007
accessdate=2007-11-05
* citation
url=http://www.djsportal.com/en/pioneer/index.php?id=italy
title=Italian Discotheque Pioneers
last=de Giovanni|first=Max
publisher=Yahu Pawul (djsportal.com)
date=2006-05-20
accessdate=2007-11-06
* citation
title=Last Night A DJ Saved My Life: The history of the disc jockey
last=Brewster|first=Bill
last2=Broughton|first2=Frank
edition=Revised (UK only)
publication-date=2006-05-22
isbn=978-0755313983
publisher=Headline Book Publishing
* citation
url=http://www.cosmicdisco.co.uk/2007/03/09/typhoon-legend-beppe-loda-exclusive-mix-interview/
title=Typhoon Legend Beppe Loda Exclusive Mix & Interview
last=Ashton|first=Simon ‘DJ Baggy’
publisher=cosmicdisco.co.uk
date=March 9, 2007
accessdate=2007-11-05