Meeting the Cosmic Gate - Dance Weekend

in Music2 years ago

Zwei Krefelder Jungs vor der Skyline in New York, geht nur mit Techno / Trance / Dance oder :-)?

Some nice visual and acoustic vibes for the weekend

It is obvious that I know Cosmic Gate quite well - German DJ duo focusing on electronic dance (bit Techno, bit Trance bit whatever you wanna dance to and this is electronic) - I think they are good and the scenery here in New York of course is pretty brilliant - hwoever I am not a fan of such marketing video concepts having the two guys jumping in fromt of the skyline lol, but that is my personal opinion only.

The set has some awesome tunes though

The start is a great one - some sounds from Faithless not that known and popular as the Insomnia stuff but cool and a nice opener of a relaxed evening. Obviously they plan a lot of their own production given the event was part of promoting their recent album (summer 2021) hence listen to some of their own productions in the following. I realize even more how old I am and how long I know these guys. Cosmic Gate for me is Trance living the commercial flavour, as you see from the vocal trance cooperation with Emma whoever here:

Check more of their older and newer music - feedback by our professional Hive DJ @andyjaypowell desired.

Who is Cosmic Gate?

Easy to learn - just type it in Google and read what Wikipedia says - the typical German Techno / Trance story from the area of Ruhrpott.

Cosmic Gate is a German DJ duo consisting of trance music producers Claus Terhoeven (born 1972) and Stefan Bossems (born 1967). Both hail from Krefeld, Germany.

Wow - Krefeld - they are famous for a former German Bundesliga (Soccer) club called Bayer Uerdingen, but it seems they also provided the world with artistic assets. Listen and read on:

Cosmic Gate was formed in 1999 when Terhoeven (also known as Nic Chagall) and Bossems (also known as Bossi) decided to assemble a new project in the electronic music field.
Their first single was "The Drums", followed by "Exploration of Space", "Mental Atmosphere" and their "Somewhere over the Rainbow" remix using samples from the film The Wizard of Oz. However, Cosmic Gate did not become well known until their single "Fire Wire" was released in the UK in 2001.

Cosmic Gate have made many remixes for artists such as Tiësto (Urban Train), Ferry Corsten (Punk), Blank & Jones (DFF), Israel Kamakawiwo'ole (Somewhere Over the Rainbow), Svenson & Gielen (Answer the Question) and Vanessa-Mae (White Bird).

Over the past few years, Cosmic Gate's sound has developed and moved away from the harder edge trance through to their current, more subtle yet still driving energetic music style. Since their third studio album, Earth Mover, they started moving towards the Progressive Trance style.

In 2015, they collaborated with Armin van Buuren on the trance track 'Embargo', which was featured on Van Buuren's studio album "Embrace". Two years later, they announced their seventh studio album titled "Materia", which was released on January 20, 2017.

In 2018, Nic & Bossi were nominated for a Grammy Award For Best Remixed Recording for their remix of Gabriel & Dresdenfeat Sub Teal "Only Road" on the Anjunabeats Label. They were the first ever trance artist to be nominated in this category.

Their speciality however is playing gigs, over 100 a year are normal and ideally in posh spaces where cool video content can be produced to the world outside, these guys are smart and the music is not that bad, what do you think?

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Cosmic Gate - Exploration of space is a timeless trance classic which still sounds as good as it does today as it did 20 odd years ago! Awesome article

I totally got carried away by the playlist..
Nice Gear.
wow
This is full headed music.. No dull moments...
and super cool effects too.

This gave me some really mad electric energy-type vibe.

I enjoyed the build-up as the beats evolved from one to another. The fading of the sound and the gradual increase in the intensity and the brief commentaries in between were super creative.

You are definitely gifted in this @uwelang

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