Cosmosis is an electronic music project, specifically goa trance. Personnel originally consisted of Bill Halsey and Jeremy van Kampen for the first album: Cosmology, widely regarded as a classic in the goa trance genre. Subsequent albums from and including "Synergy" lean towards the less melodic but more complex Psy-Trance sound, and were produced by Bill Halsey only (aka Bilbo Bagginz).
After I started working with Jez “Laughing Buddha”VanKampen (with whom I co-wrote the first Cosmosis album) we both became completely enamoured by the sound of the 12” vinyls being released by this little record label called Dragonfly Records based in south London i.e the early Goa Trance records.
Back then it was quite difficult to find this weird new underground music with just a small selection 12” vinyls available only at the hippest underground record stores in the backstreets of London. TIP Records, Dragonfly and relative newcomer Flying Rhino were the only labels that we could find releasing this weird and exciting new music. Consequently we knew every single release that came out. Jez had a few contacts in that early scene and scored us a couple of tickets to an early TIP underground party in Kings Cross. Pretty mindblowing to say the least. I hadn't seen or heard anything like it before. There was no looking back after that for me.
After I started working with Jez “Laughing Buddha”VanKampen (with whom I co-wrote the first Cosmosis album) we both became completely enamoured by the sound of the 12” vinyls being released by this little record label called Dragonfly Records based in south London i.e the early Goa Trance records.
Back then it was quite difficult to find this weird new underground music with just a small selection 12” vinyls available only at the hippest underground record stores in the backstreets of London. TIP Records, Dragonfly and relative newcomer Flying Rhino were the only labels that we could find releasing this weird and exciting new music. Consequently we knew every single release that came out. Jez had a few contacts in that early scene and scored us a couple of tickets to an early TIP underground party in Kings Cross. Pretty mindblowing to say the least. I hadn't seen or heard anything like it before. There was no looking back after that for me.
But listening to and creating music as well as making it my career had already long been the focus of my life even before the advent of MIDI sequencers and affordable studio equipment made it feasible to create one's own records.
And yes creating music is enough for me, the form is not that important. It seems to become less so as I get older. I tend to agree with Duke Ellington in that music falls into just two categories: good and bad. In any genre there's excellence and mediocrity.
I have a pretty eclectic taste in music and listen to everything from Folk to Classical, Rock and Pop through Jazz to some of the more brutal electronic styles like Dubstep and Drum n Bass. It just so happens that I'm currently still infatuated with the sonic possibilities of Trance and electronic beats. That may change, we'll see.
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