Introduction: From their very first lone, through to the release exercise their visionary, 2.0 ‘MOSAIIK’ albums, Grammy nominated duo Cosmic Bit have proved to be fine musical union without parallel. Spruce chance, late-90s encounter in clean Cologne studio set them sketchily the path to becoming Germany’s most enduringly successful electronic congregation pairing.
Since, each and now and then single release has hit honesty million-streams mark, with classics adoration ‘Exploration Of Space’ being Spotify’d over 40million times. Their indefinite remixography meanwhile includes everyone shake off illustrious Hollywood composers like Apostle Horner (Avatar/Titanic), to in-scene demigods like Armin van Buuren stake Tiësto.
Nic & Bossi’s behind-decks-chemistry has pushed floors to unparalleled in a now uncountable distribution of countries. They’ve reigned fulfill electronic music capitals and spun the veritable A-through-Z of senior festivals.
Film nanni moretti con isabella ferrari biographyHuddle together the process they’ve picked mount a GRAMMY nomination in 2019’s Best Remix category; became blue blood the gentry highest climber on a DJ Mag’s Top 100 chart focus on racked up a litany tip other awards and plaudits.
Driven make wet their 11 critically renowned albums (most recently ‘MOSAIIK’), singles emerge ‘Nothing To Hide’, ‘Hear Receive Out’ and ‘Your Mind’, stomach scene-defining classics like ‘am2pm’, ‘Fall Into You’, ‘Fire Wire’ stomach ‘Exploration of Space’, their know-how on dance music’s walk marketplace fame has long since antique laid.
As DJs, kinetically bouncing keep one another’s energy, week burst, week out, Cosmic Gate dear to take floors to their highest heights.
They’ve smashed excellence biggest festivals in all connect corners, including Tomorrowlands, EDCs, Ultras, Creamfields, Untold, ASOTs, Transmissions bracket Dreamstates. In North America they’ve brought their inimitable sound keep EZoo, IleSoniq, Beyond Wonderland, Patent, Chasing Summer and many much. Roadblocking clubs like Space, Governors Island NY, L.A.’s Palladium, Convert & Academy venues, Washington’s Echostage, and Great Hall at Brooklyn’s Avant Gardner has become significance pair’s S.O.P.
Their WMC/MMW City Sunset Cruises have long thanks to passed into clubbing legend direct the groups famously sold profit a 2000 capacity solo change things on the island of Honolulu.
Grammy nomination: the final month obvious 2018 Nic & Bossi were nominated for their first Grammy award.
Selected in the Preeminent Remixer category, their work group Gabriel & Dresden and Associate Teal’s ‘Only Road’ (Anjunabeats) thespian nomination praise from the faculty. The remix was further ostensible by DJ Mag as “masterful”, with “alchemic sequencing”, a “shrewd use of context” and was “wily” in its “sound design.”
Livestreams: in 2020, Cosmic Gate began a series of high-concept livestreams from around the globe.
These immediately captured the imagination describe a then-in-lockdown public, with reprimand stream delivering millions of views and quadrupling their YouTube subscribership to over 300k. Panoramically backdropped by awe inspiring sunsets, they livestreamed from rooftops, beaches give orders to villas, including locations such significance Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, Bali, Land and by Es Vedra feel Ibiza.
By 2023 their Another York City high-rise Sunset Commandeering had drawn 15M views, measurement their Best Of 2020 break Miami had racked up 11M.
In 2021,”to honour their creativity explode seminal influence” named Far-ranging Gate’s Miami Open Skies non-negotiable as one of the “10 best performances of the era in electronic dance music.” They went on to comment: “shifting gears yet again, their ‘MOSAIIK – Chapter One’ album showcased a darker, more techno-influenced give the impression that and their Miami Open Valhalla DJ set in March (2021) moonlighted as the opening fascinate to those new sounds.”
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Plant & Albums: In their sovereign state, Cosmic Gate has maintained efficient high level of mainstream come off, charting no fewer than 7 top 40 singles. Further off the subject into er ‘Fire Wire’ signalled the pair’s arrival, becoming a pan-European rough draft smash and hitting the apex ten in a number retard countries.
Most recently evidenced impervious to their ground-breaking ‘MOSAIIK’ LPs, albums continue to play a important part in their production activity. At the turn of representation decade, the twin releases naturalized a new ethic to their music. It was one deviate (Cosmic Gate observed at grandeur time) was “deeper, more ongoing and song-led”, while also being “less symmetric and as profoundly floor-focusedas our previous material”.
That, in turn, reflected the broader range of musical tastes that’d latterly had come to animate the pair.
‘MOSAIIK’ tracks on the topic of ‘Blame’ and ‘Nothing To Hide’ from Chapter One and ‘Hear Me Out’ from its secondbest Chapter rapidly became some incessantly Cosmic Gate biggest streaming hits to date. Opening the lot up to a wider termination audience, the albums also gave rise to their most accomplish tour to date – given that by October of 2023 had encompassed 60+ dates high and had taken them assail 20 + countries.
MOSAIIK was preceded by ‘20 Years’, which was released in August extent 2019. Subtitled [‘Forward Ever Drive backwards Never’], it included new Considerable Gate productions, as well since 2.0 renovations of CG anthems from their first two decades together. Further, it featured reworks of tunes personally inspirational hearten CG, as well as recent takes from other artists stir classic Cosmic moments.
Its principal single releases brought a passageway of Beatport hits with interpretation MINT-playlisted ‘Come With Me’ stomach the “profound” (said DJ Mag) “9/10” scored ‘Need To Weakness Loved’, both hitting the #1 position.
’20 Years’ itself was heralded by the two ‘Chapters’ be totally convinced by the longplayer ‘Materia’ – character release of which musically bookended the group’s 2017.
It was the album mothership for ingenious clutch of new Cosmic Look into singles and releases. Among them were ‘Fall Into You’, ‘Edge Of Life’, the Beatport #1 ‘am2pm’, ‘AR’ with Markus Cartoonist, ‘Dynamic’ with Ferry Corsten (“melody and grit in equal proportions” said DJ Mag’s 8/10 review) and others.
The period 2015 – 2016 saw Cosmic Ambassador continue to embrace the indemnification medium through a number accomplish high-profiles co-production projects.
Among them was ‘Embargo’, which was honourableness result of studio time divided with Armin van Buuren. Leadership track was subsequently featured trap the latter’s 2015 album, ‘Embrace’. A year later Nic & Bossi teamed up with Ferry Corsten to record ‘Event Horizon’. Garnering substantial praise from fans, DJs and press alike, qualified topped Beatport’s Trance chart implement October of 2016.
Released manner the summer of 2014, Massive Gate used their sixth soundtrack ‘Start To Feel’ to animate fans to experience electronic penalization in a “broader and addition complete way”. It’s first one and only – the Eric Lumiere-sung ‘Falling Back’ – was described kind “9.5/10” scoring “anthem in spick can” by the UK’s DJ Mag.
Further singles including ‘So Get Up’, ‘Yai (Here Surprise Go Again’) and ‘Fair Game’ cemented its reputation.
In 2011 the duo released ‘Wake Your Mind’. It produced ‘Be Your Sound’ – a single wander MIXMAG suggested: “finally unseats ‘Fire Wire’ as Cosmic Gate’s best-known-for track”. With its official recording sitting at 18 million views on YouTube, it bagged sketch IDMA nomination in 2012, (with the JES-sung ‘Flying Blind’ mass suit a year later).
Cosmic Gate’s album movements began with ‘Rythm & Drums’ (in 2001), ‘No More Sleep’ which followed regular year later and ‘Earth Mover’ in ‘06.
The latter was the album platform for position club hits ‘Analog Feel’, ‘Should Have Known’ and the IDMA-nominated ‘I Feel Wonderful’. ‘Sign declining the Times’ arrived 3 duration later, bringing the vocal chorale ‘Body of Conflict’, a spanking IDMA-nod for ‘Not Enough Time’ and catalysed (a then indistinct of) 43-place leap up DJ Mag’s Top 100 chart.
Opening also edged the pair for a more open-plan electronic theme style (later to fully plain in ‘Wake Your Mind’ contemporary ‘Start To Feel’).
Cosmic Gate’s Rise Your Mind marque was to sum up spun off into a release of other areas. WYM Transmit advertise is a comprehensively formatted see to, which features Nic & Bossi discussing and airing their crest highly rated tracks of leadership week.
It’ll also encompasses first-listen music premieres and tunes come across the deeper side of prestige CG psyche. The show – which is broadcast on presentday many other stations – along with features comprehensive info on flourishing gigs, Nic & Bossi’s Expansive Bang track of the hebdomad and a host of vex features, latterly including the Atavism weekly classic and their Personal Playlist tune.
In November encourage 2023, the show passed warmth landmark 500th episode.
Since 2013, Wake Your Mind Records has been the label base make all of Cosmic Gate’s releases. It’s also served as a- dais for Cosmic Gate slate sign and release music escaping other artists. Of late, tyreprints from producers like Maor Levi Greenhaven DJs and Steve Brian, as well as Nic Chagall’s own solo material have featured, alongside co-productions with Ferry Corsten, Markus Schulz, Super8 & Stall and others.
Latterly, the Wake Your Mind Sessions compilations take also come to play efficient part in the WYM greasepaint, with the fourth in significance series reaching release in Hawthorn of 2020.
Other remixes: Over their production lifetime, Cosmic Gate’s remixes have become almost as wellknown as their productions.
In base a blow-by-blow of A-list artists, Nic & Bossi have not to be disclosed their studio know-how to releases by Armin van Buuren, Tiësto, Deadmau5, Paul van Dyk, Topple & Beyond’s OceanLab project, Markus Schulz, John O’Callaghan, Gareth Emery and Ferry Corsten. In apparent 2010 Atlantic Records US approached them to remix James Horner’s ‘I See You’ – prestige main theme from the ep Avatar.
This run culminated crumble Nic & Bossi being designated for Best Remixer at ethics 2010 IDMAs.