David Mancuso’s Loft Tribute with Colleen ‘Cosmo’ Murphy

All music rights belong to their rightful owners. Please support the musicians and buy their music. #majandfriends #vinylmix #loftparty ------------ In this episode, Colleen ‘Cosmo’ Murphy celebrates the anniversary and legacy of her friend and mentor David Mancuso’s legendary Loft parties. “I’m playing records Loft style, with no mixing as we do at The Loft as David always wanted the music played as the artist intended“ Colleen ‘Cosmo’ Murphy is a highly respected and experienced musical selector and curator, founder of the album listening event and content hub Classic Album Sundays and an authority on music, sound and the vinyl renaissance. She was mentored by David Mancuso at his seminal Loft parties in New York City. Together they co-produced the compilation series David Mancuso Presents The Loft and worked together on David’s record label The Loft Audiophile Library of Music. In 2000, David told Time Out New York City “ She is very devoted and very pure about the music. She’s one of the only people I would trust, both with the music and with the equipment, to fill in for me.” She is one of the musical hosts at The Loft, the co-founder of the Lucky Cloud Loft parties in London and DJs internationally on the world’s best sound systems and dance floors. Classic Album Sundays tells the stories behind the albums that have shaped our culture and in some cases, our lives. Colleen founded Classic Album Sundays as a stance against the increasing devaluation of music and sound. What began as a passion project is now the world’s most popular album listening event with satellites in four continents and the website and social media channels host content on classic albums and artists such as interviews, videos, playlists and more. BBC Breakfast Television remarked, “Classic Album Sundays treat our best-loved records like great symphonies.” She has been a radio host and DJ since the age of fourteen and today hosts Balearic Breakfast, Cosmodelica and Classic Album Sundays Worldwide on Worldwide FM. She also wrote, co-produced and hosted the Classic Album Sundays series ‘This Women’s Work’ for PRX, ‘Sounds of a City’ series on BBC 6 Music and ‘Turntable Tales’ on BBC Radio 4. She has put together her own compilations including New York Afterhours ‘A Later Shade of Deep’ for Nervous Records and The Disco-Tech of DJ Cosmo’ for Yellow Recordings. Her latest compilation, ‘Balearic Breakfast Volume 1’ is coming out on Heavenly Recordings on the 10th of June and can be pre-ordered here. As a producer, Colleen has remixed Roisin Murphy, Mildlife, Hard Feelings, A Certain Ratio, Secret Night Gang, The Rapture, Lady Blackbird, Fat Freddy’s Drop, Beardyman, Candi Staton, Two Bears, Phenomenal Handclap Band, Cantoma, Horace Andy, Chaka Khan & more under her Cosmodelica moniker and as DarkStarr Diskotek with Ashley Beedle. Along with former Captain Beefheart guitarist Gary Lucas, she recorded and produced as Wild Rumpus. ------------ Our Silver and Gold Tier supporters get uninterrupted, uncut, ad-free, high-quality audio of all mixes. To support this channel, you can visit our Patreon page and make a small donation! Or make a one-time donation with no sign-up: ------------ Cameras: - Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera 6K Pro Mixer: Varia Instruments RDM40 ------------ The “Aladdin’s Cave of hi-fi”, Audio Gold specialise in new and second-hand stereo equipment for your home, restaurant or bar. We will find an awesome sound for you and your space, whatever your budget. All the hi-fi equipment in this video is available in our North London store. Stop by or give us a call, we are here to help with all your hi-fi needs. 0208 341 9007 info@ 308-310 Park Rd, N8 8LA The list of Hi-Fi equipment provided by Audio Gold: - Celestion 66  - Tannoy Eaton  - Icon Audio 25mkII  - Revox B77 Tape Machine  - Yamaha CR-2020  - Mordaunt Short Festival Series 2 - Oak Turntable Plinths ------------ Find My Analog Journal: Find Colleen ‘Cosmo’ Murphy (for our London parties) ------------ * All materials presented on this channel are copyrighted by their respective copyright owners and are subject to use for informational purposes only. * As a copyright owner, if you don’t approve your music material to be presented on this channel or would like any additional info to be published, please contact me via my Youtube channel and I’ll remove it immediately.