My folks and In-laws were dead excited to see this boy turn up on Jools’ hootenanny this year. They had some decent stories about him (that I can’t really remember).
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There’s some golden comments on that YouTube thread…'Okay, true story here, if anyone cares:
I googled "shit and chanel no. 5 to see what would come up, and was led here.
I’d never heard of this band or album. The reason I googled it was because I first heard the expression at my godmother’s memorial service, where she was described affectionately by a relative as, “The strangest mix of shit and Chanel no. 5 that I have ever seen.” My bf at the time turned, looked at me, and said, “That explains a lot.”
looks like its available to buy full audio on qobuz -
Big Glasgow after party anthem!
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just listening to an old Cosmic club mixtape… 
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You’ve got me curious about
It was a ‘cosmic disco’ classic. Got played by Daniele Baldelli at Club Cosmic bitd. There are lots of tapes of his sets, quite a few have been put up on Mixcloud, SoundCloud or whatever. There’s even a small category on Discogs.
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late 70’s early 80’s big band and fusion McCoy Tyner
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“Le cassette del Cosmic” were collected and shared here:
http://cosmicmantova.blogspot.com/
I tested a couple of the mediafire links and downloads were still working.
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Thanks to @MusicForHangovers and @chiz for the info. Always good to catch up on the knowledge.
I see he’s self-proclaimed as the “oldest DJ in Italy.” We old guys got to hold each other up!
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Actually, I don’t think Daniele Baldelli needs any holding up however old he is. This Vinyl Factory page is not fresh, but interesting nonetheless.
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For me, he was probably the most creative DJ of that era. Maybe you already know this, but he developed his signature style of playing tracks at the wrong speed by accident - US 12’s played at 33 while European 12’s played at 45, so it was easy to end up playing a US import at the wrong speed. Same when playing album tracks at 45 having forgotten to change speed. I’ve done it loads of times, but very rarely in ways that managed to sound ‘right’… 
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Ah, yes, the happy accidents of playing the record at the “other” speed! I suppose that doesn’t happen if you’re all rekordboxed up. But surely one could still crash beats.
I have greatly enjoyed Iron Butterfly’s magnum opus, Inna-Gadd-Da-Vida, at 45. Amongst other advantages it becomes a considerably shorter track. I can’t imagine how it happened, but the last time I looked for the album in my shelves it had disappeared.
There’s a 45 12” Paranoia Rap from San Francisco’s Appliances that sounds great at 33. Well, it does if you like that kind of thing.
On a slightly more contemporary note, it took me forever to figure out that the Tony Allen remixes, Ole and One Tree by Salah Ragab And The Afro-Egyptian Ensemble were supposed to be played at 45. I still prefer them at 33.
Baldelli played lots of afro and dub, so this is pretty much a perfect example of cosmic disco. You are truly the heir to Baldelli’s crown!
Many years ago there was an album of nu-jazz reworks of classic club tracks, and I got a promo 12" of one of the tracks (a jazz version of Coldcut/Lisa Stansfield’s “People Hold On”), no indication of intended speed on the label, put it on at 33 and found it to be a lovely smoky jazz piece with a rich baritone vocal. Played it out a few times, pitched up a bit to give it a bit more ooomph, always had people who remembered the original asking me what it was and who it was by. Played it to a friend on YT only to find a much faster much less rich version with a light female vocal - but at the correct speed…
I should start a thread on tracks that sounds better at the wrong speed (there are loads of them), but I guess it won’t mean much to the Rekordbox generation.
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Speaking as a member of the RekordBox generation, there is a way around that, which is to record those type of tracks into a laptop at the wrong speed. I’ve done it for a few tunes. So there is a way around it. Plus I get to carry around 7000 songs in my pocket 
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For some records I’ve found myself wishing there was a 38rpm setting or something: most female vocals seem to get pitched down to between registers (?). I can’t remember the track I tried it on but because she’s fairly sharp, Dolly Parton seemed to work.
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Ah… I’m not really anti Rekordbox, just don’t know really how it works and the idea of ditching my records at this stage seems like too much hard work. Though I’m open to being convinced otherwise. In fact, my missus would pay good money to the person who could do it
There’s something about the serendipity of playing something at the ‘wrong’ speed which seems to be lost in the example you’re setting out there, but I’m sure that’s a minor loss compared to the innumerable gains. Could you simply slow down or speed up a digital track to the equivalent of 33 or 45 (or any speed at which it sounds better)? Or does that thought reveal me to be the dinosaur I truly am?
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Dolly’s ‘Jolene’ 45 sounds pretty good at 33 
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In fact, there are a few YT videos that testify to this fact…
[Edit: personally, I’d have pitched this one up a bit]
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I accidentally played the first Boards of Canada album at the wrong speed for about 2 years.
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