Cosmic Gate - Biography
Over 10 boundary-pushing years, Nic Chagall and Bossi have evolved Cosmic Gate into one of the most creative and highly-sought-after electronic music acts in the world. Revered uber-producers, their musical acumen has seen them become long-term favourites of trance’s Big 5 DJs with their 3 hugely-received albums transporting anthems like 'Body of Conflict', 'I Feel Wonderful', 'Analog Feel', or the classics 'Exploration Of Space' and 'Fire Wire' to the dancefloor. As DJs, their kinetic, blood-pumping live performances are seen by hundreds of thousands of clubbers annually, playing over 100 nights every year, and its this ever-visible club presence that saw chart at a new high of #62 in the DJ Mag Top 100 in 2008.
Following a chance meeting at a label office in Cologne in late 1998, the pair collaborated for the first time. It’s a production partnership that has become one of the dance world’s most successful and memorable. In their homeland of Germany, they’ve maintained a consistent level of chart success, with no fewer than 7 Top 40 singles to their name and a Top 10 hit in the UK with the quintessential club hit, 'Fire Wire'. Following up the long-players ‘Rhythm & Drums’ and ‘No More Sleep’, in 2006 they released 'Earth Mover', which saw a seismic shift towards a more melodic and electronically orientated music. Including the club hits 'Analog Feel', 'Should Have Known' and 'I Feel Wonderful', the long-player was IDMA nominated for Best Album Of 2007 and was latterly seen as a new ‘year one’ for Cosmic Gate.
In 2009 Nic and Bossi release their fourth studio album ‘Sign Of The Times’, which contains 11 floor-monsters-in-waiting, last year’s vocal anthem 'Body of Conflict' and the latest smash single 'Not Enough Time', which in the words of Tiësto is “a great and solid vocal trancer that touches all your musical senses!” Armin van Buuren says “The new Cosmic Gate album is one of the most anticipated releases of this year. They are on the forefront of the dance music sound of the moment… Bring on 2009!”
Deck-side Nic and Bossi have whipped floors into frenzies all the way around the world. In 2008 they played Tiësto’s night at Privilege and Judgement Sundays in Ibiza, and decisively broke into the US and Australian clubbing scenes through a string of sell-out tours. They've appeared in the DJ Magazine Top 100 spinners for 6 years now and are regular festival attraction, spinning at events like Trance Energy and Mysteryland in Holland, Summadayze in Australia, Germany’s Nature One and Nocturnal in the US. In early 2009 they are set to roadblock the Freedom Festival with Tiësto in Malaysia.
Over their production lifetime, the Cosmic Gate remixes have become almost as fêted as their productions. Essentially a blow by blow of trance music’s A-list, Nic and Bossi lent their studio know-how to productions by the likes of Tiësto, Armin van Buuren, Ferry Corsten, Above & Beyond's OceanLab project, Rank 1 and Blank & Jones. Most recently they reworked Deadmau5 'Clockwork' to devastating effect and created two highly-praised remixes of Vincent De Moor 'Fly Away’ and Veracocha 'Carte Blanche'.
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