Grammy-nominated trance legends Cosmic Gate take Boston to the next
dimension on Friday January 24, 2020. GRAMMY ® nominated trance
legends Cosmic Gate aka Nic Chagall and Bossi have proved to be a
matchless musical union. The last 20 Years set them on the course to
becoming Germany’s most enduringly successful electronic music duo.
Smashing the biggest festivals and road-blocking clubs worldwide, got
them highest climber on DJ Mag’s Top 100 chart and racked up
plentiful other awards & nominations along the way. Numerous Singles
like ‘am2pm’, ‘Fall Into You’ and ‘Falling Back’,
countless Remixes and 9 Artist Albums, including scene-defining
classics like ‘Be Your Sound’, ‘Fire Wire’ and ‘Exploration
of Space’, their star on dance music’s walk of fame has long since
been laid. Introduction: From their very first drumbeat, through to
the release of ‘[Forward Ever Backward Never]’ – their ‘20
Years’ commemorating longplayer, Cosmic Gate’s Nic Chagall and
Bossi have proved to be a matchless musical union. A chance encounter
in a Cologne recording studio two decades ago set them on the course
to becoming Germany’s most enduringly successful electronic music
duo. Their original productions have taken them to the highest reaches
of streaming lists and download charts, whilst their remixography
eclectically includes everyone from revered Hollywood composers like
James Horner (Avatar/Titanic) to in-scene demigods like Armin van
Buuren and Tiësto. Nic & Bossi’s behind-decks-brotherhood has
triggered critical mass in a now uncountable number of countries.
They’ve dominated electronic music capitals and spun at the
veritable A-through-Z of major festivals. In the process they’ve
picked up a Grammy nomination (in 2019’s Best Remix category),
become the highest climber on DJ Mag’s Top 100 chart and racked up
numerous other awards & nominations along the way. Driven by their
critically applauded albums, Spotify-busting singles like ‘am2pm’,
‘Fall Into You’ and ‘Falling Back’ (each with 5million streams
to their name) and scene-defining classics like ‘Be Your Sound’,
‘Fire Wire’ and ‘Exploration of Space’ (10million Spotify
streams), their star on dance music’s walk of fame has long since
been laid. As DJs, kinetically bouncing off the others energy, week
in, week out, Cosmic Gate continue to push floors to supernova. In
North America they’ve smashed the biggest festivals like EDC, Ultra,
Electric Zoo, IleSoniq, Spring Awakening, Paradiso, Global Dance,
Veld, Dreamstate and more. Road-blocking clubs and events like Space
(both Miami & New York), Governors Island NY, LA’s Palladium and the
Great Hall at Brooklyn’s Avant Gardner has become their SOP. Floors
have felt similar pressure in hotspots worldwide. Among them have been
Tomorrowlands in Belgium & Brazil, ASOTs internationally, Creamfields,
Ministry & SW4 in the UK & Ultra Europe, Untold Romania, Mysteryland &
Luminosity in Holland and Parookaville, Boothaus & Nature One in their
native Germany. Their WMC/MMW Miami Sunset Cruises have long since
passed into clubbing legend and the pair famously sold out a 2000
capacity solo show on the island of Honolulu. Grammy nomination: the
final month of 2018 Nic & Bossi were nominated for their first Grammy
award. Selected in the Best Remixer category, their work on Gabriel &
Dresden and Sub Teal’s ‘Only Road’ from a year earlier drew
nomination praise from the academy. The remix was further described by
DJ Mag as “masterful”, with “alchemic sequencing”, “shrewd
use of context” and was “wily” in its “sound design” C.G.
Productions & Albums: In their homeland, Cosmic Gate has maintained a
consistently high level of mainstream success, charting no fewer than
7 top 40 singles. Further afield ‘Fire Wire’ signalled the
pair’s arrival, becoming a pan-European chart smash and hitting the
top ten in a number of countries. Albums have, and continue to play a
substantial part in their production career. Most recently that’s
been evidenced by ‘20 Years’, which was released in August of
2019. Significantly subtitled ’[Forward Ever Backward Never’], it
was conceived as an album that innovatively took their body of work to
new floors and audiences. Including new Cosmic Gate productions, it
also incorporated 2.0 renovations of CG anthems. Further it featured
reworks of tunes personally inspirational to CG, as well as new takes
from other artists on classic Cosmic moments. Its first single
releases brought a brace of Beatport hits with the MINT-playlisted
‘Come With Me’ and the “profound” (said DJ Mag) “9/10”
ranked ‘Need To Be Loved’ both hitting the #1 position. The album
also gave rise to the 20 Years live tour, which to date has reached 30
cities globally. Of the tour’s LA stop, EDM.com said: “Los Angeles
played host to one of their biggest shows on the tour where they
performed at the legendary Hollywood Palladium. Their extended
three-hour set included guest performances by JES, Eric Lumiere, and
Emma Hewitt, who have lent their vocals to some of the duo’s biggest
tracks”. The Dallas Observer meanwhile hailed their Stereo Live,
Houston show as a “cruise through two decades of varied, quality
productions. ’20 Years’ was preceded by the two ‘Chapters’ of
the longplayer ‘Materia’ – the release of which musically
bookended the group’s 2017. It was the album mothership for a clutch
of new Cosmic Gate singles and releases. Among them were ‘Fall Into
You’, ‘Edge Of Life’, ‘Noom’, the Beatport #1 ‘am2pm’,
‘AR’, ‘Dynamic’ (“melody and grit in equal proportions”
said DJ Mag’s 8/10 review) and others. Following their ‘Start To
Feel’ long-player (more info below), the release scored a MIXMAG
Album of the Month plaudit, representing – said the magazine – an
“impressive”, “roots-return” to their origin sound. Upon their
release the ‘Materias’ were met with comparable sales success,
hitting iTunes’ top 10s in 9 countries and reaching the #2 spot in
both the United States and Canada. The period 2015 – 2016 saw Cosmic
Gate continue to embrace the collaboration medium through a number of
high-profiles co-production projects. Among them was ‘Embargo’,
which was the result of studio time shared with Armin van Buuren. The
track was subsequently featured on 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, it topped Beatport’s Trance chart in October of
2016. Released in the summer of 2014, Cosmic Gate used their sixth
album ‘Start To Feel’ to inspire fans to experience electronic
music in a “deeper, wider, more complete way”. It’s first single
– the Eric Lumiere-sung ‘Falling Back’ – was described as
“9.5/10” scoring “anthem in a can” by the UK’s DJ Mag.
Further singles including ‘So Get Up’, Yai (Here We Go Again’)
and ‘Fair Game’ cemented its reputation. Upon release, the album
hit the iTunes’ top 10 in the US, Canada, Germany and Russia. A
MIXMAG 9/10 rated release, ‘Start To Feel’ was hailed as “audio
chemistry and production physics in their most quantum forms”. It
also catalysed the Start To Feel bus tour, which famously saw Nic &
Bossi perform 13 shows in just 16 days, coast-to-coast across North
America, playing to over 20,000 fans. In 2011 the duo released ‘Wake
Your Mind’. It produced ‘Be Your Sound’ – a single that MIXMAG
suggested “finally unseats ‘Fire Wire’ as Cosmic Gate’s
best-known-for track”. With its official video just off 16 million
views on YouTube, it bagged an IDMA nomination in 2012, (with the
JES-sung ‘Flying Blind’ following suit a year later). Cosmic
Gate’s album movements began with ‘Rythm & Drums’ (in 2001),
‘No More Sleep’ which followed a year later and ‘Earth Mover’
in ‘06. The latter was the album platform for the club hits
‘Analog Feel’, ‘Should Have Known’ and the IDMA-nominated ‘I
Feel Wonderful’. ‘Sign of the Times’ arrived 3 years later,
bringing the vocal anthem ‘Body of Conflict’, a further IDMA-nod
for ‘Not Enough Time’ and spurred (a then near unheard of)
43-place leap up DJ Mag’s Top 100 chart. It also edged the pair
towards a more open-plan electronic music style (later to fully
manifest in ‘Wake Your Mind’ and ‘Start To Feel’). Cosmic
Gate’s Wake Your Mind marque was subsequently spun off into a number
of other areas. WYM Radio is a comprehensively formatted show, which
features Nic & Bossi discussing and airing their most highly rated
tracks of the week. It’ll also encompasses first-listen music
premieres and tunes from the deeper side of the CG psyche. The show
– which is broadcast on Sirius XM, DI.FM and many other stations –
also features comprehensive info on up-and-coming gigs, Nic &
Bossi’s Big Bang track of the week and a host of other features,
latterly including the ThrowBack weekly classic and their Private
Playlist tune. In January of 2019, the show passed its landmark 250th
episode. Since 2013, Wake Your Mind Records has been the label base
for all of Cosmic Gate’s releases. It’s also served as a dais for
Cosmic Gate to sign and release music from other artists. Of late,
tracks 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 & Tab and
others. Latterly, the Wake Your Mind Sessions compilations have also
come to play a part in the WYM make-up, with the third in the series
reaching release in March of 2018. Other remixes: Over their
production lifetime, Cosmic Gate’s remixes have become almost as
illustrious as their productions. In essence a blow-by-blow of A-list
artists, Nic & Bossi have lent their studio know-how to releases by
Armin van Buuren, Tiësto, Deadmau5, Paul van Dyk, Above & Beyond’s
OceanLab project, Markus Schulz, John O’Callaghan, Gareth Emery and
Ferry Corsten. In early 2010 Atlantic Records US approached them to
remix James Horner’s ‘I See You’ – the main theme from the
film Avatar. This run culminated in Nic & Bossi being nominated for
Best Remixer at the 2010 IDMAs and not to forget their Grammy
nominated remix for „Gabriel & Dresden – The Only Road“ in 2019
(see paragraph “Grammy Nomination” above for more infos)
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