Billy Lo - It's The Life

Cosmocities Records

£10.78

Genre(s): Deep House
Format: 12 Inch, Picture Sleeve
Catalogue No.: CMSR003
Release Date: February 2021

A1 - It’s The Life
A2 - Do U Play Around
B1 - It’s The Life (Kai Alcé Interpretation)
B2 - Is It The Music

Cosmocities is a French label established in 2019 by Matthieu Soulié-Strougar. Based in Dijon, a city with a culture and history for churning out very decent electronica. In the nineties club l’An-fer was a pioneer for that culture, with Laurent Garnier as resident there for some years.

Cosmocities releases have included artists like Leif, Segue, Jitwam, Jaime Read, Inner Science and Inkswel, with a remix from broken beat legend Agent K Kaidi Tatham. There’s even a Delano Smith release in the pipeline.

Following on with this quality A&R run, Cosmocities presents the ‘It’s the Life EP’. It’s by Billy Lo, a trio of underground producers hailing from the motor city of Detroit, consisting of Bill Beaver, Darryl Tiggs and Darren Abrams.

As a vocalist, Beaver (aka Billy Love) has collaborated on Sound Signature, Still Music and Moodymann’s Mahogani Music. Darren Abrams composed the Detroit House classic ‘Loose Piano’ on ‘Detroit Beatdown Volume One’ on Third Ear Recordings. This crew have a deep and credible history.

The ‘It’s the Life EP’ contains a repress of a Detroit forgotten Classic originally released on Universal Frequency Modulations Recordings in 2002, currently changing hands on Discogs for a fair few quid. This time it gets repackaged with a remix from NDATL’s front man Kai Alce. The EP is completed with two additional originals.

Faith Show 06 - Opens with 'It's The Love'

DJ Support:

RON TRENT, DANILO PLESSOW, GLENN UNDERGROUND, DJ QU,
CHRIS DUCKENFIELD, LUKE SOLOMON, OLIVER DOLLAR,
TERRY FARLEY, ISOUL8, DANNY TENNAGLIA, FRANCOIS K, SIMBAD,
LAURENT GARNIER, JIMPSTER, CHARLES WEBSTER,
ASHLEY BEEDLE, QUENTIN HARRIS