Although DJ Cosmo has now made a place for himself in the top tier of Canadian DJs, getting there didn’t happen over night. Making it to the number one spot in Red Bull 3styles 2009, traveling all over the country to play parties, and DJing alongside turntable champions and hip hop legends didn’t come easy. Years of hard work and love for music preceded.
DJ Cosmo is a true product of his time. Born in France, then migrating to Nova Scotia and Quebec in his teens, he first started growing as a DJ in Montreal- where he witnessed his first battles and got a taste of turntablism. This is 1999, the golden age of DMC battles and the second wave of turntable culture. Witnessing the hometown hero and world champ in action (A-trak and his crew the Allies) at scratch nights around the city, Cosmo took it all in like a sponge and witnessed the early steps of some of his contemporaries like DR One, Mana, and Jr Flo. Buying his equipment with student loans, he managed to cop a set of Technics and moved back home, dedicating his life to honing DJ skills.
He soon began taking his talents to another level by rocking parties in Halifax alongside local legends Skratch Bastid and JoRun and then eventually opening for big rap names like Nas, Gza, and Lupe Fiasco, among others. After taking home award after award in the local DJ scene, Cosmo partners up with MC Ghettosocks- the beginning of a fruitful musical partnership and his first dabble with production work. Now, he’s got production credits under his belt for Black Union, Ruby Jean and on his own album Skinny Power, which features a slew of local rap talent. He is also launching a new weekly night in Montreal called GET NICE, giving him the chance to showcase his skills in the city that first made him fall in love with DJing. A true lover of vinyl, Cosmo always manages to match old school DJ ideals with new technology, providing a crowd pleasing blend of hip hop turntablism, classics, and electro. You can believe bigger and better things are on the horizon for this dude.
To put it simply in his own words: “Beatmaking and rocking parties; that’s my thing, that’s what I do.”
