Afro/Cosmic Music
In music, the terms Afro, Cosmic Disco, the Cosmic sound, free style, and combinations thereof (Cosmic Afro, Afro/Cosmic Afro-Freestyle, etc., as well as Afro-Funky) are used somewhat interchangeably to describe various forms of synthesizer-heavy and/or African-influenced dance music and methods of DJing that were originally developed and promoted by a small number of DJs in certain discothèques of Northern Italy from the late 1970s through the mid-1980s. The terms slow-motion disco and Elettronica Meccanica are also associated with the genre.
Italian DJs Beppe Loda and Daniele Baldelli both independently claim to have invented the genre and mixing style.
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“Quadroon mermaids, Afro angels, black saints
balanced upon the switchblades of that air
and sang.”
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Through which careered an undulous pageantry
Of fiends and suns, darkness and boiling sea,
All held in ordered sway by beauty’s mood.”
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