Exclusive Interview with GRAMMY ® nominated Trance Legends Cosmic Gate on ‘MOSAIIK’

• September 7, 2021

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.

Cosmic Gate (aka Nic Chagall and Bossi) is thrilled to release the first stage of their hotly anticipated new artist album. Trailed throughout 2021 by vanguard single releases and stunning live streams, ‘MOSAIIK’ will platform nine sensational cuts from the GRAMMY-nominated duo.

Mirroring the same delivery system adopted by their 2017 ‘Materia’ albums, seasoned CG fans will already be familiar with ‘MOSAIIK’ release dynamic. Shared across two ‘Chapters’, ‘MOSAIIK’s ‘II’ styled title is a direct nod to the group’s eleventh artist long-player.

“One of the best albums of the year in my opinion is ‘MOSAIIK’. Every single track has a message, a deeper meaning that changes between people and persons alike. While I have been a fan of Cosmic Gate for years, ‘MOSAIIK’ to me has a vibe that is all on its own. Each track has its own element that you can take from, that you can connect with in ways that inspire. To me this album is the glue that unites and holds together after an entire year keeping us away from the music that connected us all. I had a chance to interview Nic Chagall and Bossi after their global release of the album in NYC, this is what they shared up with us”

Full Support – Michael Beas, Raver Magazine 

What 2 words describe the journey you’re taking your fans on with the release of your new album MOSAIIK?

 

FEEL IT

 

How does the title MOSAIIK reflect the world we’re living in right now?

 

The name Mosaiik was reflecting the way we worked in putting this album together, less describing what was going on out in the world while writing it, even as quite sure a lot of those to say the least unusual circumstances we lived in, reflect in the music, that’s needless to say. Mosaiik, describes the many parts of the work you do when producing an album, sometimes several tracks at the same time. put a track aside, wait for Vocals to be written, start something new, get a Vocal demo that suddenly puts attention and attraction to, so many little different pieces bits and parts, fractures which in the end become one, our own Mosaiik. About the spelling, we took the liberty to write it with two II, simply as Mosaiik is our 11th studio Album, we liked the idea and think it stands out a bit like that.

At what point did you both know it was time to start a new project following your release of “Forward Ever, Never Backward?”

 

Somehow, after the 20 Years Album (Forward Ever Backward Never), it did not just feel like a restart for a new Album, as we have seen it several times ago, the start for Mosaiik  felt a bit like the start into a new era.

 

There were some signs that our fans are as ready as we were, for an acceptance of a deeper, progressed sound and production direction, as you might know already from some of our  latest remixes or from listening to the diversity of influences when listening to our WYM Radio show. No one told us we needed to do this change, we very naturally felt this from within, as we always followed our intuitions over the years.

 

When the clubbing world was pretty much separated from their dancefloors in March 2020 on top, circumstances provided even more artistic latitude. Thus ‘MOSAIIK’s musicmaking became less symmetric and floor-focused, and all the richer for it. as weird as it sounds, we somehow became even more free in our work, while life outside was actually the opposite, we tried to take circumstances as a chance, not an obstacle.

 

After a good while then, we laid all of ‘MOSAIIK’s ideas, drafts and demos out, and started to realize quite quick, there is so much material, we will split the album into two again, as we did before with the Materia series.

Available now across all digital formats, ‘MOSAIIK Chapter One’  is ready to stream/buy from today (with a CD edition set to follow with ‘Chapter 2’).

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