Respected DJ, author of remixes for Scratch Massive, Superdiscount, Benjamin Diamond and Cassius. Cosmo Vitelli issued several EP's including 'We Don't Need No Smurf Here' which was elected 'Single Of The Week' by the NM... more »E. Acclaimed by the press as one of the 'best contemporary electronic songwriters', Cosmo Vitelli presents us with 'Clean' 11 subtle and ambitious electronic songs. Astralwerks. 2003.« less
Respected DJ, author of remixes for Scratch Massive, Superdiscount, Benjamin Diamond and Cassius. Cosmo Vitelli issued several EP's including 'We Don't Need No Smurf Here' which was elected 'Single Of The Week' by the NME. Acclaimed by the press as one of the 'best contemporary electronic songwriters', Cosmo Vitelli presents us with 'Clean' 11 subtle and ambitious electronic songs. Astralwerks. 2003.
"Cosmo Vitelli, né Benjamin Boguet, was born in 1974 in Montreuil, France, to parents who lived in Ivory Coast, Africa, where he spent the first decade of his life, dreaming of growing up and turning into Stevie Wonder. In France, Vitelli fell for house, played guitar in the indie group Perio, produced bedroom demos, started DJ'ing and remixing: the usual acoustic-into-Mac music résumé of a cool Eurodude. But Clean strikes out in a curiously bold way. Vitelli seems oblivious to the current French fashion for using beats as a kind of loud, repeating architecture; he envisions rhythm more as flowing, weirdly articulate sonic water. Although he can get things snapping, as on "Icons," an effective dance piece, Vitelli typically takes a more oddly buried tack, as on "Perfect Lies." He's an electro version of Thomas Dolby, building sturdy Walkman experiences out of air and mist.
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Brilliant
spy_jupiter | Las Cruces, NM United States | 07/02/2003
(5 out of 5 stars)
"The first song I heard of Cosmo Vitelli was "Robot Soul," a wonderfully executed electro-symphony ballad of a robot boy searching for his humanity. In my opinion, the album is worth buying for this song ALONE.All of the songs are vibrant and full of talent and each expresses everything I love about electronic music. Clever use of guitar, percussion, samples; brilliant lyrics and thematic songs. The whole album would make a great soundtrack for any sort of Sci-Fi Cyberpunk movie/anime.I expect many more great things from Cosmo Vitelli."
Party Day is brilliant, then there's the rest...
G. Mitchell | Los Angeles, CA United States | 06/18/2005
(3 out of 5 stars)
"I really like this album, but it could have been a bit stronger/more consistent: PARTY DAY is one of the best electro-tech/pop-dance songs EVER - great vocals, construction, breakdown, vibe - this deserved to be a hit, but sadly never was. ICONS and ROBOT SOUL come second - but aside from these singles, the rest of the album pales, just like Cosmo's debut VIDEO, which was well-produced but not very interesting overall. I wish they had included the amazing remixes of PARTY DAY by DAVID CARETTA and AKUFEN from the 12" on this CD - oh well. Nex time? Still, I respect COSMO and wish him success in the States."
Robot soul with an...
twofive | NY, NY USA | 04/10/2003
(4 out of 5 stars)
"...earnest voice. Cosmo Vitelli seems like a sincere likeable guy. The instrumental choices are much like the retro-ethereal sounds of Air, highlighted with electro flairs and fat Daftpunk analog grooves, with a few choice samples thrown in. "Robot Soul" is the most ambitious and complete song. It has a nice early 80's electro-soul-pop feel. "Come on Generation Clone" and "People Should Think, Machines Should Work" take on more of a 'Metropolis' motif, with the former more melodic and the latter slightly sinister, yet both ever hopeful. They would have been a great soundtrack for the aforementioned movie, or even Bladerunner and Akira, which all seem doubtlessly influential to the songs' conceptions. It's a worthy pleasurable cd, subtle and ambitious as the album description says, but somehow not fullfilling in a dramatic sense. The robots need more ecstasy."