kosmische club

It was Julian Cope's idea. "Someone should start a Krautrock club" he said. So we did. After a launch party in 1996 with Timothy Leary's best mate and original Cosmic Joker Brian Barritt, the Kosmische Club quickly established itself as a place to hear some of the most forward-thinking, truly independent and downright amazing music ever made. Cherished by the open-minded, loved by the chronically energetic, and only occasionally visited by old men with beards, the Kosmische club's remit slowly began to include the best danceable, experimental music, electronica, and classic underground tracks.  Since 2005 Kosmische Club has been based in Oslo, Norway, concentrating on DJing rather than concert promotion, with the occasional party in London and elsewhere. bands who have played live include:

46,000 Fibres, Add N to (X), Couch (Germany), Damo Suzuki (from Can), Silver Apples, Stereolab DJs, Cul de Sac (USA), Circle (Finland), Chrome Hoof, Jackie-O-Motherfucker, Jean-Herve Peron (Faust), Delia Gonzalez & Gavin Russom (DFA records USA), Shit & Shine, Ruins Alone (Japan), Brown Sierra, Mark's Epson 600 colour printer (because it sounded awesome when powered up), Nem (a krautrock Gamelan),Oh (Germany), V/VM, Cobra Killer (Germany), Charles Hayward (This Heat), Ommm (ADADAAT), Asja Auf Capri, Duracell, Sunburned Hand of the Man (USA), hush arbors (USA), Sunroof!, Miasmos/Somasim, Steeple Remove (France), Mutarotations (Robert Hampson, Loop, Main), Roedelius (Kluster/Cluster/Harmonia), the NEU! EMI re-release launch party, the Can launch party (Sacrilege), Appliance, Tele:Funken, A-Musik, The Early Years, ISAN, Kling Klang, Lithops (Mouse on Mars, Germany), Echoboy, Kreidler (Germany), Murcof (Mexico), Karamasov, Now, Wauvenfold, Rothko, Radio 9, Op:l Bastards (Finland), Khan (featuring Kid Congo Powers), B. Fleischmann, Acid Mothers Temple (Japan), Hunting Lodge, Molotov art terrorists, DJs Barry 7 (Add N to (X)), Sonic Boom (Spacemen 3) (as Spectrum and Experimental Audio Research), Woebot, Sacha Dieu, cylob (rephlex), Jagz Kooner (Primal Scream), Thomas Fehlmann+Alex Patterson (The Orb), Staubgold Records (Germany), Max Tundra, Cluster, Felix Kubin, Turn On (Stereolab), E-Da (Boredoms), Miasma and the Carousel of Headless Horses, Karamasov, Global Goon, Rothko, The Vanity Set, Freeform, Radio 9, Prey, Op:l Bastards, Zukanican, B. Fleischmann, The Beale, Sonic Catering Band, Shock Headed Peters, Amal Gamal Ensemble, Burning Idiot Noise, Zaum, Hunting Lodge, Duracell, The Early Years, and so the list goes on...been the subject of documentaries on Channel 4, BBC and ZDF (German) TV, the 5-page article in the Face, 2 UK tours, Kosmische clubs in Oslo, Dublin, Brighton and Bristol, guest spots on XFM and Resonance FM and hosted some of the most debauched nights known to mankind. And there's probably a few we have forgotten, too - email us if your memory is better than ours.

KRAUTROCK BOOK Black Dog publications launches its guide to Krautrock. Contributors include Kosmische Kosmonauts Frances Morgan, Mink Pelican and Leo Avanti!

"Oh, fantastic" the late, great John Peel, upon being given a Kosmische flyer during his Meltdown Festival at the South Bank, London

"Among the often banal skyline of club culture there lurks a towering edifice of the alternative, a monument to outré electronica. That place is Kosmische..."
The Big Issue

'A thoroughly wholesome mix of Krautrock, electronics and music from the future' The Wire

"Kosmische is an established and enduring fixture of London's leftfield, presenting regular shows on Resonance FM and hosting Krautrock-style groups from all over the world." "At its heart, Krautrock was an organic, optimistic musical movement, bewitched by the possibilities of sound and how we could get closer and more at one with it. The awkwardly beautiful species of rock on display tonight suggests this genus is still alive, thriving and finding new hosts." Derek Walmsley, The Wire, sep 2006

"It's not often you'll hear us say 'you should get out more - to Highbury' but there you go, we're saying it now" Sleazenation

"It's a disco, but not as we know it"
Time Out

"The excellent Kosmische continues to push back the boundaries of left-field strangeness" Time Out "...the best night out I've had in ages..." Barry 7, Add N to (X)/Prey

"Boss club, man" Mani, Primal Scream

"North London's long-standing leftfield and Krautrock disco, and arguably the only place you'll se people dancing to Plastikman, Bowie and Capitol K in the same hour. Which isn't easy, believe you me. DJs on the weird-beat are Rephlex's Cylob, Scott Chegg, Jim Backhaus, Mink Pelican and, playing live for the first time, ISAN". Sleazenation, may 2002

They've seen Spice Girls come and go, watched the rise and fall of electroclash and outlasted four England managers, all the while keeping faith with the hypnotic angular grooves as championed by the likes of Can and Neu! and steadily building a reputation as one of London's best little clubs...psyched-out films, rarely seen Krautrock videos and other phantasmagorically out-there visual selections to keep all parts of your brain on interstellar overdrive for the night. Kultureflash, july 2006

"what kind of music is this?" Lauren Laverne at Kosmische club

"Simultaneously kinetic and cinematic, Krautrock is one of the golden phases in a continuum that runs through rock history: the textured groove-scape.” "Listeners are turning to Krautrock, not as a nostalgia-inducing memento of some wilder, more daring age they never lived through, but as a treasure trove of hints and clues as to what can be done right here, right now. Krautrock isn't history, but a living testament that there's still so far to go."
Simon Reynolds, Modulations