On The Floor! - Live at the Do-Over, Los Angeles

Cosmo Baker

The Rub, Brooklyn, NYC

Okay now, who is this Cosmo Baker? We could start now to argue about how he took – apparently three months old - the milk crates out of a Philly garage to use this as a pedestal to rape his parent’s hi-fi. Or analyze his hip hop initiation and how he was doin’ it in the park, doin’ it in the dark. Then we would add a bit of braggin’ and boastin about the size of his…record collection and how he could rock and shock every crowd with ease and the best of hip hop, reggae and house or plain good ol’ dance music. Finally, we would put some spice on it all and describe this regular Brooklyn killer jam called The Rub that Cosmo holds down with DJ Ayres and DJ Eleven and hail it as the best party on the planet. But instead of doin’ dis, we just give you quotes from dear Academy people DJ Monk respectively alumni XXXchange: "Cosmo’s a rare cat. There aren’t many who can impress me with a funk 45s set, turn around and destroy a rave packed with barely legal hipsters, then pull out a disco twelve-inch that I’d all but forgotten about—and still be one of my favorite faces to see over a pint of beer." (Monk-One) "Cosmo Baker is, without a doubt, the most learned DJ I have ever seen. From early house, to club bangers, classics, rock shit, jazz, dude has done his research, and done it well!"(XXXchange)