Following the lead I´ve taken with Janus, The Cosmo Sessions contain even more recylced material - and this not only because two of the tracks are remixes or cover versions of other songs. The following list contains a directory of all the snippets used in the recordings; some very obvious, some rather garbled. In some cases, samples appear multiple times; then only the first time of appearance is listed. This time, I also included some short notes about some of the songs or records these samples are taken from - listen and enjoy!

Cosmo Piece	Time	Description	Song	Album	Artist
Oööyh´sonoth!	0:00	guitar harmonics	The Sage	Pictures at an Exhibition	ELP
	0:15	reverse classical loop	Naja Naja Atra	Cobra live at KnF	John Zorn
	1:32	guitar loop	The Sage	Pictures at an Exhibition	ELP
	4:37	heavy metal guitar	El Vito Cante	Jazzpana	Los Jovenes Flamencos
Der misteriöse Walkman	2:23	doom drums	Black Moon	Black Moon	ELP
	0:00	synth pads	Black Moon	Black Moon	ELP
	5:53	piano loop	La Fiesta	Classic Performances	Chick Corea
	5:06	vocals	Peter Grimes	Peter Grimes	Benjamin Britten
	2:22	choir	Peter Grimes	Peter Grimes	Benjamin Britten
	7:25	reverse guitar line	Raga	Sol do meio Dia	Egberto Gismonti
	1:13	strange drum loops	Men at Work	HEART	Klaus König
	6:30	guitar harmonics	Men at Work	HEART	Klaus König
	4:28	diverse drum loops		Drum´n´Bass Frenzy
	7:42	"vocal out chorus"	Kush	& United Nations Orchestra	Dizzy Gillespie
Welcome aboard...	0:00	weird piano	1st movement	Piano Concerto No.2	Sergej Rachmaninov
	0:24	vocal drums	Weekend	Boil that Dust Speck	Mike Keneally
	0:55	drum fills	Back on the Block	Back on the Block	Quincy Jones
	0:57	drum loops		Doo-Bop	Miles Davis
	4:09	drum loops	What	Down Home	Joey Baron
	0:33	sax loop	Modern Day Jazz	Underground	Courtney Pine
	2:38	scratches	Rockit	Future Shock	Herbie Hancock
	6:26	drum loop	King Kong Five	Puta´s Fever	Mano Negra
	0:57	background loops	An Bord der Flying Sausage	Cosmo Pollite	Andreas Winterer
Resistance is futile	0:00	ambient samples	Natasacha die Porg	Cosmo Pollite	Andreas Winterer

John Zorn: COBRA

This is the definitive recording of Zorn´s most famous game piece, and it contains a large variety of different lineups and instrumentations, each showing a completely different interpretation of the composition. The quoted example pictures a session organized by David Shea, on which all participants operated samplers, CD players or live electronics. The sample used here is in turn a classical sample of unknown origin, superposed by an arythmic percussion loop.

Klaus König: HEART

Although this recording of Königs latest project doesn´t match his earlier efforts like on Reviews, it is still able to combine tight horn sectionwork with weird rhythms - the quoted example making no exception.

Herbie Hancock: FUTURE SHOCK

One doesn´t really need to introduce this record: it was one of the mainstays of the breakdance scene in the eighties, thanks to its android percussion meets digital synths and virtuoso scratch quality. The samples taken here were edited with a 180db/oct highpass (hence the phase shift, which could have been avoided, as the operation was not realtime and thus the filter needn´t be causal, but hey, it sounds real Cosmo!), cut up into tiny segments, and then reassembled to create the scratch interlude on Welcome aboard.

Emerson, Lake & Palmer: PICTURES AT AN EXHIBITION

This album was the stunning proof that it was possible to reach highest chart positionings in the pop/rock market with renditions of classical pieces - ELP´s version of Mussorgski´s piano piece made the Top 10 in the States, and even reached place 2 in the UK. Apart from the original pieces, it contains several own compositions by the band - amongst them the title quoted here.

JAZZPANA

The WDR has gained quite a reputation for organizing and financing very interesting and commercially desastrous projects - among them is this recording produced by Siegfried Loch, which brought together the avantgarde-flamenco ensemble Los Jovenes Flamencos, the WDR´s own big band, arrangers Arif Mardin and Vince Mendoza, plus several prolific special guests, among them Mike Brecker, Peter Erskine and Al DiMeola. The piece quoted from this production is a traditional flamenco tune, its guitar intro performed by Juan Manuel Canizares.

Chick Corea: CLASSIC PERFORMANCES

This 2CD-release on the ominous Retro label contains a performance of Chick with the Lionel Hampton band, and a recording of a Corea-led septet, from which this piano improv on his original "La Fiesta" is taken.

Egberto Gismonti: SOL DO MEIO DIA

This album of the very esoteric Brasilian pianist, guitarist and composer Egberto Gismonti is dedicated to the Xingu Indians, whose music Gismonti had studied while living in the Amazon rainforest. Besides fellow ECM artists Walcott, Garbarek and Vasconcelos, this album contains the performances of two masters of the acoustic guitar: Towner and Gismonti himself.

Dizzy Gillespie: AND THE UNITED NATIONS ORCHESTRA

This is a recording of Diz´s last project: a panamerican big band focusing on Afro-Cuban jazz, an area in whose development Dizzy played a major part. The orchestra is led by Cuban-born altosax madman Paquito D´Rivera, and contains performances by people like Arturo Sandoval, Slide Hampton and Airto.

Mike Keneally: BOIL THAT DUST SPECK

This solo album of former Zappa tour guitarist and G3 member Keneally contains intelligent and progressive examples of the art of rock-trio-playing. The sampled passage is percussionist Satnam Ramgotra providing a "vocal drum part".

Quincy Jones: BACK ON THE BLOCK

This release by trumpetist, big-band leader and mega-producer Jones contains as a retrospect on his musical archievements performances from about any famous musician from the RockJazz/R&B world, among them Ray Charles, Dizzy Gillespie, Herbie Hancock, and many more, despite the fact that the musical focus is on the HipHop/Rap direction. I got the CD from Anne of the No Members cohorts.

Mano Negra: PUTA´S FEVER

Scotty lent me this CD. I was not able to retrieve some details about this release quickly, as my Rock Discography doesn´t list this group at all, but I dimly remember that this weird squad orientated somewhere between salsa, rock, hiphop and oriental pop had a hit with King Kong Five back in the late Eighties.

Joey Baron: DOWN HOME

This is the solo debut of the former Zorn/Frisell drummer (who can be heard on some of their most excellent albums, as Zorn´s Naked City and Spy vs Spy and Frisell´s Before we were born). Despite his collaboration with some very progressive artists, this album is pretty much mainstream. It features Arthur Blythe, Ron Carter and Frisell, and opens with Mighty Fine, the best blues tune I´ve heard for years.

Courtney Pine: UNDERGROUND

One of Pine´s HipHop releases. Although I do prefer both his Coltrane-style Destiny´s Song and his first HipHop album, this work also contains some really nice material - among it the outstanding out-solo on tenor on Modern Day Jazz. The outstanding skills of DJ Pogo, winner of the ´97 DJ world championship, make up some of the great drum loops on this release.

Miles Davis: DOO-BOP

The last Davis studio recordings, this album actually has very little to do with the great master - as a matter of fact it´s some Easy Mo Bee rap shit where Miles plays some trumpet lines, and what was marketed as a creative fusion of hiphop and jazz couldn´t even get close to the stuff Davis and Hancock were doing back in the early Seventies. Still, it can be used to sample some hiphop (or should I say doobop) grooves.