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Welcome friends and lovers to the Monthly Music Challenge podcast with your hosts, Cosmic Bos. This is the first proper episode of the second season of the Monthly Music Challenge, and it has grown somewhat since last year. 30 songs for you! that's right, 30 songs made around the theme of 'First Impressions', and SPOILER ALERT! They are crispy amazeballs, absolutely all of them. Andy and Nick, Jackson, the brothers Cosmic, Bos, one S, are here to guide you through the delightful frist impressions from the most exciting up and coming musicians and artists that are creating in the world today, forget your Taylor Swifts, it's all about Taylor Lidstone here, and move aside Andrew Lloyd Weber, we got Andrew Hartshorn on the MMC Challenge (our Rocket, Submarine, Train hybrid that traverses the musical multiverse). So come on a magical musical journey, with special guests David Battenberg Cake and Big Mic, as Cosmic Bos delve into the musical world of First Impressions. Full tracklist, not in order, in fact it's the order of Big Mic's Big Numbers! The new game that Andy and Nick came up with to help them pick an order. 1. Cosmic Bos - You Only Get One Chance to Make a First Impression 2. TexMex Shaman - Firstly, I'm Impressed 3. John Serrano and Ores Minon - Rules to Break 4. Sonic Squirrel - Greetings from Planet Squirrel 5. Voltage Poetry Project - The First Funicular of the Day 6. NakelTBG - Peak Cinema 7. Smokin' Cola - Good First Impression 8. Gee-Whiz - First Impressions 9. Only the Host and John Serrano - It's Dangerous to go it Alone 10. Mr. Woody - Warning Sign 11. - 14. Mobidextrous - First Impressions EP 15. Aye Nevo - The Gift 16. Uncle Funkbeard - Thirst Impressions 17. Chemical Shift - Mariposas 18. Taylor Lidstone - I Bet You Skip Forward 19. Mario Marino - Loading Screen 20. Mike Allen - I Digress 21. Pixie Post - The Beginning 22. Andrew Hartshorn - First Impressions 23. Starve the Little Devil - Come Around 24. Trench Gun - When I First Saw You 25. A Sea Warren - First Impressions 26. Colin Pimlott - 8 out of 10 won't do 27. Notehead - Phosphenes 28. Above the Snow Line, Tracy Cloud and John Serrano - First Impression 29. Hellwaddler - Post Apocalyptic Impressions 30. Natalie Williams Calhoun - First Impressions Please go and vote for your favourite songs in the comments here on the podcast, or on youtube (prefferably), we will tally up the results and issue a 'Peoples Choice Award' next month to the song with the most love. Feel free to mention multiple. Thank you for being here, we truly appreciate you, please give the podcast a like and subscribe, and comments are just wonderful. The next theme for the MMC is 2.2 - Happiness, get your happy (or miserable) caps on and get musicianing oh dearest musicians of the indie music world. Closing date or submissions is the 1st March 2024. Email an mp3 (and a bio if you are new) to [email protected]  You can still submit songs for 'First Impressions' and we might play them in our 'Late Subs' section. Next Episode coming 3rd March - MMC 2.2 - Happiness Peace and infinite love Cosmic Bos

Hello Music fans, Welcome to a special presentation podcast by the hosts of the Monthly Music Challenge, Cosmic Bos (one S). Although this is the podcast feed for the MMC, it is also the place that Cosmic Bos put their special presentations and some other guff, like, if they want to chat about something for some reason. Cosmic Bos are Nick and Andy Jackson, brothers from the South of the UK, making music and music videos and sharing them with the world. Virtual Normality 3 is our third EP in the Virtual Normality series (you can tell by the 3 after the words Virtual and Normality), with the first one having come out way back in 2021 before the Monthly Music Challenge even existed, the second one hit internet shelves in 2022 mere months before the MMC was launched, and then this third one slipped onto the intershelves on the final day of 2023 (so we can still claim it came out in '23). https://cosmicbos.bandcamp.com/album/virtual-normality-3 A little Cosmic Bos history on this subject: Virtual Normality started life as a showcase for Nick and Andy of their songwriting skills, at the time, Cosmic Bos were making an improvised music podcast, with Nick and Andy working with Joe Philogene and producing 4 epic Full album improv sessions in 2021. 'Space Babies' was born from the improv sessions and was given a coat of production paint to open the EP, with 'Take it Easier', 'It's Always You' and 'Ride Another Wave' being used from the songbooks. 'Stay Inside' was a new song made with TexMex Shaman and loving placed on the EP. Flash forward a year and Cosmic Bos release Virtual Normality 2, having won a 'Judge's Choice' Award for their album '2 A.M it's Mission Time' it was decided that Nick and Andy would give the songwriting their full focus. VN2 contained 4 songs that had been born from the Music Weeklies challenge on X (formerly Twitter) as well as a Cosmic Bos remix of a song by Andrew Hartshorn and Natalie Williams Calhoun. It also served as the blueprint for the Monthly Music Challenge. At the end of the first year of the Monthly Music Challenge, Cosmic Bos turned their attention to Virtual Normality 3, knowing that they wanted it to showcase what the future may hold, just as the previous two VN EP's had. And that is what this podcast is about. Come on a journey with Nick Jackson and Andy Jackson of Cosmic Bos as they discuss their new 5 track EP Virtual Normality 3, which you can buy on bandcamp right now here https://cosmicbos.bandcamp.com/album/virtual-normality-3 Also, if you fancy a free copy of the EP, then all you need to do is purchase our CD from Monochrome Motif Records here https://cosmicbos.bandcamp.com/album/mmc-1-2023-album - Containing our 10 songs for the first year of the Monthly Music Challenge, and a bonus free digital download of Virtual Normality 3. Thank you for listening, regular Monthly Music Challenge will be back on the 4th of Feb 2024, you have until the 2nd Feb to write your 'First Impressions' songs, and then email mp3 and bio to us at [email protected] Full tracklist for Virtual Normality 3 Oh Wow! (Hug the Lady) ft. A Sea Warren Future Anniversaries Unconditional Fragility How So Lucky ft. Theo Please like, share and subscribe to our work And comment pwease, we weally weally love comments Peace and infinite love Cosmic Bos

Hello dear listener, Welcome to the Monthly Music Challenge podcast with your hosts Cosmic Bos, they are Nick and Andy Jackson, brothers from the UK that make lots of music, and host this music challenge, monthly, in podcast form. This is the introduction episode to the second year of the Monthly Music Challenge. What is the Monthly Music Challenge? Good question, it is a podcast, audioshow, that comes out monthly, and contains music submitted around a theme each month. We did it all last year, and had 10 themes that made up MMC 1. Cosmic Bos (your show hosts) put their efforts out as a CD under Monochrome Motif records, which you can purchase from bandcamp here https://cosmicbos.bandcamp.com/album/mmc-1-2023-album How do I get involved? If you are a musician, and you would like to submit music to the Monthly Music Challenge podcast, please send mp3's with a bio (for first timers) and a little write up about your track to [email protected]  We listen to all submissions and craft a unique show out of them, the peeps of the MMC are the cream of the indie music scene, and you can be a part of it too. What is the theme for Jan 2024? Well, the theme for Jan 2024 is - First Impressions You have till the 2nd of Feb to get your 'First Impressions' songs in. Is there a way to submit songs from previous themes of the MMC? Funny you should ask, we had a segment last year we called 'Late Subs' to accomodate peeps that missed the deadline, and we will probably bring that back for this season of podcasting. So if you would like to make a song or piece of music about any of the themes from MMC1 then please do, and submit them in mp3 form to [email protected] MMC1 Themes for late subs are: New Beginnings, Escape, Ignorance, Winning, Razzmajazz, Artificial Intelligence, Mother Earth, Dreams, Super Spectacular & Finale So for this intro episode we didn't really get any submissions, we had suggested that if peeps were up for it they could make a track to go with the theme 'Intro'. Only one person took up the challenge, the one and only Andrew Hartshorn. Who also put out an MMC 1 album from his efforts on the MMC in 2023. Go buy a copy on bandcamp, it's awesome sauce and well worth your eartime. Also, we hastily put our 'Intro' song together, and are getting it to pull double duties for now, as the podcast intro AND our MMC 2 intro. Fun times. Please like, share, comment and subscribe to Cosmic Bos Now get to work, you've got music to make Peace and infinite cake Cosmic Bos (one 'S')

So peeps, Cosmic Bos (your hosts of the MMC) presented the Gold Awards for the awesome music sent in the the Monthly Music Challenge in 2023. That was the Best of 2023, 11 Gold Award winning artists of the indie music scene, taking on challenges with a time limit and making the crispiest Golden music known to earballs in the solar rotational calander year known as 2023. There were of course, a great many Monthly Music Challenge submissions from which the gold award winners were plucked, and to honour the truly exceptional work of the awesome artists of the MMC, Cosmic Bos gave Silver Awards to all the shortlisted songs for the awards. So, we now present to you the Rest of MMC 2023, containing 10 of the Silver Award winning artists award winning songs, as well as 10 more Cosmic Bos songs from the rest of the music we made for the Monthly Music Challenge. Side note - Cosmic Bos took part in the Music Weeklies challenge for almost the entire year, producing 43 songs for the MMC which are all available on the EP's that went with each Monthly Challenge. Not to brag or nothing, but it was an experiment that helped shape both Andy and Nick into the Bos'es they need to be to helm the MMC Challenger (it's a rocket, submarine, train thing that crosses the musical multiverse, see previous episodes for more details). Monochrome Motif Records (the label run by Andrew Hartshorn) very kindly released Cosmic Bos MMC 1 (2023) on CD no less! Check out the bandcamp link here for details on purchase, download and streaming freeloads too. https://cosmicbos.bandcamp.com/album/mmc-1-2023-album Here is the full shortlist of awesome Silver Award winners, please go and subscribe to them all on all the socials.  New Beginnings Silver Award winners In the Beginning - Tonal Drift  A New Beginning - Chemical Shift Phoenix Rising - Andrew Hartshorn Starting Over - Third Echo Sounds Escape Silver Award winners Breakout - Trench Gun How to Stop Time - Stefan Bohacek Dance (escape the week) - Mijimo Escape - Peter Hawkey Ignorance Silver Award winners Ignorance - Peter Hawkey I is for Ignorance - Hellwaddler The Size of the Stars - Notehead Ignorance - Mobidextrous Without Your Love - A Sea Warren Winning Silver Award winners Winning (Deep Fried Mix) - Mobidextrous Slow and Steady wins the race - Andrew Hartshorn You Can't Be a Winner (if you're a Sinner) - A Sea Warren Smell Defeat - Notehead Razzmajazz Silver Award winners Razzmajazz - Scowsh Molosh This is Fine - Notehead Razmajazz - Tonal Drift The Jazzman's Trumpet - Andrew Hartshorn Artificial Intelligence Silver Award winners Era Oeuvre - Voltage Poetry Project Clouds Dissolve - Texmex Shaman and TRC Techno sapiens - Tonal Drift Ghost in the Machine - J Peck Mother Earth Silver Award winners Price to be Paid - Aye Nevo Gaias Moonshine Merriment - Hellwaddler The Assassination of Mother Earth - Man of Arun Mother Nature - Taylor Lidstone Dreams Silver Award winners Dreamscape Promises - Taylor Lidstone Crisp - John Serrano Unsettled Sleep - Tonal Drift Princess in the Snow - Hellwaddler Lonely in Lucidity - Notehead Impossible Perks - Mobidextrous Super Spectacular Silver Award winners Mecha Funk - Mario Marino Can't Get You Out of my Head - John Serrano and Raul Lupianez Atlantis (Tringle) - Andrew Hartshorn Super-Spectacular - Above the Snow Line Epiphany - Hellwaddler Finale Silver Award winners Lost - Only the Host Feed Me the Finale - Notehead Once Stowaway - Voltage Poetry Project Finale - Taylor Lidstone Noot and Carnage - Hellwaddler I Want to Run Away - A Sea Warren Now that is one helluva set of songs right there, we recomment you go and listen to all of them, and please share the love with all the artists, they are amazeballs and deserve more attention. The 10 Cosmic Bos songs played, or what we refer to as our Rest of 2023 are as follows: One Pixel at a Time Heart Holder Ivory and Ebony Kick in the Cultures Basic Sandcastle Destruction Get a Littl

Here it is peeps, the Monthly Music Challenge 2023 Awards - GOLD EDITION with your hosts Cosmic Bos 2023 has been one helluva ride for the Monthly Music Challenge podcast, when we started this back in Jan 2023 (ahh memories) with the help of Music Weeklies and the support of our awesome partners in musical business (Andrew Hartshorn & Al Warren), we had no idea how it would go, but here we are at the tail end of 23 and we are doing an Awards show, 2 of them no less (SPOILER ALERT! there will be a Silver Awards show too). Welcome to the first annual Monthly Music Challenge Awards, 2023, with your hosts Cosmic Bos We have handed out awards to go with each of the themes of MMC1, and using the album that we made ourselves for the challenge (which you can buy on CD and Download from bandcamp right now! follow the link - https://cosmicbos.bandcamp.com/album/mmc-1-2023-album So as not to reveal the winners in this here bit of text, all the nominees will be written out in no particular order, and you will have to listen to find out the Gold Award winner. New Beginnings Award New Beginnings - A Sea Warren In the Beginning - Tonal Drift A New Beginning - Chemical Shift/Broken Nomads Phoenix Rising - Andrew Hartshorn Starting Over - Third Echo Sounds Escape Award Breakout - Trench Gun How to Stop Time - Stefan Bohacek Escapist - Notehead Escape - Peter Hawkey Dance (escape the week) - Mijimo Ignorance Award Without Your Love - A Sea Warren Ignorance - Peter Hawkey I is for Ignorance - Hellwaddler Ignorance - Mobidextrous Eden - Andrew Hartshorn The Size of the Stars - Notehead Winning Award Smell Defeat - Notehead Winning isn't Everything - Man of Arun Slow and Steady Wins the Race - Andrew Hartshorn You Can't be a Winner (if you're a Sinner) - A Sea Warren Winning (deep fried mix) - Mobidextrous Razzmajazz Award Razzmajazz - Tonal Drift This is Fine - Notehead The Jazzman's Trumpet - Andrew Hartshorn Razzmajazz - Scowsh Molosh Just Make it Up - Hellwaddler Artificial Intelligence Award Ghost in the Machine - J Peck Dichotomy - Natalie Williams Calhoun Clouds Dissolve - Texmex Shaman and TRC Era Oeuvre - Voltage Poetry Project Techno Sapiens - Tonal Drift Mother Earth Award Price to be Paid - Aye Nevo Gaias Moonshine Merriment - Hellwaddler The Assassination of Mother Earth - Man of Arun Mother Nature - Taylor Lidstone They Lied to Me - J Peck Dreams Award Princess in the Snow - Hellwaddler Lonely in Lucidity - Notehead Impossible Perks - Mobidextrous Dreamscape Promises - Taylor Lidstone Polarsken - Chemical Shift Crisp - John Serrano Unsettled Sleep - Tonal Drift Super Spectacular Award Super - Texmex Shaman Can't Get You Out of My Head - John Serrano and Raul Lupianez Atlantis (Tringle) - Andrew Hartshorn Mecha Funk - Mario Marino Super-Spectacular - Above the Snow Line Epiphany - Hellwaddler Finale Award Feed Me the Finale - Notehead Lost - Only the Host Once Stowaway - Voltage Poetry Project Finale - Taylor Lidstone Noot and Carnage - Hellwaddler I Want to Run Away - A Sea Warren Finale - Above the Snow Line ft. John Serrano There you have it, all these songs have picked up an award, but only one from each list gets the GOLD Award. Massive THANK YOU to everyone that submitted a song to the MMC in 2023, we had 167 songs made for the challenge by you! that's so awesome sauce. In between each of the award winning songs, you get to hear Cosmic Bos submission to the MMC for that month, which you can buy on CD from Bandcamp here https://cosmicbos.bandcamp.com/album/mmc-1-2023-album And you can get Andrew Hartshorn's MMC album on bandcamp too https://andrewhartshorn.bandcamp.com/album/mythos-unveiled-album And you can buy the pair of them together for a lovely little discount, please consider supporting us by buying our music, we do this all for love, but it would be nice to see some money pwease too. Anyway, the Cosmic Bos songs that you will hear scattered across the award show are as follow

Welcome to the Monthly Music Challenge with Cosmic Bos podcast Monthly Music Challenge MMC 1.10 - Finale We have reached the final theme of the Monthly Music Challenge's first year of existing, there will be no more monthly musical shenanigans until 2024, well, apart from the MMC Awards, and a few albums being available to buy on CD (SPOILER ALERT!) Cosmic Bos and Andrew Hartshorn both having CD's out under Monochrome Motif Records in December on bandcamp Alas, we get ahead of ourselves, for right now, Nick and Andy Jackson and Jackson (Cosmic Bos) delve deep into the wonderful, eclectic, fascinating world of indie music, presenting for your earholes, interpretations of Finale, the Final E, the Fin Ale, the last song for the MMC1 albums we've all been making all year, the final outing for 2023, music made to the theme of Finale. With some truly amazeball choonage that is sure to crispy your disco chicken, awesome your sauce, go on a musical adventure like no other, for the Finale outing in 2023, Cosmic Bos proudly presents the music of Mobidextrous, Above the Snow Line ft. John Serrano, Trench Gun, Notehead, TexMex Shaman and Tea R Sea, Andrew 'Big Dog' Hartshorn, Voltage Poetry Project, Taylor Lidstone, Hell'YEAH'waddler, Mario Marino, A Sea Warren (we can call him Al), Only the Host, Uncle Funkbeard, The Eclectic Collective, Chemical Shift/Broken Nomads and of course your idiotic hosts, Cosmic Bos. Thank you so much for coming on this musical journey with us, it has been amazeballs from start to finish, and please support all these exceptional artists by buying their music, or at least following them on Spotify and other musical socials, bandcamp is still currently worth a visit. We have made our Tringle for this episode 'pay what you want', with nothing being an option, so please go help yourself to a copy of our three tracks for this episode. https://cosmicbos.bandcamp.com/album/mmc-110-finale Comments make the indie musical world go round, so please leave comments wherever you get your MMC fix, thanks a billyuion. You can also pick up our Monochrome Motif album - Cosmic Bos MMC 1 (2023) https://cosmicbos.bandcamp.com/album/mmc-1-2023-album Along with the Big Dog's MMC album 'Mythos Unveiled' too, Andrew Hartshorn Mythos Unveiled  https://andrewhartshorn.bandcamp.com/album/mythos-unveiled-album Together you can get both on CD for £12 on bandcamp, whatta bargain! Right, now onto the songs, here is the full tracklist for the episode: 1. Grand Theft Autotune (live) - Cosmic Bos 2. FINMV - Mobidextrous  3. Finale - Above the Snow Line ft. John Serrano 4. Monotony - Trench Gun 5. Feed me the Finale - Notehead 6. True Story - Texmex Shaman and Tea R Sea 7. Life & His Lover - Andrew Hartshorn 8. Once Stowaway - Voltage Poetry Project 9. Finale 2023 - Taylor Lidstone 10. Noot & Carnage - Hellwaddler 11. Transcendence 1 (the Twingle in the Tringle) - Cosmic Bos 12. HKJKT - Mobidextrous 13. Insomnia - Trench Gun 14. Subsiding Radiance - Mario Marino 15. I Want to Run Away - A Sea Warren 16. Lost - Only the Host 17. Changing My Mind - Uncle Funkbeard 18. Fallin - The Eclectic Collective (Texmex Shaman) 19. Bootymancer - Notehead 20. A New Beginning - Chemical Shift/Broken Nomads 21. CNDYFLP - Mobidextrous 22. Pinata of Troy - Cosmic Bos Now that is one massive bowl of crispy chicken soup for the soul, this is the bit of the podcast write up where we would usually announce the next theme, but technically there isn't one. However, as we have already decided that we're coming back next year to do Monthly Music Challenge 2, we offer up a little winter challenge for the keen and eager. In Janurary, Cosmic Bos will do a 'MMC 2.0 intro' episode, to reintroduce the idea for next year, and give peeps the month of Jan to jam their themed jam. If you want to get in ahead of the game a bit, then we will spin on the show any 'intro's' you wish to make for your MMC2 album. We will make one, probably use it to double up as

Welcome to the Monthly Music Challenge with Cosmic Bos Podcast Monthly Music Challenge MMC 1.9 - Superspectacular Join Nick and Andy (Cosmic Bos) as we explore the spectacular, super spectacular in factular, freshist, most organic, juiciest indie music being made today, with all the songs having been made in September of 2023 around the theme of Superspectacular, and we must say it is something rather special indeed. You are in for a treat here, the music served up this month is all of the highest degree, truly awesome sauce on the hotdog of life, with amazeballs tracks by John Serrano and Raul Lupianez, Andrew Hartshorn, TexMex Shaman, Mario Marino, Trench Gun, Above the Snow Line, Hellwaddler, Notehead, A Sea Warren, Broken Nomads, Mobidextrous, Taylor Lidstone and of course your idiotic hosts, Cosmic Bos. It really is something to behold, please support all this amazing indie music that is as up to date as you can get, comments, likes, subscribes, support is what makes it all worthwhile, and these artists are truly something else, well worth your time. You can listen to and purchase all of Cosmic Bos's Superspectacular tracks in a hand EP on bandcamp https://cosmicbos.bandcamp.com/album/mmc-19-superspectacular and if you are so inclinded, a comment makes our dayz. Big shout out the Only the Host and his crispy crew of awesomeness, Cosmic Bos loves you all and can't wait for more of you to join the MMC, we have rooms all ready on the MMC challenger, come along for the musical ride. Here is the full Super Spectacular Tracklist (or SuperSpectrackulist if you prefer): 1. Super Spectacular - Cosmic Bos 2. Can't Get You Out of my Head - John Serrano and Raul Lupianez 3. Atlantis part 1. The Majesty (single) - Andrew Hartshorn 4. Super - TexMex Shaman 5. Mecha Funk - Mario Marino 6. Inside Job (instrumental) - Cosmic Bos 7. War is a Drug - Trench Gun 8. Atlantis part 2. The Wrath of the Gods (twingle) - Andrew Hartshorn 9. Super-Spectacular - Above the Snow Line 10. Epiphany - Hellwaddler 11. Ballad of the Rainbow Disco Chicken vs Autotunebots from the Future - Cosmic Bos 12. Superspectacular - Notehead 13. No. 12 Quartet in C Minor - A Sea Warren 14. Star Cry - Broken Nomads 15. Atlantis part 3. The Aftermarth (tringle) - Andrew Hartshorn 16. Spectacularis - Mobidextrous 17. Dreamscape Promises (Late Sub for Dreams) - Taylor Lidstone 18. Keeping it Old School - Cosmic Bos There you have it, amazeballs all over the pit. Probably time to tell you what the final theme of MMC1 is going to be. Without further ado, MMC 1.10 will be Finale, that's Finale MMC 1.10 - Finale (coming 4th November) You have till the 3rd of November to send your 'Finale' songs to us, please email an mp3 and a lil blurb to [email protected] . You can always send Late Sub's to us on any of the previous themes for the year, we have a special section for them in the show. MMC 1.10 Finale will be the last theme for 2023, but fear not, we shall return in 2024 with MMC2, 10 more themes to build an album around. Before that though, we will do the Best of MMC1 Awards, where we will give out awards to our favourite tracks from across the years monthly music challenging. We will also do a Rest of MMC1 because there's a lot to go over. Please like, share and subscribe to Cosmic Bos, and comments are the best thing ever, so if you've got one in you please drop it on our podcast somewhere (YouTube's good for comments), pwease and thank yow. Peace and infinite crispy love Cosmic Bos P.S - Big Mick? P.P.S - Cosmic Bos Superspectacular EP is available here https://cosmicbos.bandcamp.com/album/mmc-19-superspectacular

Welcome to the Monthly Music Challenge with Cosmic Bos Podcast (the MMC) This is Episode 1.8 Dreams Join Nick and Andy (Cosmic Bos) as we delve deep into dreamland, listening for clue as to if this is a wonderful dream we have found ourselves in, or a twisted nightmare from which we can not escape! With the world in the questionable state it is currently in, it only seemed right to let the musicians of the MMC explore the internal space, where the mind is allowed to explore freely, to ponder the more existential elements of our shared experience, it could all, the whole darn lot of everything everywhere, be a dream, or a simulation, or even just the passing thoughts of an interdimentional hyper disco chicken cruising the open rainbow road! Who knows? Well not us, but maybe some answers lie in the music of this months music challenge. So prepare to explore the world of Dreams with the musical stylings of Mobidextrous, Man of Arun, Notehead, TexMex Shaman (& StonerJazz), Tonal Drift, Andrew Hartshorn, A Sea Warren, Michel Debois, Chemical Shift (Broken Nomads), Peter Hawkey, Hellwaddler, John Serrano and your hosts Cosmic Bos, as well as a special presentation by the supergroup collaboration of Hartshorn, Jackson, Jackson and Warren! What more could you ask for? Cosmic Bos put out our tracks as an EP on all good sites, but they also put it out on bandcamp where you can exchange money for music, it's a clever system that was developed by Gnomes a long time ago, but it seems to still be working to this very day. Here is the link to our EP, it has an alternative cover on BC too! https://cosmicbos.bandcamp.com/album/mmc-18-dreams You can also find several of the tracks in the show on Bandcamp or soundcloud or YouTube, depends where the amazing artists post them. Please support these awesome indie artists by visiting, listening and possibly even buying their music on Bandcamp. I know for a fact that John Serrano's track 'Crisp' is available on Bandcamp and you probably all should buy it, as well as HJJ&W's track too (from the 22nd September). Super outergalactic shout out to Only the Host and his amazing team, we love you guys and gals. And the Music Weeklies peeps too, keeping new music fresh on the internet. The next theme for the Monthly Music Challenge is our 9th one, and it is #SuperSpectacular, that's MMC 1.9 - SuperSpectacular  Send your mp3's with a little write up about the song (and a bio about yourself if you haven't been on the show already) to [email protected]  You have until the 6th of October to get your SuperSpectacular songs to us for inclusion, we still have the late Subs section so if you wish to submit something under any of our previous themes then you can and we might play it in the Late Subs portion of the episode. SuperSpectacular will be the penultimate episode of MMC1, with only a final, as yet unknown theme, to go with MMC 1.10, but feel free to submit anything from the Late Sub category whenever you like. If you have played along all year, or are considering going back to take on the challenge, then on completion you will have a 10 track album, and that's pretty winning in our kindles. Please take the time to comment, follow, share, subscribe to all the amazing artists featured on the show, and buy their music, it's absolutely worth every smeckle, the least you can do is leave a comment, and comments make artists feel validated, so pwease, pwease, pwease we beg you, leave a comment or two to feed our dopimine addictions. Here is the full MMC 1.8 Dreams tracklist: 1. Could This All Be A Dream? - Cosmic Bos @CosmicBos 2. Confounding Dream (single) - Mobidextrous  3. Nothing But a Dream - Man of Arun 4. Lonely in Lucidity (single) - Notehead 5. Planks - TexMex Shaman 6. Unsettled Sleep - Tonal Drift 7. Dream's Over, Now Get to Work! - Cosmic Bos 8. The Dream's of Morpheus - Andrew Hartshorn 9. Caged Dreams - A Sea Warren 10. Barbenheimer - Hartshorn, Jackson, Jackson and Warren 11.

Welcome to the Monthly Music Challenge with Cosmic Bos podcast (the MMC) Episode 1.7 - Mother Earth Join Nick and Andy (Cosmic Bos) as we explore the musical interpretations created for our wonderful Mother Earth by some of the most talented musicians in the whole world. What did we all choose to say about Gaia, the great ball on which we all reside ? Well you are in for a treat friends, as all this music has been environmentally sourced, has an extremely low carbon footprint and has travelled from around our great planet without clocking in any airmiles (email miles don't count). Prepare to give praise to Gaia, Mother Earth, the big Blue & Green, with the musical stylings of Mobidextrous, Andrew Hartshorn, Hellwaddler, Trench Gun, Aye Nevo, Man of Arun, TexMex Shaman, Taylor Lidstone, A Sea Warren, Notehead, JPeck, Trommelfell.MB and your idiotic hosts Cosmic Bos with special guests Joe Philogene and Dayne Howcroft. Cosmic Bos put out their songs on an EP, which coincidently always has the same title as the coresponding episode of the Monthly Music Challenge. It will be available everywhere, but on bandcamp it will be purchasable. You can also pick up singles, twingles, EPs and Albums by most of the great artists featured in this episode. Please check them all out and share the musical connections. The next theme for MMC 1.8 is Dreams #Dreams  Please send your mp3's with a little write up about the song to [email protected]  If you are a first time submitter please send a bio about yourself too, otherwise Nick and Andy will make something up and it will likely be very silly, music is a serious business and Cosmic Bos's style of podcast most certainly isn't serious. You have until the 8th September 2023 to get your Dreams songs in, as well as any late submissions for the previous themes. (previous themes are 1. New Beginnings, 2. Escape, 3. Ignorance, 4. Winning, 5. Razzmajazz, 6. Artificial Intelligence and now 7. Mother Earth) Good luck! Get your dreamy brain on and make up a song. Please take the time to comment, follow all the amazing artists featured on their socials, likes, shares, subscriptions and comments are the bread and butter of the indie music scene, please distribute them generously. Here is the full track list for the episode, all tracks are on the theme of Mother Earth (except for the 'late sub' found near the end of the episode) 1. Earth's Children - Cosmic Bos ft. Joe Philogene & Dayne Howcroft 2. Mother/Earth - Mobidextrous 3. Orbit - Faith - Mobidextrous 4. Terra Mater - Andrew Hartshorn 5. Gaia's Moonshine Merriment - Hellwaddler 6. Gaeacide - Trench Gun 7. A Price to be Paid - Aye Nevo 8. Circles in the Crops - Cosmic Bos 9. Earthy - Mobidextrous 10. Back to Nature (Dub version) - Mobidextrous 11. The Assassination of Mother Earth - Man of Arun 12. Poo Poo Kickin' & Toad Lickin' - TexMex Shaman 13. Mother Nature - Taylor Lidstone 14. So Many Songs for You - A Sea Warren 15. Salt on the Speakers - Cosmic Bos 16. Evil Earth - Notehead 17. They Lied to Me - J Peck 18. Ann Miller - Trench Gun 19. She Won't Let you Fly - Hellwaddler 20. Gaia - Mobidextrous 21. On Some Nights - Mobidextrous 22. (LATE SUB) Flowers - Trommelfell.MB 23. Milked it - Cosmic Bos Thanks for listening, please like, share and subscribe to all the amazing artists featured in the MMC. Big Outergalactic shoutout to the newbies that joined this month, Taylor Lidstone, Aye Nevo and Trommelfell.MB - you all are amazeballs and we have musical cabins for all of you on the Monthly Music Challenger astral submarine thing we made up a bunch of episodes ago. So quick reminder, the next theme is Dreams Peace and infinite love Cosmic Bos Here is the youtube link to the Monthly Music Challenge Monthly Music Challenge podcast on YouTube

https://hartshornjacksonjacksonwarren.bandcamp.com The offices of Hartshorn, Jackson, Jackson & Warren (HJJ&W) present to you the minutes from the quarterly review meeting conducted by the visual promotional media department in late July 2023.  Due to time constrainted the video department would like to offer their appologies for being unable to meet the deadlines set by the record label Monochrome Motif, providing neither the promotional visual material for the single 'Playing Office' or the subsequent planned singles 'The Canvasser' and 'Repressent Me', all tracks featured on the Debut album by Hartshorn, Jackson, Jackson & Warren 'Sound Investments'.  As the album release is imminent (4th August 2023) it has been decided to package the minutes from our meeting as a preview podcast to provide some insight into the process of making an album in a month from 4 seperate locations across the United Kingdom, as well as showcase a cross section of the material contained on 'Sound Investments'.  The album 'Sound Investments' will be available to purchase in CD form from bandcamp from the 4th August 2023, and it contains 11 tracks all built in the month of May for the Lights and Lines album writing club competition. The single 'Playing Office' was part of the Album Writing Club 2023 playlist and can be found here Playing Office by HJJ&W on Soundcloud The album was unsuccessful in securing any recognition from the competition, but due to business planning the partners had managed to secure a release for the album with Monochrome Motif.  Monochrome Motif on Bandcamp It should be noted for the minutes that Andrew Hartshorn is both the 'Hartshorn' in HJJ&W AND the CEO of Monochrome Motif records, placing him in a fortuatous position for negotiating the release of 'Sound Investments'. https://hartshornjacksonjacksonwarren.bandcamp.com Contained within this preview podcast: Radio promotional material no.23 Playing Office The Canvasser Represent Me Radio promotional material no.42 Within the preview podcast you will find this extensive sample of the album.  Including recordings from the progress discussions with Andrew Hartshorn and Al Warren, Cosmic Bos (Nick and Andy Jackson) guide you through the wonderful world of modern office life as musicians trying to juggle the responsibilities of existence. All tracks written, performed & produced by Hartshorn, Jackson, Jackson & Warren. Thank you for you time, and please consider purchasing this album in all seriousness. The visual marketing department wil be placed on Incentive Plans to ensure the completion of their assignments, and the Partners of HJJ&W do not wish the incompetencies of this department to reflect negatively on the company as a whole.  This Quarterly review meeting has been made available by Andy Jackson & Nick Jackson, for the public records, under the Monthly Music Challenge with Cosmic Bos Podcast label. For more details on all the partners of HJJ&W please refer to the Monthly Music Challenge in which they all participate. Please like, share and transcribe Kind Regards Cosmic Bos (Andy & Nick Jackson)

Welcome to the Monthly Music Challenge with Cosmic Bos (the MMC) Episode 1.6 - Artificial Intelligence Join Nick and Andy (Cosmic Bos) as we explore the musical side of artificial intelligence, what can we learn from our robotic offspring? Will they ultimately rise up and destroy us all? Can we find a way to live in harmony? All these important questions and more will not be answered here, this is a music challenge podcast, with a couple of idiots in the hosting chairs, if you want deep philosophical discussions on A.I then please check out other more informed podcasts, if, however, you want lots of musical explorations of the theme, ranging from Electropop to Orchestral to Heavy Metal, then you are in the right place. Welcome. We have a humdinger of an episode for you this month, with some Beeeeeeeeautiful songs by MMC regulars like Andrew Hartshorn, TexMex Shaman, Tonal Drift, Hellwaddler, Notehead, A Sea Warren, Man of Arun, Scowsh Molosh, Peter Hawkey, Mobidextrous and Trench Gun as well as 3 exceptional new additions from Natalie Williams Calhoun, Voltage Poetry Project and JPeck. Outergalactic shoutout to the wonderful peeps of Music Weeklies, which continues to supply the MMC with some of the most exciting musicians working in the world today, we love you guys  The next hashtag (for MMC 1.7) is Mother Earth #MotherEarth You have until the 4th August 2023 to get your songs about the Earth into us for inclusion in the main section of the show, alternatively, you can still submit songs based on the previous 6 themes to be included in our Late Subs section. (Previous themes 1. New Beginnings, 2. Escape, 3. Ignorance, 4. Winning, 5. Razzmajazz and now 6. Artificial Intelligence). Send an Mp3 and a write up about your song, along with a bio (for new subs) to [email protected]  Please take the time to comment, follow all the amazing artists featured, like, share and subscribe Without further ado, here is the full tracklist for the episode: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE songs 1. There's No A.I in Team - Cosmic Bos @CosmicBos  2. Clouds Dissolve - TexMex Shaman & Tea R Sea  3. Talos - Andrew Hartshorn 4. Techno Sapience - Tonal Drift 5. Silent Rebellion - Hellwaddler @Hellwaddler 6. A.I God - Notehead 7. Art's Official Intelligence - ASeaWarren @aseawarren 8. Dichotomy - Natalie Williams Calhoun 9. Uncanny Valley - Man of Arun @ManofArun 10. Era Oeuvre - Voltage Poetry Project 11. Ghost in the Machine - jpeck There you have it, a whole heap of very real intelligence taking on the artificial world and very clearly coming out on top (for now). Exceptional work all, and a huge welcome to the newbies Natalie Williams Calhoun (NWC!), Voltage Poetry Project (VPP!), jpeck (JPC!) and Tea R Sea (slipping in on the TexMex track), thank you so much for contributing, we wish you a long and musicially rewarding stay on the MMChallenger. Truly wonderful stuff. There was also a few other hashtags from the music weeklies peoples that produced some interesting songs this month. Firstly there was a MimicAGame challenge which produced some stunning interpretations of classic VGM (Go check out the Music Weeklies site or twitter or discord), we present one of these tracks by our good friends. 12. La Cosa En El Umbral - Trench Gun As Cosmic Bos are a little out of the gaming loop we took the opportunity to revisit a song from over 10 years ago, and slipped out this little gem. 13. Money Zombies - Cosmic Bos This challenge was followed up by Bittersweet 14. Bittersweet - Peter Hawkey @peter_hawkey 15. Bittersweet - Cosmic Bos Then to mix things up a bit, we did early Late Subs: 16. Hummingbird - TexMex Shaman & Stonerjazz (Razzmajazz) 17. Save the Bees - Trench Gun (MiniMe) Cheeky little newbie sneaking in there, big shout out to Jeff aka Stonerjazz for your exceptional work with TexMex. Right back on the hashtag train for ComingOut and Smart 18. Third Eye Pride - Cosmic Bos 19. Smart - Scowsh Molosh @scowsh 20. Smart -

Welcome to the Monthly Music Challenge with Cosmic Bos Episode 1.5 - Razzmajazz Come on a jazzy journey with Nick and Andy (Cosmic Bos) as we venture through the razz and the matazz of the musical world of jazz. This is one interesting ride you are in for, as Cosmic Bos guide us through the fascinating land of the razzmajazz. With stunning songs by Andrew Hartshorn, Notehead, Tonal Drift, ASeaWarren, Scowsh Molosh, Hellwaddler, Man of Arun, Trench Gun, Peter Hawkey and of course your ever idiotic hosts Cosmic Bos, this is a trip your ears deserve to go on. Razzmajazz marks our last collaboration hashtag with the wonderful musicians of Music Weeklies, a massive thank you to them for helping get the Monthly Music Challenge off the ground, and we will continue to play songs made for their hashtags until the end of this season of MMC. The next hashtag (for MMC 1.6) is Artificial Intelligence #ArtificialIntelligence and you have until the 7th of July (2023) to get your AI songs to us for inclusion. You can alternatively submit on any of the previous tags we have had (1. New Beginnings, 2. Escape, 3. Ignorance, 4. Winning and now 5. Razzmajazz) to be considered for our coverted Late Subs section. Just send an mp3 with a little bit of info about yourself and your song to [email protected]  Here is the full tracklist for MMC 1.5 Razzmajazz Razzmajazz songs 1. Razzmajazz - Cosmic Bos @CosmicBos 2. The Jazzman's Trumpet - Andrew Hartshorn 3. This is Fine - Notehead 4. Razmajazz - Tonal Drift 5. No.7 Quartet in Bb - ASeaWarren @aseawarren 6. razzmajazz - Scowsh Molosh @scowsh 7. Just Make It Up - Hellwaddler @Hellwaddler What a trip! Some real Jazztastic fun sitting there being all quirky and interesting, also notice that all the members of Hartshorn, Jackson, Jackson and Warren are present (n.b Cosmic Bos are the two Jacksons) as is tradition at this point on the MMC. For the other hashtags of music weeklies month of May we have: minime  8. The Wasted Youth - Cosmic Bos @CosmicBos 9. Talkin' - Man of Arun @ManofArun 10. Warped - Scowsh Molosh @scowsh 11. Kody - Trench Gun  12. Minime - Hellwaddler @Hellwaddler HopeAndDespair 13. Remaining Forever Hopeful - Cosmic Bos @CosmicBos 14. Hope and Despair - Peter Hawkey @peter_hawkey Sandcastle 15. The Sand King - Notehead 16. Basic Sandcastle Destruction - Cosmic Bos @CosmicBos And there you have the full set list for the episode, #SpoilerAlert, there were no late subs this month so no subs for you! Cosmic Bos always pop their tunes for the MMC onto a handy little EP which is available on bandcamp right here https://cosmicbos.bandcamp.com/album/mmc-15-razzmajazz And as mentioned several times during the episode, you can check out Hartshorn, Jackson, Jackson and Warren's single (Playing Office) Playing Office - HJJW on Soundcloud  in the singles playlist over on soundcloud for the #albumwritingclub 2023 - full playlist here and there is a handy voting page where you can pick your 3 favourites from the 34 singles (Congratulations to everyone who took part in AlbumWritingClub this year, you are all winners for getting to the finish line), playlist found on link just above. You can vote here on this link right here Please like, share and subscribe to the Monthly Music Challenge, tell your friends and musical rivals. Our YouTube is here is you fancy some visual stimulation to go with your audio Peace and infinite jazz Cosmic Bos