The Cosmic Disco style of music and its DJs would go on to claim an influential place in dance culture history in the sounds of the music and the way the DJs were mixing the records together.

Starting at the beginning of this scene in 1974 was Bob Day and Tom Sison, two disco DJs from New York city who couldn't seem to get a DJ gig in New York. Upon arriving in Italy they started working at a new club called Baia degli Angeli(Bay of Angels) located near the Adriatic Sea in Gahicce Montemare. The club itself had four levels of dancefloors, swimming pools, and a glass elevator for the DJ to see what was going on on each of the dancefloors. The club was owned by Giancarlo Tirotti,a wealthy man who was fast friends with Grace Jones and Armani.

Tirotti wanted to create a Manhattan styled club so that's why he employed the services of Bob and Tom who spun Philly soul, disco, and funk. But unlike any other DJs in Italy at the time they could mix records, which blew the Italians away. Bob and Tom soon decided to teach some eager young Italian DJs their mixing techniques. Two of these pupils were Daniele Baldelli and a DJ by the name of "Mozart" a.k.a. Claudio Rispoli. Later these two would take over Bob and Tom's position as resident DJs at Baia degli Angeli when they went back to America.

At this time Baldelli and "Mozart" began DJing a new sound by playing US imports and rare European tracks along the lines of disco, funk, and electronic. They would mix different genres of music with various tempos looking for darker and rarer sounds. The two would travel miles in search of unique sounds. At this time Baldelli picked up a pair of the new Technic SP15 quartz turntables which would allow him a lot more varience in pitch control. Along with matching beats of various BPMs, Baldelli would also play records at incorrect speeds to get different effects.

The DJs and Baia were a huge success, packing in 4,000 clubbers a night with thousands more hanging out in the parking lot. This wasn't accepted by the authorities who didn't like the drug filled crowd to begin with so the club was soon shut down. This led to the club that that would became quintessential to the "Cosmic Disco" sound.

The club was Cosmic, located in northern Italy in Lake Garda. Baldelli started DJing there in 1979 and Cosmic was one large rectangular shaped room that didn't serve alcohol. The soundsystem was massive including Mackintosh amplfiers and JBL speakers. The original DJ booth looked like a space helmet with two hands around it. (Eventually they made a new booth shaped like a spaceship cockpit).

Around this time another DJ who was very important to the Cosmic sound was starting to DJ at a club called Typhoon in Brescia. This DJ was Beppe Loda. Starting out DJing in clubs in 1973 he slowly developed his own style of selecting esoteric tracks by the likes of Philip Glass next to a percussive track by Zaka. By 1982 Loda had used his unique style of mixing to produce his Afro tape series which gained a him a great following at Typhoon. This lasted until 1987 when the club closed for good to a roaring crowd of 10,000. Many of whom were just hanging out in the streets.

Over at Cosmic a similiar fate was underway. A year after the club opened it began to attract heroin users primarily because the city of Verona was a big distribution center for drugs and the music played at Cosmic was slow, around 90-105 BPMs. So eventually the club was closed in 1984.

Their are many influences from the Cosmic scene and its DJs including the influence of sounds found on the sublime track "Sueno Latino" which samples Manuel Gottsching's "E2-E4." But the most important aspect was the way the DJs mixed records to create new sounds and new palettes.