Cosmicity

So, I've finally sorted out the last few kinks with some mp3s I ordered from eMusic a while ago, and I've more or less completed my Cosmicity collection. I don't literally have everything; I'm missing two or three CD singles, and I don't have either of the Syn EPs.

But I've got:

• The Vision (2001 rerelease with bonus tracks)
  
• The Moment (2001 rerelease with bonus tracks)
  
• Isabella (original 1997 release, but I have the "Visionary" CD Single as well)
  
• Renaissance (along with the "Self Involved" and "Too Far Gone" CD Singles)
  
• The Binary Language of Love (but not Resynthesized)
  
• Pure (along with the "Defeat" CD Single only---missing the other two)
  
• Escape Pod For Two (and the Reserve Fuel remix disk)
  

Anyway, I think Cosmicity is really cool, and I've been a fan for at least ten years. Of course, "Cosmicity" has now been abandoned and Mark Nicholas (the artist who used that name) is now doing other stuff under his real name. It's been fun to see his progression. Looking at my collection, I'm not missing very much (and what I am missing is just remixes and a handful of b-sides anyway.)

I'm not sure what I think of his career as a whole. In some ways, The Vision is one of his best, most consistent works, with much of the remaining body of work dabbling in some experimental song structure and whatnot, which sometimes works and sometimes doesn't. Nearly every album has at least a few "hits" but most of them also have a few that don't click with me much at all.

I do have to say, though, that Escape Pod For Two really ends the career of the Cosmicity stage name on a high note. That is freakin' metal.