Spreading cozmic love from Toronto to the world, we welcome the formidable Cozmic Cat to Constant Circles. With a sound rooted in classic house but tinged with influences old and new, she follows releases on the likes of He.She.They and Lady of The House with a solid house cut on our latest SPIRALS sampler.

Hey Paula, welcome to CC 🙂 What is your background and how did you get into music?

Hey Constant Circles, Thank you for having me and I’m glad to be here!
I was born in London, Canada. My heritage is Jamaican mixed with European. When I was very young my family started travelling , doing foreign aid work around the world. We lived in several places from East Africa, the South Pacific to East Coast Canada and all the while I was always fascinated by the universal language that music spoke. Our family was pretty musical. My 3 sisters and I sang, played and practiced instruments, as well as my father who played the guitar and the flute. After College where I did the Theatre Tech program (Stage Hand), I moved to Philadelphia and became part of the music scene there, playing there and in New York as well, working with labels as a promoter. That’s where my DJ journey really took off. I hosted my own nights and started to learn about music production as well.

How would you describe your sound? Do you think your music falls into a particular genre?

I would describe my sound as House, and under that umbrella I’m very open. I feel limited when put in a category box and I love to appreciate so many kinds of music. When I play out, I love all the modern tech house and funky house , as well as the classic and vintage sounds of 90s House as well as Disco House and rare groovy stuff. When I create music I
want to feel completely liberated to create anything I want to, depending on my mood and energy level, my inspiration and my ideas . I feel that my music lies in the space between emotion (feeling) and expression (action) manifesting in some truly Cozmic vibes! I always want the listener to come away feeling something.

You are about to release a banging house tune (Lost in The Club) on Constant Circles! How did that project come together?

Like many of my projects, they start as a raw idea, an 8 bar loop. I shelved this particular sketch for years and moved on. Then, this year I attended an Artist Residency on the secluded Toronto Island, where artists from different disciplines take the Ferry over and spend a week at a beautiful Center for the Arts with their own studios, and immerse themselves in a project, without distractions. The ultimate luxury really! I brought a few older sketches with the mission to finish them, or in this case, I ended up recreating the entire track and letting go of almost all the old elements. The whole process was an exercise of letting go, focus and creativity that was so fulfilling, and I’m equally as proud of the resulting final track as I am of the way it was created.

What is the coolest, wildest or worst gig you even played?

Definitely the coolest for me was playing at Cloud 9 , which is a floating venue off the coast of Fiji, in the middle of the South Pacific Ocean. This came about as part of the Your Paradise Music festival in Fiji 2024 and was kindly arranged by the amazing dj producer Doorly, who I met through the Ibiza Orbit Dj retreats. We took a motor boat out to the big floating catamaran bar and played for hours, jumping off the upper railing into the warm ocean, eating pizza from the woodfired oven and dancing to the beats till sundown. It was magical.

What do you have coming up in terms of releases and gigs?

I’ve just released a remix on irish label DaCosta Records – Louise DaCosta feat Robin T “ Miami” (Cozmic Cat Remix) which is a poolside chilled out latin house vibe, and I currently have some tracks under review with UK powerhouse label HE.SHE.THEY. In Toronto, I’m playing the Spacetime ( formerly Promise) “Electric Garden Party” soon, and later on this year I will be playing my own Cherry Bomb Pride event in June at the Mod ClubTheatre.

Can you tell us something no one would know about you?

I won a gold medal competing in Karate at a tournament in Kigali, Rwanda and I love languages. I’m currently learning Spanish, French, Polish and Italian on Duo Lingo 🙂