Cosmo speedway

Cosmo Speedway is the recording duo of Shane Reed and Nick Grosvenor. "If every Genre of music had an orgy, we would be its love child," says the San Diego born band. With two critically received full length albums, the band works to expand the releases' limited digital distribution. While Reed writes the tunes for Cosmo Speedway, Grosvenor writes material for his own project, Wilderness Survival. As Co-Producers, band members, and childhood friends, the two always simultaneously record each new album.

Discography

Recent Years
In early 2006 Reed and Grosvenor began work on the third Cosmo Speedway record entitled "Evolution of the Bicycle." They've expressed interest in creating a number of music videos for the new batch of songs. Experimenting with Stop Motion Animation, Stereoscopic Imaging, Lo-fi video, and various Film formats. They have also expressed interest in creating a new album every 6 months, but that prolific output has yet to be seen.

Early years
Reed Spent a number of years in the mid to late 90's creating numerous mix tapes in his bedroom on a four track tape machine and released them in limited supply through the local San Diego music scene. There are thought to be at least 10-15 full unreleased records in existence under the moniker, "Tork". Reed has said "most of those records were just odd bleeps and buzzes and found sounds but there's a few things in that batch that I'm really proud of." In late 2002, after studying animation and film in college at LMU, Reed partnered up with childhood friend Nick Grosvenor and began to create the earliest inceptions of what was to become "Cosmo Speedway." Recording primarily on high end digital consoles including Logic and Pro Tools, all sounds and ideas come mostly from Reed and sometimes Grosvenor. The two seem to pride themselves on recording without the help of anyone else, isolated in their own environment.

Traveling Bloodcells
In 2005, the band's debut album, Traveling Bloodcells, was released on Catch Camera Records. This young first album mixes a raw sensibility with a hint of what would later be elaborated upon.

Exoskeleton
In 2006, Cosmo Speedway released its second record entitled Exoskeleton. In Del Mar, California, Exoskeleton and the second Wilderness Survival album were written and recorded in three weeks. This event was recorded in the feature documentary entitled "21 Days."

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