this is a thread for the BALEARIC REVIVAL

i almost bought the Sorcerer album yesterday.

here are some other groups worth checking out

dreamchimney dudes
windsurf: http://www.myspace.com/windsurfmusic
(& the two members of Windsurf)
sorcerer: http://www.myspace.com/sorcererjams
hatchback: http://www.myspace.com/hatchback76

blackjoy: http://www.myspace.com/blackjoy2000

i think i should pull out the Chicken Lips albums from a few years ago. at the time i wasn't feeling the dadrockness of it, but heard a song of theirs at a sushi joint last night (don't tell steve shasta i went on a sunday) and it really reminded me of Map of Africa.

i think that chicken lips album only came out last year!

that hatchback track 'white diamond' (and its much-hyped prins thomas remix) is pretty fine. hadn't heard of windsurf before now, though.

what's up with this new AMO single?

We just this morning took delivery of the new A Mountain of One single, 'Brown Piano' (for some reason this title cracks me up), and album, Collected Works (I know why that one cracks me up). The album just assembles the tracks which've already seen album release and slaps on a Blue NIle/Talk Talk-style sleeve, but the single, a new track, boasts a remix from Studio - an eleven-minute epic (of course), it has one of the most ominous, grand intros I've heard in a while, but as a whole it doesn't hold a candle to anything on their supernaturally good West Coast LP.

balearic revival is new downtempo.

oops, meant to say it's THE new downtempo

adult contemporary?

I'm scared to go back to that Chicken Lips record, remember some horrifying listening experiences last year.

Don't know how much we need this thread, as a lot has been discussed in the beardo thread.

I have seen "balearic" become one of the go-to adjectives for hip online shops these days, to describe anything that is vaguely neo-disco, downtempo, or trip-hop sounding. Anything that has an acoustic guitar also works. I think even the new Chemical Brothers album was saddled with the tag!

It was only so short ago that "balearic" usually meant smooth jazz/adult contemporary music, or was something you'd find on an Ibiza comp. I can see many people get badly burned (a la Italo Disco, Ryan Paris/Radiorama does not sound like Mixed Up In the Hague) if this new flavor continues to grow.

I mean, how far are we from Todd Terje releasing instrumental edits of Chris Isaak's "Wicked Game"!

fyi trentmoller did an amazing remix of wicked game under his business man alias

so, to answer your question: not far

i have listened the shit out of those aMo1 albums

er EPs

http://i173.photobucket.com/albums/w46/amountainofone/Quotes.jpg

^ i guess that's the same thing haitch said

Hah - the 1st beta band ep is now a signifier.

lol @ rough trade - everyone knows the 1st BB EP was the weakest!

meet the new british press same as the old

how far are we from Todd Terje releasing instrumental edits of Chris Isaak's "Wicked Game"

okay surely i am not alone in thinking this would be the most amazing thing?

couldnt be better than all those pom pom re-edits.

"lol @ rough trade - everyone knows the 1st BB EP was the weakest!"

Yeah this is almost off-putting to read. It surely means "y'know, it's got a rhythm track and it's a bit cruisy, but it's not scary or anything! nothing too experimental!"

And yeah I'm imagining the most awesome awesome edit of "Wicked Game" right now. Not that the song needs an edit to be fabulous.

fyi trentmoller did an amazing remix of wicked game under his business man alias

does anyone read my posts? http://aurgasm.us/2006/12/hey-dj-friday-chris-isaak-and-dub.html

:( <-- before listening to that song

:) <-- after

Not bad, but I'd prefer hearing The Studio do something with that one.

okay i think i have to jump ship when we're onto groups named windsurf and hatchback

yeah, i pretty much said the same thing on the 70s soft rock thread. but their music is good and they seem like cool guys.

couldnt be better than all those pom pom re-edits.

-- ☪, Tuesday, 31 July 2007 11:22 (11 hours ago) Link

plz 2 explain

this is a nice one by Jaki of Can's Phantom Band
http://www.dreamchimney.com/tracks/16823

there totally needs to be a seperate balearic thread as stuff gets lost int he beardo thread to quickly.

the mix that mountain on one did for best foot forward is totally wrecking my head.

in some ways its really great phased out low slung coke rock.

and sometimes i think that balearic is the nu re edit is the new electro is the nu electroclash is the nu...is the nu...is the nu.....
(repeat to fade)

and I think about cnuts going into phonica and asking about the lastest Lindstrom mix of chris rea's Josephine and I want to kill it before it grows.

Almost two years old, but the Lindstrom and Prins Thomas LP goes here too. I almost feel like they should have released it under a different moniker and then went ahead and released the 12" versions as themselves. Its not a dance record at all.

Shitty things about my new commute:

-It is 40+ miles one way
-It is 60 - 90 minutes depending on time of day

Awesome things about my new commute:

-It gives me plenty of time to listen to new music
-Music on this thread accompanies commute's view nicely:

http://icons.wunderground.com/data/wximagenew/k/kaneohe/2.jpg

http://static.flickr.com/66/273742401_a1f618f53f_o.jpg

http://image42.webshots.com/42/4/36/21/2062436210017353410UvkNDq_ph.jpg

where is that?

windward coast of Oahu.

New Jersey

Wow - that is awesome. I don't really get the Lindsrom&Prins Thomas reference though.

So is anyone gonna venture a definition of balearic?

Here's the top 25 balaeric records as voted for on the v balaeric DJ History board. These were all played on Bill Brewster's show on Kiss(?) yesterday...

1 Tullio de Piscopo - Primavera (Stop Bajon) (Bagaria, 1984)
2 William Pitt - City Lights (Public Sound, 1986)
3 Elkin & Nelson - Jibaro (CBS, 1986)
4 Chris Rea - Josephine (Magnet, 1985)
5 Herb Alpert - Rotation (A&M, 1979)
6 Manuel Goettsching - E2-E4 (Inteam, 1984)
7 Mandy Smith - I Just Can't Wait (Cool & Breezy Jazz Mix) (PWL, 1987)
8 Dizzi Heights - Would I Find Love (Parlophone, 1986)
9 Art Of Noise - Moments In Love (Island, 1983)
10 It's Immaterial - Driving Away From Home (Virgin, 1986)
11 Carly Simon - Why (WEA, 1982)
12 Sebastien Tellier - La Ritournelle (Lucky Number, 2005)
13 Donna Summer - State of Independence (WEA, 1982)
14 Laid Back - Fly Away/Walking In The Sunshine (CBS, 1983)
15 Kate Bush - Running Up The Hill (EMI, 1985)
16 Cure - Lullaby (Fiction, 1989)
17 Linda Di Franco - TV Scene (WEA, 1985)
18 Flash & The Pan - Walking In The Rain (Epic, 1978)
19 Izit - Stories (ffrr, 1989)
20 Fleetwood Mac - Big Love (Arthur Baker Remix) (Warners, 1987)
21 Double – The Captain Of Her Heart (Polydor, 1985)
22 The Beloved - The Sun Rising (WEA, 1989)
23 Enzo Avitabile - Blackout (EMI, 1986)
24 Mike Francis - Features Of Love (Concorde, 1985)
25 Richie Havens - Going Back To My Roots (Elektra, 1980)

WTF - The Cure "Lullaby"???

There's no Wiki entry for balearic (the music) so someone should write a really bad one and piss off the purists. I'm so unbalearic that I spelled it wrong twice in my previous post.

there's a wiki entry for 'Balearic Beat', though.

I used to think it was pronounced and spelt 'baleriac', I'm still not really sure if I'm saying it right.

I've never heard anyone say 'Balearic beat'.

mm, it sounds kind of lame (the word 'beat' in a genre name generally sounds lame and pseudy to me?). 'Balearic house' i've seen used, though.

"Lullabye" I can totally see if it's the Extended Mix on Mixed Up - I've put that on quite a few balearic-y "Back to Mine" style comps I've made.

"Floating in the air, floating in the sea, take my hand, come with me"

"Brown Piano" is up on the A Mountain of One myspace page

i love playing the 12" mix of lullabye in downtempo/baleric sets.

also, baaderonixxpaws: listen to this cd:

http://www.kompaktkiste.de/cd/_123/_5/541516501427cdp.jpg

it's like a postrock band playing dance music in hawaii

another thing that belongs here:

http://www.myspace.com/cantoma
http://www.discogs.com/artist/Cantoma

Cantoma AKA Phil Mison (1/2 of Reverso 68 aka Frontera aka Bakazou)

Its a little more on the World Muic side of things, but is without a doubt balearic revival.

Also, Phil is an A+ bro and an English Gent to boot.

here's a moment where i get somewhat confused and ask questions:
- wtf is Kate Bush doing on that list?
- where do QV play into this? Force of Nature?
- has anyone heard the record by Lexx called "Sirocco"? it seems that that fits in nicely.

All the Music For Dreams/Kenneth Bager stuff works here. Although they've been pretty balearic-esque since the beginning. Bager has an instrumental version of Ripperton's "Les Fleur" that works pretty well.

the walk on the wildside version is good too.

There are a couple other balearic threads on ilm that should help you out if you want more info.

xpost - surprisingly, yes!

Yeah I have that Lindstrom album, but I guess I'm probably confused by the definition of Balearic.

Do people agree with the Top 25 list above? I'll try to compile that and see how it flows. I'm also a bit puzled by Kate Bush being on that list.

i have like 1/2 the songs on that list (which made me rediscover that disgustingly good art of noise track) and the kate bush track fits in pretty well, i think

this is a thread for the BALEARIC REVIVAL

I'm gonna listen to this radio, http://www.last.fm/tag/balearic, and see where it takes me.

why are people surprised by Kate Bush and not CHRIS REA? his presence plus Carly Simon's just demonstrates how deliberately vague, nebulous and flexible the Balearic term always was. It's pretty much just based on whatever Jose Padilla or whoever was dozy enough to play at 8.36am in Cafe Del Mar 20 years ago.

Rea pretty much *is* adult contemporary, even if I do like "Josephine". He has recently gotten the hipster re-edit treatment by Todd Terje and the Eskimo/Mindless Boogie people, so I'm guessing he's still fresh in people's mind.

balearic : balearic islands :: northern soul : northern UK

important: does michael caine like balearic? would he include kate bush on the top 25 tracks of all time?

That first Lemon Jelly album is totally balearic.

12 Sebastien Tellier - La Ritournelle (Lucky Number, 2005)

I've been listening to the music on this thread almost exclusivley for the last three days, giving this ^^^ a spin for ther first time in a year or so just this morning. shortly after listening to it, i left my house and went to my favorite coffe shop and it came on the sound system as i was leaving! kind of weird since that shop usually plays very quiet, anonymous jazz or korean pop music all the time.

I'm helping my family put together some songs to play at my brother's engagement party, and fittingly enough "La Ritournelle" was the first to receive the seal of approval.

http://www.myspace.com/lowmotiondisco

I've been following these guys via myspace for over a year. looks like they're getting an Eskimo release.

I guess maybe they fall in the middle of the venn diagram with Cosmic/Beardo/Edits on one side and Balearic/Revivial/Bands on the other.

Anyone know anything else about them?

Hey, that Wicked Game remix is brilliant.

Speaking of Cure remixes, I'm listening to the relatively obscure "Let's go to Bed (milk mix)" and it would totally fit on a balearic mix. I think Saint Etienne's "Like a Motorway" would sit in there pretty well.

man, that tullio di piscopo track is fantastic. i bought it (on ZYX) at SF's groove merchant years ago, and played the shit out of it when i used to have a downtempoish sunday night weekly at dalva. don cherry plays on it!

Prins Thomas remix of Hatchback here:

http://www.myspace.com/simonacarr

That Carly Simon track is awesome!

lol, lovefingers busted

what u mean?

http://www.myspace.com/aeroplanemusiclove

yes^

that sorcerer LP is OK, but i dont like any of the uptempo tracks.

it feels a little too same-y from track to track, too.

peter gabriel "i have the touch" totally belongs on a balearic mix

This mix is just like..... unghghnghngh.... an indiluted balearic morphine hit.

Goddamit. I'm working on a mix right now that I was planning on closing with "in the light of the miracle."

I already did it for a compilation I made which very few have heard, so now I feel unfairly cheated - however I used the Another Thought version and this one is different, not sure where it's from.

There's the 13 minute dancey version on the Soul Jazz Russell comp.

Yeah I think it's that one. I really should get around to buying that comp!

the version i have is from this:

http://www.discogs.com/release/209608

i think its 14 mins.

i grabbed that Sorcerer album. i really like it, but i think it coulda been better had he used more live instruments or analog equipment. it kinda suffers from a computer smoothness. (this is the same complaint i got from a friend when making music a few years ago on Reason)

this Danny Krivit edit of In The Light Of The Miracle was just posted here yesterday, and it's very good -- is the same version on the Soul Jazz comp?

thats how i feel about it, jaxon. i switch it off after like 6 tracks. or skip the faster ones.

does windsurf have any vinyl releases or just that mp3EP on kompakt? i really like the stuff on the myspace.

still stuck on Studio - West Coast. Vinyl should arrive by Friday.

Can someone please download that mix I linked to so that i can do some group-gushing?

"group-gushing"

just download it and report back cutty, then tell me if my dodgy portmanteau neologisms are inappropriate.

I'm gonna keep bumping this thread until someone listens to that mix and reports back.

i've already listened to it once, have to listen again though as i was preoccupied and my ears only mostly perked up when i heard the familiar eno/byrne collab stuff

It's pretty good, but I'm not sure I'd put in the Balearic category.

this Danny Krivit edit of In The Light Of The Miracle was just posted here yesterday

which is a repost from here in May

do you read that blog often, energy flash gordon?

formerly the most redundant blog ever

xpost - i read that blog, as it's in my rss feeds, but i gotta say, i don't really get the love for the edits so much. there was one recently of that Voyage "I Love You Dancer" track by Rune Lindbæk that just didn't make any sense. he really didn't do anything to the track besides add echo to a few parts. why not just play the original?

what's the most redundant blog now, michael?

the crown is vacant for the time being

haha

off topic:

hey have you guys heard what i'm gushing over here.

I like both LSB singles a bunch, but it's weird how they both seem to revolve around "Some Girls" by Michael Heart. "Original Highway Delight" blatantly samples it, and "FOG" seems to sample something very similar sounding.

The LSB italo edits were just released too, nothing too essential but I do like the P. Lion one.

hey tim - new peter visti!

the newish Detroit Beatdown Vol 2 ep is like balearic detroit-- really smooth synths, lots of congas, good shit. definitely my best recent purchase!

finally listening to that Diepvries mix.

pretty great in the middle from the max essa track to the mudd and pollard one.

detroit balearic sounds very funny. "this one goes out to all my oppressed brothers who couldn't catch the sunset today."

wow.

jaxon - u heard this yet?

http://www.myspace.com/mountainmachine

Out Now:

Omar S Vs Alton Miller - Crackhead Luau(Don't Believe The Pipe) EP

Marcellus Pittman & DJ Genesis Feat. Norma Jean Bell- Belle Isle Paragliders EP

The Alton Miller "Souls like mine" album from this year is pretty good.

most of the alton miller stuff is pretty good, imho.

also, that comment about the oppressed bros and sunsets was more than a bit offensive.

by Detroit Balearic, i mean it has the synths and feel of detroit techno/hi-tech jazz, but the BPMs are slower, the samples jazzier, the vibe more 'chill.' really quite nice.

it was a stupid irreverent joke! this is the internets though, so i deserve what i get. i guess it was just my kneejerk reaction to seeing the balearic adjective applied to yet another style.

I wouldn't worry about it too much Michael, the idea of the Beatdown guys being Balearic is just plain silly.

:)

grady, what is that Mountain Machine? is that a Mountain of One side project? or are jordorowsky references just flying off the shelf these days?

is that a Mountain of One side project?

that's what i assumed at first, but i'm not sure anymore. when i was on the myspace last week, one of the tracks on the mp3player had accompanying artwork that looked like something i had seen on a bit of AMO1 promo but i think its gone now.

both the artwork for the song Mountain Machine and A Mountain of One use this imagery, from jodorowsky's Holy Mountain

http://img408.imageshack.us/img408/3686/holymountainbo2.jpg

from a comment posted on Mountain Machine's page. can we name all of the references? it's seriously my record collection. i've got McDonald & Giles, Max Roach "Members Don't Git Weary", White Noise (lightning bolts), Brian Eno's "Another Green World" (weird characters under wave), Thom Yorke, Selda, Sa Ra Creative Partners, Fela Kuti, Eddie Gale (in robes), John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band, Lou Rawls, Gentle Giant (king in crown). there's a lot more i recognize but can't place.

http://i131.photobucket.com/albums/p306/wearecamo/WE_ARE_SOUND_webFlyer.jpg

gang gang dance.

FELA

oh u got that jaxon

awesome pic
i see Jan Jelinek (Kosmischer Pitch)

i knew i recognized the gang gang dance one, but couldn't place it

there's some madlib thing (white building top)

That's the second Quasimoto album

i recognize the running rasta in center bottom and the guy in the purple overcoat and hat

I wouldn't worry about it too much Michael, the idea of the Beatdown guys being Balearic is just plain silly.

i don;t really understand why everyone is doubting me on this one. maybe i'll up some of the tracks just to prove yr mfuckin asses wrong.

I checked out Aeroplane on Myspace (owing to this thread's recommendation and because they're myspace friends with all the Swedish balearic mafia) only to discover that their eponymous song is my favourite track (or equal favourite with "Let It Happen") from Lindstrom & Prins Thomas' Radio 1 Essential Mix. So large sounding.

Table you might be able to make a good case aurally, as the beatdown guys do venture into "chill out" (for lack of a better phrase) areas. But I wouldn't think that the music comes from taking style notes on say, Balearic comps and flamenco guitar players.

oh god no. more jazzy, for sure.

SUPER BALEARIC
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3sNARLNu_Y

soft rocks is really, really good.
http://www.myspace.com/softrocksrecordings

The entire Badly Drawn Boy "Promises" 12 inch is U&K - Reverso 68, Beyond the Wizard's Sleeve and A Mountain of One each offering a different gorgous definition of "balearic". The AMO1 remix is ridiculously epic, as with "Freefall" it reminds me of Marillion a bit.

but... badly drawn boy!

I know. It felt weird buying it believe me.

i've never actually heard his music, but I have to respect the guy for the company he keeps. He helps run those reissue labels with andy votel like Delay 68 and Finder's Keepers.

there's a CD-promo rip of that single that has instrumental versions of the Reverso & AMO1 mixes. surprisingly, the BTWS mix is my *least* favorite, and i'll actually go so far as saying i don't like it, even though those EPs and a few other remixes (findlay brown) are spectacular. what happened?

i've noticed that most of the Wizard's Sleve remixes just add backwards guitar to the song to make it "trippy" and call it a day.

you say that like it's a bad thing.

ha. they sound great, it just hit me one day what they were doing

ha, don't the stone roses have entire b-sides which are just versions of "Standing Here" and "Elephant Stone" played backwards?

yeah and they're brilliant. I'M WITHOUT SHOES is worth a download. oh yeah they add some forward vocals too

Guernica!

holy shit.

that white label of "in the light of the miracle" just went for a ton on ebay:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=250152805145&sspagename=ADME:X:RTQ:US:11

so i fucked around with traktor for the first time this weekend and used a lot of the stuff from this thread to start out.

i thought i'd share what i ended up with:

Barlearic Revival

a mountain of one - our eyes
studio - self service (2006 LP version)
sorcerer - egyptian sunset
strategy - running on empty
business man - dubby games (chris isaak - wicked game trentmoller edit)
hatchback - carefree highway
peter visti - dolly (dolly parton - jolene edit)
badly drawn boy - promises (reverso 68 dub)
reggie dokes - the skin i'm in
cantoma - the call

by no means a definitive or even rough guide, but i like how it came out (despite a few near-trainwrecks).

59:08
81.2M
192kbps

LOOKS GOOD DLING NOW

ha ha gr8080 that's very similar to a comp I just made for a friend!

looking forward to listening to this! thx grady

wow this is nice

http://www.last.fm/music/Grady

Thx, Grady. This is great. I was able to download Kala today, but I've been listening to your Balaeric Revival so much since this morning that I (sadly) haven't had time to listen to M.I.A.

this weekend my friend played me the b side of that peter visti jolene edit - "rain". so ridiculously amazing. it's funny because the music sounds like it's slowed down to 33 but the vocals are normal.

yeah that one really is great. all three cuts on that 12".

i can't really get into his "balearic love" 12". not feeling either side.

everyone should really, really check outthat mix that Tim is talking about over here. totally pwns my mix, though a slightly different theme. i listened to it twice on big speakers tonite and it was a real treat.

Love your mix grady. Totally the vibe I'm feeling at the moment.

Surprised you don't like the Visti single though. Do you like Aeroplane's "Aeroplane"? I suppose that's a better version of the same thing.

This is the double-cd comp I made for my friend:

CD 1:
Midlake - Roscoe (Beyond the Wizard's Sleeve Mix)
Badly Drawn Boy - Promises (Reverso 68 Mix)
A Mountain of One - Freefall
Dolly Parton - Jolene (Peter Visti Edit)
Studio - Self-Service (long version)
Flash and the Pan - Midnight Man
Kathy Diamond - I Need You
Findlay Brown - Losing the Will to Survive (Beyond the Wizard's Sleeve Mix)
Jane Siberry - The Walking (and Constantly)
Womack & Womack - MPB (Folk Version)
UNKLE - In a State (DFA Remix)

CD 2:
Markus Guentner - Syndrom
Journey - Don't Stop Believing
The Blue Nile - The Downtown Lights
Business Man - Dubby Games
Lindstrom & Solale - Let It Happen
Heather Nova - Spirit in You
A Mountain of One - People Without Love
Rune Lindbaek - Afrika
Allez Allez - African Queen (Quiet Village Dub)
Tracey Thorn - It's All True (Escort Extended Mix)
Farah - Lord of Life (Remix)
Benjamin Diamond - Sun is Shining

thanks, Tim and everyone else. i kind of wish i had edited out the rough spots before posting, but whatever. i discovered the "synch" button on my 2nd to last segway.

yeah i like that aeroplane stuff; i bet it'll be big when it drops nwxt month.

also, tables was right about the beatdown EP! still detroit, but very balearic feeling.

great mix

I loved Jolene but I don't think I'm ready for the Chris Isaak revival :/

http://www.humanonastick.com/images/Segway-Tour.jpg

:D great mix grady!

thanks, dmr and deej.

dmr - have you heard the todd terje/ paul simon dub?

hmmmm ... no I don't think so! just the dj spun / editions disco paul simon .... which I like a lot ...

scroll down here: http://www.musiclikedirt.com/2007/05/05/woozy-with-april/

its on that same "get high and go to the beach" mix.

oh cool. I dl'd that mix this morning but I didn't get to the end yet.

paul simon dub is pretty epic.

because of that peter visti Rain edit i'm checking out Chris Rea. not sure if i'm supposed to like this or not. some of his stuff is great, some is terribly cheesey.

jaxon check out this:

http://www.discogs.com/release/865453'

"on the beach" is a great tune, but i'm not crazy about terje's "megamix" treatment. (h4rvey loves this song).

the Andreas Vollenweider is sooooo good though - its on that same mix Tim and I are repping for. its the tune my co-resident likes to play at the end of the night.

Rea is kinda reminding me of Dire Straits, which i like, and Bruce Springsteen, which i'm not liking.

i want more dire straits edits; i really like the otterman empire one

and i certainly wouldnt say no to an edit of, say, "tunnel of love" or reall anything from post-bitUSA brooce

Supermayer - The Art of Letting Go

Kompakt goes Balearic!! From their forthcoming Save the World LP.

Love the Sorceror and Hatchback tracks on Grady's mix - hadn't heard them before.

Also that's my favourite track from the Strategy album, so lustrous (I stand by my Luomo-goes-post-rock comments).

But the biggest revelation provided by grady's mix is that my mp3 of peter visti's "Jolene" edit must be pitched down! The copy I have is much slower, and Dolly sounds like a guy - actually precisely like one of those reosnant mid-to-late 80s rock singers that fits this balearic style (e.g. see the vocalist for A Mountain of One).

hmmm. i started that track at like +8 to mix in but i'm pretty sure i slowed it down to normal speed before the bass dropped in.

i dont have the vinyl - my version is from a t0rrent.

where is yours from?

No I hear it slow down in your mix, but the speed for the vast majority of it makes perfect sense - Dolly's vocals are as per the original song.

I think the version I have (googling zshare) was played at 33rpm rather than 45rpm.

oic.

prins thomas played this last night, which got a great reaction. (not very balearic revival).

as it was playing i started thinking about the aeroplane track upthread for some reason, specifically thinking that PT probably had a promo copy with him. i started hearing the transition from the linkwood track into the aeroplane track in my head. and lo and behold that was what he mixed into. it sounded great on a big system, and got a great reaction.

Right now I'm really loving Odyssey's "Who" from the Dirty Space Disco comp:

http://www.d-i-r-t-y.com/compilations.php

if an instrumental or dub version of amerie's "crazy wonderful" ever becomes available, it belongs in the nu-balearic canon.

cant stop listening to thios track.

that song's pretty great. part of the vocals remind me of the tom tom club.

http://www.myspace.com/coyotesounds

flamenco guitars: check

I talked a bit about the Mungolian Jet Set remix of Ronny & Renzo's "Big Smack & Flies" elsewhere, but it turns out the original is also amazing, as is R&R's remix of Mutron's "Alone". Sort of really heavy synth-rock-disco, not sure how else to describe them but both tracks are epic.

http://www.myspace.com/ronnyandrenzo

Beyond the Wizard's Sleeve

if they do a balaeric rmx of radiohead could it be called 'beyond the wizard's cap' mix

I keep forgetting to raise Invisible Conga People here, despite the fact that "Weird Pains" is one of my absolute favourite things this year. That in particular seems to connect the dots between Balearic, Italians Do It Better style eerie-italo (I think they're connected to the label actually, as well as to DFA) and, er, Villalobos-style minimal? The other tracks on their myspace page go for more of a Tangerine Dream vibe, meanwhile they describe themselves as "house/afro-pop/psychedelic".

Another great balearic mix up at Another Night on Earth - includes the Ronny & Renzo track I mention upthread.

New Antena remix 12" = U&K!!!!!

Especially Seaside Weekend - Escort Remix

http://www.myspace.com/antena1
http://www.myspace.com/permanentvacationrecords (sounds better on this one)

fuck i need to get this before summer is over.

Speaking of Beyond the Wizard's Sleeve, I forgot to mention that I'm loving their remix of Tracey Thorn's "Raise the Roof".

"U&K"? Please enlighten. Probably something obvious I'm missing, but I'm a bit dense and headachy at the moment...

urgent and key

aha!

grady yr mix is quite hot!

So A Mountain of One's Collected Works is pretty great - esp. "You Can't Be Serious"! - but there is something kinda offputing about "Innocent Line"... It's not even that it's a bad song, but somehow it makes the group and their music as a whole less inviting. Hard to explain.

The whole thing's a lot like Kate Bush's A Sky of Honey innit.

i enjoyed the diepvries mix especially the middle section to the end. an undiluted morphine hit for sure and i can see myself listening to it frequently. the mixing is really nice.

Milky Disco compilation coming out soon on Lo:

1. Daniel Wang - All Flowers Must Fade
2. Padded Cell - Konkorde Lafayette
3. Georges Vert - Electric Bird
4. Johan Agebjorn - Spacer Woman from Mars
5. In Flagranti - Nonplusultra (Black Devil Remix)
6. Jersey Devil Social Club - Child 13
7. Emperor Machine - Front Man (Idjut Boys Girthius Maximus Mix)
8. Kerrier District & Black Mustang - Mad As Hell
9. Quiet Village - Desperate Hours
10. Studio - Life's a beach
11. Sorcerer - Surfing at midnight
12. Six Cups Of Rebels - Dubbe Ditten

woah those badly drawn boy remixes are way good! i like the dubbed out smeared out 10cc vibe that the mountain of one versions have and reverso 68 is always reliable (some "pale shelter" and pet shop boys stuff going on in those).

the AMO1/Studio 12" dropped.

i am listening to your mix now gr8080

ok i want all of this stuff. i hope i know that friend that tim made the comp for upthread.

Tricky I've made two balearic comps for you! I just have to send the damn things!

In fact pretty much all the comps I'm sending you are kinda belearic. My 6:33am Eternal series is Balearic: the Dark Side...

I just joined a group on Facebook called "Balearic Assassins of Love" with the following info line:

"Purveyors of music made by bearded dudes in the seventies and eighties and pitched down and played loud by two occasionally hairy blokes in the 00ties."

haha, i had no idea that my flipping out over screwed minimal earlier this year would turn into this.

excellent news about the comps !

grady your mix is rad.

i'm glad you guys like it.

i'll do a vol. 2 in a month or so.

yes definitely grady! But not in a month! Now!

This Is Not An Exit, an excellent balearic-ish blog slash record label, have this awesome mix up:

1. Pantha Du Prince - Butterfly Girl (Pantha Du Prince Lost The Beat) (Dial) with PIL Religion
2. Skream - Sub-Island (Souljazz)
3. Break Even Point - Death Of A Hills Dancer (Disco Repossession) (Crue-l)
4. Mutron - Alone (Ronny & Renzo Remix) (King Kong Foo)
5. Michaocan - 2 Bullets (DJ Harveys Masterdata Remix) (Greyhound)
6. Osbourne - Outta Sight (Spectral)
7. Subway - Satellites (Souljazz) with Truffle Club - Gone Blue
8. Analord - Pwsteal.idpinch.d (Analord)
9. Fran-Key - Tetrapod Lover (Takimis Lost Ipod Mix) (Crue-l)
10. Bo'tox - Babylon By Car (I'm A Cliche / DFA)
11. Hatchback - White Diamond (Prins Thomas Miks Del 1 & 2) (Thisisnotanexit) with Jonathan Richman - Don't Let Our Youth Go To Waste
12. Neil Young - Down By The River (Reprise)

Go here.

Really not feeling this Mountain of One thing, esp the vocals.

On a side note, after getting the Prefab Sprout "Steve McQueen" reissue this weekend, I realised that they could fit nicely on a balearic mix.

This mix also U&K:

Hardway Brothers Bathing Machine Mix (scroll down a bit)

Ronny & Renzo - Big Smack & Flies
Verity Smith - Summertime (Flash Faction Dub)
Badly Drawn Boy - Promises (A Mountain of One Instrumental)
The Smiths - How Soon In Dub (Bootleg)
Mari Boine - It Ain’t Neccessarily Evil (Mungolian Remix)
Mott The Hoople - Bastard (AM01 Edit)
Herb Alpert - Rotation (Alternative Version)
Audio Deluxe - 60 Seconds
The Lovers - Bring Your Chaos
War of the Worlds - The Heat Ray (Hardway Bros Electric Edit)
Sly Mongoose - Bad Pulse (Padded Cell Remix)
The Dynamics - Music (Dub)
Pepe Deluxe - Captain Carter’s Fathoms
Dolly Parton - Jolene (Mindless Boogie Edit)
Turbo Crystal - French Girl (Escort Remix)
Hall & Oates - ICGFT (Rico’s Re-Rub)
Luke - Heaven’s On Fire
Lindstrom & Prins Thomas - Mighty Girl (Remix)
Tomboy - Something (Extended)
Wild Rumpus - Musical Blaze-Up (Rub N Tug Bitches Remix)
Waldeck - Make My Day (Parov Stelar Mix)
Pierro Fidelfatti - Oceans (Hardway Bros Life Aquatic Edit)

A handy reminder of how utterly superior to everything else ever that Mungolian Jet Set remix of Mari Boine is.

i want to go to this:

http://dimaggio.typepad.com/dimaggio/images/2007/08/29/flyermo3_3.jpg

damn that lineup looks great.

Tropical Hotdog is a great name.

Hall & Oates - ICGFT (Rico’s Re-Rub)

where do i find this??

Thanks Tim F for drawing attention to our Bathing Machine Mix.

The ICGFT Re-Rub was done by Rico a UK producer & engineer.

If you keep an eye on the Dilated Choonz blog I think it will appear there.

It will come out on vinyl eventually.

More stuff of a Balearic nature from us here;-

The "B" Word

Pictures (Radioslave Mix) - Grandadbob
The Boxer (DFA Mix) - The Chemical Bros
Special Agent Man (Morgan Geist Mix) - Gaz Nevada
WFL (Vince Clarke Mix) - Happy Mondays
Mammagamma (Inst) - Alan Parsons Project
Rotation - Herb Alpert
The Boy’s Doin’ It (Carl Craig Mix) - Hugh Masekela
I Need Somebody to Love Tonight - Capri Kids
Witness the Change - Pete Shelley
Stop (Midnight Mike & Nathan Wilkins Edit) - BHW
Running Up that Hill (Extended) - Kate Bush
New & Non-Lubricated - In Flagranti
Tepid Water - Spandex
As I Moved On - Run Jeremy Band
Land of Hunger - The Earons
Diamonds Dub (Terje) - Paul Simon
Stand On the Word - The Joubert Singers

http://www.trackwerk.net/?cat=8

we'll be at the AM01 gig on Saturday if any of you lot are going.

Best Wishes,

Hardway Bros

I'm a fan!

People may also want to check out the Beyond the Wizard's Sleeve live set on Ill-Ec-Tron-Ic.

we'll be at the AM01 gig on Saturday if any of you lot are going

Where? When?

Ah, Brighton. Oh well.

(I have images switched off, so didn't see flyer. I'll shut up now.)

I'm off to that AM01 show. I also saw the 1st in that series at the Spitz, London. I'll report back any balearic craziness.

"balearic craziness" = oxymoron?

My beard will be streaked with vomit and snot.

It will come out on vinyl eventually.

XD

"balearic craziness" = oxymoron?

RONG.

Speaking of "Balearic," anyone have the tracklist for Simonetti's "Balearic Sabbath" comp? There is just one song I don't recognize (the one right after Stevie Wonder)

Also, classic for including the best, weirdest Sylvester song ever

9. Fran-Key - Tetrapod Lover (Takimis Lost Ipod Mix) (Crue-l)

this is pretty darn amazing. anybody with any other recommendations along this line? i suppose i should now check out the crue-l grand orchestra, huh?

There is just one song I don't recognize (the one right after Stevie Wonder)

Also, classic for including the best, weirdest Sylvester song ever

the sylvester track comes right after stevie

really digging Aeroplane right now

SF peeps - Sorcerer & Hatchback (aka Windsurf) DJ instore at Amoeba on Friday the 28th, 7PM. expect white label hotness!

The Studio has a mix up at pfork.
http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/page/forkcast/45726-studio-information-mix-mp3

the sylvester track comes right after stevie

-- dmr, Monday, September 17, 2007 10:01 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Link

Hmmm...maybe it's before Stevie. I don't know, It's not Wings, Fleetwood Mac, Stevie, Sylvester, or Sabbath - what else is there? It's a longer tune...the lyrics sound like 'hold on...bella' but that ain't it...

that is "Onda" by Cassiona

it's a Brazilian track, I only know it cuz I have it on a different mix with titles (Brazilian Beat Brooklyn Vol. 1 or something like that)

http://www.brazilianbeatbrooklyn.com/bbhtml/mix.html

I think it was on Baile Funk 1 (which is like chill 70s music, not the current type of baile)

Ah! Thank you!!

I've interviewed Sorcerer & Hatchback for the Amoeba Music blog - check it out here.

i picked up the Hatchback 12" this weekend and it skips twice. there's no gunk or scratches. maybe it was pressed offcenter? i need to return it. bummed.

how was it when they came into the store? what kinda stuff did they play?

it was great! a little crowd of friends and heads came out to see 'em, and they played a mixture of soon to be released and unreleased original stuff, ultra-deep-digging cosmic/kraut stuff (Space Art was a notable one) and some newer cosmic/balearic stuff like the Aeroplane 12" on Eskimo. Sucks about the the Hatchback 12", we've got a few left, i'll make sure there's one for you to exchange when you come in. ask for me.

Tropical Hotdog is a great name.

it didn't occur to me until I saw their blog that it's a captain beefheart reference

tropical hotdog night, like two flamingoes in a fruit fight!

Here's a mix i did recently, live at an 'ambient/chill' festival in the middle of the woods in Mendocino County, CA. the tracklist:

allez allez - african queen (quiet village remix)
fern kinney - baby let me kiss you
pointer sisters - mercury rising (dub version)
mudd - c40
six cups of rebel - kontroll (the organ grinders breakdown)
key of dreams - africa (dub mix) (klubb kebabb edit)
champ's boys orchestra - tubular bells (cosmic mix)
the knife - marble house (the emperor machine remix)
venus gang - love to fly (cloud edit)
ashford & simpson - solid (dub version)
sorcerer - egyptian sunset
vangelis - let it happen (beatfanatic's balearic boogie mix)
paul simon - diamonds dub (tangoterje edit)
ashra - shuttlecock (cloud edit)
amp fiddler - faith (jazzanova remix)
peter visti - dolly

hope you like it, you can download right HERE

(you'll probably need to right-click that and 'save as', PC users)

i was in the store on a sunday about a month ago on a sunday evening and there was some dude spinning one of the craziest ambient/chill sets i've ever heard.

i specifically remember he went from "our prayer" into some sort of pbs-type monologue about prayer into some sort of indian sitar/chant type stuff. also lots of alice coltrane-styled raga jazz and lots of cluster-sounding ambient krautrock

any idea who that was??!?

also your set there is A+++++++++++++++++++++++++

hmm. i'm not sure who that might have been. we did have a 'summer of love' DJ series on Sunday afternoons throughout July & August, so it was probably part of that. If i had to guess i'd say it was Brother Dylan or Brother Robbie, two kids (i mean that literally, they're both like 21) who do a monthly 60's club night at the Casanova Lounge called The Mutual Appreciation Society. They do a Kosmische night every few months, the most recent one was this past Sunday...if i had to guess i'd say it was them but frankly i never thought either of them had it in 'em.

and thanks, looks like i made the grade!

damn, i just left mendocino a few weeks ago. i would have been there ;_;

sounds good, too!

battags, what comes in around 1:02??? fire

oh its the vangelis! nice

i dunno lucas, it sold out two months in advance, by lottery only, and *everyone* buys a ticket, including all the organizers and DJ's. they would have turned you away at the gate. 350 people max. more info.

thanks deej!

all DJ sets/performances from the festival are online BTW and can be found here...

Nice mix, BATTAGS!

i know man! i lived in willits for a year or so before moving to victoria BC in september, so chillits is definitely a friend-of-a-friend deal

anything you recommend out of the other sets?

oh yeah, you know the deal.

DF Tram - killer 4am ambient set, tons of weird samples & textures. great stuff. Tal M. Klein is funky downtempo with live guitar/bass/keys + laptop beats. Megan Hug is shoegazer with some electronics thrown in for good measure. Timmii is an interesting journey through a whole bunch of different stuff that manages to sound coherent when listened as a whole.

i'm still making my way through them myself so i'll post links to any other notable ones. those are the ones i remember from the party.

i would *highly* recommend going to the wikipedia page on chillits and checking out the 2003 recordings - Jonah Sharp and Mixmaster Morris absolutely KILLED IT (as much as you can at an ambient party i suppose). Morris' set has been a regular staple in my listening diet ever since, shit is legendary.

hey dude im listening to yr mix right now, its great!

that key of dreams track = A+++++ would listen again

as though i could love toto any more

thanks max!

you can find that key of dreams edit on this release.
funnily enough i found the original 12" yesterday, with full vocals and everything. i think i'm gonna try dropping that instead.

hey Vahid, is that your name i keep seeing on flyers around town (and like SF Weekly 'best DJ 2007' or some shit like that?)?

DJs don't develop a cult following in this town very easily - it takes a lot of skill, an ear for mixing, and positive energy to keep the gyrating hordes a-flutter. DJ Vahid is the real deal for our readers, and now that he's landed a gravy gig at 1015 Folsom, adoring dance junkies can hear a lot more of him.

haha no

i'm a humble high school teacher / grad student

tho i have lots of positive energy too

the real question is if you keep the gyrating hordes a-flutter

vangelis is totally the best, i copped a copy of the 12" off discogs w/in minutes of hearing it

:) ok just checking!

deej, was it expensive? we've still got it in stock at amoeba...

that track is a great segway from chill to dance.

also, V4hid: do you play out at all?

what else sounds like "caramellas"? i am so into this tune right now.

Has the A Mountain Of One debut disc been released yet? I see conflicting/confusing information about its release date on the internet.

you can get it on amazon.co.uk as of oct. 6. i couldn't find it in any sf stores.

expect it to hit SF in a few weeks, tops. forced exposure will be carrying it, i believe.

Sorcerer has done an exclusive mix for our site www.trackwerk.net which includes some unreleased material. I thought some of you guys might dig it;-

windsurf - light as daylight
camel - wing and a prayer
marcos valle - estrelar
sorcerer - stixx
travis biggs - tebetan serenity
unicorn - rat race
leprechaun - loc-it-up
hatchback - carefree highway
johnny guitar watson - strike on computers
paul mccartney - sunshine sometime
richard schneider jr.- hello beach girls
windsurf - the big island

Also, the Hardway Bros now have a myspace

www.myspace.com/hardwaybros

A couple of new edits on there

i was just listening to that mix tonight. the johnny guitar watson track is great.

FYI: The AMO1 debut disc, Collected Works, turned up on eMusic this morning.

I posted something about it on that message board, as well. I don't mean to seem troll-ish (if repeating posts is a sign of that). But I'm really pleased to see it made available, and I was asking about its release date a few posts upthread, so I thought it was worth mentioning here, too.

man that sorcerer mix is fantastic!

ay yo's - anybody know where i can get a copy of that first Claremont 56 12" - Mudd & Pollard "Villa Stavros"? I need that shiz.

listening to the sorcerer mix right now and i really like it. marcos valle sounds a bit like steely dan. the only reference i could find for that tune was a jazzanova comp from last year. that travis biggs track with the harp is off the hook.

i bought the amo1 from piccadillyrecords.com (i would've bought from amoeba, but i couldn't wait).

s'allright, i still haven't been offered it by the distro who said they'd be carrying it, meaning we won't have it for two weeks at the *earliest*. can't blame ya. :)

the sorcerer album is like falling in love for the first time.. probably my favorite of the year. those swoonful moments like that flute rearing its head, sprinkled w/piano dust in "divers do it deeper" or that glistening vaporized guitar in "blind yatchtsman".

i don't really see what's so balearic about it, though. i realize that soft rock was often mixed in with balearic sets, but i think there is a distinction to be made between the whole windsurf/sorcerer/hatchback sound and what studio/amo1 is doing. i'll elaborate on this more later... i can't think straight right now..

yeah i can't find amo1 anywhere in the bay area

Yeah, Sorcerer is more ''yacht rock,'' which -- admittedly -- is a genre where I can only say ''I know it when I hear it.'' I mentioned this above, but AMO1 is available on eMusic.

Man that mix is sweet The Richard Schneider track is great sounds like a mix of Brazilian/Balearic, beautiful stuff. Ends with some fantastic whistling.

xp to battags, i'm sure you'll still sell some copies! and anyway, every time i hit amoeba and can't find something on my list, i walk out with five other things especially if i am looking for this style of music or nu-disco. i recently moved from sf so i don't get to amoeba as much as i'd like to. it's good for the wallet, but not for the music fix.

big, big article on "cosmic disco" in the SF Bay Guardian this week - the cover story no less - with Arp, Sorcerer, Hatchback, our own Dominique Leone, & Lindstrom & Prins Thomas....

http://www.sfbg.com/entry.php?entry_id=4843&volume_id=317&issue_id=322&volume_num=42&issue_num=04&l=1

btw tricky -- feel free to call ahead of time and ask for certain things - i can hold them or special order them for you, and it's nice to know what the demand is for a certain title before i order it...

sounds good. right now i need a stylus :/

Leone's MySpace page contains audio treats, but what about his sketchbook page? It turns out he's drawing, in his words, "a giant skyscraper-sized robot that streams music and scents into the air and every 10 minutes or so spews out free kittens.

ysi pls?

no scanner! :(

how will i get the dominque leone album now that oink is gone

From a giant skyscraper-sized robot that streams music and scents?

So my feeble attempts at convincing people that it should be called Space Disco or something because Cosmic means something entirely different to people aware of that scene has failed. Wait, the article does call it Space Disco.

I hear the Rundgren on your Myspace page Dominique for sure. Claire could be A Wizard, A True Star outtake.

leprechaun - loc-it-up

:D

man, mike bee, i'm just getting around to listening to your chillits mix and it's pretty fab. great selection, great mixing. very nice.

yeah more like mike A++++++!!!!

thanks you guys!!S i'm working on another one for the DC Recordings samurai.fm podcast that will be a bit, um, freakier. i'll let you know when it goes live...

balearic joy overload moment of the day/week/year: the period from 4:00 to 4:22 in rune linbaek's disco dub of montee's "i have seen the haven" (hint: see http://talkinginstereo.blogspot.com/2007/11/version-rune.html)

Essential Purchase: Kaoru Inoue - Secret Field

Even the name works perfectly! The original is this very slightly discoid wander through flickers of guitar and percussion, while Todd Terje gives a lovely remix that's like the very best stuff on the Lindstrom & Prins Thomas album.

very late to the party on this but i can't stop listening to "freefall" by a mountain of one. like spirit of eden-era talk talk in self-indulgent pink floyd fanboy mode or something. gorgeous! (i've also only heard the 1st ep)

Kaoru Inoue = Crue-L right?

the 2nd MofO ep is even better, but yeah its a pink floyd / weatherall rockout.

Does Coyote fit under this Balearic genre? I just heard a few of their tracks. "Pretty Wasted" is wonderful. As is "Crazy World"

yup

I know somebody mentioned them at some point

http://www.myspace.com/coyotesounds

-- gr8080, Tuesday, 28 August 2007 09:13 (3 months ago) Link

flamenco guitars: check

-- gr8080, Tuesday, 28 August 2007 09:14 (3 months ago) Link

bingo

TOO HARD - AEROPLANE MIX on their myspace sounds pretty hot

Ah, I missed that above. Thanks

Too Hard (Aeroplane Remix)

wow that was hella fruity

anyone heard the Windsurf SENDIGI001 - WINDSURF EP? their lcd soundsystem remix is so so amazing. i want more like it.

Windsurf EP is well nice. Not heard the LCD remix though so not sure how it compares.

windsurf ep is great but mp3 only.

also check out hatchback - white diamond 12" with 17 minute PT remix

grady do you think could you re-up that mix you made if you get a chance??

finals week: worst week to "discover" balearic.

aeroplane remix of das pop's (?) "fool for love" on aeroplane's myspace is awes.

really dig the little villalobos-s breakdown at the end but that could be the original song idk.

-sy*

New Invisible Conga People track (on their myspace page) "Cable Dazed" is just brilliant - the equal of "Weird Pains", which is saying a lot. Eeerie synth patterns and close harmonies. Like Delia & Gavin being as good as they're supposed to be.

I'm hoping that Italians Do It Better get around to releasing these two tracks on two sides of a vinyl.

About invisible conga people:

first 12" out in february.

too long!!

xpost - the Windsurf tracks that are on that mp3-only release will be coming out on their EP on Internasjonal.

Sorceror's Ride the Serpent is awesome

there's a cool sorcerer b-side and rarities mega mixx here:
http://www.sendspace.com/file/lxm4iw

you can also find it here:
http://sorcerermusic.com/magic/

new aeroplane!

grady do you think could you re-up that mix you made if you get a chance??

-- J0rdan S., Friday, December 7, 2007 3:29 PM (3 weeks ago) Bookmark Link

oh shit just saw this. sure, if you still want it.

BONAR

"beat the bed" is pretty rad.

yeah please!

http://www.sendspace.com/file/2mte3g

that new aeroplane is a good 'un.

thx gr80

love the Bonar Bradberry, and loving the new Aeroplane too (though it's the dub that wins out over the original for me). did we talk about Cage & Aviary? i can't stop listening to "Television Train". anybody have any other info about them & future releases?

Oh my god Bonar Bradberry. "Beat The Bed" sounds like "Closer To God" in parts - love it! I want a whole compilation of stuff like this and Ronny & Renzo's "Big Smack & Flies": evil screwed synth-disco.

The Beatdown version is fabulous also.

did we talk about Cage & Aviary?

there was a little bit about Dissident on the beardo thread. very curious to hear some of that stuff.

any info on fontän, the swedish group with a 12" out on information in spring? only one of the members' names pull anything up on discogs, but probably not the same guy (early 90s death metal?)

+ studio's yearbook 2 coming in spring as well, according to the site

is yearbook 2 all new shit?

site just says "INFCD3 Yearbook 2 - Out in spring 08!" but it's probably collected remixes? there's a good list of the 'collaborations' on their myspace:

Shout Out Louds - Possible (Studio Version)
Rubies - A Room Without A Key (Studio Version)
Love is All - Turn The Radio Off (Remake by Studio)
A Mountain of One - Brown Piano (Remake by Studio)
Studio / Brennan Green - East Side & Escape From Chinatown
Kylie - 2 Hearts (Version by Studio)
Williams - Love On A Real Train (Version by Studio)
(what is that^^?)

probably should be in the studio thread

What the hell is "Escape From Chinatown"??

Also, has anyone heard the West Side 12 inch with "Part 1" and "Part 2"? Is it just an even longer version split into the two halves?

yo tim, how come Studio's album didn't come up higher on the pitchfork list? shame

Don't blame me, it was my number one choice!

yep, mine too. that list is totally corrupt.

"Escape From Chinatown" latest 12" on Brennan Green's Chinatown label. Both sides collabs btwn Green & Studio w/ Danny Wang. Really great 12".

Also, has anyone heard the West Side 12 inch with "Part 1" and "Part 2"? Is it just an even longer version split into the two halves?

the brennan green remix 12" is one-sided
the 7" has a pt1 and pt2 which are both done by studio.

i can leo if u want.

here is what Jay Vee is talking about:

http://www.discogs.com/release/1122822

i had no idea this existed.

If you haven't already, you need to download this Peter Visti DJ mix from 2-4 Hours - one of the best balearic mixes I've heard, perhaps the best, and I've heard a lot of Balearic DJ mixes this past twelve months.

As with (the reliably excellent) Phil Mison, Visti seems ultimately a bit housist - as lush and as dreamy and as sumptuous and as floaty and as swirly as this is, the kickdrum remains steady and the vibe is kinda tracky and anti-songful. The result is like an alternate deep house (not a million miles away from Henrik Schwarz, actually, although without the techy edge) - total flotation tank music.

best balearic mix I heard all year was from Balearic Mike.

this new dfa band Hercules and Love Affair sounds pretty balearicy

at least the song i'm listening to now "athene". pretty dubby and great

my bad if you guys have already talked about these dudes upthread

http://www.myspace.com/herculesandloveaffair

BONAR

"beat the bed" is pretty rad.

-- gr8080, Saturday, December 29, 2007 1:39 PM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Link

this gets better and better every time i listen

http://www.zshare.net/download/39203109ffc29b

hercules is more just straight up disco or disco house ... but yes great

talked about em a bit on the dfa thread, apparently there is a whole album coming

actually you're right, "athene" is pretty balearicy

the 12" on dfa (roar / classique #2) is a little different, more acid / chicago sounding

i just bought the 12'' off itunes (u_u) but i haven't listened to it yet.

the new single "blind" w/ antony has pretty balearic hand percussion and shimmery guitars but idk his voice makes it sound really campy and almost burlesque.

any info on the album??

actually "blind" leans more toward real showy disco (all trumpets and junk) but either way it's still kinda so-so

does anyone have a tracklist for the "paul and marc get high and go to the beach" mix, by any chance? still loving the shit out of this several months later

I think this is it

http://anothernightonearth.blogspot.com/search?q=paul+marc

1. Mudd - Speilplatz - Quiet Village Deep Space remix
2. Coyote - Pretty Wasted
3. Studio - Life's A Beach - Prins Thomas remix
4. Rune Linbaek - Afrika
5. Paul Simon - Diamonds On The Soles Of Her Feet - Todd Terje edit
6. Sylvester - I Need Somebody To Love
7. Chas Jankel - To Woo Lady Kong
8. Jo Jackson - Zenio
9. Andreas Vollenweider - Belladonna - Tangoterje Edit
10. Smith & Mudd - Plot of Land
11. Quiet Village - Too High To Move

any info on the album??

pretty long writeup here

http://www.dustedmagazine.com/features/702

I'm really enjoying the Peter Visti mix, Tim. Care to point me in the direction of mixes of similar style and quality.

here's another great peter visti dj mix for you.

I totally agree about Balearic Mike. He is a total dude.

Here is his set from Emergency Glasgow on April 8th 06.

PART 1 : http://media.emergency-music.org/audio/BM080406-A.mp3

PART 2 : http://media.emergency-music.org/audio/BM080406-B.mp3

Williams - Love On A Real Train (Version by Studio)
(what is that^^?)

Hoping it's a remix of a cover of the Tangerine Dream song from "Risky Business"?!

it is.

First time posting on this thread, but I've been checking out and loving the recommendations that people have linked to here, so props to everyone for spreading the balearic love. Following the Cosmic Disco link, I came across this listing of several different mixes - http://www.coolinthepool.com/radio.html. Anybody heard any of these? The track lists are all provided. There are entries from Visti, Aeroplane, Coyote, Mudd, etc etc.

pavel plastikk kills it

http://talkinginstereo.blogspot.com/2008/01/in-light-of-saturn-by-pavel-plastikk.html

Absolutely obsessed with Aeroplane's remix of Low Motion Disco's "Love Love Love" right now.

that Studio remix of 'love on a real train' is KILLER!

^^^^^ ya its amazong

listened to it like 9 times today already

god they get such good bass sound

that Studio remix of 'love on a real train' is KILLER!

Where can this be gotten?!

Never mind - I've seen it on 20jfg...

...and, yes, it's amazing. The mp3 has a little digital glitch at about 3:29 which sets off massive obsessive compulsive sirens in my addled mind, so I hope this will be for sale digitally at some point. I am sick.

Does anyone know a good online store that sells a lot of this stuff digitally? (I know that's kind of sacrilege with this stuff, but I seriously need mellow ipod commute tunes).

http://www.myspace.com/musicpacific

i dunno if this really fits in the balearic thread, but didn't know where else to put it and didn't know if i wanted to start a new thread on them yet just based on the myspace tracks. it's pretty much like the Beach Boys Love You album. synth pop and sunshine psych melodies. kinda neat. Runway to Elsewhere is sick.

man, their voices totally sound like they're Wilsons

what's the deal w/ windsurf? are they putting out anything other than that mp3 ep soon or is this just something these dudes do when they're bored w/ their solo stuff?

they are either working or are done/almost done with an album as far as i know

they have a four/five track ep coming out on internasjonal very soon...and a remix for Shawn Lee on Ubiquity....

that plastikk mix linked above is awesome.

Morning I'm thinking that this may be of interest to some of you guys;- To celebrate the imminent release of "Beard Science Razor - Sharp Edits Vol 2", our hirsute friends have concocted a whole set of custom edits which has been lovingly mixed by Jaz. Entitled "Songs From The Cutting Room Floor" it is available to download online from www.trackwerk.net

i'd just like to say that currently Jaz is one of my diggers and djs and a super swell guy. no homo

one of my favorite

currently Jaz is one of my diggers

body u need to be careful about being disrespectful to djs ok

I'm just lurking around and posting very randomly. But I git this today and it's a beautiful record.

http://www.discogs.com/release/1196280

A balearic 110 bpm (or so) acid track.

"got this" obviously

And unlike the other records: it's not about the "Prins Thomas Diskomiks".

http://music.guardian.co.uk/electron...253995,00.html

having listened to the mixes on here and a load of the Hercules stuff, can you tell me the difference between all this balearic stuff and what Environ /Balihu has been throwing out for years.

I get all the guitary re-edit stuff but most of the new electronic stuff seems only to be balearic cause its the new name to call everything by.

...just sayin'

the thread probably strays off topic sometimes but in general I think Environ/Balihu/Hercules is pretty different from Studio/Aeroplane/some remix of Toto

I often think these loose genre descriptions ("nu-balearic") work better when considered as "constellations" of different sounds. Sometimes the stars are the same or very similar to stars that are in other (previous) constellations, but what is different is the overall picture that emerges by dint of the constellation as a whole. Aeroplane, for example, would probably be classed within general italo revivalism if they weren't consistently grouped in with Studio etc. Likewise, if you simply listened to Todd Terje's (excellent) edit of Dee Dee Sharp's "Easy Money", you'd think he was simply the latest expansive Levan disciple ("what's he doing that Faze Action or Joe Claussel haven't done already, and more radically?")... It's the relationship between that and his remix of Paul Simon that tilts the picture a bit.

This is related to another issue that interests me a bit, which is how at any given time a whole variety of sonic reference points are arranged into different, often apparently oppositional constellations. i.e. in 2002 the Metro Area album and the Playgroup DJ Kicks and a whole bunch of other stuff filled the role that this nu-balearic stuff does now. To some extent what changes is how the different sounds are grouped - i.e. the collapse of 2004-era electro-house entailed the pulling of its stars out of their constellation and into new constellations, with bits of this genre being inherited by minimal, mainstream club music (Fedde De Grand etc.) and Kitsune style electro-rock respectively.

This is what allows the opening and closing of certain channels of sonic influence, depending on how tightly bonded a particular star is to a particular constellation. Balearic is open to rock but you wouldn't put a The Rapture track on a balearic mix because that particular notion of post-punk (fast, blaring, "angular") seems to belong to Kitsune now. And yet... you see Ewan Pearson and LCD Soundsystem and Cut Copy making the speculative leap from one camp to the other (Pearson's singular success perhaps rests in him always appearing to belong to every available camp to some extent at least - you could make similar claims regarding Mauric Fulton, Carl Craig etc. but I think they do this more subtly, e.g. Carl Craig's identity in 2007 is farily unified).

having fun w/ YOUTUBE:

Here's the top 25 balaeric records as voted for on the v balaeric DJ History board. These were all played on Bill Brewster's show on Kiss(?) yesterday...

1 Tullio de Piscopo - Primavera (Stop Bajon) (Bagaria, 1984)
2 William Pitt - City Lights (Public Sound, 1986)
3 Elkin & Nelson - Jibaro (CBS, 1986) closest i could find
4 Chris Rea - Josephine (Magnet, 1985)
5 Herb Alpert - Rotation (A&M, 1979)
6 Manuel Goettsching - E2-E4 (Inteam, 1984) (5 mins of it anyway)
7 Mandy Smith - I Just Can't Wait (Cool & Breezy Jazz Mix) (PWL, 1987)
8 Dizzi Heights - Would I Find Love (Parlophone, 1986)
9 Art Of Noise - Moments In Love (Island, 1983)
10 It's Immaterial - Driving Away From Home (Virgin, 1986)
11 Carly Simon - Why (WEA, 1982)
12 Sebastien Tellier - La Ritournelle (Lucky Number, 2005)
13 Donna Summer - State of Independence (WEA, 1982)
14 Laid Back - Fly Away/Walking In The Sunshine (CBS, 1983)
15 Kate Bush - Running Up The Hill (EMI, 1985)
16 Cure - Lullaby (Fiction, 1989)
17 Linda Di Franco - TV Scene (WEA, 1985) (extended 12", no video)
18 Flash & The Pan - Walking In The Rain (Epic, 1978)
19 Izit - Stories (ffrr, 1989)
20 Fleetwood Mac - Big Love (Arthur Baker Remix) (Warners, 1987)

ok im bored someone else do the rest
21 Double – The Captain Of Her Heart (Polydor, 1985)
22 The Beloved - The Sun Rising (WEA, 1989)
23 Enzo Avitabile - Blackout (EMI, 1986)
24 Mike Francis - Features Of Love (Concorde, 1985)
25 Richie Havens - Going Back To My Roots (Elektra, 1980)

-- Raw Patrick, Thursday, August 2, 2007 4:09 AM (7 months ago) Bookmark Link

"Stop Bajon" - still the best song in the world, ever.

I still need to d/l some of those songs. Hopefully if I just soulseek "balearic" someone will have them all in a folder for me.

i have all of these on mp3 except herb alpert, flash & the pan and the f'wood mac mix... i can upload a zip later if ppl are interested?

^^^ Yep!

that herb alpert is fire

can you include the manuel gottsching separately so I don't have to re-download a 50 minute track i already have? thnx

lol yeah wasnt gonna u/l it ne way, its easy to find

I should sendspace Y. Eye's E2 E4 2001 mix....

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It's about the isolation of self. A lover is the most intimate and personal thing that can exist, and yet you can't ever really know what the other person is feeling. They can tell you, but it's not the same as experiance. So if she could she'd make a deal with God and swap places to see and feel what it's like from her lover's point of view. Thats what the song is about.

ya jon do it

http://www.sendspace.com/file/283s6b

fleetwood arthur baker remix is here: http://www.zshare.net/audio/2195162a6a015a/

"Stop Bajon" - still the best song in the world, ever.

yes!

i have all of these on mp3 except herb alpert, flash & the pan and the f'wood mac mix... i can upload a zip later if ppl are interested?

yes please!

fleetwood arthur baker remix is here: http://www.zshare.net/audio/2195162a6a015a/

thank you!

http://www.sendspace.com/file/f3h73d

1 thru 12 minus e2-e4

will up the rest (except flash & the pan) in a mo

turns out i had the herb alpert. and i incl. the arthurt baker rmx thx to or something

http://www.sendspace.com/file/y2d3pp

turns out i had the herb alpert. and i incl. the arthurt baker rmx thx to or something

thanks to t g actually, i was thanking him and copied the link by mistake. thanks for this though, max, dloading now but my connection is horribly slow tonight.

wow thanks max!

oh yeah misread--thanks t_g

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biggest goldmine on ilm just got bigger and better. thanks again for all these max. you deserve a medal.

I'm a little surprised how straightforward that djhistory chart is. It's definitely a great "rough guide to balearic" though.

uh your josephine is mislabeled max

i also have a longer version of why if you guys want it

sry did i upload "la version francaise"

whatever it is it starts going into "Lucky Star" at the end

its still josephine tho right?

lucky star like the madonna song?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ga_Kwa7K6v8

its not josephine at all! its some weird disco funk thing?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnYlOcVpgBo

i bet its la version francaise^^^^

http://www.discogs.com/release/93454

Track 4 Contains a Sample of "Josephine" Performed by Chris Rea.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbCmMaqG8_Q

^^^the vsn you were thinking of?

tbh i dont know if the one i put on is "la version francaise"--does someone who didnt download this on slsk/youtube figure out which version is which

it's la version francaise from classic balearic mastercuts, ie. the correct mix, in the zip file. where's lucky star?? i do like the wee bit of derrick may's sueno latino remix at the start of mandy smith though.

ya most of this is slsk compiled so there are some tracks w/ mix-in and mix-out and a couple at not great bitrates, sorry!

anyway thx for clearing it up--ive just checked on my home computer, the mp3 is version francaise

i think deej is confused b/c lucky star samples chris rea?

yes

also because it appears to be the dub of version francais ... there are no vocals!!

kinda boring imo, when i hear the instrumental it just sounds like its about to become lucky star and then it doesnt

btw totally love that mandy smith track ... what version is that? way better than this

i do like the wee bit of derrick may's sueno latino remix at the start of mandy smith though.

-- or something, Thursday, March 6, 2008 9:42 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

i assumed that was e2-e4 :-p

thats bizarre i could have sworn my mp3 had vocals! i must have been listening to it on a mix recently or something? because it was stuck in my head all last week.

:P deej u dumbass there are vocals, around 2:20

Thanks for this!

I fell asleep drunk waiting for this to d/l last night which wasn't good. I hate waking up at half six to the glow of a computer monitor.

deej its the cool and breezy jazz mix

i actually have a version of that w/out the mix-in, ill upload in a sec

i need to clean out my itunes :-/

i also have a longer version of why if you guys want it

-- deej, Thursday, March 6, 2008 6:42 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

hook me up

captain of her heart video full of babes

that mandy smith track has grown on me. i wish it didn't make think of bill wyman though

not just of bill wyman, of bill wyman fucking a 13 year old

thanks for this max. it is awesome.

i assumed that was e2-e4 :-p

that :-p should be a :-/ cos it's definitely sueno latino and i'm pretty sure it's the mayday mix. stop getting things rong deej ;-)

:P deej u dumbass there are vocals, around 2:20

-- max, Friday, 7 March 2008 08:46 (4 hours ago) Link

?????????????? tell me youre fucking w/ me now

like im rewinding back and forth over 2:20 and i am not hearing rea's voice at all

OK theres vocals briefly at 4:06

dude there's something weird w/ this mp3 for real
i swear when i played it yesterday there were no vocals, and it last 5:38. Now its past 6:00 and there are vocals

WHATS GOING ON

i feel like when i was a kid and someone put those candles that don't blow out on my cake

i think i've figured out that what happens is no matter where i skip ahead on the progress bar the song isn't actually skipping ahead

yeah basically anytime i try to skip ahead in the song it pretends it has skipped ahead in the program but the mp3 itself doesnt skip, so every time i listened around 2:20 or wherever else it was still playing it from the beginning thus giving me the impression i had a 6 min. long instrumental reminiscent of 'lucky star'

ok wtf is up w/ richie havens singing "its not black, its not white!" in 'back to my roots'? sounds really funny for some reason, like he's explaining why he can cover lamont dozier's song

Technical question re: iTunes and track lengths

Oh wait, not the same thing, never mind.

yeah deej i think its a corrupted file or something

hook me up

-- max, Friday, 7 March 2008 08:53 (7 hours ago) Link

when i get home from work i will UL
also im not positive but i think i have a longer version of 'city lights' too

i listened to "state of independence" about 34598340954 times on the way to work today

amazed "elle et moi" isn't on that top 25 list

kind of amazed that sebastien tellier is

i think that song is pretty good...until he starts singing

oh i like the song a lot, and the singing, it just seems really out of place

what other slightly silly "balearic" songs should I be playing at my projected b'day party in may? apart from "Stop Bajon" and "Like an Eagle" and "Life In A Northern Town" and the Larry Levan edit of "Maneater" and "Midnight Man" and "Diamonds on the Soles of her Shoes" and "Stranger in the City"...?

http://www.discogs.com/release/1233793

MEXICO

love that song

i know you've heard it already, but i cant get enough

state of independence! gino soccio's "dancer"! dennis wilson! bobby caldwell! anything from this thread: POLICE POLL (may be too silly)!

the terje edit of MJ's "i can't help it"

http://www.discogs.com/release/1116459

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifZtphTvDLA

how is Dancer balearic?

sorry

http://lpcoverlover.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/img_4162.JPG

^^ this should be the cover for that comp max made us

SAX ON DA BEACH

TIKAL!

omg, that raf video

what other slightly silly "balearic" songs should I be playing at my projected b'day party in may? apart from "Stop Bajon" and "Like an Eagle" and "Life In A Northern Town" and the Larry Levan edit of "Maneater" and "Midnight Man" and "Diamonds on the Soles of her Shoes" and "Stranger in the City"...?

Mclaren's 'Madame Butterfly'? so good

oh yeah, re mandy/ sueno latino: http://www.discogs.com/release/138045

that mix looks great!

R-Tyme R-Theme (2:35)

only 2 and a half minutes of this tho is criminal!

Deej, congrats on becoming the latest test subject in a study that attempts to clinically prove that MP3s cause listener apathy ;)

"what other slightly silly "balearic" songs should I be playing at my projected b'day party in may?"

'uncertain smile'!!

oh and 'cool cat' by queen!

http://www.zshare.net/audio/865744879b7cd5/
4:08 version of "Why"

i'm uploading the full length version of 'city lights' too - its actually like over 5 mins long! max's version is only 3:30 or something

http://www.zshare.net/audio/8657700a1024da/

city nights extended

ha. i was just coming here to post how 'why ?' is such a seriously amazing track. truly infectious.

Here's an updated version of Max's comp from above with the whole of the DJ History top 25 Balearic in it. Some of the versions of Max's stuff I've upgraded. E2-E4 is in there but as the 5 min edit version.

It all looks a bit of a mess in the folder coz I got bits from here and there but it should all be tagged nicely for itunes etc.

I have a lot to do today so I've done this as displacement activity.

http://www.sendspace.com/file/97cnaj

does that include the extended versions of the songs i posted or no?

I think so. Coz I would have added them to the folder at the time.

Fuck. The City Lights is still the short version.

tnks patrick

Does anyone have Elton John's "Are You Ready For Love?"

No one seems to have mentioned Tears For Fears b-side/side-project "Johnny Panic and The Bible of Dreams". Balearic as fuck.

i picked up the Sueño Latino 1991 Remix 12" and was playing it at home and wifee asked i take it off because it was too "flutey and patooty".

granted i was playing it at 33 instead of 45 and the flutes do start to sound pretty Enigma-y

embrace the enigma