this is a thread for the BALEARIC REVIVAL

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.