this is a thread for the BALEARIC REVIVAL

i guess all (electronic) music walks some of the lines you mention, the serious and solemn is accepted more readily - but i think there's still a decent amount of freedom in this scene and still a really wide variety of music played. i think if you take a listen to some of the mixes you find on soundcloud etc you get more of a sense of that, there's a lot of digging and freedom to put other tracks in among the stalwarts - it still has that feeling of a burgeoning and quite open scene, as such i feel a bit less confident in drawing conclusions about it.

this is quite an old mix but feels kind of formative to me: https://soundcloud.com/rcheoecordings/manu-archeo-dj-mix-for-test-pressing-384-there-are-shadows-because-there-are-hills-mix

the things i veer away from the current stuff are the housier tracks - there's the odd good thing but i feel like it's not giving me anything i can't get by just listening to older house music. it doesn't surprise me there are a lot of good albums coming out that people have been talking about itt, like presumably you can go to a club and hear balearic music and i guess people on the internet are all sort of following some imaginary scene, but it does seem more tied to home listening than i dunno, hearing things out and finding out what they are.

i would totally go to a bar that only played the music itt but it doesn't seem to exist.

the other thing i think is someone needs to revamp the hotel lobby and health spa music of the world with a playlist made from this thread.

There was definitely a trend of high-end restaurants and hotel bars in London defaulting to stuff like DJ Koze and Mayer for a while, it was really weird to hear that 2002-05 stuff repurposed in that vein.

I sort of feel like any bar in London playing this stuff would end up trying to offset its whole London-ness somehow by overcompensating with Thai beach bar cliches or looking like some horrific tech start-up chillout room or something.

maybe that's true for bars, i feel like a certain type of cocktail bar could make this work. i mean I quite like the music you hear at a health spa in a kind of "sometimes lol sometimes global communication sneaks in" way, but equally you could put on gaussian curve and nobody would bat an eyelid.

It needs to be the sort of place where everyone sits down, I feel quite strongly about that.

i dj at a "gastropub" here in FL and play mostly balearic and transition into some disco and italo when the kitchen closes at midnight. i've had strangers come up to me that were into it and they have had all sorts of notions about what kind of music it would be considered, many tend to ask if it's "something from the 70's or 80's." i just tell them it's balearic and they nod appreciatively as if that's sufficient explanation. one guy on vacation from detroit got it and said it was perfect for the venue, so that was nice.

there's a pub near me that plays a lot of balearic stuff and hosts some of the smaller djs from the scene but it goes to disco and more uptempo stuff very quickly. i like that music and i guess it's necessary for big pubs late at night, but it is annoying having to kind of imagine being on a beach for most of this music.

it's not like ibiza actually has a scene for this either.

i would totally go to a bar that only played the music itt but it doesn't seem to exist.

If you're ever in Leeds LG

http://outlawsyachtclub.com/#about

not that balearic but came on after the wolf muller & cass sampler on soundcloud

https://soundcloud.com/uncanny-valley-dresden/massimiiano-pagliara-no-more-love-to-follow-feat-matthew-morris

xps Tim, Ronan - I can no longer pretend to be able to untie the gordian knot of what is supposed to be cool or un-cool and what is boldly unfashionable re corny retro influences anymore (but i am glad Tim is on the trail, if anyone can figure it out its you, budhttp://www.cnet.com/bundles/cnetcss/images/forum/emoticons/wink.gif)

Third release on Andy's Balearic Social Records is up on Soundcloud:

https://soundcloud.com/balearicsocial/sets/bsr003

If you're ever in Leeds LG

think I've probably heard some mixes from this on soundcloud.

really enjoying the terekke lullabies for insomniacs mix: https://soundcloud.com/lullabiesforinsomniacs/terekke-guest-mix

Speaking of music ITT in spas & bars, caught Hatchback and Seahawks DJing in a meze joint one time. Does it get more ILX Balearic? ;-)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRhfXqZ51TI

Compilation from Mark Barrott out next month looks good although there's only a few tracks on it I don't already know

https://www.residentadvisor.net/news.aspx?id=35797

Shit, that Spooky track is so good. Unexpected inclusion there. I'm into that compilation.

this mysterious youtube channel is a treasure trove

http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqKy2Cmyg8PyDQyU4wOY9XQ

https://soundcloud.com/hunee/in-our-time-mix-for-air-be-with-records-dj-mix

lovely mix from hunee, as usual. kinda belongs here tho it's more just jazz i guess.

anyone know the track at 11 mins 20? really beautiful.

it looks like the whole mix is tracks by Air (70s jazz band, not the henry threadgill one)

ah nevermind, the mix was merely inspired by Air's lone album

the air tracks sound really nice. it's a brilliant mix, listening to it right now for like third time today.

another sweet orpheu/tako reyenga mix.

https://soundcloud.com/dkmntl/orpheu-the-wizard-tako-at-dekmantel-festival-2016

Anyone checked out Seahawks' latest? It's on Spotify. 'White Horses' is a keeper.

p.sherburne interview w/shy layers
http://pitchfork.com/features/rising/9942-uncovering-the-secrets-of-shy-layers-musical-deja-vu/

anyone know this tune? heard it at harvey at the weekend and he always plays it: https://soundcloud.com/ronan-fitzgerald/mystery-harvey-tune

while i'm at it, anyone know the tune in the video that's the second most recent post on his facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/HarveyDJay - that's another one he always plays.

was fortunate enough to get in at the very start on saturday and watch him warming up as the venue filled, it was really cool to watch a dj of his quality mess about playing beatless balearic stuff for 30 mins, then fill the floor and get a full cheer for the first record that had drums in it, a re-edit of james brown's "funky good time".

Pretty sure it's the Afro mix of Helen's Zanzibar (or an edit of). Balearic classic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoM4Zszz-5o

yeah that's it - nice one - it's either an edit or just way pitched up.

Thanks cozen for the link to that interview with Shy Layers - just got the LP and it is great, perfect soundtrack to the indian summer. Ordered the Baltic Beat LP by Bartosz Kruczyński from the label (Growing Bin) as well, droney balearic bliss:https://bartoszkruczynski.bandcamp.com/album/baltic-beat

His soundcloud is worth checking out. There's a great Baltic Beat/Phantom live set and some excellent mixes like this one:

https://soundcloud.com/bartoszkruczynski/bartosz-kruczynski-spring-mix-2016-may-2016

Sound of the Glades remixes out next week

https://m.soundcloud.com/international-feel/wolf-muller-cass-the-sound-of-glades-remixes

Oh man, this is super

http://testpressing.org/2016/09/how-to-start-the-day/

https://youtu.be/EoX-6f14_WM

Great mix

https://soundcloud.com/seekmagic/tell-me-what-you-dream-theo-lawrence-guest-mix/comment-308494477

old but i've been listening to Tommy Awards' Sessions non-stop this week, just living in it. beautiful stuff

Sessions II is coming out on vinyl soon on Andy's Balearic Social Records

It's already out on tape and digital on bandcamp.

New on Claremont and very, very good

https://claremont56.bandcamp.com/album/alaula

new on Growing Bin - Krakatau's "Tharsis Montes" http://testpressing.org/2016/09/krakatau-tharsis-montes-growing-bin/

https://soundcloud.com/palmstrax/cooking-with-jamie-tiller

great jamie tiller mix. dunno where he gets so many brilliant records.

New Moonboots mix

https://soundcloud.com/proper_magazine/moonboots-golden-hour

https://soundcloud.com/rcheoecordings/doing-time-nts-guest-mix-by-manuarcheo-23102016

nice manu archeo mix here.

anyone been to spiritland in london? might go see the aficionado night there on sunday, if i can so willingly plan for a monday hangover.

Chris Coco posted this on FB earlier:

http://www.gasholder.london/2016/10/27/so-what-on-earth-is-spiritland-all-about/

pretty cool place.

the soundsystem is incredible - genuinely gets you thinking of a list of albums or tracks you'd like to hear on it. they played a decent amount of jazz and i can safely say i've never heard a system sound so amazing.

this in particular was like more sensory than music usually is (should stress i had nothing stronger than a few beers)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNsiP8dZYg8

the food is pretty nice - the whole place is kind of geared towards table service and sitting down, there's no dancefloor. like a sort of ex-ravers old folks home. expensive though. it feels a bit grim that wanting to hear good music on a nice soundsystem ends up being tied to a sort of yuppy experience. not that there's a bad attitude there or anything, but like a 2/3 glass of beer is six quid.

overall though the music sounds so incredible that i will definitely be going back, it was a really nice place to sit and chat. aficionado seem to be doing a residency there.

article in the ny times today on spiritland/brilliant corners/lucky cloud: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/31/arts/music/london-listening-clubs-spiritland.html

just spiritland for me from the list of stuff they talk about. i've been to those lucky cloud nights and the music was shit imo - djs not mixing things like kerri chandler or eventually hardfloor, had the feeling of a dj that hadn't played in years and was not mixing due to it being a pain, rather than for eclecticism. my friends like brilliant corners a lot but i find it crowded and mostly unpleasant. the idea of classic album sundays isn't really for me.

not that there's a bad attitude there or anything, but like a 2/3 glass of beer is six quid

Argh seriously? It sounded pretty much perfect up to that point.

Like, how loud is the music? Gearing a place around table service/food/conversation seems to conflict with the idea of the speakers taking central stage, but this might be a failure of my imagination here because most places with both loud music and food tend to be dreadful.

The audience sat in rapt silence for New Order’s 1983 record “Power, Corruption & Lies,” taking in every detail of the sparkling electro-pop riffs, soaring vocals and bouncy polyrhythmic beats.

ah yes, the famously soaring voice of bernard sumner

did you see the fantastic RA article on audiophile café's in tokyo? some of those places look so beautiful:
https://www.residentadvisor.net/features/2724

the speakers are so good that you can have a conversation fairly easily even sat close to them, but you don't necessarily need to sit really near them if you don't want to.

i wouldn't go for like a meal out in the same way you go to a restaurant, but i can really easily imagine say going after work or on a sunday, having a few beers and then some food as a follow-up. the food is like good salt beef sandwiches, grilled cheese, with a little bit more imagination than that as well, i was sat at the bar for a bit waiting for my friend and watching the chefs and it all looked really nice, just had a grilled cheese myself later and it was good.

i think like probably wine or cocktails might be the way to go if you're drinking there. it's indeed grim that you can't even get a pint, a light glass in my hand that costs six quid is a recipe for a big bill.

i guess the bottom line is that it is cool that someone has actually opened a new dj-centric venue with a great soundsystem tho. it felt nice and retro to be heading towards a more central part of london to go and hear music.

New Merge album released yesterday (digital only):

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Timeless-Michael-K%C3%BCttner-Torsten-Delvos/dp/B01M1LR8VO/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1478086881&sr=8-3&keywords=merge+timeless

I'm at home for the week and just got called out by my dad for listening to "mood music". Damn it Hatchback