this is a thread for the BALEARIC REVIVAL

the latest volume (but not most recent released) comp on Claremont 56 is crazy good. loaded with incredible b-sides and shit i've never heard of

1 Paul Brookes - Steps From Beyond Pt 2
2 Red Lion - Living Together
3 Plastic* & Nathalie - Stop Ou Encore
4 Escape From New York - Fire In My Heart
5 Hypertension - One Night Woman
6 Amaziah - Slowly
7 Gordon's War - Got To Fan The Flame
8 Sly & Robbie - Superthruster
9 Malcolm McLaren And The Bootzilla Orchestra - Call A Wave
10 Pedestrians - Commuter Fantasy
11 A Guy Called Gerald - Rhythm Of Life
12 Diggy Tal & The Numbers - If It's Love That You Want
13 Mothmen* - Temptation
14 Jump St. Man - B Cause ('89 Remix)
15 He Said - Pump

I can't get over how much Prinzhorn Dance School sounds like that Pedestrians song...but maybe I'm imagining it. Fire In My Heart is fantastic!

Lee Douglas Pump Edit

the 12" that this comes off is so sick, two of the best edits i've heard in aaaaaaaaaages

the now aeons-old beyond the wizards sleeve rmx of midlake has snuck out on a 10" if any of you were after a physical copy, btw

Violet Morning Moon is probably the must have balearic track of the summer: the original and the Dr. Dunks remix.

http://soundcloud.com/bubble-club/violet-morning-moon

http://soundcloud.com/bubble-club/violet-morning-moon-remix-by-dr-dunks

what is this out on? sounds like something that would come out on Claremont 56

on http://www.bubbleclubmusic.com/

guess I should link to my feature on the Claremont 56 label for RA here. been lovely to spin these tunes all spring.

nice beta. read that a bit earlier, the comps and the new 10"s have been on repeat for me as well

Violet Morning Moon is probably the must have balearic track of the summer: the original and the Dr. Dunks remix.

http://soundcloud.com/bubble-club/violet-morning-moon

http://soundcloud.com/bubble-club/violet-morning-moon-remix-by-dr-dunks

― Kaiser Size, Tuesday, May 11, 2010 4:36 AM (2 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Came here to post the exact same thing.

dr dunks remix is pretty incredible, need this on 12"!

thirded (or quartered maybe).

so this new ESP Institute release, Concentration is a mix and it is fucking amazing. Obscurities, edits and originals it's kinda like a balearic/leftfield equivalent of the Justin V mix Try to Find Me Vol 2. Worldly disco and jazzy rock pieces... i think it's my favorite release of the year. so good for summer vibez

Lovefingers on Beats in Space tonight and billed as Lovefingers from ESP Institute so hopefully will have a similar vibe to that Concentration release

Can I just second that Concentration album - awesome mix and only £8.99 from most places. Anyone have any clue as to some of the original material used for the edits?

And the Beats in Space was pretty spectacular too, both Lovefingers' set and the preceding one by Kenji Takimi.

hey SF Balearix - doing my Flow Motion happy hour tonight @ Triple Crown, 5:30-10pm, expect a mixture of Balearic classics, nu-balearic goodies, slo-mo disco jams and the occasional pop oddity...it's free, killer pizzas are 1/2 price (with most being $4-6 after discount) and it's a nice spot to relax after work. See ya there?

Wish I could but I'm 6000 miles and a whole lotta weather away. Pizzas + balearic = a good deal imo.

Pacific Horizons have done a mix for our blog...

Its a 60 minute balearic groove-on.

Pacific Horizons - promo mix #1

Can't wait for their new 12", the last one was great.

great fucking mix, digging it!

also - San Francisco Balearic people, Balearic Mike himself will be in town next week starting Monday. He'll actually be playing the Plunge outdoor campout this weekend, I believe tickets are on sale still. We've got a couple of good gigs for him but if you'd like to host him hit me back at another dimension at geemail dot com. otherwise hold tight for gig announcements. :)

ps he's playing on Beats In Space tonight so check that!

Here's the FB invite for Friday night's shindig with Balearic Mike, Conor and myself. Would love to see you SF Balearic ILX0Rs there :)

http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/event.php?eid=128212400558030

-mikebee

so in love with this edit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZcNiH7-n4A

One of the Unabombers played Violet Morning Moon at one of the boat parties at the Electric Elephant festival in Croatia and it sounded incredible in that setting, people dancing in the sunshine over the Adriatic. Pretty much my track of the year.

Anyone else heard Arp's new album The Soft Wave? Not sure it fits in this thread as it's almost ambient music but it's on Smalltown Supersound and is breathtakingly beautiful in places.

www.myspace.com/arp001

Resident Advisor review here:

http://www.residentadvisor.net/review-view.aspx?id=8050

Arp is more kosmische than Balearic IMHO.

More Germanic Woodland than Ibizian Beach.

His album with Anthony Moore is some sublime shit though.

ok this new arp album is really great. keeps a lot of what i dug about the first album intact, but adds some new/welcome touches- that guitar sounds amazing! i agree that it's more kraut than balearic (though if you threw any of these in a padilla-esque mix i think it would sound perfect), and i like how they are evolving from more terry riley-style analog minimalism to a sorta fuzzed-out zuckerzeit thing- not a HUGE departure but this album and the emeralds album i think are really beginning to get a nearly perfect retro-komische ambient sound and i for one could not care less about how derivative it all is

what is the thing with anthony moore like? i've been looking out for that

There's a MP3 on this blog.

Full album's only £5 - £10 (depending on bit rate) over at Juno

the Anthony Moore thing is great, even better when its not on overpriced vinyl like I had to get.

well worth the money, but with minimalist stuff like this, you have to be in the space, rather than listening to soundclips on Juno.

So apart from Arp and "Violet Moon", what else of late should I be investigating? Only found this morning there's a second Permanent Vacation compilation, but could do with more to keep my ears busy...

have you heard Rocha? two singles on International Feel, both are great. Also check out the International Feel comp http://www.piccadillyrecords.com/products/VariousArtists-InternationalFeel-InternationalFeel-72511.html

Concentration Vol 1 mixed by Lovefingers and homies.

i've been liking the yacht-rockish edits from seahawks, i don't know much about the project but there's a few unreleased tracks on soundcloud too

also pretty much everything (including the concentration mix) on lovefingers' ESP institute label has been great- sombrero galaxy, cos/mes singles, etc

if you're looking for a great balearic mix the bubble club beats in space is really pretty wonderful as well

anger in the balearic scene (mother chimney is hatchback)
http://dreamchimney.com/tracks/comments/MessageBoard.php?topic=13038

i think the arp album is pretty nice, but i definitely know what he's talking about. the first time i heard it was right after listening to an older 80s new age album (patrick o'hearn) in an itunes playlist and i honestly didnt' know the albums had changed.

i've mentioned that that track sounds exactly like a specific brian eno track somewhere on ilm before. it was on a smalltown supersound comp.

i think its the chord progression from another green world

do tell about that patrick o'hearn album...and yes, everything on ESP has been top.

"ancient dreams" from 85. psychgawsple hipped me to it. it's really beautiful. ambient synthy noodly stuff

also check out the group he was in w/Mark Isham called Group 87. i've got both their albums and they're fab. i think the later one "A Career In Dada Processing" is better. and Isham's "Vapor Drawings" is great too.

all this stuff is sorta new age, balearic, soundtracky, space jazz

kinda interesting that someone who released a track called "everything is neu" would get so worked up about something like that

anyone heard this Incarnations album? snippets sound pretty cool
http://www.piccadillyrecords.com/products/Incarnations-WithAllDueRespect-Lovemonk-72771.html

Sunset On Punta Paloma - so sketchy, so good

^want to buy this. mostly cause i can't find it illegally, unfortunately

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=990autZKKaA&feature=player_embedded#!

nice!

did I ever mention Thieves Like Us on this thread? 'cause their new album is still holding up for me. Their older stuff was more "Factory records meets French house" but I think you definitely have to have the Balearic gene to get into tracks like this one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1m590Elgl0

(cool video too, apparently it's some French movie)

A+ video!

Caught this from Tim Sweeny's best of 2010 BIS episode

Recommended for those who liked the production of this but didn't like the vocals.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDbcUS7yH5M

^ i like this one, kinda shoegazey. the rest of the album is good too

i know there has been tons of talk about the destroyer album on its own thread, but i still feel the need to emphasize the just how perfect the 20-minute vinyl-only bonus track "the laziest river" is... veers from vangelis-influenced synth ambience to pop-miminalist marimbas to fripp-y "another green world" guitar to smooth piano to a drum pattern that owes quite a bit to "eyes without a face" to lissvik-style tropical guitar leads, and then ends with about 3 minutes of badalamenti shit. hits so many of my sweet-spots all in a row

wow, thanks for heads up on that 'laziest river' track. i stopped paying attention to that destroyer thread. that's possibly the best nu balearic track ever.

I had assumed "Destroyer" would be the name of some tuneless metal band, this is why I really should check every single ILM thread