this is a thread for the BALEARIC REVIVAL

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

that destroyer band is fucking terrible, a horrible vision into what balearic would be if it was rubbish

like, remove all the bliss and ecstasy and replace it with a voice like slime

this backwoods track on the other hand is MORE LIKE IT

oh lex, never change

ugh, why are Japanese CDs so expensive??

i feel like lex has not heard the track jaxon and i were talking about tho... regardless of how you feel about dude's voice the "bliss and ecstacy" is totally at the forefront in that one, and he barely sings at all

i wish there was a soundcloud or youtube i could post but it's a vinyl-only bonus track what're you gonna do

i've heard the destroyer single and a couple of others? i don't like the sound either, there's something pinched and awful about how he filters an ostensibly "balearic" sound - the entire thing just feels like some indie dude glomming on to the balearic aesthetic, and getting it slightly rather than completely wrong actually irks MORE

because he seems to have fucking fooled everyone

i guess i can see why someone wouldn't want to engage with that album based on theory, and how it could get in the way of enjoying it, etc. this track is not really very similar to the rest of the album fwiw

lex, listen to this and come back, relaxed, blissed out, and w/a different viewpoint please
http://mediumrotation.blogspot.com/2011/01/destroyer-kaputt.html

that bonus track is incredible

last track on the great-in-its-own right Butch album

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqKD8REzDII

samples from the gatto frito album sound good http://www.piccadillyrecords.com/products/GattoFritto-TheAlbum-InternationalFeel-74355.html

i'm liking that butch album quite a bit, though it's probably more bobbins than balearic on the whole

stoked for the gatto fritto too, though a few tracks have been out for a while ("invisble college" and "beachy head" iirc)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GikFnXXe0o

Found this (Blondes - "You Mean So Much To Me") on the Altered Zones 2010 songs list. Beautiful track, epic scope, reminds me somehow of the Studio rework of A Mountain of One.

Not sure if this is Balearic? Slow burner, organic, dreamy anyway.

I slot them in with nu-cosmic synth stuff like oneohtrix, emeralds, stellar om source, etc. but yeah very cool track

their rework of Synthesist on the Harald Grosskopf reissue is good too

i ride hard for that blondes album, was sorta disappointed that it got lost in the mix last year- pretty euphoric stuff. i sorta file them with teengirl fantasy (who were a lot more high profile in certain publications) namely because they are both from oberlin and on merok but they have fairly similar sounds too imo. not very balearic, more trancey if you ask me?

and yes i need to find a copy of that synthesist rework, the samples are outstanding

My god "The Laziest River" is one of the most beautiful things I've ever heard.

i'm hoping he's been playing that live, but i don't think it's likely

i found a copy of those groskopf covers (thank u btw) and i'm pretty into it. especially the arp one