this is a thread for the BALEARIC REVIVAL

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

Some of you might want this
"A Jean Giraud" album I made a few years back. I dunno?

i forgot that was your ILM name. i listened to most of it yesterday. really beautiful

yep i'm a fan too, i have the vinyl with 1-3. did you physically release any of the rest?

Thanks guys!

a lagoon... - the same label that released 1-3 also put #5 on a compilation about a year back. Cd/digital only I think. I wanted people to hear the rest of these so decided to post them on SC. No plans for a physical release of the whole thing but I would love to sometime down the road.

Also bought the 12" TINAE. Listen to it a lot.

Not sure if this is balearic as such but considering shelling out for the vinyl
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvZ1Tgqjv3g

last time i had a whole bunch of paypal cash from selling records on ebay, i told myself i was gonna stop buying lots of cheap records and shell out for a few really expensive ones. this was top of the list. i ended up buying lots of cheap records

yeah, I always do that. Then, when I do pay out it gets a reissue a month or so down the line; Harry Thumann - Andromeda!

i really love this brian bennett track

I've been listening to the Test Pressing Phil Mison mix again recently too. I love how it's bordering on complete new age-ness. I almost expect to hear Deep Forest or Paul Hardcastle or something.

^ which one? i think he has a bunch on test pressing. the cafe del mar one is pretty much complete new age-ness as you say, if you like that you should definitely also check out the padilla mixes if you haven't already

also there are loads of cheap records that sound like that brian bennett track. i've never seen an overpriced new age section in any record store ever

except for Innovative Communication records :(

also, that song is not why i would buy that record

is it for the free poster + digital download?

worth it for "solstice" alone imo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZ5t9N9szQ0

^^ so breathtaking ^^

the second side is also very good :D

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPw6HlJmvCQ

yea, wow. bubble club releases have been so damn solid so far, the stuff on this new 12 might be the best so far

so far so far blah

i love how despite being really chilled out & relaxed it's also, like, emotionally overwhelming

not sure if it was mentioned on this thread or the aeroplane one, but this poolside track is getting released soon and it is great. at least one of these ppl is from sf i think?

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

the jacques renault remix isn't shabby either, a bit deeper/moodier but with new/better female vocals

jeffr0desiac used to live in sf but i think is in la now. he used to throw that nu rave electro banger coked out art school college party Blow Up w/r1chie pan1c. i didn't want to like it, but i really dig that song. i actually dislike the new vocals way more than the original.