this is a thread for the BALEARIC REVIVAL

all DJ sets/performances from the festival are online BTW and can be found here...

Nice mix, BATTAGS!

i know man! i lived in willits for a year or so before moving to victoria BC in september, so chillits is definitely a friend-of-a-friend deal

anything you recommend out of the other sets?

oh yeah, you know the deal.

DF Tram - killer 4am ambient set, tons of weird samples & textures. great stuff. Tal M. Klein is funky downtempo with live guitar/bass/keys + laptop beats. Megan Hug is shoegazer with some electronics thrown in for good measure. Timmii is an interesting journey through a whole bunch of different stuff that manages to sound coherent when listened as a whole.

i'm still making my way through them myself so i'll post links to any other notable ones. those are the ones i remember from the party.

i would *highly* recommend going to the wikipedia page on chillits and checking out the 2003 recordings - Jonah Sharp and Mixmaster Morris absolutely KILLED IT (as much as you can at an ambient party i suppose). Morris' set has been a regular staple in my listening diet ever since, shit is legendary.

hey dude im listening to yr mix right now, its great!

that key of dreams track = A+++++ would listen again

as though i could love toto any more

thanks max!

you can find that key of dreams edit on this release.
funnily enough i found the original 12" yesterday, with full vocals and everything. i think i'm gonna try dropping that instead.

hey Vahid, is that your name i keep seeing on flyers around town (and like SF Weekly 'best DJ 2007' or some shit like that?)?

DJs don't develop a cult following in this town very easily - it takes a lot of skill, an ear for mixing, and positive energy to keep the gyrating hordes a-flutter. DJ Vahid is the real deal for our readers, and now that he's landed a gravy gig at 1015 Folsom, adoring dance junkies can hear a lot more of him.

haha no

i'm a humble high school teacher / grad student

tho i have lots of positive energy too

the real question is if you keep the gyrating hordes a-flutter

vangelis is totally the best, i copped a copy of the 12" off discogs w/in minutes of hearing it

:) ok just checking!

deej, was it expensive? we've still got it in stock at amoeba...

that track is a great segway from chill to dance.

also, V4hid: do you play out at all?

what else sounds like "caramellas"? i am so into this tune right now.

Has the A Mountain Of One debut disc been released yet? I see conflicting/confusing information about its release date on the internet.

you can get it on amazon.co.uk as of oct. 6. i couldn't find it in any sf stores.

expect it to hit SF in a few weeks, tops. forced exposure will be carrying it, i believe.

Sorcerer has done an exclusive mix for our site www.trackwerk.net which includes some unreleased material. I thought some of you guys might dig it;-

windsurf - light as daylight
camel - wing and a prayer
marcos valle - estrelar
sorcerer - stixx
travis biggs - tebetan serenity
unicorn - rat race
leprechaun - loc-it-up
hatchback - carefree highway
johnny guitar watson - strike on computers
paul mccartney - sunshine sometime
richard schneider jr.- hello beach girls
windsurf - the big island

Also, the Hardway Bros now have a myspace

www.myspace.com/hardwaybros

A couple of new edits on there

i was just listening to that mix tonight. the johnny guitar watson track is great.

FYI: The AMO1 debut disc, Collected Works, turned up on eMusic this morning.

I posted something about it on that message board, as well. I don't mean to seem troll-ish (if repeating posts is a sign of that). But I'm really pleased to see it made available, and I was asking about its release date a few posts upthread, so I thought it was worth mentioning here, too.

man that sorcerer mix is fantastic!

ay yo's - anybody know where i can get a copy of that first Claremont 56 12" - Mudd & Pollard "Villa Stavros"? I need that shiz.

listening to the sorcerer mix right now and i really like it. marcos valle sounds a bit like steely dan. the only reference i could find for that tune was a jazzanova comp from last year. that travis biggs track with the harp is off the hook.

i bought the amo1 from piccadillyrecords.com (i would've bought from amoeba, but i couldn't wait).

s'allright, i still haven't been offered it by the distro who said they'd be carrying it, meaning we won't have it for two weeks at the *earliest*. can't blame ya. :)

the sorcerer album is like falling in love for the first time.. probably my favorite of the year. those swoonful moments like that flute rearing its head, sprinkled w/piano dust in "divers do it deeper" or that glistening vaporized guitar in "blind yatchtsman".

i don't really see what's so balearic about it, though. i realize that soft rock was often mixed in with balearic sets, but i think there is a distinction to be made between the whole windsurf/sorcerer/hatchback sound and what studio/amo1 is doing. i'll elaborate on this more later... i can't think straight right now..

yeah i can't find amo1 anywhere in the bay area

Yeah, Sorcerer is more ''yacht rock,'' which -- admittedly -- is a genre where I can only say ''I know it when I hear it.'' I mentioned this above, but AMO1 is available on eMusic.

Man that mix is sweet The Richard Schneider track is great sounds like a mix of Brazilian/Balearic, beautiful stuff. Ends with some fantastic whistling.

xp to battags, i'm sure you'll still sell some copies! and anyway, every time i hit amoeba and can't find something on my list, i walk out with five other things especially if i am looking for this style of music or nu-disco. i recently moved from sf so i don't get to amoeba as much as i'd like to. it's good for the wallet, but not for the music fix.

big, big article on "cosmic disco" in the SF Bay Guardian this week - the cover story no less - with Arp, Sorcerer, Hatchback, our own Dominique Leone, & Lindstrom & Prins Thomas....

http://www.sfbg.com/entry.php?entry_id=4843&volume_id=317&issue_id=322&volume_num=42&issue_num=04&l=1

btw tricky -- feel free to call ahead of time and ask for certain things - i can hold them or special order them for you, and it's nice to know what the demand is for a certain title before i order it...

sounds good. right now i need a stylus :/

Leone's MySpace page contains audio treats, but what about his sketchbook page? It turns out he's drawing, in his words, "a giant skyscraper-sized robot that streams music and scents into the air and every 10 minutes or so spews out free kittens.

ysi pls?

no scanner! :(

how will i get the dominque leone album now that oink is gone

From a giant skyscraper-sized robot that streams music and scents?

So my feeble attempts at convincing people that it should be called Space Disco or something because Cosmic means something entirely different to people aware of that scene has failed. Wait, the article does call it Space Disco.

I hear the Rundgren on your Myspace page Dominique for sure. Claire could be A Wizard, A True Star outtake.

leprechaun - loc-it-up

:D

man, mike bee, i'm just getting around to listening to your chillits mix and it's pretty fab. great selection, great mixing. very nice.

yeah more like mike A++++++!!!!

thanks you guys!!S i'm working on another one for the DC Recordings samurai.fm podcast that will be a bit, um, freakier. i'll let you know when it goes live...

balearic joy overload moment of the day/week/year: the period from 4:00 to 4:22 in rune linbaek's disco dub of montee's "i have seen the haven" (hint: see http://talkinginstereo.blogspot.com/2007/11/version-rune.html)

Essential Purchase: Kaoru Inoue - Secret Field

Even the name works perfectly! The original is this very slightly discoid wander through flickers of guitar and percussion, while Todd Terje gives a lovely remix that's like the very best stuff on the Lindstrom & Prins Thomas album.

very late to the party on this but i can't stop listening to "freefall" by a mountain of one. like spirit of eden-era talk talk in self-indulgent pink floyd fanboy mode or something. gorgeous! (i've also only heard the 1st ep)