this is a thread for the BALEARIC REVIVAL

most balearic stuff sounds pretty melancholy to me!

anyone else like the tensnake remixes on that new embassy 12" on permanent vacation?

haven't heard that one psych care to share? Permanent vacation is one of my favorite labels of the year. the bostropeso peo 12" is great + woolfy vs. projections + 40 thieves + panthers holyghost remix + dolle jolle, just incredible.

btw, shameless plug but i did a balearic post of some of the stuff off of Claremont 56 recently, on my blog (actually i guess it is max and my blog now cuz we are gay for each other).

discohorror.blogspot.com

sorry that link wont work, http://discohorror.blogspot.com/

*MAX N GRADY GAY HOMOS 4 LYFE*

― ice crӕm, Sunday, August 17, 2008 3:55 AM (4 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

fyi i am not gay for jimmy, grady, joe, or anyone, except my girlfriend, and sort of peter gabriel

not sure 'bout the best way to distribute this stuff... especially since i just waffles'd it.

mikebee would surely kill me if i were to pull what i did with that d. lissvik album

it's not as though i can stop someone from pm/emailing me though, ;)

The Tensnake remixes of the Embassy are fanastic, and I was pretty surprised at how much I dug the original version, too.

while we're on the subject of amazing new 12"s, can i just say BLACKBELT ANDERSEN ON CLAREMONT 56 = OMFG IT'S GORGEOUS.

again, it's on sanfran's blog.

pretty much everything Claremont 56 is wicked at the moment. the most recent ones 'the delivery man' and the 7" are both fantastic, as is the blackbelt andersen and the super ashra-y one with the weird name. just got Andersen full-length on Full Pupp, will report on that one as soon as i get a chance to listen...

xpost - why would i be upset? do what you gotta do mang.

fyi the embassy 12" is in stock now at amoeba ;)

i gotta say i passed on it, to be honest...and i've liked some tensnake stuff in the past.

i downloaded a bunch of old-school baleric stuff at the suggestion of this thread. listened to it in my car, and was like, "i don't get it"

then i listened to the same playlist on vacation, sitting in the sun, looking out on the beach, and it all made so much more sense.

B-)

i can't see anymore record stores around here go out of business. not like amoeba is struggling, but jeez it's been like 3-4 good ones in the last year.

that being said, http://rapidshare.com/files/174474223/The_Embassy-Lurking-_PVS-0011_-Vinyl-2008-OBC.zip.html

gracias! also on Blackbelt Andersen, I picked up the Kuk Av Stal 12" which is one of my favorite tracks of the year.

also awesome, Kuk Av Stal = Cock Of Steel in Norwegian

pretty much everything Claremont 56 is wicked at the moment. the most recent ones 'the delivery man' and the 7" are both fantastic, as is the blackbelt andersen and the super ashra-y one with the weird name. just got Andersen full-length on Full Pupp, will report on that one as soon as i get a chance to listen...

do you have any of these in stock Mike? i would most certainly be interested, i'll see if i can stop by later today

not sure 'bout the best way to distribute this stuff

rapidsharing stuff on ilm is kinda frowned upon but uh ... ahem *cough cough*

safer place to post things

'kuk av stal' is fucking amazing, one of my tunes of the year! sanfrandisco (your name escapes me, sorry), i'll hold onto whatever we've got in stock for you today. give me a call at the shop 415.831.1200. the blackbelt andersen LP won't be out for a month or so, a few weeks at least.

i hadn't realized a new y s i thread popped up after the smackdown a few years ago...

thanks for the heads up dmr, i am a relative noob

http://www.discogs.com/release/1496330

^ This is brilliant.

ah yeah that Soft Rocks is good! I listened, liked, and then put it back to get something else .... probably get it next time I see it. are their older ones real hard to find? I've only got Disco Power Play III which I've played the hell out of

the super ashra-y one with the weird name

do you mean the "icasol" 12" by ongou? with the idjut boys edit on it? cause if so, YES. it is easily one of my tracks of the year.

i picked up that umut/slowdown 12" too. as with claremont 56, have soft rocks disappointed at all this year? all of the mixes and edits they've been putting out are quite cosmic and quite good. i even prefer their mix of "love love love" over all others, including the one from aeroplane. maybe it's just the presence of kathy diamond that does it for me...

err, "ongou" by icasol, rather

straight out of Brooklyn...HOLY GHOST!

Holy Ghost
http://www.myspace.com/holyghostnyc
listen to

>>> the deep End HG Remix

what a track 8 minutes of pure brilliance... deep chunky cosmic space grooves, euphoric synth solos, moody atmospheric New Order hooky basslines

will holy ghost release a studio album in 2009?

mungolian jet set, aeroplane, holy ghost, the return of Andrew Weatherall.... what are the other balearic artists to look out for in 2009?

jeez not everything is balearic, guy

ha. yeah. i'm pretty sure holy ghost aren't balearic

aww, but does it really hurt anyone if he thinks that?

personally i am really hoping for more from västkustska ryggdunkarsällskapet and tiedye

anyone heard this?

Not at all balearic. It's more homejob synth, lo-fi acid, "beatbox grot and wobbly end-of-the-pier organ", all sequenced as a single 60 min track.

It also includes a "wow-and-fluttering synth-pop cover of “It Never Rains in Southern California”".

ok, sold!

this is a new band in my town called Moonstone

I think they may be balearic, but I'm not sure

they are cool though

http://www.myspace.com/moonstonefacemelt

(xpost) don't forget that an important component of the original balearic sound was the occasional industrial or dark-wave track thrown in for good measure (throbbing gristle, cabaret voltaire, belgian synth wave bands, etc). shit wasn't just beaches and yacht rock, it also had that exploratory element of weirdness going on.

currently listening to it for the first time the whole way through, but parlour's mix of frak tunes on information sounds great so far. and it definitely fits on the side of the balearic spectrum i mentioned above.

^w/r/t Parlour. I keep forgetting to play it more often as the cd gets lost in the piles of other cd's because of its slim paper packaging.
(One major quibble I have with Information though is that they (or whoever ships for them) don't know how to package vinyl. The covers came out shit both time I ordered (folded around the vinyl so to speak)...)

^^^ so annoyingly true. my d lissvik was torn upon arrival :(

http://www.myspace.com/hansappelqvistnaima
last song sounds like d.lissvik
all of it's pretty rad

er, second to last song

Hans Appelqvist is awesome, I bought Sifantin Och Mörkret after hearing a song of his on (if I remember correctly) a Wire Tapper cd. Not balearic though, but quirky songwriter/sample songs with lots of detail. Artwork is by the guy who also does visuals/videos for the Knife.

Hey, is anybody going to see Lindstrom in Chicago tonight? I've never seen him before so I wanna check it.

smartbar + lindstrom + cold winter nite sounds so dope. jealous.

i saw him last night

you should go, just dont expect it to be a really dance-y set

yeah i'm planning to go, even though it's 11 degrees currently. was he just playing records or did he have actual synths when you saw him?

lol he was playing his laptop

hes not djing--he does a set of his own shit. i recommend smokin a fat doob.

o shit. i'm going tomorrow night. gtk

yeah tbh we were a little disappointed since we were expecting him to be djing a dance set, but hes really just doing a laptop show. im sure i would have liked it more if i had known thats what it was, but as it was i was a little :(

yeah but didnt he warn u in the interview

i didnt heed the signs