this is a thread for the BALEARIC REVIVAL

yeah apparently the one single they actually released (You Could Be More Who You Are) was a legit "early '80s balearic touchstone." that record is really great I think. been listening a ton on spotify but haven't come across the vinyl yet.

I would have slotted it under post-punk myself but can definitely see how it fits nicely into this sound.

yeah i mean there's definitely some postpunk in there, alongside a whole lot of sultry saxophone and beach sounds, post-punk can be balearic

word

i also didn't realize that the single was produced by dennis bovell!

fwiw they also happen to be balearic dreambabes

Awesome track.

"Ibiza: Moments In Love creates a picture of Ibiza as it was in the eighties through a collection of club posters, books and original photographs."

On now at the ICA in London: http://www.ica.org.uk/whats-on/ibiza-moments-love

http://testpressing.org/2013/09/exhibition-ica-ibiza-moments-in-love/

Haven't been here in a minute so not sure if anyone has posted, but Yves Uro's party posters were amazing! https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.220339301327900.67059.219583254736838&type=3

just discovered that most (maybe all?) of pacific horizons' output is up on spotify, the new track "bandini" is kinda nice. their whole schtick is a lot more lo-fi than i realized, it works great at times but can kinda clash with some of the other, more relaxed sounds

i don't think i've seen this happy lil jam on ilx yet:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPdQaazjBG4

that is indeed a happy little number

Sure it's been mentioned before. Great track anyway and was the winner of DJ History's Furtive 50 poll, stopping Terje from completing a hat trick of successive wins.

There's a 15 minute film here:

http://vimeo.com/77871556

Also, been loving this mix from Justin Robertson recorded at Electric Elephant last year:

https://soundcloud.com/electricelephant/justin-robertson-electric

New Tommy Awards is epic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCeh-LVLdOE

justin robertson mix doesn't work :(

love the tommy awards tho

Try again.

https://soundcloud.com/electricelephant/justin-robertson-electric

Weird. If you search on Soundcloud you can find it but the direct link's not working.

Anyway:

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/19067502/Justin%20Robertson-%20Electric%20Elephant%20Beach%20Side%20Blend%202013.mp3

yeah even when i found it through a search it wasn't working for some reason

thanks tho!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqd3CkkYAsE

Love it.

If someone wants to download the mp3s for that track I am willing to paypal some $ to you - they are not available outside the UK.

High hopes for this:

http://sketchesfromanisland.com/sketches-from-an-island-official-album-announcement/

coooool

New Seahawks tune: http://t.co/lZsaQtmh4N

i like that.
pete fowler + bloke from MLO !
well i never.

Their artwork is suspiciously devoid of any Monsterism.

yeah i noticed that.

perhaps he has got bored with it, and felt like this groove needed a different kind of visual style.

just isolating the balearic-ish stuff from a what i'm listening to 2014 post for the tru-balearic heads who don't bookmark those mainstream threads:

nenad markovic - kayto ep -- the best new nu-balearic-disco i've heard in a long time; on prins thomas' label
maricopa - pastel love part two -- warm and gorgeous downtempo balearic synth-love
suzanne kraft - missum LP -- more ambient than his previous stuff, totally beautiful, works very well as an album
gigi masin - talk to the sea -- compilation on music from memory, anybody who follows the new age threads needs to be listening to this
rotla - laguna EP -- some perfect beach-drive balearic a la hatchback
almunia - xeni EP -- almunia work with the italo disco side of balearic rather than the light and airy guitar-work of their previous stuff, still great

<3 that gigi masin. also like what i've heard of the upcoming music from memory reissue of joan bibiloni's work

Really like the Suzanne Kraft and the Alumnia, despite getting laughed hard at by my boyfriend regularly for appreciating this stuff

what's funny about suzanne kraft? i can see thinking almunia is cheesy if you're a pleb that's not into disco

almunia is the best for sun-drenched coastal driving

nenad markovic - kayto ep -- the best new nu-balearic-disco i've heard in a long time; on prins thomas' label

This is really hitting the spot today. Thanks for the tip

Mahogonee's mix of the week for Dream Chimney last week was a total Balearic jam:

https://soundcloud.com/the-dream-chimney/mix-of-the-week-mahagonee-balearic-vibes

haven't gotten around to all of that list yet but i really dig the nenad markovic and maricopa stuff so far

was it gr8080 that was talking about these weird emi music sweden comps on spotify? because they are excellent! and there are like 20 of them... "balearic blend" to "balearic pop" to "balearic soft rock" to "balearic ambient" and "balearic house" etc. i have no idea how these exist but it's going to be a good summer

oh man, those look awesome

That Seahawks LP is streaming right now:

http://thequietus.com/articles/15237-seahawks-paradise-freaks-album-stream

Astral-minded oceanographers Seahawks last week released their second album, Paradise Freaks, out on their own label Ocean Moon, and have kindly given us a full stream. The duo, Jon Tye and Pete Fowler, have been hugely prolific - starting out with 'Omega Beach', their ace Don Henley-Oneohtrix Point Never meltdown, and producing countless remixes of the likes of The Horrors and Tim Burgess - and have now laid down a new full-length dispatch from their titular paradisiacal island, floating somewhere between Koh Phi Phi and the Sea of Tranquility we'd venture.

Both Burgess and The Horrors' Tom Furse join the cast of Paradise Freaks, in fact, the former contributing vocals, alongside Maria Minerva, Indra Dunis of Peaking Lights and Nick Nicely, and the latter laying down some overdubs, making for a beautiful swathe of tropical electronica. The songs glide in between ambient waves, alto sax zephyrs blowing over sun-melted analogue synths, and some dubbier cuts, such as the title track and the ace, aerated 'Drifting', anchored down by some fine bass heft and aquatic guitar purls, treading a line between louche soundscapes and some more meditative points, notably Nicely's hazed 'Electric Waterfalls'.

Listen above and get hold of it from the band's website here. Seahawks will be playing Kendal Calling and Festival Number 6, as well continuing a DJ residency every other month at the Big Chill bar on London's Brick Lane, while Fowler also has a residency at the Hand Of Glory on Amhurst Road, with his next set this Saturday, May 17.

"was it gr8080 that was talking about these weird emi music sweden comps on spotify? because they are excellent! and there are like 20 of them... "balearic blend" to "balearic pop" to "balearic soft rock" to "balearic ambient" and "balearic house" etc. i have no idea how these exist but it's going to be a good summer"

Those were curated by jens who posts over on DJ History. He did a mix for Secret Life last year promoting them:

http://secretlifemusic.com/048-jens-peterson-hallefors/

awesome. i knew it had to have been compiled by someone in the "know" but i had never heard that name before. i really dig the scandinavian stuff thrown into these things, esp the "it's too late" cover on the soft rock comp

just isolating the balearic-ish stuff from a what i'm listening to 2014 post for the tru-balearic heads who don't bookmark those mainstream threads:

nenad markovic - kayto ep -- the best new nu-balearic-disco i've heard in a long time; on prins thomas' label
maricopa - pastel love part two -- warm and gorgeous downtempo balearic synth-love
suzanne kraft - missum LP -- more ambient than his previous stuff, totally beautiful, works very well as an album
gigi masin - talk to the sea -- compilation on music from memory, anybody who follows the new age threads needs to be listening to this
rotla - laguna EP -- some perfect beach-drive balearic a la hatchback
almunia - xeni EP -- almunia work with the italo disco side of balearic rather than the light and airy guitar-work of their previous stuff, still great

― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Friday, May 2, 2014 4:48 PM (4 weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this was a BOOMING POST, every single one of these is great

listened to most of these while driving around tuscany last week, confirming that nu-balearic is the greatest driving music.

gigi masin's vocal stuff scratches a wonderful david sylvian itch

havent listened to the suzanne kraft or rotla.

haha i immediately copied those down and proceeded to hunt down copies as well. 'kayto' was my favorite

listened to most of these while driving around tuscany last week

this sounds amaaaazing, but the rotla ep SO needed to be on that playlist. most of this stuff was my soundtrack for a road trip to new orleans, it was no tuscany, but yeah, totally perfect for a long drive.

young marco's LP :DDDDDD

https://soundcloud.com/esp-institute/sets/esp018

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnmG-zFEvic

yep, that list is great and i need to hear that rotla thing still. i picked up a few other masin things that have been making me happy, the album with charles hayward has some great plaintive ambient piano stuff on it, sort of a different textural approach than the music from memory comp but similar compositional forms / moods. classy stuff.

stoooooooooooooked about the young marco lp!

apparently young marco recorded something that he referred to as an "album" with gigi masin not long ago. he talked about it in some boiler room thing. whether it's an LP or EP or what idk.

The Mark Barrott album is streaming for the next few days on soundcloud.

The Paqua album dropped yesterday too but I haven't heard it yet.

Looking forward to the album from the iFeel man. While waiting' I'm enjoying this Cole Medina baleadriatic edit: https://soundcloud.com/colemedina/the-summer-cure-coles-bajalearic-mix

best song of the year (balearic or otherwise) thus far:
https://soundcloud.com/international-feel/1-baby-come-home?in=international-feel/sets/mark-barrott-sketches-from-an

Not sure it's a perfect fit for this thread but the Blase (Secret Circuit + Suzanne Kraft) album on ESP is very, very good

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