this is a thread for the BALEARIC REVIVAL

okay, i am pretty certain that this is going to be one of my albums of the spring/summer. 'Lesaron Highway' is the one that is killing me.

new blackbelt andersen cd on full pupp is just amazing, even better than what i was hoping for. a lot of previously released stuff sure, but the album works realllly well imo. not too indulgent with a lot of beautiful, warm synth soundz. not too different from the hatchback album actually, but i like it a lot more and don't know exactly why.

can't wait to check out meanderthals though, has it been released officially or just the leak at this point?

guh, that meanderthals track sounds like boring tortoise. nu-balearic is getting so snoozeworthy to me (maybe that's the point?)

^^^ugh yeah. decided to check out those tracks and it sounds like all the worst tracks from every nu-balearic comp released in the last two years. diet indie electro?

still curious about the album tracks, but prospects are not good at this point

we need more cosmic nu-tangerine dream electro balearic in the vein of oblio

have you heard Steve Moore of Zombi & Lovelock?

http://www.myspace.com/stevemoore2600

the rest of the Meanderthals record is perhaps a bit more lively than the track that's floating around...definitely hazy, but some more interesting beat work and rich rich textures. that said, i haven't been paying much attention to the whole balearic thing for a while now, and i also have a boner for most of rune lindbaek and the idjut boys' work, so my bias is clear.

i have a promo copy. official release may 11.

(this isn't the thread for it, but i also got the Moderat record in the same package, and i...am...not...pleased with that one at all)

the Meanderthals album reminds me a lot the Smith & Mudd stuff.

<quote> we need more cosmic nu-tangerine dream electro balearic in the vein of oblio </quote>

its a sound I'm liking to call Neu-Kosmiche.

you'll hear it a lot round my house, but strangely nowhere else.

yeah, kaiser, it does. i also love Mudd, too. there are moments that remind me of Lexx, too, which makes perfect sense.

k, since nobody else is commenting on the blackbelt andersen i took a mildly drastic measure and did this.

it really is very good, someone way way way upthread called "sirup" an 'acid balearic' track, and i think the rest of the album mines similar territory. like if you were to slow down some of the cuts on 'warp 10+1 influences' and add dub atmospherics. tell me what u guyz think...

i've been listening to it (thanks) and... i haven't noticed it too much. sounds nice, but i think the hatchback stuff is, while similar, more dynamic and direct. but maybe you shouldn't listen to me since i like that meanderthals track everyone thinks is boring.

not "everyone" thinks that meanderthals track is boring, just jaxon, and hes like 60 and works for a tech company, so what does he know

Come sit on grandpa's lap and let me tell you how we used to design web sites with rocks and twigs

the new claremont 56 compilation Originals vol. 2, compiled by Stockholm's Mark Seven and features Stars 'N' Bars s/t track which was just on harvey's BIS. ridiculously awesome moog rock balearic vibe, impossible to find the record, even on the internet and i'm sure prices will go up

also the new Mole 12" on internsasjonal is bizarrely interesting, or at least it was when i was stoned out of my mind reading Watchmen last night

the new claremont 56 compilation Originals vol. 2, compiled by Stockholm's Mark Seven and features Stars 'N' Bars s/t track which was just on harvey's BIS. ridiculously awesome moog rock balearic vibe, impossible to find the record, even on the internet and i'm sure prices will go up

― tropical beards of paradise (san frandisco), Tuesday, 10 March 2009 17:00 (1 hour ago) Permalink

mp3: http://ambulansen.blogspot.com/2009/02/brb.html

ebay: http://cgi.ebay.com/12-Stars-N-Bars-Give-Me-A-Break-RARE-Swe-Italo_W0QQitemZ140302846062QQcmdZViewItemQQptZMusic_on_Vinyl?hash=item140302846062&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=66%3A2%7C65%3A13%7C39%3A1%7C240%3A1318

guy on that blog found it in a thrift store for 0.20 euro...

am listening to this permanent vacation label comp and it's just SO GOOD - am guessing it's mostly old stuff but am particularly jamming:

- that playful, oscillating melody in bostro pesopeo's 'communquis'
- qzen's sultry vocal on 40 thieves' 'don't turn it off'
- that awesome bassline on permanent vacation's 'tic toc'
- the epic largeness of the superpitcher rmx of 'iridium'

that bostro pesopeo 12" is pretty amazing, i gotta say. it really flew under the radar for something a) on a trendy label and b) with a trendy remixer (hercules + love affair, in this case).

last night san frandisco djed with Tom Cruise of Worst Friends and he gave me their new 12". it has a remix by bostro pesopeo on it. i haven't listened to it yet but am looking forward to it when i get home tonight.

*san frandisco and i*

just woke up

that bostro pesopeo 12" really is pretty great, i remember talking about how much i dug the b-side "communquis" sometime last year when it came out. i also picked up lexx's "axis shift" used the other day, almost forgot how good that tune is

also- i haven't been able to find it on discogs, but is haitch talking about a permanent vacation volume 3 comp? if so, when is it coming out?

oh nm it's probably this, found on the PV site...

Permanent Vacation - Selected Label Works #1 | 2-CD | PERMVAC 035-2

anyone have a tracklisting? release date?

that's the one i was listening to. release date 4 may.

Tracklisiting:

CD 1:

1. Lullabies In The Dark - Iridium“
2. Dølle Jølle - Balearic Incarnation (Todd Terje‘s Extra Døll Mix)
3. Sally Shapiro - I'll Be By Your Side (Tensnake Remix)
4. Lullabies In The Dark - Code 7429
5. Lullabies In The Dark - Song For Marie And Elise (Aeroplane Remix)
6. Panthers - Goblin City (Holy Ghost! Extended Disco Dub)
7. Bostro Pesopeo - Communquis
8. Bostro Pesopeo - Reprise
9. Sally Shapiro - Jackie Junior“ (Junior Boys Dub)
10. 40 Thieves - Don't Turn It Off (feat. Qzen) (Brennan Green Mix)
11. Woolfy vs Projections - Return Of Starlight (Invisible Conga People Remix)

CD 2:

1. Dølle Jølle - Balearic Incarnation
2. 40 Thieves - Don't Turn It Off (feat. Qzen)
3. Lexx - Axis Shift
4. Only Fools And Horses - Spectacle Wins (Holy Ghost! Remix)
5. Steve Yanko - Prostitute Pink
6. Permanent Vacation feat. Kathy Diamond - Tic Toc
7. Bostro Pesopeo – Falls (Hercules & Love Affair Remix)
8. Good Guy Mikesh & Filburt - Someone Told Me
9. Lullabies In The Dark – Iridium (Superpitcher Remix)
10. Woolfy vs Projections – Absynth (Marcus Worgull Remix)
11. Corduba - Cambio

Woah that looks good.

thanx lex, that does look awesome. i think these are the new tracks...

5. Steve Yanko - Prostitute Pink
6. Permanent Vacation feat. Kathy Diamond - Tic Toc
11. Corduba - Cambio

can't wait to hear "tic toc", or any new single featuring kathy diamond for that matter (although that codebreaker song was sort of a letdown)

Anyone know if this is a mixed album or not?

it's not mixed

cool, i was hoping it wasn't

the empire of the sun record maybe isnt proper balearic but the track "country" sounds like it came off the meanderthals record, a++

lol at panthers appearance on this thread.

That compilation looks like being a pretty great primer for the bouncier end of nu-Balearic.

This looks like a primer for how good permanent vacation has been recently.

that panther's remix is pretty amazing though, first holy ghost! remix i had ever heard and it's deserves to be on this thread because it is a) awesome and b) has those crunchy balearic guitars i love

i don't doubt it, it's just that I know some of the panthers guys and can't see them being into this stuff.

also, even though it's not supposed to come out until may, i just bought mp3s of the meanderthals album off the smalltown site.

The Meanderthals record is lovely.

Esp 1-800-288-slam

It's a guitar-freak album, really. Tons of overdubbed acoustics, FX-laden lead parts, violined reverbed textures going on in the background. Plus bongos. Lots of bongos.

the new compilation from Claremont 56 is pretty classy, Originals Vol. 2 compiled by Mark Seven. some classic housey stuff see Swayzak "Stronger Love", but mixed in with some real balearic classics. and IMO, the balearic track to end all balearic tracks, "Stars & Bars"

i posted to my blog if anyone wants to check it out
http://discohorror.blogspot.com/

I fucking love that track on there that sounds like Gary Numan goes balearic. Esp. when I looked at the credits and saw he was involved.

finally got the meanderthals album, and it IS much better than the first track lets on actually (maybe not as good as the new l & pt tho ;) )

also, not sure if this is the right thread but the new Tirk 02 compilation manages to be really good for the majority of both discs...

1.01 Acos Coolkas - Free Flight (Instrumental)
1.02 Arcade Lover - Fantasy Lines
1.03 Morten Sorenson - Start Something (Original)
1.04 Hedford Vachal - Toys (Richard Sen Mix)
1.05 Architeq - Birds Of Prey (Kelpe Remix)
1.06 Chaz Jankel - Get Yourself Together (Hercules & Love Affair Hercbump Mix)
1.07 Monomusique - Fog's Lights (Hedford Vachal Redux)
1.08 Sorcerer - Surfing At Midnight (Prins Thomas Miks)
1.09 Sugardaddy - Stripped To The Bone
2.01 Morten Sorenson - Start Something (40 Thieves Remix)
2.02 Red Rack'em Presents Hot Coins - Valiant Truth
2.03 D-Pulse - Highway To Saturn
2.04 Pete Herbert - Red Room
2.05 Drrtyhaze - Lazer Sex
2.06 Chaz Jankel - Call Me (Toby Tobias Remix)
2.07 Toby Tobias - Chick Chick
2.08 Chaz Jankel - Glad To Know You (Tood Terje Re-edit)
2.09 Ecce - Control (Justus Köhncke Remix)
2.10 Sunharbour - Up
2.11 Chaz Jankel - Get Myself Together (Diesel Xpress2 Stripped Back Mix)

My current listening seems to consist solely of the Lindstrøm & Prins Thomas, Meanderthals and Blackbelt Andersen albums and they're all so good.

Also, has anyone heard the free Smalltown Supersound CD with this month's issue of Plan B Magazine?

Meanderthals is on emusic for download now: http://www.emusic.com/album/Meanderthals-Desire-Lines-MP3-Download/11417900.html

^^ That's where I got it from. There's a free 14 day trial too that gives you 25 free MP3's and will cost you nothing as long as you remember to cancel your membership before the 14 days are up. I got the Meanderthals album and the tracks from that Tirk02 comp that I didn't already have.

It's worth signing up (or at least it was for me). There's a loads of stuff there that fits in roughly this genre (and similar). I have 100 dls a month and never struggle to use them. All for the low low price of £18 or so. And if I refer you and you subscribe I get free downloads ;)

Groovypanda, thanks a lot for those recommendations! I'm especially loving the Meanderthals, been enjoying it in the sun all day!

glad that someone else likes the blackbelt andersen finally! that album is so solid!

^^^^ true true, my thread for it never really took off tho

it's okay a track at a time. as an album length piece I can't get through it.