this is a thread for the BALEARIC REVIVAL

impossible to find that linda di franco track mentioned upthread on 12

The Ronny & Renzo mystery mix at DJ History is fabulous. Love their torpid-as-fuck vibe - really stands out I think, especially given how much balearic DJ aesthetics otherwise overlap. But I want to make them to make more of their own tracks. "Big Smack & Flies" and their remix of Mutron's "Alone" are so fantastic viscous and foreboding. They remind me of Depeche Mode's Ultra, in a really good way.

Weirdest, most wonderfully WTF moment of the mix: strangely brilliant bootleg of Kevin Lyttle's "Turn Me On" with Radiohead's "Everything In It's Right Place".

impossible to find that linda di franco track mentioned upthread on 12

there are a ton of her 12 and 7"s on ebay. but impossible to find her full length in any format. been searching soulseek for months.

i like that bruce mix a lot, but the rest of that EP is pretty goofball. It also has "balearic" mixes of Neil Young's "Hey Hey My My" and Joanna Newsom "Book Of Right On", which mostly just throw some drum loops on top of the originals.

-- Michael F Gill, Friday, 18 April 2008 16:41 (1 month ago)

that's a pretty typically hollerboard way to do things isnt it?

Have we talked at all about Todd Terje's remix of Jose Gonzales's "Killing For Love"??? Luvvit luvvit luvvit. The most widescreen thing ever.

i mentioned it somewhere (maybe the beardo thread?) ... here is another swedish indie dood remix: bogdan irkuk remix of jens lekman

i hit balearic gold the other day. found 2$ 12"s of Mike Francis "Survivor", Dennis Parker "Like an Eagle", Al DiMeola "Sequencer" and one other i forget the name of, but is really good.

bogdan irkuk is making some supremely beautiful shit lately. lovin it.

mmmmm luv dennis parker

Does that Gonzalez remix start off Terje's BiS set?

12" version of like an eagle >> LP version >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> most other songs in the world

^this

truth bomb

11th commandment

silver tracksuits for all

with eagles imprinted on the back

'sequencer' sounds so much like vid game music i'd be way scared to play it out

how long is the 12 inch version of like an eagle? all of a sudden i'm getting scared that i've only heard the LP version.

fred deakin 'nu balearica' mix looks spot-on

CD01:
1. Williams - Love On A Real Train
2. Aeroplane - Caramellas
3. In Fragranti - Additional Alpha Blocker
4. Kaoru Inoue The Secret Field (Todd Terje Remix)
5. Hatchback - White Diamond (Prins Thomas Miks Del 1 & 2)
6. Bogdan Irkϋk a.k.a Bulgari - Space Reflecting On The Bosporos
7. Antena - On The Boat (Rubber Room's Disco Devil Remix)
8. Sasse - Mount Juneau
9. Professor Genius - Across The Spree
10. Blackbelt Andersen - Sirup
11. Wallis Bird - Counting To Sleep (Reverse 68 Remix)
12. Studio - Life's A Beach! (Prins Thomas Remix)
13. Lullabies In The Dark - Code 7429
14. Mock & Toof - Big Hands For A Lady
15. DJ Disse - Spanish Raggae

CD02:
1. Al Usher Here Today
2. Cro-Magnon Eclipse
3. Dutch Rhythm Combo Bonaire Al Usher 12" Remix
4. Reverso 68 Piece Together Part 1
5. Felix Dickinson & Toby Tobias Pres. The Mythical Beasts Magical Creatures
6. Tracey Thorn Raise The Roof Beyond The Wizard's Sleeve Re-Animation
7. Mugwump Boutade Miseridub
8. Lexx Axis Shift
9. Kuniyuki Flying Music
10. Mudd Speilplatz Quiet Village Deep Space Remix
11. Hot Coins Norway Man
12. Real Ones Outlaw A Beyond the Wizard's Sleeve Re-Animation
13. Badly Drawn Boy Promises A Mountain Of One Version
14. The Yellow Moon Band Entangled
15. Lindstrom The Contemporary Fix Bjorn Torske Remix
16. Diskjokke Some Signs Are Good

how long is the 12 inch version of like an eagle? all of a sudden i'm getting scared that i've only heard the LP version.

-- t_g, Thursday, May 22, 2008 11:05 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

its only like 2 mins longer. the breakdown/build in the middle is just a little more stretched out, iirc. maybe the intro is a little longer too.

anyway, the LP version is still gangsta, hence only 2 >'s inbetween it and the LP version :)

dont fuck w/ the 7" version its too short.

Seriously people, get on that Ronny & Renzo DJ mix on the DJ History website - there's a downloadable version posted in the comments section. David Cassidy's "Romance (Love Mix)" is A+++++

It is great - tracklist c+p'd here. Spotters look away now.

intro: speech Norma Beecroft (Music Canada library)

0'00'' Peter Phonix - Neverneverland
4'50'' Rosebud - Main theme “More”
7'50'' David Cassidy - Romance (Love Mix)
11'50'' Ben Cook - Better Days
14'40'' Frankie Valentine - Zumbie
18'20” Elektrosmog - Swiss Invader
22'00” Tokyo Black Star - Violent Rush
25'00” The Vanden Plas - Let's Stop

interlude: excerpt Electrographics (Music De Wolfe library)

28'10” Chris Bowden - Crockers & Killers (Palmskin remix)
33'30” Different Gear - untitled (from the “Part 4 & 5” twelve inch)
37”00” West India Company - Ave Maria (extended version)
40'24” Okay Temiz - Denizalti Rüzgarlari
44'20” James Last - Inner City Blues
47'20” Minako Yoshida - Monster Stomp
50'00” Jerry Harrison - Rev It Up (Wisconsin Dub)
53'37” Takis - Paris-Istanbul (Takis Beat)
57'00” Rick Van Der Linden - Game
59”00” Jah Wobble - Auguries Of Innocence
1h5'05” Brian Eno - Fractal Zoom (Small Country Mix)
1h10'25” Janko Nilovic - Visions Fantastiques

I don't know if it's bad form to re-post the download link, but it's here:

http://www.djhistory.com/forum/showthread.php?t=33788 "> http://www.djhistory.com/forum/showthread.php?t=33788

http://www.djhistory.com/forum/showthread.php?t=33788

Grrr.

The weird version of Kevin Lyttle's "Turn Me On" is by Different Gear of all people!

Meanwhile, I sourced a downloadable standalone copy of Sally Oldfield's "Hide and Seek" (as included in that Studio DJ mix) here.

haha. you know that pylon link is just aggregating the links directly from my site? http://www.robotsinheat.com

jaxon btw i showed a friend yr blog and dude is constantly IMing me linx from it now

Now that's what I call Balearic...

The sound of 80s Ibiza is making a comeback. It's so uplifting it has the power to render Phil Collins enjoyable

<a href="http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/music/2008/05/now_thats_what_i_call_balearic.html";>Now that's what I call Balearic | Music | guardian.co.uk</a>

try again...
http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/music/2008/05/now_thats_what_i_call_balearic.html

does anyone have any original Alfredo mixes?

thanks deej.

It's so uplifting it has the power to render Phil Collins enjoyable

^^ fucking hate this attitude

actually maybe i dont. one of my favorite things about taking all these tracks and calling them 'balearic' is that it provides a framework for people to be "ok" with listening to collins and chris rea and whoever else. any complaining about it just becomes "oh they only listen to it IRONICALLY while i listen to phil collins AUTHENTICALLY" which is just a non-starter

still i get annoyed with the idea that any of these guys are ONLY enjoyable or worthwhile in a balearic context

i think i just hate the really common tendency of music writers to act like we're all coming from the same direction/on the same page about what music is considered 'good,' as if its not even remotely possible that one of their readers could have purchased and enjoyed phil collins on their own

universalizing their own perspectives, and writers do this CONSTANTLY in all kinds of publications ... the Chicago Reader does this all the time and its really obnoxious

does anyone have any original Alfredo mixes?

-- jaxon, Tuesday, May 27, 2008 7:17 PM (18 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

I think I have a cassette or two on my hard drive somewhere. It might be tomorrow before I can check tho'. Will report back.

one of my favorite things about taking all these tracks and calling them 'balearic' is that it provides a framework for people to be "ok" with listening to collins

as i see it, one of the best things music writing can do is help show people how to get maximal enjoyment out of a piece of music.

totally agree that discussing (or even simply playing) something in a balearic context can do this... a phil collins song may or may not work for a contemporary 20-something avid music listener on an emotional level (i'm not sure it was ever supposed to!), but on a balearic level (which i don't think is ironic, exactly, just different) it can make total sense.

seems more like "ok, i am putting myself in this perspective" and enjoying the overall sonics instead of the lyrics or whatever "rockist" type stuff an actual collins record buyer might've focused on forever ago

balaeric backpatting

ok, sure. but i think it's fair to say that different people can listen to phil collins for different things, and that context is important. when i heard him on soft rock radio as a kid it was NOT next to "love on a real train."

yeah marc we agree i think--this is one of those useful things abt the idea of "genre" is that it allows u to contextualize stuff so as to get a better appreciation (or whatever) of it... the problem is when its framed as "phil collins always sucks, except in this context" instead of "phil collins is transformed placed in this context" or whatever

Yeah I agree with the general thrust of the last few comments. The interesting thing about "balearic" as an organising principle is how it forces you to see connections between things that you would have put in different categories previously - like, the Ronny & Renzo mix feels very consistent despite cutting across house, disco, "experimental" electronic music, soft pop-rock. This was also the idea behind my thread about tracks that you'd like to see edited by Todd Terje or whatever: "Balearic" encourages me to see the potential for something to be transformed into "dance music" as much as the realistic likelihood of it being considered as such.

But yeah, "Balearic helps us to like Phil Collins" is just boring, the most pointless and crude version of the above dynamic imaginable.

i never knew that was don cherry on tullio de piscopo's "stop bajon" but now that i think about it, it totally makes sense

"wot shall i file this BALEARIC BEATS under?" so young joe public, y.t.s., go-getter at yo-price megastore hits his first problem in pigeon-holeing the black vinyl. now seeing that the only "MATEY" joe's "EVER GOT RIGHT ON" is the rubbery balloon type his guv'nor sells, i think we should explain this happy, happy, groove a little more.

now while it's true that the balearic beat was born in IBIZAN clubs, such as AMNESIA and PASHA, it's breeding took place in a small, sweaty, strobby, smokey south london club called ..... THE SHOOM. the hardcore original shoomers, along with another london club THE FUTURE, had discovered the JOY'S of balearic beats, during several previous "summers of love" (sic), and had brought the music and the attitude back to london with them. the kinectic style of dancing now associated with balearics ugly brother, ACID HOUSE, is pure ibizan in origin. The loudest screams at SPECTRUM are always reserved for NITZER EBB and the RESIDENTS while hearing ENZO AVITABILE booming through the smoke at JOY is an ecstatic experience one step away, (some say forward) from sex.

THE FINI TRIBE and MANDY SMITH have become anthems all over clubland, whilst my personal faves are the fast euro-rhythms of CODE 61 and the post-punk thrashing of THE WOODENTOPS. every track of this album will fill floors and put smiles on faces, Throughout the balearic underground. look, i wonder if poor joe's getting the gist of all this, for joe and the yet uninitiated, balearic is the following and much, much more.....

.....loads of hugs and kisses ... smiley t-shirts and happy faces.... feeling saucey instead of sauced......eating fruits on the dance floor....bashed up converse trainers.....lovely girls with blinding accents.....ice pops.....hedionism....sparklers at the future....indian belly dancers at the shoom....almost everyone finally realising that "only love can conquer hate"....watching the sun set at the café del mar....watching the sun rise on primrose hill....the karma collective....poncho's pony tails and body paint....dj alfredo....new friendships....loads more hugs and kisses....just let this piece of warm anglo-ibizan club culture rush over you, enjoy it mateys!!!

loves & respects to OAKEY, THE RAMPLINGS, GARY HAISMAN, JOHNNY WALKER, STEVE PROCTOR, NANCY NOISE, and to all those out there who truly "shoooom!!!"

xxx hugs and kisses xxx - farley.

Can't find Alfredo mixes. :( Really bugging me!

lol @ 'izit' being sampled by timbo/missy/eminem

"haha. you know that pylon link is just aggregating the links directly from my site? http://www.robotsinheat.com";

Apologies jaxon! I checked yr blog it is that good stuff.

I want to talk about Aeroplane again. Has anyone else ever in the history of anything ever come up with grooves as all-encompassing and epochal sounding as those on "Aeroplane", "Love Love Love (Aeroplane Remix)" and "Whispers"? I think not. The widescreen sparkliness reminds me somewhat of DJ T's "Freemind", but he only managed this once, not three times. Their dj mixes on the 24 hours blog are fabulous too.

yeah the love love love rmx has been on nonstop repeat in my house for a month now--the original and the LSB soundsystem remixes are great too!

"aeroplane" is a really appropriate name for these guys