this is a thread for the BALEARIC REVIVAL

did anyone listen to that beverly-glenn cropland track up there?

I did. It's very good but the vocal kills repeat listen potential for me. Would love an instrumental of that though.

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

Not sure if it's been mentioned upthread but there's an hour long live set (and free download) from Bartosz Kruczyński (Baltic Beat) and Marek Pędziwiatr over on Soundcloud:

https://soundcloud.com/bartoszkruczynski/the-phantom-marek-pedziwiatr-baltic-beat-live-at-unsound-1

"nether" off the smith & mudd lp is perfect, the whole album really

su tissue

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uf0yOqSRRhc

the wolf muller and cass album that doug mentioned upthread is a++ vibes too btw xps

― frank field of the nephilim (NickB), Monday, 18 July 2016 13:44 (2 weeks ago) Permalink

This album is so lovely.

yeah when i posted the vid upthread i didn't realise it had already been mentioned literally two posts above. it is great.

just discovered this monster on an old Harvey mix, it's incredible

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ga7f-vh4Bg

Was listening to the William Tyler album posted upthread and it occurred to me that this Michael Chapman tune is probably the closest I can think of for a perfect midpoint between the respective bailiwicks of this here place and the Revolt of the ILX Brigade post-Fahey thread:

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

just wish they'd maybe slowed it to 33 tbh

Man, that Shy Layers LP is so good

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8Sxf07l78Q

Mark Barrott - 'Brunch with Suki' passes the George Benson - 'Breezin' pepsi challenge

haha - a 10 on the saturday morning making breakfast scale.

"Brunch with Suki" is on the nose charming in a way that seems much err ~braver~ than a lot of nu-balearic.

a 10 on the saturday morning making breakfast scale.

o hell ya... shits screaming to be jaunty cooking-breakfast-danced to

rest of the album sounded kinda meh tbh

Interesting perspective. Suki is the song on the album I like least. Maybe I should make breakfast and try it again.

Suki is the only one that deliberately goes for an easy listening tropicalia vibe. The rest is much more in line with the new age balearic norm. Very pretty but I think I prefer the Wolf Muller & Cass album overall.

the wolf mueller & cass album is incredible, and is doing something really different. has shades of haruomi hosono's ambient stuff

That 'only love can break your heart' motif on Miyazaki is deliberate right?

i figured it must be. there's a section in the long track on wolf muller that feels almost a direct lift from miles davis, in a good way, too. i think from "in a silent way". the flute-type instrument at 12 mins 06 or so - i wouldn't mention it except every time i hear it that's what i think of.

"Brunch with Suki" is on the nose charming in a way that seems much err ~braver~ than a lot of nu-balearic.

i dunno if i consider this braver. i mean, i don't believe it's brave for music to be abrasive or aggressive and hence i can't believe the reverse about this track. i thought the mark barrott was p great - maybe not doing anything hugely new but it's a strong listen all the way through. i don't feel a norm for the music itt, not a concrete one really, there's quite a big amount of diversity between all the artists discussed. but i'm p happy with people just making records influenced by the goettsching or whatever.

i like brunch with suki a lot but sometimes when things go that way, not in that specific song, i think "hold up am i listening to lemon jelly here". i tend to prefer actually older and more overtly unfashionable takes on that sound which you hear in mixes.

lol "the goettsching". you get the idea anyway.

i mean how can anyone deny this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tG7Q2_hknO0

i like brunch with suki a lot but sometimes when things go that way, not in that specific song, i think "hold up am i listening to lemon jelly here". i tend to prefer actually older and more overtly unfashionable takes on that sound which you hear in mixes.

this is kind of what i mean by brave - it seems like something that is or should be off-putting because it recalls lemon jelly et. al., whereas stuff which is more serious and solemn, which may have seemed a bit OTT and theatrical 15 years ago, now seems unproblematically great.

In a funny way, balearic's aesthetic of liminality makes "more overtly unfashionable" more palatable, what sounds dodgy now is anything current which smacks of smugness, of underlining its own irony. "Brunch with Suki" treads so close to that line that it feels almost uncomfortable for me.

Maybe this will all change as the mid-late 90s come back into vogue.

i guess all (electronic) music walks some of the lines you mention, the serious and solemn is accepted more readily - but i think there's still a decent amount of freedom in this scene and still a really wide variety of music played. i think if you take a listen to some of the mixes you find on soundcloud etc you get more of a sense of that, there's a lot of digging and freedom to put other tracks in among the stalwarts - it still has that feeling of a burgeoning and quite open scene, as such i feel a bit less confident in drawing conclusions about it.

this is quite an old mix but feels kind of formative to me: https://soundcloud.com/rcheoecordings/manu-archeo-dj-mix-for-test-pressing-384-there-are-shadows-because-there-are-hills-mix

the things i veer away from the current stuff are the housier tracks - there's the odd good thing but i feel like it's not giving me anything i can't get by just listening to older house music. it doesn't surprise me there are a lot of good albums coming out that people have been talking about itt, like presumably you can go to a club and hear balearic music and i guess people on the internet are all sort of following some imaginary scene, but it does seem more tied to home listening than i dunno, hearing things out and finding out what they are.

i would totally go to a bar that only played the music itt but it doesn't seem to exist.

the other thing i think is someone needs to revamp the hotel lobby and health spa music of the world with a playlist made from this thread.

There was definitely a trend of high-end restaurants and hotel bars in London defaulting to stuff like DJ Koze and Mayer for a while, it was really weird to hear that 2002-05 stuff repurposed in that vein.

I sort of feel like any bar in London playing this stuff would end up trying to offset its whole London-ness somehow by overcompensating with Thai beach bar cliches or looking like some horrific tech start-up chillout room or something.

maybe that's true for bars, i feel like a certain type of cocktail bar could make this work. i mean I quite like the music you hear at a health spa in a kind of "sometimes lol sometimes global communication sneaks in" way, but equally you could put on gaussian curve and nobody would bat an eyelid.

It needs to be the sort of place where everyone sits down, I feel quite strongly about that.

i dj at a "gastropub" here in FL and play mostly balearic and transition into some disco and italo when the kitchen closes at midnight. i've had strangers come up to me that were into it and they have had all sorts of notions about what kind of music it would be considered, many tend to ask if it's "something from the 70's or 80's." i just tell them it's balearic and they nod appreciatively as if that's sufficient explanation. one guy on vacation from detroit got it and said it was perfect for the venue, so that was nice.

there's a pub near me that plays a lot of balearic stuff and hosts some of the smaller djs from the scene but it goes to disco and more uptempo stuff very quickly. i like that music and i guess it's necessary for big pubs late at night, but it is annoying having to kind of imagine being on a beach for most of this music.

it's not like ibiza actually has a scene for this either.

i would totally go to a bar that only played the music itt but it doesn't seem to exist.

If you're ever in Leeds LG

http://outlawsyachtclub.com/#about

not that balearic but came on after the wolf muller & cass sampler on soundcloud

https://soundcloud.com/uncanny-valley-dresden/massimiiano-pagliara-no-more-love-to-follow-feat-matthew-morris

xps Tim, Ronan - I can no longer pretend to be able to untie the gordian knot of what is supposed to be cool or un-cool and what is boldly unfashionable re corny retro influences anymore (but i am glad Tim is on the trail, if anyone can figure it out its you, budhttp://www.cnet.com/bundles/cnetcss/images/forum/emoticons/wink.gif)

Third release on Andy's Balearic Social Records is up on Soundcloud:

https://soundcloud.com/balearicsocial/sets/bsr003

If you're ever in Leeds LG

think I've probably heard some mixes from this on soundcloud.

really enjoying the terekke lullabies for insomniacs mix: https://soundcloud.com/lullabiesforinsomniacs/terekke-guest-mix

Speaking of music ITT in spas & bars, caught Hatchback and Seahawks DJing in a meze joint one time. Does it get more ILX Balearic? ;-)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRhfXqZ51TI

Compilation from Mark Barrott out next month looks good although there's only a few tracks on it I don't already know

https://www.residentadvisor.net/news.aspx?id=35797

Shit, that Spooky track is so good. Unexpected inclusion there. I'm into that compilation.

this mysterious youtube channel is a treasure trove

http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqKy2Cmyg8PyDQyU4wOY9XQ

https://soundcloud.com/hunee/in-our-time-mix-for-air-be-with-records-dj-mix

lovely mix from hunee, as usual. kinda belongs here tho it's more just jazz i guess.

anyone know the track at 11 mins 20? really beautiful.

it looks like the whole mix is tracks by Air (70s jazz band, not the henry threadgill one)

ah nevermind, the mix was merely inspired by Air's lone album

the air tracks sound really nice. it's a brilliant mix, listening to it right now for like third time today.

another sweet orpheu/tako reyenga mix.

https://soundcloud.com/dkmntl/orpheu-the-wizard-tako-at-dekmantel-festival-2016

Anyone checked out Seahawks' latest? It's on Spotify. 'White Horses' is a keeper.

p.sherburne interview w/shy layers
http://pitchfork.com/features/rising/9942-uncovering-the-secrets-of-shy-layers-musical-deja-vu/

anyone know this tune? heard it at harvey at the weekend and he always plays it: https://soundcloud.com/ronan-fitzgerald/mystery-harvey-tune

while i'm at it, anyone know the tune in the video that's the second most recent post on his facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/HarveyDJay - that's another one he always plays.

was fortunate enough to get in at the very start on saturday and watch him warming up as the venue filled, it was really cool to watch a dj of his quality mess about playing beatless balearic stuff for 30 mins, then fill the floor and get a full cheer for the first record that had drums in it, a re-edit of james brown's "funky good time".

Pretty sure it's the Afro mix of Helen's Zanzibar (or an edit of). Balearic classic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoM4Zszz-5o

yeah that's it - nice one - it's either an edit or just way pitched up.