this is a thread for the BALEARIC REVIVAL

Another great jam from Smith & Mudd:

https://soundcloud.com/the-dream-chimney/dc-promo-tracks-309-smith-mudd

Pete Brandt's Method - What You Are (1980)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mY320Jk82i4

Can anyone recommend bands that sound like Antena? Because I just got the reissue of the Camino Del Sol EP and it's ace

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jo6xtPtvn-g

Some chilled out vibes from the Scottish Highlands inspired by Celtic mythology. This album was made with the assistance of Forestry Commission Scotland, which is something that I don't think that you can say that about most of the other music in this thread

Paolo, try Domenique Dumont

Thanks but I'm already into them :)

Figured it was possible! Always worth mentioning just in case.

Oh damn...

https://runningbackrecords.bandcamp.com/album/nature-sounds-of-the-balearics

― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Monday, November 26, 2018 1:22 AM (two months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Finally got around to listening to this and I think I've finally resigned myself to something I have suspected for some time: the two volumes of Sketches From An Island--which I've listened to more times than I could possibly count--were a fluke. Like everything else I've checked out by MB, this recent album does nothing for me whatsoever. I'll try again, because in theory I'm a big MB fan (well, based on those two albums, anyway), but probably won't be buying this one.

This one is very different, but has its own charms

I think its worth noting that he admitted he wasn't trying to do Sketches 3 or a similar approach, and it was released on Running Back which these days is known more for bigroom house than anything, rather than his own label

He has a bunch of really good singles and eps that are worth checking out for more of that sketches vibe.

He's an old head... he put out a lot of stuff in the 90s too (future loop foundation etc)

I really love Nature Sounds of the Balearics. To me he’s just as good at the techno/house side as his sketches from an island vibe

He's an old head... he put out a lot of stuff in the 90s too (future loop foundation etc)

Also in Talamanca System with Gerd Janson and (Phillip) Lauer.

I'm liking the samples I'm hearing of this Attilio album

https://soundcloud.com/seance-centre/sets/attilio-art-takes-a-holiday

Also this amazing Mike Cooper album just got a repress:

https://room40.bandcamp.com/album/white-shadows-in-the-south-seas

New Apiento track is very good

https://soundcloud.com/worldbuilding/apiento-things-you-do-for-love

omniboi - gucci

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbNjHBM47bs

this was originally a remix of lil pump "gucci gang" by a producer named omniboi... the remix is cute but the instrumental is a slice of balearic heaven imo

the video of him playing the remix live in his bedroom is dope tho

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSCRR6FVtSI

Today's RA Podcast is an hour of largely unreleased Jonny Nash stuff

https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?id=674

Jonny Nash - Blue Feel
Gigi Masin & Jonny Nash - Interstellar
Kuniyuki Takahashi & Jonny Nash - Untitled 1
Jonny Nash - Untitled (Live at Red Light Radio store)
Kuniyuki Takahashi & Jonny Nash - Untitled 2
MATstudio - In Strange Company He Spoke Softly (Excerpt)
Kyle Martin & Jonny Nash - Loved Me
MATstudio - The Perishable Imagination (Excerpt)
Jonny Nash - Face Of Another
Jonny Nash - Conversations With Mike / Down In Babakan (Live @ Hosoi)
Kyle Martin & Jonny Nash - The Most Important Thing

Feeling that. I listened to clips of his last album and wasn't that impressed but might need to go back to it

Also this amazing Mike Cooper album just got a repress:
https://room40.bandcamp.com/album/white-shadows-in-the-south-seas
― Evan, Friday, 1 March 2019 21:04 (one month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

This is lovely except for one of the tracks near the end which has a really high pitched tone all the way through and is pretty much unlistenable

any other balearic fans loving the helado negro album? it's not really balearic but i get v similar feelings out of its sounds. (and it's such a good album.)

Ace!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXzq2O3Og9I

RRRREEEEEEEEPRESSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!

08 jul 19 on best record italy, already got mine on preorder from the usual spot

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmqtuzX1lgY

All time

yessir and difficult to find except on those absurdly overpriced (and overrated imo) claremont originals comps

i hate on that label but i have to admit each of those comps has turned me on to at least one all time bomb ... though imo at least 75% of the obscurities on those comps should have stayed obscure

well difficult to find on 12" anyway

Ha! I've got all 10 on CD.

75% is a little harsh

wow dude those are worth a lot of money! my favorite, the sean p one, is going for like $80 on discogs.

i think some of them are better than others. i like the ones by sean p, lexx, burgess & green, and rong music a lot more than the rest. but i'm not really hardcore balearic so there you go

the moonboots one is about half bangers i think (sth national, esposito, band aid, radio band, flayer), but kind of agree about the rest

xp

oh yeah moonboots is good too

i'm probably just being crazy harsh because crazy $$$

I dont really think any of the originals are that solid but they do always have 3-6 great tracks a piece on em

honestly will forever be in debt to the series for introducing me to flayer, escape from NY's "fire in my heart" and letta's "nomalizo"

we got fire in my heart and flayer represses, now we need nomalizo on 12"

aware there was a recent edit but not super crazy about it, what do you all think?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWdTlQ7S8j8

That Fire In My Heart tune is amazing. Such an intense, dramatic beat.

Other favourites would be

Loui$ - Pink Footpath
Cube - Somebody Told Me (in fact most of the Joylon/Matthew Burgess one)
Wide Boy Awake - Slang Teacher
King Errisson - Space Queen
A Band Called O - Coasting
Savanna Silver Band - Take A Step

Last week's Dream Chimney mix from Aihki is A+++

Reminds me of their old Cosmixes

https://soundcloud.com/the-dream-chimney/mix-of-the-week-270-magnus-blomkvist

I mentioned in Music From Memory thread but better to give a heads up here maybe.

This shop in NYC is incredible. I rely on them to turn me on to new stuff. Their instagram is very useful.

https://www.instagram.com/commendnyc/?hl=en

Nice!

i really miss the golden age of balearic revival

New Mark Barrott ep, Sketches From A Distant Ocean is a nice return to that chill island vibe

New Horsebeach album soon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EuJjOHA6FI

Lovefingers starting a compilation series of tracks off his old website:

https://www.residentadvisor.net/news/43922

Gigi Masin & Jonny Nash's made a new album!! "Postcards From Nowhere", recorded at the Venice Biennale is out today on deluxe vinyl edition - made in collaboration with Commission and Imprimerie Du Marias. https://t.co/LxroO4bRML pic.twitter.com/0NOyNCrIYD

— Melody As Truth (@melody_as_truth) June 17, 2019

Holy crap just barely got one before they sold out. Better be good for $50 US! Everything about it sounds up my alley.

dang, when i clicked there were 17 left, 16 after I bought one. these went quick.

The last 10 must have sold within 5-10 minutes it was crazy.

Yowza!

The page now shows 29 copies available. I feel like artists do this on purpose to get people to order quickly. If either of these guys ever complain about streaming royalties after charging $55 for 20mins of music, they can die in a fire.

A chunk of that is for shipping though. Looking at vinyl prices, £30 for a small press issue doesn't seem that extravagant.