this is a thread for the BALEARIC REVIVAL

granted i was playing it at 33 instead of 45 and the flutes do start to sound pretty Enigma-y

embrace the enigma

there is definitely a line that i am willing to cross where it comes w/ this stuff that most of my friends arent

i bought the Donna Summers "State of Independence" 7" a long time ago and kinda threw it off to the side not really feeling it, but after hearing it in the context of the rest of these balearic tracks, i really really like it.

STATE OF INDEPENDENCE

o u posted in that. hows the jon and vangelis? worth getting?

i've got 2 J&V albums and they're usually a dollar and have at least one killer track on them

interesting new band from Denmark

This is Forgetting

listen on myspace...
http://www.myspace.com/thisisforgetting

Stated Influences: Talk Talk, Joy Division, The National, Peter Gabriel, Kate Bush, Prince

who else do they remind you of? it's bugging me...those dreamy deadpan vocals

comsat angels, modern english.....someone else !

maybe the vocals remind you of David Sylvian?

i can hear some Sylvian vibes...but still something else

aw shit i missed the action last month. can anyone re-up max's collection?

also, peep this:

http://groovediggers.blogspot.com/2008/04/charanga-76-good-times-como-vamos-gozar.html

Here's an updated version of Max's comp from above with the whole of the DJ History top 25 Balearic in it. Some of the versions of Max's stuff I've upgraded. E2-E4 is in there but as the 5 min edit version.

It all looks a bit of a mess in the folder coz I got bits from here and there but it should all be tagged nicely for itunes etc.

I have a lot to do today so I've done this as displacement activity.

http://www.sendspace.com/file/97cnaj

-- Raw Patrick, Friday, March 21, 2008 1:23 PM (3 weeks ago) Bookmark Link

:)

A couple of the tracks in that show up in the wrong order cuz you need to delete the "Album Artist" field in iTunes. And one of them has a (pretty obvious) wrong title. I should've spent a couple more minutes checking it but no biggie.

A couple of songs in the Top 25 are really fucking bad. Ecstacy for the 1st time is powerful stuff is the lesson.

http://www.tunetribe.com/Article?article_id=2008

have we talked about Computer Incarnations for World Peace II yet? cuz there's a couple of great tracks on there like the woolfy and rollmote/maurice fulton and the al usher

yeah its super dope, i like the chateau adventurine track

the ffirst one is good too

Norway's electronic rock band Monomen have a superb track with a balearic vibe: Oscillate

myspace: Monomen
http://www.myspace.com/tr707

new article:

The House that punk built: Italians Do It Better
http://www.drownedinsound.com/articles/3178598

brooce goes balearic (todd terje uses this - nicely - at the end of his RA podcast):

http://distortiondisco.blogspot.com/2008/04/slice-of-heaven-cousin-cole-on-fire.html

lol "tunnel of love" is a pretty balearic album already

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.

using 'i'm on fire' seemed kinda disappointingly obvious to me (which shows how big a deal context is to lots of this stuff).

especially since chromatics already covered it

u guys are so hard to please

nb i havent listened to the song yet

especially since chromatics already covered it

-- jaxon, Friday, April 18, 2008 12:00 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

ha i didnt even remember this, i was just thinking about how i played it out last time i dj'd

id like to think todd terje is a step above deej from the internet

If you go to DJH where he posts tho', he becomes Terje from the internet.

New Aeroplane mix here. Haven't listened yet but the Still Going remix of the Force of Nature track is very very delicious.

yes! loving that force of nature remix.

has there been talk of the Kuniyuki Takahashi album here?

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2291/2408539025_91f83387c0.jpg

gorgeous balmy balearic house.

That album is v Chris Rea.

The Lex likes it a lot.

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