this is a thread for the BALEARIC REVIVAL

released back in 2012, but only found out about it a few weeks ago

http://images.junostatic.com/full/CS1982476-02A-BIG.jpg

totally hitting the spot now that the sun has come out for a few hours.

01. Allez Allez - African Queen (Quiet Village Dub)
02. Mudd - Speilplatz (Quiet Village Unreleased Instrumental Remix)
03. Francois K - The Road Of Life (Quiet Village Unreleased Dub)
04. Ronny & Renzo - Uniqorns (Quiet Village Remix)
05. Luger E-Go - A Trader In Furs (Quiet Village Remix)
06. Mark E & Dragon - Good Times (Quiet Village Remix)
07. Toby Tobias - Dave's Sex Bits (Quiet Village Remix)
08. Grandad Bob - Pictures (Quiet Village Remix)
09. Bubble Club - The Goddess (Quiet Village Remix)
10. Black Devil Disco Club - I Regret The Flower Power (Quiet Village Remix)

Smith & Mudd album is ace.

Dogwood is such a fucking jam.

is this thread ok to post about 'vintage' balearic reissues? vintage downtempo/funky new age?

- how did i miss last year's Leon Lowman 2-fer (on Vinyl On Demand)?

- also missed Computer Incantations For W

whoops

- also missed Computer Incantations For World Peace Volume 3. Tracklist looks fun.

1. Anna Domino - "Caught"
2. Quintus Project - "Night Flight" (original)
3. Jazzanova - "Introspection" (Calm Outerspect mix)
4. Mode IQ - "Competition"
5. Tuff City Kids - "Altona"
6. Love International - "Airport Of Love"
7. Obalski - "Lobo's Point"
8. Jaone - "Taxanetsie Brothers" (Moire Patterns edit)
9. Georges Rodi & Dave Sarkys - "Swiftness"
10. Mkwaju Ensemble - "Mkwaju"
11. Plaza Hotel - "Bewegliche Ziele"
12. Brenda & The Beach Balls - "Theme From A Tall Dark Stranger"
13. Amanita - "Sol Y Sombra"

Mix of old and new on that one, I guess. Was hoping for another all vintage set.

Feels like we already have a year's worth of top shelf albums with Baltic Beat, Smith & Mudd and Mark Barrott.

i am going to ibiza in 2 weeks!! :o

i have never been before

http://www.ibizarockshouse.com/events/2016/dj-harvey-presents-mercury-rising-01-august-2016/

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

shit

i mean 3 weeks :( there 5-7th

that party is every monday so i guess you'll miss it on the 8th also. i went last year and it was amazing, free in and normal-priced drinks, really nice people, great setting. might try and go again this year.

yeah i leave on the monday. damn

RA rips the CFCF remix EP but they are right about the Pharaohs "Pleasure Centre" remix being a good one. https://www.residentadvisor.net/reviews/19356

really feeling the wolf muller and cass record, this lengthy track is the centrepiece i guess.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GSTk2UwDHE

http://pulseradio.net/articles/2016/07/ibiza-government-the-island-can-t-handle-more-tourists

Feels like we already have a year's worth of top shelf albums with Baltic Beat, Smith & Mudd and Mark Barrott.

― skip, Monday, July 18, 2016 2:09 AM (1 week ago)

Could not agree with this more. I keep returning to that Baltic Beat record and it keeps sounding better and better. Love that one. The title track is the stand out, but the second side is nearly as good.

Also, that Quiet Village remix comp is so killer. That Francois K remix is probably my fave.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCWMP1jf8T4

Latest 12" from Music From Memory

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aC2sCOiCgf4

http://www.musicfrommemory.com/product/the-system-the-system-ep

Just ordered the Smith & Mudd and Baltic Beat. Expecting them to soundtrack the end of summer.

I'm also digging that Baltic Beat album. Just got "Vito Ricci - I was Crossing a Bridge" on Music From Memory... https://www.discogs.com/Vito-Ricci-I-Was-Crossing-A-Bridge/release/6946911

Suso Sáiz – Odisea (also on Music From Memory) is another great piece worth investigating...https://www.discogs.com/Suso-Sáiz-Odisea/release/8537045

And last but certainly not least, I've really been enjoying Darwis by Parra for Cuva & Senoy...It's not exactly Balearic, but maybe your tastes are more diverse and this is stuff that deserves to be heard..."Sacred Feathers", the lead track on the album", gets me every time...https://www.discogs.com/Parra-For-Cuva-Senoy-Darwiš/release/8583467

I basically just listened to those two, Sketches 2 and Wilson Tanner on a continuous loop on my recent holiday to Southern France xp

that the system track is amazing. wow.

also like the suso saiz record - i mean p much everything on international feel and music from memory is really good.

seems like a lot of these niche reissue labels are taking their cues from music-sharing blogs

i've been noticing this for over a decade... a blog sharing obscure music shares some obscure, semi-forgotten album, and some time later it's given a boutique reissue. although now the time lag seems be to getting shorter. that system album was shared on a prominent blog about a year and a half ago.

Been playing Wilson Tanner and Sketches 2 a ton myself. Just drove down the coast of Vancouver Island listening to Sketches 2. Probably an experience I'll never forget.

Mark Barrott's wikipedia entry is pretty good.

best quote: "Anything over 110bpm sounds like gabba to me"

this sounds interesting

http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/22183-shy-layers/

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.