this is a thread for the BALEARIC REVIVAL

I also think the new Steve Cobby album would work well.

Steve Cobby - Sweet Jesus

https://open.spotify.com/album/5bEbFQ5PFbE79xRs0U8VW1?si=SWtYNg3SRDms4wmG6wux_g

bit of a cheat, but Mark Barrott compiled this sunset playlist that I find myself playing when i'm in this zone:

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7M1Puo8vKPJoiSHYgTXcNa?si=ydeRUTlAQRSLB4eyOSBN5w

and a playlist I made for this same purpose a couple years back called, appropriately enough, Summer Nights. It features a lot of the same songs (Lissvik/Air France) that are already in the playlist, but it's a tidy little listen.

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5BgK6IriXWSoDvyWUJMOIC?si=7Xe49dhWSc-hwuHJ538HbQ

Chris Coco's Balaeric Playlist covers a lot of stuff not included yet:

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/100icvOSPBO4Mk5pYgALx4?si=IlVLxS77RGSfW2LKhdE0mA

From the Chris Coco playlist above. Potential vacation theme song. Ukelele cover of the Velvet Underground's Who Loves the Sun by Hafdis Huld.

https://open.spotify.com/track/266hjimNtK6eEFDcCO5loo?si=t1fSNmheSzKxLRKxZZkaPw

Added some more albums, will need to look at those playlists when I'm sitting at a computer

speaking of chris coco, found this 2cd set today for 50p.

https://www.discogs.com/Chris-Coco-Solar-Spectrums/release/144608

perfect timing now that the days are getting longer.

By the way, my original list had a pretty heavy lean into the experimental ambient/new age side. The recommendations totally delivered in regards to the thread theme, but wondering if any of you had thoughts on that category as well.

From what I had already, these are really nice if you have any interest (the rest of the applicable inclusions I haven't spent enough time with; still diving in):

- Aokigahara Online: Mori
- Deepchord: Immersions, Lanterns
- Heavenly Music Corporation: In a Garden of Eden, Lunar Phase
- Iguana Moonlight: Wild Palms
- Les Halles: Zephyr
- M. Geddes Gengras: Hawaiki Tapes
- Magnétophonique: Une Cartographie Idéale
- UNKNOWN ME: Subtropics
- Wave Temples: Isle Enchanted
- 六月花 (June Flower): 緑の丘 (Green Hills), 赤い夏 (Red Summer)
- 地球 (Earth): ジャングル (Jungle)

That 80s Japanese ambient/new age comp that placed in the year end rollout has some lovely stuff on it

Been meaning to dive into that one! On it.

Open to more in that ambient-experimental/"naturewave" and/or ambient (+ semi field recording) + tasteful new age if anyone has any more thoughts?

Best in class imo on that front:
- Magnétophonique: Une Cartographie Idéale
- Iguana Moonlight: Wild Palms
- G.E.N.E.: Rain Forest
- Wave Temples: Isle Enchanted

And can't sing enough praise for Deepchord's Immersions II, specifically

Also glaring overall omissions on my part... need to add:
- Air France: GBG Belongs To Us, Afraid You Told Someone About Us, Hold On To Me Baby

Maybe Ekolali? Try igor and the Split with Milan W on Plafond

Also:
V/A - Surging Waves

Also:
anything by Fluorescent Heights

https://www.discogs.com/Milan-W-Ekolali-Plafond-2/release/10550068

https://www.discogs.com/Ekolali-Igor/release/9685353

https://www.discogs.com/Various-Surging-Waves/release/12464269

https://www.discogs.com/artist/2493861-Fluorescent-Heights

maybe Rainbow Dome Musick?

These are all really great suggestions brimstead thanks! I'm making my way through them but have sampled all so far.

I added these to the playlist

Thanks- one more add, if Spotify has it:

- Cheap Galapagos: 3D Exotic Resort

Couldn't find it

Not too surprised- no worries!

New single from Jonny Nash & Suzanne Kraft's forthcoming second album now up on Bandcamp. All acoustic instruments this time

https://melodyastruth.bandcamp.com/album/knife

bufiman's (aka wolf mueller aka jan schulte) albumsi will be one of my fav albums of this year and should be of interest to readers of this thread, i made a thread for discussion here

https://www.discogs.com/Bufiman-Albumsi/master/1672878

Follow up to 2018's Club Meduse compilation is out this week:

https://spacetalkmusic.bandcamp.com/album/retour-au-club-meduse-compiled-by-charles-bals

Thanks - wasn't familiar with these comps.

Via RA's mix of the day: https://harvey.dj/album/dj-harvey-live-at-rumors
3hr mix. $1 on bandcamp.

I feel like my mega playlist is going to be a go to while self isolating. Any time anxiety starts to creep in, I reach for those soothing vibes.

“Canyon” off that first Club Meduse comp is incredible, stoked for the sequel

Tornado Wallace has a new "mini-album" out on Optimo

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

Some great "Stay In & Chill" Spotify playlists being shared by various members of the Balearic massive over on Test Pressing:

https://www.testpressing.org/magazine

yessss, ty for the heads up

ahh sweet

best thread

Todays Spotify playlist comes from Wolf Müller. It's well chill. x. https://t.co/uXirtdI2vJ pic.twitter.com/QL022rHI8D

— Test Pressing (@Test_Pressing) March 30, 2020

nice

They are really cranking out these lists, lots of good ones

They're all pretty great. Lots of favourites on there but also lots of amazing tracks I've not heard before.

Today's from Telephones is another good 'un

I was bored and I like giant lists, so I consolidated them all into one big megalist. Will try to keep updated.

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2ehdiaDsn4E8eWupwmURhn?si=FU91ubVDTmmja8FsctZwFg

^ Good work.

yes, i will def be listening to the moodles megalist

bless you Moodles

The new Jura Soundsystem compilation is sounding very dreamy today

They're cranking out these lists like crazy, just added 2 more.

Will also rep for their At The Disco playlist

Aphex, Romanthony, Moodyman, Photek, Gladys Knight, Idris Muhammad and many, many more

Damn, these lists are good. Test Pressing and ECM are what's getting me through this shit.

https://mariuscircus.bandcamp.com/album/the-computer-controlled-gardener

this is my current go to album given the current weather-n-chaos in the uk.

I think this is the closest thread to put this cool/strange Italian synth-drama album I just bumped into via this blog post from 2017: http://www.listentothis.info/2017/06/francesco-messina-medio-occidente-1983/

"Slinky, smart instrumental pop with pristine drum programming that hints at balearic as much as Berlin school. Thick with candy-toned new age synth pads, nods to Latin percussion, and rotary melodic motifs suggesting (duh) Italian minimalism, though this is definitely not minimalist. If this hadn’t come out a year before Echoes, I might guess Messina had been listening to Badarou. Tinged with mysticism in ways that are much harder to define than the album cover would suggest, and with a few tracks that remind me of Lena Platonos or even Vangelis in that they manage to simultaneously be operatic, melancholic, synthetic, and evocative of patriotism."

relevant to my interests, ty for posting

Listen To This! is such a goldmine and I feel like it's setting the agenda for a lot of recent archival reissues

Retour Au Club Meduse is excellent, I think I prefer it to the first one.

new Jonny Nash & Suzanne Kraft is lovely too - I had been worried based on the MATstudio stuff that it was going to be harsher and jarring but thankfully it's their usual soothing ambience.

still keeping the Stay In & Chill Megalist updated

new Cantoma album is A+ wine lodge Nigella soundtrack yuppie vibes, every time you think it can't get more so there's another flute solo or Spanish guitar melody, so shamelessly tasteless in its curation of naff tastefulness, I love it and I kinda hate myself for it

I just made a 'balearic' mix - or really just a mix of downtempo pop released between 89 and 92. Features Underworld, The Beloved, Pet Shop Boys, Camouflage, Erasure, The Orb, and Durutti Column. All amateurly 'blended' together. Check it out (or not) https://www.mixcloud.com/biznotic/balearic-bubbles-go-pop-in-isolation/

I'm about halfway through this and it is great! It sounds exactly like every good afterparty in someone's house when you're still dancing but the sun is coming up

Listening while cleaning, it started raining on a warm summer day: love it

Thanks willem and boxedjoy. That afterparty / suns coming up vibe is exactly what I was going for, so glad you felt it too.

Nice one, thanks!

That was really well done. How much preparation did you do beforehand?