this is a thread for the BALEARIC REVIVAL

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?

Hey Skip, I did quite a bit of preparation. It started by just pulling the records and finding something to start with and something for the first mix. Then I grabbed all the digital files for the records I pulled and arranged them by BPM to give me an idea of how they stacked up. I also used the digital files to workout mixpoints and arrangement since it was easier than using the vinyl and less destructive as well. Then I just hit record, and again, and again, and again until I figured out the mixpoints and sequence and got a take that wasn't horrible. At the last minute I added 3 new records in the mix which added complexity. These aren't great songs for beatmatching, and unfortunately my vinyl beatmatching skills have evaporated after nearly 2 decades of digital only mixing now. These are really songs I wanted to hear together after obsessively playing the Spiritually Ibiza compilation when the first sunny spring days hit. All in all this took me about 2 weeks to get the songs and run through a mix that didn't have major trainwrecks. There are definitely poor mixes throughout, but overall the mix I uploaded was the best version of that effort. I could do it with the digital files and have a 'perfect' mix, and I may still do that, but for now, I like the raw / amateur vibe of this mix. It does sound like a 'back to mine' or morning after style mix I would have loved in Summer 92.

There were about 15 or so records I pulled but didn't end up using, including: Wrote For Luck, Cascades, Back to Life, Get the Message, Autumn Love, Drop the Deal, Cantamilla, Crazy and some others from the era that I just couldn't make work.

really really enjoyed that. sorry to be that guy but....download link?

I can't access the standard upload sites on my work computer, so hopefully this gdrive link works: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Qeqqci66P-MIOLsuQsazSMMN4Ejf4qkt/view?usp=sharing

it did! tysm

Yes thank you!

Love those Spiritually Ibiza comps too.

https://www.discogs.com/A-Separate-Reality-Heuristic-Programs-For-Cognitive-Centering/release/15349541

Highly recommend this new single / EP (it's 33mins) by A Separate Reality. It was recommended to me by Vinyl Dreams SF and has proven to be what i call a 'flipper' - a record that I just keep flipping over and over without losing interest. It's also fairly cheap, which is a welcome change. Comments on the title? Feels a bit Orchestral Maneuvers in the Dark to me, or in line with some other titles that are just a little too close to parody.

Side A: 1. Sounds like Studio 2. Sounds like Mark Barrott 3. Sounds like Wally Badarou - not meaning this as a put down, more of a hint of the vibe.

in my world that could in no way be considered a put down

Cheers for the rec bld, A+ and worth it for the opening track alone

This album has been in heavy rotation the last couple of weeks. As well as those mentioned in the blurb I also get echoes of The Durutti Column. Definitely recommended.

https://soundinsilencerecords.bandcamp.com/album/and-inside

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5l2Ns7I2NQ

gr80’s new Spotify mix is incredibly good

pathless prelude on Spotify

put it on at a backyard bbq last nite and everyone went nuts

agreed

Link to gr80s mix please?

Assume it's this one:

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7cxU6STIVoT4nqo50qmQaI?si=T7IuGgpoTjO8BinHpcZsMA

Not sure how accurate this is, but this list gives me a big roots of vaporware vibe

oh yeah that looks ace

grady recommends normalizing the volume and setting the spotify settings to a 6 second fade in or whatever its called

listened to pathless prelude on my ride today - so good. jerry williams' voice !

vibes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKAc3nYEatw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkDpMYj7hig

I can't stop listeing to 'Warm Nights' by Reuben Vaun Smith

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

I was going to post the same album here. It's really good for something that was supposedly a live / unedited performance.

yeah, i don't get how it claims to be that - he says it's a jam and there are loads of mistakes, but it's perfectly formed