this is a thread for the BALEARIC REVIVAL

highly recommended

Empire of the Sun - Walking on a Dream

I didn't expect to like this, owing to it being an Australian super-group of sorts, and I disapprove of that sort of thing on principle (although I've never really had anything against Sleepy Jackson and always liked Pnau) - but this is very pretty!

OTOH I wonder how many times they had to say "MGMT! MGMT!" in order to get the whole thing bankrolled.

just tracked down the second track on that visti 24:hours mix! frankie valentine - "zumbi" (henrik schwarz dub)

uh, whoops, i lied: the isoul8 remix, not the h. schwarz dub

thank you so much, such an amazing remix

discovered via last.fm "balearic" radio tag: http://www.myspace.com/reginaxxx

cosmic balearic beats vol.1 in september from eskimo with coyote in flagranti maelstrom and others... looks bonerific

this record is superb btw... so much great music on here

^^ lol was about to revive thread to talk about this, esp. the homerun track which is a STUNNER (you can hear it unmixed at their myspace, doesn't seem to be an actual 12" out yet: http://www.myspace.com/homerunlaurent)

i want more of this kind of epic-synths-yawning-into-the-chasm type stuff

dope^

xp

Yea I'm digging that one too, more than the Deakin one in fact

actually i wish that comp was released unmixed.

the mixing isnt anything special and about 1/3 of the tracks are mad boring.

are you guys talking about Cosmic Balearic Beats? the whole thing just came out as 3 seperately-released, unmixed 12"s...
i'm way into the Coyote & Maelstrom tracks...

There was a mix cd (done by Skinny Joey) released as well... http://www.discogs.com/release/1411450. There are some notable differences between the cd and vinyl releases, for instance I purchased Vol. 3 and was treated to a Brendan Moeller track that wasn't included in the mix.

But I think gr8080 was referring to the Deakin comp (Nu-Balearica on Ministry of Sound) which seemed to choose dull tracks in favor of a seamless mix. Which of course is boring.

gr8080 otm, i think the homerun track really outshines nearly everything else on that mix. STILL haven't heard the deakin mix, tho

xp no i was referring to the cosmic balearic beats one

didnt know about the unmixed 12"s

they should have just gone with the same format as the computer incarnations for world peace series

yeah, a few of those tracks are throwaways frankly...

xpost i liked the Deakin mix though, there's tons of my favorites from last year on there...

the deakin one is too long to listen to all at once but there's some great stuff on there, I dig it

The Cosmic Balearic Beats comp is available unmixed on iTunes and (I think) Beatport, with the mix stuck on the end as a long hour+ track, similar to what !K7 did with the Carl Craig comp.

are you sure its unmixed and not just separate tracks?

The Aeroplane remix of Grace Jones' "Williams Blood" is just lovely, albeit a bit LOL AEROPLANE.

The Homerun track on the Turbo Mind Vacuum 3 compilation is great too.

gr8080, I bought Cosmic Balearic beats on iTunes and you get all the individual tracks unmixed, full length, and then the cd version as a single track, so it works out as good value.

kewl

has anyone heard this?

http://carletoncurtis.transworld.net/files/2008/08/seasiderock.jpg

They sorta came out of nowhere with this all-instrumental follow up album of wistful balearic tunes. A pleasant listen, nothing earth-shattering but it's a nice statement.

Maybe it wasn't out of nowhere. I have some balearic comp from a few years back with "young folks" on it... (((shivers))). I would pay money to never have to hear that song again.

And I think they're from Gothenburg too. I guess that's sorta ground-zero for this scene.

That Aeroplane remix of Grace Jones is awesome.

I can't believe nobody's mentioned the Prins Tomas James Yuill (?) remix thing. Its what I wanted that Erlend Oye album to be.

That Aeroplane remix of Grace Jones is awesome.

^^^^^ truth

so why no talk about diskjokke on ilx?

i like that album a lot. wacky shit. is it pronounced disk jockey?

not really thread for the balearic revival material though, i don't think?

yeah but it's not really beardo either

btw i think it's pronounced "deez yucky"

Re the Grace Jones Aeroplane Remix - it occurs to me that they are the Jacques Lu Cont of Balearic now.

how so

Big mainstream/crossover producers with kind of electro/disco sound to them?

Kind of heavily trance influenced?

I guess I can see it. Who's the Ewan Pearson then? Todd Terje?

Actually what Aeroplane remind me of most is Patrick Cowley style High NRG, only at like 115 BPM.

Low NRG?

is diskjokke too electrohouse for this thread?

i don't know where diskjokke sits, he's all over the place. great tho.

i got the windsurf album today. surprised there were vocals on a couple of tracks. it's good, but i doubt i will listen to all 70 minutes of it at once.

i also really like diskjokke. is he electrohouse?

i like his lykke li remix (which could maybe fit on this thread, at least bpm-wise)

"is diskjokke too electrohouse for this thread?"

Yeah maybe. He reminds me of this comp. I loved his almost Finger Lickin' track on the Sunkissed mix, need to check his album.

Aeroplane = JLC insofar as with each production they're sounding less and like typical balearic and more and more like the production team for a sequel to Confessions on the Dancefloor - sweeping, epic, trancey, pop, smooth, and not automatically aligned with any clique or revivalist trend. That obsession with hyper-smooth layering in particular is key - there's no warp'n'weft or contrast, it's more like the tide going in and out.

Much in the same way that throughout 2004 and into 2005 JLC was drifting further from lol electro-house (e.g The Faint remix, still one of my faves tho) and more into his own super-sleek soundworld.

I think Lindstrom is the Ewan Pearson of balearic. Todd Terje is maybe the Freeform Five of balearic.

what is lol electrohouse

is this some sort of freakytriggerism i'm unaware of

Yeah I'm being cryptic - I mean "lol..." as in "unashamedly typical of....".

i posted the diskjokke track cearadactylus to my blog when i picked it up of the Full Pupp Greatest Tits comp. super stuff, i dunno if you could call it electro house at all though, there are none of the typical buzzy synth drops and the crescendos arent nearly as predictable. maybe i'm going off of only a few tracks, but I feel he is just a housier version of all this scando disco/house that has been coming off of full pupp. but please dont call him electro house

ok we won't

i think electrohouse is the best description we've got. not necessarily blog house. scando house?