this is a thread for the BALEARIC REVIVAL

do you read that blog often, energy flash gordon?

formerly the most redundant blog ever

xpost - i read that blog, as it's in my rss feeds, but i gotta say, i don't really get the love for the edits so much. there was one recently of that Voyage "I Love You Dancer" track by Rune Lindbæk that just didn't make any sense. he really didn't do anything to the track besides add echo to a few parts. why not just play the original?

what's the most redundant blog now, michael?

the crown is vacant for the time being

haha

off topic:

hey have you guys heard what i'm gushing over here.

I like both LSB singles a bunch, but it's weird how they both seem to revolve around "Some Girls" by Michael Heart. "Original Highway Delight" blatantly samples it, and "FOG" seems to sample something very similar sounding.

The LSB italo edits were just released too, nothing too essential but I do like the P. Lion one.

hey tim - new peter visti!

the newish Detroit Beatdown Vol 2 ep is like balearic detroit-- really smooth synths, lots of congas, good shit. definitely my best recent purchase!

finally listening to that Diepvries mix.

pretty great in the middle from the max essa track to the mudd and pollard one.

detroit balearic sounds very funny. "this one goes out to all my oppressed brothers who couldn't catch the sunset today."

wow.

jaxon - u heard this yet?

http://www.myspace.com/mountainmachine

Out Now:

Omar S Vs Alton Miller - Crackhead Luau(Don't Believe The Pipe) EP

Marcellus Pittman & DJ Genesis Feat. Norma Jean Bell- Belle Isle Paragliders EP

The Alton Miller "Souls like mine" album from this year is pretty good.

most of the alton miller stuff is pretty good, imho.

also, that comment about the oppressed bros and sunsets was more than a bit offensive.

by Detroit Balearic, i mean it has the synths and feel of detroit techno/hi-tech jazz, but the BPMs are slower, the samples jazzier, the vibe more 'chill.' really quite nice.

it was a stupid irreverent joke! this is the internets though, so i deserve what i get. i guess it was just my kneejerk reaction to seeing the balearic adjective applied to yet another style.

I wouldn't worry about it too much Michael, the idea of the Beatdown guys being Balearic is just plain silly.

:)

grady, what is that Mountain Machine? is that a Mountain of One side project? or are jordorowsky references just flying off the shelf these days?

is that a Mountain of One side project?

that's what i assumed at first, but i'm not sure anymore. when i was on the myspace last week, one of the tracks on the mp3player had accompanying artwork that looked like something i had seen on a bit of AMO1 promo but i think its gone now.

both the artwork for the song Mountain Machine and A Mountain of One use this imagery, from jodorowsky's Holy Mountain

http://img408.imageshack.us/img408/3686/holymountainbo2.jpg

from a comment posted on Mountain Machine's page. can we name all of the references? it's seriously my record collection. i've got McDonald & Giles, Max Roach "Members Don't Git Weary", White Noise (lightning bolts), Brian Eno's "Another Green World" (weird characters under wave), Thom Yorke, Selda, Sa Ra Creative Partners, Fela Kuti, Eddie Gale (in robes), John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band, Lou Rawls, Gentle Giant (king in crown). there's a lot more i recognize but can't place.

http://i131.photobucket.com/albums/p306/wearecamo/WE_ARE_SOUND_webFlyer.jpg

gang gang dance.

FELA

oh u got that jaxon

awesome pic
i see Jan Jelinek (Kosmischer Pitch)

i knew i recognized the gang gang dance one, but couldn't place it

there's some madlib thing (white building top)

That's the second Quasimoto album

i recognize the running rasta in center bottom and the guy in the purple overcoat and hat

I wouldn't worry about it too much Michael, the idea of the Beatdown guys being Balearic is just plain silly.

i don;t really understand why everyone is doubting me on this one. maybe i'll up some of the tracks just to prove yr mfuckin asses wrong.

I checked out Aeroplane on Myspace (owing to this thread's recommendation and because they're myspace friends with all the Swedish balearic mafia) only to discover that their eponymous song is my favourite track (or equal favourite with "Let It Happen") from Lindstrom & Prins Thomas' Radio 1 Essential Mix. So large sounding.

Table you might be able to make a good case aurally, as the beatdown guys do venture into "chill out" (for lack of a better phrase) areas. But I wouldn't think that the music comes from taking style notes on say, Balearic comps and flamenco guitar players.

oh god no. more jazzy, for sure.

SUPER BALEARIC
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3sNARLNu_Y

soft rocks is really, really good.
http://www.myspace.com/softrocksrecordings

The entire Badly Drawn Boy "Promises" 12 inch is U&K - Reverso 68, Beyond the Wizard's Sleeve and A Mountain of One each offering a different gorgous definition of "balearic". The AMO1 remix is ridiculously epic, as with "Freefall" it reminds me of Marillion a bit.

but... badly drawn boy!

I know. It felt weird buying it believe me.

i've never actually heard his music, but I have to respect the guy for the company he keeps. He helps run those reissue labels with andy votel like Delay 68 and Finder's Keepers.

there's a CD-promo rip of that single that has instrumental versions of the Reverso & AMO1 mixes. surprisingly, the BTWS mix is my *least* favorite, and i'll actually go so far as saying i don't like it, even though those EPs and a few other remixes (findlay brown) are spectacular. what happened?

i've noticed that most of the Wizard's Sleve remixes just add backwards guitar to the song to make it "trippy" and call it a day.

you say that like it's a bad thing.

ha. they sound great, it just hit me one day what they were doing

ha, don't the stone roses have entire b-sides which are just versions of "Standing Here" and "Elephant Stone" played backwards?

yeah and they're brilliant. I'M WITHOUT SHOES is worth a download. oh yeah they add some forward vocals too

Guernica!