to avoid derailing the studio thread, please to discuss all your smoothed-out dub disco flamenco party faves here!
has there been much talk of a mountain of one on ILM? i know there has been a bit on the noise board. their two EPs are getting reissued on CD with some new songs in september, i can imagine ILM's talk talk fan contingent flipping out for that. new single is getting a 12 minute+ studio remix, too.
― haitch, Tuesday, 31 July 2007 01:32 (ten years ago) Permalink
i almost bought the Sorcerer album yesterday.
― jaxon, Tuesday, 31 July 2007 01:47 (ten years ago) Permalink
here are some other groups worth checking out
dreamchimney dudes windsurf: http://www.myspace.com/windsurfmusic (& the two members of Windsurf) sorcerer: http://www.myspace.com/sorcererjams hatchback: http://www.myspace.com/hatchback76
blackjoy: http://www.myspace.com/blackjoy2000
― jaxon, Tuesday, 31 July 2007 01:50 (ten years ago) Permalink
i think i should pull out the Chicken Lips albums from a few years ago. at the time i wasn't feeling the dadrockness of it, but heard a song of theirs at a sushi joint last night (don't tell steve shasta i went on a sunday) and it really reminded me of Map of Africa.
― jaxon, Tuesday, 31 July 2007 01:52 (ten years ago) Permalink
i think that chicken lips album only came out last year!
that hatchback track 'white diamond' (and its much-hyped prins thomas remix) is pretty fine. hadn't heard of windsurf before now, though.
― haitch, Tuesday, 31 July 2007 02:28 (ten years ago) Permalink
what's up with this new AMO single?
― cutty, Tuesday, 31 July 2007 02:30 (ten years ago) Permalink
We just this morning took delivery of the new A Mountain of One single, 'Brown Piano' (for some reason this title cracks me up), and album, Collected Works (I know why that one cracks me up). The album just assembles the tracks which've already seen album release and slaps on a Blue NIle/Talk Talk-style sleeve, but the single, a new track, boasts a remix from Studio - an eleven-minute epic (of course), it has one of the most ominous, grand intros I've heard in a while, but as a whole it doesn't hold a candle to anything on their supernaturally good West Coast LP.
― haitch, Tuesday, 31 July 2007 02:36 (ten years ago) Permalink
balearic revival is new downtempo.
― Romeo Jones, Tuesday, 31 July 2007 02:47 (ten years ago) Permalink
oops, meant to say it's THE new downtempo
adult contemporary?
― speculator, Tuesday, 31 July 2007 03:01 (ten years ago) Permalink
I'm scared to go back to that Chicken Lips record, remember some horrifying listening experiences last year.
― Dominique, Tuesday, 31 July 2007 03:04 (ten years ago) Permalink
Don't know how much we need this thread, as a lot has been discussed in the beardo thread.
I have seen "balearic" become one of the go-to adjectives for hip online shops these days, to describe anything that is vaguely neo-disco, downtempo, or trip-hop sounding. Anything that has an acoustic guitar also works. I think even the new Chemical Brothers album was saddled with the tag!
It was only so short ago that "balearic" usually meant smooth jazz/adult contemporary music, or was something you'd find on an Ibiza comp. I can see many people get badly burned (a la Italo Disco, Ryan Paris/Radiorama does not sound like Mixed Up In the Hague) if this new flavor continues to grow.
― Michael F Gill, Tuesday, 31 July 2007 04:35 (ten years ago) Permalink
I mean, how far are we from Todd Terje releasing instrumental edits of Chris Isaak's "Wicked Game"!
― Michael F Gill, Tuesday, 31 July 2007 04:39 (ten years ago) Permalink
fyi trentmoller did an amazing remix of wicked game under his business man alias
― The Macallan 18 Year, Tuesday, 31 July 2007 05:00 (ten years ago) Permalink
so, to answer your question: not far
― The Macallan 18 Year, Tuesday, 31 July 2007 05:05 (ten years ago) Permalink
i have listened the shit out of those aMo1 albums
― max, Tuesday, 31 July 2007 05:12 (ten years ago) Permalink
er EPs
http://i173.photobucket.com/albums/w46/amountainofone/Quotes.jpg
― jaxon, Tuesday, 31 July 2007 05:24 (ten years ago) Permalink
^ i guess that's the same thing haitch said
― jaxon, Tuesday, 31 July 2007 05:26 (ten years ago) Permalink
Hah - the 1st beta band ep is now a signifier.
― baaderonixx, Tuesday, 31 July 2007 09:43 (ten years ago) Permalink
lol @ rough trade - everyone knows the 1st BB EP was the weakest!
― jabba hands, Tuesday, 31 July 2007 10:11 (ten years ago) Permalink
meet the new british press same as the old
― Michael F Gill, Tuesday, 31 July 2007 11:05 (ten years ago) Permalink
how far are we from Todd Terje releasing instrumental edits of Chris Isaak's "Wicked Game"
okay surely i am not alone in thinking this would be the most amazing thing?
― c sharp major, Tuesday, 31 July 2007 11:18 (ten years ago) Permalink
couldnt be better than all those pom pom re-edits.
― ☪, Tuesday, 31 July 2007 11:22 (ten years ago) Permalink
"lol @ rough trade - everyone knows the 1st BB EP was the weakest!"
Yeah this is almost off-putting to read. It surely means "y'know, it's got a rhythm track and it's a bit cruisy, but it's not scary or anything! nothing too experimental!"
And yeah I'm imagining the most awesome awesome edit of "Wicked Game" right now. Not that the song needs an edit to be fabulous.
― Tim F, Tuesday, 31 July 2007 13:52 (ten years ago) Permalink
does anyone read my posts? http://aurgasm.us/2006/12/hey-dj-friday-chris-isaak-and-dub.html
― The Macallan 18 Year, Tuesday, 31 July 2007 16:26 (ten years ago) Permalink
:( <-- before listening to that song
:) <-- after
― The Macallan 18 Year, Tuesday, 31 July 2007 16:27 (ten years ago) Permalink
Not bad, but I'd prefer hearing The Studio do something with that one.
― baaderonixx, Tuesday, 31 July 2007 16:46 (ten years ago) Permalink
okay i think i have to jump ship when we're onto groups named windsurf and hatchback
― strongohulkington, Tuesday, 31 July 2007 16:56 (ten years ago) Permalink
yeah, i pretty much said the same thing on the 70s soft rock thread. but their music is good and they seem like cool guys.
― jaxon, Tuesday, 31 July 2007 17:46 (ten years ago) Permalink
-- ☪, Tuesday, 31 July 2007 11:22 (11 hours ago) Link
plz 2 explain
― elan, Tuesday, 31 July 2007 22:30 (ten years ago) Permalink
this is a nice one by Jaki of Can's Phantom Band http://www.dreamchimney.com/tracks/16823
― jaxon, Tuesday, 31 July 2007 22:35 (ten years ago) Permalink
there totally needs to be a seperate balearic thread as stuff gets lost int he beardo thread to quickly.
the mix that mountain on one did for best foot forward is totally wrecking my head.
in some ways its really great phased out low slung coke rock.
and sometimes i think that balearic is the nu re edit is the new electro is the nu electroclash is the nu...is the nu...is the nu..... (repeat to fade)
and I think about cnuts going into phonica and asking about the lastest Lindstrom mix of chris rea's Josephine and I want to kill it before it grows.
― Hamildan, Tuesday, 31 July 2007 22:51 (ten years ago) Permalink
Almost two years old, but the Lindstrom and Prins Thomas LP goes here too. I almost feel like they should have released it under a different moniker and then went ahead and released the 12" versions as themselves. Its not a dance record at all.
― gr8080, Wednesday, 1 August 2007 20:05 (ten years ago) Permalink
Shitty things about my new commute:
-It is 40+ miles one way -It is 60 - 90 minutes depending on time of day
Awesome things about my new commute:
-It gives me plenty of time to listen to new music -Music on this thread accompanies commute's view nicely:
http://icons.wunderground.com/data/wximagenew/k/kaneohe/2.jpg
http://static.flickr.com/66/273742401_a1f618f53f_o.jpg
http://image42.webshots.com/42/4/36/21/2062436210017353410UvkNDq_ph.jpg
― gr8080, Wednesday, 1 August 2007 20:10 (ten years ago) Permalink
where is that?
― Michael F Gill, Wednesday, 1 August 2007 20:18 (ten years ago) Permalink
windward coast of Oahu.
― gr8080, Wednesday, 1 August 2007 20:33 (ten years ago) Permalink
New Jersey
― deej, Wednesday, 1 August 2007 20:34 (ten years ago) Permalink
Wow - that is awesome. I don't really get the Lindsrom&Prins Thomas reference though.
So is anyone gonna venture a definition of balearic?
― baaderonixx, Thursday, 2 August 2007 08:39 (ten years ago) Permalink
Here's the top 25 balaeric records as voted for on the v balaeric DJ History board. These were all played on Bill Brewster's show on Kiss(?) yesterday...
1 Tullio de Piscopo - Primavera (Stop Bajon) (Bagaria, 1984) 2 William Pitt - City Lights (Public Sound, 1986) 3 Elkin & Nelson - Jibaro (CBS, 1986) 4 Chris Rea - Josephine (Magnet, 1985) 5 Herb Alpert - Rotation (A&M, 1979) 6 Manuel Goettsching - E2-E4 (Inteam, 1984) 7 Mandy Smith - I Just Can't Wait (Cool & Breezy Jazz Mix) (PWL, 1987) 8 Dizzi Heights - Would I Find Love (Parlophone, 1986) 9 Art Of Noise - Moments In Love (Island, 1983) 10 It's Immaterial - Driving Away From Home (Virgin, 1986) 11 Carly Simon - Why (WEA, 1982) 12 Sebastien Tellier - La Ritournelle (Lucky Number, 2005) 13 Donna Summer - State of Independence (WEA, 1982) 14 Laid Back - Fly Away/Walking In The Sunshine (CBS, 1983) 15 Kate Bush - Running Up The Hill (EMI, 1985) 16 Cure - Lullaby (Fiction, 1989) 17 Linda Di Franco - TV Scene (WEA, 1985) 18 Flash & The Pan - Walking In The Rain (Epic, 1978) 19 Izit - Stories (ffrr, 1989) 20 Fleetwood Mac - Big Love (Arthur Baker Remix) (Warners, 1987) 21 Double – The Captain Of Her Heart (Polydor, 1985) 22 The Beloved - The Sun Rising (WEA, 1989) 23 Enzo Avitabile - Blackout (EMI, 1986) 24 Mike Francis - Features Of Love (Concorde, 1985) 25 Richie Havens - Going Back To My Roots (Elektra, 1980)
― Raw Patrick, Thursday, 2 August 2007 09:09 (ten years ago) Permalink
WTF - The Cure "Lullaby"???
― baaderonixx, Thursday, 2 August 2007 09:19 (ten years ago) Permalink
There's no Wiki entry for balearic (the music) so someone should write a really bad one and piss off the purists. I'm so unbalearic that I spelled it wrong twice in my previous post.
― Raw Patrick, Thursday, 2 August 2007 09:29 (ten years ago) Permalink
there's a wiki entry for 'Balearic Beat', though.
I used to think it was pronounced and spelt 'baleriac', I'm still not really sure if I'm saying it right.
― c sharp major, Thursday, 2 August 2007 11:08 (ten years ago) Permalink
I've never heard anyone say 'Balearic beat'.
― Raw Patrick, Thursday, 2 August 2007 11:14 (ten years ago) Permalink
mm, it sounds kind of lame (the word 'beat' in a genre name generally sounds lame and pseudy to me?). 'Balearic house' i've seen used, though.
― c sharp major, Thursday, 2 August 2007 11:36 (ten years ago) Permalink
"Lullabye" I can totally see if it's the Extended Mix on Mixed Up - I've put that on quite a few balearic-y "Back to Mine" style comps I've made.
― Tim F, Thursday, 2 August 2007 12:23 (ten years ago) Permalink
"Floating in the air, floating in the sea, take my hand, come with me"
― blueski, Thursday, 2 August 2007 12:50 (ten years ago) Permalink
"Brown Piano" is up on the A Mountain of One myspace page
― jaxon, Thursday, 2 August 2007 21:20 (ten years ago) Permalink
i love playing the 12" mix of lullabye in downtempo/baleric sets.
also, baaderonixxpaws: listen to this cd:
http://www.kompaktkiste.de/cd/_123/_5/541516501427cdp.jpg
― gr8080, Thursday, 2 August 2007 21:43 (ten years ago) Permalink
it's like a postrock band playing dance music in hawaii
― jaxon, Thursday, 2 August 2007 21:49 (ten years ago) Permalink
Didn't realise there was a new The Swan and The Lake album released earlier this year. Bit more minimal and new agey in parts but still very, very good
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0QtBveHW8U
― groovypanda, Thursday, 23 November 2017 12:51 (six months ago) Permalink
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFkpa7Ywch4
Loving this remix
― Le Bateau Ivre, Thursday, 23 November 2017 14:08 (six months ago) Permalink
I've wondered about this one for quite a while and up it pops with a 2017 reissue. I haven't heard the rest of the LP yet. Genre names are for the birds and insects but it can go here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBxLif0RPXY
― saer, Friday, 24 November 2017 19:01 (six months ago) Permalink
Oh nice! I hope Polar Sequences gets reissued too.
― brotherlovesdub, Friday, 24 November 2017 19:19 (six months ago) Permalink
"Bit more minimal and new agey in parts but still very, very good"
Yeah, this was a bit disappointing. You picked the best track to post above though!
― skip, Monday, 27 November 2017 07:14 (six months ago) Permalink
Not sure how many followers of this thread also bookmark the New Age one but the Pauline Anna Strom compilation that seandalai posted is absolutely sublime
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcWZ6C-kn_Y
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fp6ZNrH4EzA
― groovypanda, Monday, 4 December 2017 08:09 (six months ago) Permalink
unbelievable african disco tune:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=205&v=P4Jzl5CeW5k
― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Tuesday, 5 December 2017 15:25 (six months ago) Permalink
mega latepass but the dj sports album is prob my aoty. every second of it is perfect to me
― flopson, Saturday, 9 December 2017 01:37 (six months ago) Permalink
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-d227Q8dKKQ
― skip, Monday, 11 December 2017 21:56 (six months ago) Permalink
i guess this belongs here:
i like making people up on youtube. someone replied to my comment on chris rea's "nothing's happenin' by the sea" - a beautiful reply. pic.twitter.com/0dfzqcXxkU— Ronan Fitzgerald (@rmkf) December 15, 2017
― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Friday, 15 December 2017 15:25 (six months ago) Permalink
love it <3
― ♫ very clever with maracas.jpg ♫ (Le Bateau Ivre), Friday, 15 December 2017 15:28 (six months ago) Permalink
whisky panda eyes
― ♫ very clever with maracas.jpg ♫ (Le Bateau Ivre), Friday, 15 December 2017 15:29 (six months ago) Permalink
masterpiece followed by masterpiece
― Thomas NAGL (Neil S), Friday, 15 December 2017 15:30 (six months ago) Permalink
Haha so good!
― badg, Friday, 15 December 2017 17:13 (six months ago) Permalink
Various 2017 best ofs are out over on Ban Ban Ton Ton (not on Testpressing this year).
Usual mix of stuff posted in this thread and other gems that went under the radar.
― groovypanda, Friday, 22 December 2017 09:46 (six months ago) Permalink
Testpressing best of 2017 roundup now available in one handy YouTube playlist
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvhTM3qzAHgtukRRajqX_8Wq8qOJeRD9K
― groovypanda, Friday, 12 January 2018 10:05 (five months ago) Permalink
more balearic rock than straight dance music, but i'm seeing Yumi Zouma today in austin and i've been thinking about their balearic revival influences a lot recently (they did an homage to air france's last single as one of their first releases). so, so good, and their releases keep showing a bunch of growth.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RoDoTZFt-fo
― austinb, Saturday, 13 January 2018 21:24 (five months ago) Permalink
(their label Cascine takes a lot of influence from Sincerely, Yours and the Gothenberg scene in general, so I end up following a bunch of their releases)
― austinb, Saturday, 13 January 2018 21:26 (five months ago) Permalink
yes! I think I've mentioned Cascine before but they are basically keeping the Air France/Studio/Tough Alliance axis of 2007 balearic pop alive. How were YZ live? I am in a WhatsApp group they shared on their Facebook which the band members and tour manager are members of and it's been so frustrating hearing about this tour and them not actually coming to Scotland.
― boxedjoy, Monday, 15 January 2018 11:38 (five months ago) Permalink
Karat Der Blaue Planet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_HmiymMKNA
― flopson, Tuesday, 30 January 2018 03:58 (four months ago) Permalink
Nice one
― skip, Tuesday, 30 January 2018 08:03 (four months ago) Permalink
https://wearerhythmsection.bandcamp.com/album/compilation-for-dominica
loads of great stuff AND it's a charity compilation for Dominica
― boxedjoy, Monday, 5 February 2018 09:59 (four months ago) Permalink
https://www.gofundme.com/pbv-rally
― the late great, Tuesday, 13 February 2018 22:07 (four months ago) Permalink
Wolf Müller & Niklas Wandt - Instrumentalmusik von der Mitte der World
The first few tracks on this are stellar, then it becomes a bit noodly for me. But still, buy buy buy!
https://www.growingbinrecords.com/growing-bin-releases/
― skip, Sunday, 18 February 2018 18:50 (four months ago) Permalink
Most Balearic reissue since time. Flipping brilliant > https://t.co/Q3cT3Fj2sN pic.twitter.com/LZWOsjFDoX— Apiento (@Apiento) March 14, 2018
― groovypanda, Wednesday, 14 March 2018 21:36 (three months ago) Permalink
jed switched me on to this and shared it in the Music From Memory thread, it's wonderful
― boxedjoy, Wednesday, 14 March 2018 22:06 (three months ago) Permalink
Stop It! Stop It!
― Heavy Messages (jed_), Thursday, 15 March 2018 01:18 (three months ago) Permalink
Wait, there's a Music From Memory thread?
― groovypanda, Thursday, 15 March 2018 09:09 (three months ago) Permalink
This is on the flip of the reissue and also very good
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqnneVDzG2s
― groovypanda, Thursday, 15 March 2018 09:13 (three months ago) Permalink
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKTcVS3jw5g
― flopson, Friday, 23 March 2018 00:47 (two months ago) Permalink
new shy layers owns
― ||||||||, Saturday, 24 March 2018 18:36 (two months ago) Permalink
so sick
― flopson, Monday, 26 March 2018 06:07 (two months ago) Permalink
Great mix from back in the day from Phil Mison
http://testpressing.org/2018/03/phil-mison-live-from-the-cafe-del-mar-august-94/
http://testpressing.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/461-PHIL-MISON-BACK.png
― groovypanda, Monday, 26 March 2018 07:46 (two months ago) Permalink
nice, love a bit of Mison and this is getting my week off to a mellow start
― Thomas NAGL (Neil S), Monday, 26 March 2018 08:47 (two months ago) Permalink
I had a five hour bus journey last week and that Mison mix was a real help on it
― boxedjoy, Monday, 26 March 2018 19:30 (two months ago) Permalink
https://music-from-memory.bandcamp.com/album/tbc
really into the final track "All Blue" on this Giuseppe Leonardi EP
― boxedjoy, Monday, 26 March 2018 20:54 (two months ago) Permalink
https://kenoathrecords.bandcamp.com/album/angophora-scenes
recommended if you enjoyed the Tornado Wallace album and that Fourth World Music compilation
― boxedjoy, Thursday, 29 March 2018 17:21 (two months ago) Permalink
Nice. Shy Layers premieres new track on Dream Chimney
I ❤️ Dream Chimney. Song premiere! https://t.co/6eOex44ykF— Shy Layers (@shylayers) April 24, 2018
― groovypanda, Tuesday, 24 April 2018 19:21 (one month ago) Permalink
There was a new Shy Layers a few weeks ago on Spotify Release Radar.
― brotherlovesdub, Tuesday, 24 April 2018 20:14 (one month ago) Permalink
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JmTaNH4b7M
― groovypanda, Tuesday, 1 May 2018 06:59 (one month ago) Permalink
really like that but I hope there's an instrumental version
― boxedjoy, Tuesday, 1 May 2018 09:42 (one month ago) Permalink
I thought I had posted about this Sign Libra mini-album in here but it seems not - on Antinote, and originally designed as the soundtrack to a ballet performance a few years ago. It's all panpipes and sax and birdsong samples and probably my favourite music I've heard this year.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyQ-SvlIvlQ
― boxedjoy, Tuesday, 1 May 2018 09:47 (one month ago) Permalink
cosmic loveliness, including lots of Japanese synthpop and part of the Super Metroid soundtrack!https://www.mixcloud.com/Spiritland/joakim-at-spiritland-3rd-may-2018/
― Thomas NAGL (Neil S), Tuesday, 8 May 2018 08:11 (one month ago) Permalink
New Tommyboy mix!
https://soundcloud.com/whoistommy/tommyboy-out-of-africa-ii-metanoia
― groovypanda, Wednesday, 9 May 2018 08:23 (one month ago) Permalink
charity shop find a couple of weeks ago :
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lifetracks
never heard of it before, but damn, its perfect for the current sunshine excess.
― mark e, Wednesday, 9 May 2018 08:52 (one month ago) Permalink
^ Ha! I've actually been listening to that Tom Middleton album a lot recently for the first time in years. There are some great tracks on it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swvAY3-r0_Q
― groovypanda, Wednesday, 9 May 2018 09:25 (one month ago) Permalink
New Eleventeen Eston LP coming in two weeks. Loved the last one
https://soundcloud.com/growingbinrecords/sets/eleventeen-eston-at-the-water
― groovypanda, Wednesday, 9 May 2018 14:09 (one month ago) Permalink
I’ve never paid much attention to the dude before but from the snippets up on soundcloud the forthcoming new Holly Mare album sounds phenomenal:
https://soundcloud.com/jolly-mare/logica-natura-lp
― Tim F, Saturday, 19 May 2018 05:56 (one month ago) Permalink
Ugh, Jolly Mare I mean.
― Tim F, Saturday, 19 May 2018 05:57 (one month ago) Permalink
Some great tracks in here, perfect listening for a Sunday morning. I don't really know much about this scene but I've picked up a few Antinote and Music From Memory releases and am looking forward to doing a bit more digging
― paolo, Sunday, 20 May 2018 12:02 (one month ago) Permalink