this is a thread for the BALEARIC REVIVAL

i almost bought the Sorcerer album yesterday.

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

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.

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.

what's up with this new AMO single?

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.

balearic revival is new downtempo.

oops, meant to say it's THE new downtempo

adult contemporary?

I'm scared to go back to that Chicken Lips record, remember some horrifying listening experiences last year.

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.

I mean, how far are we from Todd Terje releasing instrumental edits of Chris Isaak's "Wicked Game"!

fyi trentmoller did an amazing remix of wicked game under his business man alias

so, to answer your question: not far

i have listened the shit out of those aMo1 albums

er EPs

http://i173.photobucket.com/albums/w46/amountainofone/Quotes.jpg

^ i guess that's the same thing haitch said

Hah - the 1st beta band ep is now a signifier.

lol @ rough trade - everyone knows the 1st BB EP was the weakest!

meet the new british press same as the old

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?

couldnt be better than all those pom pom re-edits.

"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.

fyi trentmoller did an amazing remix of wicked game under his business man alias

does anyone read my posts? http://aurgasm.us/2006/12/hey-dj-friday-chris-isaak-and-dub.html

:( <-- before listening to that song

:) <-- after

Not bad, but I'd prefer hearing The Studio do something with that one.

okay i think i have to jump ship when we're onto groups named windsurf and hatchback

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.

couldnt be better than all those pom pom re-edits.

-- ☪, Tuesday, 31 July 2007 11:22 (11 hours ago) Link

plz 2 explain

this is a nice one by Jaki of Can's Phantom Band
http://www.dreamchimney.com/tracks/16823

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.

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.

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

where is that?

windward coast of Oahu.

New Jersey

Wow - that is awesome. I don't really get the Lindsrom&Prins Thomas reference though.

So is anyone gonna venture a definition of balearic?

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)

WTF - The Cure "Lullaby"???

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.

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.

I've never heard anyone say 'Balearic beat'.

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.

"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.

"Floating in the air, floating in the sea, take my hand, come with me"

"Brown Piano" is up on the A Mountain of One myspace page

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

it's like a postrock band playing dance music in hawaii

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?

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