The balearic beardo beach hippie album canon

balearic refers to a style of djjing practiced by djs in mid-late80s mediterranean. midtempo club music with flamenco guitars, evocative of beaches. Think "sue o latino".

see: http://www.discogs.com/Various-Classic-Balearic-Mastercuts-Volume-1/release/144535

i guess in the context of this thread it means "mellow open minded 70s rock that may have come out of LA"

think "la isla bonita", that's basically balearic beat gone mainstream

(Or 'balearic style song everyone would know')

I know there's loads of John Martyn in this thread but this is like the most Balearic song ever recorded:

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

"honest question"

maybe read the threads?

one world is a great alb

"honest question"

maybe read the threads?

― zvookster, Monday, October 21, 2013 2:55 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i.e. read 15 threads and 2000 posts to see that the term is applied to strikingly different kinds of music? sorry i'd prefer to just ask the question

uh the term "balearic" was not invented by this message board

really

if you have to ask you'll never know http://i.imgur.com/zi7hd.gif

here's what Dictionary.app (Free with all copies of OSX, an operating system for Macintosh computers) says:

Balearic |ˌbalɪˈarɪk, bəˈlɪərɪk|
adjective
relating to the Balearic Islands: the Balearic government.
• relating to or denoting a style of synthesized dance music that developed in Ibiza: the Balearic beat.
ORIGIN from Latin Balearis + -ic.

^^ so the fact that there's standard definition of "balearic" that includes ibizan dance music means that somehow it's not okay to ask a music message board why the term is applied to tons of totally different music?

sorry i just didn't anticipate snark to what i thought was a fair question

it's ILM there's no escaping snark

don't harsh the vibe, chill bros

iziba dance music is tons of totally different music, is the pt

why the term is applied to tons of totally different music?

because 'balearic' djs play different styles of records

also it's confusing because it gets (mis)applied to hairy nu-disco dudes (lindstrom) and chillwave/indie rock (neon indian)

sorry
Let's all dance to this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14DP6vxInQA

all john martyn albums are the best

That Jerry Williams is fantastic. just what i needed right now down to the title of the track. thx

all john martyn albums are the best

― caek, Monday, October 21, 2013 8:59 PM (52 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Nah but he had a lot of greats.

Replace "Balearic" with "goth" and see if the idea of multiple strands of music sharing the same unified ~vibe~ is still confusing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1CY3TVQdWs

xp balearic is probs the most nebulous/numinous instance tbfttl... certainly a game i've never quite got the hang of anyway

https://scontent-b-lhr.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-frc3/1382078_10151933923033454_2096384745_n.jpg

lol

djhistory's 100 best balearic tracks on spotify: http://open.spotify.com/user/fingermag/playlist/1S4X40YzybVNS3KrHqPel5

― max, Saturday, July 30, 2011 6:55 AM (2 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i like that jerry williams album a bunch.

my hero:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iz8RN9mCfWg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdrH944IIxc

leon lowman compilation from last year on music from memory is an all-around solid listen, surprised i haven't seen it mentioned in any EOY reissue lists. i think this is the most well-known track but seriously check out the whole damn thing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xO9RKQgxBw

yes, good album

did you like the spike album, psych?

the snippets i've heard, yes! i keep forgetting to seek out a copy, seems like it should have some serious appeal beyond the types of people that usually spring for golf channel stuff

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FoDiIck060

(^just to make it easy for lazy people like myself)

i guess spike is beardo but beyond that i really don't know how i'd categorize what he does. power pop? what i've heard is very rundgren, but fuzzier and more excited to just vibe out for a while

yeah, it's like minimal synth kraut power pop, lol

all with that warm hazy lo-fi production style, really nice

sounds like I need that in my life

spike is the bomb

https://soundcloud.com/experimedia/finis-africae-a-last-discovery

i cant remember if this album was ever discussed itt or any other thread:

http://i.imgur.com/ExYUOys.jpg

but its been going for $100+ lately and is finally getting a re-press

http://bewithrecords.com/product/nohelani-cypriano-nohelani-lp-180gram-bewith008lp/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rE1mwfX_5EY

wow!

"Lihue" is a classic for sure. Never knew the rest of her stuff was so feted, though. Not really feeling the other soundclips on that link, tbh.

really? not even "livin' without you"? that's a real pretty song IMO.

when i was in hawaii about a decade ago, there were a few stations that still played a lot of local music, and more broadly a kind of hawaiian pop-music that included both hawaiian music like nohelani but also some "island-flavored" music of all kinds. was very refreshing to hear that unfamiliar mix of stuff (which still had plenty of familiar elements), speaking as someone from the 48 states.

i wonder how distinctive the musical culture of hawaii is today, and whether it's bucked the monoculture to any greater extent than most places.

if you like this stuff you should check out the aloha got soul DJs (google it)

here : http://alohagotsoul.com/category/dj-mixes/

I have a vinyl rip of that album, let me know through email if you want the files...

i like a lot of stuff mentioned in this thread but like some other folks i'm a little confused as to what the parameters of this expanded notion of "balearic" are or why we need this enlarged category.