Knew-Age music: nu-balearic hippies who fell asleep on the beach and woke up staring at the stars.

xxxpost Ya, the rest of the Munk disc is much more chilled. I'm just stuck on that track.

What about the early 80s releases on Innovative Communication? Listening to Double Fantasy's Universal Avenue, I'm thinking that this could work.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XIblmWICww

^^^this kind of reminds me of 69 'desire', wonder if c2 had heard it?

Ha, I'd say C2 heard it before dropping this one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ym7SH8a385s

doubtful i think

did the electrifying mojo ever drop double fantasy anyone?

i doubt it, that is some obscure shit unless you're into new age

i imagine craig might have heard steve roach though and there are some similarities

maybe not, heartbreaker really puts me in mind of desire tho, and i don't think it's just the pitch bending strings either. regardless it's brilliant.

It's quite possible that Craig was aware of the releases on Klaus Schulze's imprint. I didn't mean to imply plagiarism above but clearly there are some shared influences.

"heartbreaker" is a total balearic classic, i would not be surprised if carl craig was aware of that record's existence

Hello guys,

I really like this thread and this is the only reason that I signed up to this site, to participate in this conversation, that has begun over a year ago and it still goes on!

One of my favorite music styles is this eclectic blend of ambient, balearic, psychedelic sounds. I read all the posts and I'm glad that other people share my passion. But, in this discussion, many and different kinds and periods of music come together without... dividing lines. I mean that I can't compare the great and original kraut-cosmic scene of early 70s and artists like Klaus Schulze, Ashra Tempel ect. with the "synthesizer" era of new age music that followed. I think that the first krautrock era was the most creative and all the developments and revivals have their roots in this period... of course I'm interest in almost all of them! Also I don't think that the most eclectic and balearic DJ in Ibiza of the 90s would ever play an experimental music piece that lasts over 20 minutes! And keep in mind that I love this old mixes by Jose Padilla and Phil Mison in Cafe Del Mar. So, I believe that only contemporary artists -Washed Out is a great example- combine these sometimes diverse music ifluences.

Lastly, I have to suggest an album: Desire Lines by Meanderthals. A great album of imrpovisational, psychedelic, cosmic music served in a nu-balearic style!

Desire Lines is definitely a good one

not particulary new age, but def great.

also welcome to ilx nicus, be sure to check out these other threads if you haven't already
The balearic beardo beach hippie album canon
The balearic beardo beach hippie album canon

this is a thread for the BALEARIC REVIVAL

Thank you for the propositions! I saw the other, "more balearic" threads and they are very interesting... but they also are very very long. I mean that these threads have begun 4 years ago, so information is too much! But I will check them.

I know that Desire Lines is not a new age album, but it has some influences from ambient music and mainly has a great ambient feeling, I mean a deep sentimental feeling of harmony....

Now about new age, I was interested when someone mentioned Klaus Schulze's old record company, Innovative Communication. These days I'm digging the music that came from Innovative Communication: Universal Av. by Double Fantasy is great and you should also check Dancing Fantasy's first album. I think that these artists set up the foundations for chill out music. In general, I believe that chill out has its roots to the success of new age music in the mid 80s. Take for example the first Cafe Del Mar cassette compilation that was made by Jose Padilla around 1991 and is full of new age music! Here is a link to this material:

http://dalstonoxfamshop.blogspot.gr/2011/02/cafe-del-mar-tape-no-1.html

Ok, I love Desire Lines and the Hatchback, bought E2-E4 today and asked the clerk what in that vein he'd recommend and he immediately shoved the Jonas Munk in my hands. Glad he did. This thread is huge and filled with YouTubes. Please hit me with a few of the best titles from this thread while I browse back in time and play these songs and make my list.

that double fantasy track is incredibly good...

Found that Double Fantasy LP last weekend. Canadian pressing. Have to believe Carl Craig had a copy in the late 80s. The influence is so obvious.

universal ave is so great... "endless running"...

i don't know if this is the right thread for this since it's more balearic than new age but wth, i love this song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKAJs8waYd4

give me the original any day

new CFCF kind of fits this thread

http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/18663-cfcf-outside/

the first track to jump out at me from that turned out to be a bonnie prince billy cover which makes me feel gross. but i am interested.

Exercises was one of my favourite releases of the last few years but not really feeling the new one. Not sure his vocal is strong enough for some of the tracks. Some nice sounds though.

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61VtHNdJ75L._SY355_.jpg

The recent I Am The Center compilation of beautiful, blissed out private press tracks is great and fits this thread (although lots of it is Old Skool New Age)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uC5lVF3oWM

sounds cool. some talk about it here: "New Age Music", search and destroy.

Ah, cheers. Was wondering if there was another thread somwhere

new(ish) mark mcguire full-length is recommended for fans of this thread

http://i.imgur.com/a4jvMjz.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fywpxbTHc44

thought I was listening to mistagged mp3s the first time I played that. as in, the only explanation for what I was hearing was that I was being outright pranked by the friend who'd given me the files.

in the 80's Windham Hill and Hearts of Space were diametrically opposed camps of new age, you really did not find much crossover (there's only one artist I can think of who was on both labels). now it's all bleeding into one big unholy mess.

just ordered up that mcguire LP, gr80. psyched 2 own it.

do we have a hearts of space thread?

GRM Concert Imaginaire vs Hearts of Space Starflight 1

this is my theme for the end of spring '14

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwXcU0b5Oy8

really good record that lord of the isles one

co2o personal highlight, but great all the way through

I wasn't too keen on 301 Symphony but Lord of the Isles is in general a really good producer. Love this one so much:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqOj0Ivy_X0

For any London based ilxors this Thursday:

http://www.seetickets.com/event/laraaji-sun-araw-the-play-zone/st-john-at-hackney-church/769117/?OfferCode=WARP%2FALL+SAINTS&direct=true

https://scontent-a-ams.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xap1/t1.0-9/10437497_10152657697833243_5431478827690470025_n.png

great album i just discovered:

http://www.secondlanguagemusic.com/SL028.html

Great mix: http://m.soundcloud.com/growingbinrecords/bobby-beige-on-ibiza

this Hybrid Palms album is pretty sweet

https://soundcloud.com/soundsofthedawn/hybrid-palms-pacific-image-from-pacific-image-cassette-out-march-22

Great mix: http://m.soundcloud.com/growingbinrecords/bobby-beige-on-ibiza

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Not an indie-hater or anything but hearing the voices of Kozelek, Malkmus, etc pop up on here is a serious buzzkill

the new vakula EP is off the chain, my dudes

https://soundcloud.com/vakula/vakula-metaphors-lp-coming-up-on-leleka_2017

sorry it's a double EP

Nice

severely underutilized thread, i should post more stuff here

Same, this is great stuff

So this is not new music, but a friend recently posted this on FB; I only knew Luís Cília as a protest song folkie, so was surprised to discover he did ambient like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZNIdxg0VQk

That in turn lead me to this playlist:

https://playmoss.com/en/david-mas/playlist/lusofonias

this is a great playlist, thanks for posting

Welcome! Excited by the (very remote) possibility that the next digger target might be a country where I have a head start :)