this is a thread for the BALEARIC REVIVAL

I’ve been playing this one on one of my bars on weekday evenings and people seem to vibe with it. Several balearic picks that might be appreciated here and are topical to this thread:

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0djbUjaP9EMLypTY5WBVSB?si=i38LLrw_TLCJOPTwrSZTKA

thanks!

I'm not sure this is discussed elsewhere on ILM, but there's loads of great Balearic-style tunes coming out of Napoli this year. Seems like there's a nice scene there. Here's a few:

Gigi Testa - Guayaba: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaQK6Uf4UOQ

Mystic Jungle - Money Wonder: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bRScS190Zw

Nu Genea - Tienaté: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuP6ihSefqc

those are all lovely, go Napoli!

The Nu Genea album is great!

I'm excited to hear it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwU0g28OWhg

Penelope Antena - Tradewinds

this album seems like a delight, produced by Sean O'Hagan

https://healingpotpourri.bandcamp.com/album/paradise

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joXv2BPUW8s

Jolly Mare - Sabbia Bianca

obsessed with this song lately, the whole album is excellent. goofy and fun in a way Balearic revival sometimes isn’t

Jolly Mare is always fun! Thanks for the reminder to listen to this album.

https://mauricecharles.bandcamp.com/album/manufactured-authenticity-2

the 8 min 'Drain Brain' is totally in the same world as Studio.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxavlTuV3i4

Justice Der - L$D

I heard this on the patio of a cafe at 7.30am the other morning

this rules

just what I needed

Btw for anyone who missed the Gigi Masin thread revival awhile back- he’s got a new one on the way.

Carl Craig’s Twilight is basically a cover/remix?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRPvH_8Li0M

Maze feat Frankie Beverly - Twilight

ambient side:

https://kenoathrecords.bandcamp.com/album/breathing-space

sorry if this was talked about elsewhere but these dimitri from paris “a la french: the balearic sessions” comps of his early remixes are wonderful - highly recommended if you enjoy the late 80s/early 90s balearic/house interzone

https://favoriterecordings.bandcamp.com/album/a-la-french-1987-1992-the-balearic-sessions-vol-1

granny dainger beat me to it, but holy shit these guys

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTqj0vLhpGU

in fact there’s only two posts on ilx about djeuhdjoah & lieutenant nicholson and both are granny’s!

Artists you've checked out because of their name

^^ same!!

Loving this Skyrager (Danny McLewin aka one half of Psychemagik) compilation which is basically a continuation of all those excellent Psychemagik comps like Magik Cyrkles, Sunset etc

https://spacetalkmusic.bandcamp.com/album/traces-of-illusion-compiled-by-skyrager

https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a0256179260_16.jpg

hell yeah, ty for the heads up

nice, Ty seconded

Great stuff this

The Foothills EP by Marshall Watson on Nu Northern Soul sounds perfect as we slide from Spring to Summer.

advanced cosmic shit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXiE3UnfB5g

that rules

indeed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7gAuj2sGu8

The Ted Duff Duo - Softly She Comes

Its a delight

Should have parachuted into bobbins of the past, but there are no fences in the sky

https://jezebell.bandcamp.com/album/jezebellearic-beats-volume-1

this one gets the karlearic seal of approval. comp of refreshed classics that flows excellently as a mix

i feel like no one is gonna listen to this b/c i used the phrase "karlearic seal of approval" :(

listening now! I saw the thread bump yesterday but knew I'd get around to it Evantually

<3

newest Jonny Nash LP is some of his best work ever imo

https://jonnynash.bandcamp.com/album/point-of-entry

Oh, hot tip! Thanks

really enjoying that jezebell mixtape.
ta for the pointer.

https://edicionesvillasonora.bandcamp.com/album/hals-und-kopf

special LP alert

https://jim-uk.bandcamp.com/album/love-makes-magic

this is wonderful

carrying on with the hot streak that he's been on for the last year, it's well worth grabbing this lovely edit that Alex Kassian has stuck up on bandcamp for a limited time...

https://alexkassian.bandcamp.com/track/finish-me-in-chrome-country-edit

Very, very late to the party but loving that jezebell album. Well karlearic

haha <3

https://hellyeahrec.bandcamp.com/album/file-under-balearic-gabba

some killer balearic chuggers

everything i hear from Faint Waves is supremely chill vibes, "Sea of Dreams" from this EP is one of my go-to sundown listens.

https://faintwaves.bandcamp.com/album/summers-end-ep

ftr karl I know you said on the other thread I hate balearic but honestly I was all over the (fine, proggier end of the) mid-00s balearic wave - studio, kate bush's aerial, lindstrom, strategy etc - there was a real sense of momentum and build to that stuff at its best, and we're entering the 20-years-later zone so i'm expecting grand-scale balearic revenance soon

my bad imago! i didn't mean to flatten out your taste. i admit i sometimes use you as kind of a counterpoint to my own urge towards reduction/simplicity, but mostly b/c i'm fascinated by where our opinions align

haha no problem, i know i very much encourage the perception i'm a maximalism and progressiveness specialist but the reason i even still post to ilx is that i'm still keen to find those intersection points between my own sensibilities and the other regulars'. mid-00s balearic was fertile ground for this. i should really check this thread more often