this is a thread for the BALEARIC REVIVAL

There was a mix cd (done by Skinny Joey) released as well... http://www.discogs.com/release/1411450. There are some notable differences between the cd and vinyl releases, for instance I purchased Vol. 3 and was treated to a Brendan Moeller track that wasn't included in the mix.

But I think gr8080 was referring to the Deakin comp (Nu-Balearica on Ministry of Sound) which seemed to choose dull tracks in favor of a seamless mix. Which of course is boring.

gr8080 otm, i think the homerun track really outshines nearly everything else on that mix. STILL haven't heard the deakin mix, tho

xp no i was referring to the cosmic balearic beats one

didnt know about the unmixed 12"s

they should have just gone with the same format as the computer incarnations for world peace series

yeah, a few of those tracks are throwaways frankly...

xpost i liked the Deakin mix though, there's tons of my favorites from last year on there...

the deakin one is too long to listen to all at once but there's some great stuff on there, I dig it

The Cosmic Balearic Beats comp is available unmixed on iTunes and (I think) Beatport, with the mix stuck on the end as a long hour+ track, similar to what !K7 did with the Carl Craig comp.

are you sure its unmixed and not just separate tracks?

The Aeroplane remix of Grace Jones' "Williams Blood" is just lovely, albeit a bit LOL AEROPLANE.

The Homerun track on the Turbo Mind Vacuum 3 compilation is great too.

gr8080, I bought Cosmic Balearic beats on iTunes and you get all the individual tracks unmixed, full length, and then the cd version as a single track, so it works out as good value.

kewl

has anyone heard this?

http://carletoncurtis.transworld.net/files/2008/08/seasiderock.jpg

They sorta came out of nowhere with this all-instrumental follow up album of wistful balearic tunes. A pleasant listen, nothing earth-shattering but it's a nice statement.

Maybe it wasn't out of nowhere. I have some balearic comp from a few years back with "young folks" on it... (((shivers))). I would pay money to never have to hear that song again.

And I think they're from Gothenburg too. I guess that's sorta ground-zero for this scene.

That Aeroplane remix of Grace Jones is awesome.

I can't believe nobody's mentioned the Prins Tomas James Yuill (?) remix thing. Its what I wanted that Erlend Oye album to be.

That Aeroplane remix of Grace Jones is awesome.

^^^^^ truth

so why no talk about diskjokke on ilx?

i like that album a lot. wacky shit. is it pronounced disk jockey?

not really thread for the balearic revival material though, i don't think?

yeah but it's not really beardo either

btw i think it's pronounced "deez yucky"

Re the Grace Jones Aeroplane Remix - it occurs to me that they are the Jacques Lu Cont of Balearic now.

how so

Big mainstream/crossover producers with kind of electro/disco sound to them?

Kind of heavily trance influenced?

I guess I can see it. Who's the Ewan Pearson then? Todd Terje?

Actually what Aeroplane remind me of most is Patrick Cowley style High NRG, only at like 115 BPM.

Low NRG?

is diskjokke too electrohouse for this thread?

i don't know where diskjokke sits, he's all over the place. great tho.

i got the windsurf album today. surprised there were vocals on a couple of tracks. it's good, but i doubt i will listen to all 70 minutes of it at once.

i also really like diskjokke. is he electrohouse?

i like his lykke li remix (which could maybe fit on this thread, at least bpm-wise)

"is diskjokke too electrohouse for this thread?"

Yeah maybe. He reminds me of this comp. I loved his almost Finger Lickin' track on the Sunkissed mix, need to check his album.

Aeroplane = JLC insofar as with each production they're sounding less and like typical balearic and more and more like the production team for a sequel to Confessions on the Dancefloor - sweeping, epic, trancey, pop, smooth, and not automatically aligned with any clique or revivalist trend. That obsession with hyper-smooth layering in particular is key - there's no warp'n'weft or contrast, it's more like the tide going in and out.

Much in the same way that throughout 2004 and into 2005 JLC was drifting further from lol electro-house (e.g The Faint remix, still one of my faves tho) and more into his own super-sleek soundworld.

I think Lindstrom is the Ewan Pearson of balearic. Todd Terje is maybe the Freeform Five of balearic.

what is lol electrohouse

is this some sort of freakytriggerism i'm unaware of

Yeah I'm being cryptic - I mean "lol..." as in "unashamedly typical of....".

i posted the diskjokke track cearadactylus to my blog when i picked it up of the Full Pupp Greatest Tits comp. super stuff, i dunno if you could call it electro house at all though, there are none of the typical buzzy synth drops and the crescendos arent nearly as predictable. maybe i'm going off of only a few tracks, but I feel he is just a housier version of all this scando disco/house that has been coming off of full pupp. but please dont call him electro house

ok we won't

i think electrohouse is the best description we've got. not necessarily blog house. scando house?

cmon now, he's not Marc Romboy or John Dahlback or anything!

i think electrohouse is the best description we've got. not necessarily blog house. scando house?

well certainly its not blog house, i think all the shitty nurave and rap mashups when i hear that. scando house is something i guess i use for all the scandinavian dance acts appearing on labels such as Full Pupp and even Prins Thomas' own production stuff, usually its loaded with percussion, much more so than most the electrohouse i've heard, sometimes it has acid synths, sometimes lush pads/or pianos, and most of the crescendos happen more gradually...

for example, blackbelt andersen, magunus international, ytre rymden dansskola...

now that i think about it i can't think of any other labels releasing stuff like it, so maybe just full pupp?

As I implied upthread, much of what I've heard by Diskjokke actually reminds me of breakbeaty or big-beaty attempts at house more than electro-house... remember the Bolshi label? Rasmus?

http://www.discogs.com/release/172454

That mix - Bjørn Torske - DJ World Series: Nordic Chill, from DJ Magazine in 2003. Bjørn Torske doesn't get enough love.

A good chunk of Prima Norsk 3: The Space Disco Edition was along these lines as well.

my favorite track on that comp is the ones that uses breaks very overtly, "gul boss". it is refreshingly not serious.

low nrg = nice. the tempos on "balearic" tracks seem to be increasing lately though.

"the tempos on "balearic" tracks seem to be increasing lately though."

Yeah, I get the impression that (in structural terms) nu-disco/balearic is drifting into the space that (2004 era) electro-house used to fill anyway - maximalist, melody-driven mid-tempo dance music that occupies a space equidistant between indie-nichism and populism.

Like, the Tensnake and Lindstrom remixes of Sally Shapiro are the 2008 equivalent of all those old The Knife remixes.

"maximalist, melody-driven mid-tempo dance music that occupies a space equidistant between indie-nichism and populism"

it's neat (or not) because that, minus mid-tempo, also describes lots of techno/tech-house from 2008

i can't tell if "aeroplane doing confessions on a dancefloor pt 2" is clever rhetorical shorthand or the best thing ever.

That Tiga remix of Gary, (the one Moonship got so excited about earlier this year) kind of fits with the newer Aeroplane.

It'd be cool/weird to have this some of this stuff's direct sonic predecessors get in on the act.

So is Tiga going to make more ZZT tracks? Or this?

the Weatherall remix of Primal Scream? great mix either way.

that "gary" remix is so so great! it reminds me of glass candy (and vice versa). it's like music shorn of fashion to become more talismanic: 'spiritual' (not gothic) electro clash. it's no coincidence that "gary" and some of the glass candy tracks feature lyrics that reference being against evil. maybe it's all worked because dick chen3y is soon to be history.