this is a thread for the BALEARIC REVIVAL

i downloaded a bunch of old-school baleric stuff at the suggestion of this thread. listened to it in my car, and was like, "i don't get it"

then i listened to the same playlist on vacation, sitting in the sun, looking out on the beach, and it all made so much more sense.

B-)

i can't see anymore record stores around here go out of business. not like amoeba is struggling, but jeez it's been like 3-4 good ones in the last year.

that being said, http://rapidshare.com/files/174474223/The_Embassy-Lurking-_PVS-0011_-Vinyl-2008-OBC.zip.html

gracias! also on Blackbelt Andersen, I picked up the Kuk Av Stal 12" which is one of my favorite tracks of the year.

also awesome, Kuk Av Stal = Cock Of Steel in Norwegian

pretty much everything Claremont 56 is wicked at the moment. the most recent ones 'the delivery man' and the 7" are both fantastic, as is the blackbelt andersen and the super ashra-y one with the weird name. just got Andersen full-length on Full Pupp, will report on that one as soon as i get a chance to listen...

do you have any of these in stock Mike? i would most certainly be interested, i'll see if i can stop by later today

not sure 'bout the best way to distribute this stuff

rapidsharing stuff on ilm is kinda frowned upon but uh ... ahem *cough cough*

safer place to post things

'kuk av stal' is fucking amazing, one of my tunes of the year! sanfrandisco (your name escapes me, sorry), i'll hold onto whatever we've got in stock for you today. give me a call at the shop 415.831.1200. the blackbelt andersen LP won't be out for a month or so, a few weeks at least.

i hadn't realized a new y s i thread popped up after the smackdown a few years ago...

thanks for the heads up dmr, i am a relative noob

http://www.discogs.com/release/1496330

^ This is brilliant.

ah yeah that Soft Rocks is good! I listened, liked, and then put it back to get something else .... probably get it next time I see it. are their older ones real hard to find? I've only got Disco Power Play III which I've played the hell out of

the super ashra-y one with the weird name

do you mean the "icasol" 12" by ongou? with the idjut boys edit on it? cause if so, YES. it is easily one of my tracks of the year.

i picked up that umut/slowdown 12" too. as with claremont 56, have soft rocks disappointed at all this year? all of the mixes and edits they've been putting out are quite cosmic and quite good. i even prefer their mix of "love love love" over all others, including the one from aeroplane. maybe it's just the presence of kathy diamond that does it for me...

err, "ongou" by icasol, rather

straight out of Brooklyn...HOLY GHOST!

Holy Ghost
http://www.myspace.com/holyghostnyc
listen to

>>> the deep End HG Remix

what a track 8 minutes of pure brilliance... deep chunky cosmic space grooves, euphoric synth solos, moody atmospheric New Order hooky basslines

will holy ghost release a studio album in 2009?

mungolian jet set, aeroplane, holy ghost, the return of Andrew Weatherall.... what are the other balearic artists to look out for in 2009?

jeez not everything is balearic, guy

ha. yeah. i'm pretty sure holy ghost aren't balearic

aww, but does it really hurt anyone if he thinks that?

personally i am really hoping for more from västkustska ryggdunkarsällskapet and tiedye

anyone heard this?

Not at all balearic. It's more homejob synth, lo-fi acid, "beatbox grot and wobbly end-of-the-pier organ", all sequenced as a single 60 min track.

It also includes a "wow-and-fluttering synth-pop cover of “It Never Rains in Southern California”".

ok, sold!

this is a new band in my town called Moonstone

I think they may be balearic, but I'm not sure

they are cool though

http://www.myspace.com/moonstonefacemelt

(xpost) don't forget that an important component of the original balearic sound was the occasional industrial or dark-wave track thrown in for good measure (throbbing gristle, cabaret voltaire, belgian synth wave bands, etc). shit wasn't just beaches and yacht rock, it also had that exploratory element of weirdness going on.

currently listening to it for the first time the whole way through, but parlour's mix of frak tunes on information sounds great so far. and it definitely fits on the side of the balearic spectrum i mentioned above.

^w/r/t Parlour. I keep forgetting to play it more often as the cd gets lost in the piles of other cd's because of its slim paper packaging.
(One major quibble I have with Information though is that they (or whoever ships for them) don't know how to package vinyl. The covers came out shit both time I ordered (folded around the vinyl so to speak)...)

^^^ so annoyingly true. my d lissvik was torn upon arrival :(

http://www.myspace.com/hansappelqvistnaima
last song sounds like d.lissvik
all of it's pretty rad

er, second to last song

Hans Appelqvist is awesome, I bought Sifantin Och Mörkret after hearing a song of his on (if I remember correctly) a Wire Tapper cd. Not balearic though, but quirky songwriter/sample songs with lots of detail. Artwork is by the guy who also does visuals/videos for the Knife.

Hey, is anybody going to see Lindstrom in Chicago tonight? I've never seen him before so I wanna check it.

smartbar + lindstrom + cold winter nite sounds so dope. jealous.

i saw him last night

you should go, just dont expect it to be a really dance-y set

yeah i'm planning to go, even though it's 11 degrees currently. was he just playing records or did he have actual synths when you saw him?

lol he was playing his laptop

hes not djing--he does a set of his own shit. i recommend smokin a fat doob.

o shit. i'm going tomorrow night. gtk

yeah tbh we were a little disappointed since we were expecting him to be djing a dance set, but hes really just doing a laptop show. im sure i would have liked it more if i had known thats what it was, but as it was i was a little :(

yeah but didnt he warn u in the interview

i didnt heed the signs

i don't know if anyone could be into dancing in these temperatures

yeah i would rather see woolfy's live band set tomorrow here in sf than lindstrom with a laptop

i assume lindstrom was playing where you go and some other stuff? i guess i want to make sure this is going to be worth my while because it is really freakin cold outside and i don't have a car. i'm fine with it being chill/not dancey but if it's just like listening to the album on a better sound system then that's not as appealing. thanks for the info max

psychawsple, they are across the street from each other

huzzah! guess i've never been to this dna lounge before...

yeah he played bits of all the tracks on the album + a bunch of his older stuff, very well-mixed, all sounded great

alright, i'll suck it up then. thanks

Weird, last time I saw Lindstrom live he played a very dancey set, with nothing from the album at all. Admittedly this was at 2am at Matter.

yeah tbh we were a little disappointed since we were expecting him to be djing a dance set, but hes really just doing a laptop show.

I almost changed my mind at the last minute to go cause I wanted to kick it w/ you dudes but now I'm kinda glad I didn't, that sounds pretty close to how his other show at studio b went down when I saw him a couple years ago

on the other hand BOREDOMS SUPER ROOTS 10 LINDSTROM REMIX!! wow it's good

saw him six mths ago and it was totally a live set on actual keyboard (with extra bits sequenced in and sounds midi'd from laptop)

he may have had a keyb and i was too drunk/too far away to see it but im pretty sure he was 100% laptop + sequencer