there totally needs to be a seperate balearic thread as stuff gets lost int he beardo thread to quickly.
the mix that mountain on one did for best foot forward is totally wrecking my head.
in some ways its really great phased out low slung coke rock.
and sometimes i think that balearic is the nu re edit is the new electro is the nu electroclash is the nu...is the nu...is the nu..... (repeat to fade)
and I think about cnuts going into phonica and asking about the lastest Lindstrom mix of chris rea's Josephine and I want to kill it before it grows.
― Hamildan, Tuesday, 31 July 2007 22:51 (sixteen years ago) link
Almost two years old, but the Lindstrom and Prins Thomas LP goes here too. I almost feel like they should have released it under a different moniker and then went ahead and released the 12" versions as themselves. Its not a dance record at all.
― gr8080, Wednesday, 1 August 2007 20:05 (sixteen years ago) link
Shitty things about my new commute:
-It is 40+ miles one way -It is 60 - 90 minutes depending on time of day
Awesome things about my new commute:
-It gives me plenty of time to listen to new music -Music on this thread accompanies commute's view nicely:
http://icons.wunderground.com/data/wximagenew/k/kaneohe/2.jpg
http://static.flickr.com/66/273742401_a1f618f53f_o.jpg
http://image42.webshots.com/42/4/36/21/2062436210017353410UvkNDq_ph.jpg
― gr8080, Wednesday, 1 August 2007 20:10 (sixteen years ago) link
where is that?
― Michael F Gill, Wednesday, 1 August 2007 20:18 (sixteen years ago) link
windward coast of Oahu.
― gr8080, Wednesday, 1 August 2007 20:33 (sixteen years ago) link
New Jersey
― deej, Wednesday, 1 August 2007 20:34 (sixteen years ago) link
Wow - that is awesome. I don't really get the Lindsrom&Prins Thomas reference though.
So is anyone gonna venture a definition of balearic?
― baaderonixx, Thursday, 2 August 2007 08:39 (sixteen years ago) link
Here's the top 25 balaeric records as voted for on the v balaeric DJ History board. These were all played on Bill Brewster's show on Kiss(?) yesterday...
1 Tullio de Piscopo - Primavera (Stop Bajon) (Bagaria, 1984) 2 William Pitt - City Lights (Public Sound, 1986) 3 Elkin & Nelson - Jibaro (CBS, 1986) 4 Chris Rea - Josephine (Magnet, 1985) 5 Herb Alpert - Rotation (A&M, 1979) 6 Manuel Goettsching - E2-E4 (Inteam, 1984) 7 Mandy Smith - I Just Can't Wait (Cool & Breezy Jazz Mix) (PWL, 1987) 8 Dizzi Heights - Would I Find Love (Parlophone, 1986) 9 Art Of Noise - Moments In Love (Island, 1983) 10 It's Immaterial - Driving Away From Home (Virgin, 1986) 11 Carly Simon - Why (WEA, 1982) 12 Sebastien Tellier - La Ritournelle (Lucky Number, 2005) 13 Donna Summer - State of Independence (WEA, 1982) 14 Laid Back - Fly Away/Walking In The Sunshine (CBS, 1983) 15 Kate Bush - Running Up The Hill (EMI, 1985) 16 Cure - Lullaby (Fiction, 1989) 17 Linda Di Franco - TV Scene (WEA, 1985) 18 Flash & The Pan - Walking In The Rain (Epic, 1978) 19 Izit - Stories (ffrr, 1989) 20 Fleetwood Mac - Big Love (Arthur Baker Remix) (Warners, 1987) 21 Double – The Captain Of Her Heart (Polydor, 1985) 22 The Beloved - The Sun Rising (WEA, 1989) 23 Enzo Avitabile - Blackout (EMI, 1986) 24 Mike Francis - Features Of Love (Concorde, 1985) 25 Richie Havens - Going Back To My Roots (Elektra, 1980)
― Raw Patrick, Thursday, 2 August 2007 09:09 (sixteen years ago) link
WTF - The Cure "Lullaby"???
― baaderonixx, Thursday, 2 August 2007 09:19 (sixteen years ago) link
There's no Wiki entry for balearic (the music) so someone should write a really bad one and piss off the purists. I'm so unbalearic that I spelled it wrong twice in my previous post.
― Raw Patrick, Thursday, 2 August 2007 09:29 (sixteen years ago) link
there's a wiki entry for 'Balearic Beat', though.
I used to think it was pronounced and spelt 'baleriac', I'm still not really sure if I'm saying it right.
― c sharp major, Thursday, 2 August 2007 11:08 (sixteen years ago) link
I've never heard anyone say 'Balearic beat'.
― Raw Patrick, Thursday, 2 August 2007 11:14 (sixteen years ago) link
mm, it sounds kind of lame (the word 'beat' in a genre name generally sounds lame and pseudy to me?). 'Balearic house' i've seen used, though.
― c sharp major, Thursday, 2 August 2007 11:36 (sixteen years ago) link
"Lullabye" I can totally see if it's the Extended Mix on Mixed Up - I've put that on quite a few balearic-y "Back to Mine" style comps I've made.
― Tim F, Thursday, 2 August 2007 12:23 (sixteen years ago) link
"Floating in the air, floating in the sea, take my hand, come with me"
― blueski, Thursday, 2 August 2007 12:50 (sixteen years ago) link
"Brown Piano" is up on the A Mountain of One myspace page
― jaxon, Thursday, 2 August 2007 21:20 (sixteen years ago) link
i love playing the 12" mix of lullabye in downtempo/baleric sets.
also, baaderonixxpaws: listen to this cd:
http://www.kompaktkiste.de/cd/_123/_5/541516501427cdp.jpg
― gr8080, Thursday, 2 August 2007 21:43 (sixteen years ago) link
it's like a postrock band playing dance music in hawaii
― jaxon, Thursday, 2 August 2007 21:49 (sixteen years ago) link
another thing that belongs here:
http://www.myspace.com/cantoma http://www.discogs.com/artist/Cantoma
Cantoma AKA Phil Mison (1/2 of Reverso 68 aka Frontera aka Bakazou)
Its a little more on the World Muic side of things, but is without a doubt balearic revival.
Also, Phil is an A+ bro and an English Gent to boot.
― gr8080, Thursday, 2 August 2007 21:56 (sixteen years ago) link
here's a moment where i get somewhat confused and ask questions: - wtf is Kate Bush doing on that list? - where do QV play into this? Force of Nature? - has anyone heard the record by Lexx called "Sirocco"? it seems that that fits in nicely.
― the table is the table, Thursday, 2 August 2007 23:08 (sixteen years ago) link
All the Music For Dreams/Kenneth Bager stuff works here. Although they've been pretty balearic-esque since the beginning. Bager has an instrumental version of Ripperton's "Les Fleur" that works pretty well.
― Michael F Gill, Thursday, 2 August 2007 23:20 (sixteen years ago) link
the walk on the wildside version is good too.
― gr8080, Thursday, 2 August 2007 23:21 (sixteen years ago) link
There are a couple other balearic threads on ilm that should help you out if you want more info.
xpost - surprisingly, yes!
― Michael F Gill, Thursday, 2 August 2007 23:22 (sixteen years ago) link
Yeah I have that Lindstrom album, but I guess I'm probably confused by the definition of Balearic.
Do people agree with the Top 25 list above? I'll try to compile that and see how it flows. I'm also a bit puzled by Kate Bush being on that list.
― baaderonixx, Friday, 3 August 2007 08:03 (sixteen years ago) link
i have like 1/2 the songs on that list (which made me rediscover that disgustingly good art of noise track) and the kate bush track fits in pretty well, i think
― max, Friday, 3 August 2007 08:30 (sixteen years ago) link
this is a thread for the BALEARIC REVIVAL
― gr8080, Friday, 3 August 2007 08:49 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm gonna listen to this radio, http://www.last.fm/tag/balearic, and see where it takes me.
― baaderonixx, Friday, 3 August 2007 10:52 (sixteen years ago) link
why are people surprised by Kate Bush and not CHRIS REA? his presence plus Carly Simon's just demonstrates how deliberately vague, nebulous and flexible the Balearic term always was. It's pretty much just based on whatever Jose Padilla or whoever was dozy enough to play at 8.36am in Cafe Del Mar 20 years ago.
― blueski, Friday, 3 August 2007 10:56 (sixteen years ago) link
Rea pretty much *is* adult contemporary, even if I do like "Josephine". He has recently gotten the hipster re-edit treatment by Todd Terje and the Eskimo/Mindless Boogie people, so I'm guessing he's still fresh in people's mind.
― Michael F Gill, Friday, 3 August 2007 14:29 (sixteen years ago) link
balearic : balearic islands :: northern soul : northern UK
― gr8080, Friday, 3 August 2007 18:40 (sixteen years ago) link
important: does michael caine like balearic? would he include kate bush on the top 25 tracks of all time?
― max, Friday, 3 August 2007 18:49 (sixteen years ago) link
That first Lemon Jelly album is totally balearic.
― Michael F Gill, Friday, 3 August 2007 19:15 (sixteen years ago) link
12 Sebastien Tellier - La Ritournelle (Lucky Number, 2005)
I've been listening to the music on this thread almost exclusivley for the last three days, giving this ^^^ a spin for ther first time in a year or so just this morning. shortly after listening to it, i left my house and went to my favorite coffe shop and it came on the sound system as i was leaving! kind of weird since that shop usually plays very quiet, anonymous jazz or korean pop music all the time.
― gr8080, Saturday, 4 August 2007 00:27 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm helping my family put together some songs to play at my brother's engagement party, and fittingly enough "La Ritournelle" was the first to receive the seal of approval.
― Telephone thing, Saturday, 4 August 2007 02:07 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.myspace.com/lowmotiondisco
I've been following these guys via myspace for over a year. looks like they're getting an Eskimo release.
I guess maybe they fall in the middle of the venn diagram with Cosmic/Beardo/Edits on one side and Balearic/Revivial/Bands on the other.
Anyone know anything else about them?
― gr8080, Sunday, 5 August 2007 02:57 (sixteen years ago) link
Hey, that Wicked Game remix is brilliant.
― I know, right?, Sunday, 5 August 2007 03:32 (sixteen years ago) link
Speaking of Cure remixes, I'm listening to the relatively obscure "Let's go to Bed (milk mix)" and it would totally fit on a balearic mix. I think Saint Etienne's "Like a Motorway" would sit in there pretty well.
― baaderonixx, Sunday, 5 August 2007 13:39 (sixteen years ago) link
man, that tullio di piscopo track is fantastic. i bought it (on ZYX) at SF's groove merchant years ago, and played the shit out of it when i used to have a downtempoish sunday night weekly at dalva. don cherry plays on it!
― pshrbrn, Sunday, 5 August 2007 15:52 (sixteen years ago) link
Prins Thomas remix of Hatchback here:
http://www.myspace.com/simonacarr
― gr8080, Sunday, 5 August 2007 21:48 (sixteen years ago) link
That Carly Simon track is awesome!
― baaderonixx, Monday, 6 August 2007 13:04 (sixteen years ago) link
lol, lovefingers busted
― sanskrit, Monday, 6 August 2007 17:53 (sixteen years ago) link
what u mean?
― jaxon, Monday, 6 August 2007 18:20 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.myspace.com/aeroplanemusiclove
― jaxon, Tuesday, 7 August 2007 06:13 (sixteen years ago) link
yes^
― gr8080, Tuesday, 7 August 2007 06:18 (sixteen years ago) link
that sorcerer LP is OK, but i dont like any of the uptempo tracks.
it feels a little too same-y from track to track, too.
― gr8080, Tuesday, 7 August 2007 08:56 (sixteen years ago) link
peter gabriel "i have the touch" totally belongs on a balearic mix
― cutty, Tuesday, 7 August 2007 11:16 (sixteen years ago) link
This mix is just like..... unghghnghngh.... an indiluted balearic morphine hit.
― Tim F, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 08:48 (sixteen years ago) link
Goddamit. I'm working on a mix right now that I was planning on closing with "in the light of the miracle."
― gr8080, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 17:06 (sixteen years ago) link
I already did it for a compilation I made which very few have heard, so now I feel unfairly cheated - however I used the Another Thought version and this one is different, not sure where it's from.
― Tim F, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 22:45 (sixteen years ago) link
There's the 13 minute dancey version on the Soul Jazz Russell comp.
― Michael F Gill, Thursday, 9 August 2007 00:51 (sixteen years ago) link
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
― blazin' squab (NickB), Wednesday, 24 January 2024 18:34 (four months ago) link
Very, very late to the party but loving that jezebell album. Well karlearic
― groovypanda, Thursday, 15 February 2024 14:04 (four months ago) link
haha <3
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Thursday, 15 February 2024 15:02 (four months ago) link
https://hellyeahrec.bandcamp.com/album/file-under-balearic-gabba
some killer balearic chuggers
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Saturday, 17 February 2024 00:25 (four months ago) link
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
― omar little, Saturday, 30 March 2024 17:18 (two months ago) link
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
― imago, Thursday, 11 April 2024 16:57 (two months ago) link
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
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Thursday, 11 April 2024 17:22 (two months ago) link
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
― imago, Thursday, 11 April 2024 18:05 (two months ago) link
new Double Geography album Open Water out today
― default damager (lukas), Wednesday, 1 May 2024 06:06 (one month ago) link
Double Geography aka Duncan Thornley (one half of Weird Weather and studio engineer at MAP Studios), following the success of his debut album “The Indoor Gardener” (also on Invisible Inc) had sent Invisible Inc label boss GK Machine demos of his second and third album, which the label reluctantly declined on the basis that the music didn't sound quite right for the label. However, this fourth studio album fits the bill perfectly.
Man I'm curious what those other two albums sound like.
― default damager (lukas), Wednesday, 1 May 2024 18:47 (one month ago) link
Oh man, this Open Water album is sounding lovely so far. I'm hearing a bit of Kankyō Ongaku in here. Just what I needed after spending my whole day trying to configure a printer.
― OneSecondBefore, Wednesday, 1 May 2024 19:21 (one month ago) link
double geography will sound great at the beach today. 'asleep on the bow' reminded me to go back to this forgotten(?) classic that i haven't listened to in years:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydFcH5yvtWM
(new look - nap on the bow)
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Sunday, 2 June 2024 17:24 (two weeks ago) link
The third volume of Balearic Mike and Kelvin Andrews' Down to the Sea and Back is now out. This is wonderful https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPlIaweJ4Lk
― groovypanda, Friday, 7 June 2024 10:49 (one week ago) link
https://downtotheseaandback.bandcamp.com/album/down-to-the-sea-back-volume-tres-the-continuing-journey-of-the-balearic-beat-compiled-by-balearic-mike-kelvin-andrews
― groovypanda, Friday, 7 June 2024 10:53 (one week ago) link
nice!
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Friday, 7 June 2024 11:48 (one week ago) link
I LOVE that Sunshine Jones track on that compilation, glad to see it getting some attention again
― boxedjoy, Friday, 7 June 2024 14:34 (one week ago) link
Yeah that's one of the other standouts. Fantastic track and one I'd not heard before
― groovypanda, Friday, 7 June 2024 15:39 (one week ago) link
We are so back, new Domenique Dumont album this fall
https://antinoterecordings.bandcamp.com/track/deux-paradis
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Saturday, 15 June 2024 16:00 (three days ago) link