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"beat the bed" is pretty rad.

-- gr8080, Saturday, December 29, 2007 1:39 PM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Link

this gets better and better every time i listen

http://www.zshare.net/download/39203109ffc29b

hercules is more just straight up disco or disco house ... but yes great

talked about em a bit on the dfa thread, apparently there is a whole album coming

actually you're right, "athene" is pretty balearicy

the 12" on dfa (roar / classique #2) is a little different, more acid / chicago sounding

i just bought the 12'' off itunes (u_u) but i haven't listened to it yet.

the new single "blind" w/ antony has pretty balearic hand percussion and shimmery guitars but idk his voice makes it sound really campy and almost burlesque.

any info on the album??

actually "blind" leans more toward real showy disco (all trumpets and junk) but either way it's still kinda so-so

does anyone have a tracklist for the "paul and marc get high and go to the beach" mix, by any chance? still loving the shit out of this several months later

I think this is it

http://anothernightonearth.blogspot.com/search?q=paul+marc

1. Mudd - Speilplatz - Quiet Village Deep Space remix
2. Coyote - Pretty Wasted
3. Studio - Life's A Beach - Prins Thomas remix
4. Rune Linbaek - Afrika
5. Paul Simon - Diamonds On The Soles Of Her Feet - Todd Terje edit
6. Sylvester - I Need Somebody To Love
7. Chas Jankel - To Woo Lady Kong
8. Jo Jackson - Zenio
9. Andreas Vollenweider - Belladonna - Tangoterje Edit
10. Smith & Mudd - Plot of Land
11. Quiet Village - Too High To Move

any info on the album??

pretty long writeup here

http://www.dustedmagazine.com/features/702

I'm really enjoying the Peter Visti mix, Tim. Care to point me in the direction of mixes of similar style and quality.

here's another great peter visti dj mix for you.

I totally agree about Balearic Mike. He is a total dude.

Here is his set from Emergency Glasgow on April 8th 06.

PART 1 : http://media.emergency-music.org/audio/BM080406-A.mp3

PART 2 : http://media.emergency-music.org/audio/BM080406-B.mp3

Williams - Love On A Real Train (Version by Studio)
(what is that^^?)

Hoping it's a remix of a cover of the Tangerine Dream song from "Risky Business"?!

it is.

First time posting on this thread, but I've been checking out and loving the recommendations that people have linked to here, so props to everyone for spreading the balearic love. Following the Cosmic Disco link, I came across this listing of several different mixes - http://www.coolinthepool.com/radio.html. Anybody heard any of these? The track lists are all provided. There are entries from Visti, Aeroplane, Coyote, Mudd, etc etc.

pavel plastikk kills it

http://talkinginstereo.blogspot.com/2008/01/in-light-of-saturn-by-pavel-plastikk.html

Absolutely obsessed with Aeroplane's remix of Low Motion Disco's "Love Love Love" right now.

that Studio remix of 'love on a real train' is KILLER!

^^^^^ ya its amazong

listened to it like 9 times today already

god they get such good bass sound

that Studio remix of 'love on a real train' is KILLER!

Where can this be gotten?!

Never mind - I've seen it on 20jfg...

...and, yes, it's amazing. The mp3 has a little digital glitch at about 3:29 which sets off massive obsessive compulsive sirens in my addled mind, so I hope this will be for sale digitally at some point. I am sick.

Does anyone know a good online store that sells a lot of this stuff digitally? (I know that's kind of sacrilege with this stuff, but I seriously need mellow ipod commute tunes).

http://www.myspace.com/musicpacific

i dunno if this really fits in the balearic thread, but didn't know where else to put it and didn't know if i wanted to start a new thread on them yet just based on the myspace tracks. it's pretty much like the Beach Boys Love You album. synth pop and sunshine psych melodies. kinda neat. Runway to Elsewhere is sick.

man, their voices totally sound like they're Wilsons

what's the deal w/ windsurf? are they putting out anything other than that mp3 ep soon or is this just something these dudes do when they're bored w/ their solo stuff?

they are either working or are done/almost done with an album as far as i know

they have a four/five track ep coming out on internasjonal very soon...and a remix for Shawn Lee on Ubiquity....

that plastikk mix linked above is awesome.

Morning I'm thinking that this may be of interest to some of you guys;- To celebrate the imminent release of "Beard Science Razor - Sharp Edits Vol 2", our hirsute friends have concocted a whole set of custom edits which has been lovingly mixed by Jaz. Entitled "Songs From The Cutting Room Floor" it is available to download online from www.trackwerk.net

i'd just like to say that currently Jaz is one of my diggers and djs and a super swell guy. no homo

one of my favorite

currently Jaz is one of my diggers

body u need to be careful about being disrespectful to djs ok

I'm just lurking around and posting very randomly. But I git this today and it's a beautiful record.

http://www.discogs.com/release/1196280

A balearic 110 bpm (or so) acid track.

"got this" obviously

And unlike the other records: it's not about the "Prins Thomas Diskomiks".

http://music.guardian.co.uk/electron...253995,00.html

having listened to the mixes on here and a load of the Hercules stuff, can you tell me the difference between all this balearic stuff and what Environ /Balihu has been throwing out for years.

I get all the guitary re-edit stuff but most of the new electronic stuff seems only to be balearic cause its the new name to call everything by.

...just sayin'

the thread probably strays off topic sometimes but in general I think Environ/Balihu/Hercules is pretty different from Studio/Aeroplane/some remix of Toto

I often think these loose genre descriptions ("nu-balearic") work better when considered as "constellations" of different sounds. Sometimes the stars are the same or very similar to stars that are in other (previous) constellations, but what is different is the overall picture that emerges by dint of the constellation as a whole. Aeroplane, for example, would probably be classed within general italo revivalism if they weren't consistently grouped in with Studio etc. Likewise, if you simply listened to Todd Terje's (excellent) edit of Dee Dee Sharp's "Easy Money", you'd think he was simply the latest expansive Levan disciple ("what's he doing that Faze Action or Joe Claussel haven't done already, and more radically?")... It's the relationship between that and his remix of Paul Simon that tilts the picture a bit.

This is related to another issue that interests me a bit, which is how at any given time a whole variety of sonic reference points are arranged into different, often apparently oppositional constellations. i.e. in 2002 the Metro Area album and the Playgroup DJ Kicks and a whole bunch of other stuff filled the role that this nu-balearic stuff does now. To some extent what changes is how the different sounds are grouped - i.e. the collapse of 2004-era electro-house entailed the pulling of its stars out of their constellation and into new constellations, with bits of this genre being inherited by minimal, mainstream club music (Fedde De Grand etc.) and Kitsune style electro-rock respectively.

This is what allows the opening and closing of certain channels of sonic influence, depending on how tightly bonded a particular star is to a particular constellation. Balearic is open to rock but you wouldn't put a The Rapture track on a balearic mix because that particular notion of post-punk (fast, blaring, "angular") seems to belong to Kitsune now. And yet... you see Ewan Pearson and LCD Soundsystem and Cut Copy making the speculative leap from one camp to the other (Pearson's singular success perhaps rests in him always appearing to belong to every available camp to some extent at least - you could make similar claims regarding Mauric Fulton, Carl Craig etc. but I think they do this more subtly, e.g. Carl Craig's identity in 2007 is farily unified).

having fun w/ YOUTUBE:

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) closest i could find
4 Chris Rea - Josephine (Magnet, 1985)
5 Herb Alpert - Rotation (A&M, 1979)
6 Manuel Goettsching - E2-E4 (Inteam, 1984) (5 mins of it anyway)
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) (extended 12", no video)
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)

ok im bored someone else do the rest
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, August 2, 2007 4:09 AM (7 months ago) Bookmark Link

"Stop Bajon" - still the best song in the world, ever.

I still need to d/l some of those songs. Hopefully if I just soulseek "balearic" someone will have them all in a folder for me.

i have all of these on mp3 except herb alpert, flash & the pan and the f'wood mac mix... i can upload a zip later if ppl are interested?

^^^ Yep!

that herb alpert is fire