Balearic Breakfast | Episode 219 | Cooler Than a Breeze...
- by The Lioncub
- Apr 22
- 15 min read
Updated: May 2
Colleen 'Cosmo' Murphy broadcast the 219th episode of Balearic Breakfast on her Mixcloud on April 22nd 2025.
About this episode. – Amidst her latest gigs, and with Record Store day hapenning on April 12th, Colleen managed to lauch the request line on April 19th and announced, on April 20th the new remix she did for... The Cure! To say that our Captain is busy would be na understatement, she's prolificaly busy, and that's why we feel here the need to bring her all the support we can! Our appreciation for what she does is endless, she brings us so much pleasure! So, since she's working hard, we're supporting harder, laughs!
This episode perfectly represents the "state of grace" our dear Captain is presently experiencing. But we shall talk about this later in this post!
"Yesterday’s Balearic Breakfast is now up on my Mixcloud and please give me a follow while you’re over there (link in linktree). This week’s show is mainly requests and we have a wee tribute to both the recently passed Max Romeo and to Prince whom we lost 9 years ago this week (thankfully we still have his music). There’s also new music from IKE, @phi_psonics , some great reworks from @randomhouseperson and @thereflexmusic and a debut of my forthcoming remix of The Street People ‘I Wanna Get Over’ coming out digitally on @cosmosmusic on the 23rd May and on vinyl via @acidjazzrecords in June. Its been getting a great response on the dancefloor, too.
I’ll be back hosting Balearic Breakfast live from the record room on Tuesday from 10am to 12pm BST on my Mixcloud Live and until then, please enjoy this week’s show with music from @peakinglights @bryonyjarmanpinto @lyndadawn_ @xlmiddleton @joshmilan6969 @kevin_hedge @privatejoyhq @adafrancis @cazeauxoslo @alexander_flood #ninasimone #larrylevan #prince #maxromeo"
Listen back to the 219th episode of Balearic Breakfast:
PLAYLIST
(2018) Peaking Lights – Sea of Sand
(2025) Japan – Ghosts (Random House Project Rework)
(2025) IKE – Clay
(1976) Max Romeo & The Upsetters – One Step Forward
(2025) Phi-Psonics – Healing Time
(2024) Bryony Jarman-Pinto – Deep
(2012) Ronnie Dyson – The Captain of Your Soul
(2021) Lynda Dawn – Roses (XL Middleton Remix)
(1979) Shigeru Suzuki – Los Enamorados
(1984) Special Occasion – Flying to Santa Barbara
(1997) Blaze – The Garden
(1982) Peech Boys – Don’t Make Me Wait (Extended Mix)
(2024) Private Joy ft Ada Francis – Let Love Find a Way
(2025) Marcello Cassanelli – Starlight
(2024) Alexander Flood ft Cazeaux O.S.L.O. – Life is a Rhythm
(2003) Monkey Brothers – Invisible (Club Mix)
(TBR) The Street People – I Wanna Get Over (Cosmodelica Remix)
(1999) 94 East (feat. Prince) – One Man Jam
(1975) Earth Wind & Fire – Africano
(2022) Nina Simone – I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel To Be Free
(The Reflex Revision)
COLLEEN'S NEWS
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THE LISTENING EXPERIENCE
This episode was special, for a lot of reasons, and we felt it. Its intellectual realm was unique, its flow was immaculate but I must admit I did not seize the imagery as quickly as usual. It took me an hour and a half to get the message, the meaning. Yes, it took me that much time to feel a breeze on my skin, a cool, almost cold, yet consistent Breeze on my skin, a breeze meeting me under a wakening sun… It won’t be easy for you to feel that one, but trust my feelings, the Breeze is here and I’ll tell you precisely how you can feel it in your head listening to the show…
As Colleen sums it up perfectly, let’s keep the vibe deep and spacey. First, it’s about the rhythm of the show. We don't reach high bpms in this 219th episode. Although things get funkier towards the last 40 minutes of the show, a vast majority of the songs keep a cool and almost steady bpm as time goes on. Also, pay attention to the sound, it stays consistently light and airy, allowing for the breeze to appear quite easily...
Indeed, when listening to the songs selected by our dear Captain, you should be able to hear the breeze waving up and down in your head. When listening to songs like Sea of Sand, Ghosts, Clay, or even Deep, allow your mind to leave the moment you're lmentally in and try to picture the lake with the beautiful trees and feel the wind caressing your face. Of course, Colleen's mixing also helps in joining this beautiful place, listen to what happens at 1h21min58s when Colleen blends Marcello Cassanelli's Starlight with Alexander Flood's Life is a Rhythm... Not only is the mix perfect, it is totally unexpected! The first Wow Moment of this episode is right there! Add to this Colleen's impeccable Remix of I Wanna Get Over, the second Wow moment of this episode, and you're totally set!
The last element you must take into account is, as announced, and if I can put it that way, Colleen’s personal “state of grace”. Things happening lately to her in her carreer may have influenced the structure of today’s episode, letting her choose songs with a generous yet cooler pace. Of course, our requests were, as usual, great! All in all, it seems obvious why this episode was Cooler than a Breeze... 😉
COLLEEN'S PRESENTATION
Wisconsin Californian psychedelic electronic musical duo and married couple Peaking Lights with Sea of Sand from their EP of the same name, released on Dekmantle back in 2018. And this EP shows off their synth pop, chill wave, balearic beats, dub and ambient sound. And an interesting fact, they were invited by the late Lee Scratch Perry to collaborate on his 12-inch Life of the Plants. And thank you to Barry Berenitz in Washington, DC for that lovely request.
Good morning, Balearicans. I'm Colleen Cosmo Murphy, hosting your weekly Balearic Breakfast on my MixCloud Live until high noon or a little bit later. Greetings to the family gathered over there right now, and thank you for keeping me company on Tuesday mornings, and also for giving me a week off. Adam and I were in Cork and Dublin celebrating his birthday, doing some writing. I also DJ'd at a couple of parties, Funk Smack at the wonderful Connellies of Lep in West Cork, and Fidelity in Dublin. And both nights were absolute crackers. And thanks to all who brought their big Celtic spirits onto the dance floor. It was really great. I just love playing in Ireland. Actually, I'll be heading back there on the 23rd of August for the If You Know, You Know Festival in Bell, Oregon, so hopefully I'll see some of you there.
Today's show is mainly requests, and we also have a wee tribute to both the recently passed Max Romeo, and we'll also pay tribute to Prince, whom we lost nine years ago as of yesterday. And I'll be playing something a little bit less obvious. There's also new music from Ike, Phisonics, and some great reworks from Random House Project and The Reflex. I'm also debuting one of my forthcoming remixes.
Now, you may have seen the announcement last night that I was asked by Robert Smith to remix The Cure. Definitely a career highlight. I may have finally arrived. And I did it with Joe Goddard of Hot Chip and Al Doyle of LCD Sound System as we're working on a project together called Electric Eden. We've actually been making new music for the last year. The Cosmodelica Electric Eden remix of And Nothing Is Forever is on the Cure's forthcoming mixes of A Lost World, and proceeds are going to the amazing charity Médecins Sans Frontieres, also known as Doctors Without Borders, and you can preorder it from The Cure website.
Now I'm actually teasing you because I'm not playing that one today. In fact, if you want to hear it first, you have to come to the Balearic Breakfast Day Party on the 10th of May at NT's Loft in East London, where my buddy Joe Goddard is also joining me and tickets are now up on Resident Advisor. Instead, I'm showcasing another remix I've been playing out for the past few weeks and it's by an early 70s soul group from New Jersey called The Street People. So please stick around for that a bit later in the show.
But let's keep the vibe deep and spacey for now. And this is a request from Matt Raystrick for a great Random House Project rework of the band Japan. It's the song Ghosts from their 1981 fifth and final studio album, Tin Drum, and it's the Random House Project rework.
One step forward, the 1978 single by the late Max Romeo and The Upsetters. The Jamaican singer and songwriter worked on a sugar plantation as a teenager until he was discovered in a local talent contest in the mid 1960s. After working with the vocal group The Emotions, he went solo in 1968 and shocked many listeners with the overtly sexual single Wet Dream. In the early 70s, he became more politicized in his lyrics and the Democratic Socialist Party, the People's National Party, chose his song Let the Power Fall as their anthem. And then Romeo worked with Lee Scratch Perry, who produced his most classic album, War in the Babylon, considered his most enduring classic, and featured the single we just heard and also another great Chase the Devil. And thank you to Alex Elliott and Danny Broderick for requesting the late Max Romeo, who sadly passed a couple of weeks ago.
Ed. Note:
One Step Forward is one of Max Romeo's classics featured on the timeless War Ina Babylon album. The singer refers to Manley's own politics, as he keeps changing his mind about a possible rapprochement with the United States. "One day you've got dreadlocks, the next day you're baldhead! Move on man and get us out of Babylon!" "One step forward, two steps back..." There's also a great documentary on Amazon Prime The Upsetter: The Life And Music Of Lee Scratch Perry
Ahead of that, we heard Clay by IKE, who is Isaac Demartini, a composer, musician and producer from Treviso, Italy, who blends jazz and electronics, and who's also inspired by his travels in Egypt and Ethiopia. Clay is coming out on his debut LP, On Higher Dreams, coming out on the 25th of May on Dom Servini's Wawa45's label.
I also want to send a shout out to someone who is tuned into the MixCloud live stream. Shout out to DJ Together and the Kaivu Autistics Department in Estonia. Thank you so much for tuning in.
Now, if you're a regular Balearic Breakfast listener, then you know I'm a big fan of Matthew Halsall's Gondwana label. I don't think there's an act or an album that I don't like as the jazzy, ambient, contemplative, transcendental sound is really right up my alley. On their roster is Phisonics, a meditative instrumental project based in Los Angeles, and led by upright bass player Seth Ford Young. Phisonics released their second album, Octava, on Gondwana a couple of years ago, and they're back with a new one called Expanding to One, which will be released at the end of May. Young says this of the new album, Here are Phisonics with Healing Time.
Victor Oltanu in Romania always comes up with some interesting nuggets, and this one's no exception. This is Los Enamorados by Japanese songwriter and guitarist Shigeru Suzuki from his 1969 LP White Heat, which is a masterpiece of West Coast jazz rock with a Latin feel, featuring many musicians, including Ritchie Sakamoto, Yukihiro Takahashi, and Akiko Yano. And the Yellow Magic Orchestra connections don't stop there, as Suzuki was on Happy End, a very influential Japanese band along with Harumi Hosono, and they were in that band from 1969 to 1973. And Suzuki has become one of Japan's most respected sly guitarists, and recently reunited with his high school band Sky, and they've released some new albums as well.
Ahead of that, the 2021 single by Lynda Dawn, Roses, remixed by XL Middleton, a funk G-funk producer and artist from California. The London singer-songwriter producer Lynda Dawn also released her debut album, 11th Hour, at the end of last year on her own label, and you can find out more about her on Bandcamp and on her website. You can check out her album as well, it's gorgeous. And thank you to Kieran McCann in Glasgow for that suggestion.
Our friend Bert Francois in Brooklyn came up with a few soulful goodies this week, and it was difficult to choose but one, and I had to choose that one because it was a really self-motivational song. It's called Captain of Your Soul, that's what we heard, by the late American soul singer Ronnie Dyson. It was a b-side to his 1974 single, Life and Breath, and he released several albums throughout the 70s and early 80s, and even worked with legendary Philadelphia producer Tom Bell. But Dyson possibly had more success as an actor, as he won the leading role in the 1968 Broadway production of The Musical Hair, and he led the show's anthem, Aquarius.
Ahead of that, a song named Deep by soul folk singer, songwriter, and musician Bryony Jarman-Pinto, and it's from her second album, Below Dawn, and it was released last year on True Thoughts. The album navigates sentimental themes from societal change to untapped emotions to the profound journey of pregnancy and motherhood. I had the pleasure of remixing her single Moving Forward from that album, and here's a little preview. My Bryony Jarman-Pinto remix will finally come out on vinyl on my next Balearic Breakfast 4 compilation. Thank you to Tom Torres in Vienna for that request.
Okay, Konstantinos Folias in Greece put this next one on my radar. A recent reissue on French label Favorite, which is of course a Balearic Breakfast favorite, they put out a great comp called AOR Global Sounds, Volume 4, 1977 to 1987, curated by Charles Maurice, and one of the cuts is by Special Occasion, a Belgian band that released only two singles in the mid-1980s. They were produced by Tony Baron, who was deeply involved in several new beat projects and closely tied to the Nunc record label. Here is Special Occasion with Flying to Santa Barbara.
Don't Make Me Wait, the 1982 single by New York City's Peech Boys, or Brooklyn's Peech Boys, as Bert François just said over on the Mixcloud Live, produced by Paradise Garage DJ Larry Levan. Peech Boys featured longtime Rolling Stones associate and collaborator and Tackhead singer Bernard Fowler, who also is on Herbie Hancock's electro-tinged albums from the mid-1980s, and also the late keyboardist Michael D. Benedictus, who also worked with Carol Williams, Gwen McCrae, and Denroy Morgan. Don't Make Me Wait was Peach Boys' debut single, and thank you to Christine D'Souza for that request.
Ed. Note:
In 2019, Greg Wilson shared on his socials: "Musician Michael de Benedictus, former member of influential New York group the Peech Boys (also known as New York Citi Peech Boys / NYC Peech Boys), which also included Larry Levan and Bernard Fowler, died last Thursday, aged 67. His best-known recording was 'Don't Make Me Wait', a seminal underground track released on West End Records, one of NYC's essential dance labels, and first played at the Paradise Garage - its electronic approach an inspiration for subsequent releases, its 'fierce claps' soon re-created on tracks like 'Thanks To You' by Sinnamon and ‘Walking On Sunshine’ by Rockers Revenge. This was an innovative recording that sounded like nothing else on its release, a real catalytic moment.
I first heard it on March 21st 1982, when Legend resident Ralph Randell played it at the Wigan Pier All-Dayer. He’d been to London ahead of the event and had grabbed a copy fresh in that day on import. I flipped when I heard it and beseeched him to let me keep hold of his copy for a few days in case I couldn’t get a copy on my own in the meantime, so I had it for my Tuesday at Wigan and Wednesday at Legend – it was that essential.
It went on to become a huge tune on the specialist black music scene and, following its eventual UK release, entered the UK chart in October '82, breaching the top 50. It would also reach #6 on the Billboard US Dance chart.
The Dub version was my mix of choice back then, and I later included it on the Classic Electro Mastercuts compilation that I put together in 1994."
From their second album, Basic Blaze, released on Slip'n'Slide in 1997, we heard the New Jersey duo Josh Malone and Kevin Hedges, known as Blaze, or as I call them, House Music's Earth, Wind & Fire. We heard The Garden, a request from producer Pete Blaker. Still can't get enough of his Eric dub, which closed The Last Balearic Breakfast, and which I've been caning at every every gig since. Now, it's interesting, it's only a week before I went back to this same album and played My Beat at the Cosmodelica party with Hands On Family at BBE. Both tracks still sound fresh. Gosh, nearly 30 years later, I can't even believe it.
This is Colleen Cosmo Murphy with you on Balearic Breakfast, going for about another hour, and this next one is by Private Joy, or Pops Roberts, and she made her mark on the Manchester scene by providing guest vocals on records by Rough Doug and Finn, and also as a producer of soul band Love Scene. Her first EP, Desire, as Private Joy, was released last year on Bradley Zero's Rhythm Section International label. Rick van Veen in the Netherlands requested this song, featuring singer Ada Francis, Let Love Find A Way. Loving that one.
Wordsmith and rapper Cazeaux O.S.L.O with a band led by Australian drummer Alexander Flood with Life Is A Rhythm, which came out at the end of last year, and was requested by Wiraik. It was also just released on a vinyl LP on the AtJazz label run by Martin Iveson, who also produces as At Jazz, and I wish I had that one for the BBE Cosmodelica party. I've been playing a lot of kind of spoken word kind of hip hop slash house vocals. Hip house is back, you know? It's back with a storm.
Ahead of that, Marcello Cassanelli with Starlight, which is on the Ten Lovers Music label. The Coin EP, which was released earlier this year, and thanks to Artur in Paris for that. And Casanelli also released an album called Overtour in 2018, and he's also in the band Venus Ship.
Ed. Note:
Steve Conry shared with me these purchase link, feel free to purchase from your location:
Here's an older nugget on the soulful British label Papa Records and a request from Sue Forrest. It's by Monkey Brothers, which was London producers Felix Hopkins and Mike Pato, who was also part of Real People. Here are Monkey Brothers with their 2003 single Invisible.
Earth, Wind & Fire with the blazing Africano from their sixth studio album That's the Way of the World, released in 1975, and one of the many Earth, Wind & Fire albums I have obsessed over. That was a huge numbernumber-one-one album on both the Billboard 200 and the Soul Charts, and deservedly so. It also features their huge hit Shining Star. Africano was requested by David Stoddard as he and Izzy just got back from Morocco.
Before that, we heard from Prince as yesterday was marked nine years since we lost him. We heard 94 East featuring Prince on One Man Jam, and sending that one out to Sean E. 94 East was led by synth player and percussionist Pepe Wille, and Andre Cymone is playing bass on that one. And that was Prince on guitar, synth, clavinet, and other keyboards. I thought that'd be something a little different to pay tribute to his Purple Highness, as I think most of us are very familiar with his catalog. It was recorded in the 1970s, and is also featured on the Minneapolis Genius album.
Ahead of that, my Cosmodelica remix of Street People's I Want to Get Over. Street People was a New Jersey-based male quintet led by Ray DeRouge, who was a writer on LTD's hit Never Get Enough of Your Love. They released one album in 1976, and in the run-up a few singles on Spring Records, and I Want to Get Over was their first single. Sweden's Cosmos label are heading a project called Spring Revisited, which features remixes of that catalog by myself and Dave Lee, Dimitri from Paris, DJ Spina, Folamore, Joe Clossel, Kenny Do, Khan, Opalopo, The Reflex, and it's an honor to be part of that lineup. I've been playing that remix on dance floors from the UK to Japan to Greece and Ireland, and just got the vinyl test pressing from Acid Jazz, and my remix is coming out at the end of May.
This is Colleen Cosmo Murphy signing off another edition of Balearic Breakfast, leaving you with a cover of Billy Taylor's Civil Rights Movement anthem, covered by many, including Nina Simone, whose version was released in 1967 on her Silk and Soul album. This is a Reflex revision requested by Askoosh, and I think a lovely way to wrap up the show. I'll be back next week hosting Balearic Breakfast live from the record room with some new tunes, and I'll also catch up on some requests. Until then, thanks for listening, and remember, just be Balearic.
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