Balearic Breakfast | Episode 220 | Breacklubbing away...
- by The Lioncub
- Apr 29
- 15 min read
Updated: May 7
Colleen 'Cosmo' Murphy broadcast the 220th episode of Balearic Breakfast on her Mixcloud on April 29th 2025.
About this episode. – The Balearic Breakfast Family was sad to see that Colleen didn't post the request line last Saturday, which meant the coming episode would be one where our dear Captain would play new tracks and mayne a couple of songs she had put aside for us, including a few of older requests. But, as she stated a few weeks ago, it's also her duty, as a DJ, to pomote new music and to play new artists. And, with such a talented soul, the Family knew this episode would be great, and unexpected, so there was really nothing to be worried about! We all patiently waited for the show time to arrive...
"This morning’s Balearic Breakfast is now up on my Mixcloud and please give me a follow while you’re over there. Also, please consider subscribing to my Mixcloud if you have the means. Each show takes quite a bit of time and any help for my efforts is much appreciated.
Today’s show has a lot of new music from @klangkollektor @justinstrauss1 @ejthackray @brian__jackson @masters_at_work_official @natashakittykatt @jimpster_gram @moodymanc_ @lukeunabomber @opoloposweden @margeeandsound @raz.and.afla @subnesiamusic and some records I have had put aside to play for you for awhile now. On Saturday the Request Line will go back up on my socials for next Tuesday’s show so get your thinking caps on.
This weekend I’ll be playing back to back with Horse Meat Disco at @meltingpotglasgow at Queen’s Park in Glasgow and on Sunday I’m playing for @1btnradio birthday bash at Patterns and congrats for 10 great years for that community radio station. And then the following week we’re having a Balearic Breakfast Day Party at @ntloft in London and my special guest is @joe_hot_chip .
Have a great week and thanks for listening!"
Listen back to the 220th episode of Balearic Breakfast:
PLAYLIST
(2025) KlangKollektor – Isle of Stonsey
(1985) Patrick O’Hearn – Ancient Dreams
(2025) Balaphonic (ft. Ocean Waves Brasil) – Oxum
(2025) Brian Jackson (ft. Raheem DeVaughn & J. Ivy) – It’s Your World
(1981) Webster Lewis – El Bobo
(2002) Dennis Mobley & Fresh Taste – Superstition
(2025) Subnesia (ft. Nordal) – Baila Gitano
(2025) Ella Andall – My Spirit is Music (Luke Una Edit)
(2025) ??? – Mediterranean Night Long (Eclectic Journeys Edit)
(2025) Margee – Tartiflux (Justin Strauss Remix)
(2025) Emma-Jean Thackray – Save Me
(2025) Joseph Malik – Only Fans (Natasha Kitty Katt Rework)
(2025) Millie Jackson – We Got to Hit It Off (Opolopo Deeper Mix
(2002) Blake – Saturday Night (Ewan Pearson Al Usher Remix)
(2025) Jimpster – Beat of an Era
(2001) Paulo Rocha – Dreamwalker (X-Tended E Dub)
(2025) Daisybelle – Into the Night
(2025) Raz & Alfa – Going Back to My Roots
COLLEEN'S NEWS
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THE LISTENNING EXPERIENCE
Often, I listen to friends talk about their favourite artists, or their favourite DJ's. They often say, oh that band or that singer is great, that DJ is really one of the best around! And the interesting stuff only happens when I dare ask the question: can you tell me why? Then, there's a pause in the conversation as time has come to search for the good, and true, arguments. Explaining why is the hardest part. It may come down to the musicianship or the qualities of the artist we love.
A few months ago I was having a drink with Men Tensel in Paris, and he asked me the question, we were of course talking about Colleen and about our beloved show. And Olivier, Men Tensel's real name, asked me: tell me, according to you, why is Colleen such a good DJ? And I started to think about the Why: first, her ability to shape stories using songs (which is something few DJs do today actually); then, the fact that she's all about music, blending jazz, disco, electro, pop, rock, and, of Course, her technical skills. I think these were a few of the arguments I gave to Olivier back then. And I stopped, lost for words. With a smile, he said to me: "take your time and write that down when you'll have some time". And, when I listened to today's show, I remembered a few of the other reasons why Colleen is up there. As she said once in an interview, when working on remixes, she always try to serve the music, not having a specific sonic imprint, even though, as you know if you read the articles I wrote here about some of her productions, she does have a kind of light "signature". So when I listened to this 220th episode (already!) I remembered how much the statement she made about her productions did also apply to the way she mixes!
Think about it, does our Captain mix the same way when she's at the loft, before a huge crowd, when she starts Balearic Breakfast or when she's in a club somewhere in Japan? The answer is, of Course, No! Colleen is a musical painter. She knows perfectly how to cue records, how to mix them, and her technicity somehow disappeard and she only uses it to serve the musical message she wants to convey. Colleen is a Chameleon.
And this episode truly showcases that, as we have the first part of the show which presents a light and calm mixing journey, whereas the second part of the show showcases a tense, incredibly precise mix, creating an unparalleled musical unity...
And as far as today's post title goes, well, as I said, the first part of the show has some tracks that really feel like you're presently leaving from somewhere and that you're heading towards a new destination, it's really the action of leaving, the physical movement, that you can feel in these songs. With the second part of the show being so clubby, yet still keeping that "freeing my mind" feeling (think of the song "Save Me" for instance...), I found this great title which perfectly mixes these two realitties...
COLLEEN'S PRESENTATION
Isle of Stonsey by KlangKollektor coming out on his forthcoming Dub Tapes Vol. 2 as a follow-up to Guess What Vol. 1 released last year. KlangKollektor is a solo project by Nuremberg's Lars Fischer who's also part of the psychedelic cumbia band Trak Trak and Dub Tapes Vol. 2 is coming out on the label Before I Die Projects which is Manchester's Jason Boardman's label and he's one half of Aficionado Recordings with Moonboots who's the other 50 percent. KlangKollektor is a very interesting project and keep your eyes out on Bandcamp to pre-order.
Greetings on a gorgeous Sunday London morning. I'm Colleen Cosmo Murphy hosting your weekly Balearic Breakfast on my Mixcloud Live until high noon and good morning, good afternoon, and good evening to those joining in on the chat from all corners of the globe and thank you for being here. I hope you all had a good weekend.
I took an epic 20 kilometer walk in Epping Forest followed by some epic Epsom salts and I'm gearing up for another big weekend of events. I'm going back to... I'm going back to back actually with Horsemeat Disco this Saturday at Melting Pot at Glasgow's Queen's Park and then on Sunday I'm playing at Patterns in Brighton for 1BTN's 10th birthday and I just want to say happy birthday to 1BTN. It's a great community radio station with a lot of great DJs whom I follow and I'm so honored they asked me to play for this momentous occasion, and as you know community radio is very important to me as I've been broadcasting on different radio platforms for over 40 years starting on my 10 watt high school radio station back in the early 80s, and I think the pandemic really hit home how radio can really keep us connected.
Congrats to 1BTN and wishing that radio station many more decades of happy returns and one more party announcement for the Balearicans. On Saturday the 10th of May we're having a Balearic Breakfast Day Party. I'm returning to East London's Enties Loft this time with my friend Joe Goddard of Hot Chip and I'm looking forward to seeing some of you there.
Last one was so much fun, it was really great, and I just noticed they're doing a flash sale this week, so tickets are really cheap, so I've read the moment so head over to residentadvisor.com to get tickets for the Balearic Breakfast Day Party on the 10th of May.
Okay, today's show I have a lot of new music for you new releases from Balaphonic, Brian Jackson, Emma Jean Thackray, Daisy Bell, Luke Una, Natasha Kittycat, Opolopo, and Raz and Alpha along with a bunch of records I've set aside over the last few months. The request line will go up again this weekend, so get those thinking caps on.
Now, this next one is an older record I wanted to share with you it's by Californian multi-instrumentalist Patrick O'Hearn who was a bass guitarist and keyboard player with Frank Zappa, so you know he has some chops, and then he was in the band Missing Persons, and I love Missing Persons 1982 album Spring Session M later discovered it was produced by Ken Scott, who did Supertramp and David Bowie, and he's now a friend of mine, so really interesting. Anyways I'm rambling. O'Hearn's solo career was inspired by Tangerine Dream's Peter Baumann and he produced O'Hearn's 1985 debut album which went in a different direction than the bands that he was in previously, more new age more experimental, and it was the right journey as he later won Grammy nominations. This is Patrick O'Hearn with Ancient Dreams.
Balaphonic with Oshun from the new album Resolution Revolutions on Phil Cooper's new Northern Soul imprint and Balaphonic is Danny Ward who has a 30-year career in dance music, poor guy just like me, just joking, and he's worked as Double D, Moody Mank and with 2020 Sound System, Feel the Brasilia and also Matthew Halsall, amongst many others. Balaphonic was inspired by lockdown era experiments, and his long-held love for Afro-Cuban and Afro-Brazilian rhythms, and the track we just heard is a collaboration with Ocean Waves Brazil a musical and cultural project focused on the traditional music of an Afro-Brazilian religion called Candomblé and the whole Balaphonic album is really great, and it's out now, and there's another great new album on the horizon.
This next one is from keyboard and flute player and singer-songwriter composer Brian Jackson. He's releasing the first single from his forthcoming album on BBE, and the new album is called Now More Than Ever and it's produced by Masters at Work which is incredibly exciting. In fact, Jackson is playing at London's Out Here at Outernet with Louis Vega and Omar on the 29th of May. Now the new album recrafts 17 songs Jackson collaborated with with the late Gil Scott Heron, and the first up is a new version of one of my favorites, It's Your World featuring singer Raheem Devon and spoken word artist Jay Ivy and it's unleashed this Friday.
A cover of Stevie Wonder's Superstition by Dennis Mobley and Fresh Taste released on P&P Records in 1977, and I've had that set aside for months and months and months, and I really didn't know how rare and sought after it was until I checked Discogs this morning. I can't even remember where I got this, but I know I didn't pay what it's going for now. So, uh... love that one!
Ahead of that an old request I set aside and I have no idea who requested it because it was from months ago but the song we heard was El Bobo by Webster Lewis the late jazz disco composer and keyboardist. He got his start working with Tony Williams, George Russell, and Bill Evans later worked as a session musician with Herbie Hancock which is quite a pedigree. And in the 70s he hopped on the Disco Express and released some solo albums, and he also produced artists like Gwen McRae and Michael Wykoff, and starting it all off with Brian Jackson featuring Raheem Devon and Jay Ivy a new version of It's Your World and that's coming out on BBE this Friday.
Okay this next one has Balearic written all over it. It was released digitally on Music for Dreams in 2023 but I was sent a test pressing, so it looks like it's coming out on vinyl soon, it's by Subnesia who is Danish producer songwriter and saxophonist Michael Rune, and DJ and producer Anders Ponsaing. They released their debut The Beginning digitally in 2023 and they have a new album called Range of Colors but this is from their first collaboration with Nordal Subnesia with Baila Gitano.
Tartaflux the title of the forthcoming EP by Margee on Brooklyn DJ producer Timo Lee's label Chomp Chomp, and you can pre-order the vinyl, and we are listening to the Justin Strauss remix. Margee is the musical project of Alexandre Gimard, and Justin Strauss should need no introduction for the Balericans but, just in case, Strauss launched his career in the 1980s in New Spinning Area the Ritz, and the Mud Club and more, and working with and remixing for Depeche Mode, Tina Turner, Jimmy Cliff, B-52s amongst so many others, and his remix of Tartaflux by Margee is out now.
Ahead of that a mysterious re-edit of a cover of Lionel Richie's All Night Long a Spanish version called Mediterranean Night Long (The Eclectic Journeys edit), and thank you to Sparky who sent me a test pressing of the first release on this Liverpool imprint Melodies of Love, and there's only 150 copies no repress and no digital, so if you want it head over to Melody of Love's Bandcamp now. And this site offers the description of the, of the mysterious edit, it sounds like Elkin and Nelson of Jabiro Jabiro Jabaro fame taking on entertainment duties at Pike's Hotel during the 1980s and delivering a killer gypsy rumba cover version of Lionel Richie's End of the Night Anthem All Night Long. Now, I've asked them who did the original, they're not answering, but this Mediterranean Night Long will be played at my Pike's residency this summer, in which, you guessed it, I'm playing All Night Long. And here are the dates for me over at Pike's, if you can join me, the 18th of May 29th of June and the 28th of September.
Ahead of that a request from last week by Rob the Urban Healer, we heard the Luke Una edit of My Spirit is Music by Ella Andall, the Grenadian Trinidadian singer, and an Orisha devotee. She released five albums starting in 1991 when she debuted with My Spirit is Music and it's such a great title. Luke did a respectful edit for his É Soul Kultura project that is coming out on vinyl on Mr. Bongo this week, and we have a few trinnies on the chat group right now, and Brooklyn-based Burt informed us that Trinidad has a new woman Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar and congrats to her, and I just want to say doubles are the best breakfast food ever.
Okay, producer singer songwriter multi-instrumentalist and all-around stellar talent Emma Jean Thackray released her second album last week, this time on Brownswood Recordings. It's called Weirdo and it is a triumphant celebration of survival and individuality and was entirely written, performed, recorded, mixed and arranged by Thackray. She also describes it as a deeply personal exploration of selfhood grief and gratitude, and it follows the loss of her long-term partner a couple of years ago. She's also been a guest at my Classic Album Sunday's Platform on a couple of occasions both times interviewed by Tina Edwards, and once about Thackray's favorite album the Beach Boys Pet Sounds, and also for a series we hosted called Producer Pioneers, and you can find out more on the Classic Album Sunday's website. Here is Emma Jean Thackray with Save Me.
Ed. Note:
In an interview she gave to Stereogum, Emma shared the stories behind each track of her new album. Speaking about the song "Save Me", she explained: "It’s definitely what I’m going for, the balance of the heaviness with the lightness; the levity and then the bleak, stark lyrics. I’m definitely trying to have that duality there. And I think if you’re singing about something heavy, you need to have quite a catchy melody with it, or the music that’s surrounding the words needs to have an upbeat aspect to it. And I think it’s the same in how you approach the words; if you’re going to talk about something heavy, maybe try and bring some fun and some joy into it, like making a joke. If you’re just saying, “I’m really sad,” people aren’t necessarily going to pick up on that. But if you’re spinning it into more of a story, people listen more. I listened to more of myself as well when I put stuff in that way, because, as I said before, when I was making everything, I wasn’t thinking about anyone else. I was just thinking about me; I needed to make a joke for myself to help me process it."
Colleen Cosmo Murphy with you here on Balearic Breakfast, almost at Club 89, it's feeling like my Club 89 days from the 90s. This is British DJ producer keyboardist and free-range label owner Jimpster, and he's debuted on New Groove the seminal cult house label founded in 1988. He has a new EP out called The Phoenix EP and this is Beat of an Era and the first final run is sold out, but they're now repressing and it's just a great deep house groover.
Ahead of that another one I've set aside for you, the Ewan Pearson and Al Usher remix of Saturday Night by Blake. And Blake is Iceland's Magnus Jonsson, and it came out in 2002 on Ideal, and I used to play it all the time.
Now, last week I played you my forthcoming remix of The Street People which is part of the spring revisited project by Sweden's Cosmos Music, and we just heard another remix from this incredible series, we heard the Opolopo deeper mix of Millie Jackson's We Got To Hit It Off which really reminds me of early death mix productions Dave Morales in particular. Opolopo also did a more disco 5 version of the song, and Dimitri from Paris also did two stunning mixes, so you're spoiled for choice and that's out this Friday on Acid Jazz. So head over to their Bandcamp.
Now, you may know Edinburgh based DJ Natasha Kitty Katt from her sets at Southport Soul Weekender and Sunset Beat. And now the Soulstress is showing her love of Berlin style synthy space disco with her debut album Synaptic Juice released last month on her own label Shadowrunner, and it sees collaborations with Billy Wirth in the film The Lost Boys, Suki Soul, His Bitter Truth and also Joseph Malik, and we heard Natasha's rework of Malik's Only Fans.
This is Colleen Cosmo and Murphy with you on Balearic Breakfast. Let's get back to the music, going until high noon on my Mixcloud Live, absolutely loving this one, Into The Night by Daisybelle, and that came out on HeSheThey Records last month. And Daisy Bell has releases on Nervous, Rebirth and Future Disco. She was born into a musical family in Puerto Rico, and she's been spinning all over the world over the last few years, also on Mott Radio and Bellami Radio, and is now based in London, and she has more productions coming out on Razor and Tape and Apparel Wax one to watch out for, and when I'm going through my record collection sometimes I find older tracks I've been putting aside to play for you.
And ahead of that we heard Dreamwalker by a Porto Portugal's Paulo Rocha, one I used to play all the time when it came out in 2001 on Alan Russell's Black Vinyl Records. And it still sounds great. Sounding a lot like one of my old Club 89 shows in the 1990s and I've been listening back to some of those it's kind of cool, my voice is an octave higher and a very different accent, but it's really fun it's really cool to like hear all these mixes that you did on the internet, people have posted on YouTube, and there's some on DJ M Trax's Soundcloud, and there's a few on my Mixcloud. Actually I have a playlist called Cosmo 1990s and there's one with Rome Anthony on it too, he was one of my special guests, he was an old friend of mine back in the day.
Well I hope to see some of you at Melting Pot at Queens Park this Saturday or at the 1BTN Birthday Bash at Patterns in Brighton on Sunday. Don't forget the request line is back up this Saturday on my socials, so think of some good suggestions for next week's show, and you can also subscribe to my Mixcloud. I do these shows for free. Takes a while to put them together and appreciate any support. Totally understand if you can't do it, but three pounds a month isn't too much, and you can do that over on my Mixcloud page.
I'm going to leave you with a fresh collaboration from the prolific Hackney based producer Raz Olsher and Ghanaian master musician Afla Sackey, and they present their own take on Afro House, and they did so on their sophomore LP Echoes of Resistance out on Wawa 45s, and they covered one of my favorites Lamont Dozier's 1977 classic Going Back to My Roots, and of that song they said "We love this song, the lyrics resonate with us talking about the meaning of connection to a land and its people, the history of this song is also fascinating from Hugh Masekela and Orlando Julius through to Odyssey and Ritchie Havens. We wanted to give it our own flavor, you can't choose your heritage and where you're born; and it's always a part of you; and we like to celebrate that."
Wishing you all a wonderful week, and looking forward to your requests on Saturday. Thank you so much for listening.
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