Balearic Breakfast | Episode 225 | The Musical healing Machine... (Meeting Pete Blaker / Carly Foxx's Mix)

Colleen 'Cosmo' Murphy broadcast the 225th episode of Balearic Breakfast on her Mixcloud on June 3rd 2025.

Carly Foxx

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About this episode. – Just a few days after playing with Love injection at the Good Room, Colleen played at Dante's hifi in Miami with her friend Rich Medina and then headed towards Ibiza where she's playing in a few hours with Hot Chip at Pike’s at 528 from 7 to 9pm. In between these musical performances, she took the time to stream new episodes of Balearic Breakfast, including this one in which she welcomed both Pete Blaker and Carly Foxx.

This episode had a strong moving vibe as while the fam joined Colleen on the chat we exchanged about our parent's health issues, and everyone joined in sharing their experiences, and we all started cheering ourselves up, saying that the show was a lifeline for so many of us. While this hapenned, I noticed how much Pete's mix had a strong force, a cleansing force. We all noticed its circular structure too... You know, I strongly believe that things always happen for a reason during Balearic Breakfast... Carly Foxx's mix was more relaxed, with a beautiful and Jazzy start, but kept the pace with a positive opening that brought us all a lot of joy!

All in all, this show was both a moving, a cleansing and an everlasting musical ouverture, allowing everyone to trust that the best was yet to come (indeed, we saw the front cover of the forthcoming Balearic Breakfast's vol. 4 compilation 😉)...

Greetings from Ibiza - the perfect place to stream this morning’s Balearic Breakfast which is now up on my Mixcloud (and please give me a follow while you’re over there). Today’s show has an exclusive Balearic mix from and interview with Pete Blaker. Our Balearic Breakfast family are big fans of his deep and trippy re-edits and he has a surprise up his sleeve for us this coming autumn. I’m sure you will love his mix (swipe for the tracklist).

After that we have an exlucisve mix from the Australian, London-based DJ Carly Foxx. She has DJ-ed all over the world, has done A&R for Nervous Records and also sat in the producer’s seat with her friend Daisybelle. I recently played with her at La Discotheque in Manchester and thought she would be a great fit for Balearic Breakfast and her mix is testament to that sentiment :).

If you happen to be in Ibiza right now, I’m playing with Hot Chip at Pike’s at 528 from 7 to 9pm. If you can make it, please say hello.

Wishing you a wonderful week and thanks for listening.

Listen back to the 225th episode of Balearic Breakfast:

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PLAYLIST

Pete Blaker's Mix:

Extracts of Dope Jams Vol 1 2005-2010

Five or Six – Theme

Steven Legget – River

Alan Parsons – Some Other Time

Basil Poledouris – Search for Lina

Marjoe – God's Now Given Me a Cadillac

Jon and Vangelis – State of Independence

Rhythm and Sound – Hit You Version

The Detroit Escalator Co. – The Inverted Man (falling)

With some pieces of Richard Bach – Illusions

Kraftwerk – The Man Machine

Urban Dance Squad – 3 Heights

Patrice Rushen – The Hump

Walter Murphy – Afternoon of a Faun

Shock – San Juan

Harald GroBkopf – So Weit, So Gut

Syn Ka – Tempete

Antena – Camino del Sol

Michael Jackson – We Got a Good Thing Going

OTP Pert Breaks – Lifetime Groove (Marcos Cabral and Shux Edit)

Prince – Mountains

Bohannon – What is a Dream (Part 2)

Radio Tarifa – El Baila de la Bola

Casper Lawal – Kita Kita

Kaoiu Inone – Rhythms of Dedication

Simple Minds – A Brass Band in African Chimes

Psi Performer – 1999

Steven Legget – River

Extracts of Dope Jams Vol 1 2005-2010

Carly Foxx's Mix:

(1977) Ron Everett – Glitter of the City

(1981) Twylyte ‘81 – A Dreamer

(2024) Dieta Berliner & Jean Baptiste – Paula & Kaspar (Club Mix)

(checking) Willie Colon – Set Me on Fire

(1987) Before the Storm, Boyd Jarvis & Tony Humphries – I've Got the Music (Zanzibar Dub)

(1983) Sandy Steel – Mind Your Own Business

(1987) Chris & Cosey – Exotika

(2024) Musclecars – There's Space for Us All

(2022) Jennifer Vanilla – Jennifer Pastoral

(2023) Djosa, Ronald Snidjers – Vampiro

(1979) Capone – Music Love Song

(1983) Flayer – Wanna Get Back Your Love

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Pete Blaker's Interview with Colleen

[Colleen]

Good morning, Balearicans. I'm Colleen Cosmo Murphy, hosting your weekly Balearic Breakfast on my MixCloud Live, and greetings to the family gathered over there. Thank you for joining me. 

This morning, I'm in Ibiza as I'm DJing later with Hot Chip at 528, but I didn't want to skip a show, so I have a couple of exclusive guest mixes that I know you will enjoy. First up is one of Balearic Breakfast's favorite reworkers and remixers, Pete Blaker. He's put together a special mix for us, and we also have a chat about his productions and musical story.

  Then we have an uplifting and up-tempo mix from the London-based Australian DJ, Carly Fox. In the meantime, I'll be hanging out with you on the chat group with the fam. Now, over to Pete Blaker.

Good morning, Balearicans. I'm in the studio here with Pete Blaker, the Dutch DJ, editor, and digger extraordinaire, and we've played a lot of his music here on this show. Thank you, Pete, for joining us.

[Pete]

Thank you for having me.

[Colleen]

We're listening to your mix right now, and thank you for doing this mix. I know the Balearicans will be loving this. I just wanted to rewind a little bit and find out, how did you get into DJing and doing re-edits?

[Pete]

Oh, re-edits. A few years ago, I rediscovered it again. I did it when I was younger.

I'm 50 years old, Colleen, and I started collecting and playing music when I was, I think, 14. I grew up in a little village, and there was only rock music. I heard on the radio some DJs play other music, like disco and rap and some early house stuff.

And I was like, ah, that's cool. But they were mixing this on radio, and I was thinking, how are they doing that? How is this possible? So that was my invention to play music. And later on, there was a guy, Ben Liebrand. Maybe you've heard that name before.

Ben Liebrand was also a kind of editor, a remixer in Holland, and he was playing with other musics, and we recreated his versions. I did it at first with tapes and at home, with double 12-inches and tried to put them on top of each other. And later on, I was more into DJing and collecting and forget about it.

When I was, I think, 40 or something, the DJing went a little bit slower, and I had my family life and everything around it. And I was still interested in music and playing along with it. And I rediscovered editing again. And one day, I found the Queen version and made my version out of it. And it was one friend who told me, there's one guy on this planet who can play this and get away with it. And I think you have to send it to Harvey.

And so I did. I never heard anything back from him. And after a few months, I discovered a recording on Instagram from a party. Harvey was playing my edit. And that's when the fire started burning again for me. I was like, oh, this is very, very nice, very cool. One of my favorite DJs is playing my stuff. Maybe I have to put more energy in editing and make it my own. And so I did.

[Colleen]

One thing I really love about your edits is they're very long. And this is an age where sadly, things like TikTok has made people's attention spans a lot shorter. And I'm finding that sometimes people are doing remixes that are under four minutes long. Or their DJ style is almost sounding a little bit like Jive Bunny. The hits all kind of crashed up against one another as opposed to kind of extended songs that you can really sink into and that just kind of unwind and evolve and really draw the listener in for a real musical journey. Why are your edits so long?

[Pete]

When I find a song and I think it's good to edit, sometimes there is some bars or some parts I don't like. Or I like a lot. And I think, ah, we have to point out that direction or point out that. And I think for me, an edit can be played not in a set, but just as an edit.

So 40 minutes, 14 minutes is also a story. So an edit is for me also a story. It has a beginning, it has a middle, and it has an end. And it has also a purpose to take you on a little journey. And it's 14 minutes.

So yeah, I think the beauty of long is, in my opinion, the story.

[Colleen]

Now when you're going out and doing record digging, because I see sometimes on your Instagram, you'll hold something up, just got this for a dollar. I mean, are you one of these people that goes into a shop and leaves no stone unturned? I mean, what's your process for searching for records?

[Pete]

Leave no stone. And the beauty in searching for records is the boxes with everything in it, from classical to Dutch to whatever. And unselected boxes.

That's what I like the most. Because I find things I would never find at Discogs or in a shop with all the labels and everything. Now I can find music that's interesting because of the producer, because of the drummer, because of the whatever. That's my journey when collecting music. And I saw recently, one of my edits was going for 200 euros. And I was like, why do you want to pay 200 euros for an edit if you can buy 200 records for just one euro the piece?

And you have 200 records with very good music from all sides of the world. I'm the one euro, one dollar guy who likes to listen to opera music and not like to collect of stamps. Sometimes record buying is also collecting stamps. And that's not my way.

[Colleen]

Right. You're collecting music rather than collecting objects.

[Pete]

Yeah. I love to discover new stuff. And it goes very wide.

You can also hear it in my mix. It's a balearic mix, but it has everything in it. So that's what I like.

[Colleen]

Can you describe your mix in your own words for us? I mean, I know people are listening and will have their own descriptions, but what was your intention with this mix?

[Pete]

The whole bunch of balearic in one hour.

[Colleen]

A whole lot of balearic in an hour. I love it.

[Pete]

Yeah. From the 60s till now, 2025. The tempo is quite easy. You can relax to it, but it has all the flavors.

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[Colleen]

And we're back with Pete Blaker in the studio at Balleric Breakfast. Pete, we are loving this mix. Thank you so much.

You are not only doing re-edits of older songs, but you've also started editing and remixing new material. And I would love to talk with you about your, I guess it's really a collaboration with Rheinzand, the Belgian band whom I love, and who have an album out on Music for Dreams. They have a couple albums out, I believe, on Music for Dreams.

Can you tell me how that whole thing developed?

[Pete]

It started with the edits were floating around and Harvey's playing in Mo Disco. Mo is a big fan of Harvey. So he approached me. I think it's for the album before Atlantis. And he asked me to do a remix for them. And I did. And he liked it very much. And after that, he approached me again. He said, I would love that you would remix the whole album for us. And like in the way that Matt Professor did for Massive Attack. And I was like, oh, that's very much. I never did something like that. It's my first time. I never did remixes. My studio is a mess.

So what are you expecting? But I was like, also very honored. And I was also a good chance to see whatever it will become.And it became, in my opinion, a really great remix. I'm very proud of it. So yeah, that was quite a journey. If someone asks me again, I will think twice before I say yes, because it was so much work and so much energy. But it developed me also as a remixer and in the way of remixing projects.

[Colleen]

For those listening, they may not understand that sometimes when you're doing edits, most of the times you don't have stems. You're usually taking a song and slicing it up and rearranging it. But when you get the parts for a remix, you have something called stems, which is all the different instruments and voices.

[Pete]

And that's so much.

[Colleen]

Yeah, it's a lot. All of a sudden you have way more choices and decisions to make. So that must have been quite eye opening.

[Pete]

It was like a like a candy shop. Like everything was out. Everything was I could use and always in tempo and sounds and voices. But it was too much in the beginning. So I had to find my focus on the project. What do I want to do with this project? That helped me a lot. I don't know if you know the sleeve of the remix record. The sleeve is with some pictures of married couples.

That idea came along the way and I was like, yeah, this project has to be about love and it has to be about the difficulties about love and the beauty of love. Then I got my focus on the project and then it eventually became this record. So, yeah.

[Colleen]

Well, congratulations. It was a huge undertaking, but you did a fabulous job. And you were telling me earlier, you're a social worker by day. So love and relationships is a big part of your daily work. Talking about love, one song that I am absolutely loving and playing in every single set right now is your dub version of RX's I Love Your Love. Can you tell us a little bit about that and how that came about? It's for Gary Johnson's label, correct?

[Pete]

Yes, that's the label. Yeah, he approached me a few years ago. Do you have original stuff? I like your edits and if you have original stuff, maybe you can send it over to me. And I was like, yeah, but I have also a lot of edits. Do you want to give them out or something? No, I can't. I can't. I can't.Running back is too big. I will get in trouble with the majors. And I was like, OK, then it's not our time at the moment.

And he approached me, I think, a little year ago and was asking, I have this disco record. I have the license. Do you want to do an edit? I was like, I will. I will. Yeah, that's nice. But it didn't became an edit. It became a remix. So it became something different. It's not the disco edit I did, like the floor is yours or something like that. But it's a remix. It's a little bit housey. You have some techno vibes in it. And on the end, it's my close friend, Dion on keys also. And also, again, I think it's a journey. It tells a little story with a beginning and a middle and an ending. So I think it's beat, but it's not an edit. He liked it very much. So I'm very happy he put it on vinyl.

[Colleen]

I bought the vinyl, too. So for my loft sets, I can only do vinyl. I have both. It's getting played everywhere. And people are responding so well to it. So congratulations.

So what does the future hold? What does the future hold for Pete Blaker? What's going on?

[Pete]

There is some edits coming out. Resurrected. Great. Yeah. And then again, on Just What The World Needs, another one. There is now one on Hot Biscuits is coming out now.

And also a double album with original stuff from me. And that will be end of summer, I think. So September, October will be my first original double album with only Pete.

[Colleen]

Wow. And how about your friend on keys? Dionysus, is it?

[Pete]

Yeah, Dion. Dionysus. He's also working on original material and he's finishing some stuff. And I think he's going to put something out on Russia or label. So he's also climbing, climbing up the ladder.

[Colleen]

Is he on your new album as well?

[Pete]

Yeah, yeah. He's also involved a little part, but also very, very close. An old friend of mine, Leon.

Leon is from the same village where I live in. We work under the name Pleon. You say it in Dutch is Pleon. We found each other in musicals. I think it's 25 years ago. We're still friends and we still make music and occasionally having fun with with the things and the knobs. And he's also involved in this project. So, yeah, it's a project for me, but also with friends who contributed. Yeah. And also Ryan Zandt. Ryan Zandt did something back to me. So that's very, very, very nice.

Yeah.

[Colleen]

Fantastic. And which label is that coming out on?

[Pete]

It's Love and Universal Music. It's part of Heartbeats, but it's the label is called Love and Universal Music.

[Colleen]

Fantastic. And so we can look for that towards the end of the summer, early autumn.

[Pete]

Hopefully and maybe I can squeeze something into the lyric breakfast set.

[Colleen]

I'm sure we'll be playing something off of that album. Well, thank you so much for your time and thank you for this lovely mix. I really wish you all the luck with your future endeavors and keep making great music and make sure to send it to me.

[Pete]

Thank you, Colleen. Thank you for having me.

[Colleen]

All right. Take care.

[Pete]

Bye bye.

[Colleen]

Thank you so much, Pete. Now over to a DJ who moved from her native Sydney over to London, Carly Fox. She's played all over the place, including at Pykes and Fabric and also on My Analog Journal. 

She also sat in the producer's seat with her friend Daisy Bell and she's done A&R for Nervous Records. I recently played with her for La Discoteque in Manchester and thought she would be a great fit for Balearic Breakfast. Here is Carly Fox.