Balearic Breakfast | Episode 226 | Coming Together...
- by The Lioncub
- Jun 10
- 13 min read
Updated: Jun 18
Colleen 'Cosmo' Murphy broadcast the 226th episode of Balearic Breakfast on her Mixcloud on June 10th 2025.
About this episode. – After playing at the Last Note party, in Perugia (Italy – a huge thank you and some fluffy hugs to Sara Petricone who kindly shared a few pictures of the party with me), Colleen came back to host another exclusive episode of Balearic Breakfast. With the passing of the inimitable Sly Stone, we all expected a musical tribute by our dear Captain. And of course, as always, she delivered an incredible mix dedicated to the one who always wanted to take us Higher...
As often, my way of listening (I'm Always Searching for Colleen's Hidden Message...) allowed me to discover the musical soul of today's episode. If you listen carefully, you'll notice that all of the songs have that musical togetherness: of course because of the musicianship which is present in the recordings but also in the intellectual message that the songs convey...
And I'm sure we did not have that musical togetherness here at Balearic Breakfast previously! Of course, this feeling is put on a pedestal by Colleen's mixes which, once again, blew us all away: listen to what happens for instance between "Nothing but Love" and Colleen's remix of Crazy P's "Stop Start Return"... If you don't Feel the musical togetherness I'm talking about, you'd better listen back to the whole show from the beginning!
As a last hint for you, think about Sly Stone, think about Last Note's party, add to these elements the explanations I just presented to you... Can you Feel what I'm saying now and do you understand why I chose this title for today's post?...
This morning’s Balearic Breakfast is now up on my Mixcloud and features a tribute to the late funk psychedelic soul pioneer Sly Stone. Today’s show also has a lot of new music including my forthcoming Cosmodelica remix of Crazy P coming out on 20:20 Vision in July, new music from Chaos in the CBD, Azymuth, Shuya Okino, a track from Coco Maria’s forthcoming comp, and new remixes from Joe Claussell and Kuniyuki and a lot more.
It’s great to be to be back home in the record room streaming live after a few solid weeks of travel and thank you to all my special guests who gave us exclusive mixes: Marcia Carr, Pete Blaker, Carly Foxx and BB family member DJ Macaroon – all of the mixes were fab-u-lous and you can listen back on my Mixcloud. And thanks to all who joined in the parties at Good Room in Brooklyn, Dantes Hifi in Miami, Freddy’s at Pikes and 528 in Ibiza and to all of those who came to Perugia this past weekend to celebrate the life of our late friend Giancarlo Bianchi at our Italian Loft party – @lastnote_party
Apologies for not posting the request line this weekend – I wanted to keep my energy focussed on Giancarlo and Last Note and this coming weekend is our London Loft party this Sunday celebrating 22 years of the party we started with David Mancuso. If any of you want to join us please sign up for the friendship train at loftparty.org or hit me up via the socials. Alan once again there will not be request line this weekend but it will go up on the 21st June and it is our PRIDE special on Tuesday the 24th June. I love this show – last year’s Balearic Breakfast Pride Special is up on my Mixcloud and it’s a musical marathon. So once again I look forward to your requests for LGBT+ artists in a couple weeks’ time.
Until then, head over to my Mixcloud for 4 years of Balearic Breakfast shows and please give me a follow while you’re over there. And if you have the means, feel free to Subscribe. Thanks for listening.
Listen back to the 226th episode of Balearic Breakfast:
THE PLAYLIST
(2025) B.J. Smith – Decline
(2025) Azymuth ft. Jean Paul 'Bluey' Maunick – Last Summer in Rio
(2025) Kyoto Jazz Sextet – Dosojin No Uta
(2024) Nubiyan Twist ft Neone the Wonderer – Pray for Me (Dub Version)
(2025) Charlie Chimi – Échale Candela
(1978) Willie Colon & Ruben Blades – Plastico
(2025) Chaos in the CBD ft Josh Milan – I Wanna Tell Somebody
(1975) Sly Stone – Crossword Puzzle
(1982) Sly & The Family Stone – Ha Ha, Hee Hee
(1968) Sly & The Family Stone – I Want To Take You Higher
(1971) Sly & The Family Stone – It's A Family Affair
(2024) Cosmo Klein – Nothing But Love (Art of Tones Remix)
(2025) Crazy P – Stop Space Return (Cosmodelica Remix)
(2025) Fatback Band – Snake (Joaquin Joe Claussell's Sacred Rhythm Mix)
(2025) The Jade – Let the Light In
(2024) Juju – Astral
(TBR) Wood Brass & Steel – Funkanova (Opolopo Tweak)
(1983) Shiva – One More Way
(2025) HiFi Sean – Waiting for the Sun
(2025) Gene Tellem (ft Teddy Bryant) – Phantom Vibrations (Kunyuki Remix)
COLLEEN'S PRESENTATION
Decline by BJ Smith, who is Benjamin James Smith, who is also in Aquaba and Bison, Half of Smith and Mud, also in Fug, who are on Nuphonic. Ben Smith is Ben Smith. He did the Move Drill project on New Northern Soul, and he goes under so many other monikers. He's a true, true talent. Decline is from his new five-track EP, Heard, coming out on Friday, and all of the songs are great, and you can pre-order Heard on Bandcamp at BJ-Smith.
Good morning, Balearicans. I'm Colleen Cosmo Murphy, hosting your weekly Balearic Breakfast, and I'm thrilled to be back home in the record room, streaming live after a few solid weeks of travel. I mean, five flights in just over a week, so it's really great to be back. Greetings to all over on my MixCloud live. It's wonderful to see you, as always. Thanks for joining me over the past couple of weeks when I was streaming remotely from the US and Ibiza, and thank you to my special guests who gave us exclusive mixes, Marcia Carr, Pete Blaker, Carly Fox, and Balearic Breakfast family member, DJ Macaroon. All of the mixes were fabulous. And also, thanks to all who joined the parties at Goodroom in Brooklyn, Dante's Hi-Fi in Miami, Freddy's at Pikes, and 528 in Ibiza, and to all those who came to Perugia this past weekend to celebrate the life of our late friend Giancarlo Bianchi at our Italian Loft Party last note. It was truly emotional, truly uplifting.
Apologies for not posting the request line this weekend. I really wanted to keep my energy focused on Giancarlo and last note, and this coming weekend, it's the same story. It's our London Loft Party on Sunday, celebrating 22 years. If any of you want to join us, please sign up for the friendship train at loftparty.org, or you can also hit me up via the socials. So needless to say, it's another busy weekend, so again, no request line, but it will be going up on the 21st of June, and it's our Pride Special on Tuesday, the 24th of June, and I just love this show. Last year's Balearic Breakfast Pride Special is up on my Mixcloud, and it's a musical marathon, so once again, I look forward to your requests for LGBT plus artists in a couple of weeks' time.
On this morning's show, I have a lot of new music lined up for you, including a preview of my forthcoming Cosmodelica remix of Crazy P, coming out in early July, and of course, we will also pay tribute to the late psychedelic soul icon, Sly Stone, who passed to the next realm just yesterday.
But now, some new music. Marking 50 years since their groundbreaking 1975 debut, Brazilian jazz funk legends Azimuth prove their cosmic samba soul remains as vital as ever, with a new album, Marca Passo, which has just come out on Far Out. It was recorded in Rio de Janeiro, and is the first full-length release since the passing of drummer Ivan Conti a couple of years ago. Soul remaining original member Alex Malheiros leads the Azimuth evolution alongside devoted collaborators Kiko Continentino on keyboards, and new recruit Renato Massa on drums. And this next one also features Jean-Paul 'Bluey' Maunick from Incognito. Here they are with Last Summer in Rio.
Kyoto jazz sextet with Dosojin no Uta, and that means "the song of the road ancestor deity". Dosujin refers to the Shinto deity believed to protect travelers, villages, and individuals in transition from evil spirits. And it's a traditional folk song from Nagano's Nozawa Onsen Village, and we heard it performed by Kyoto Jazz Sextet, an acoustic jazz ensemble led by Kyoto Jazz Massive's Shuya Okino, and they've been going for a decade. And this new EP marks their 10th anniversary and is coming out at the end of July, and you can pre-order it now.
Okay, London's Nubiyan Twist is a blend of virtuosic players, skilled producers, and inspired composers who join forces to create a unique infectious sound drawing on jazz, hip-hop, afrobeat, latin, soul, reggae, and dance music. And their powerful nine-piece band is tight. They've been putting out albums for a decade now and recently released remixes and dub versions from their latest record, Find Your Flame, which came out on Strut Records last year. Here are Nubiyan Twist featuring Neone The Wanderer with a dub version of Pray For Me.
Chaos in the CBD featuring Josh Milan, I want to tell somebody. And that's from the New Zealand duo's double album, A Deeper Life, and it is absolutely fantastic. I've had the entire album on repeat on my headphones when I was traveling the last few weeks and loved it so much I bought the vinyl. Chaos in the CBD is brothers Ben and Lewis Helliker-Hales and their debut album was 10 years in the making. A nostalgic imagining of the duo's nature-filled youth exploring the magical coastline and lush rainforests of New Zealand. It is such a breathtakingly beautiful country. And the album has loads of guests including Saucy Lady, Finn Rees, Nathan Haynes, Stephanie Cook, a novelist, and many many more. So go out and get it.
The one before certainly wasn't new but I picked it up at Sweat Records in Miami and a shout out to Lolo and her team. As when you're in Miami you can't resist but be swept up by Latin American music. We heard Plastico from the classic 1978 album Siembra by Panamanian singer and songwriter Ruben Blades and Puerto Rican-American singer and trombonist Willie Colon. And that album is considered the best-selling salsa album, and I can understand why the whole thing is great.
Ahead of that we had Charlie Chimi with Echale Candela which translation which translated means set it on fire. And that single is now out on Coco Maria's new label Club Coco. And it's also included on her forthcoming New Dimensions in Latin Music compilation which serves as a sonic portrait of what Latin music can become when it's guided by intuition, keen ears, and an open heart. And that's certainly true of Coco Maria. She's a great selector and a beautiful person. New Dimensions in Latin Music is available to pre-order now.
Okay you may have seen the recent documentary Sly Lives aka The Burden of Black Genius directed by Questlove which came out earlier this year. And it's an in-depth look at the life and music of Sly Stone, a musical pioneer who forged both the psychedelic soul sound and funk. Sly Stone passed to the next realm yesterday after battling with an illness. But as the film states, Sly lives through his music.
Sly Stone, nay Sylvester Stewart, was born in Texas and raised in the Bay Area of Northern California. And he was a musical prodigy mastering keys, drums, guitar, and bass by the age of 11. He performed gospel music as a child with his siblings and future bandmates, Freddy and Rose as their parents were deeply religious. In fact they recorded and locally released a 78 rpm single on the battlefield with Walking in Jesus in August 1956. In the mid-1960s Sly Stone worked as both a record producer for Autumn Records and he was also a DJ on San Francisco radio station KDIA. In 1966 Stone and his brother Freddy joined their bands together to form Sly and the Family Stone, a racially integrated mixed gender act. And the group would score huge hits including Dance to the Music, Everyday People, and Thank You for Letting Me Be Myself, and classic albums like Stand and There's a Riot Going On. In the mid-1970s Stone's drug use and erratic behavior effectively ended the group leaving him to record several solo albums. He toured and collaborated with artists such as Parliament Funkadelic, Bobby Womack, and Jesse Johnson. And he took part in a Sly and the Family Stone tribute at the 2006 Grammy Awards, his first live appearance since 1987. And he also released the autobiography Thank You for Letting Me Be Myself Again in 2023. He was a complex and complicated genius, a musical game changer, and left behind an incredible body of work through which he lives on.
Let's remember him through his music, Sly Stone.
I love that song. Sly and the Family Stone, It's a family affair from their 1971 LP There's a Riot Going On. And I want to dedicate that song to the Balearic Breakfast family, the London Loft family, and the Last Note family. You can't even comprehend how much you all mean to me. Ahead of that, Sly and the Family Stone, I Want to Take You Higher from their 1969 LP Stand. We have Sly and the Family Stone, Ha Ha Hee Hee, very baleric song actually from 1982's Eight But the One Way. And starting it all off with the song that you know that De La Soul samples. You probably expected to hear De La Soul. That's Crossword Puzzle by Sly Stone from his 1975 solo album, High On You. And may Sly Stone rest in paradise.
Okay, German singer-songwriter Cosmo Klein released his debut album This Is My Time in 2003. And since then has released other solo and collaborative albums and a string of singles, including this next one released last year, but which just came on my radar as I was delving deep into Art of Tones remixes. This is the Art of Tones remix of Cosmo Klein's Nothing But Love.
One of my favorite producers, Joaquin Joe Claussell Sacred Rhythm remix of The Snake by Fatback Band. And that's part of the Spring Revisited project put together by Swedish label Cosmos Music and also the UK's Acid Jazz Records. An incredible and ambitious project of New York label Spring Records featuring artists like Fatback Band, Millie Jackson, and The Street People. Getting makeovers by Opolopo, Dimitri from Paris, Khan, The Reflex, Dave Lee, and little old me. My Cosmodelica remix of The Street People "I Want to Get Over" is coming out on vinyl on Acid Jazz this week. And you can pre-order it now. And the digital is already out. And the mix we just heard by Joe, I think that's coming out in a few weeks as well.
Before that, we heard my forthcoming Cosmodelica remix of the Crazy P classic Stop, Space, Return. And I gave it a bit of a freestyle electro vibe as Crazy P had the slinky disco vibe nailed as they always do. So, you know, no need to do the same thing over again. And I actually did that remix last summer amidst dates playing on the same stages as Crazy P. And I'd also DJed alongside the late Crazy P singer Danielle Moore. They had asked me last summer to pick any song and it was a true honor. And tragically, Dani departed planet Earth last September and we still mourn her passing. But at least we can remember her and celebrate her through her music. So, the Cosmodelica remix of Stop, Space, Return is now available to pre-order on 2020 Vision.
Okay, Madrid's Cazbah 73 recently shed his skin and is now ready to introduce The Jade, a live ensemble that prioritizes emotion, excitement, and the art of the song. Led by Oli Stewart of Cazbah 73, it's a tight live band who specialize in post-pout, studs up, raw soul, free from modern dance floor tyranny. It's intimate disco, dead selfie freedom, Afro-Latin jazz dance, and Iberian funk all rolled up into one. Here's a track from their album Love Harder coming out next week on Spanish label Love Monk. The Jade with Led the Light In.
An eternal classic, Wood, Brass & Steel with the opening track from their debut self-titled release Funkanova, which came out in 1976. In 1979, Sylvia Robinson called bassist Doug Wimbish, guitarist Skip McDonald, and drummer Keither Blanc and made them members of the Sugar Hill Gang Band, the in-house session musicians for the hip-hop label of the same name. WBNS released a final album in 1980, and then the trio met Adrian Sherwood at a music seminar in New York, followed him to England where they played on several Sherwood projects such as Fats Comet and Tackhead, and we just heard the Opolopo tweak of their dance floor classic Funkanova.
Ahead of that, Juju with Astral, and Juju is helmed by UK drum and bass producer Robert Stewart with a live band, and he's released a couple of EPs on Colin Curtis Presents label including Black Samba and Haute Couture EP. We heard Astral from the latter EP released last year, and the whole thing is great.
Okay, a few more songs on Balearic Breakfast going to just after noon. Following on from the 2023 reissue of Shiva, Never Gonna Give You Up, featuring Leon Ware and Joanne Harris, Isle of Jura have revisited 1983's 20 Minute Workout LP once more with Shiva's latest, The Aerobic EP. Four more tracks are on Earth from the original album sessions, all produced by Andy Muson, a seasoned session bassist whose credits include work with Yoko Ono, James Taylor, and Ringo Starr. It's coming out in mid-July, so pre-order now. Here is Shiva with One More Rain.
Former Soup Dragons frontman and dance music producer and DJ, Hi-Fi Sean with Waiting for the Sun, and some of us in the UK are still waiting. What a gloomy day it is today, but it's a beautiful gospel house song, and I just love it, and the wait is over as it's coming out on vinyl this week. Well, that just about wraps up another weekly Balearic Breakfast.
Don't forget the London Loft is celebrating 22 years since we started the party in London with Dave and Mancuso. It's this Sunday, and you can find out more and sign up to join our friendship train over at loftparty.org, and if you can't make it this Sunday, we host parties in September, December, March, and June, and we hope to see you on the dance floor. I'm going to be on NTS Radio this Friday doing something very un-Balearic. I'm playing a lot of punk and post-punk, as Robert Smith invited me to do a half hour on The Cure's early period from 1978 to 1982, as The Mixes of a Lost World by The Cure is coming out this Friday, and on it is the Cosmodelica and Electric Eden remix of And Nothing Is Forever, so really excited about that. If you're a post-punk fan, you can, uh, I think Robert Smith is doing two or three hours, and then there's about six, uh, three more hours of all The Cure's different kind of periods to the present day. Next week, I'll be streaming Balearic Breakfast live.
Until then, I'm going to leave you with one more song, a lovely new biscuit on Love Injection Records coming out at the end of July. It's by Canadian artist Gene Tellem, featuring Teddy Bryant. The song is called Phantom Vibrations, and it's remixed by one of my favorite producers, Kuniyuki, from the city of Sapporo and the northern island of Hokkaido in one of my favorite places. This is Colleen Cosmo Murphy. Enjoy your week, and thanks for listening.
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