Balearic Breakfast | Episode 229 | Letting Go...

Colleen 'Cosmo' Murphy broadcast the 229th episode of Balearic Breakfast on her Mixcloud on July 01st 2025.

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About this episode. – After playing at Pikes in Ibiza, and despite what seems to be a sinus infection blocking her right ear, Colleen managed to air a brand new episode of our favourite show today! This episode was very refreshing knowing the curent state of the thermometers in Europe (we reached 38°C here in Paris while 34°C have been reached in London) as it had a viby, cool, slowly evolving rhythmic pace, letting the listener feel a "letting go' vibration for most of the songs played, of course enhanced by Colleen's incredibly perfect mixes! Without the shadow of a doubt, the first two songs of today's episode are a Wow Moment!

Of couse, as often, today's show resonnated with me as I felt that if you're not being appreciated somewhere, and If all you could give was never enough to someone, be it at work or in your private life, one of the solution was to adapt your thinking mind and let things go. We should never force things, let alone allow anybody to pressure our personality to meet their expectations... Try listening to today's show with that in mind, and you should be able to meet me quite quickly somewhere along the musical and Balearic Way...

This morning’s Balearic Breakfast is now up on my Mixcloud and for the most part is all new tunes, including several coming out later this summer by Soul 2 Soul, Ron Trent, Sven Wunder, Sons of Sevilla, Feel Fly, Turbotito, Lou Hayter, Black Science Orchestra, Hot Toddy, Space Grapes and much more. Each weeks leading up to the release of Balearic Breakfast Volume 4, I’m spinning one of the compilation’s tracks e and the choice for today’s show was by Claremont 56 outfit Paqua. You can pre-order the comp on the Heavenly Recordings bandcamp and independent record shops and thanks to all who have already done so.

I’m also hosting another Balearic Breakfast party at NTs Loft in London this Friday – this time a soirée from 7pm to 2:30 am – maybe more like a Balearic Breakfast Supper. I’m joined by Virginia Tzioti from Athens and Daisybelle whose productions I have been spinning as of late. Tickets are available presale on Resident Advisor and on the door. I hope you can make it.

And thank you to everyone who joined me at Freddy’s at Pike’s on Sunday night – that was an amazing party! I’ll be back one more time before the season’s end – celebrating the release of Balearic Breakfast Volume 4 on Sunday, the 28th September. It has been a real pleasure hanging with the Pike’s team too.

Well aside from a raging sinus infection and blocked ear canals, that’s what’s happening in my musical world this week. If you see me on Friday with my heading hanging to the side, please know it’s the only way I can hear with both ears at the moment. Baffled.

Thanks for listening.

Listen back to the 229th episode of Balearic Breakfast:

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THE PLAYLIST

(2024) Infradisco – Beyond the Caduca (Hear & Now Remix)

(2025) Torn Sail – Mud People

(2025) Sven Wunder – Scenic Byway

(2025) Mama Terra – A Mind Supreme (Joel Hamilton Remix)

(2025) Potatohead People & Slippery Elm ft Bahamadia – Up Close

(TBR) Sons of Sevilla – Butterfly

(2025) Paqua – Akaliko (from Balearic Breakfast Vol 4)

(2025) Lou Hayter – Wish You Were Mine (Black Science Orchestra Vocal)

(2025) Jéroboam – See The Light (Space Grapes Vocal)

(2025) Francis Bebey – Sanza Tristesse (Josh Ludlow Remix)

(2025) The Cool Notes – You're Never Too Young (Moplen Remix)

(2025) Peter Green – Proud Pinto (Jona’s Mac Fleetwood Edit)

(2025) Turbotito – Time Starts Moving Slow

(2025) Fatback Band – Chillin Out (Kons Cool Out Remix)

(2025) Jazxing – Memories

(2025) Feel Fly – Sole (Radiomarc Remix)

(2025) Lakeshouse – Renate’s Dans (Hot Toddy Remix)

(2025) Tubbs & Burns – Drums Are Dangerous (Todd Modes Full Moon Mix)

(2025) Soul 2 Soul – A Dream's A Dream (Ron Trent Mix)

(2025) SHAF, Ahmed Saad & Ya Man – Hawah

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COLLEEN'S PRESENTATION

Beyond the Kaduka by InfraDisco, a project by DJ Mark B and musician producer Alberto Benatti. And the original is from their debut album Aqua Capta, released last year on Archaeo Recordings. But we just heard the very chilled out remix by Perugia-Italy duo, Hear & Now.

Good morning, Balearicans. I'm Colleen Cosmo Murphy, hosting your weekly Balearic Breakfast until high noon on my MixCloud Live, and streaming live from a very hot record room. It's beautiful out. It's very, very hot, but it's sunny here in London. I think it's one of the hottest days of the year so far. Greetings to the family gathered over on my MixCloud Live and thanks for joining me as always. I just got back from Ibiza where I played at Pikes and we had a great shindig in Freddie Mercury's bedroom on Sunday night. And thanks to all who joined us. And I'm back at Pikes on one more date this summer at the very, very end of summer, the 28th of September. And I'm really looking forward to it. I've had such a great time there, not only spinning, but also hanging out with the Pikes crew. They've been so lovely to me. Now, sadly, you can probably hear it. My sinus infection still hasn't improved. And because of the flights, my right ear is blocked. That's really irritating. Hopefully it will repair itself soon. I mean, if I tilt my head to the right, it seems to clear it up to look a bit strange. So thankfully, you can't see me, but I'm really hoping it clears up by Friday as I'm back at N.T.'s Loft in London, this time for an evening party with Balearic Breakfast family member Virginia Tsiotti and also guest DJ Daisy Bell, whose tracks I've been playing a lot as of late. N.T.'s is in East London and tickets are really cheap, which is really nice on the pocket. So you can head over to Resident Advisor to secure them. And I'm sure there'll be some on the door as well.

I'm also playing at some festivals this summer, Homestead in Bristol and We Are Love Festival in Brighton in July. In August, I'm heading to Helsinki for Flow Festival and then I'm back for Houghton, this time playing on a Sunday for the first time in the Stallions tent.

Of course, I'll be hosting the Love Dancing tent at We Out Here with the Cosmodelica takeover on Saturday. Then I'm back to Ireland for the second year in a row on the eve of my birthday, strangely, this time for the If You Know, You Know Festival. And then I'm heading to Italy for Jazz Refound at the end of August. So I have lots to look forward to and I hope to see some of you when I'm playing at those festivals. Please say hi. I'm also looking forward to sharing a load of new music with you on today's show.

Nottingham producer, musician and songwriter Huw Costin has a band called Torn Sail and they've been releasing music for nearly 15 years. Their debut single was on Paul Mudd Murphy's Claremont 56 label. They also have released two studio albums and their third, Steady Weather, was released last week on Costin's label Delia Recordings. And it's an ambitious offering, a double album beautifully packaged with a booklet. And the whole album demands attentive listening as the songs reflect on how the positive nature of humanity has the power to transcend all kinds of borders. The connection between landscape, memory and family, the passage of time, aging and the beauty found in simple domestic moments. This is Torn Sail with Mud People.

Butterfly by the Sons of Sevilla, who are actually two blood brothers from the north of England, Henry and Reuben Smith. They started making their double debut album Lullabies for a Wildcat during the pandemic and it was released on Ubiquity last year. It was a great album, great album. And they have a new one on the horizon called Street Light Moon and Butterfly is the third single. And also Sons of Sevilla will be touring in the U.S. throughout the autumn. I really love their debut. I hope they come over to the U.K. sometime soon.

Ahead of that, Up Close by Potatohead People, which is Canadian hip hop electronic production duo Astrological and Nick Wisdom, along with MC and singer Slippery Elm. And that track also featured special guest, the Philadelphian ledge Bahamadia. It's from their forthcoming album Emerald Tablet, which will be released on the 11th of July on Mystery Box Records. And you can preorder it on Bandcamp.

Ahead of that, we heard Mama Terra, the jazz soul ensemble led by Glaswegian pianist and composer Marco Cafola. And they've just released a remix of a track from their 2023 debut, The Summoned. We heard A Mind Supreme, given the remix treatment by the Grammy-nominated Brooklyn-based producer, engineer and musician Joel Hamilton, which came out just a few days ago on Acid Jazz.

Before that, Swedish musician and composer Sven Vunder with Scenic Byway. It's the second single from Sven Vunder's upcoming fifth full-length album, Daybreak, which is coming out at the end of September. And Vunder is, I should say, it's his first, it's his fifth full-length album. Sorry, my ear is really bothering me. I feel so unbalanced. And that seamlessly continues the progression of his musical oeuvre. It takes the listener on a vivid maritime expedition, beginning the moment the first rays of light break the darkness of the night, and embarking on a lush journey through the early hours of the day and far beyond. And I'm really looking forward to that. And we started it all off with Torn Sail with Mud People.

Now, as you probably know by now, the next release in the Balearic Breakfast compilation series, Volume 4, will be released on the 29th of August, alongside a double CD of both Volumes 3 and 4. And you can pre-order via the Heavenly Recordings Bandcamp. And pre-orders are also available at many independent record shops. You can find out more via my linktree on Instagram. And thanks to all those who have pre-ordered already. This comp features recent tunes from contemporary artists making a vinyl outing for the first time, along with some of my favorite classics that are quite pricey to get on vinyl. As is the custom, I'll feature a tune from the comp each week until it's released at the end of August. And this is the first one, an old favorite of mine from the Claremont 56 label by Paqua. This is the title track of their album Akaliko, which came out over a decade ago. And it's quite expensive to find secondhand on vinyl. So it's coming out on Balearic Breakfast, Volume 4.

Danish Yugoslavian musician Turbotito with Time Starts Moving Slow from the forthcoming The Sunset Manifesto, Volume 2 by DJ Supermarkt. And Supermarkt's guiding logic for this second edition of contemporary mid-paced magic is a house blend of adult-orientated sunset beats with a little, we could all use a little joy right now on the side. And that's certainly true. And along with Turbo Tito, the compilation features some of my other favorite artists, Wolfie vs. Projections, Poolside, and Young Gun Silver Fox. So look out for that.

Ahead of that, a lovely edit of Peter Green's Proud Pinto. And that original track is from the Fleetwood Mac founder's incredible solo album, 1979's In The Skies, a longtime favorite of mine. The edit is called Jona's Mac Fleetwood Edit, and it just arrived in my inbox this morning. So thank you, Jona. I'm not quite sure who it was.

Ahead of that, Brit soul-funk outfit The Cool Notes with a Luca Moplin rework of their single, You're Never Too Young, from their 1985 LP, Have a Good Forever. The Cool Notes had a reggae number one back in 1978 with My Tune. And with this single, You're Never Too Young, they cracked the UK charts as well. I'm a big fan of Moplin's reworks and remixes. Great sense of arrangement.

I've really also been getting into Josh Ludlow's remixes and productions more and more. Featured his mix of Pigeon on The Last Balearic Breakfast Vol. 3 comp. We heard a remix of Sansa Tristesse by the late Cameroonian singer, musician, composer, musicologist, sculptor, and writer, and all-around talent, Francis Bebe. Look him up. Africa 7 released a vinyl comp of remixes of Bebe's work. And along with Ludlow, there are reworks by Psych Magic, Turbo Tito, Voila!, and Red Axes. And you can order the vinyl. It's a vinyl-only release on Bandcamp.

Ahead of that, See the Light, the forthcoming single by French live outfit Jéroboam, coming out on the 11th of July. A lot of records coming out on the 11th of July. This one on Space Grapes. And it's a loose-limbed, synth-splashed, boogie burner that builds on their Cult 2022 debut on the same label. We heard the Space Grapes vocal by label heads Danilo Pleso, a.k.a. Motor City Drum Ensemble, and Bobby Van Putten. And it's another analog transmission, beamed straight from the jam room. And you can pre-order that now. And starting it all off with Lou Hayter, the Black Science Orchestra vocal mix of Wish You Were Mine.

Okay, I was really honored to be part of the Spring Revisited project with my remix of The Street People. The project was put together by Sweden's Cosmos Music and Acid Jazz and includes remixes from the 70s New York City label Spring Records by artists like Joe Clausell, Dave Lee, Dimitri from Paris, DJ Spina, The Reflex, Opolopo, of artists like Fatback Band, Garland Green, and Millie Jackson. This is a beautiful, jazzy, summer-sounding remix of Fatback Band's Chillin' Out by Boston native Khan on Balearic Breakfast.

This sounded really good at Pike's on Sunday night. Soul to Soul, A Dream's a Dream, the Ron Trent remix. And the original features Victoria Wilson James. The original's from Soul to Soul's sophomore album, Volume 2, 1990, A New Decade. And Ron's remixes are coming out in August, and you can pre-order the vinyl on Soul to Soul's Bandcamp. I already have. And it was great seeing Ron Trent bust some moves to his own tune, Street Wave, at the London Loft Party a couple of weeks ago, too. So great to see him.

I had to add a little something-something from yesterday's inbox from New Zealand duo Tubbs and Burns, my old friend Chris Tubbs and Eden Burns. You may remember the single I played of theirs, Where Were You in 92. Well, their forthcoming EP features a new remix of that by Colter Carson, which is great. And it also features the new tune that I played, the Todd Modes Full Moon mix of Tubbs and Burns, Drums Are Dangerous.

Ahead of that, Scandinavian outfit Lakeshouse with their forthcoming single Renate's Dans out next week on paper recordings. And it was given the remix treatment by Hot Toddy, which is Chris Todd from Crazy P.

Ahead of that, we had Feel Fly, who is the Italian DJ and producer Daniele Tomassini, also from Perugia, like here and now. And Manu from Archeo Recordings has just sent me that release, which is coming out in mid-July. The Radio Marc remix of Feel Fly's Sole, which means sun in Italian.

And we had the forthcoming single from Jazxing on Higher Love called Memories. And it's a progression from the Polish duo's already great debut LP, Pearls of the Baltic Sea. And it's musicians, producers and DJs Jakub Sautycz and Mateusz Filipiuk. I hope I got that right. I probably didn't. They formed Jazxing in their hometown of Gdansk, Poland, and they integrated with the wider Balearic music scene. And they're part of a growing group of colorful Polish artists, clubs and labels who want to share and inspire music with their passion for these sounds. Well, I certainly love sharing my passion for sounds and songs with all of you people.

  And thanks for joining me again for Balearic Breakfast. I will be back next week streaming live and I think we should do another request line. So I'll aim to do that this weekend on my socials where you can request tunes for next Tuesday's show.

  I hope to see some of you at N.T.'s Loft this Friday where I'm DJing another Balearic Breakfast party. This time a night party, this time with Virginia Tsioti and Daisy Bell. I'm going to leave you with something very interesting that I also received yesterday.

  It's by Middle Eastern DJ and producer and Billboard hitmaker Hassan El-Shafei returning under a new alias, SHAF. And this is a collaboration with Egyptian singer and actor Ahmed Saad titled Ya Man Hawa, on which they joined the dots between North African and Middle Eastern sounds and Afro tech. And it's a love song that translates as my love for her elevates her while it humbles me.

Thank you so much for listening. Have a great week and I'll see you next Tuesday.