Balearic Breakfast | Episode 231 | Vibrations of a Rising Sun...
- by The Lioncub
- Jul 14
- 13 min read
Updated: Jul 19
Colleen 'Cosmo' Murphy broadcast the 231st episode of Balearic Breakfast on her Mixcloud on July 15th 2025.
About this episode. – After her Musical trip to Ibiza, Colleen came back to the UK all set up and ready for another episode of Balearic Breakfast.
When you'll listen to that episode, I'm sure you'll have that same feeling as I did live, and, when closing your eyes and listening to the whole show, you'll picture an immense and firy sun rising up above land, in an unknow place. Even in the "darker" and "tougher" part of this incredible mix that Colleen proposed us in the second hour of the show, this imagery will not leave you...
And, speaking oif the "darker" part of today's set, I could not share here what my dear Ana told me on instagram when Colleen played her request, Derrick Carter's Boompty Boomp Theme which is not one to find easily and which Ana initialy requested for the Pride show. With her usual Kindness, Colleen searched high and low and went on to contact Defect records who sent her the track, despite their servers being hacked recently. This is the Family Spirit I was talking about earlier in one of my posts. We're all together in this musical quest that is Balearic Breakfast under the tender and loving care of our Captain. Come one, play the show and Feel the Love!
This morning’s Balearic Breakfast is now up on my Mixcloud and its made up of your requests and some new music – starting off a bit mellow and then picking up the pace. Swipe for the tracklist.
I rarely take selfies but couldn’t resist this blurry and multi-angle-mirror pic when I arrived back at the hotel after Glitterbox (kind of how I felt and wearing my new gold boots to boot). That was my last club date for the summer as now it is all about FESTIVALS!
Here’s where you can catch me:
Sunday, 20th July: @homesteaduk Somerset
Sunday, 27th July: @wearelove_festival in Brighton
Friday, 8th August: @flowfestivalhelsinki in Finland
Friday, 8th August: @clubkaiku - B2B set with Antal
Sunday, 10th August: Stallions at @houghtonfestival in Norfolk
Saturday, 16th August: Cosmodelica at Love Dancin’ at @weoutherefest in Dorset
Saturday, 23rd August: @ifyouknowfestival in Ireland
Wednesday, 27th August: @jazzrefound2k25 Festival in Italy
Thanks for dancing and thanks for listening.
Listen back to the 231st episode of Balearic Breakfast:
THE PLAYLIST
(2025) Huess – Hair on Fire
(2002) Carleen Anderson – Don't Look Back In Anger (Live)
(2025) The Sure Fire Soul Ensemble – Corporatocracy
(2025) Santino Surfers – The Soul Echo
(1984) Moondata – Let The Moonshine In (Dub)
(2024) Dead Sound – Pure Blue
(2025) Tar Blanche – Iguana (from Balearic Breakfast 4)
(2020) The Straits – Follow Me (Sophie Lloyd Edit)
(2021) The Rolling Stones – Miss You (Random House Project Rework)
(2002) Derrick Carter – Boompty Boomp Theme
(2017) Sasha – A Key to Heaven for a Heavenly Trance (Night Dubbing Mix)
(2024) Vincent Arthur & Dagomba – Travel with the Music
(2025) Jo Boyer – Isabelle and the Rain (Da Funkie Junkie & Cosmic Girl Edit)
(2025) Aroop Roy ft Andre Espeut – Let Me In
(2025) Sirsounds Edit – Tokyo Fantasy
(2025) Philippa – Many Nights
(2024) Toribio ft. Sharin – Daylight (Crackazat Remix)
(2013) Bryan Ferry – Don't Stop the Dance (Todd Terje Remix)
(2024) Sidestreets – Cologne That Smells Like The Beach (M1 Remix)
(1974) Kool & The Gang – Summer Madness
COLLEEN'S PRESENTATION
British beat-making bedroom producer, Huess, with Hair on fire. And that blends 1970s and 80s ambient and modern classical influences with instrumentation and field recordings made in the Norwegian wilderness. According to Huess, the title is inspired by the sound of wind through the trees, blowing out the cobwebs as a cleansing renewal and is a metaphor for the reaction we have to experiencing strong emotions like fear or excitement when your hair stands on end, even so much it feels like it's on fire, which are definitely appropriate feelings for someone expecting their first child, as the producer was whilst making his ambient album, Safe One. And you can find that on Bandcamp. And thank you to AJ Elliott for that request.
Good morning, Balearicans. I'm Colleen Cosmo Murphy, hosting your weekly Balearic breakfast on my Mixcloud Live until high noon. And greetings to our worldwide family, joining in from all corners of the globe on the chat. Thanks for joining me. I hope you had a great weekend since we were last together, and I certainly did. I made another trip to the White Isle, this time for Glitterbox, which also featured Melvo Baptiste, Moody Man, and a PA from Julie McKnight. And I got to see her doing her soundcheck before I went on, and I didn't take any videos as I wanted to respect her privacy, but she came over and gave me a big hug after she saw me singing along with all of, or at least what I believe to be all of the correct lyrics to her song, Finally, that she did with Kings of Tomorrow. I remember when that came out, gosh, and 25 years ago, I can't believe that I played it all the time.
Anyways, now I'm all prepped for a busy festival season. And this Sunday, I'm heading over to Homestead Festival, being held on a farm in Somerset, just outside of Bristol. And I'm headlining along with my buddies, Luke Una and Errol Alkin, which is a privilege. And the following week on Sunday, the 27th of July, I'm heading down to Bristol for We Are Love Festival, which is being held in conjunction with 1BTN Radio. I always love playing in Brighton. Then in August, I'm at Flow Festival in Helsinki, also doing an after-party, a back-to-back with Antal as well, which should be a lot of fun. Then over to Houghton Festival, and this time I'm playing at Stallions Tent early evening on the Sunday. And then it's We Out Here. You probably know the score, but I'm co-hosting the Love Dancing Tent along with my husband, Trojan Sound System's, Daddy Ad. And Saturday is the Cosmodelica Takeover. And after that, I'm heading over to Ireland for the If You Know, You Know Festival, and then wrapping up August at Jazz Refound in Italy. So if you're able to make any of those dates, please say hello.
Today's show is catching up on your requests and some new music, starting off a bit mellow and then really picking up the pace later in the show. This next one is a request from David Stoddard, a request for an Oasis cover by an American soul singer and composer, the Texas-born Carleen Anderson, who landed on our radar as a founding member of acid jazz group Young Disciples. They had a hit with Apparently Nothing from their 1991 album Road to Freedom. She then went solo and has had an illustrious career. She released her third solo album, Alberta's Granddaughter, on her own label, Dusky Sappho, in 2002, and it included our next song. This is Carleen Anderson's live version of Oasis's Don't Look Back in Anger.
Moondata with the dubbed version of Let the Moon Shine In, which originally came out in 1984, and original copies are eye-wateringly expensive. You took a look on Discogs this morning. But don't despair, because it's featured on the forthcoming Rotation Sound System Presents Everything You're About to Hear Is True Vol. 1, which will be released on the 18th of July on Lange Records, and it's a compilation from the Rotation Garden Party residents, Dean Meredith, who is also in Chicken Lips, Ben Shenton, Rob Jay, Stuart Robertson, and Rich Hall, and I'm looking forward to getting a copy. It's a lovely audiophile party in Staffordshire, Rotation Sound System and Garden Party, and I was honored to play for them many, many moons ago, and I'm happy it's still going strong today. And their next one is the same weekend of their compilation release, so that's the 18th, I think it's the 20th of July, up in Staffordshire. Well worth a visit.
Ahead of that, Santino Surfers, which is Danish guitarist Jonas Krag, with his latest single, The Soul Echo, now out on Kenneth Bager's label, Music for Dreams, and that's from Santino Surfers' forthcoming second album being released at the end of the summer, and it's a follow-up to the 2023 self-titled debut. And thank you to Barry Baronetz in Washington, D.C. for that request, and I'm letting you know first, I have also remixed one of the forthcoming singles from Santino Surfer's second album, and hopefully I'll get to preview that for you in the near future on the show.
Ahead of that, Corporatocracy, sounds like a great name, by the Sure Fire Soul Ensemble, a live nine-piece instrumental funk group from San Diego whose first two albums debuted in the top 15 on Billboard's Contemporary Jazz Chart. They started releasing albums a decade ago, and Corporatocracy is from their fifth studio album, Gemini, released in March, not during the time of Gemini, I should say. It should have been Pisces or Aries. Anyways, Gemini was released in March, and you can find it on Bandcamp, and thank you to Sue Forrest for that song suggestion. I love that one. And you know, that's what I really love about this show and the Balearic Breakfast family. You are always turning me on to great artists and tunes, so thank you so much.
And this next one is a similar thing. It's a request from our friend Virginia Tzioti in Athens for Dead Sound, a collaborative project by Marco Sterk, which is a.k.a. Young Marco, and Berlin-based pop auteur John Moods, and it's a song from their album Into the Void, which was released on Dutch label Music for Dreams. Oh, not Music for Dreams, Music for Memory. I'm sorry. Music for Dreams is the Danish label. The Dutch label is Music for Memory. In any case, Young Marco and also John Moods are no strangers to the label. Young Marco forms one-third of the Trio Gaussian Curve, and while Moods released the 2022 album Hidden Gem with The Zen Men, and they got together, and over the course of a few days of really charged creativity, they produced an entire album of textured, dreamlike, psychedelic soundscape songs. This is Dead Sound with Pure Blue.
Ed. Note: A very interesting article about "The new wave of ambient music and its emotional powers" by Skye Butchard can be read here, Gaussian cuve is mentionned of course.
Balearic breakfast with 2 imaginative balearic reworks of some 70s tunes from some classic rock bands. This one, Miss You, the 1978 disco single from The Rolling Stones, but this time given a fab and very creative rework from one of Balearic Breakfast's favorite reimaginers, Random House Project, and I know I played one of his other edits recently, but I couldn't resist playing this one, and then John Boakum also requested it, so there you go.
Ahead of that, a rework of Dire Straits' classic song Follow Me Home, the original from their 1979 LP Communiqué, but we heard Follow Me by the Straits, the Sophie Lloyd edit, and Sophie Lloyd did that edit. She's a British DJ and producer, and it came out on the late Yamhoo's label Midnight Riot about five years ago, and thanks to DJ Hefe or Dan Edwards for that request.
Ahead of that, we had Iguana by Tar Blanche, the down-tempo house project of Charlie Ryder, who's also in alternative rock group Yumi Zouma, and as Tar Blanche, she debuted with the album Granada School of Motion in 2023, and then his ambient, chilled-out house sound found a home on New York label Nervous Records and then Delicia Records, and he has a new single called If You Can't Trust Your Heart. Iguana is also featured on the forthcoming Balearic Breakfast Volume 4 compilation, coming out on Heavenly Recordings at the end of the summer on the 29th of August, and as always, I always play one song a week from the forthcoming compilation up until its release, and also Volumes 3 and 4 are being compiled and released on CD for the first time, and you can find out more on the Heavenly Bandcamp.
Okay, this next one is an older request from Ana Sancho in Barcelona, and I was finally able to snag a copy, so thanks for your patience, Ana. It's by Derrick Carter, a seminal figure on the Chicago house scene, where he got his start as a DJ in the late 1980s, and then he started producing for labels like Cashmere's or Green Velvet's label Casual, such an influential label in the 1990s. Carter also worked at Chicago's best dance record shop, Gramophone, and so did DJ Heather, so I'm giving her a shout-out as well. Here he is with Boompty Boomp Theme, the opening cut from his Square Dancing in a Roundhouse LP, which came out on Classic Recordings in 2002.
Loving this one from UK DJ and producer Aroop Roy, along with British soul singer Andre Espeut, which, with the song Let Me In, very deep, jazzy, soulful offering. And it's Aroop's second outing on Kerry Chandler's Chaos Theory imprint, and it came out last week. And I've had the chance to get to know both Aroop and Andre, fabulous guys and talents, and I've recently played with Aroop quite a bit and really love his sets as well.
Ahead of that, we had the funky, junky, and cosmic girl edit of Isabelle and the Rain by the late French jazz trumpeter and bandleader, Jo Boyer. The edit is featured on the compilation Caviar Jazz, a journey into the jazz-inflected house music, which came out last month on Right Tempo. And the comp also features some great tunes by Crico Castelli, Frankie Knuckles, iQube, and also the classic Soufflé H by Mondo Grosso. It was put together by Da Funky Junkie, which is Malaysian DJ Donovan Tho, along with Cosmic Girl, who is Julia Nicholson, and they've really pioneered the disco and soulful house sound in their native Malaysia. And I played for them a few times in Kuala Lumpur many moons ago. The last time, I was just about six months pregnant and already looking like I was ready to burst, much to everybody's kind of amusements and possibly fear as well. So thank you to Donovan and Julia for sending that one over and congrats on the compilation.
Ahead of that, Vincent Arthur & Dagomba with Travel With The Music. And that's originally from an album called Essi Vivian, which came out in 1986 and is very, very expensive. And it was, until recently, a very underappreciated album until DJ Diggers started to unearth the song that we just heard, Travel With The Music. And Sam Don put out three songs on an EP on his Sweet Free Association label, so you can pick that up and you don't have to pay as much as you would for the original, so definitely, definitely worth that.
Ahead of that, Sasha with A Key To Heaven for a heavenly Trance night dubbing mix. And that was the Italian house producer, not the UK DJ Sasha or the Eurodance Act. And Sasha, the Italo house producer, released seven singles between 1992 and 93. And that was requested by our friend Kieran McCann in Glasgow, who enjoyed a lot of Italo house while he was on holiday in the Umbrian heat. Sounds wonderful.
Okay, now I have to give a little bit of a disclaimer for this next one. I was sent over a bunch of great, great new re-edits by Sirsounds, the DJ and re-editor who is based in Berlin. And I loved all of them. And I picked this one for today's show. While I've been hosting the show, I looked up the original and so I had to find out who actually did the original and found it was a 1982 single from Alessandra Mussolini, the granddaughter of the fascist dictator Benito Mussolini and sadly, I hate to say it, she's a right-winger herself, so I don't endorse her politics. That is my disclaimer. And nor do I obviously endorse fascism, which is sadly rearing its ugly head in my native homeland. But it's still a great rework of a cool song, so I hope you will like it. This you can find on Sirounds' Bandcamp. It's Tokyo Fantasy, which is a rework of Alessandra Mussolini's Tokyo Nights on Balearic Breakfast.
Loving this one, the M1 remix of Cologne that smells like the beach. Definitely want some of that. That's by Side Streets and that's the debut release by the Brooklyn-based DJ, multi-instrumentalist and producer Side Streets, a.k.a. J.D. Slater IV. And the remix we heard by M1 is exclusive to Bandcamp.
Ahead of that, a request from London House Music Works for Brian Ferry's Don't Stop the Dance, which came out on the Roxy Music Frontman's sixth solo LP, Boys and Girls, released in 1985. But I'm sure you can tell I didn't play the original version. But the Tod Terje remix, which came out on the Vinyl Factory label in 2013, along with remixes by the Idget Boys and Grasshopper.
Ahead of that, we had Toribio featuring Sharon with the Crackazat remix of Daylight. And that's the Brooklyn-based DJ, producer and musician, Cesar Toribio and his sister, Sharon Toribio. And that came out at the end of last year on my friend Paul and Barbie's label, Love Injection, which also has an accompanying fanzine. Toribio began releasing singles nearly a decade ago and has been gracing dance floors with his soulful, percussive, Latin-tinged sounds. And I had the pleasure to hang out with Cesar and his partner, Ada, when they were here in the UK a couple of weeks ago. A very lovely, creative couple. And they had a good time at Glastonbury, too, where Toribio was performing.
Ed. Note: Paul, Barbie and Cesar Toribio did an interview together, read it here.
Ahead of that, we had DJ and producer, Philippa, who cut her teeth in New Zealand before relocating to Berlin over a decade ago. Her groove-riding productions have been featured on Jimster's label, Free Range, and Sloth Boogie, and Lazy Days. And we heard her latest, Many Nights, which came out at the end of June and is part of her Bandcamp-only Quiet Fire series. So look out for that.
Well, thank you for joining me, Balearicans. This is Colleen Cosmo Murphy, and I'll be back hosting your weekly Balearic Breakfast next week. And I think I'm gonna do one more request line this month. So please keep your eyes on my Instagram and Facebook this Saturday. Also, please follow me over on my Mixcloud. And if you have the means, you can subscribe for three pounds a month, as that really helps me out as I do these shows on my own, also with my husband, of course, and it's hosted on my own platform. So your support is greatly appreciated. But if you can't, don't worry. You can still listen to these shows for free.
Okay, I'm gonna leave you with one last one requested by DJ Tak, who wants to escape from a crazy hot Tokyo summer. And I know they are hot in Tokyo, also in New York as well. This is the 1974 single from Kool and the Gang from their album, Light of Worlds. And it's a song that sounds exactly like it's labeled on the tin. Here they are with Summer Madness. Thanks for listening.
Ed. Note: Sadly, Kool and the Gang's longtime member, stylist, choreographer and hype man Michael Sumler (known as "Chicago Mike"), 71, died in a car crash in Cobb County, May 24. This request was dedicated to him, obviously.
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