Balearic Breakfast | Episode 236 | Family Gatherings (Sean_E)
- by The Lioncub
- Aug 19
- 9 min read
Updated: 14 hours ago
Colleen 'Cosmo' Murphy broadcast the 236th episode of Balearic Breakfast on her Mixcloud on August 19th 2025.
INTRODUCTION
Curated by Gilles Peterson, We Out Here is the most important annual event to happen in the UK, "a 4-day award-winning festival that celebrates world-class music, alongside wellness, family and cultural activities, with the help of an outstanding musical community".
If you're familiar with Worldwide FM and follow Colleen on her socials, I'm sure you already know some of the DJs included in this 2026 edition. We can mention, among others, DJ_Emma, Ariane V, Maria Hanlon, Tina Edwards, SwayoftheVerses or even our friend Sean_E from the Melomaniacs Collective (the festival had its radio station and all of the shows have been posted on Mixcloud, including the special Balearic Breakfast episode presented live by our dear Captain – and a special and heartfelt thank you to my friend Rick van Veen who mentioned the blog on the WWFM chat!).
Ed. Note: Our beloved DJ Emma presented a very interesting radio show during the WOH Festival, entitled "Music as Medicine", as she explained on her socials: "this gig at WOH radio was the thing I’ve been most looking forward to since I heard that I was going to be showcasing something I have become so passionate about in recent years. Namely working with @davemc3bee and @_ash_dj and teaching them DJ’ing which has led to a deep interest in brain injury and music and how music can help people in such a powerful and positive way following a catastrophic life changing event.
@davemc3bee touched so many people at WOH with his story and amazing talent and it was a joy to have had this opportunity at this wonderful festival. The WOH radio stage was such a great vibe for the show and Dave got everyone off the bean bags and dancing:) Thanks also to @robot84music for the contribution to the show and telling his story about his stroke back in 2022 and how music helped him:) Thanks so much to @joshaitman for giving me this opportunity and to @1btnradio @worldwide.fm and of course huge respect to @gillespeterson and @noahballnoahballnoahball for creating something so special. It’s the 4th year I’ve been involved and it’s an honour everytime ♥️ Thanks to the WOH radio crew @alien_izz and @rosabellaallen for making us feel so welcome ♥️
‘Music as Medicine’ will be available soon on @worldwide.fm to listen back to if you’d like to hear what the show was all about! If you’d want to catch @davemc3bee MC’ing - come along to @groovejunctionevents on the 6th September at Salisbury Arts Centre 💚"
This year's line-up was Massive and of course, Colleen was to be found at The Love Dancing Tent (Facebook page), with her very own list of musical acts (her daughter Ariana played the very first set, including Fat Freddy's Drop's hauntingly beautiful "Blackbird" on which Colleen proudly danced).
ABOUT THIS EPISODE
After this crazy weekend, Colleen went on to present the 236th episode of our beloved show, despite being tired both vocally and physically. For this episode, she invited our friend Sean_E, who delivered a very nice set.
Today's show was a nice one indeed as Colleen started with the rather dark-sounding track that is Calm's Opening, letting Sean_E take over. His mix slowly evolved within its realm and gained a beautiful stability over time (starting from Santana's "Song of the Wind"). We will have Sean_E on the blog in a few weeks, so we'll discuss this point together, as it reveals something exciting musically speaking. Taking the con, Colleen also presented an evolving mix, which is quite interesting as it somehow answers Sean_E's body of work.
On the chat, the happiness was real, a lot of our friends sharing their hapiness after experiencing the magic of Colleen's musical tent at WOH, like Kieran McCann who shared with us: "I reckon I spent 75% of my time at WOH In Love Dancin' Anyone have any other highlights? Ganavya's performance was incredibly moving for me". Of course, François Kevorkian's performance has also been praised on the chat! It seems obvious, and many people said that on their socials over the weekend and after the event, that the Love Dancin' tent was the best tent at WOH wih the best sound! To sum it all up, I'll share our friends Karen Claire's few words, saying "Excessive Enthusiasm 🤣🤣🤣🤣"!
(Pictures from A-Live Sound LTD's Facebook page)
This morning’s Balearic Breakfast is now up on my Mixcloud and features new music, a track from the forthcoming Balearic Breakfast Volume 4 comp and an exclusive mix from Balearic Breakfast family member @___sean_e___ who is also part of the @mel0maniacs collective who helped him choose tunes for the mix. They are a group of music lovers who connected during the pandemic on chat groups for Worldwide FM and Balearic Breakfast and other radio shows. They also had their first live outing in the Brawnswood Tent at We Out Here.
And speaking of WOH, thanks to all who joined me on Saturday night in the Love Dancin’ tent or who stopped by at any point during the festival – I hope you got a good groove on. And it was lovely hosting another Balearic Breakfast for Worldwide FM and meeting some of you – thanks for joining me and I have reposted the show on my Mixcloud (please give me a follow over there).
We will celebrate the 5th ANNIVERSARY OF BALEARIC BREAKFAST on the 16th September – get ready for a marathon show – and we will also celebrate it at the next Balearic Breakfast Day Party at NTs Loft on Saturday, the 13th September and joining me Danny & Daisy of the Heavenly Jukebox and Pete Wiggs from Saint Etienne. Tickets are now up on Dice and RA and we sold out last time so please get in there!
I won’t be streaming the show for the next couple of weeks as I’ll be in transit – playing at If You Know You Know Festival in Ireland this weekend and Jazz ReFound in Italy next week – but I’ll be back streaming remotely with a guest mix from @robot84music on the 9th September. Until then, kick back and enjoy today’s show. Thanks for listening.
Ed. Note: To help you out with your requests for the upcoming 2025 Balearic Breakfast Anniversary Marathon show, you can check the Quick Access playlists, which are published here. For your listening pleasure, the 2024 Marathon 4th birthday show can be found here.
Listen back to the 236th episode of Balearic Breakfast:
THE PLAYLIST
(2025) Calm – Opening (Live at Navaro Kumamoto)
Sean E Melomaniacs Mix:
(1980) Donna Summer – Grand Illusion
() Maze – Happy Feelings (Live)
(1973) Mel & Tim – Keep the Faith
(2022) Mave & Dave – You Are Delicious
(1972) Santana – Song of the Wind
(1992) Liquid Variety – The Edge
(1995) Jhelisa – Friendly Pressure (Ashley Beedle Enemy Release Remix)
(1992) Code 718 – Equinox (Heavenly Club Mix)
(2011) A Man Called Adam – Amoeba
(1987) Depeche Mode – Behind the Wheel (Shep Pettibone Remix)
(1976) Milton Hamilton – So Beautiful
(2025) Quiet Village & Vanessa Daou – Naked Hunger (Radio Edit)
(2024) Erin Buku – See You Shine (Sai Galaxy Remix)
(NRY) Trip Tease & Alain Vice – Sex Having Disco (Prins Thomas Diskomiks)
(2025) Gratts – Better Days (Fennec's Better Nights Remix)
(2025) MDA Grooves – Ipanema Jazz
(2025) CoFlo ft Rawb Boss – Who Da Frequency
(2025) Ichisan – Fantasound (Isaac Ferry Remix)
(2015) Gloria Ann Taylor – Love Is a Hurtin' Thing (12" Version)
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Next couple of weeks, I will be away, so there won't be a Balearic Breakfast. I'm taking two weeks off, as I'll be in transit, playing in Ireland and Italy, and then going back to the States, but I will stream remotely on Tuesday, the 9th of September, and I have a guest mix from Robot 84 for that one, and then I'll be back hosting Balearic Breakfast live in the Record Room on Tuesday, the 16th of September, and it will be the fifth anniversary of Balearic Breakfast.
So we're having a marathon special, requests only, and so start thinking about one of your favorite songs you discovered on the show, not one of your requests, one of the songs you discovered on the show, and I'm trying not to do repeats, so maybe take a look at my socials and look back at the last two Balearic Breakfast anniversary specials as well. Let's not do repeats. There's so much music in the universe, and I can never get to all of it, so let's just keep turning people on to things they don't know.
That request line will go up on the weekend prior on my Instagram and Facebook, so I think that will be the 13th of September, which is also the date for the next Balearic Breakfast day party at NT's Loft, and so I'll be celebrating the fifth anniversary of Balearic Breakfast, but also the release of the fourth of the Balearic Breakfast compilation series.
So Balearic Breakfast 4 is coming out on the 29th of August, also the CD for Volumes 3 and 4, and at the Balearic Breakfast day party on the 13th of September, I'll be joined by the Heavenly Jukebox, that's Danny and Daisy, and also Pete Wiggs from Saint Etienne, so that should be a lot of fun. Tickets are now up on Dice and Resident Advisor, and it did sell out last time, so I highly advise you pre-purchase your tickets. Okay, there will be another release party too for those in Ibiza on the 28th of September at Pike's, so there you go.
ABOUT THE SONGS
(Excerpts from Colleen's presentation)
In today's episode, Colleen selected the following songs.
Calm with Opening, live at Navaro Kumamoto from his new release, Feel the Moment Laboratory Live in Kyushu, which you can find on Bandcamp. And Calm is Fukagawa Kiyotaka, a talented producer and musician, and he plays all of the instruments except for Yuichiro Yakato on sax. The album is a series of live recordings from gigs around Kyushu, one of the main islands of Japan, the most southwestern islands of the archipelago ;
After a few years of being quiet, actually for nearly a decade, Quiet Village recently returned and their single Reunion came out last year, and now Joel Martin and Mark Edwards are back with another single, this time featuring the sultry vocals of Vanessa Daou, a fixture on the early house scene with her songs with her former husband, Peter Daou, and also Danny Teneglia producing, and her debut solo album, Zipless, which came out in 1994, it was recently reissued as well. Here she is with Quiet Village on a new single coming out next month called Naked Hunger ;
See You Shine by Erin Buku, who is a singer-songwriter, DJ, producer, and sound healer in Adelaide, Australia. She's worked with Talib Kweli, and also DJ Spinna, who did a great jazz set at our Dingwall session on Sunday at the Love Dancin' tent that we got here, it was a style of music I've never heard him play before, I thought he was going to go a bit more Mizzell Brothers, but he didn't, he kind of kept the tempo up, it was really, really great. We heard a remix by Australian collective Sai Galaxy, led by the multi-instrumentalist Simon Durrington, whose music I really like, and he has a new one out called Analogue Recital at the moment.
Mexico's Trip Tease and Alan Weiss, aka Carlos Salame, with Sex Having Disco, and we are listening to the Prince Thomas Disco Mix, and it's coming out on Astroled Recordings, which is Spaniard Ilya Santana's label, going about a decade now, and this track is coming out on vinyl and digital on the 5th of September.
Heading back to Adelaide for this next one, this one is from our friend Gratts, who is Belgian DJ and producer Tristan Jong. His single Better Days was released last month, but this is a different mix by Korean-American DJ and producer Fennec, who is based in Austin, Texas, and his remix is called Fennec's Better Nights Remix.
MDA Grooves, which is Mundo de Aventuras, and that's Jose Salvador, and he runs the Portland Sound Studios and Tink Music companies in Amsterdam, and is in bands like Black Tulip and Electronic Voodoo, and he's put out six MDA Grooves EP for Universo Positivo, coming through very quickly, two last year, and already four this year, and we heard Ipanema Jazz from MDA Grooves' latest Carioca Bounce.
DJ, producer, and body movement coach Cody Ferreira, aka CoFlo, from San Francisco, California, and he's also Raw Boss, I didn't even know that, as I've been playing songs under that moniker as well. CoFlo has a forthcoming EP coming out on Jimster's Free Range Records label, and we heard Who the Frequency, but I like all the cuts, and played Unite at Houghton Festival a couple of weekends ago, and that's coming out on digital and vinyl at the end of the summer.
A new DJ and producer, Ichisan, with Fantasound, and this is the Isox Berry Mix, and that is Brian's son, and that just came out on Disco Lipso.
Love Is a Hurtin' Thing by the late American soul singer Gloria Ann Taylor, and she put out a bunch of records starting in the 1960s, and then took a break to raise children, and Ubiquiti reissued her music a decade ago, and Taylor returned to the music scene. She sadly passed the next realm a couple of years after that. And this coveted 12-inch mix of her single, Love Is a Hurting Thing, will be featured on the next compilation, Balearic Breakfast 4.
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