Balearic Breakfast | Episode 240 | Balearic Grooves...
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Colleen 'Cosmo' Murphy broadcast the 240th episode of Balearic Breakfast on her Mixcloud on September 30th 2025.
ABOUT THIS EPISODE
After playing an all-night set in Ibiza's Freddy’s at Pike’s, celebrating the 4th intallment of the Balearic Breakfast compilation series, and also recording a special set for Open Lab FM, Colleen came back to her record room and prepared a nice show, lined up with new tunes including the new Cosmodelica remix of Santino Surfers which was very much appreciated by the Family!
As always, Colleen crafted a beautiful set, quite relaxed we should say as even the second part of the show kept a detached feeling, hence the title of today's post!
This morning’s Balearic Breakfast is now up on my Mixcloud and features a load of new music including a new Cosmodelica remix of Santino Surfers now out on Music for Dreams - please give me a follow while you're over on Mixcloud too
I was a bit physically knackered as I got back from the White Isle late last night. But I feel spiritually and emotionally fulfilled because I played all night long at two wonderful parties Neuhm in Napoli and then Pikes on Sunday night for the Balearic Breakfast 4 Release party. It was off the hook! Thank you to all who were able to find a spot in the very packed Freddy’s. The vibe was fantastic from the first song which was James Mason ‘I Want Your Love’ as it had been an earworm since last week’s 5th anniversary show. I just can’t get that groove out of my head!
This Friday I’m playing at Arkestra in Istanbul if you happen to be in Turkey. And then next Tuesday I’ll be streaming live again from the record room and will be catching up on a few requests, some older tracks I have set aside and some more new tunes. The next request show will be in two weeks’ time - 14th October Black History Month Balearic Breakfast Special so get your thinking caps on as that will be an all request show. Thanks for listening.
Listen back to the 240th episode of Balearic Breakfast:
THE PLAYLIST
(2025) Sewell & The Gong – Morning of the Magicians
(TBR) Warriors of the Dystotheque & Balaphonic – Gone Sailing
(2025) El Combo Batanga – Darling
(2025) Federation of the Disco Pimp – Gratuitous
(2025) Tambores En Benirras – Extensor Entregado (Steve Cobby Remix)
(2025) Scott Grooves x Allysha Joy – stay (raw silk edit)
(TBR) Visti's Vinyl Collective – Sunshine in Atalaya (Be.lanuit Balearic Dub)
(2025) Da Lata ft. Bembé Segue – Arena
(TBR) Gold Suite – Coast Along (Dan Idjut Bassinvader Version)
(2025) Stars Before the Sun (Lovehandles Rework)
(2025) Santino Surfers – Underwater Disco (Cosmodelica Remix)
(2025) Michael Franks – Ladies Night (Monsieur Van Pratt Re Dub)
(2025) Woolfy Vs Projections – Seeds
(2025) Pellegrino y Zodyaco – La Malia del Sur
(2025) Incognito ft. Zebulon Ellis – Strangers Become Friends (Ski Oakenfull Mix)
(2024) The Matsiko World Orphan Choir – Rise
(Black Sonix & Sean McCabe Extended Mix)
(TBR) Linda di Franco – T.V. Scene (Danilo Braca Epic Remix)
ANNOUNCEMENTS
(From Colleeen's presentation)
Now this Friday, I'm heading over to Istanbul in Turkey, and I'm playing at Orchestra. And then because I like Halloween so much, I'm DJing at two Halloween parties later in October.
On Saturday, the 25th, I'll be at Public Records for the Dope Jams Halloween Ball. And I can tell you, New Yorkers really know how to put together a Halloween costume. It's always so much fun to watch everybody on the dance floor.
And then on the actual night of Halloween, the 31st of October, on Friday, I'll be back at Pike's and Ibiza for the closing party, this time sharing the night with my friends, CC Discos. So that's their last party of the year.
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And I'm also looking forward to tomorrow, Wednesday, the 1st of October, as I'm hosting my first classic album Sundays at Hidden Grooves in Shoreditch in London. And my special guests are Delada's Patrick Forge and Chris Frank.
We're exploring their debut album, Songs from the Tin, which was released 25 years ago. Tickets are free but limited, and there's only a handful left. So if you want to join us, head over to the Classic Album Sundays website to reserve your space.
And just a little kind of heads up, next month, or in a month and a half, I should say, in November, my special guests will be Marc De Clive Lowe, and we'll be celebrating Six Degrees.
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I'll be streaming again live next week. I'll be catching up on a few requests, some older tracks that I've been setting aside for a while, and some more new tunes. But the next request show will be in two weeks time, the 14th of October, when we will be celebrating Black History Month, so it will be probably an extra long special, so get your thinking caps on, as that will be an all request show.
ABOUT THE SONGS
Seawell and the Gong with the aptly titled Morning of the Musicians, as I thought that was the perfect way to open a morning show. And that's the artist, illustrator, and bestselling author, Matt Seawell, who is an avid ornithologist I should say. And Seawell also plays a guitar in Seawell and the Gong, and that's a music project with producer Chris Tate. Their new album, Patron Saint of Elsewhere, is a sonic journey into a whirling world of wild woods, dancing in the mud, late-night pastoral adventures, and some sort of 21st century hedonism connected to ancient rituals that mark the passing of seasons.
A forthcoming release on Kris Koko's Disappear label. It's by Warriors of the Distotek and Balithonic. Both artists have played individually on the show, so it's exciting to hear this collaboration. Warriors of the Distotek is Johnny Mack, Mike and Nick Ruffalo, and Sean Grams. And Balithonic is Danny Ward, who released the album Resolution Revolutions earlier this year. And as a drummer, he's worked with Ray and Christian, Fila Brasilia, Matthew Halsell, and so many others. This is from their forthcoming collaborative album, It's a Beautiful Thing, being released in October. Here is Gone Sailing.
The Afro-Cuban band El Combo Batanga with the lovely Latin soul song Darling. That was released on 7-inch in the spring on Ubiquiti Records. And the band released one album in 2020. And Darling is a flip of the lead single La Cuota from their forthcoming album Spanish Dogs.
Federation of the Disco Pimp with Gratuitous. And that's the kind of psychedelic soul that I love, but it's modern-day psychedelic soul. And Gratuitous is by Scottish Group. It's Federation of the Disco Pimp. And it's the title track of their new album, released last week on Acid Jazz.
Extensor Entregado by Tambores En Baneras, which is the alias of Graham Newby, aka DJ Gripper, a long-serving DJ and producer, based not on one of the Balearic Islands, but in Barrow-in-Furness, an industrial UK coastal town. And this remix was released in August on the lovely New Northern Soul record label, which is run by British label head and DJ Phil Cooper. But he does live in Ibiza. It's a remix by Fila Brasilia's Steve Cobby.
Scott Grooves did a rework for Australian singer, Allysha Joy. He reworked a single, Stay, from Joy's album, The Making of Silk. He said "I first heard Stay last year on lot radio, and it caught me right away. Bought the record and recommended it through my Bandcamp channel. And around that time, I had a DJ date at Public Records with Hidden Spheres, and I created an alternate version of the song. Well, Joy loved it". They went into the studio to jam on it with Finn Rees, and that's how the Raw Silk edit came about.
Danish musician, DJ, and legendary radio host, Jonas Visti, with his project, Vistie's Vinyl Collective. We heard the new Be.lanuit Balearic Dub of Vistie's 2024 singles, Sunshine in Atalaya. And the remix will come out on Music for Dreams sometime in the near future.
Da Lata ft. Bembé Segue, who is a singer-composer, producer, DJ, poet, arranger, and Afro-Brazilian percussionist. And she's also part of the Mighty Eavesdrop Collective, who played for us on our Love Dancing tent that we had here. Arena is the first single on Delada's forthcoming album, Edge of Blue, which I'm very much looking forward to its release on 24th of October.
A forthcoming release on the Citizens of Vice label by Gold Suite, who is the Bali-based musician and DJ, Joey Fitzgerald. This is Gold Sweet's forthcoming single, Coast Along, with a Bass Invader remix by Idgit Boy's Dan Tyler.
Stars Before the Sun, the LoveHandles rework. And I have no idea who the original artist is. I've shazammed. I've asked the group on the MixCloud live chat, but to no avail. But I love it. And it's called Stars Before the Sun, which Juno Records described as a recut of a thrift store Hare Krishna disco funk gem with Selena strings, drum breaks, and an optimistic pulse. I just thought that was a great description. And I played another track from Love Handles' forthcoming reworks EP on the show that I did for Open Lab Radio in Ibiza as well, if you want to check that out.
My new Cosmodelica remix of Underwater Disco by Santino Surfers. And you know I'm a big fan of the instrumentalist and songwriter Jonas Krag of Santino Surfers. Love the chilled out surf style of his guitar playing, kind of carambin-like as well. In fact, Santino Surfers' Freedom Surfers is on the latest Balearic Breakfast 4 compilation. So I was delighted to get the chance to remix that mid-tempo disco chugger, which came out on The Sunset Sessions Vol. 13 on Music for Dreams.
Also on Too Slow to Disco, Monsieur Van Pratt Re Dub of Ladies Night by Michael Franks, who is one of the most prolific musicians of the California West Coast Jazz AOR yacht rock scene. And he approved personally all of these new versions. It came out on Too Slow to Disco a couple of weeks ago, Michael Franks' The Reworks Vol. 2, which also includes reworks by the Flying Mojito Brothers and Jack Tennis. DJ Supermarket from Too Slow to Disco will be one of my special guests on Balearic Breakfast later in October as well.
Seeds by Woolfy vs. Projections, which is a studio and live act comprising Simon Wolfie James and Dan Hastie. They've been releasing music since 2000 on a who's who of contemporary disco electronic labels like DFA, Wrong, Future Classic, and Permanent Vacation. And this is from the Sunset Manifesto Vol. 2 on Too Slow to Disco, a great compilation.
Napoli-based musician and label owner Pellegrino Snickelotto has been releasing some great music over the past decade, exploring Italian jazz funk both on his own and with his Zodyaco project. He's also the founder of the label Early Sounds Recordings, which released the latest Pellegrino and Zodyaco album, Koine, released earlier this year, and of which he says there is no defined goal, rather a desire to explore new sonic languages that hold firmly to Neapolitan roots while opening up to a global and contemporary musical aesthetic. And this is the cut La Malia del Sur.
Incognito featuring Zebulon Ellis, Strangers Become Friends, the Ski Oakenfull Mix, and that came out this year on 10-inch on Splash Blue. And I finally had the chance to meet Bluey back in July. We had a great Classic Album Sunday session celebrating the 30th anniversary of 100 Degrees and Rising, and the podcast with that interview will be posted up soon. I think I'll do it today or tomorrow, actually, on the Classic Album Sunday's website, so you can check that out. And just a heads up, Incognito are performing at the Barbican on the 15th of October, celebrating 45 years with a live orchestra, so I'm really hoping to go to that. I caught their 40th anniversary show in early 2020, before the world shut down. I think it was my last live show before the pandemic encroached upon us.
Rise by the Matsiko World Orphan Choir, whose mission is to use a unifying power of music to uplift every child, bring hope, love, and joy to all who listen, and inspire generosity that provides a complete education for vulnerable children. Matsiko World Orphan Choir members are ambassadors of hope for the voiceless and invisible children of the world coming from Liberia, India, Peru, and Nepal, and the choir featured in that song, Rise, are based in Liberia and have been on many tours of the USA. And we just heard a remix by Welsh producer Black Sonics, aka Justin Stride, and Bristolian producer Sean McCabe, both very soulful producers. And the remix was released last year, but it's now coming out on vinyl on a compilation EP called Good Vibrations Volume 3 later in October, and you can pre-order that now.
If you're a Balearican, you will know the original Balearic classic T.V. Scene by Linda di Franco. Well, this is a wonderful new remix by the New York-based Italian DJ and producer Danilo Braca, who I saw in Napoli over the weekend. He took the train down from Rome just for the party, and he also has a vinyl hi-fi bar in Brooklyn called Suono, named after the Italian audiophile hi-fi magazine his father founded. This is his epic remix of TV scene, and thank you all for joining me. Thanks for listening, and see you next week.
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