Balearic Breakfast | Episode 243 | Meeting DJ Supermarkt
- by The Lioncub
- Oct 20
- 14 min read
Updated: Oct 24
Colleen 'Cosmo' Murphy broadcast the 243rd episode of Balearic Breakfast on her Mixcloud on October 21st 2025.
ABOUT THIS EPISODE
On Monday, October 20th, David Mancuso would have celebrated his 81st birthday. Colleen shared a beautiful yet short message celebrating this special day on her socials: "Happy Heavenly Birthday David. Remembering one time when I drove you back to your Brick Lane hotel. You got out of the car, walked a few steps and turned to me and said (in that earnest way of yours), ‘I love you Colleen’. I responded, ‘I love you David’. From that day on that is how we said goodbye. I love you David. And I miss you terribly." Of course, the openning song of this 243rd episode of Balearic Breakfast was dedicated to Colleen's friend.
Before embarking on her travels, Colleen pre-recorded today's episode and also the next one which will be streamed by Adam on October 28th. We all had a great time discovering DJ Supermarkt mix and interview, a proper Balearic Moment indeed!
D’Angelo created only 3 studio albums during his lifetime but each was a game changer and ‘Voodoo’ was my personal favourite. I was blown away when I first heard it as it sounded so fresh and modern but still with that classic soul twist - even caught him on the Voodoo tour at The Brixton Academy. I pay tribute to D’Angelo on this week’s Balearic Breakfast (now archived on my Mixcloud) through choosing the most Balearic song from each of his albums.
This week’s show also features a fabulous one hour mix from DJ Supermarkt from the label Too Slow to Disco which has been a favourite on the show. His mix has that sunset disco/yacht rock feel and is incredibly smooooooth! I know you will love it and please swipe for the tracklist.
Thanks for listening!
Listen back to the 243rd episode of Balearic Breakfast:
THE PLAYLIST
Colleen Mix:
(1981) Pat Metheny & Lyle Mays – September Fifteenth
(1995) D'Angelo – Cruisin (Wet Remix)
(2014) D'Angelo & The Vanguard – Really Love
(2000) D'Angelo – Spanish Joint
DJ Supermarkt TooSlowToDisco Mix:
(2025) Leisure – Welcome To The Mood
(1994) Die Fantastischen Vier – Tag Am Meer (Instrumental)
(2024) Ships & Hardships – Flou
(2022) DJ,,S' – Sweet Love
(2021) Marco Magrini – Moments of Love
(2025) Lexx – Cruisin
(2025) Michael Franks – Monkey See, Monkey Do (Jack Tennis Rework)
(2024) Monsieur Van Pratt – No Te Perderé
(2023) Joel Sarakula – Hands Of Love (Ben Jamin Rework)
(2025) Turbotito – Time Starts Moving Slow
(2025) Gold Suite – Other Side
(2012) Cadillac – Too Long (Daft Punk Cover)
(2022) Georges – Karma (Turbotito Remix)
(2013) Toro Y Moi – Rose Quartz
Colleen Mix:
(2025) Sofia Rubina – I'm on My Way
(2025) Ten City – He's a Friend
(2025) TJM – Small Circle of Friends (Moplen Remix)
(2025) Charles Stepney ft Kitty Haywood – You Make Me High
(Terry Hunter & James Poyser Club Mix)
(2024) Trinidadian Deep – Moments of Sounds (Cee ElAssaad Remix)
ANNOUNCEMENTS
(from Colleen's presentation)
Our next Winter Loft Party in London is on Sunday, the 17th of December, and it's by invitation only, so you have to be on our mailing list (loftparty.org).
I'm playing at Public Records on Saturday night in Brooklyn. I hope you can join me.
And the following week will be my last time on the White Isle this year, on Halloween night at Pike's. So next week, I'll still be streaming remotely. I'll be bringing some new tunes. And we also have a one-hour mix from my friend Bex in the City. It's a gorgeous mix that she has put together for us.
ABOUT THE SONGS I
(from Colleen's presentation)
Pat Metheny and Lyle Mays with September 15th, and that's from the guitarist and keyboardist's 1980 album, As Falls Wichita, So Falls Wichita Falls, and I'm dedicating that to my mentor and dear friend, David Mancuso. Yesterday, if he was still with us, he would have celebrated his 81st birthday, and David loved Pat Metheny's work, and he often played songs like Are You Going With Me and The First Circle at The Loft, and also this album, all of which sounded incredible on his sound system, the audiophile sound system that David carefully and meticulously assembled and tweaked over decades and decades. David was obsessed with sound, I mean, so much so that he could even remember the first sound he heard, and I'm not going to tell you what that sound was, but you can find out in an interview that he did with my friend Chris Menist.
Chris interviewed him for the Loft compilations that David and I put together for New Phonic Records, and part of that interview is on our London Loft website, so if you want to listen, head over to loftparty.org and to the Music Is Love page, and you can scroll down and listen there. And while you're over there, if you want to join us for our Loft Parties in London, join our Friendship Train. Our next Winter Loft Party in London is on Sunday, the 17th of December, and it's by invitation only, so you have to be on our mailing list. Thank you, David, for everything.
Ed. Note: There is a beautiful interview David gave back in 2003 to Niall O'Conghaile's Discopia fanzine where you can really feel who he was and how he reacted to things, the transcription is great, read it here.
Good morning, Balearicans. I'm Colleen Cosmo Murphy, hosting your weekly Balearic Breakfast until high noon on my MixCloud Live, and greetings to all over on the chat group today. Coming up in the show, some of my new favorite dance floor songs, along with a one-hour mix, an interview with DJ Supermarket of Too Slow to Disco. It's all on the way.
But first, along with my friend David, I'd like to remember another artist who had a tangible influence on music, the late D'Angelo.
He was a pioneer of the neo-soul movement, first as a songwriter and producer for Black Men United, and then he came into his own as a musician and performer in his own right, changing the course of music in only three albums over two decades. And each album had a finely crafted new sound, and it's crazy to think he released only three albums, but maybe he set the bar so high for himself and put so much time and thought into his next musical endeavor that that was all we needed, three albums.
I loved Brown Sugar when it was released 30 years ago and was so happy to hear soul music. The soul music I so loved. It was revived with a contemporary twist, but it was Voodoo that really knocked my socks off. I mean, it sounded so fresh, so modern in 2000. And for me, it was the apex of the Soulquarian movement and records from that era, Common, Erykah Badu, The Roots, Most Deaf and More (Ed. Note: see also here).
I went to see D'Angelo live on that Voodoo Tour at the Brixton Academy, and it was incredible. And now I can relive it as I just discovered it's on YouTube, so I think I'm going to do that later on.
So today on Balearic Breakfast, we remember D'Angelo, who sadly passed to the next realm, and I've chosen one song from each album, starting with the wet remix of his first single, a cover of Smokey Robinson's Cruisin'.
D'Angelo with Spanish Joint from Voodoo. Really love, ahead of that from Black Messiah, and the Wet Remix of Cruisin' from his album Brown Sugar, which came out 30 years ago this year, his debut album. May D'Angelo rest in musical paradise.
Okay, coming up towards the show, I'll share some of my favorite new groovers with you. But first, we have a mix from DJ Supermarkt from Too Slow to Disco, which has released some great records that label, including reworks of Michael Frank and the Sunset Manifesto comps that feature contemporary Yacht Rock Sunset Disco tracks.
And he's taken a lot of time to put together a great mix, which he calls Welcome to the Mood, of which he says: "I tried to tell a story here like I always do, of freedom, paradise, alternative lifestyles, islands, especially Ibiza, finding peace in troubled times and more. I included my favorite new Balearic Sunset Disco tracks alongside a little look at the past, present and future of that infamous Too Slow to Disco sound. Altogether, I thought I'd make a mix where even the specialists need a bit to find some of the music included, so I hope that worked. And I threw in some unreleased Too Slow to Disco premieres in there for music lovers to discover". Here is DJ Supermarkt.
DJ SUPERMARKT INTERVIEW
Okay, coming up towards the show, I'll share some of my favorite new groovers with you. But first, we have a mix from DJ Supermarket from Too Slow to Disco, which has released some great records that label, including reworks of Michael Frank and the Sunset Manifesto comps that feature contemporary Yacht Rock Sunset Disco tracks. And he's taken a lot of time to put together a great mix, which he calls Welcome to the Mood, of which he says, I tried to tell a story here like I always do, of freedom, paradise, alternative lifestyles, islands, especially Ibiza, finding peace in troubled times and more.
I included my favorite new Balearic Sunset Disco tracks alongside a little look at the past, present and future of that infamous Too Slow to Disco sound. Altogether, I thought I'd make a mix where even the specialists need a bit to find some of the music included, so I hope that worked. And I threw in some unreleased Too Slow to Disco premieres in there for music lovers to discover. Here is DJ Supermarket.
[Colleen]
Well, Balearicans, I have DJ Supermarket, who is Marcus Liesenfeld here in the studio with me. He's also the man behind Too Slow to Disco. We've been playing a lot of releases on that label, on Balearic Breakfast, over the last few months. Hello, DJ Supermarket.
[DJ Supermarkt]
Hello. I'm actually saying hello from the south of France, so it's, it doesn't, I'm a bit more Balearic than you probably today.
[Colleen]
I think you probably are. I mean, I was Balearic up until midnight last night when I was on the White Isle, but yeah, definitely, I think the south of France is more Balearic than London. But you are usually based in Berlin, correct?
[DJ Supermarkt]
Yeah, that's my main place. Right.
[Colleen]
And how did you get, you started doing these kind of mixes about 2008, you've been doing these great reworks of classic kind of Balearic tracks and unknown kind of delights. How did you get your start in all of this kind of re-edits and reworks?
[DJ Supermarkt]
It's like many times in my life, I was in a crisis. I was an electro DJ playing more big rooms and more monotonic music, and I got really fed up and I just didn't want to do it anymore. So I just stopped. And the music that really helped me out of this burnout kind of thing was the West Coast sound of the late 70s and early 80s, the yacht things and the Balearic. And so it was more like a life saving thing. And at first it was only for me. And then it was fun, actually, when I went to airports, when I had DJ gigs somewhere abroad, on airports, you often meet other DJs. So it was the time of Soul Wax, you know, the electric. And we all talked about how stressful it is to do it, but we all liked it.
But then everybody said the next morning, the music you need to soothe your soul to get back down was the West Coast music and the Balearic music for all of them. Really, all of them. You know, it was a time when when you said that you love Toto Africa, you were killed, actually.
[Colleen]
I know, because the electric class movement was kind of like cold wave and quite, you know, I loved it, too. I played a lot of stuff like that.
[DJ Supermarkt]
It was a great vibe at the time, but there was so much soul missing for me. And yeah, I started doing it listening to on my own. I did these small mixes and then more people actually started to love it when I shared mixes and everything.
And then I thought, like, maybe it's time to rediscover the bands and the music that is behind Toto and all these. And so I started re-releasing late 70s, early 80s, mainly West Coast music. And it was the time when Neptun Haney suddenly became like a household name in the music specialist world.
So it was an exciting time because before, actually, when I say you were killed when you talked about Toto Africa, it's actually quite true. Fleetwood Mac were the uncoolest band in the world. And after the edits from Late Night Tough Guy and Flight Facilities, suddenly they were played in big rooms. And so it was a nice development. I was part of it. There were many others also part of it. So it was a great time.
[Colleen]
Yeah. Well, I remember I think you first came on my radar a few years ago when Michael Nesmith from The Monkees passed away, because you did a great edit. Yeah, from Capsule. And I think I got in touch with you. I think I found it on SoundCloud and got in touch with you. I must play this in tribute to the late and great Michael Nesmith. He was, you know, I think my favorite monkey, actually, out of the Monkees. Yeah, I mean, he was a great songwriter, you know.
[DJ Supermarkt]
Yes.
[Colleen]
Yes. And it's great. You have been re-releasing, reworking and re-releasing tracks by Michael Franks. Do you want to tell us a little bit about Michael Franks for those who don't know?
[DJ Supermarkt]
Late 70s, early 80s was the big time for him, also like for so many of these artists. He's one of these soft soul jazz musicians that actually, how I found out, I thought he would be more popular actually nowadays. But when I have these projects and I have a contact in Warner Brothers in L.A., David Ponak, who is one of the most important people in Too Slow to Disco because he helps me with everything. And he once said that Michael Franks and his management are the coolest, most relaxed people.
[Colleen]
So they're so Californian.
[DJ Supermarkt]
It was. It is. It totally is. It totally is. So I asked my the people around me that work with Too Slow to Disco, the edit guys, the rework guys, I asked them, you can choose a Michael Franks song and you can do a rework of it. And half of them didn't even know Michael Franks. And normally they know everything. You know, they're these diggers and specialists. So Michael Franks kind of went under the radar, I think a little bit. And I'm trying to change that. And so yeah, there's some 12 inches with remixes coming. And then next year there will be a full compilation with all.
I have 24 remixes and I don't know how to choose. So it's difficult. There's so many of these reworkers who when they looked for his work were like, how, how, how do I not know Michael Franks?
[Colleen]
I was turned on to Michael Franks by my listeners. And then I just kind of dug a bit deeper and I've been picking up his albums when I've been seeing them in secondhand shops. And his discography is fantastic. And he really enjoys the remixes and the reworks himself.
[DJ Supermarkt]
He does, which is great. Yeah.
[Colleen]
Now, can you tell us a little bit about the Sunset Manifesto compilations you've been putting together?
[DJ Supermarkt]
After concentrating on the old West Coast, Balearic stuff, I kind of discovered that there were so many new artists who embraced parts of it for their music. And I thought it would be interesting to introduce them. So it's now the second volume we reached. And it's great fun. It's a different work because most of the 70s people are untouchable. You know, I can't talk to them.
It's really difficult. But with the new musicians, it's like you talk to them and you see like, it's a bit like you. I don't know you personally until now, but you look like a really relaxed person. So people, yeah, it is. And people who like that music are mainly relaxed people and just a little sophisticated. And it's fun. It's fun to work with them.
[Colleen]
Yes. Well, a lot of people think I'm from California, but I'm actually from the East Coast, which isn't as relaxed. What does the future hold for a DJ supermarket and Too Slow to Disco?
[DJ Supermarkt]
As I said, working on the Michael Franks compilation, which will take me... Too Slow to Disco is just one person and people helping. So it's a lot of work. So it will take until next year. And the next thing will be like a Sunset Manifesto, but mainly with French artists. So like a French Sunset Manifesto with all the new modern French electronic smooth artists like Utek. I discovered so much French music because I'm in France a lot. They have these beaches and they have the sun. And so it kind of reflects in the music, I think. It doesn't happen in Germany a lot.
[Colleen]
Well, that's great. I really look forward to hearing that. That's really interesting. There's also so much great music coming out of Italy as well, like Napoli and that whole area, the Mediterranean vibes. Yeah.
[DJ Supermarkt]
Yeah, definitely.
[Colleen]
Well, thank you so much for taking your time out to chat with us during your holiday. I really appreciate it. And thank you for this wonderful mix that we're listening to right now.
[DJ Supermarkt]
Thanks for your support all the time and do continue doing it. Not my support, but continue doing your music choice!
[Colleen]
Well, thank you so much, Marcus! Thank you. And enjoy the rest of your holiday.
Take care.
[DJ Supermarkt]
Take care. Bye bye.
[Colleen]
Bye bye.
ABOUT THE SONGS Ii
(from Colleen's presentation)
This next song came out last month on LRK Records and it's by the Estonian soul powerhouse Sofia Rubina, a song she wrote and performed to celebrate her 40th birthday. A song about the freedom to love yourself, embrace your sensuality and just to have pure fun. And it also draws inspiration from some of the best soul sirens from Chaka Khan to Angie Stone. Here is Sofia Robina with I'm On My Way.
One of my favorite house acts of all time, Ten City, who are back with a new album called The Next Generation, released last month on Nervous Records. The project features original member Byron Stingily and producer Immaculate, and includes new vocalists like Maneri, Unequa, Drama, and Ovious. And I have to say that Stingly sounds great covering that Eddie Kendrick's classic. We heard Ten City with He's a Friend.
The Italian producer and DJ Luca Moplen with his remix of Small Circle of Friends by TJM, which stands for Thomas Jerome Moulton, and is the title of Tom Moulton's own 1979 LP. And Tom Moulton was on fire in that decade. He was behind the first continuous album side, Gloria Gaynor's I Never Can Say Goodbye, produced Grace Jones' early albums and loads of incredible remixes by artists like The Three Degrees, First Choice, and F.S.B. & More. We heard Moplin's remix of Small Circle of Friends.
A glorious Chicago collaboration from Mirrorball Recordings label head, DJ and producer, Terry Hunter, along with James Poyther. They delved into the vaults of the soul visionary who passed at the peak of his career in 1976, the legendary Charles Stepney, a vibraphone player and a genius arranger and producer. He was discovered by Chess Records, Marshall Chess, and he put him in charge of Rotary Connection. And Stepney also produced Minnie Riperton's debut Come Into My Garden. We just heard Terry Hunter and James Poyther's club mix of You Make Me High by Charles Stepney with Kitty Haywood on vocals.
I'm leaving you with this one from Trinidadian Deep, the moniker of the Trinidadian-born and UK-based DJ and producer Damian Lee, with Moments of Sounds, with a great remix by the Moroccan producer and DJ Cee ElAssaad. Thanks for listening.
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