Balearic Breakfast | Episode 245 | And Things Will Be Sweeter...

Colleen 'Cosmo' Murphy broadcast the 245th episode of Balearic Breakfast on her Mixcloud on November 04th 2025.

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ABOUT THIS EPISODE

I've been really deeply affected by Christina's passing. It made me think about a lot of things, the connexion you can make with people thanks to music, the interviews I do here and of course how much Colleen's body of work made this all happen. I always thought it would be nice to share people's views on music, share their stories. In today's age of "quick stardom", I felt We, as music lovers, We also had beautiful stories to share. So when I launched this blog it felt just so natural to involve everyone from the Family. When Colleen started to share Family member's mixes, it only enhanced my willingness to keep on interviewing you, dear Friends.

And I must admit, Christina was a perfect example of what I wanted to do. Both her mix and the way she answered to my humble questions showed how much you don't need to be a well-known dj, or musician, or composer, to be able to share meaningful information about Music (and, actually, she was also the first one who accepted to do an interview on the blog a few weeks after I launched it...).

Her passing also enhanced that recent idea of mine that listening is an act of love because when you listen to someone's mix for instance, when you listen to an album, you indirectly give your time to that person, you somehow fly with her on her musical journey, you let go your own boundaries... And even if you may not like everything that you hear, it still, somehow, somewhere, resonates deep down your soul... And somehow you keep something from that person within you through music...

Many of us knew Christina personally, some of us didn't, but still, thanks to the music she shared during Colleen's show, she touched us. And for that, she will be forever remembered by the Balearic Breakfast Family...

This morning’s Balearic Breakfast is now up on my Mixcloud and is mainly a request show. Thanks to all who joined me on the stream and who made requests over the weekend. There were so many great song suggestions which will be continued on next week’s programme.

We also pay tribute to one of our beloved Balearic Breakfast family members Christina DeSouza, or Tee as she is known to her friends. We recently discovered she had transitioned to the next realm earlier this year and Bert and Artur both made dedications to our late beloved soul girl, may she rest in musical paradise.

For each show I research the artists and songs and when I looked into special remix of Razzy Bailey’s ‘I Hate Hate’ that Jose Padilla put on one of his Sunset Hours compilations, AI got involved and responded, “I understand that you are expressing strong negative feelings against Razzy Bailey and Jose Padillla.” And yesterday my husband did a search to see if the recent feature interview I did with Disco Pogo was up online and AI informed him that I co-founded the magazine with editor Jim Butler. It’s hilarious but also scary as AI is mining my shows and millions of other radio hosts’ shows – all of our collective millions of years of experience – both the human successes and the human failures. Are we okay with putting our lives into the hands of AI? There are plusses and minuses but honestly, if its getting it so wrong we should proceed with caution. That’s my deep thought of the day. Or the week.

Thanks for listening and I hope to see you on the Mixcloud Live chat on Tuesday morning for next week’s Balearic Breakfast.

Listen back to the 245th episode of Balearic Breakfast:

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THE PLAYLIST

(2025) Simon Armitage – Dear Pink Floyd

(2019) Jazzanova ft. José James – Little Bird

(2020) Khruangbin – Summer Madness

(2025) Max Sinal & King Crowney ft Liv East – Intentions (Live Mix)

(2018) The Knocks ft Sofi Tukker – Brazilian Soul

(1994) Dee C Lee – Things Will Be Sweeter

(1986) Viola Wills – Dare to Dream

(1983) Will Powers – Smile

(2025) Barry White – Its Ecstasy When You Lay Down Next to Me (Sgt Slick ReCut)

(1986) BB&Q Band – Dreamer (Shep Pettibone Extended Mix)

(1976) Brick – Dazz

(NOL) Michael Chapman – Lescudjack (Ilya Santana Edit)

(2012) Razzy Bailey – I Hate Hate (Santiga Remix)

(1979) Skatt Brothers – Walk the Night

(2025) Leonidas – Spectral Portal

(TBR) Patrick Gibin – Let it Go (Joaquin's Sacred Rhythm Music Dance Version)

(2025) Brutha Basil & Cee EIassaad – Who Are You

(2025) Mark Barrott – When Devils Become Gods

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ABOUT THE SONGS

(from Colleen's presentation)

UK Poet Laureate Simon Armitage with Dear Pink Floyd and I think that's the best record review I've ever heard. It was a poem he wrote in celebration of the album Wish You Were Here, currently celebrating its 50th anniversary and which had a profound impact upon the poet and upon so many. You can hear just how widespread the acclaim is for that album or for the band as well. I mean, seeing people in t-shirts on the Amazon and on the River Ganges, I mean, they are just such an important band. Actually, also the inspiration behind Classic Album Sundays, one of the inspirations behind Classic Album Sundays as well. The album is celebrating its 50th anniversary and the band asked Simon Armitage to write a piece about the record and he conjured that sprawling, unpunctuated tribute that's really like a fan letter.

He described it to the Guardian as "a time capsule treasure chest message and a bottle tied to a lifebuoy thrown on a life raft from a ghost ship while imagining the band playing in the hanging gardens of Babylon and in the Mariana Trench", a description only a poet could come up with. Thank you to Rob Calcutt for that request. (...)

(...) A lovely request from Johnny Barrett for a voice that just makes me melt. The American jazz soul singer José James. He's had albums on Giles Peterson's Brownswood label. He's also collaborated with Nicola Conte and Goldie, and more other collaborators like one on this song. It's something he wrote that was produced by the Berlin collective Jazzanova and featured on their 2011 compilation Upside Down, the song Little Bird.

A cover of Kool and the Gang's Summer Madness by Khruangbin, which they recorded as an exclusive for their Late Night Tales compilation. And the Texan trio are currently touring last year's album, A La Sala. And earlier this year, they were nominated for a Grammy for Best New Artist. And I think that just kind of goes to show you that the Grammys are a bit behind the times as the band got together 15 years ago. You know, but hey-ho. That was requested by Shelton Kirk in New York City.

Max Sinal & King Crowney featuring Liv East with Intentions, the live mix. And that came out this summer on the label that Sinal co-founded. Soul Quest Records has a lot of great dancefloor mixes, including ones by JT Donaldson. But I thought that live mix with Best Super Balearic Breakfast and thank you to Rick Van Veen in the Netherlands for that suggestion.

The Knocks featuring Sofi Tukker with Brazilian Soul featuring another New York City duo, actually Megasaur's Sofi Tukker. And the Knocks have released three albums and they collaborate with a lot of different pop, indie dance artists like Purple Disco Machine and Foster the People. And most importantly, they got their name from people knocking on the door, asking them to turn the music down!

Balearic Breakfast has been going for just over five years now. And at the heart of it is a vibrant and caring community that is linked together through the power and the love of music. Friendships have been made from the Mixcloud live chat, a lot of people over there right now, via the Balearic Breakfast community blog that Artur puts together and also the request line on my socials. And often when I'm away, I ask Balearic Breakfast family members to put together guest mix. And I just love how everyone supports one another. One person who gave us a mix a while back is Christina De Souza, who is known as Tee to her friends. And we hadn't seen her on the request line or the live chat for a while.

And Bert Francois discovered that there was a new note on her Mixcloud page from her friend Laura, who said, "I'm a close friend of Christina's and I'm so sorry to inform you that earlier this year, following a short period of illness, Tee passed away. As you can imagine, we all remain truly devastated. T was a wonderful, sweet person loved dearly by her partner, family and friends. There was never a time when you visited Tee without music playing. She also loved to share music. So as a small tribute, we thought it would be a good idea to keep this page open and to make all the posts she had created over the years accessible."

Christina was a soul girl and Bert exchanged songs and built a friendship and Artur also interviewed her for the Balearic Breakfast community blog. And they have each put together some songs for Christina in this short tribute. The first one, a song that was on one of Christina's Mixcloud mixes. And it's from Bert who wishes her a belated peaceful transition. Dee C Lee with Things Will Be Sweeter.

Will Powers, the stage name of celeb photographer Lynn Goldsmith, who put out one album, the 1985 self-help comedy album called Dancing for Mental Health, which spawned the cult club track Adventures in Success. And we just heard the first single from that album, Smile, requested by Artur, who hosts the Balearic Breakfast community blog. And he interviewed Christina D'Souza, our late Balearic Breakfast family member, when she did a guest mix for the show. And of that song, she said "it's very me. It doesn't take itself too seriously. I love the LP Dancing for Mental Health. It starts with a groove and it's so very clever and it still holds up today."

The late American R&B singer Viola Wills with Dare to Dream, the title track and lead single from her 1986 LP. And that was also a request from Bert Francois, who said he rediscovered this track off of Christina DeSouza's track list. He also says it's for the immigrants and all those who suffered during Hurricane Melissa's wrath in the Caribbean.

When I was in New York City, I got to meet another Balearic Breakfast family member, Barry Zehr, or Barry Berenitz, who came up from Washington, D.C. And he brought me a lovely cowl in some of my favorite colors in which he knitted. Very soft and lovely and perfect for the weather. So thank you, Barry. He also requested a song by another Barry.

And he also may be considered a bit soft and lovely, the late Barry White, with a fantastic rework by Sergent Slick of one of White's best known 70s songs, It's Ecstasy When You Lay Down Next to Me (Ed. Note: see also here) on Balearic Breakfast.

The Shep Pettibone remix of Dreamer, the 1986 single by the BB&Q Band, which stands for Brooklyn, Bronx and Queens. And they released a number of great post-disco singles in the 80s, including my favorite, On The Beat. I used to dance to that at the Gazebo too. And thank you to Ab Von Haren for that request.

Atlanta, Georgia funk outfit, Brick, with their 1976 classic from their debut album, Good High, very 70s title. I used to love to dance to that song, Dazz, at the underage disco, The Gazebo, located on Glamorous Route 9 in Framingham, Massachusetts. And thank you to London House Music Works for that one.

Canary Island DJ and producer Elia Santana's rework of Lescudjack by the late British singer, songwriter, guitarist Michael Chapman, who was acclaimed for his albums on Harvest (Ed. Note: Rainmaker - 1969 / Fully Qualified Survivor - 1970 / Window - 1970

Wrecked Again - 1971) and had a very long career. Chapman was also a roadie for the late contemporary composer John Cage. And he said "Cage did a recital at Leeds Art Gallery. I took him to the market to buy fish to put in his piano." So there you go.

Lescudjack was also played by Italian DJ Daniele Baldelli and was reissued by Emotional Rescue Label with a remix by Lex. And it's derived from the Celtic word for shielded stronghold. And there's also Les Skudjuk Hill Fort, an Iron Age settlement in Cornwall. So there's a little history lesson for you today. And thank you to Matt Raistrick for that request.

Well, as we witness the world become more polarized with governments and their billionaire friends trying to divide us and make us hate one another, and make us hate on small, vulnerable groups like our trans friends and immigrants, I'm not going to allow that to happen. This next request is a breath of fresh air. And thank you to Simon Ellis for suggesting it. It was featured on a Sunset Hours compilation by the late Cafe Del Mar DJ, Jose Padilla, and given a rework by Santiga. It's Razzy Bailey, the late American country singer-songwriter, with the Santiga remix of I Hate Hate.

A Los Angeles band called Skatt Brothers that was put together by Sean Delaney, who also put together Kiss, and who also signed the band to Casablanca Records with Walk the Night. And that was their biggest song, and my friend David Mancuso used to play it, especially around Halloween.

And it was my opening song at Pikes. And thanks to Smudge, who was there dancing on the floor, and he requested it for today's show. You know, it is past Halloween now, but it's Sky Fork's night tomorrow night, bonfire night here in the UK, so many of us will still be walking the night.

UK producer Leonidas with Spectral Portal from his long-awaited second solo EP, Flying Saucers, now out on Hobbs Music. And as you can probably tell from the sounds, it's an exploration of cosmic dancing, the extraterrestrial, the interstellar, and the sci-fi. And Leonidas is one half of Leonidas & Hobbes, who we've played on the show before. And the Flying Saucers EP was released on Halloween on Bandcamp. And thanks to my favorite Irishman in Sydney, Australia, Bobby Connell, for that request.

Okay, this next one I'm sending out to Tomohiro Yamada in Osaka, Japan, as he requested a Joe Clausell remix, which is impossible to find, as it was only on vinyl, and I don't have it. But this one landed in my inbox last week, and it's a forthcoming remix by Joe. A remix of Italian DJ and producer Patrick Gibin, who last year released his debut album, Strength in Numbers, on his own label, Mother Tongue Records. And it has some collaborations with Kydie Tatum, who I absolutely love, including this song called Let It Go. And Joe has a bunch of forthcoming remixes, including this one. It's called Joaquin's Sacred Rhythm Music Dance Version on Baleric Breakfast.

Who are you? Brutha Basil & Cee EIassaad. And Basil is a New York City DJ who I used to love to go here play. I think I even had him up in my Club 89 radio show back in the day. And here he is on Vox with the producer I've just discovered and am loving and who I also played a couple of weeks ago, Cee EIassaad, a producer and DJ from Morocco. Who are you? is a request from me. I believe it just came out. You can find it on Bandcamp. And that's my only request on today's show.

I'm leaving you with one more request from Ana Sancho in Barcelona for Mark Barrott, who is currently moving back to Ibiza, probably vacated for the summer. Very wise idea. So nice right now in October, I have to say it is making me think a little trip there in the winter might be very, very, very good way to kind of get some vitamin D in without all the crowds and everything. In any case, Mark and Pete Gooding released the fifth edition, Volumen Cinco, of their Hostel a Torre compilations, and they're all incredible. And this next one is one of his own productions. It's Mark Barrott with When Devils Become Gods. Thanks for listening. Gracias por escuchar.