Balearic Breakfast | Episode 249 | The Cosmic Laws of Murphy...

Colleen 'Cosmo' Murphy broadcast the 249th episode of Balearic Breakfast on her Mixcloud on December 02nd 2025.

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ABOUT THIS EPISODE

After a busy weekend, Colleen notably played at La Discothèque this past Friday – sharing, on her socials: "The tunes were so fierce they had to be locked in a cage .

Really enjoyed La Discotheque on Friday night - it was a proper party in that room. Thanks to the working crew and all who joined us on the dancefloor. I appreciate you!

And I’m absolutely loving this tune by @revivalhouseproject featuring @kathybrowndiva @anelisalam @greggouldmusic @phebeedwards and the @geo_gospel_choir" – our Captain came back with one of the most beautiful episodes of this year...

As you know, I always try to choose post titles wisely, making it easier for you to find episodes. And you also know I love the "Cosmic" shows Colleen did in the past (this one is great too 😉). For this one, I brought back the listening session part of the post, since there's a lot to say...

In short, our dear Captain did a cosmic trip like never before. The first part of today's episode is darker, uncertain; it searches for something, it reaches deep. The second hour, on the contrary, while still keeping a cosmic vibe, has a generous openness that slowly reveals itself to the listener... And there are a lot of Wow Moments too to be noted, so bear with me, we're going to be a little bit longer here than before...

This morning’s Balearic Breakfast is now up on my Mixcloud and is a mix of spacy, cosmic vibes for teleportation and uplifting, soulful vibes for inspiration.

The closing song is in commemoration of World AIDS Day (1st December) - the ICON Sylvester seemed a fitting choice. This is the poster from Sylvester & The Hot Band’s debut album released in 1973! The artist’s life and unbelievable talent was cut short by this nefarious illness in 1988 when the Reagan administration chose to neglect those with the disease. And now this administration is choosing to ignore it, too. But I won’t and am sending peace, love and light to all those who have been affected by AIDS.

Thanks to all of those whose requests were played on today’s show and all those who joined in the live stream. I’ll be back on Mixcloud Live next Tuesday from 10am to 12pm GMT. Until then I hope you enjoy today’s show and the past shows archived on my Mixcloud. Thanks for listening!

Listen back to the 249th episode of Balearic Breakfast:

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THE PLAYLIST

(1978) Cécilia Angeles – Climax (Our First Day of Love/It's A Love Day)

(2020) State Azure – Love on a Real Train

(1993) Reload – Le Soleil et la Mer

(2025) Mark Barrott (ft. Norma Winstone & Leo Taylor) – I am the Sun, You are the Moon

(2025) Chaz Jankel – Rhumba Jam (Mudd Remix)

(2025) 40 Thieves – Such a Good Trip

(2025) Atlas – Compassion

(2025) Pete Blaker – Don't Stop

(2020) Mr President (ft. Hawa) – Gabriel

(2020) Peven Everett – Feelin Who You Are (Shelter Vocal)

(2025) Pepe Link – Kalakuta (Kiko Navarro Remix)

(2025) Stefano Ranieri – Coming for Ya (Cee ElAssaad Remix)

(2022) Revival House Project – Earth Song (What About Us)

(2025) Arp Frique & The Perpetual Singers – Save Your Soul

(Joe Claussell's Sacred Rhythm Praise Version)

(1973) Sylvester & the Hot Band – Southern Man

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THE LISTENING SESSION...

The show is built in two distinct parts. However, they are linked together by spaciness and depth. Did you notice that lately, Colleen's shows have a slow-evolving pace? This one is no exception. It starts with four songs, cosmic trips, allowing the listener to dive slowly into an unknown darkness where the mind slowly disappears. Cecilia Angeles' Climax really acts as a slow evolving explosion and, to me, one of the best, if not the best show opener ever to be played since the show started back in 2019... It is followed by the three other songs that are Love on a real train, Le soleil et la mer, not forgetting the slightly more open I am the sun, You are the Moon... These songs create one of the strongest starts I have ever heard and clearly show how to build anticipation and eagerness, while also allowing the listener to lose his soul... Of course, Colleen's mix is always light, it helps the travel actually to happen, pay attention also how the rhythm evolves here, it's constant but Moving... Read that again... It's constant but Moving (both meanings are accepted 😉)... Another secret great DJs know how to use, right?

Then, another thing happens, after her presentation, Colleen very rightfully chose Chaz Jankel's Rhumba Jam and this is where you should wake up immediately from your dream and ask yourself: What the heck is going on here? Did you notice how much this track keeps on taking you into the cosmic space while showing you renewed yet different visuals? It's huge. While you still feel the spaciness, while it's still the driving force, its position is different, yet it totally reflects itself into the previous tracks played by our dear Captain... Remember what I said? It's constant but it's Moving... Rhumba Jam could be your perfect Balearic track, the one you could play during a sunny set somewhere close to the sea while people are having lunch in a fancy restaurant. Yet its rhythm is cosmic, and listen to the depth of the track and its effects... Clearly, Colleen is still on a cosmic trip here, as everything on this track reminds us of the first songs played a few moments earlier...

There's also something in this episode which makes it so open to the ear and so soothing to the mind, the tracks are longer. I immediately noticed that when taking a look at the playlist (I wasn't able to listen to the livestream in full because of work) and this point is confirmed with the next song, 40 Thieves' Such a Good Trip... Indeed... Atlas' Compassion confirms, with its impeccable sonics, what I said in the beginning: Colleen is driving us to the unknown today, and she's at full speed and in total control... And, with Pete Blaker's Don't Stop closing the first hour of today's show, which made me think of Bomber's Supermax, I arrive at the point of this analysis where I can share with you the Wow Moments of this episode. There are a lot of them today! Of course we have Climax, Love on a real train, Don't stop, in the first hour of the show, but we also have, in the second part, songs like Feelin Who You Are, and of course, the absolute banger that Michael Jackson's Earth Song is (here beautifully covered by Revival House Project), not forgetting Joe Claussel's version of Save Your Soul nor the last song of today's episode, another impeccable cover, Sylvester's version of Neil Young's 1970 Southern Man!

I think I don't need to get into a deeper analysis of the second hour of the show, as you clearly felt how, by initiating a deep trip in the listener's mind in the first hour, Colleen was able to take him further down the line, playing songs that kept him in an unconscious state...

Brilliant show Colleen...

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ANNOUNCEMENTS

(from Colleen's presentation)

The London Loft Party is hapenning this weekend. And yeah, reservations have gone very quickly. We still have a few left. And if you want to join the friendship train at loftparty.org, you can sign up for our mailing list. And the final reservations are going out tomorrow. And in 2026, we'll be hosting parties in March, June, September and December.

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Speaking about DJ Naughty, I will be playing with him back to back at Wonderfruit for four hours (Ed. Note: Sun 14 Dec 23:00–03:00). That's a festival in Thailand happening in a couple of weekends time. And really looking forward to that. I've known Naughty. He's a legend in Japan. He was on the Rainbow Tour with Larry Levan and Francois K. I've played back to back with him many, many, many times as well. So if you happen to be in Thailand, come to the Wonderfruit Festival. And I think Naughty and I are playing back to back on the Sunday. So looking forward to that.  

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ABOUT THE SONGS

(from Colleen's presentation)

Our first day of love/ it's a love day by Cecilia Angeles, a singer who was born in South Africa and educated in France. And I have to say her cadence, her speaking cadence reminded me a little bit of Laurie Anderson's Sharkey's Day. The short original version of that song came out on Angeles's album 1978 Streaming, but it just came out on Isle of Jura back in May on the compilation Archipelago Cosmic Fusion Gems from France 1978 to 1988, which features music from the Sona Mondial era in which musicians in both the Parisian suburbs and the French Caribbean were experimenting with synths, drum machines within their own home studios. And the comp was put together by French digger and DJ Arnaud Simetière, also known as Switchgroove. And merci beaucoup to David Puzzi for that request.

This next one is a cover of a song that was featured in the movie Risky Business. But don't let that fool you. As it's one of the most cosmic gems recorded by krautrock, Cosmisch Musik Kingpin's Tangerine Dream. Love on a Real Train was released as a single in 1984 with the B-side Guido the Killer Pimp and was voted as one of the best songs of the 1980s by Pitchfork. So this is a real true classic. But the song really doesn't wear its age and it's been covered by many cosmonauts, including this one as requested by Danny Broderick.

It's by British producer Patrick Unsworth, who's been crafting ambient experimental electronic music as State Azure. And he's been very prolific for the last 15 years. I've gone down a rabbit hole of his recordings and you should check out his work. In fact, he was rewarded the Shawville Ambient Album of 2024 for Alpha I, which I listened to this morning. And I can guarantee that State Azure's spacey sounds will be a great assistance during the next few hectic weeks of holidays. Here is State Azure with Love on a Real Train.

We rewound to 1993 with the, oh gosh, I love this one, with another wonderfully talented person, Mark Pritchard. And it's a track from his first Reload album, A Collection Of Short Stories. We heard the song Le Soleil et la Mer, as requested by Nutritious Jim, and later Tom Middleton joined Pritchard on some of the Reload releases. And together they became Global Communications, also Jedi Knights, and Secret Ingredient. So many great house tracks in the 1990s from them. I also had them up on my Club 89 show around that time. And I now have a working DAT player. I got an early Christmas present from my husband, so I'm hoping, I think that one was recorded. I got to go through the loft with all the boxes of cassettes and DATs and dig that one out. And Pritchard is just a great producer across many different styles. And this year he released a new collaboration with Tom York on Warp Records. Well, I hope you're feeling a bit relaxed. I hope you enjoyed that Spacey set.

You know, my name's not Cosmo for nothing.

I am the Sun, You are the Moon by the wonderfully talented British producer and Ibiza resident, Mark Barrott. He began releasing music three decades ago as Future Loop Association. He's the man behind the International Feel label and many of its releases.

 And he's been crafting some beautiful solo albums for the last decade, including last year's Everything Changes, Nothing Ends. And this is a new project of his with singer Norma Winstone, a legend in the British jazz scene, known for her wordless improvs, and her son, Leo Taylor, a founding member of the band The Invisible, and someone I've also had the pleasure of working with on The Electric Eden project. I think I've told you about that.

Still haven't done a real release. We did remix Secure, having said that, but that's the project I'm doing with Joe Goddard, Al Doyle, Alexis Taylor, and Lou Hayter. So we're getting back into the studio before Christmas, still chipping away at that. But I just love that one from Mark Barrott, just absolutely beautiful. And I believe that's coming out soon. He sent it over to me. I don't have the details of the release date on that.

This next one is coming out this week on Paul Mudd Murphy's Claremont 56 label, and it's a new song by Chaz Jankel. He's the virtuosic keyboard player who shaped much of Ian Dury's Blockheads band, the funky tracks like Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick and Reasons to Be Cheerful. Also some great solo records like Glad to Know You, and one of my favorites, Three Million Cents. Well, he's back with a new one called Rhumba Jam coming out on vinyl actually this week, and this is label boss Murph's remix.

Another compilation cut 40 Thieves was Such a Good Trip. And that's from the comp 15 Years of Leng Records. And that came out a couple of weeks ago. Leng was founded by Simon Purnell and Paul Murphy. I'm wishing them a happy anniversary. And for this comp, they decided to look into the future with new tracks by artists on their label. And the collection features what you would expect from this comp, a distinctive fusion of mid tempo sleazy disco, ballerica and chugging house, interspersed with elements of electronic psychedelia, and synth powered space disco. Tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, ticks many of my boxes.

And I saw both Paul and Simon at Philly Brook where DJ Naughty was playing a couple of weekends ago. And I also want to send a shout to Simon Pernell as his venue Philly Brook in East London is a great example of an independent music venue and restaurant that serves its community. And I've heard a lot of great DJs there like DJ Naughty was there a couple of weeks ago. The Egypt Boys are regulars. I've also been there for Memorial for Friends. And there's a real warmth and heart to the venue. So I highly recommend it.

Compassion by Atlas, and that's from a new compilation called Paraíso, the true spirit of Ibiza as selected by DJ Alfredo. And that recently came out on Rebirth, and grazie to the labels Shield, who gave me the vinyl tresor a few weekends ago. And as a listener to the show, I'm sure you're well aware that DJ Alfredo was the father of the balearic beat and was one of the most significant architects of the multi stylist sounds of the balearic islands. And he drew people to the island through his legendary sets at Amnesia (Ed. Note: We paid tribute to DJ Alfredo in the 169th episode of the show).

And that compilation features some of the songs he championed over the years, including tracks by Mr. Fingers, 808 State, Willie Colon, Penguin Cafe Orchestra, and even some from Alfredo himself, one that's actually unreleased until this compilation.

Don't Stop by Balearic Breakfast fave Pete Blaker, as requested by Vinyl Hearts Club.

 And the Dutch producer has done so many great stretched out balleric reworks of older tunes. He recently started remixing new tunes. I played his Eric Dubb countless times at many gigs this year. And he also has a forthcoming album on the horizon, and I'll play something from that next week. And don't forget, he did an exclusive Balearic Breakfast mix and interview back in May if you want to check that out.

My daughter Ari turned me on to this next one. And she featured it on her latest Ari's Pirate Material radio show on The BoatPod. You can find her show on Mixcloud. Just follow the BoatPod. And it's a cover of a house tune that I played relentlessly when it came out in 1996. The song Gabriel by producer Roy Davis Jr. and the multi instrumentalist and singer Pevan Everett. Well, this version does hold a candle to the original. I mean, the original is so fantastic.

It's really difficult to do a cover of a great song, because they didn't try to just copy it. But they gave it a new lease on life with a slick kind of sultry funky groove. Mr. President is the very talented French producer and musician Bruno Hovart, who goes under many other aliases, including patchworks. And as Mr. President, he's released four albums on Favorite Recordings. And this one is from 2020's One Night, featuring Hawa, Mr. President with Gabriel.

Peven Everett, Feelin' Who You Are, the Shelter vocal. And I just had to stick that on last minute because I had just mentioned Peven Everett because of the Mr. President cover of Gabriel. And there it was sitting in front of a pile of records on my floor as I'm getting ready and prepping for this weekend's London Loft Party this Sunday. I should also mention Peven Everett has been suffering from lung cancer, and we wish him a full recovery (Ed. Note: You can still support Peven in his battle by donating a few bucks here).

 The Kiko Navarro remix of Kalakuta by Pepe Link, who is Jose Lopez Ojeda. And he released Kalakuta 20 years ago, and Navarro has just given it a new lease on life with some great percussion and beats. And that's coming out next week on Navarro's label, Afro Terranio.

The Cee ElAssaad Remix of Comin' For Ya by Italian DJ producer Stefano Ranieri.

 In fact, this is his debut. And there's also a CoFlo remix. And it's all out on LSAAD's label.

 So head on over to NSold on Bandcamp to pick that one up.

This next one sounded great this past weekend at La Discoteque. And it's by The Revival House Project. Features Kathy Brown, Angelica LaMola, Phoebe Edwards, Greg Gould, and the Geo Gospel Choir. Here they are with a song requested by Thanos Kotronis, Earth Song, What About Us?

I want to leave you on a more reflective note. Yesterday was World AIDS Day.

And tragically, but not really that surprisingly, the Trump administration is no longer commemorating World AIDS Day. Kind of reminds me of the Reagan administration in the 1980s when I moved to New York and the AIDS pandemic was in full swing. It was very, very, very scary. But the Reagan administration kind of neglected it, belittled it and kind of ignored it until it was too late. Well, I want to recognize all those who have been affected by this nefarious illness. So I thought who better than one of the greatest singers and performers who sadly passed from AIDS in late 1988, Sylvester. And I just love Sylvester. He was just an amazing singer, performer that could do so many different styles. I mean, he was also signed to Fantasy, one of the best jazz labels in the world.

You know, he could do kind of Euro disco, soulful disco and soul jazz. And also this one, which is from his debut album, actually, it's Sylvester and the Hot Bands debut album. And it's really incredible because Sylvester is all sequined up in high heels with hot red gloves. And this came out in 1973. So he was so, so ahead of his time. But not just with shock value, he truly had the talent to back it all up a true icon. So I'm going to leave you with one more tune. I'll be back with you next Tuesday, live from the record room on my MixCloud Live from 10 to 12 if you're if you can join me. But until then, I want to leave you with this and in recognition of World AIDS Day. This is Sylvester and the Hot Band with Southern Man.