Balearic Breakfast | Episode 256 | Angel Mel Selector In The Mix & Meeting 'Another Taste'

Colleen 'Cosmo' Murphy broadcast the 256th episode of Balearic Breakfast on her Mixcloud on January 27th, 2026.

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ABOUT THIS EPISODE

After hosting last week's Balearic Breakfast, our dear Captain met another one of our heroes during a Classic Album Sunday's event, namely Greg Wilson. Greg has a new book out, which you really should buy: James Hamilton's dance pages. This new book illuminates a crucial period in UK club culture – the role and prestige of the DJ changing as mixing came to the fore, with the technological advances of the electro era radically altering the dance landscape. It is a direct "continuation" of Greg's 2024 previous publication, James Hamilton's Disco pages (and you can read an interview about this one here).

And then, a few days after that glorious meeting, Colleen flew off to Japan, where she still is as I write these lines! Adam streamed today's show (thank you, dear Adam!), during which we heard two very nice mixes, once more allowing us to expand our musical knowledge!

This week’s Balearic Breakfast is now up on my Mixcloud and as I’m in Japan, features two special guest mixes. First up is with the gorgeous smile is Angel Mel Selector an eclectic selector who has graced our Love Dancin’ tent at We Out Here. She also hosts the radio show ‘Revive the Dancefloor’ on @bcfmradio. Her mix truly expresses the varied musical flavours of Balearic Breakfast.

Next up is a soulful mix from Another Taste - the live Dutch jazz-funk-soul collective who have been releasing tasty dance floor treats on Space Grapes. We had a chat about their forthcoming sophomore album ‘Another Taste 2’ coming out in April and the story and ethos behind the record label which has released a lot of great records from Jambonne, Mad Honey, Jéroboam, Arp Frique, GALXTC and more.

Thanks to my husband Adam for streaming the show in my absence while I was out catching Mark de Clive-Lowe live at Baroom in Tokyo - stunning show! Catching Incognito at Blue Note Tokyo tonight which makes three live shows in the past couple of weeks alone. Definitely starting 2026 on the right musical foot.

Next week Balearic Breakfast is taking a break but will be back the following week. Thanks for listening!

Listen back to the 256th episode of Balearic Breakfast:

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THE PLAYLIST

Angel Mel Mix:

(2001) Royksopp – In Space

(2001) Zero 7 – I Have Seen

(1971) Jimi Hendrix – Angel

(1979) Journey – Sweet and Simple

(1967) Letta Mbula – What is Wrong with Groovin

(1972) Lou Reed – Satellite of Love

(1967) The Paragons – Black Birds

(xx) Big City – Outside

(2018) Cleo Sol – Why Don't You

(2018) Ladi6 – Royal Blue (Silent Jay, Sensible J, Leigh Fisher Remix)

(2000) Mos Def – Umi Says

(2019) Hector Plimmer ft Alexa Harley – Joyfulness

(2025) Ana Frango Eléctrico – Nao Tem Nada Nao

(1969) Vampire Sounds Inc – The Lion and The Cucumber

(2023) Parbleu – Elios

Another Taste Mix:

(1965) Pete La Roca – Lazy Afternoon

(1972) Frank Zappa – Blessed Relief

(1972) Timothy McNealy – Easy, Easy, Easy

(1974) Cloe Martin – Life Race

(1980) The Edge of Daybreak – Eyes of Love

(1976) Dom Um Romao – Escravos de Jó

(1984) Hot Salsa – Maldito Primitivo

(1973) Leroy Hutson – As Long As There's Love Around

(1972) Lalomie Washburn – My Love is Hot (Caliente)

(1972) Ronald Mesquita – Papagayo

(1975) Johnny Hammond – Shifting Gears

(1984) Fresh Band – Come Back Lover

(TBR) Another Taste – Into the Night

(1977) Mad Cliff – It Takes a Little Time

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THE LISTENING EXPERIENCE

Once again, this episode proved to have a beautiful musical "equilibrium", if I can put it that way. First, we had the oh so eclectic, open-minded and, in one word, refreshing mix by Angel Mel, picking songs from all corners of the world and all generations. I remember I told myself, that's a bold mix, that's freedom, it was obvious to me that she did not try to impress or to prove anyone, the flow was good, the flow was Right, the sound was astoundingly realistic at times too!

Then, a few hours ago, I just read what Angel Mel wrote on her Instagram while sharing the link to the show, and it suddenly made perfect sense: "Happy Thursday Dears Ones. I hope you are feeling blessed. I was kindly invited by Colleen Murphy to provide a mix for her Balearic Breakfast show. Which goes out live Tuesday 10-12pm on Mixcloud. My selection was partially inspired by my mum Lorraine Wilson and Aunty Lorna Jane love of early 70s & 80s low slung rock. Combined with blissed out memories and adventures of my 6 year residency at the gorgeous La Escollera Ibiza. The selections represents all the feels I experienced during my times in Ibiza. Full track list is available. Listening to the Balearic Breakfast show is a joyful experience for me. Those who know, know! For the first timers welcome, you're in for a ride.🎧💯 Recommend checking out her interview with the Dutch outfit @anothertaste Heartfelt thanks to Colleen & Adam Dewhurst ✨🙏🏾🧡🎧"

Also, I have warm memories from the few times I spent on the chat, as Angel graced us whith her presence on the chat. You could feel her kindness all around, such a powerful and beautiful soul to spend time with!

When Jimi Hendrix's song was playing, Angel shared the following story with us "I was in Hither Green - London, this weekend. I saw the beautiful parakeets. There's an urban myth that Jimi Hendrix released them, and they've been there ever since. Love that story." When sharing her fear that her mix wasn't so much of a Balearic one, our friend Matt answered, "If there's one thing I've learned, it's almost everything is Balearic in the right moment. Lovely mix". And Matt was so right when saying that as Angel's mix was perfect, having freedom and a strong musical unity, with songs keeping a very close tonality between them (if mixing Journey's "Sweet and Simple" with Letta Mbula's "What is Wrong with Groovin" is not Balearic enough, I don't know what else can be ^^)...

Yes, this mix was a Beautiful musical moment indeed!

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With an impeccable sense of rhythm, the second mix proposed to us by Another Taste was a great follow-up to Angel's body of work (even if it seems to have been quite a challenge for her to fi it in the one hour slot as she shared it on the chat, laughs!). It is a jazzy, of course!, and groovy mix, blending so much songs I never heard before of artists I didn't even knew existed that it almost made me think about the "ego trip" some folks may have while talking about music, you know these kind of "I know this and if you don't well that's soo bad", laughs!

I mean, if you have an ego trip, if you feel like you're the "I Know Everything" type, please, spend at least one show by our side, we're all going to clean you up, I swear! Laughs!! Congratulations to Another Taste for that splendid musical trip, and Thank Yoo'z all around the place from the Balearic Breakfast Family!

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ANOTHER TASTE'S INTERVIEW

[Colleen]

Thank you, Angel Mel. Next up on Balearic Breakfast, we have an interview with Dutch collective Another Taste, who've been releasing records on the incredible jazz funk label Space Grapes. We had a chat about their upcoming sophomore album and other projects they have going on at Space Grapes HQ.

Greetings, Balearicans. In the studio with me right now is Another Taste, and I have been loving their music and all the music on the Space Grapes label, actually. Another Taste released their debut album, Another Taste, in 2024, and now in 2026, they have a new album coming out, their second album, which is called Another Taste 2.

And in the studio with me right now is Bobby, Serena, Bob, and Tern, and thank you so much for joining me. How are you guys doing?

[Another Taste - Collectively]

Great. / Thank you for the invitation. / Yeah, thank you. / Thanks for having us.

[Colleen]

Ah, my pleasure, my pleasure. I've been loving the Space Grapes label, so I just have a couple questions for Bobby before we get into Another Taste. Bobby, the label started in 2020, I believe, with a Mad Honey single?

[Another Taste - Bobby]

Yes, correct. And that's actually something we did together with Danilo, so that's Bob, Tern, Barend, and me with Danilo in his studio when he still was, he had a lot of analog recording gear in his parents' basement, basically, back then. And this way, we were already making music for like two years together, figuring out what we wanted to do, doing some kind of like house sample stuff.

And together with Danilo, for the first time, we actually recorded live to tape, and we did it all like on the fly, so we didn't really have a plan beforehand. We had a couple of ideas written out, but like the best stuff that the first release we did was all recorded on the fly and mixed on the same day. And for us, that was kind of a revelation like, okay, this is what kind of sound we wanted to have.

It was also the first time that we didn't work with computers at all, except for like recording like the master two track that was on a computer, but the rest was all multi-track tape. So, and for us, that was like the big revelation like, okay, this is a big difference in how it sounds, and how we work, and the kind of focus that you need to have to put down the take, you know, all this kind of stuff that just came together like that.

[Colleen]

Fantastic. Well, that sounds like it's kind of became the remit for the label as well, like live music performed by live musicians onto tape, which, I used to be a tape editor back in the late 80s and early 90s. So, very familiar with editing and all the different kind of pieces of tape around your neck going in the wrong directions.

It's fun and it certainly sounds a lot better. It really is the best sounding format there is, better than vinyl, better than anything else. So, that's really great to hear. Really great to hear. Well, you released so many other records, Mad Honey. I always call the other one Galactic, but I think it's G-A-L-X-T-C, Life is a Mirror. I love that one. Jambone, Jerry and the Melange. And a lot of these people have you in the group, Bobby, but it's kind of a shifting group of musicians, I guess.

[Another Taste]

Well, actually, all the groups that you just mentioned are us all together.

[Colleen]

Okay, great. Fantastic.

[Another Taste]

Yeah, it's basically another taste. And Danilo was involved in the first few releases a little more heavily. And now with the last album, it's more down to us writing and recording. And I still go down to Paris, where he has a studio now. I bring the rolls of tape. I put it on the tape machine over there. And there's where I do the mix downs.

We have one other group on the label at the present time. That's Jero Bomb. And that's a group from Paris that Danilo closely works with. So, that's more his project over there.

[Colleen]

Got you. Now it all starts to make sense. Because when the label first started, I was just buying these records. I couldn't really see who was on it. There wasn't a big social media presence at the time, which was nice. I know Giles was playing, maybe the first one as well. And so, there was a really good buzz that was going on around the label. But I think it's really to do with how much care you are all taking with the music. I mean, right now we're in a situation... where TikTok has really kind of lowered the attention spans of people.

I'm getting remixes sent to me that are three and a half minutes long. I mean, shorter than a radio edit. And I can't even believe it. Of course, you can have great music that's short. Don't get me wrong. But a lot of music is just recycling and sampling old tracks, doing re-edits. So much of what you see in record shops now is just kind of a recycling of old tunes. And it reminds me of when I started something called Classic Album Sundays, which was kind of like a slow listening movement. And it was kind of in the face of everything going on. And I really feel that your music stands, and the way you present it, the way you record it, and what your ethos is, is really standing against what's kind of going on in the mainstream.

[Another Taste]

That's also the nice thing and the benefits to be able to do really what we want to do in our own way. Because we're so closely with the label. And also, you can create any tracks that you want in the way that you want to.

Also, very heavily inspired by the music from back in the day, like the late 70s, the early 80s. I think it's also from the industry side more and more that they push, especially in the more pop scene, for example, towards like shorter tracks or tracks that would be maximum in three minutes, three and a half minutes like, radio edit. So it can be spent quickly and faster and faster.

So yeah, it's nice to be just able to do what we want to do and the way we want to do it. Yeah.

[Colleen]

And Serena, was this, do you think, a conscious decision from all of you to just do something in a different way?

[Another Taste]

Well, I think we're all unique in our own way. And to have a blend of all of our interests in music is magical.

[Colleen]

Well, why don't we just talk about each of your backgrounds, just really kind of quickly. Give me a snapshot of your musical background, Serena, if you would.

[Another Taste]

Well, I'm the oldest of the band, so my musical background, it starts in the 80s. I grew up with a lot of soul music. My dad used to collect a lot of vinyls. So yeah, my background, I can name a few. It's Chaka Khan, it's Luther Vandross, Al Jarreau even. But I created another interest in rock music as well. I had a period when I wanted to be a rock singer, actually. And now I go back to my roots because my dad used to love the disco vibes, the grooves, funky music. And these guys, they, well, they invited me in.

And I found that side of me again. So now it's disco and groove and funky music. And I'm loving it. Yeah.

[Colleen]

Fantastic. And how about you, Bob? What's your musical background?

[Another Taste]

Yeah, I'm a bass player. My background, I think I started playing when I was around 13 years old or something. I started at a high school in a school band. And I really caught up to the instrument. And since then, I was just practicing, playing a lot. And eventually ending up studying the instruments, of course. And now I'm actually a teacher myself. So I'm in school right now. And I see my kids on the outside of the classroom waving at me.

So I'm on my break now to do this. But yeah, it's all music in my life. And it's growing strong, you know.

[Colleen]

And how about you, Turn?

[Another Taste]

For me, yeah, there was always music at home. Because my dad used to play drums when he was younger. My sister played drums, still does. My mom used to play clarinet and my other sister saxophone. So it was always lots of like making music. So I started lessons when I was around eight. And I always kept doing it, basically.

Yeah, started to be actually the same as Bob. We were in the same middle school, second year school. I had my first band there. Yeah, basically played since that age. And I grew up with also more like the old school 70s rock and funk kind of stuff. And it was around the conservatory time. I went to the conservatory in Rotterdam, where I got closer to Bob as well. And via friends there, I got connected with Bobby.

I got way more into like the whole disco and funk and soul, old school stuff. Since they're both collecting records a lot. So that's been a good inspiration. And yeah, it's been a couple of years of being a session musician for different pop artists, basically. Where I met Serena as well. But then since the last seven years, it's been more like, okay, let's focus on own music with this group. It's been a big pleasure.

[Colleen]

That's fantastic. I like how you all come from different backgrounds and you're all bringing something unique to the table. With the new album, Bobby, is there a kind of a different tweaked musical direction? I've only heard the first single, which, you know, is a great kind of mid-tempo, down-tempo, I would say down to mid-tempo boogie track, Run Into Love, which I absolutely love. What is the direction of this album? And please let us know if there's something different that you were trying to achieve.

I haven't yet heard the album. It's coming out in April. So I have to ask you.

[Another Taste]

The direction was, I think we wanted to go for more of, like do a bit more songs. Make it a bit more polished. Also to be a bit more inside of the, like to be able to cross over a bit more, let's say. But not lose our core too much. So that's something we wanted to see how we could step out, like do a couple more tracks that are a bit more song-based. But at the same time, we have a few tunes on the album that still we do the lead vocals on. But those are like simple things. Like the first thing we did, Upward Bound, which is just like an eight bar loop of vocals. We have a couple of those on the record as well.

We have two down-tempo tracks that are, yeah, like as we say in Dutch, more like like little songs of like three, three, three and a half minutes. But those I also really love to make.

[Colleen]

Is that for the TikTok generation?

[Another Taste]

No, no, no, no, no. I don't think so. I don't think so. Hell yeah. No, it was more about like discovering how we could make a short arrangement that also works really well. And instead of like doing long, stretched out workouts to condense it down a bit more. And I also really love that approach. I mean, some of my favorite music is 45s that are three minutes long. So yeah, I didn't see why we couldn't do that. And I'm really happy with the result of that as well. So yeah, I think overall it's just a bit more, a bit more poppy, but not losing our, not losing our core for sure. Yeah.

[Another Taste]

Let's not forget the second singles, up-tempo disco tune together with ARP Freak and The Perpetual Singers as well.

[Colleen]

I love ARP Freak and The Perpetual Singers. I just got a new single of theirs, Save Your Soul with a Joe Clossel remix. Oh my goodness. That's, that is absolutely fantastic. There's so much going on in the Netherlands. My goodness. It's incredible. Really great. Are you starting to write songs before you head into the studio now for this album?

[Another Taste]

Yeah. Yeah. I think most of it was written on forehand. Like it's a bit organic also the process because most of the time we're all together in the same room. And then sometimes I bring some ideas or sketches, sometimes Byron did.

[Colleen]

Serena for the third single as well.

[Another Taste]

Yes. Serena did The Night, which was like her vocal and main groove thingy. And then we also have different songs which we collaborated and it just happened in studio. So it's pretty organic, but it's not that we recorded the ideas direct to tape. Like first we had the ideas, created it, make an arrangement of everything and then eventually recorded when everything and all the parts, everybody were like super clear.

[Another Taste]

What is good to know as well, that with a lot of bands, you see that they write the music and they go into the studio and record everything. The thing is that we have our own studio where we gather at least two days a week. So every Monday, Tuesday, we're there.

And then it's either the writing or recording or mixing or organizational stuff or jamming. So it's kind of also not that we have like one set period. Like, okay, this couple of weeks we're going to write and these days we're going to record.

It's kind of like an ongoing process all the time.

[Colleen]

That's a really great idea. I mean, to have a schedule like that. I'm working on a project with a few other people and trying to schedule us because they're members of Hot Chip and LCD Sound System. And then I'm touring and doing my stuff and just trying to get like a studio day. It's really difficult. Doing that every Monday and Tuesday is brilliant.

I have a question here for Serena. Serena, you wrote the next single, Into the Night. Could you tell us a little bit about it? You're going to preview it here on your mix.

[Another Taste]

Yeah. Well, it's a song I dreamt about, but it's not about me. The first single, it was. But I had this crazy thought about a young female who likes to be free, but she likes to play around with all the beautiful men around her. But there's this one guy in particular that couldn't take no for an answer. So yeah, she's kind of bashing. Telling him to just let go. He could have her for one night, but he couldn't have her heart. So this song is, yeah, this song is about that. Yes, she likes to be free.

[Colleen]

Well, thank you for that.

[Another Taste]

So it's not about me!

[Colleen]

Another Taste 2 comes out in late April. And will you be performing this album? Will you be touring this summer, coming to the UK? What's your plan?

[Another Taste]

Absolutely. We have one gig currently set for the UK in London, Brick Lane Jazz Festival. For the rest, we are still waiting on a lot of things to fall in place.

[Colleen]

I wish you all the best of luck with it. I hope I get to catch you at the Brick Lane Jazz Festival in April. And I really look forward to the album. And I just want to say thank you for creating this music and doing something that really has a lot of TLC, a lot of tender, loving care, more so than a lot of other music that's coming out today. So, you know, thank you so much.

[Another Taste]

Thanks for having us!