Balearic Breakfast Volume 3 | Release Day!

The brand new Balearic Breakfast (Vol. 3) double LP compilation is out today! To celebrate, T-shirts are available to order on the Heavenly Recordings website!

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Today marks the vinyl release of my Balearic Breakfast Volume 3 compilation on Heavenly Recordings! It’s another eclectic mix of sunshine sounds that knows no bounds. Most of the songs are difficult to find on vinyl and some have never had a vinyl pressing (ed. See below). I hope you like it.

Thank you to all who pre-ordered the signed editions on Bandcamp and to those who have already picked it up at their local record shop. If you still need a copy, there is a list of shops here.

We also have some brand new Balearic Breakfast T-shirts in pink, white, ivory and denim blue and there is a choice of designs with prints only on the front or on both the front and back.

And a reminder that I’m hosting two record release parties: tomorrow, Saturday the 8th June, at The Standard Ibiza from 6 to 11pm - please head pre-reserve. And the following Saturday, the 15th June, I’m over at NT’s Loft from 3:30 - 9pm where I’ll be joined by Zero 7 with a DJ set. It’s both indoors and outdoors with a great view of Balearic East London.

Thank you for your continued support of Balearic Breakfast - a radio show that I started nearly 3 years ago on Worldwide FM and which has continued as a weekly stream and archive on my Mixcloud. This family keeps growing together and reaches most corners of the globe. I’m so proud of our community.

And thank to you all of the shops stocking the record, to ardneks for the awesome artwork and to Heavenly recordings for believing in me and keeping this series going three years in a row. And finally, thank you to the artists and record labels who have allowed us to include their music including Jonathan Wilson, Jacob Gurevitsch, Shawn Lee, Quintus Project, Pigeon, Shunt Voltage, Mildlife, David Holmes, Zero 7 and Primal Scream. I appreciate your support.

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A NICE REVIEW FROM DREAMHOUSE RECORDS

Out today: Colleen ‘Cosmo’ Murphy Presents Balearic Breakfast Vol. 3. (Heavenly Records)

When it comes to curating playlists, few have better bona fides than the US DJ and all-around radio legend Colleen ‘Cosmo’ Murphy. The host of many seminal shows, including the wildly successful Cosmodelica, the 6 Music album series Sounds of a City, and Radio 4’s documentary series Turntable Tales, Murphy’s knowledge is exhaustive and her taste unimpeachable – evidenced by her side hustle as an in-demand remixer, who has transformed tracks by artists such as Róisín Murphy, The Rapture, Candi Staton, The 2 Bears, and Horace Andy. It’s always a happy day, then, when Murphy puts together a compilation, and the third instalment of her acclaimed series Balearic Breakfast is an absolute treat – a wide-ranging, multi-genre record for which Murphy follows Jose Padilla’s simple credo that Balearic is not a sound, but rather a way of life – or as Resident Advisor put it, “Murphy’s definition of Balearic seems more tied to music’s capacity to take you to limitless backdrops than it is to any specific destination.”

The LP features a treasure trove of incredible tracks (most of which have never been available on vinyl before, while others are long out of print), such as Jonathan Wilson’s ‘Desert Raven’, which takes flight on a descending guitar part that’s equal parts Laurel Canyon and Las Salinas beach; Shunt Voltage’s ‘Generator’, a relentless slab of analogue after-hours electro; and Andrew Weatherall’s (RIP) phenomenal remix of Primal Scream’s ‘Uptown’, which dresses up the original in nine-and-a-half minutes of melodica-led futuristic electro-disco glitter – and so whether you’re waxing existential on Margate Sands, or sipping Caipirinhas in Ipanema, Balearic Breakfast, Vol. 3 is as essential a beach staple as sun cream and shades.

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About the rare Andrew Weatherall remix of Primal Scream

(from Colleen's interview with Andy Beta)

So how did you get that insanely rare Andrew Weatherall remix of Primal Scream?

That and the Zero 7 are the rarities here. That Zero 7 is $150 minimum as it was just a white label. Get 2-3 of those, then get Bandcamp things that didn’t get a pressing. Then I look at styles: is it too much of a proggy sound? Too much jazzy? Too much house? Then once everything is licensed, it’s about the sequencing and timing for each side.

I was a big Primal Scream fan. I knew all their stuff. They have that ‘60s thing going on. When Screamadelica came out, it was melding the dance music I was getting into with the ‘60s psychedelic stuff. I interviewed them when it came out and it was difficult: they all have thick Glaswegian accents and I had one microphone. Then I interviewed them again when they recorded down in Memphis with Tom Dowd. Then I interviewed Bobby for one of my radio shows, a spotlight on Glasgow. Over my career, I’ve interviewed them the most.

David played that white label 12” at the end of one of our Loft parties in London. And I ran up to the booth like “What is thiiis?” A friend let me borrow their copy for a Loft party we did in Italy. But I never had a copy. Jeff from Heavenly is tight with them all from the ‘80s. I just wanted a vinyl copy to play at the parties. And then I wanted it for the compilation.

But Primal Scream is on a major. Yet because Weatherall’s remix didn’t actually officially ever come out, that actual copyright isn’t owned by a major label. So it’s owned by the band. Jeff asked Bobby and he says: “Yeah, I like Colleen and I want her to have it.” It was very cool. So they were able to say yeah: “I want her to have it.” That was such a coup.