Colleen 'Cosmo' Murphy broadcast the 218th episode of Balearic Breakfast on her Mixcloud on April 8th 2025. About this episode. – Taking a week off from the show after her incredible tour in Japan, Colleen came back live in today's episode, better than ever, gifting us with a 2h18min. episode (hence the post's title...) ! The Balearic Breakfast family was happy as ever despite Mixcloud's mobile app not allowing us to tag our fellow friends as we would have loved it. Grargf, Message to Mixcloud sent today! Listen back to the 218th episode of Balearic Breakfast: This morning’s Balearic Breakfast is now up on my Mixcloud (link in comments) and its an extra long show as I have so much music to play for you – a true cornucopia of sounds. Today’s show features some of the music I picked up on my recent trip to Japan and includes new albums on an experimental tip along with some Japanese jazz and city pop from yesteryear. There’s a great italo classic rework, a forgotten Austrian treasure from the 80’s, some Balearic chuggers, deep house, nu soul and a lot more. Swipe for the playlist. Today’s show is also a bit longer as I’m taking next week off as both my husband and I will be en route to Ireland for his birthday celebration and also some parties. After a much needed rest this past weekend – actually walking nearly 20 km in Epping Forest may not be considered restful by some although you can see from the pic above the weather was glorious – these next few weeks are packed with parties and I hope you can make it along to one of these dates (and if you do please say hello): 10th April: Cosmodelica at The BBE Store with Handson Family in London 13th April: @Burger-Disco-Club Athens, Greece 18th April: Connolly's of Leap Cork, Ireland 19th April: Fidelity Dublin, Ireland 3rd May: Melting Pot at Queens Park, Glasgow 4th May: 1BTN Birthday Bash at Patterns Brighton 10th May: Balearic Breakfast Day Party with Joe Goddard at Night Tales Loft London 18th May: Pikes All Night Long, Ibiza 23rd May: Cosmodelica & Love Injection Fanzine / Records Good Room in Brooklyn, NY 28th May: @danteshifi in Miami, Florida The Request Line will go up Saturday, the 19th April and Balearic Breakfast will be back streaming live from the record room on Tuesday, the 22nd April. Until then, you can enjoy this show and others on the Balearic Breakfast playlist on my Mixcloud. Thanks for listening. The Listening experience. – Taking us through a calm yet unknown Journey, where everything simply glows and grows in musical harmony, Colleen developed this episode in two parts, the first one showcasing pictures of spring (the first 40 minutes / 6 songs) while the second one was more upfront (yet still keeping intact that Wow feeling we all feel when Spring comes back into our lives – Payfone's Volt to Volt and Kraak & Smaak's Butter Bath are nice examples of that feeling)! There were several Wow Moments during this episode, including the show's opener Indigo Line (which made me think of Max Richter's Vivaldi Recomposed album), Julia Mestre's Vampira (What a soundstage!), Salphunk's How Do You Like It, B.W.H's Stop (Danilo Braca ReStop Edit), Tatsuro Yamashita's Love Talkin (Honey It's You) & Minako Yoshida's Let's Do It – which both made me think about these incredible Japanese productions with the sound being realistic, Neutral (yet on the warmer side) while being open and dynamic, with a dominant rhythmic guitar and a light pumping bass! Last but not least, we can't forget the incredible Jam On by Jambonne! All in all, this episode is a blooming musical experience! THE PLAYLIST (2025) Tomo Nakaguchi – Indigo Line (2025) Shin Sasakubo & Matchume Zango – Kumkomba (2025) Mark de Clive-Lowe – Embrace (1981) Masabumi Kikuchi – City Snow (2025) Julia Mestre – Vampira (1980) Crumb – Love is a Game (2025) Salphunk – How Do You Like It (Munich Mix) (2025) B.W.H. – Stop (Danilo Braca ReStop Edit) (1982) Tatsuro Yamashita – Love Talkin (Honey It's You) (2025) Rudy's Midnight Machine – Foxtrot (2025) Payfone – Volt to Volt (40 Thieves Remix) (2025) Peter Visti (ft Dawda Jobarteh & William Winding) – Atlantic Fever (2025) Kraak & Smaak – Butter Bath (2023) Lack of Afro (ft. Greg Blackman) – Make it Shine (1978) Minako Yoshida – Let's Do It (2025) Jambonne – Jam On (2025) Joseph Malik ft Kameelah Waheed – My Whole World (Variant Issue Orchestra Vocal Remix) (2025) Omar – Can We Go Out (Zed Bias Remix) (TBR) Harvey Sutherland – Nobody Like U (Glenn Underground Dancer's (1999) Ciel Ernest St Laurent – We Are One (Frankie Feliciano Remix) (2025) Aric – I Love Your Love (Pete Blaker Dub Remix) COLLEEN'S PRESENTATION Part I Tomo Nakaguchi, the musician and sound artist from Yokohama, with Indigo Line, from his forthcoming LP, Out of the Blue, coming out on the 3rd of May on Audiobulb. And it's his third album for the label, and it meticulously crafts audio elements from traditional instruments, field recordings, and broken tape machines into a complex and beautiful soundscape. And Nakaguchi is also a member of the experimental rock band, 1769, and a member of the multimedia group Skyward Photo Film. And you can head over to his Bandcamp to pre-order. Good morning! Ohayou gozaimasu! I'm Colleen Cosmo Murphy, hosting your weekly Balearic Breakfast, live on my Mixcloud, and greetings to the family over there, and thank you for joining me when I was streaming remotely from Japan. I also want to thank the guests that filled in for me, Kenneth Bager from Music for Dreams, Saucy Lady of Dippin' Records, Jen and Glenn from Hot Burns and Black, and Darren Morgan from our London Loft Party and Love Machine. They all did an amazing job, and thank you for giving them so much support. And it's great to be back hosting the show live from my record room, after an amazing trip and tour in Japan. I've been going to Japan since 1989. It was the first place outside the USA where I hosted radio shows, as I was a radio host on JOGZ in Nagoya, right after my 21st birthday, and I had barely traveled outside the USA, so it was a huge deal for me. And Japan is strangely also the first place I DJed in clubs outside of America, as I started playing there in the mid-90s. So Japan means a lot to me, and this is my first time back since 2019, just before the global pandemic. And I'd like to thank Ryo Watanabe for putting together a wonderful tour. It's the first one we've done together. All of the clubs who invited me, Club Mago in Nagoya, Boars in Obihiro, Bar Inc. in Osaka, Bar Bridge in Shinjuku, Woal in Takasaki, and of course, Precious Hall and Satoru-san in Sapporo. That's one of my favorite places in the world to play, as he changes the entire sound system when I go over to a loft-style system, with the Klipschhorn's Mark Levinson amplification and the lovely, gorgeous Koetsu cartridges. So it was truly sublime. And most importantly, arigatou gozaimasu to all who joined me on the dance floor. Today's show, of course, features some of the music I picked up in Japan and includes new albums on an experimental tip, along with some Japanese jazz and city pop from yesteryear. And also coming up in today's show, a great Italo classic rework, a forgotten Austrian treasure from the 80s, some Balearic Chuggers, new deep house and soul, and a lot more. So, ikimashou! Japan still on my mind. 1989 Photo booth ‘selfies’ and pics of the barefoot hippie DJ at JOGZ FM DEPO 76.4 FM with my old WNYU buddy Chris Cullen (CCM, 04/04/2025). We're going to start off with some spacey, atmospheric, and transcendental sounds from Japan. And this is a new one from Japanese guitarist and composer Shin Sasakubo, who has recently been releasing albums over the last two decades, many of which are collaborations, like this one. His most recent album, which is a collab with Mozambique composer and musician Matchume Zongo, who is a master of the timbala, a traditional wooden xylophone. And he's released one solo album himself, WataM'Cande. Together, Sasukubo and Zongo released the LP Kalamuka last month on Chichibu Records. And here they are with the album opener and a true journey in itself, Kumkomba. Ed. Note: Kikuchi in 2013, performing at a tribute concert for his former collaborator, Paul Motian (Getty) A little something I picked up while record shopping in Sapporo. 80's Japanese jazz, courtesy of pianist, synth keyboardist, composer Masabumi Kikuchi. He worked with many musicians, including Sonny Rollins, Miles Davis, McCoy Tyner, Elvin Jones, Gil Evans, and Toru Takemitsu. We just heard City Snow, which reminds me of snowy Sapporo, the biggest city in the northern island of Hokkaido. And I played it at the listening party at Precious Hall, where Kuniyuki, Yano, and myself played some jazz, African music, world music, experimental sounds. City Snow also featured James Mason on guitar and Ayrton Morera on percussion. And it's from Kikuchi's 1981 LP, Susto. Ahead of that, Mark de Clive-Lowe with Embrace from his new album, Past, Present, Tone Poems Across Time, coming out later this month on Greg Boreman's impressive collective label in partnership with BBE. And I met up with Mark in Tokyo, and he told me the backstory of the album. You may know he grew up in both Japan and New Zealand. And this record is a sonic exploration and reflection on family, heritage, and healing, created while he was retracing his late Kiwi father's journey across Japan 70 years ago. It's a gorgeous record of ambient jazz and emotional cinematic soundscapes. And it was all written, performed, and produced by Mark, using a ridiculous number of synths, along with some of his own field recordings. So you can head over to his Bandcamp to pre-order the vinyl, which was mixed by our friend Kuniyuki-san, and is coming out on the 18th of April. And we started off with Shin Sasakubo and Matchume Zongo with KumKomba. You're listening to Balearic Breakfast. And this next one is from contemporary Brazilian music sensation, actress, and creative director, Julia Mestre. Mestre is a member of the Latin Grammy-winning Brazilian supergroup Bala de Seijo. And her forthcoming third solo album, Maravilhosamente Bem, is coming out on the 8th of May. Sorry, I don't speak Portuguese. I might be murdering the language. Apologies for that. This is the latest single from her new album. It's called Vampira. And it's her reinterpretation of Ray Reyes' original salsa song. And she transforms it into something more sultry, dreamlike, and sensual, which is her trademark style. Part II Yes, I do. I do very much. I really like it. That's a new disco chugger from Lisbon's rising talent, Salphunk. And we just heard the Munich mix of their new single, How Do You Like It, which came out on Dutch label Universo Positivo last month. And it's a follow-up to their debut Live On, released at the end of last year. So definitely ones to watch. And that's some 80s blue-eyed soul by Crumb with Love is a Game. And that's from The Other Sound of Music, forgotten Austrian treasures from the 1980s compilation, which came out at the end of last year on Austrian reissue label Edition Hawara. And there's some great tunes on there. Incidentally, the band Crumb only released one album in 1980, The Day When Mr. Goodbar... And it has a photo of a teddy bear on the album. And then they disbanded soon after. So you can now get that song on The Other Sound of Music compilation. OK, here's an old Italo classic that I only ever had a bootleg of. You know, I don't really like buying bootlegs because I like supporting the artists. I would never do one myself, but I have been guilty of buying and playing them. It was conceived of and developed in the early 80s by the club DJ and producer Stefano Zito with a very young composer and arranger, Stefano Galante. And I believe Stefano's wife, Helen, and actress also played a part. They released a single, Living It Up, with the B-side Stop in 1983. And the Italian-born and New-York-residing DJ and producer Danilo Bracca has given it a great re-edit. D-W-D-B-W-H, with Stop, the Danilo Bracca re-stop edit. Loving this new one. From Robin Lee, who is one half of Faze Action, under the moniker Rudy's Midnight Machine. And put out so many great records on this Rudy's Midnight Machine. Releasing records for the past 15 years. And this one, Foxtrot, is on the new album, Maestro, which came out this week. Ahead of that, another nugget I picked up on my travels in Japan. Singer, songwriter, guitarist and city pop megadon, Tatsurō Yamashita. He's also the husband of Mariya Takeuchi of Plastic Love fame. And Yamashita began releasing albums in 1972, up through to his latest in 2022. And in 1980, he broke through with his album Ride on Time. But all of his releases are worth checking out. We heard Love Talkin' Honey It's You from his 1982 LP, For You. And Minako Yoshida was on backing vocals and will be playing one of her classics later in the show. So please check out Yamashita's catalog. And if you can secure a vinyl copy of his sought-after 1977 LP, Spacey. Which goes for eye-watering sums on Discogs, well then, congratulations. Ed. Note: Mariya Takeuchi RCA YEARS Vinyl Box Collection Capture the moments, one song at a time! Don't miss to listen to the greatest city pop songs with the Mariya Takeuchi RCA YEARS Vinyl Box Collection! Directly from the heart of the 80s, this limited 6-disc analog box set highlights her distinctive voice and poetic lyrics, capturing the essence of youthful romance and hope; the sound is simply exceptional, with improvements made to enhance the listening experience. Vinyl aficionados may delve deep into the warmth and richness of the analog format, allowing Takeuchi's smooth vocals and intricate arrangements to shine in all their glory! Even if you are fans of Mariya Takeuchi or if you are curious about city pop genre, lose yourself in these songs that celebrate the magic of her enchanting sound! Okay, I have quite a few gigs coming up in the next couple of, next few weeks, I should say. And I just wanted to let you know because you may be somewhere in the world where you can come on by and say hello. This Thursday, I'm hosting Cosmodelica with my friends Cindy and Christian from Hanson Family at the BBE store in London. And that's this Thursday night. On Sunday, I'm heading over to Athens for Burger Disco Club. And then the following week, I'm going over to Ireland. First to Cork, my ancestral seat, which I've never been to. Playing at Connelly's and Leap in West Cork on the 18th of April. And then on the 19th, heading up to Dublin where I'm playing at Fidelity all night. On the 3rd of May, I'm playing for Melting Pot at Queen's Park in Glasgow. Along with a stellar lineup of horse meat disco and many others. On the 4th of May, the next day, I'm down in Brighton for 1BTN's Birthday Bash at Patterns in Brighton. Also playing with a Rup Roy down there. So that should be a lot of fun. On the 10th of May, a Saturday all-dayer in London. It's a Balearic Breakfast Day Party. And my special guest is Joe Goddard. And that's at N.T.'s Loft in London. So I'll be doing a few Balearic Breakfast shows there. I think the next one's in July and then one in September for the album release. On the 18th of May, I'm playing at Pike's all night long in Ibiza. And I have three dates there. One at the end of July and one at the end of September as well. And then at the end of May, I'm heading over to the States. Doing Cosmodelica with Love Injection at the Good Room in Brooklyn on the 23rd of May. And then heading down to Miami for Dante's Hi-Fi on the 28th of May. So quite a few parties going on. If you're able to make one, please come along and say hello. Okay, since 2013, Brighton and Barcelona duo Payfone have been crafting atmospheric, mid-tempo grooves on labels like Golf Channel, Lange & Defected. And this one is a late-night, sophisticated, synth-driven, drum machine-powered sound. This time featuring vocals from North Carolina's Joe Gabriel Harris and New York City's Terry Jackson. This is the slow-burning, moody remix by San Francisco trio 40 Thieves of Volt to Volt on Balearic Breakfast. Loving that one. It's a new one from Kraak & Smaak. It's a Dutch duo, Kraak & Smaak, along with Butter Bath. And that's their latest single, Heat, which came out last month on Boogie Angst. And it's a great collaboration as it melds Crack & Smack's soulful, funky sound with the psychedelic pop sound of Butter Bath. And I have to say, it really resembles some modern yacht rock. And I dare say that's a great thing. It's the perfect song to kind of blast in the car when you're cruising on a sunny day with the windows down, like really pure pop bliss. And ahead of that, I'm loving that new Peter Visti album on Music for Dreams. The Danish producer and DJ earned his stripes in the late 80s and 90s playing cool venues around Europe and beyond. And he's been releasing records for two decades, including two albums on Steve Cote's Bare Funk label. This new album is fantastic. It's called Vesti's Vinyl Collective Volume 1, so I expect there's going to be more. It's on Music for Dreams. And it features some collaborations like the one we just heard, Atlantic Fever with Gambian Kora player Dawda Jobarteh and Danish songwriter, producer and DJ William Winding. And we started it all off with Payfone, Volt to Volt, the 40 Thieves remix. Okay, we have a new single coming out tomorrow on Bastion Music Group by Lack of Afro. Absolutely love him and Greg Blackman. They released a gorgeous, feel-good, soul tune, Loving Arms, a couple of years ago. And it was on Lack of Afro's or Adam Gibbon's album, Square One. And there's a follow-up album and a tour on the horizon. So this is a new one, a beautiful, uplifting song called Make It Shine. Scottish singer-songwriter Joseph Malik, who released his first album, Diverse, in 2002 on Compost. And since that time has released many records, including three albums on Joe Wallace's Ramrock label. We just heard his collab with the talented Camila Wahid. I'm just really digging her right now. With the song, My Whole World. And we heard the Variant Issue Orchestra vocal remix. Ahead of that, a new one on Spacegrapes. The independent Dutch label run by Bobby Van Pooten and Danilo Plessow. Focusing on the best in contemporary live music. And they started releasing records in 2020. And I managed to scoop up a couple on vinyl. They now have a new one coming out by Jambonne. A moniker for Another Taste. A live and studio band that record for Spacegrapes. And it's called Jam On. And it's coming out soon on Spacegrapes. So do follow them because their records do sell out very, very quickly. Ahead of that, we had the Japanese singer-songwriter-musician Minako Yoshida. With Let's Do It. The title track to her 1978 LP. Which some say was really the beginning of the city pop sound. Now I'm sure that's the subject of debate. People like to claim firsts. But at the very least, Yoshida and this album pioneered the sound. And she's been incredibly prolific. Releasing albums up to about a decade ago. And the song Let's Do It was co-written with Tatsuro Yamashita. Who we heard earlier in the show. So I hope you like that little wee jazzy segment of the show. This is Colleen Cosmo Murphy with you. Going a little bit later than high noon today. And moving on to something a bit housier. And I'm going a little bit longer because I have so much to play for you. But I have also a little confession. I'm not going to be here next week. We are going to be on a plane to Ireland. So we can't even stream a prerecorded show. So sorry about that. But many of us fell in love with the British singer-songwriter Omar's voice. When he debuted in 1990 with the song There's Nothing Like This. Oh my gosh, I can hear it in my head right now. What a gorgeous voice. He has a new album coming out in June on Impressive Collective. In partnership with BBE. And it's called Brighter the Days. And over three decades he's been a defining force in modern black music. Crafting a sound that seamlessly blends soul, funk, jazz, salsa, dub, and hip-hop. With roots in classical music. And as he puts it, each album is an evolution, if you will. But I'd like to think this one is my magnum opus. Here is Omar with the Zed Ballas remix of Can We Go Out? Colleen Cosmo Murphy getting ready to sign off another edition of Balearic Breakfast. We just heard an old classic from 1999. Ernest St. Laurent We Are One. The Frankie Feliciano remix. Came out in 1999 on Yellow Productions. Loved that label. I also did a compilation for them in 2002 called The Disco-Tech of DJ Cosmo. If you ever want to check that one out. Ahead of that we had Melbourne DJ and producer Harvey Sutherland. Born Mike Key. With his single Nobody Like You. And we heard a forthcoming remix by Deep House and jazz producer DJ Glenn Underground from Chicago. Absolutely loving that one. Ahead of that, Omar, Can We Go Out? The Zed Ballas remix. Out now on BBE. And just a reminder, this Thursday if you're in London. Doing a free Cosmodelica party with Hands On Family at the BBE store. So it was rammed last time. Hope you can make it. Please say hello. Now I have to confess I'm taking one more week off next week. As I'm going to be on a plane to Ireland. And Adam is going to be with me. So he can't even stream a pre-record. It's his birthday coming up. Taking him out to a nice restaurant. Have a couple of gigs over there too. At Connelly's and Leap on the 18th. And at Fidelity in Dublin on the 19th. But then the request line will go up on Easter weekend. And the show will resume live on the 22nd of April. So hope to see you back here with me. Thanks to all who joined me on the Mixcloud Live. Leaving you with this great Groover from Pete Blaker. Loving this one. It's by Aric Sigman who is a musician and psychologist. And the song is called I Love Your Love. And this remix is from Gerd Janson and Elado. It's on Gerard Johnson's Running Back label. This is the Pete Blaker dub on Balearic Breakfast. Thanks for listening. And remember, just be Balearic.

Colleen 'Cosmo' Murphy broadcast the 230th episode of Balearic Breakfast on her Mixcloud on July 08th 2025. About this episode. – Despite her sinus infection which forced her to end the show a little bit earlier today, and after playing at the NT's Loft last Friday alongside Family member Virginia Tziotti and Daisy Bell, Colleen proposed a new episode of Balearic Breakfast. As you'll hear, this episode is very relaxed and has a few musical twists and turns including the one that led to today's post title when Colleen did a mistake letting the wrong CDJ play the wrong song, laughs! Still, it turned out beautifully and it was a good show indeed (as our dear Friend iSelector said "Leaving it all, even with the infection... heroic broadcasting i'd call it"), and also featuring Colleen's last Cosmodelica remix of Saint Etienne's "Alone Together"! Listen back to the 230th episode of Bakearic Breakfast: No wonder I have hay fever. This morning’s Balearic Breakfast is now up on my Mixcloud (and please give me a follow while you’re over there). Today’s show is mainly your requests with music from Vinocio, Madredeus, Mixmaster Morris, Norman Connors and more along with a great old remix of @incognito_world as Bluey will be my special guest at July’s @classicalbumsundays event. On Thursday the 24th July, we’re celebrating the 30th anniversary of 100° and Rising at KEF Music Gallery - tickets are free but must be reserved on the CAS website. And of course, there is a Stevie song as he’s playing at Hyde Park this Saturday (can’t wait!). The requests will continue on next week’s show, which I’ll stream live on Mixcloud Tuesday the 15th July from 10am to 12pm BST. And if you’re in Ibiza this weekend, I’m playing at @glitterboxibiza with a fab line up including @moodymann313 , @melvobaptiste and @danshake_ – happy to be on this impressive line up. THE PLAYLIST (1991) The Irresistible Force – Space is the Place (1967) Nina Simone – Come Ye (2025) Silent Poets (ft. Lady Blackbird) – Something Kind (2022) Hannes ft. waterbaby – Stockholmsvy (2023) Prince Fatty (ft Shniece) – Expansions (2000) Madredeus – Oxalá (2025) Saint Etienne – Alone Together (Cosmodelica Remix ft. Alina Bzhezhinska) (1974) Main Ingredient – Summer Breeze (1976) Norman Connors (ft. Phyllis Hyman & Michael Henderson) – We Both Need Each Other (2025) Modern English – Voices (Sundowners dB Remix) (2024) Auntie Flo – Walk DF (2013) Jaki Whitren & John Cartwright – This Time (Al Usher Remix) (2025) Vinocio (ft Javi Burin & Maxi Sayes) – Colibri (2024) The Mighty Tiny & The Many Few – Young World (2022) The Tikiyaki Orchestra – Shaka Huka Bossa Nova (2025) Durand Jones & The Indications – Really Wanna Be With You* (2025) Lauer – Felt Bat (1995) Incognito – I Hear Your Name (Roger'S Ultimate Anthem Remix) (1980) Norman Connors – Take it to the Limit (1976) Stevie Wonder – Knocks Me Off My Feet COLLEEN'S PRESENTATION The Irresistible Force with their second irresistible singer single, Space is the Place, which came out in 1991. And thanks to Jim McCormick for requesting that. The Irresistible Force was mixmaster Morris, along with singer-songwriter Desdemore. And Morris is a tour de force, a hugely knowledgeable and experienced DJ, who transcends musical boundaries time and time again. A fixture on the free party and rave scene, Morris's name became synonymous with far out DJ sets and chill out rooms. And in fact, he made one of the first chill out compilations, Give Peace a Dance, the ambient collection for the campaign for nuclear disarmament. Thankfully, mixmaster Morris is still playing and posting mixes. And I think he's just great. We definitely need to get him up on the show sometime. Ed. Note: See a nice interview here https://insheepsclothinghifi.com/mixmaster-morris/ Good morning, Balearicans. I'm Colleen Cosmo Murphy, hosting your weekly Balearic Breakfast until high noon. And greetings to all over on my MixCloud Live. Thanks for being with me. And thanks to all who came along with their vibes and moves to NT's loft last Friday night. It was a lot of fun. I had two special guest DJs, Balearic Breakfast family member, DJ and jewelry designer Virginia Tzioti. And also DJ Daisy Bell. I've played one or two of her productions on the show before. I have one more Balearic Breakfast day at NT's loft. And the next one is on Saturday, the 13th of September, another day party. And I'm looking forward to revealing my special guests in a few weeks. Buy Tickets Here It will also be the London record release party for my Balearic Breakfast 4 compilation, which is coming out a couple of weeks prior to that on Heavenly Recordings. And if you happen to be on the White Isle, I'm also hosting a Balearic Breakfast release party at Pike's on Sunday, the 28th of September. And if you happen to be there now, I'll be playing at Glitterbox this Sunday along with people Melvo Baptiste and MoodyMann also on the bill. So you can probably hear I'm still having an ear sinus issue, but it is getting better. Thanks to those in the chat who've been asking the neti pot is my new best friend. It's it's an American word neti pot. I don't know what you call it here in the UK, but kind of gross, but really, it's really doing the business. So any of you that know, you know, now I know some of you have also been ill. So I'm wishing you a full and speedy recovery as well. Seems like there's lots of bugs going around. Hopefully today's show will give you a little relief. And thanks to all who made requests this past weekend, we had a lot so they will be spread out over a couple of shows. And I made some new discoveries as well. I really appreciate your contributions. Thank you so much. Steve Clark is looking forward to the forthcoming La Torre Vol. 5 compilation that's compiled by Mark Barrett and Pete Gooding. They are the residents at Hostel La Torre where you can watch the sun go down a beautiful spot. And their previous four comps are fantastic. They really transport you to another place. Like the others, their next double album is chock full of sonic treats including tracks from Mousy Star, Talk Talk, and this next song by one of my favorite artists of all time. With a song she wrote for her 1967 album, The High Priestess of Soul. It's Nina Simone with Come Ye. A cover of the classic 70s jazz-funk pro-peace anthem by Lonnie Liston Smith, Expansions. A reggae version by London-based producer Prince Fatty with vocals by Shanice. And that came out a couple of years ago on Fatty's own label, Love Dub Limited. And thank you to Victor Altenew in Romania for that request. Ahead of that, Swedish singer Hans along with Water Baby with Stockholmsvi, which translates to Stockholm Scene in Swedish. And that was released three years ago. And thank you to Tom Torres in Vienna for that request. Before that, we heard a track from the forthcoming album by Silent Poets, which is Japanese artist Michiharu Shimoda. It's the 10th Silent Poets album. And this one gathers a global roster of collaborators for a collection rooted in unity, resistance, and healing. Something we could all use right now. We heard Something Kind featuring the incredible vocals of Lady Blackbird as requested by Barry Bairnitz in Washington, D.C. The album is called Hope, and you can pre-order the vinyl now. Ed. Note: See a recent interview here https://a-indie.com/silent-poets-interview/ Okay, Madredeus are one of Portugal's most successful groups since they formed in 1985, selling millions of albums globally. They crafted a unique blend of Portuguese folk music and fado. Here they are with a single they released 25 years ago as requested by Antonio Santana, Madredeus with Oxalá. Oh my gosh, grooving to this one. Philadelphia jazz drummer and composer Norman Connors with the almighty singer Phyllis Hyman, and bassist and vocalist Michael Henderson with We Both Need Each Other. And that was released on Connors' 1976 LP You Are My Starship, which has a star-studded cast of players, including Hubert East, Lee Ritenour, Tom Scott, Don Elias, Gary Bartz, and thanks to Bert Francois for sending me on a deep Norman Connors dive over the weekend. I have several albums of his, but he has so much amazing work, so many styles, and his drumming is just unreal. And we have some more Norman Connors later in the show, so keep it locked here. Ahead of that, a cover of Seals and Crofts' Summer Breeze by The Main Ingredient, and I think this may be my favorite version, although it's just a great song anyways, also covered by the Isley Brothers. Harlem funk outfit The Main Ingredient released their version on their 1974 album Euphrates River, which also features their dance floor burner Happiness Is Just Around the Bend. And Herbie King requested Summer Breeze, saying it got loads of airplay when driving through Umbria with said jasmine really blowing his mind. And I know what he means because when we host our last note parties in the summer in Perugia and Umbria on the mountainside, it's just beautiful. It just smells like jasmine. It's all you can smell. One of my favorite, favorite scents. Ahead of that, we had my Cosmodelica remix of Saint Etienne's Alone Together, featuring the harpist Alina Bzhezhinska. I brought her in for that remix because I wanted to kind of give it a Dorothy Ashby vibe. I hope you heard that. And that's finally being released on vinyl on the next Balearic Breakfast compilation, Balearic Breakfast 4, coming out on the 29th of August. You can preorder via the Heavenly Bandcamp. And there's a bunch of stores listed also where you can order it. That's via the link tree on my Instagram. And there's also volumes three and four coming out together as a double CD. And it has great artwork by Ardneks as well. And really, really proud of this one. And thank you all who have supported the series so far. Okay, British new wave post-punk stalwarts, Modern English formed in Colchester in the late 1970s. I released their first single on their own Limp Records before signing to 4AD, home of Cocteau Twins and Dead Can Dance. And I'm sure you know their single I Melt With You when it was released in 1982. Well, last year, they returned with an album of new material, their first in eight years called 1, 2, 3, 4, which featured the single Voices. And Sundowners DB did a remix. That's a Suffolk based DJ and production trio, David Freeland and Black and Ben Horner. And here they are on Balearic Breakfast. Absolutely loving this one. Sounding like New Order joint edition definitely sounds like Peter Hook on bass, but it's not. It's called Felt Bat by Lauer, who is Frankfurt, Germany based producer and DJ Philip Lauer, who's released albums on Running Back and Permanent Vacation for over a decade. And it's from his latest EP, 77-0-0-77, released back in March. And thank you to Matt Raistrick for that request. Ahead of that, the Indiana based soul group Duran Jones and the Indications with Flowers from their latest and fourth album, Flowers, which was released just a couple of weeks ago, which you can find in their bandcamp. And they were early. The Chicano lowrider community were an early champion of the Indications. They began circulating their music a decade ago. And in tribute, Duran Jones and the Indications released the B-side single Cruise into the Park, also released a version in Spanish. Thanks to Constadinos Folias in Greece for that request. Ed. Note: The track requested by our friend Constadinos l. Folias and effectively played by colleen was Duran Jone's "Really Wanna Be With You" from the Flowers album. Thank you Folias for that precision! Ahead of that, the Los Angeles outfit, the Tiki-Yaki Orchestra. They've crafted a song. They've crafted a sound, I should say, that fuses traditional exotica with Hawaiian surf music, lounge music, and space age pop. And they've performed at some of the most significant Tiki festivals like the Hukilau. And I really want to go to that. Never check one out. Thanos Katronos in New York requested that one from their debut album, Stereo Exotique. The song was called Shaka Huka Bossa Nova. Before that, we had the Mighty Tiny and the Many Few with Young World from their album, Be Good the People, released last year. It's a fabulous debut album. I love the whole thing. Very soulful. And the group features Walshie Fire, along with Grammy winning composer and writer, Randy Valentine, and jazz improv visionary, Steve Jesborth II, along with the creme de la creme of Danish jazz talent. And Be Good the People is both a statement and a declaration of revolutionary love, a bold call to action. And thank you to John Tattersall in Copenhagen for that request. Before that, Colibri by Vinocio featuring Javi Buren and Maxi Saez. It's a group from Buenos Aires, Argentina, featuring Lucien Mamy and Fermin Carpena. And that's from their Tostados LP. I've listened to the whole album a couple of times in the past few days, and I need to delve into their previous work, which you can find on the Vinocio Bandcamp. And thank you to Steve Wakley for putting that group on my radar. Ahead of that, we have Jackie Wittron and John Cartwright with This Time. And that's singer-songwriter, the late singer-songwriter, Jackie Wittron, and her husband bassist, John Cartwright. You know, they both actually passed away in 2016 within days of each other. And the song This Time was found on their International Times LP, originally released in 1983 and more recently reissued by Emotional Rescue. Wittron debuted in 1973 with her solo album, Raw But Tender. And she also contributed to the Alan Parsons cult classic, I, Robot. And we heard a version of This Time, given a rework by Scottish producer and DJ Al Kent. And that was requested by David Puzzi, who correctly asserted, this one resonates at the moment. And then before that, Chris McGowan requested something from Auntie Flo, who is Brian Tassuza. And we heard Walk D.F. from Auntie Flo's fourth and last full album, 2024's In My Dreams, I'm a Bird and I'm Free. Tickets are availiable here Well, we have about 20 more minutes to go here on Baleric Breakfast. And this month, Classic Album Sundays is hosting an event with John Paul Bluey Moenig, the founder of Brit jazz funk group, Incognito. We're going to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Incognito's classic album, 100 Degrees and Rising. And it will be held on Thursday, the 24th of July at the Keff Music Gallery in London. Tickets are free, but must be pre-reserved via the Classic Album Sundays website. And I'm really looking forward to digging deep with Bluey. I'm a big fan of the album. I'm also a big fan of the remix album that came out just afterwards. So I thought I'd play something from that today. One of the originals that's found on 100 Degrees and Rising, but given a rework by Roger S., who called it the ultimate anthem remix. This is his spin on Incognito's I Hear Your Name. An extended version of Norman Conner's Take It to the Limit. And that's the title track to his 1980 LP featuring Adaritha on vocals. And I want to thank Chris Morgan for that request. I also want to dedicate it to Tomohiro Yamada, who requested the Joe Claussel remix of that. So maybe we'll play that sometime on another show. This is Colleen Cosmo Murphy getting ready to sign off with my bad sinuses and ear infection, as you can probably still hear. But that's not going to stop me from going to see Stevie Wonder this Saturday at Hyde Park for British Summertime. I'm so looking forward to it. I've seen him play before. Absolutely amazing performer, amazing person, amazing musician, such uplifting vibes. Also playing is Ezra Collective. And I don't know if you saw their performance at Glastonbury, but it's on iPlayer right now. And it is steaming. Absolutely incredible. So I'm really looking forward to seeing them as well. And so David Stoddard requested this next one. And Tomohiro Yamada also requested some Stevie. But this one I wanted to, I thought it'd be a lovely way to kind of wrap up the show. From Stevie Wonder's classic Songs in the key of life. This is knocks me off my feet. Thank you so much for joining me. Hope to see you at Glitterbox this weekend if you happen to be in Ibiza. If not, I'll be back here on the airwaves on my MixCloud Live next Tuesday from 10 to 12. Have a lovely week.

Colleen 'Cosmo' Murphy broadcast the 231st episode of Balearic Breakfast on her Mixcloud on July 15th 2025. About this episode. – After her Musical trip to Ibiza, Colleen came back to the UK all set up and ready for another episode of Balearic Breakfast. When you'll listen to that episode, I'm sure you'll have that same feeling as I did live, and, when closing your eyes and listening to the whole show, you'll picture an immense and firy sun rising up above land, in an unknow place. Even in the "darker" and "tougher" part of this incredible mix that Colleen proposed us in the second hour of the show, this imagery will not leave you... And, speaking oif the "darker" part of today's set, I could not share here what my dear Ana told me on instagram when Colleen played her request, Derrick Carter's Boompty Boomp Theme which is not one to find easily and which Ana initialy requested for the Pride show. With her usual Kindness, Colleen searched high and low and went on to contact Defect records who sent her the track, despite their servers being hacked recently. This is the Family Spirit I was talking about earlier in one of my posts. We're all together in this musical quest that is Balearic Breakfast under the tender and loving care of our Captain. Come one, play the show and Feel the Love! Listen back to the 231st episode of Balearic Breakfast: This morning’s Balearic Breakfast is now up on my Mixcloud and its made up of your requests and some new music – starting off a bit mellow and then picking up the pace. Swipe for the tracklist. I rarely take selfies but couldn’t resist this blurry and multi-angle-mirror pic when I arrived back at the hotel after Glitterbox (kind of how I felt and wearing my new gold boots to boot). That was my last club date for the summer as now it is all about FESTIVALS! Here’s where you can catch me: Sunday, 20th July: @homesteaduk Somerset Sunday, 27th July: @wearelove_festival in Brighton Friday, 8th August: @flowfestivalhelsinki in Finland Friday, 8th August: @clubkaiku - B2B set with Antal Sunday, 10th August: Stallions at @houghtonfestival in Norfolk Saturday, 16th August: Cosmodelica at Love Dancin’ at @weoutherefest in Dorset Saturday, 23rd August: @ifyouknowfestival in Ireland Wednesday, 27th August: @jazzrefound2k25 Festival in Italy Thanks for dancing and thanks for listening. THE PLAYLIST (2025) Huess – Hair on Fire (2002) Carleen Anderson – Don't Look Back In Anger (Live) (2025) The Sure Fire Soul Ensemble – Corporatocracy (2025) Santino Surfers – The Soul Echo (1984) Moondata – Let The Moonshine In (Dub) (2024) Dead Sound – Pure Blue (2025) Tar Blanche – Iguana (from Balearic Breakfast 4) (2020) The Straits – Follow Me (Sophie Lloyd Edit) (2021) The Rolling Stones – Miss You (Random House Project Rework) (2002) Derrick Carter – Boompty Boomp Theme (2017) Sasha – A Key to Heaven for a Heavenly Trance (Night Dubbing Mix) (2024) Vincent Arthur & Dagomba – Travel with the Music (2025) Jo Boyer – Isabelle and the Rain (Da Funkie Junkie & Cosmic Girl Edit) (2025) Aroop Roy ft Andre Espeut – Let Me In (2025) Sirsounds Edit – Tokyo Fantasy (2025) Philippa – Many Nights (2024) Toribio ft. Sharin – Daylight (Crackazat Remix) (2013) Bryan Ferry – Don't Stop the Dance (Todd Terje Remix) (2024) Sidestreets – Cologne That Smells Like The Beach (M1 Remix) (1974) Kool & The Gang – Summer Madness COLLEEN'S PRESENTATION British beat-making bedroom producer, Huess, with Hair on fire. And that blends 1970s and 80s ambient and modern classical influences with instrumentation and field recordings made in the Norwegian wilderness. According to Huess, the title is inspired by the sound of wind through the trees, blowing out the cobwebs as a cleansing renewal and is a metaphor for the reaction we have to experiencing strong emotions like fear or excitement when your hair stands on end, even so much it feels like it's on fire, which are definitely appropriate feelings for someone expecting their first child, as the producer was whilst making his ambient album, Safe One. And you can find that on Bandcamp. And thank you to AJ Elliott for that request. Good morning, Balearicans. I'm Colleen Cosmo Murphy, hosting your weekly Balearic breakfast on my Mixcloud Live until high noon. And greetings to our worldwide family, joining in from all corners of the globe on the chat. Thanks for joining me. I hope you had a great weekend since we were last together, and I certainly did. I made another trip to the White Isle, this time for Glitterbox, which also featured Melvo Baptiste, Moody Man, and a PA from Julie McKnight. And I got to see her doing her soundcheck before I went on, and I didn't take any videos as I wanted to respect her privacy, but she came over and gave me a big hug after she saw me singing along with all of, or at least what I believe to be all of the correct lyrics to her song, Finally, that she did with Kings of Tomorrow. I remember when that came out, gosh, and 25 years ago, I can't believe that I played it all the time. Anyways, now I'm all prepped for a busy festival season. And this Sunday, I'm heading over to Homestead Festival, being held on a farm in Somerset, just outside of Bristol. And I'm headlining along with my buddies, Luke Una and Errol Alkin, which is a privilege. And the following week on Sunday, the 27th of July, I'm heading down to Bristol for We Are Love Festival, which is being held in conjunction with 1BTN Radio. I always love playing in Brighton. Then in August, I'm at Flow Festival in Helsinki, also doing an after-party, a back-to-back with Antal as well, which should be a lot of fun. Then over to Houghton Festival, and this time I'm playing at Stallions Tent early evening on the Sunday. And then it's We Out Here. You probably know the score, but I'm co-hosting the Love Dancing Tent along with my husband, Trojan Sound System's, Daddy Ad. And Saturday is the Cosmodelica Takeover. And after that, I'm heading over to Ireland for the If You Know, You Know Festival, and then wrapping up August at Jazz Refound in Italy. So if you're able to make any of those dates, please say hello. Today's show is catching up on your requests and some new music, starting off a bit mellow and then really picking up the pace later in the show. This next one is a request from David Stoddard, a request for an Oasis cover by an American soul singer and composer, the Texas-born Carleen Anderson, who landed on our radar as a founding member of acid jazz group Young Disciples. They had a hit with Apparently Nothing from their 1991 album Road to Freedom. She then went solo and has had an illustrious career. She released her third solo album, Alberta's Granddaughter, on her own label, Dusky Sappho, in 2002, and it included our next song. This is Carleen Anderson's live version of Oasis's Don't Look Back in Anger. Moondata with the dubbed version of Let the Moon Shine In, which originally came out in 1984, and original copies are eye-wateringly expensive. You took a look on Discogs this morning. But don't despair, because it's featured on the forthcoming Rotation Sound System Presents Everything You're About to Hear Is True Vol. 1, which will be released on the 18th of July on Lange Records, and it's a compilation from the Rotation Garden Party residents, Dean Meredith, who is also in Chicken Lips, Ben Shenton, Rob Jay, Stuart Robertson, and Rich Hall, and I'm looking forward to getting a copy. It's a lovely audiophile party in Staffordshire, Rotation Sound System and Garden Party, and I was honored to play for them many, many moons ago, and I'm happy it's still going strong today. And their next one is the same weekend of their compilation release, so that's the 18th, I think it's the 20th of July, up in Staffordshire. Well worth a visit. Ahead of that, Santino Surfers, which is Danish guitarist Jonas Krag, with his latest single, The Soul Echo, now out on Kenneth Bager's label, Music for Dreams, and that's from Santino Surfers' forthcoming second album being released at the end of the summer, and it's a follow-up to the 2023 self-titled debut. And thank you to Barry Baronetz in Washington, D.C. for that request, and I'm letting you know first, I have also remixed one of the forthcoming singles from Santino Surfer's second album, and hopefully I'll get to preview that for you in the near future on the show. Ahead of that, Corporatocracy, sounds like a great name, by the Sure Fire Soul Ensemble, a live nine-piece instrumental funk group from San Diego whose first two albums debuted in the top 15 on Billboard's Contemporary Jazz Chart. They started releasing albums a decade ago, and Corporatocracy is from their fifth studio album, Gemini, released in March, not during the time of Gemini, I should say. It should have been Pisces or Aries. Anyways, Gemini was released in March, and you can find it on Bandcamp, and thank you to Sue Forrest for that song suggestion. I love that one. And you know, that's what I really love about this show and the Balearic Breakfast family. You are always turning me on to great artists and tunes, so thank you so much. And this next one is a similar thing. It's a request from our friend Virginia Tzioti in Athens for Dead Sound, a collaborative project by Marco Sterk, which is a.k.a. Young Marco, and Berlin-based pop auteur John Moods, and it's a song from their album Into the Void, which was released on Dutch label Music for Dreams. Oh, not Music for Dreams, Music for Memory. I'm sorry. Music for Dreams is the Danish label. The Dutch label is Music for Memory. In any case, Young Marco and also John Moods are no strangers to the label. Young Marco forms one-third of the Trio Gaussian Curve, and while Moods released the 2022 album Hidden Gem with The Zen Men, and they got together, and over the course of a few days of really charged creativity, they produced an entire album of textured, dreamlike, psychedelic soundscape songs. This is Dead Sound with Pure Blue. Ed. Note: A very interesting article about "The new wave of ambient music and its emotional powers" by Skye Butchard can be read here, Gaussian cuve is mentionned of course. Balearic breakfast with 2 imaginative balearic reworks of some 70s tunes from some classic rock bands. This one, Miss You, the 1978 disco single from The Rolling Stones, but this time given a fab and very creative rework from one of Balearic Breakfast's favorite reimaginers, Random House Project, and I know I played one of his other edits recently, but I couldn't resist playing this one, and then John Boakum also requested it, so there you go. Ahead of that, a rework of Dire Straits' classic song Follow Me Home, the original from their 1979 LP Communiqué, but we heard Follow Me by the Straits, the Sophie Lloyd edit, and Sophie Lloyd did that edit. She's a British DJ and producer, and it came out on the late Yamhoo's label Midnight Riot about five years ago, and thanks to DJ Hefe or Dan Edwards for that request. Ahead of that, we had Iguana by Tar Blanche, the down-tempo house project of Charlie Ryder, who's also in alternative rock group Yumi Zouma, and as Tar Blanche, she debuted with the album Granada School of Motion in 2023, and then his ambient, chilled-out house sound found a home on New York label Nervous Records and then Delicia Records, and he has a new single called If You Can't Trust Your Heart. Iguana is also featured on the forthcoming Balearic Breakfast Volume 4 compilation, coming out on Heavenly Recordings at the end of the summer on the 29th of August, and as always, I always play one song a week from the forthcoming compilation up until its release, and also Volumes 3 and 4 are being compiled and released on CD for the first time, and you can find out more on the Heavenly Bandcamp. Okay, this next one is an older request from Ana Sancho in Barcelona, and I was finally able to snag a copy, so thanks for your patience, Ana. It's by Derrick Carter, a seminal figure on the Chicago house scene, where he got his start as a DJ in the late 1980s, and then he started producing for labels like Cashmere's or Green Velvet's label Casual, such an influential label in the 1990s. Carter also worked at Chicago's best dance record shop, Gramophone, and so did DJ Heather, so I'm giving her a shout-out as well. Here he is with Boompty Boomp Theme, the opening cut from his Square Dancing in a Roundhouse LP, which came out on Classic Recordings in 2002. Loving this one from UK DJ and producer Aroop Roy, along with British soul singer Andre Espeut, which, with the song Let Me In, very deep, jazzy, soulful offering. And it's Aroop's second outing on Kerry Chandler's Chaos Theory imprint, and it came out last week. And I've had the chance to get to know both Aroop and Andre, fabulous guys and talents, and I've recently played with Aroop quite a bit and really love his sets as well. Ahead of that, we had the funky, junky, and cosmic girl edit of Isabelle and the Rain by the late French jazz trumpeter and bandleader, Jo Boyer. The edit is featured on the compilation Caviar Jazz, a journey into the jazz-inflected house music, which came out last month on Right Tempo. And the comp also features some great tunes by Crico Castelli, Frankie Knuckles, iQube, and also the classic Soufflé H by Mondo Grosso. It was put together by Da Funky Junkie, which is Malaysian DJ Donovan Tho, along with Cosmic Girl, who is Julia Nicholson, and they've really pioneered the disco and soulful house sound in their native Malaysia. And I played for them a few times in Kuala Lumpur many moons ago. The last time, I was just about six months pregnant and already looking like I was ready to burst, much to everybody's kind of amusements and possibly fear as well. So thank you to Donovan and Julia for sending that one over and congrats on the compilation. Ahead of that, Vincent Arthur & Dagomba with Travel With The Music. And that's originally from an album called Essi Vivian, which came out in 1986 and is very, very expensive. And it was, until recently, a very underappreciated album until DJ Diggers started to unearth the song that we just heard, Travel With The Music. And Sam Don put out three songs on an EP on his Sweet Free Association label, so you can pick that up and you don't have to pay as much as you would for the original, so definitely, definitely worth that. Ahead of that, Sasha with A Key To Heaven for a heavenly Trance night dubbing mix. And that was the Italian house producer, not the UK DJ Sasha or the Eurodance Act. And Sasha, the Italo house producer, released seven singles between 1992 and 93. And that was requested by our friend Kieran McCann in Glasgow, who enjoyed a lot of Italo house while he was on holiday in the Umbrian heat. Sounds wonderful. Okay, now I have to give a little bit of a disclaimer for this next one. I was sent over a bunch of great, great new re-edits by Sirsounds, the DJ and re-editor who is based in Berlin. And I loved all of them. And I picked this one for today's show. While I've been hosting the show, I looked up the original and so I had to find out who actually did the original and found it was a 1982 single from Alessandra Mussolini, the granddaughter of the fascist dictator Benito Mussolini and sadly, I hate to say it, she's a right-winger herself, so I don't endorse her politics. That is my disclaimer. And nor do I obviously endorse fascism, which is sadly rearing its ugly head in my native homeland. But it's still a great rework of a cool song, so I hope you will like it. This you can find on Sirounds' Bandcamp. It's Tokyo Fantasy, which is a rework of Alessandra Mussolini's Tokyo Nights on Balearic Breakfast. Loving this one, the M1 remix of Cologne that smells like the beach. Definitely want some of that. That's by Side Streets and that's the debut release by the Brooklyn-based DJ, multi-instrumentalist and producer Side Streets, a.k.a. J.D. Slater IV. And the remix we heard by M1 is exclusive to Bandcamp. Ahead of that, a request from London House Music Works for Brian Ferry's Don't Stop the Dance, which came out on the Roxy Music Frontman's sixth solo LP, Boys and Girls, released in 1985. But I'm sure you can tell I didn't play the original version. But the Tod Terje remix, which came out on the Vinyl Factory label in 2013, along with remixes by the Idget Boys and Grasshopper. Ahead of that, we had Toribio featuring Sharon with the Crackazat remix of Daylight. And that's the Brooklyn-based DJ, producer and musician, Cesar Toribio and his sister, Sharon Toribio. And that came out at the end of last year on my friend Paul and Barbie's label, Love Injection, which also has an accompanying fanzine. Toribio began releasing singles nearly a decade ago and has been gracing dance floors with his soulful, percussive, Latin-tinged sounds. And I had the pleasure to hang out with Cesar and his partner, Ada, when they were here in the UK a couple of weeks ago. A very lovely, creative couple. And they had a good time at Glastonbury, too, where Toribio was performing. Ed. Note: Paul, Barbie and Cesar Toribio did an interview together, read it here. Ahead of that, we had DJ and producer, Philippa, who cut her teeth in New Zealand before relocating to Berlin over a decade ago. Her groove-riding productions have been featured on Jimster's label, Free Range, and Sloth Boogie, and Lazy Days. And we heard her latest, Many Nights, which came out at the end of June and is part of her Bandcamp-only Quiet Fire series. So look out for that. Well, thank you for joining me, Balearicans. This is Colleen Cosmo Murphy, and I'll be back hosting your weekly Balearic Breakfast next week. And I think I'm gonna do one more request line this month. So please keep your eyes on my Instagram and Facebook this Saturday. Also, please follow me over on my Mixcloud. And if you have the means, you can subscribe for three pounds a month, as that really helps me out as I do these shows on my own, also with my husband, of course, and it's hosted on my own platform. So your support is greatly appreciated. But if you can't, don't worry. You can still listen to these shows for free. Okay, I'm gonna leave you with one last one requested by DJ Tak, who wants to escape from a crazy hot Tokyo summer. And I know they are hot in Tokyo, also in New York as well. This is the 1974 single from Kool and the Gang from their album, Light of Worlds. And it's a song that sounds exactly like it's labeled on the tin. Here they are with Summer Madness. Thanks for listening. Ed. Note: Sadly, Kool and the Gang's longtime member, stylist, choreographer and hype man Michael Sumler (known as "Chicago Mike"), 71, died in a car crash in Cobb County, May 24. This request was dedicated to him, obviously.

Colleen 'Cosmo' Murphy broadcast the 232nd episode of Balearic Breakfast on her Mixcloud on July 22nd 2025. About this episode. – The Great French Poet, Alphonse de Lamartine, once wrote: "The book of life is the ultimate book / That you can not close or reopen at your will ; The appealing excerpt can not be read twice / But the fatal page turns on its own / You would gladly come back to the page where you loved / And the page in which you die is already under your fingers". The first part of today's shows starts with somewhat of a forced smile, in the summertime, but there, sometwhere, in the distance, stands a Totara Tree, under a lonely summer sun and, if you look up to the sky, you should see a few lost blackbirds flying high, turning above your head in an endlessly swirling motion while a tired cry can be heard coming from somewhere... Cajun moon, where does your power lie / As you move across the southern sky / You took my babe way too soon / What have you done, Cajun moon / Someday babe, when you want your man / And you find him gone, just like the wind / Don't trouble your mind whatever you do / 'Cause Cajun moon took him from you / When daylight fades, the night comes on / You can hear the silence of this song / Don't trouble your mind whatever you do / 'Cause he got me like he got you... Listen back to the 232nd episode of Balearic Breakfast: This morning’s Balearic Breakfast is now up on my Mixcloud and please give me a follow while you’re over there. Today’s show is mainly your requests with a few new nuggets thrown in and we also pay tribute to the late Chris Faiumu. He was known as Mu to fans of Fat Freddy's Drop, the jam band he founded in the late nineties in his native Aotearoa. Last week Mu passed to the next realm and family, friends and fans from around the globe are mourning his loss, but we still have the music - his eternal legacy. Sending big hugs to our friends in New Zealand who worked with him, played with him and who knew him well. Kua hinga te totara I te wao nui a Tane. Next week’s show will feature an interview with and a mix from Café Del Mar resident Ken Fan and a Special Kay mix from Balearic Breakfast family member Kay McMahon. Until then, enjoy today's show with music from Hermanos Gutiérrez DJ Spen Kerri Chandler Kuniyuki Takahashi Randy Crawford Daniel Avery Troy Kingi Holy Ghost! Brian Jackson BBE Music and thanks for listening! THE PLAYLIST (1970) Ken Boothe – In the Summertime (2001) Burning Spear – Travelling (2005) Fat Freddy's Drop – Wandering Eye (2013) Fat Freddy's Drop – Blackbird (2025) Hermanos Gutiérrez ft Leon Bridges – Elegantly Wasted (1996) Randy Crawford – Cajun Moon (Cajun Long Trip Version) (2025) Mudd – Mahalo (Instrumental) (2021) Daniel Avery – Hazel and Gold (1977) Peter Gabriel – Solsbury Hill (2024) ASHRR – What's Been Turning You On (Soundsystem Version) (2020) Troy Kingi – Chronophobic Disco (1981) Pino D'Angio – Ma Quale Idea (1982) Cheryl Lynn – Say You'll Be Mine (2020) Longhair – The Forbidden Dance (Original Version) (2018) Holy Ghost! – Anxious (A Tom Moulton Mix) (1988) Raze – Break 4 Love (2025) Brian Jackson ft. Omar – The Bottle (2022) DJ Spen & Soulfuledge – Goin' Home (To See My Savior) (Kerri Chandler Vocal Mix) (2025) Kuniyuki & Cushty – Tremor (Kuniyuki Dub Mix) (2025) Los Twangueros – Star Guitar (2004) Fat Freddy's Drop – Hope (3 Generations Walking Remix) COLLEEN'S PRESENTATION One of Jamaica's finest, Ken Boothe, with his cover of British band Mungo Jerry's 1970 hit, In the Summertime. Boothe had already been recording with Studio One's Sir Cox and Dodd for the latter half of the 60s, and was already known as Mr. Rocksteady. And then he made the move to Duke Reed's Trojan Records, where he had a slew of hits, including Crying Over You. And a big thank you to Victor Olteanu in Romania for that summary request. Ed. Note: Find out more about Ken Boothe's career and life in this 2 part interview: Part 1 / Part 2 Good morning, Balearicans. I'm Colleen Cosmo Murphy, hosting your weekly Balearic Breakfast until high noon on my MixCloud Live. And greetings to all gathered over there from all corners of the globe right now. Thank you for joining me. Today's show is mainly a request with a few new nuggets thrown in. But first, I would like to pay tribute to the late Chris Faiumu, known as Mu to fans of Fat Freddy's Drop, the jam band he founded in the late 90s in his native New Zealand, Aotearoa. As DJ Fitchy, Mu collaborated with musicians from the Wellington music scene, including singer Dallas Tamaira and trumpet player Toby Lung, and providing the live musicians with beats and bass from his Akai MPC. Mu and his long-term partner Nicole also founded a record label they called The Drop, and released Tamaira's first solo EP, and then a song called Hope that was inspired by an acid trip. The blotters displayed the image of Fat Freddy's cat from the fabulous Furry Freak Brothers comic strip, and because the music makers liked to drop, Fat Freddy's Drop was born. They invited other local musicians to jam sessions that fused reggae, soul, dub, and funk, all mashed with Maori and Pacifica culture. And as a seven-piece, they became known for live improvs, imprinted onto vinyl on their first LP, Live at the Matterhorn. They released several singles, like Midnight Marauders, which was championed by Germany's Sonar Collective, and other international DJs. And in 2005, they released their debut solo album, Based on a True Story, polished versions of their Far Out jams. It went to number one in New Zealand and gold on the same day, and won New Zealand's Album of the Year award. Since then, Fat Freddy's Drop have released eight studio albums, have toured internationally nearly every year to sell out crowds, getting bigger and bigger and bigger. And they've established themselves as New Zealand's most successful independent band. Aotearoa and the international dance music community are mourning the recent passing of Fat Freddy's Drop founder, Chris Faiumu, or Mu. This next set is dedicated to his family, friends, and fans. And this next song is a dedication to the spirit of Mu himself, and to Fat Freddy's Drop band members. From my husband, Daddy Adz, of Trojan Sound System. A very fitting tribute as the band traveled together, and Mu's spirit is traveling now. Burning Spear with Traveling. The title track to Fat Freddy's Drop, third and platinum selling album, 2013's Blackbird, and sending that one out to DJ Hefe or Dan Edwards, who wanted to commemorate the late Chris Faiumu, the founding member of New Zealand's most influential and successful independent band, Fat Freddy's Drop, and lovingly known as Mu, who suddenly passed to the next realm last week. Ahead of that, Wandering Eye from Fat Freddy's Drop's debut album based on a true story. And Adam and I are dedicating that to all our Kiwi friends who are mourning the loss of their dear friend. Kay, Rob, Jen, Glenn, Kyan, Chris Tubbs, Nikki Lucas, the Flamingo Pier crew, Nathan Haynes, Benny, and the New Zealand music community. And also, of course, to all of Mu's Fat Freddy's Drop bandmates, including our personal friends, Joe, Mark, and Scott. And we have a dedication from Scott to his late bandmate Mu later in the show. Kua Hinga Te Totara I Te Waonui Atane. I hope I said that right. And may Mu rest in paradise. Well, I've played Hermanos Gutierrez at Balearic Breakfast before, and they've just released their first English language single, this time with Leon Bridges. The Ecuadorian-Swiss brothers met the Texan soul singer when they were in Nashville for a gig. Bridges heard a song they were trying to finish up, grabbed a mic, and sang over it. And the Hermanos thought he sounded like an angel. As requested by Ana Sancho in Barcelona, here are Hermanos Gutierrez with their first new tune of 2025, this one with Leon Bridges, the song Elegantly Wasted. The ASHRR Sound System version of What's Been Turning You On by ASHRR, who are releasing an album of their own sound system versions of songs from their debut album, Sunshine Low, released last year on 2020 Vision. And you may remember I had the band up on the show for an interview and an exclusive mix last year. You can listen back on my Mixcloud to hear all about them. They're amazing musicians. They've been session musicians, they've played all over, and they're very, very varied in genre, and I just love their work. And this new sound system version album is coming out this week, and you can find it on Bandcamp. And thank you to Barry Bernitz in Washington, D.C. for that request. Ahead of that, a song you probably know, but it seemed to fit in brilliantly on a balearic show, and Gareth Bratman thought so and made the request for Peter Gabriel's Solsbury Hill. And it's from the former Genesis frontman's debut solo album, his 1977 self-titled LP, and that was the first single. It became a top 20 hit in the U.K. and really marked a departure from his early prog roots. Ahead of that, from his fourth album, Together in Static, we heard British DJ and producer Daniel Avery with Hazel and Gold, an acolyte of the late Andrew Weatherall. Avery was first known as Stop Making Me and collaborated with Little Boots, Hercules, and Love Affair. And I should also mention that Daniel Avery did an amazing remix for The Cure's Mixes of a Lost World, and his remix of Drone, No Drone is really one of my favorites on the album. In fact, that song was my second choice if Robert Smith didn't let me remix "And nothing lasts forever". Avery's remix is on fire. And thank you to DJ Corbian for the requests for Hazel and Gold. Paul "Mudd" Murphy just released a new limited vinyl single on his Claremont 56 imprint, instrumental versions of his forthcoming, of two tracks from his forthcoming third album, a follow-up to his record In the Garden of Mindfulness.The new single was written and produced with regular collaborator Michele Chiaverini, and we heard the instrumental of Mahalo, and the flip is an instrumental of Matane, and there's still vinyl copies around, so be quick. And thank you to Bobby Connell in Sydney, Australia for that request. Okay, another beloved Maori musician and actor and icon in New Zealand is Troy Kingi, who has had a remit of releasing one album per year for a decade, each with a different genre from funk to reggae to soul, and the project is called Ten Ten Ten. He tours the album and then goes back up north to fish for the rest of the year, or at least that's what I heard. I was turned on to his music by Flamingo Pier's Luke Walker when I was in New Zealand last year, and I fell in love with the next song so much that I had to include it on my forthcoming Balearic Breakfast compilation. The vinyl edition of Balearic Breakfast 4 and the CD edition of Balearic Breakfast 3 and 4 is coming out on Heavenly Recordings at the end of August, and I'm featuring a cut from the new comp on every live radio show until its release. This is Troy Kingi with Chronophobic Disco. Ed. Note: Colleen met the great Ardneks a few days ago, and posted the following message on her socials on July, 17th: "@ardneks popped into town in May and @heavenlyrecordings Danny & Daisy and I had the chance to meet the man behind the Balearic Breakfast comp series artwork - a fantastic talent AND a great guy. His designs are AMAZING and he puts so much effort into both the vinyl and CD version - each with their distinct design along with inner sleeves and labels. Thank you Ardneks! You can check out and pre-order the forthcoming vinyl and CD releases via my link tree. And a big thank you to @test_pressing_official for this glorious review (you can read the rest on their website)…" Cheryl Lynn with Say you'll be mine, as requested by Daniel Townes, and that's from the 1982 LP Instant Love, produced by Luther Vandross. He just keeps popping up all over the place now. She got her start as a singer in church, and then she toured as a backing singer for the musical The Wiz, but it was an appearance on The Gong Show. I don't know if you remember that. If you're a Gen Xer, you probably do, and on it she performed a cover of Joe Cocker's You Are So Beautiful, and that landed her a deal with Columbia Records. She was signed and had a huge hit with Got To Be Real, and the rest is history. She's also noted for being an inspiration to R&B singers like Mary J. Blige. Ahead of that, we had Pino D'Angio with Ma Quale Idea from his seminal Italo disco album 1981's Balla!, which was reissued last year on Pure Music. Ma Quale Idea is still a favorite, and has more than a little bit of a nod to Ain't No Stoppin' us now, and Pino D'Angio released many albums before his passing last year, and thank you, or grazie mille, to DJ Macaroon, or Steve Wakely. We started off the set with Troy Kingy, Chronophobic Disco, which is coming out on the next Balearic Breakfast Vol. 4 compilation. Okay, Longhair is a DJ and production duo from Berlin. It's Marco, aka Homeboy, and Bene from Peak and Swift, and in 2022, they released the album Hotel Solaris, their only album out on Permanent Vacation. But a couple of years earlier, they released this single, requested by our friend Virginia Ziotti in Athens, Greece. It's LongHair with The Forbidden Dance. Tune. Raze with their 1987 proto house single Break 4 Love, and it was written and produced and performed by Raze's Vaughn Mason, and Vaughan Mason led Vaughan Mason & crew, and they had a roller rink jam with Bounce Rock Skate Roll, and of Rediscover Break For Love recently. Played it a couple of times, I think at Pykes and also NT's Loft, and it still sounds so fresh. I also love the female vocal on the flip as well. Thank you to Matt Blythe for that request. Ahead of that, we had the former Brooklyn synth pop duo Holy Ghost with Anxious, featuring Nancy Wang from LCD Sound System on vocals, and we heard the incredible Tom Moulton mix, as requested by David Puzzi. And you know, Tom Moulton is just a force of nature. He kind of really helped define the disco sound along with many others, but his was certainly a hugely significant contribution, and still doing remixes, and that's, you know, electro pop synth dance, and you know, it still sounds great. His arrangements are just absolutely fantastic, and I got to meet him at The Loft once, and I was definitely starstruck, I have to say. I don't always get starstruck, but I definitely was starstruck meeting Tom Moulton. Okay, you've probably heard there's a forthcoming album by Brian Jackson, the former collaborator of Gil Scott-Heron, who released his debut solo album, I think it was a couple years ago on BBE, or no, a few years ago now, I think. But he has a new one coming out, produced by Masters at Work, and it's a great album. It's called, I'm just trying to remember what it's called, it's something that I think Now More than Ever, I believe it's called, trying to remember what it's called. In any case, it's a fantastic album, covering 17 covers of songs that he had formerly collaborated with, with Gil Scott-Heron, but really updating them. And we heard some great, great ones on the show before. He did one of It's Your World with Raheem Devon and Jay Ivey. There's also a great, great version of The Revolution Will Not Be Televised with Black Thought. And this is the next single, a new version of The Bottle, one of our favorite Gil Scott-Heron songs, especially for the dance floor. It's a real dance floor burner. And this one has Omar on the lead vocal. The delightfully, delightfully titled Los Twangueros, who come from the Balearic seaside town of Hastings in Kent, with their version of the Chemical Brothers' Star Guitar, as requested by Matt Raistrick. And Los Twangueros are also fans of the best meal of the day, breakfast, of course, as they have two albums out called The All Day Breakfast Part One and Part Two. Just love that song. I played that original when it came out. Gosh, it must have been 20 years ago, 25 years ago, maybe. I always love that one by Chemical Brothers. And Los Twangueros, such a fun name to say, just did it really justice. Ahead of that, we have Kuniyuki Takahashi and UK bassist Nick Cohen, aka Kooshji, in collaboration, blending live instrumentation and sleek electronic textures with tremor. And that is out now. And Kuniyuki has a signature sound that results in kind of roomy rhythms and great warmth. And I know him from Sapporo in Japan. And Cohen is an acclaimed London session player who's played with Massive Attack, Roy Ayers, and Jimster, just to name a few. And that is out now. Just picked that one up on vinyl and requested by my friend LiZy. Ahead of that, Bert Francois and Brooklyn requested the Carrie Chandler mix of the Gospel House classic, Going Home to See My Savior, the 2021 single by DJ Spen and Soulful Edge. And I hope you got some hand clapping and foot stomping going on for that one. And we started it all off with Brian Jackson featuring Omar with their version of The Bottle. And that's coming out on the forthcoming album, Now More Than Ever, coming out on BBE in September. And it was produced by Masters at Work. And I'm really looking forward to that one. Okay, hopefully I'll see some of you at the We Are Love Festival in Brighton. It's also hosted by 1BTN and a shout out to them. I'm doing the closing set on the Sunday, I think 10 to midnight, but the lineup for the entire weekend is fantastic. So it's a real honor to be part of that one. Hope to see you there. I'll be hanging out on Sunday. Trojan Sound Systems also playing as well. For the next couple of weeks, I'll be streaming Balearic Breakfast remotely as I'll be away. But we have some great mixes coming up. Next week, we have a mix from Ken Phan of Café Del Mar, and also a mix from our Balearic Breakfast family member Special K, or K McMahon. And the following week, we have an interview with and a mix from Abigail Ward from Ghost Assembly, and also an exclusive mix from our Balearic Breakfast family member Barry Berenitz in Washington, DC. So really looking forward to that. Okay, I'm now leaving you with one last tribute to the late Mu, the founder of Fat Freddy's Drop, who passed the next round last week, a Maori, a Maori and New Zealand icon. And this is from Scott Towers, aka Chopper Reed, the saxophonist from the band and a regular listener and contributor to Balearic Breakfast and also a friend. This is the 2004 remix of Hope by 3 Generations Walking in tribute to Chris Faumu. May he rest in peace. Thank you so much for listening.

Colleen 'Cosmo' Murphy broadcast the 240th episode of Balearic Breakfast on her Mixcloud on September 30th 2025. ABOUT THIS EPISODE After playing an all-night set in Ibiza's Freddy’s at Pike’s, celebrating the 4th intallment of the Balearic Breakfast compilation series, and also recording a special set for Open Lab FM, Colleen came back to her record room and prepared a nice show, lined up with new tunes including the new Cosmodelica remix of Santino Surfers which was very much appreciated by the Family! As always, Colleen crafted a beautiful set, quite relaxed we should say as even the second part of the show kept a detached feeling, hence the title of today's post! When listening to the songs with your eyes closed, you should see lines, grooves, and you should feel the music directly and gently Leading You. The Wow moment, to me being when Colleen played Federation of the Disco Pimp's incredibly powerful and soulful song Gratuitous. This morning’s Balearic Breakfast is now up on my Mixcloud and features a load of new music including a new Cosmodelica remix of Santino Surfers now out on Music for Dreams - please give me a follow while you're over on Mixcloud too I was a bit physically knackered as I got back from the White Isle late last night. But I feel spiritually and emotionally fulfilled because I played all night long at two wonderful parties Neuhm in Napoli and then Pikes on Sunday night for the Balearic Breakfast 4 Release party. It was off the hook! Thank you to all who were able to find a spot in the very packed Freddy’s. The vibe was fantastic from the first song which was James Mason ‘I Want Your Love’ as it had been an earworm since last week’s 5th anniversary show. I just can’t get that groove out of my head! This Friday I’m playing at Arkestra in Istanbul if you happen to be in Turkey. And then next Tuesday I’ll be streaming live again from the record room and will be catching up on a few requests, some older tracks I have set aside and some more new tunes. The next request show will be in two weeks’ time - 14th October Black History Month Balearic Breakfast Special so get your thinking caps on as that will be an all request show. Thanks for listening. Listen back to the 240th episode of Balearic Breakfast: THE PLAYLIST (2025) Sewell & The Gong – Morning of the Magicians (TBR) Warriors of the Dystotheque & Balaphonic – Gone Sailing (2025) El Combo Batanga – Darling (2025) Federation of the Disco Pimp – Gratuitous (2025) Tambores En Benirras – Extensor Entregado (Steve Cobby Remix) (2025) Scott Grooves x Allysha Joy – stay (raw silk edit) (TBR) Visti's Vinyl Collective – Sunshine in Atalaya (Be.lanuit Balearic Dub) (2025) Da Lata ft. Bembé Segue – Arena (TBR) Gold Suite – Coast Along (Dan Idjut Bassinvader Version) (2025) Stars Before the Sun (Lovehandles Rework) (2025) Santino Surfers – Underwater Disco (Cosmodelica Remix) (2025) Michael Franks – Ladies Night (Monsieur Van Pratt Re Dub) (2025) Woolfy Vs Projections – Seeds (2025) Pellegrino y Zodyaco – La Malia del Sur (2025) Incognito ft. Zebulon Ellis – Strangers Become Friends (Ski Oakenfull Mix) (2024) The Matsiko World Orphan Choir – Rise (Black Sonix & Sean McCabe Extended Mix) (TBR) Linda di Franco – T.V. Scene (Danilo Braca Epic Remix) ANNOUNCEMENTS (From Colleeen's presentation) Now this Friday, I'm heading over to Istanbul in Turkey, and I'm playing at Arkestra. And then because I like Halloween so much, I'm DJing at two Halloween parties later in October. On Saturday, the 25th, I'll be at Public Records for the Dope Jams Halloween Ball. And I can tell you, New Yorkers really know how to put together a Halloween costume. It's always so much fun to watch everybody on the dance floor. And then on the actual night of Halloween, the 31st of October, on Friday, I'll be back at Pike's and Ibiza for the closing party, this time sharing the night with my friends, CC Discos. So that's their last party of the year. [...] And I'm also looking forward to tomorrow, Wednesday, the 1st of October, as I'm hosting my first Classic Album Sundays at Hidden Grooves in Shoreditch in London. And my special guests are Da Lata's Patrick Forge and Chris Frank. We're exploring their debut album, Songs from the Tin, which was released 25 years ago. Tickets are free but limited, and there's only a handful left. So if you want to join us, head over to the Classic Album Sundays website to reserve your space. And just a little kind of heads up, next month, or in a month and a half, I should say, in November, my special guests will be Marc De Clive-Lowe, and we'll be celebrating Six Degrees. [...] I'll be streaming again live next week. I'll be catching up on a few requests, some older tracks that I've been setting aside for a while, and some more new tunes. But the next request show will be in two weeks time, the 14th of October, when we will be celebrating Black History Month, so it will be probably an extra long special, so get your thinking caps on, as that will be an all request show. ABOUT THE SONGS Seawell and the Gong with the aptly titled Morning of the Musicians, as I thought that was the perfect way to open a morning show. And that's the artist, illustrator, and bestselling author, Matt Seawell, who is an avid ornithologist I should say. And Seawell also plays a guitar in Seawell and the Gong, and that's a music project with producer Chris Tate. Their new album, Patron Saint of Elsewhere, is a sonic journey into a whirling world of wild woods, dancing in the mud, late-night pastoral adventures, and some sort of 21st century hedonism connected to ancient rituals that mark the passing of seasons. A forthcoming release on Kris Koko's Disappear label. It's by Warriors of the Distotek and Balithonic. Both artists have played individually on the show, so it's exciting to hear this collaboration. Warriors of the Distotek is Johnny Mack, Mike and Nick Ruffalo, and Sean Grams. And Balithonic is Danny Ward, who released the album Resolution Revolutions earlier this year. And as a drummer, he's worked with Ray and Christian, Fila Brasilia, Matthew Halsell, and so many others. This is from their forthcoming collaborative album, It's a Beautiful Thing, being released in October. Here is Gone Sailing. The Afro-Cuban band El Combo Batanga with the lovely Latin soul song Darling. That was released on 7-inch in the spring on Ubiquiti Records. And the band released one album in 2020. And Darling is a flip of the lead single La Cuota from their forthcoming album Spanish Dogs. Federation of the Disco Pimp with Gratuitous. And that's the kind of psychedelic soul that I love, but it's modern-day psychedelic soul. And Gratuitous is by Scottish Group. It's Federation of the Disco Pimp. And it's the title track of their new album, released last week on Acid Jazz. Extensor Entregado by Tambores En Baneras, which is the alias of Graham Newby, aka DJ Gripper, a long-serving DJ and producer, based not on one of the Balearic Islands, but in Barrow-in-Furness, an industrial UK coastal town. And this remix was released in August on the lovely New Northern Soul record label, which is run by British label head and DJ Phil Cooper. But he does live in Ibiza. It's a remix by Fila Brasilia's Steve Cobby. Scott Grooves did a rework for Australian singer, Allysha Joy. He reworked a single, Stay, from Joy's album, The Making of Silk. He said "I first heard Stay last year on lot radio, and it caught me right away. Bought the record and recommended it through my Bandcamp channel. And around that time, I had a DJ date at Public Records with Hidden Spheres, and I created an alternate version of the song. Well, Joy loved it". They went into the studio to jam on it with Finn Rees, and that's how the Raw Silk edit came about. Danish musician, DJ, and legendary radio host, Jonas Visti, with his project, Vistie's Vinyl Collective. We heard the new Be.lanuit Balearic Dub of Vistie's 2024 singles, Sunshine in Atalaya. And the remix will come out on Music for Dreams sometime in the near future. Da Lata ft. Bembé Segue, who is a singer-composer, producer, DJ, poet, arranger, and Afro-Brazilian percussionist. And she's also part of the Mighty Eavesdrop Collective, who played for us on our Love Dancing tent that we had here. Arena is the first single on Delada's forthcoming album, Edge of Blue, which I'm very much looking forward to its release on 24th of October. A forthcoming release on the Citizens of Vice label by Gold Suite, who is the Bali-based musician and DJ, Joey Fitzgerald. This is Gold Sweet's forthcoming single, Coast Along, with a Bass Invader remix by Idgit Boy's Dan Tyler. Stars Before the Sun, the LoveHandles rework. And I have no idea who the original artist is. I've shazammed. I've asked the group on the MixCloud live chat, but to no avail. But I love it. And it's called Stars Before the Sun, which Juno Records described as a recut of a thrift store Hare Krishna disco funk gem with Selena strings, drum breaks, and an optimistic pulse. I just thought that was a great description. And I played another track from Love Handles' forthcoming reworks EP on the show that I did for Open Lab Radio in Ibiza as well, if you want to check that out. My new Cosmodelica remix of Underwater Disco by Santino Surfers. And you know I'm a big fan of the instrumentalist and songwriter Jonas Krag of Santino Surfers. Love the chilled out surf style of his guitar playing, kind of carambin-like as well. In fact, Santino Surfers' Freedom Surfers is on the latest Balearic Breakfast 4 compilation. So I was delighted to get the chance to remix that mid-tempo disco chugger, which came out on The Sunset Sessions Vol. 13 on Music for Dreams. Also on Too Slow to Disco, Monsieur Van Pratt Re Dub of Ladies Night by Michael Franks, who is one of the most prolific musicians of the California West Coast Jazz AOR yacht rock scene. And he approved personally all of these new versions. It came out on Too Slow to Disco a couple of weeks ago, Michael Franks' The Reworks Vol. 2, which also includes reworks by the Flying Mojito Brothers and Jack Tennis. DJ Supermarket from Too Slow to Disco will be one of my special guests on Balearic Breakfast later in October as well. Seeds by Woolfy vs. Projections, which is a studio and live act comprising Simon Wolfie James and Dan Hastie. They've been releasing music since 2000 on a who's who of contemporary disco electronic labels like DFA, Wrong, Future Classic, and Permanent Vacation. And this is from the Sunset Manifesto Vol. 2 on Too Slow to Disco, a great compilation. Napoli-based musician and label owner Pellegrino Snickelotto has been releasing some great music over the past decade, exploring Italian jazz funk both on his own and with his Zodyaco project. He's also the founder of the label Early Sounds Recordings, which released the latest Pellegrino and Zodyaco album, Koine, released earlier this year, and of which he says there is no defined goal, rather a desire to explore new sonic languages that hold firmly to Neapolitan roots while opening up to a global and contemporary musical aesthetic. And this is the cut La Malia del Sur. Incognito featuring Zebulon Ellis, Strangers Become Friends, the Ski Oakenfull Mix, and that came out this year on 10-inch on Splash Blue. And I finally had the chance to meet Bluey back in July. We had a great Classic Album Sunday session celebrating the 30th anniversary of 100 Degrees and Rising, and the podcast with that interview will be posted up soon. I think I'll do it today or tomorrow, actually, on the Classic Album Sunday's website, so you can check that out. And just a heads up, Incognito are performing at the Barbican on the 15th of October, celebrating 45 years with a live orchestra, so I'm really hoping to go to that. I caught their 40th anniversary show in early 2020, before the world shut down. I think it was my last live show before the pandemic encroached upon us. Rise by the Matsiko World Orphan Choir, whose mission is to use a unifying power of music to uplift every child, bring hope, love, and joy to all who listen, and inspire generosity that provides a complete education for vulnerable children. Matsiko World Orphan Choir members are ambassadors of hope for the voiceless and invisible children of the world coming from Liberia, India, Peru, and Nepal, and the choir featured in that song, Rise, are based in Liberia and have been on many tours of the USA. And we just heard a remix by Welsh producer Black Sonics, aka Justin Stride, and Bristolian producer Sean McCabe, both very soulful producers. And the remix was released last year, but it's now coming out on vinyl on a compilation EP called Good Vibrations Volume 3 later in October, and you can pre-order that now. If you're a Balearican, you will know the original Balearic classic T.V. Scene by Linda di Franco. Well, this is a wonderful new remix by the New York-based Italian DJ and producer Danilo Braca, who I saw in Napoli over the weekend. He took the train down from Rome just for the party, and he also has a vinyl hi-fi bar in Brooklyn called Suono, named after the Italian audiophile hi-fi magazine his father founded. This is his epic remix of TV scene, and thank you all for joining me. Thanks for listening, and see you next week.

Colleen 'Cosmo' Murphy broadcast the 247th episode of Balearic Breakfast on her Mixcloud on November 18th 2025. ABOUT THIS EPISODE On August 3, 1990, President of the United States George H. W. Bush declared the month of November as National American Indian Heritage Month (You can find more information on the dedicated website, here), and of course, there would be no Balearic Breakfast if we didn't celebrate it all together musically (and I think it's the first time we celebrated Native Americans on the show, although we did pay tribute to the late Chris Faiumu a few months ago). Our Captain loves these shows just as much as we do, we always come together stronger whenever we celebrate black, gay people, female pioneers... All of them made strong contributions to Music as it always served their battles in the best possible way... Today's episode has a certain grandeur. It was a relaxed musical moment, with a very slow and nice rhythmic evolution, allowing the listener to dive into the music and let his mind wander on these everlasting sacred grounds... On the chat, we were all talking about music and arts in general – Bert sharing with us "FYI: The Native American Music Association Hall of Fame has a great source of native american heritage artists" – and Barry sharing his Friend's Instagram (kwadepatton) – more about his artwork on his website, here – and we also exchanged about some places to see! Our friend Barry recommended visiting the black hills in South Dakota, saying "The drive through Custer state park is amazing. Free roaming buffalo and mountain goats". In any case, the chat was a warm place to be today, despite some dropouts in the audio with Mixcloud ultimately and unexpectedly crashing here in France, right during the last song of the show! Listen back to the 247th episode of Balearic Breakfast: This morning’s Balearic Breakfast is now up on my Mixcloud and today’s show is mainly your requests which includes a set dedicated to Native American Heritage Month. Thank you for your song suggestions – there are a lot of great stories surrounding these songs and artists and I’ll be digging more into the music of R. Carlos Nakai and the Halluci Nation over the next week – that’s for sure. So, I listened back to last week’s radio show and I certainly talked a lot! I guess there was quite a bit that I needed to get off my chest. There’s a lot going on in the world – both positive and negative – and at the end of the day, we’re just trying to keep it together and music and community can help us do just that. Next week will be the Balearic Breakfast Thanksgiving Special and the request line will go up on my socials on Saturday. Until then, try to keep your head above water and thanks for listening. THE PLAYLIST (2008) R. Carlos Nakai – Song of Darkness (1971) Jim Pepper – Witchitai-To (1994) Robbie Robertson – The Ghost Song (1967) Jimi Hendrix – Little Wing (1971) Link Wray – Fire and Brimstone (2005) Willie Nelson – The Harder They Come (1973) Redbone – Clouds in my Sunshine (2013) The Halluci Nation – Look at This (Remix) (2025) Random House Project – Opus for One (A Tribute) (2006) Massive Attack ft. Terry Callier – Live with Me (2025) Mohinder Kaur Bhamra – Mainu Apne Pyar Wich (Mystic Jungle Remix) (TBR) Lovetempo ft. Mattison – Wanna Be with You (Turbotito Remix) (2025) Eric Hilton ft Natalia Clavier – Lost in the Light (1990) Julee Cruise – 'Rockin' Back Inside My Heart (Tibetan 12-inch Remix) (2023) Sweet Reaction – Take It Easy (1979) Discotheque – Disco Special (2025) Emma-Jean Thackray – Thank You for the Day (2012) Elements of Life ft Josh Milan – Children of the World (Roots Mix) (2025) Gledd – Move Me (2025) Close Counters – I'll Be There For You (1978) Willie Nelson – Stardust ANNOUNCEMENTS (from Colleen's presentation) Our next London Loft Party will be held on the 7th of December, and reservations are going very quickly as it seems everyone loves the new Riverside venue in Hackney Wick. If you want to join us, head over to loftparty.org, and you can hop on the Friendship Train tab and enter your name into our mailing list, as the next invitation goes out this week, so please do it soon. (...) Next week is a Thanksgiving special on Balearic Breakfast, and we can interpret Thanksgiving beyond just the implications of the American holiday, although, you know, it is great to get together with friends and family. When the request line goes up this week, let's focus on songs about gratitude for the gift of being alive, gratitude for other people, and any other songs by Native American musicians are also welcome, songs about food, whatever Thanksgiving means to you, regardless of where you're from. ABOUT THE SONGS (from Colleen's presentation) Song of Darkness by R. Carlos Nakai, a Native American, flautist of Navajo and Ute heritage, and Nakai's father served as the chairman of the Navajo Nation from 1963 to 1970. As a child, he would audition tapes for a Navajo language radio show hosted by his parents, and in doing so, he heard a recording of William Horn Cloud, a Lakota musician from the Pine Ridge Reservation, playing the flute. But when he enrolled at the Colorado River Indian Reservation High School, he was assigned brass instruments, and he played those for years until a car accident made it impossible for him to continue brass. And after a brief struggle with drugs, he was given a flute, and since that time, he has released more than 50 albums, and he's collaborated with many musicians, including Philip Glass. He has 11 Grammy nominations, and I'll be digging into his music a lot more. In fact, I was listening to a lot of it this morning, and it would make a great soundtrack for our Thanksgiving dinner, and to recognize and honor America's Indigenous founders, and thank you to Rick Van Veen for that request. This next one from Alex Elliott. It's by the late American saxophonist Jim Pepper, who was of Kaw and Muscogee descent, and his career took off in the late 60s as a pioneer of jazz fusion, and his band Free Spirits with the late guitarist Larry Corryell. Pepper also wove Native American music in with jazz, and he played at powwows and supported the AIM, the American Indian Movement, a grassroots movement founded in 1968 to address the systemic issues of poverty, discrimination, and police brutality experienced by Native Americans. The saxophonist's debut album, Pepper's Powwow, opened with this next song he learned from his grandfather, and is derived from a peyote, from a peyote ceremony of the Native American church. Jim Pepper with Wichitai-To. Robbie Robertson from this 1994 album Music for the Native Americans. We heard The Ghost Song, and that's from a compilation album with music by the former leader of the band and the Bob Dylan guitarist, along with other colleagues billed as The Red Road Ensemble, and the album was sort of a soundtrack for a TV documentary of the same name. Robertson was of Native American heritage. His mother was Cayuga, a Mohawk, and grew up on The Six Nations of the Grand River Reservation in Ontario, Canada, and that's where a young Robbie spent his summers, where he was exposed to Indigenous culture and music, and he reflected this in both his music for the Native Americans and also on his score for his long-term friend and collaborator, director Martin Scorsese's film Killers of the Moonflower, I think it's called. The Ghost Song was requested by Gina Lapsley, and I'm also sending it out to Carl Banatov, who asked for Somewhere Down the Crazy River, but I've played that before, Carl, so sending that one out to you as well. Little Wing by The Jimi Hendrix Experience from their second album, Acts as Bold as Love, as requested by Artur in Paris, and Hendrix, of course, is one of the world's most influential guitarists of all time, and he was of both African-American and Cherokee descent. The Cherokee descent was from his paternal grandmother's side, who told him Native American stories and made him clothes inspired by her Cherokee roots. And here's an interesting tidbit. As you know, Hendrix's career was launched in the UK, and he was signed to a British record label, Track Records, and he told them he wanted a record cover that expressed his Indian heritage rather than saying Native American, and the Brits interpreted that as culture from India, and that's why the album cover is inspired by Hinduism with the god Vishnu. And Hendrix didn't get final approval of the album cover, which is shocking, and there was a lot of controversy around the cover when the album was released. Ed. Note: The song "Castles made of Sand" celebrates Jimi's roots "Taken from his second album, Axis: Bold as Love, the song sees Hendrix take on an uncharacteristically mellow sound. In contrast to the psychedelic adrenaline of popular tracks like ‘Fire’ or ‘Stone Free’, ‘Castles Made Of Sand’ is a melancholic ode to self-reflection and one’s past. Dealing with the inevitability of death and how hopes and dreams can be cut tragically short, the lyrics detail the stories of various characters, including one described as “a little Indian brave”. As the verse continues, the young indigenous boy dreams of being a fierce warrior and chief, only to be suddenly snuffed out by a surprise attack in the middle of the night. The tale is interspersed with other depressing tales, including a disabled girl committing suicide. For the musical accompaniment, Hendrix recorded the guitars and then played them in reverse, giving the song an outlandish, psychedelic atmosphere in keeping with the rest of the guitarist’s work. While this piece is, by no means, an autobiographical tale of Jimi Hendrix, it nevertheless offers an insight into his heritage and his celebration of Cherokee roots." A request from John Weir for Link Wray, his track Fire and Brimstone, from his self-titled 1971 LP, and on this album, the late pioneering guitarist adopted more of a country rock sound to better illustrate the songs that depicted the hardships of Wray's early life as a poor Shawnee child in the Deep South. This included living in mud huts without electricity and heating, going to school barefoot, and having to hide out from the Ku Klux Klan. Wray had a few songs named after Indigenous people, Shawnee, Comanche, and his big hit Apache. A request of mine for a cover of Jimmy Cliff's The Harder They Come by Willie Nelson from his superb album Countryman, which I was drawn to not only because of the pot leaf grace in the album cover, but also because it showcases Nelson's deep love of reggae, and I should also say Nelson's counterparts in Jamaica also covered a lot of country songs, too. Nelson's mother, Merle Greenhaw, was predominantly Cherokee, and she was quite a strong and fierce woman, as I recently discovered when I read a biography of Willie Nelson a few months ago. He has certainly had an eventful life, and for a pothead, incredibly productive. He's released over 150 albums, he's been in nearly 30 films, he's won 12 Grammys out of the 57 nominations he's received, amongst so many other awards, and he's just a fascinating man with an incredibly emotive voice. Ahead of that, Clouds in My Sunshine from the album Wovoko by Redbone, a band that formed in Los Angeles in the late 1960s, and all of the members were of Mexican American and Native American heritage. Now, you may remember they had a massive hit with Come and Get Your Love. I've played that on the show before, but you may not know they were also banned a few years later with their song We Were Wounded at Wounded Knee, as earlier that year, Oglala Lakota activists and members of the American Indian movement occupied Wounded Knee, South Dakota, and demanded the U.S. government comply with the U.S. 19th and early 20th century treaties (Ed. Note: more about this event here), and sending that song out to F. Lauren in Canada and Ana Sancho in Barcelona. Look at this by The Halluci Nation. They rename themselves after going as a tribe called Red, and that's a duo comprised of Bear Witness from the Cayuga First Nation tribe, and Tim Toolman Hule, a Mohawk of the Six Nations of the Grand River, and they name themselves the, rename themselves The Halluci Nation, a great name, to reflect the evolution of their music and mission, which blends electronic music with elements of First Nation music. Some even call it powwow step. This year, The Halluci Nation became the first independent Indigenous artist from North America to reach 100 plus million streams on Spotify, so they probably made 10 bucks, and John Boakum recommended Look at This, which was released back in 2013, and you can find the releases through to today on Bandcamp. This next one landed in my inbox at the same time that my friend Kay McMahon requested it. It's a little bit of musical synchronicity, so I have no choice but to actually play it, and thankfully it's great. It's a new one from Random House Project, just released on his Bandcamp in the last week. His Opus for one (A tribute) to the art of noise on Balearic Breakfast. Massive Attack with the late jazz folk soul singer Terry Callier with Live With Me, a track from Massive Attack's 2006 compilation album Collected, and Callier won a United Nations Peace Award for his musical promotion of peace, and Massive Attack are continuing, actually amplifying their political messages, raising climate awareness, voicing their support of the Palestinian people, and speaking out against the censorship of artists, and thank you to Barry Bernitz for that request. And Barry Bernitz lives in the very politically charged Washington, D.C. as well. Goodness me, politics. Well, let's lighten up a bit more with some good music, some music that might take us away. Ahead of that, Mohinder Kaur Bamra with Mainu Apne Pyar Wich, I hope I got that right, which is the second single from Naya Beat's reissue of an astonishing lost Holy Grail, the first British Asian electronic dance music album ever recorded, and that is Mohinder Kaur Bambra's 1982 masterpiece, Punjabi Disco. Now there's an interesting story behind that album. The concept for a Punjabi Disco album was subsequently stolen from the Bambras by the very record label that had agreed to distribute the album, and eventually they self-released it with no label support, and Punjabi Disco became a lost relic, unknown to even the deepest of diggers, but not anymore thanks to Naya Beat. And we heard a remix by Mystic Jungle, who is Dario Di Pace, a central figure in the Neapolitan sound, and that was requested by Susan Chan in New Jersey, who says that is her celebratory request for last week's election outcome in the USA, and I'm sending lots of applause for that. Ed. Note: Mystic Jungle recently issued the great Sunset Breaker album which will take you to the heart of the eighties. The album has an unmatched analogue vibe including what sounds to me like tape hiss. Songs like Secrets, Some Lovin', the very groovy and Reggae-LIke Innervisions or even the somehow lost Sunset Breaker are all hits to me! You can purchase the album on Mystic Jungle's Bandcamp! The solo project of Brooklyn's Mattie Safer, the singer and guitarist from The Rapture, and Lovetempo also features Safer's band Poolside, and the song we just heard, Wanna Be With You, features 79.5's Kate Madison on vocals, and we just heard the remix by Turbotito, who is doing some great Balearic groovers at the moment, including ones for DJ Supermarket's Too Slow to Disco label. And thank you to Matt Raistrick for that request. This next band is from Washington, D.C., if I remember correctly, Thievery Corporation, definitely the darlings of all things balearic, and one-half Eric Hilton is back with a new song called Lost in the Light, composed exclusively for the Cafe Del Mar, and it features the ethereal vocals of Natalia Clavier, a frequent Thievery Corporation collaborator, and it's really warm and wonderful, so perhaps it'll make you feel as though you're watching the sun set on the White Isles. So come on, close your eyes, and just do it as you listen to this. Julee Cruise with Rockin' Back Inside My Heart, which was written by David Lynch and Angelo Badalamenti, and was featured on the late singer's debut, Floating Into the Night, released in 1989, and she also performed that song on Twin Peaks. And I remember I lived in midtown Manhattan in the early 90s, and she lived in the same building. I remember seeing her on the elevator, and one time she couldn't talk. She was just, you know, had some kind of throat thing where she had to really be careful of her voice, and she was just miming the whole time. In any case, we also sadly lost Julee Cruise back in 2022 during the pandemic as well. That was a remix, a song that we heard, Rockin' Back Inside My Heart. It was a Tibetan 12-inch remix by Gregski Royal, and definitely had a very distinct white-lines bass line. And thank you to Asi Sharabi for that request. A request from Steve Wakley for Take It Easy by Sweet Reaction, which was recently reissued on South African label VoomVoom Records with some remixes, and singer-keyboardist Giuseppe Cotumacio was a central figure of that 1980s band, Sweet Reaction, and they released only one album. It was more of a five-track EP, also called Take It Easy, and you can head over to VoomVoom's Bandcamp to find out more. A duo studio project called Discoteque, and they released one album called Disco Tech Party in the year that you would expect, 1979, and the duo was comprised of Dutch producer Bart van der Laar and Belgian musician-songwriter Francis Weyer, who also went by Francis Goya. And a big thank you to David Stoddard for that, for unearthing that obscurity and sharing it with us. The incredibly multi-talented musician, songwriter, singer, and producer, Emma Jean Thackray with Thank You for the Day, from her latest album, Weirdo, on Brownswood Recordings, and she's just sensational. She gets better and better as she grows, and she's also playing this Thursday at Coco and London, and if you want to find out more about her, there's an interview with her by Tina Edwards for a Classic Album Sunday series called Producer Pioneers, and you can find it on the CAS website. And thank you to A.J. Elliott for that request. I'm loving this request from our friend Bert Francois in Brooklyn, who requested some uplifting soulful house courtesy of Louis Vega's Elements of Life outfit, featuring Josh Milan, formerly of Blaze. Here is the Roots mix of their 2012 single Children of the World on Balearic Breakfast. Italian producer Gledd with Move Me, which just came out this week on Seamus Haji's label Big Love, and I heard it first on Saturday. I was listening to a bunch of promos and promptly played it the same night. It sounded fabulous in the Globus Room at Tresor, and thanks to all who joined us in the Globus Room, and to Tony Surgeon for bringing me back. I love playing in that room. It's a great sounding room, has a wooden down floor as well, and I can play anything I want. I really, really love it. Melbourne, Australia's Close Counters with I'll Be There For You, and that's from their new album Lovers Dance Academy, as requested by Kieran McCann in Glasgow. And Close Counters is Finn Reese and Alan McConnell, and they're performing around Australia over the next couple of weeks, so check out their Bandcamp for more info. A request from Athanas Koutronis for the title cut of Willie Nelson's 22nd studio album, released in 1978. Reminder, he has released 150 albums. The album Stardust, produced by Booker T. Jones, and which features Willie's covers of 10 of his favorite songs from childhood. And here is the redheaded stranger with his cover of Hoagy Carmichael's Stardust. Thank you for listening.

Colleen 'Cosmo' Murphy broadcast the 250th episode of Balearic Breakfast on her Mixcloud on December 09th 2025. ABOUT THIS EPISODE After hosting the last Loft Party of the year ("the best sounding room in London" according to Adam ^^), Colleen came back and hosted a brand new episode of Balearic Breakfast, blending new tracks and some older requests she did not play before. This episode was a great one as it allowed the listener to picture some glittering visuals, and we all were hapilly surprised as, despite a busy week-end, Colleen was in top form, proposing us a mini-mix that really made us all lose our heads! The Wow moment of this episode without the shadow of a doubt! I would like to thank our friends from sylk_hifi_lounge, Marc and Peter, and also my dear Simon, for sharing nice pictures from the London Loft Party! And don't forget also to follow Iain Mackie for more great pictures of the audio setups on which Colleen has the chance to play ^^ Listen back to the 250th episode of Balearic Breakfast: This morning’s Balearic Breakfast is now up on my Mixcloud and features some new music from Pete Blaker, Another Taste, Prins Thomas, Alina Bzhezhinska and a new revision from The Reflex in remembrance of two musical legends who passed in 2025. On today’s show is also mysterious white label that only says ‘unofficial edits’ and that I played on Sunday at our London Loft party. So many people asked about it today on the Mixcloud Live chat and at the party. If you have any info, do let me know and thank you to Darren Morgan for lending it to me. I don’t want to give it back I also want to thank the London Loft team for their positivity and creativity and their endurance. We had an incredible party on Sunday – it truly reminded us of The Light days with David Mancuso. One person had so much fun in our ‘kitchen’ area that she didn’t even know the party was in the next room! Our next party will be in March and you can head to loftparty.org to join the friendship train for future party invitations. Next week I will not be streaming Balearic Breakfast as I’ll be en route back from Thailand where I’m playing with @norihisamaekawa on Sunday at @wonderfruit (DJ Nori supported Larry Levan and Francois K on their Rainbow tour in Japan 35 years ago). Nori and I have played back-to-back a few times in Japan and I’m really looking forward to our 4-hour back to back set at Wonderfruit Festival. And if you don’t have New Years Eve plans, I’m spinning with the @voices_radio crew in The Galkery at @marestreetmarket Kings Cross in London, bringing in the new year on the 31st December. I’ll be back on Tuesday, the 23rd December streaming Balearic Breakfast on my Mixcloud Live so I hope you can join us. Thanks for listening. THE PLAYLIST (2025) Alina Bzhezhinska – Cala Pada (2025) Andrew Wasylyk – First Moonbeams of Adulthood (2024) Amanda Whiting – Liminal (2025) JJ Cale – Durango (Flying Mojito Bros Refrito) (2025) Sewell & The Gong – Communion Phase (Sounds of Slackness Holy Spirit Dub) (1983) Paula Moore – Valparaiso (2026) Diogo Strausz – Com Magia (2025) MDA Grooves – Cristo Rei (2025) D'Angelo & Roberta Flack – Feel Like Makin' Love (Reflex Revision) (2025) Prins Thomas – Heartbreak (2025) Mad Disco Edits – Good to Me (TBR) Billy Bogus & Daddario – Drunk on Guard (In Flagranti Remix) (2025) Aura Safari & Jimi Tenor – Your Magic Touch (Reverso 68 Dub) (NOL) Sade – I Never Thought I'd See You Again (Sumantri Deep House Mix) (2025) Pete Blaker – Richie (2003) Salif Keita – Madan (Martin Solveig Remix) (2024) Lex Athens – Without You (2021) Return To Forever - Rumble (Fred P. Journey Interpretation) (TBR) Another Taste ft Arp Frique & The Perpetual Singers – Peace Call ANNOUNCEMENTS (from Colleen's presentation) I'm recovering today from a glorious London loft weekend. We just had a great second party in our new home and I want to thank our incredible team. It's really great working with positive people to create something truly joyous and they're just a wonderful group of people. I can't say enough good things about them and of course, huge thanks to all who joined us on the dance floor as well. What a vibe it was. The next party will be in March and just a heads up, we had to close reservations for the last party as we reached capacity, so the early birds truly caught the worm. So you can join the friendship train over at loftparty.org if you want to join us for future parties. And later in the show, I'll play a couple of tunes from the party, including one white label that had some people clamoring for an ID. (...) Next week. I will not be streaming because we are coming back from Thailand. We're going to be at Wonder Fruit Festival, playing on Sunday back to back with DJ Nori. And Nori is a legendary Japanese DJ. He played Larry Levan and Francois K on the Rainbow Tour. I think it was 1990. I think that was Larry Levan's first, maybe only tour actually of Japan. And so I'll be playing back to back with him. We've done it many times, but it's been a long time. So I'm really looking forward to that. So yes, no show, sadly, but I will be back. I think it's the 23rd of December. So two days before Christmas, I'll be hosting another live stream. So sorry about no show next week. We can't stream it because we're not around. So there you go. (...) And then on New Year's Eve, I'll be spinning with Voices Radio in the gallery at Mare Street, King's Cross in London. And I believe we're bringing in a Danley sound system for that as well. Info is on my socials and I hope you can join us to bring in the new year. No plans yet for NYE? We’ve got you covered. We’re handing the keys to the first floor over to our friends at @voices_radio for their famous New Year’s Eve takeover at Mare Street Market King’s Cross. @colleencosmomurphy takes the lead on a specially installed Danley system engineered by Iain Mackie - the kind of setup that feels like a warm hug on the friendliest dancefloor in the city. Joining her upstairs are @helenastardj @mariahanlon and Cara Crosby, with a full crew of Voices residents running things alongside them. A proper NYE send-off, top to bottom. Expect balloons, midnight surprises, legendary DJs, delicious cocktails and snacks courtesy of MSM and a room full of people ready to bring in the new year properly. All ticket holders get 20% off food with a COMPLIMENTARY glass of fizz on us to kick off the night. Just show your ticket to redeem. 🥂 Let’s bring in 2026 the right way. The Glittering Milky Way… Far above us… Up there, in the Sky, a million little stars shine almost every night, sometimes brighter, sometimes dimmer… Without a single sound, they shine with all their might, trying their best, night after night, to enlighten the dark sky… When thinking about it, sometimes I wonder… Do they know? Do they think about the destiny that empowers them in their shining journey? As the silence rumbles in this precise moment, I tend to laugh at myself, thinking that, of course, it’s a stupid question… But you know, you never really know anything about the Cosmic Laws of our universe… I wasn’t able to sleep last night and, thinking about this last episode, I felt it perfectly illustrated how destiny empowers people, things, making them shine to the best of their capabilities… Once again, and it didn’t happen for quite some time, Destiny came knocking upon my Door… I always thought Colleen was a shining star, and I even told her once, “To me, you’re a Leader, I should write about it one day, you know…” And here we are, on this Tuesday morning, with that wonderful playlist, perfectly presenting the moments Colleen experienced a few hours ago, allowing her to express her very musical soul and sharing it with us, once again, once more, constantly, calmly, with that detached assurance, that strong yet indirect determination… Yes, every aspect of what Colleen does shows the picture of what a Leader should be, of what a true leader is… In a dark sky, Colleen sets a picture, a vision, a reality, that of a family united in music, with human values that she shares both directly and indirectly… She never imposes things; she has distance in the way she interacts with people, in the way she behaves, in the way she presents herself to an audience, in the way she speaks when presenting the show… She does not consider herself above any of us, she blends within every single one of our souls by receiving our requests, by making suggestions when we can’t find the right songs, even making surprises, and she’s both passionate about her craft and generous. This generosity shines through during the show, essentially when she speaks but also when she plays music, keeping the light distance so present, allowing her to bow in front of us while, at the same time, showing us how perfection is done… Just like a star, she does not shine only for herself, egocentrically showing her beauty… She shines through because she’s on a journey, a journey through the light, knowing that she couldn’t do what she does without the sky that she loves so much, despite the darkness it holds... And, more importantly, she shines through because she knows there are other beautiful stars out there ready to shine along with her, all of them helping her to illuminate the Milky Way… Yes, Colleen is our Captain because she empowers us all, sharing with us the best of what we are, creating unity, sharing joy, understanding that We’re One, and allowing every member of the family to be loved and recognised… And, sometimes, I wonder… Does she know that? Does she feel as a… But, suddenly, as the silence rumbles in this precise moment, I laugh at myself thinking that, of Course, it’s a stupid question… But you know, you never really know anything about the Cosmic Laws of our universe… Shine On Colleen, after all, what is the Milky Way if not a Disco Ball? Who cares? Let’s dance some more on a beautiful musical beach… Sooner or later, we’ll vanish in time… Let’s make the best out of it while we still can… To Our Glittering Moments… ABOUT THE SONGS (from Colleen's presentation) Ukrainian-Polish harpist Alina Bzhezhinska with Cala Pada, the first of a four-part series of meditative compositions that will be released on the first Friday of each month on Alina's Bandcamp and all proceeds will go to Tepli Dolony 'Warm Palms', that's what it translates to, and that's a Ukrainian charity for children providing art therapy and emotional support for those who have been displaced by the war. Bzhezhinska has been supporting the organization for some time and she'll travel to Ukraine this December to perform some concerts and work directly with the children, and she's such a great person and an incredible artist. Her last album, Whispers of Rain with Tulsi, it's been on repeat on my headphones, just can't get enough of it. It was even the soundtrack to yesterday's post-London loft Epsom Salt Soak, and her music certainly eases the pressure that we sometimes feel during the holidays, so I urge you to check out her music. This next one is from Scottish producer and multi-instrumentalist Andrew Wasylyk, who has released loads of records on labels like Athens of the North, and more recently, Clay Pipe Music, which specializes in atmospheric music with a strong sense of place. Andrew is also a member of Scottish rock band, Idlewild. But for his solo project, his sound is more ECM, like this new one released last month, First Moonbeams of Adulthood. Amanda Whiting with Liminal. And that's from her eighth album, The Liminality of Her. And that was released last year on First Word Records. And Amanda Whiting is a classically trained harpist who, like Alina Bzhezhinska, has found inspiration from jazz harpists like Dorothy Ashby and Alice Coltrane. And thanks to Luca Ospitone in Sardinia for that request. And speaking of Alice Coltrane, music journalist Andy Beda has a new book out just in time for Christmas called Cosmic Music, The Life, Art and Transcendence of Alice Coltrane. And it's on White Rabbit here in the UK. And there's limited editions signed by the author. And I just bought one for myself this morning for Christmas. JJ Cale with Durango. And I've always loved that spacey, spacey blues sound of that track. And we heard the Flying Mojito Brothers Refrito mix. And I'm glad they took that one on. I've been listening to JJ Cale quite a lot lately, actually. And his music always reminds me of these long road trips I used to take across America with my friend Hugh Foley, who is also from Oklahoma, like JJ Cale. And he's the one that, of course, turned me on to JJ, who's actually from Oklahoma City, although I thought it was Muskogee because he has that song, Okie from Muskogee. Anyways, love, love, love that song. And I love that kind of refrito from the Flying Mojito Brothers. The Sounds of Slackness, Holy Spirit Dub of Communion Phase by Sewell and the Gong, which is a musical project from ornithologist and illustrator Matt Sewell, who is also the deep cut compiler of the A crushing glow comps. And his collaborator on this project is multi-instrumentalist and fellow astral traveler Chris Tate. And the original of the remix we are listening to now is on the Seawell and Gung new album, Patron Saint of Elsewhere, which I've played over and over and over again. I love the entire album. Okay, I love this next request from Victor Olteanu, who always turns me on to something new. And this time, it's Paula Moore, a classically trained American singer who relocated to Paris and performed in the jazz clubs in the late 1970s and early 80s. And she released one album in 1983 under her name. And then in this century, a couple of albums as Bird Paula. And here's a little fun fact for you. Some of you may remember the French electronic dance producer Jackson, who was active in the mid 1990s through to the early 90s. Well, Paula Moore is his mother. This is from her 1983 album High and Low Paula Moore with Valparaiso Diogo Strausz with Com Magia. And Diogo Strausz is a producer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist who lives between Paris and Sao Paulo. And he's released a couple of albums, including last year's Samba from Outer Space. And he also released the Caramba EP on Razor and Tape last year. And the song we heard Com Magia is from his forthcoming album, Danse Para Se Salvar, coming out in January on Favorite Recordings. Cristo Rei by MDA Groove. And that used to be a collaborative project in the mid 1990s. But at the moment, it's just Joseph Salvador. He's been very, very prolific, loads of releases over the last year or so. And this one just came out last week on the Riomantic EP on Universo Positivo. And you can find that over on Bandcamp. As the year draws to a close, we often think about the people we lost. And this year, like every year, we lost some musical legends who passed to the next realm, including D'Angelo and Roberta Flack. So in remembrance, The Reflex has created a poignant rework of D'Angelo's cover of Roberta Flax from his album, Voodoo. Prins Thomas with Heartbreak from his new album, Thomas Moen Hermansen, which is his real name. And I believe this is the Norwegian producer and DJ's 10th album. His debut is called just Prins Thomas, and it was released 15 years ago. So that's quite a lot of music on top of all the remixes he has done. And you can find that on Bandcamp just in time for Christmas for the new disco fan in your life. I'm not sure what the original is, but we heard Mad Disco edits with Good to Me. And it's the second release on the Melodies of Love record label from Liverpool. And it just came out last week on Vinyl Only, and it's a limited pressing. So head on over to Melodies of Love Bandcamp if you want to snag yourself a copy. Drunk on Guard, an electro-funk collaboration from Billy Bogus and Daddario. And they've spent years working together across music production, sound design, and DJ performances. And we're listening to the Swiss duo In Flagranti's remix. And that's coming out next week on Kodak Records. Okay, I'm loving this new this one. It's not new actually came out last year. It's a Reverso 68 dub of Your Magic Touch from Jimi Tenor & Aura Safari. And that's a band from Perugia that fuses jazz and new disco, much like their counterparts in Napoli. And last year, they did a collaboration with Finnish musician and producer Jimi Tenor. And word has it they've just recorded over a dozen new songs. So looking forward to that on the horizon. And it's great hearing this Reverso 68 together again. That's a collaboration between Phil Meissen and Pete Herbert. And this is their dub. A lovely new Deep House mix of Sade's I Never Thought I'd See You Again from Sumantri Limon from Indonesia. He also goes under the aliases Nima and Optika. I remember getting my first Sade boot of that song by The Muskmen back in 1995. Gosh, Sade's always sounds good though. All the bootlegs sound really great because she's just fantastic. Richie by Pete Baker. And that's from his forthcoming album Swimming Limbs coming out on Love Universal Music in March 2026. And don't forget, I did an interview with Pete and we have an exclusive mix from him. That's on a May edition of Balearic Breakfast. (...) His album Swimming Limbs is coming out next year on Love Universal Music. This is another older tune, a song that originally came out on 2002 on Salif Keita's album Mofu. And the Malian singer had this song, Madan. And then Martin Solveig, the French producer, gave it a remix, I guess it was a year after, about 2003. And it also came out on the French DJ and producer's album Sur La Terre. Love this one. Haven't played it in a while. And it sounded great at the London loft party. So I thought you'd like it on Balearic Breakfast. We had Without You by Lex from Athens. That's Alex Andrikopoulos. And that was released on and he's done the releases for Lange Records, King Street, Black Riot. And that's from an EP of the same name, which came out on Delusions of Grandeur label last year. I'm going to send that one out to Greca Mac because when I listened to it, I thought, you know, Greca is just going to love this one. And sure enough, she was just loving it over on the chat group. So sending that one out to you. Okay, well that one had loads of people coming up at the London loft party on Sunday when I played that. It's not my record. I wish it was. It's my friend Darren Morgan's. He came over on this week and played me that. I'm like, I gotta play this on Sunday. And I must bring this to Thailand. It's a white label. It just says unofficial edits. I'm really sorry. I still don't know what it is. If any of you do, you can always message me and let me know because I definitely need a vinyl copy of that. It was just so, so, so great. So I want to thank Darren Morgan for lending that to me. And to all of you on the chat group who are asking about what that was, I'm really sorry. You know, I don't really I don't know what it is, but had to play it and lots of you that are on the chat saying you remember that on Sunday. And yeah, it was quite a moment. Ed. Note: Our Friend Steve Mack shared the information about this very track on Colleen's Mixcloud, saying: " That massive tune is "Return To Forever - Rumble (Fred P. Journey Interpretation)" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqipt3eKyeE I first heard it on Luke Una's Essential mix not long ago). I wanted to leave you with one last song. And this is a lovely song, a new one from Another Taste. Another Taste is Bobby Van Putten and crew, a whole band from the Netherlands. And Bobby Van Putten, along with Danilo Plesso are the two guys behind the label Space Grapes. And they put out loads of live music, boogie music, dance music, disco, jazz, funk under different monikers like Mad Honey, Gal, XTC, Jambone. And Another Taste is Bobby along with a few other members. And I am interviewing them next year, early, I would say late January. They'll be doing a mix for the show because I'll be away in Japan. And yeah, it's really great. They have a new album coming out. And this is from that album, which is coming out next year. It's a follow-up to their self-titled debut last year. And they have a new album coming out in February. And this is the second single called Peace Call. It's Another Taste featuring Arp Freak and the Perpetual Singers with Peace Call. So thank you so much for tuning in. And I'll see you in a couple of weeks.

Colleen 'Cosmo' Murphy broadcast the 251st episode of Balearic Breakfast on her Mixcloud on December 23rd 2025. ABOUT THIS EPISODE Sometimes, it takes only One song to put together a set, to start a musical journey, to find a story to tell. One song, nothing less, nothing more. I spent the last 20 years crafting mixes under Wavelab, and also cueing up records for fun when night was coming in my shed, a little place full of Crown amps, loudspeakers, with loads of records and of course two Technics turntables... To say that music is a passion is an understatement; it's just another beat of my soul, another beat of my heart... Chris Rea's passing hit me hard, and generally speaking, every artist that leaves our planet reminds me how much we lose every time, and how much, in these lost times, we need that artistic connection, how essential it is to our lives... In this beautifully driven episode, which includes several Loft Classics played by our friend David Mancuso, Colleen led us to a place we know nothing about, paying tribute to two of these musical heroes we love so much... So, close your eyes, feel the sorrow, feel the pain as the car drives through the snowy landscapes, and, while you feel tears rolling down your face, don't ever lose sight of the road... You know, the curse of the traveller may have a hold on you... I wish my bones could form a bridge And carry you to the other side I wish my bones could form a bridge To our home, our homeland, to our path Listen back to the 251st episode of Balearic Breakfast: This morning’s Balearic Breakfast is now up on my Mixcloud and features tributes to two Balearic kingpins, Chris Rea and Claudio Rispoli known as DJ Mozart of Soft House Company and Jestofunk. And no I didn’t play ‘Driving Home for Christmas’ as I’m sure you will hear it elsewhere. But I couldn’t resist another Christmas song. There’s also new music, reissues, remixes, reworks and the new charity single from Together for Palestine. Swipe for the tracklist. Thanks to all who joined in the Mixcloud Live chat this morning, too. You make the live stream special. I’ll be back in the record room on Tuesday, streaming the last Balearic Breakfast of the year and this will the last request show of 2025. On Saturday, the request line will go up on my socials and please request songs that set your intention for 2026. Matt Raistrick already suggested ‘Stayin’ Alive’ which sounds about right! Wishing you a Merry Christmas, a (belated) Happy Hanukkah, Happy Kwanzaa and a peaceful holiday. Thanks for listening. THE PLAYLIST (2025) Together for Palestine, Nai Barghouti, Leigh-Anne & Neneh Cherry – Lullaby (2025) Cantoma ft Gizelle Smith – Drifting (Ambient Version) (1976) Yoshiko Sai – Haru (1973) The McCrary – Emerge (2025) E.R. Thorpe – Red Dust (Generalisation Red Dub) (1987) Chris Rea – Curse of the Traveller (2019) Chris Rea – It’s All Gone’ (Pete Blaker Edit) (1985) T.C. Curtis – You Should Have Known Better (2025) The Funkin' Machine – Chiki Chikankan (NOL) Matsubara – S.0.S. (Prins Thomas Rework) (2003) Chris Rea – Tennis (SIRS CUT) (1990) Soft House Company – A Little Piano (1994) Jestofunk ft. Cece Rogers – Can We Live (2025) Kora Koumakan – Sombe Nanfan (Ben Gomori’s Forest Bathing Remix) (2001) Osunlade – Cantos A Ochun Et Oya (Juan Valentine Re-Edit) (NOL) Chris Rea – Josephine (Chida Edit) (2001) Pete Christlieb – The Christmas Song ANNOUNCEMENTS (from Colleen's presentation) I'm heading back to Asia on the last two weekends in January going to Japan, Precious Hall in Sapporo, Boers in Obihiro, Bar Bridge in Shizuku, Tokyo, and Wawal in Takasaki. I love going to Japan as it's the first country outside the USA that invited me to DJ back in the mid 90s. And I also worked as a radio DJ in Nagoya in 1989. So I can't wait to go back, have a lot of friends there. (...) I'm playing with Voices Radio over at Mare Street Market, just in King's Cross, so that's going to be on New Year's Eve, and looking forward to playing with Helena Starr and Maria Hanlon from Voices Radio, and you can find tickets over on Resident Advisor. No plans yet for NYE? We’ve got you covered. We’re handing the keys to the first floor over to our friends at @voices_radio for their famous New Year’s Eve takeover at Mare Street Market King’s Cross. @colleencosmomurphy takes the lead on a specially installed Danley system engineered by Iain Mackie - the kind of setup that feels like a warm hug on the friendliest dancefloor in the city. Joining her upstairs are @helenastardj @mariahanlon and Cara Crosby, with a full crew of Voices residents running things alongside them. A proper NYE send-off, top to bottom. Expect balloons, midnight surprises, legendary DJs, delicious cocktails and snacks courtesy of MSM and a room full of people ready to bring in the new year properly. All ticket holders get 20% off food with a COMPLIMENTARY glass of fizz on us to kick off the night. Just show your ticket to redeem. 🥂 Let’s bring in 2026 the right way. I'll be back next week, streaming live for the Record Room. And this will be the last request show of 2025. I think we should feature songs that set our intention for 2026. And on the MixCloud Live chat group, Matt already suggested Stayin' Alive. I'm down with that. The request line will go up on my Instagram and Facebook on Saturday, and I look forward to your requests. ABOUT THE SONGS (from Colleen's presentation) Lullaby by Together for Palestine, Nai Barghouti, Leanne and Naina Cherry, featuring Amina, Bastille, Brian Eno, Celeste, Kieran Brunt, Lana Lubanni, London Community Gospel Choir, Mabel, Nadine Shah, Sura Abdo, Tyson, Yasmin Ayashi, and Ize. And that is the charity single for Together for Palestine. It didn't make the Christmas number one on the official UK chart this year, but it did reach number five. And it reached number one on the Apple iTunes chart in the UK, and many other countries. The singles raised more than 70,000 pounds for Palestine and still counting. And with the Together for Palestine concert organized by Brian Eno and company back in September, it's raised more than 2 million pounds. In fact, in October, my daughter and I went on a march for Palestine here in London. And Brian Eno was there at the very end of the march really surprised me, and he read the poem he had read at the concert. It was just very, very poignant. You can still donate to the cause by making a donation to the Together for Palestine fund. This one is from Ana Sancho in Barcelona, who asked for this one from our friend Phil Mison. It's Cantoma featuring Gizelle Smith with the ambient version of Drifting. Yoshiko Sai with Haru from her second album, Mikkou, originally released in 1976 and recently reissued by We Want Sounds. And it was produced by Isamu Haruna and features some of Japan's finest session musicians, including the legendary guitarist Masayoshi Takanaka. And the record showcases Sai's signature blend of poetic songwriting and ethereal vocals. I just love that song. It's so bluesy and has a real subtle, funky arrangement. And for that album, the Japanese singer-songwriter drew inspiration from the Silk Road and the rich cultural heritage of her native Nara. And she explores themes of femininity, freedom, and the passage of generations. The McCrary's With Emerge, the title cut of their 1973 LP that was pressed in very small quantities, and is a fine example of what was considered progressive soul and what became known as neo-soul. Now, an original copy is eye-wateringly expensive, but not any longer as it's been reissued by BBE with the cooperation of the McCrary family. And they started out as a gospel group in Ohio and then turned to secular music upon relocating to Los Angeles, where they recorded this album for the Tiny Cat's Eye label. And the McCrary's would later gain wider recognition with their hit, You, featuring Stevie Wonder on harmonica, and with Any Old Sunday, which was covered by Chaka Khan. From the Nottingham singer, songwriter, and visual artist E.R. Thorpe. And her distinctive guitar work and poetic lyrics draw inspiration from her blues guitarist father. And this single, Human Love, is from her forthcoming eponymously titled debut LP, scheduled for release in March 2026 and produced by Crazy P's Jim Barron. It's his first venture into producing other artists. And this is the red dub, Red Dust backed up by them and the generalisation dub interpretation from label boss Damian Harris. Chris Rea, his Curse of the Traveller, and that's from his 1987 album, Dancing with Strangers, which was his big breakthrough in the UK. It peaked at number two after Michael Jackson's Bad, and it was recorded with only three microphones in his garage studio. He said, "Nobody heard it. Nobody witnessed it. It was just me having fun". And strangely, I had put that on today's show before hearing the news of Rhea's passing last night, as that was requested by Barry Nitz in Washington, DC, and also sending that one out to Artur in Paris. And we'll have some more Chris Rea coming up in the show. Pete Blaker edit of It's All Gone by Chris Rea. And that's the lead single from Chris Rea's 1986 album, On The Beach. And Carrie J. Kidd over on our Mixed God Live chat said he had never listened to Chris Rea much. Then his first time in Ibiza in 1991, that first day on the beach at a bar, they were playing On The Beach and he got him from then on. Such a great artist. He grew up in New Yorkshire, didn't pick up the guitar until his early 20s. And while working for his Italian father's ice cream business, he taught himself how to play rock and blues slide guitar. Later recalling that for many people from working class backgrounds, rock wasn't a chosen thing. It was the only thing, the only avenue of creativity available for them. And a couple of bands, he was in a couple of bands and he became a singer as a replacement for one of the singers and then released his debut album, Whatever Happened to Benny Santini in 1978. And his first single, Fool If You Think It's Over (Ed. Note: greatly covered by our beloved Elkie Brooks) became the biggest hit of his career and the only single to hit the American charts. And it earned him a Grammy nomination. His then American label, Tamla Motown, told him that to break America, he had to tour there for three years and Rea declined as he wanted to spend time with his wife and daughters. And Rea really avoided the trappings of fame. He saw himself as a musician who's been successful rather than a star. He was also plagued by illness for the last half of his career, cancer, stroke. But he developed a massive fan base in the UK and Europe and New Zealand in the mid 80s, not because of an image, but through his own music, his gravelly, soulful voice, and poignant songwriting. And we'll have some more Chris Rea reworks coming up in the show. This next one was a British soul hit in 1985 by TC Curtis, who was born in Jamaica, and emigrated to the UK when he was 14 years old. He played in various bands, and then made the move to dance music and got recognition with his 1981 song Body Shake. He had a few more charting singles in the 80s, including this one, TC Curtis with You Should Have Known Better on Balearic Breakfast. The Funkin' Machine with Chiki Chikankan, the instrumental version, and that's the Neapolitan jazz funk act, and DJs and funk fans around the world may recognize their contributions on albums from fellow Italians such as Mystic Jungle, Parbleu, CHOP, Bassolina, Pellegrino & Zydeco, Danger Boys, and even Nugenia. And earlier this month, the Funkin' Machine released their third album, Napolitanite. I think I got that now on the Chicago record label, Star Creature, and I highly, highly recommend that. Matsubara with S.O.S Society of Soul, the Prince Thomas rework, and that's the 1984 single by the late Japanese guitarist Masaki Matsubara. And the Norwegian producer and DJ's rework came out in 2005 on his Disco Mix EP, and that may only be out on vinyl, so I dug that one out. And Lucy over on the MixCloud Live chat asked me to play that on New Year's Eve, and I will bring that with me. Chris Rea with Tennis the Sirs Cut, and that's the title track to his 1980 LP. And on the Mixcloud Live chat, Gareth Bratman says he grew up on Chris as his dad was a massive fan, massively talented writer, vocalist, guitarist, and those bass lines, hence why they do rock a dance floor. Okay, and speaking of Italy, we lost another Balearic kingpin, Claudio Rispoli, who was born in Ancona, Italy, and he was a pioneer of the Italo-Afro style. He DJed as DJ Moz-art, and like all the legendary Italian DJs, he was incredibly technically proficient and known for his wide-ranging and left-field selections. And along with Daniele Baldelli and DJ Miki (Ed. Note: See also here) of Czach, Rispoli helped shape the Italian cosmic sound, and he had marathon sets in Rimini and all along the Adriatic coast. He was also a producer, working with Francesco Montefiore as Soft House Company, and on the forefront of the Italo house movement with its euphoric piano chords, they really were. And along with Alessandro Staderini and Farias, he was JestoFunk, more jazz-funk rather than house. So now we'll remember the late Claudio Rispoli with these two selections. We just heard JestoFunk with C.C. Rogers, Can We Live, and Soft House Company with A Little Piano. And may DJ Moz-art rest in paradise. This next one, is Kora Koumakan meeting Word of the Kora, a balladry-pushing afro-banding group from Conakry, Guinea, led by master cora player Sakuna Conte. And it fuses Guinea's rich musical heritage with contemporary sounds. And we're listening to Ben Gomori’s Forest Bathing Remix of Sombe Nanfan on Balearic Breakfast. Osunlade with Cantos A Ochun Et Oya, the Juan Valentine re-edit, and the original came out in 1999 on the Beef de los Muertos EP, and I played it all the time. I just moved over to the UK, and I remember playing that song over and over. The Chida Edit of Chris Reas' Josephine from his 1985 LP Schamrock Diaries, and that's a song he wrote for his daughter. He said, "When I'm on stage, I kind of shut my eyes when I'm singing, and I'm always where I wrote the song. I'm always on the third floor of Intercontinental Hotel in Dusseldorf, and it's raining. That's where I am when I sing that song every time." Well, Josephine is the last Chris Rea song today. I'm not going to be playing Driving Home for Christmas, as if you're in the UK at least. You will most likely hear it in shops or on the radio in your car. Driving was quite a theme for Chris Rios. He was a motor racing enthusiast who raced models by Ferrari and Lotus, and he participated in the 1993 British Touring Car Championship. For the 1995 Formula One season, he joined the Jordan team as a pit mechanic, which is incredible. I really didn't want to do the VIP thing, so I was in charge of Eddie Irvine's right rear tire, he later said. I don't know if you're into Formula One, but I'm into the Drive to Survive series. It usually comes out in February. Lando Norris won this year, so congratulations to Lando Norris, a British driver. I'm really happy about that, and driving for McLaren. In any case, I'm not a huge petrol head, but I do admire Formula One. My father wasn't into sports, but he was into motor racing, and he used to build cars and engines and all that kind of stuff. He was a drag racer as a teenager, and yesterday would have been his 79th birthday. So, dedicating this show to my late father, Roger Murphy. And also to Claudio Rispoli, may he rest in paradise. And Chris Rea, such a cool dude, and he left us an amazing body of work, rest in paradise. I'm going to leave you with a song for the holiday season by saxophonist Pete Christlieb. And he was the guy who did the sax solo on Steely Dan's Deacon Blues. And this is his rendition of the Christmas song. Wishing you all a peaceful and happy holiday season. And thanks for listening.

Packed with cosmic chuggers and uplifting remixes, this mix was curated by Colleen 'Cosmo' Murphy for Crackmagazine and published on June, 27th 2023. Ahead of my set for @listenhereevents at @stowawayfestival on the 19th August, Crack Magazine invited me along to put together a one-hour set for their mix series. Just to keep you on your toes, I did more of a Balearic/Indie-dance kind of a thang and I have reposted it on my Mixcloud and Soundcloud. I’m chuffed to have been asked by Listen Here Events to perform on their wonderful sound system at Stowaway. Their tent is curated by obsessive vinyl collectors, selectors and DJs who share a deep passion for music and high quality audio. My Balearic Breakfast guest Paul Hillery is also one of their special guests. With it’s secret world of ancient woodlands and lakes with hidden parties, soulful relaxation, glorious comedy and plentiful feasting, Stowaway Festival in Buckinghamshire is the perfect place to host Listen Here and I look forward to exploring more! Info and tickets can be found in my linktree. Hope to see you there! Music on my Crack Magazine Mix is from @calm_music_conception@galloriginale@hellyeahrecordings@shuntvoltage@ewanp@andrewweatherall1988@primalscreamofficial@franz_ferdinand@markequark@hortonjupiter23@musicfordreams and more… Listen back to the Crack Mix 503: PLAYLIST Gallo – Abysso (Calm’s Mellow Mellow Acid Dub) Shunt Voltage – Generator Rheinzand – Mi Mundo (Blitzzega Mix) Angela – I Gotta Little Love Arcade Fire – Reflecktor Mark E Quark – Doin’ It Right Franz Ferdinand – Outsiders (Ewan Pearson Remix) Spacemen 3 – Revolution (Horton Jupiter Rework) Primal Scream – Uptown (Andrew Weatherall Mix)

Worldwide FM broadcast the 35th episode of Balearic Breakfast on April 27th 2021. About this episode. – Something's coming... Something's approaching... Once again, the magic happened and it was a collective and heartfelt effort. As we shall see, this episode will take us on a trip like no other, the Balearic Breakfast Family this time embarking on a Flying Ship... Colleen posted the request line on April 24th 2021, allowing us to take a furtive look at her friend Zaki Dee's Mural. This episode featured new music, classics, and also a few well-chosen Yatch Rock tunes alongside a beautiful tribute to the One and Only Prince! Get onboard and don't be afraid of heights, all you have to do is... never look down... Full Spead Ahead! Listen back to the 35th episode of Balearic Breakfast: THE PLAYLIST (2021) Caoilfhionn Rose – Paths (2021) Secret Night Gang – The Sun (2016) BadBadNotGood – In Your Eyes (1980) Richie Havens – Dreams (1979) Wings – Arrow Through Me (2021) Paul Mc Cartney & Khruangbin – Pretty Boys (2021) Confidence Man – Out The Window (Greg Wilson & Ché Wilson Mix) (1979) The Osmonds – I, I, I (2005) Metro Area – Things Fall (1979) Ashra – Bamboo Sands (1979) Charme – Georgy Porgy (1980) Aretha Franklin – What a Fool Believes (1992) The K-Creative and Perception – Feed The Feeling (2001) Da Lata – Pra Manha (Blaze Remix) (1995) Deep Zone – It's Gonna Be Alright (1987) Gladys Knights & The Pips – Love Overboard Prince Tribute (1988) I Wish U Heaven (1990) Anotherloverholenyohead (2004) Dear Mr. Man (2018) 17 Days (1981) Do Me, Baby THE LISTENING EXPERIENCE Each Balearic breakfast show has its soul, this episode breathes differently from all others. It has strong imagery, the one of a flying ship coming from nowhere and heading to unknown destinations. Thanks to their relaxed feeling (like the 2nd track), a lot of tracks help us picture the flying ship. Of course, this is the case with the opening track, Caoilfhionn Rose's Paths, which has a profound, free and ethereal feeling. Also, the Yacht Rock tracks requested by the Balearic Family (a new documentary just came out, if you want to expand your vinyl collection, be my guest!) help in picturing the ship (listen to Richie Havens's Dreams – a nice cover of Fleetwood Mac's 1977 song – also Wing's Arrow Through Me – and of course Charme's Georgy Porgy – a song originally recorded by the rock band Toto on their 1978 and first studio album, and based upon a nursery rhyme of the same name). The pinnacle of this 35th episode happens when Colleen plays Confidence Man's Out The Window (Greg Wilson & Ché Wilson Mix) / The Osmonds' I, I, I / Metro Area's Things Fall / Ashra's Bamboo Sands (which made me think of The Mysterious Cities of Gold's soundtrack which has a close sonic signature). There's your mighty ship proudly flying in the Balearic Skies (can you hear in your head the windy sound it makes while travelling?)... A Wow Moment of the show for sure! Even during the second part of the show, the vision stays strong and realistic, pay attention to the sound effects in the tracks (xx for instance). As always, Colleen’s mixing helps the listener’s mind to picture the flying ship at several moments of this 35th episode. Closing the show with a beautiful tribute to Prince, the cleverly organised and mixed songs leave us in a dreamy mood as the Flying ship slowly disappears in the distance…

Colleen 'Cosmo' Murphy broadcast the 161st episode of Balearic Breakfast on her Mixcloud and Twitch TV socials on January 23rd 2024. About this show. – For this second edition of our "Family Gathering" series, a feature that Colleen will keep for future occasions by the way (that's great news!), she welcomed two key figures of our Family: our dear Lee Zee, whose deeply reflective mix inspired me creatively as you will see in, what I wanted to be, a real written tribute; and the Great and Kind Kieran McCann here proposing a mix which will take you to views you never saw before (and we shall see together precisely why)! Colleen shared these words on her socials: "As I’m now in New Zealand, once again, the guest mixes from our worldwide BB family continue. First up is my dear friend Lee Zee who is the designer of the Balearic Breakfast logo and all of those lovely ‘request line’ stencils that use photos of my travels. The last song of his mix is especially poignant as it is dedicated to his late mother who also happened to enjoy the KLF. She was a brilliant woman. His mix is deep and beautiful. It’s followed by a mix from @kieranjmccann of the @cooriedoonparty in Glasgow. His globetrotting mix will have you up and out of your seats in no time and shazam-ing like there is no tomorrow. Thanks to all who joined in the live chat during the Mixcloud live stream. It’s a grounding experience to be with all of you tuning in and chatting from different time zones and corners of the globe. You mean the world to me. Enjoy the show and thanks for listening." Listen to the 161st episode of Balearic Breakfast: PLAYLIST Lee Zee Mix This Mortal Coil – Song to the Siren RY X – Berlin Gigi Masin – Clouds Cocteau Twins – Alice Izue Asazaki – Yoisura Bushi (Kuniyuki Remix) Mental Remedy – Omamiuda (Prayer for Japan) Endgames – Ecstasy (Centurion Mix) 52nd Street – Tell Me (How It Feels) (Dub) Sade – Make Some Room Malcolm McLaren – Call A Wave (Breakdown Mix) Tangerine Dream – Love on a Real Train (Live) The KLF – Last Train to Trancentral (Pure Trance) Kieran McCann Mix Derya Yıldırım & Grup Şimşek – Hastane Önü Neyssatou – War Horace Andy – Get Down Manu Dibango – Goro City Don Cherry – I Walk Antoinette Konan – M'ackô Nana Tuffour – Sikyi Medley St Germain – How Dare You Esa – A Muto Club Ice – Manhassett (Larry Heard Space Mix) Natalie Cole – Annie Mae FANTASMAGORIA... Dedicated to Lee... Courtesy of Colleen 'Cosmo' Murphy Dreams do never come true. Dreams do never come true. It’s a perpetual illusion, this world of ours we live in. A perpetual illusion we strive to keep alive and well because, amidst the loneliness, amidst the disillusioned love affairs and the untruthful friends, amidst the useless rules and the fatiguing orders given by those who do never experience their stupidity, amidst death lurking in the corner of our eye, we do all, effectively, have nothing left. So we strive with all of our broken souls to create, to recreate, something coming from a somewhat distant past where all of the reality of our actual dreams was a dream we were not aware of. Time passed, and we didn’t see life’s sail unfurling before our eyes, filled with empty words and lost promises, still thinking we had kept Something from that not-totally forgotten era... Yet, you held nothing, blinded child of the dying sun. You were a mere dream, a passing, a light ghost, and you shall stay in your ethereal and oh-so-long-lost amnesia. Voices, voices here, voices there, where am I? Who am I? Do I even exist? And these shores, are they real… Lee’s voice lost itself as he tried to call someone, something, somewhere, there… In the distance, he couldn’t distinguish anything, and the lonely fog kept waving around his feet. What’s there left to do? It seems I am no one, absolutely no one, since you left… Keep marching Lee... Keep on marching... Step after step, the fog kept rolling in and out of this undisclosed space, where promises seemed to blossom slowly like small red flowers in the spring's wakening wind… Step after step, you will forget about my dream, dear child. And, by doing so, you will discover the true meaning of life. Just like yourself, I was a dream passing by. Just like yourself, I was an illusion. One you needed, one you reached out to, finding there meanings and explanations, one you cherished and loved, but nothing more than just an illusion. And, in our unknown Balearic World, that is how it is all meant to be. You will find me again, Lee… I know you will… Keep on marching, dear Sun of mine… Voices here… Oh so close to me… But all I can see is your absence... Lee kept on marching in the lost ethereal space, a crystal tear vanishing in the awakening wind, there, somewhere, as a path started showing its waving ways in the now slowly, in the o so slowly disappearing fog. An actual path? How?! So lost, being offered a path? The never-ending source of philosophical elevation embarked Lee on the lost reality in its ever-renewing dreams, soothing his turbulences with steady and somewhat affirmed rhythms. Renew yourself, you’re nothing, and being nothing is the key, be everything but something tangible, that’s lost story, that’s a thing from your past now. Your only possibilities are in the never-more, and remember, just be Balearic, like the never-ending wave, like the high-flying bird, forever disconnect, disconnect, disconnect yourself from your inner tribulations, detach yourself from the Mortal coil they said was your only destiny, be open in your forthcoming conversations, for nothing here will be real. Go, go, go my child, awake in my sunny embrace and smile at all that's left here for you. Take a trip down to nowhere, Find Solace in the Kaleidoscope of your new Ecstasy and, at last, dear Sun of mine, embrace your only and true eternity... THE LISTENING EXPERIENCE Certain songs of broken love take heavenly aspects, sometimes. This Mortal Coil – Song to the Siren [1984 - Discogs] is one of them, undoubtedly. The song, originally composed by Tim Buckley, whose lyrics were taken from a poem by Larry Beckett, was issued on Tim's sixth studio album, Starsailor in 1970 and had quite a long story, both in its creating process as well as in its own musical reality afterwards. Leading us on a path of sorrow, Lee keeps the aerial aspect of his mix to another level with RY X – Berlin [2016 - Discogs]. This song, through its sadness, still elevates the listener thanks to the musicality of the vocal line, which contrasts with the melody of the guitar, which is, to me, on the lower register. There's something very contemplative here, but sadness is not overwhelming, though it is heavy, for sure. We can feel Lee's delicacy as he lets the song die peacefully before starting the following ones; this mix is a flow, a march, a silent march. As Gigi Masin – Clouds [2016 - Discogs] starts (this track has been sampled many times), we get closer to the marching aspect of Lee's mix; it is a journey through the unknown, confirmed by the following track, Cocteau Twins – Alice [1996 - Discogs], which perfectly fits in rhythmically speaking. Released in 1982 as part of Cocteau Twin's' album “Garlands,” the track showcases Elizabeth Fraser's beautiful vocals, the song sharing with the rest of the tracks an ethereal element, leading us to picture clouds or fog in an unknown space... Though we feel lost somewhere, it is strange because we do not feel darkness; a sad peace surrounds us; this feeling is beautifully confirmed by the stunning track Izue Asazaki – Yoisura Bushi (Kuniyuki Remix) [2014 - Discogs], clearly indicating that this mix is a call ("Yoisura Bushi" is a traditional Amami Island song of prayers for the safety of sailors). Telling a story through a mix is one of the most hard things to achieve. You must know your tracks and their lyrics and keep the narrative clear. Normally, you should be able to write your story down on paper once you complete the playlist; at least, that's how I always worked on my own mixes. When we heard the following track, Mental Remedy – Omamiuda (Prayer for Japan) [2012 - Discogs], we all were in awe because we knew the track from Colleen's Balearic Breakfast Vol. 2 compilation, and, on a personal level, I felt this was a structuring point of Lee's story. This moment Wowed the Balearic Breakfast Family. From a lost world, from sadness, from grief, a path was born; a way out, somewhere, showed its indirect ways. Cleverly done, Lee, and with the right rhythmical touch, too. Being in Colleen's musical embrace gives us Joy, a tremendous amount of joy. Because we share the music but also the Show's soul. Lee, of course, did exactly what had to be done at the dawn of the second part of his mix by steadily speeding things up with the wonderful track that is Endgames – Ecstasy (Centurion Mix) [1983 - Discogs]. The voyage is still taking place; it is just lighter now, and the following track, 52nd Street – Tell Me (How It Feels) (Dub) [1985 - Discogs], while keeping the rhythm steady, does not kill the ethereal element that was present in the first part of the mix. We have a great intellectual unity here, it seems obvious. Even the great Sade – Make Some Room [1994 - Discogs], with a more closed approach to the sound, keeps an openness into the void that can't be denied. Found on the B-side of their 1988 single "Nothing Can Come Between Us", "Make Some Room", "a dreamy ambient techno tune with 909 rhythms, a rubbery 303 bassline and some chopped-up vocals", shows Sade's voice less to the upfront than usual, "the track offering a sneak peek at the more electronic and downtempo sounds she would explore on her next LP, Love Deluxe". While Malcolm McLaren – Call A Wave (Breakdown Mix) [1989 - Discogs] slightly slows down the rhythm, we clearly see that the march keeps going on. With his great mixing skills, Lee is able to keep, slowly and in an almost perfect rhythm, the flow to the absolute greatness that is Tangerine Dream – Love on a Real Train (Live) [2015 - Amazon]. Featured in the movie "Risky Business" (the movie soundtrack also includes the great "Old Time Rock'n'roll by Bob Seger), this trippy musical scene seems to find influences in Steve Reich's Music for 18 Musicians and remains, to this day, their most important production. Lee's last mix is pure bliss here, just right here, perfection. Listen to how the last track, The KLF – Last Train to Trancentral (Pure Trance) [1990 - Discogs], arrives on Time... Beautifully done, Lee... Following such an "inhabited" mix is not easy, but it seems that Kieran's musical trip perfectly marched into Lee's introspective work, actually because of its absolute "openness"! Logically, Kieran starts his set with the somewhat worried Derya Yıldırım & Grup Şimşek – Hastane Önü [2021 - Discogs] as it beautifully sets the stage and the Foreign Musicality this mix will propose throughout its hour lengthy sonic reality... It is not every day that you hear Turkish sounds taking you so far away from your homeland! This incredible musical piece is followed by a complete change of territory (we're closer to Tunis now) and rhythms (a light touch of Jamaican reggae!), with the beautiful Neyssatou – War [2019 - Bandcamp]! This beautiful piece is taken from the great "Pay It All Back Volume 7" compilation which proposes 18 tracks stitched together with a number of special pirate radio-style segueways, creating a unique journey through the modern world of On-U Sound! Did you notice the dynamics of these songs? I think I already told you that Balearic Breakfast was all about the dynamics, didn't I? Talking about that, Kieran keeps the groove absolutely on by playing another groove, Horace Andy – Get Down [1985 - Discogs]. It seems obvious, as the next number, Manu Dibango – Goro City [1980 - Discogs], enters our dancefloor, that Kieran, on that mix, was not rhythmically obsessed (at least in this first part, hint!). He went all the way towards an eclectic mix, showcasing beautifully recorded songs that must sound very good on a nice big sound system, laughs! For those of you who would like to know more about this particular song, there is a great French page on musiqxxl.fr. Gone Clear, the first of two reggae albums by the legendary Cameroonian saxophonist Manu Dibango, was recorded in Kingston with Robbie Shakespeare and Sly Dunbar (who will also work with Serge Gainsbourg a few years later), and a brass section featuring the Brecker brothers! Sly & Robbie know how to do things... I also had the Brecker Brothers on horns... It's a good album, isn't it! In fact, I recorded two of them [Gone Clear released in 1979 and Ambassador released in 1981]. There's Gwen Guthrie and Jocelyn Brown on backing vocals, singers who've made huge hits... When you listen to the record, you hear it's singing... There's a special sound to it. I was happy to do it. I did stay in Jamaica for a month. It was a very good time. The mixing took place in London. Manu Dibango Keeping the rhythm steady for the next number with Don Cherry – I Walk [1985 - Discogs], one thing is sure: Kieran's selections sound huge and precise, with a beautiful depth to them. Interestingly enough, Don Cherry's studio album Home Boy, Sister Out from which I walk is taken was only issued in France, his international issue taking place some 40 years later on Wewantsounds! Once again, I can only recommend you have a Google translation of this great page; it's a fascinating story! Sometimes, the best mixes are the simplest ones, and Kieran just proves it right now with the still very Balearic Antoinette Konan – M'ackô [1986 - Discogs], reissued in 2019, followed by the joyous Nana Tuffour – Sikyi Medley [2018 - Discogs], which has been reissued in 2018. What's happening here in the mix just Wowed the Family! Take the time to listen carefully; you should simply lose your mind when realising how beautiful this passage of Kieran's mix is as St Germain – How Dare You [2015 - Discogs] enters our musical cells (this particular beauty containing a sample of "Nightmare Blues" written, composed and performed by Robert Burnside)! Clearly and slowly, Kieran takes us down to another Balearic side with the following number: Esa – A Muto [1986 - Discogs], nicely mixed in, by the way! ESA's first album, "A MUTO", was released in Cameroon in 1986. It marked a turning point in the Makossa practised in the southwest of the country. For the record, ESA (pronounced ESSA, a term which, among the SAWA people of south-west Cameroon, means "evocative magic" or "contact with the beyond") is an African music concept created by Georges DAYAS WONJAMOUNA and embodied by the exceptional Stephan DAYAS. I mean, come on, Listen to the realism of the sound; I'm just feeling ecstatic right now (oh, by the way, we're in Cameroon right now if you were curious)! Kieran keeps the Balearic Vibes alive and well with the incredible Club Ice – Manhassett (Larry Heard Space Mix) [1992 - Discogs], ending his set with the very "Credits like" song, Natalie Cole – Annie Mae [1977 - Discogs]. What A Trip that One was, Kieran!

Colleen 'Cosmo' Murphy broadcast the 162nd episode of Balearic Breakfast on her Mixcloud on January 30th 2024. About this show. – I remember when I spoke to Douglas a few days ago, insisting that this blog was not about me but about us. I had this beautiful sentence "And that's also something I learned thanks to Colleen... It's US... it's just US... US as music lovers, the music that's being played during the show, the artists who make it and Her... Her as a Professional... an Absolute Human Professional..." There you go, Colleen; you've just been awarded a new title from your Balearic Breakfast Family, the AHP one! Congratulations! Joking aside, it is really Heartwarming to share music all together with our dear Captain. It really is! Being given the opportunity to share our musical worlds with such a great musical radio host, I mean, that's the icing on the cake, right? For this week's show, Colleen asked Susan, whom I interviewed earlier on the blog (read here), and Matt Raistrick to craft mixes for us as she's still travelling around the globe: "I haven’t brushed my hair in weeks but at least my clothes are clean and that in itself is a feat when you’re on the road. This week’s Balearic Breakfast is now up on my Mixcloud for your listening-back pleasure. This week we are joined by two more members of our global Balearic Breakfast family: @sansan.ot from New York / New Jersey and @matt_raistrick from Greater Manchester. I’ve had the pleasure of hanging out with Susan and her husband Jeff, their daughters and her brother-in-law (an amazing roller skater) at various parties in New York and it’s great to see her shine on this mix. Matt requests songs each week (at least when the request line is up) and they are all worth checking out as he has a great ear. Once again both mixes are fantastic. And thank you to all who made the past 2 shows reach Number 1 on the Mixcloud Balearic chart. Thanks to all who joined in the chat on the live stream of the show. Your encouragement and support of one another is truly inspiring, and thank you for making this community a beacon of positivity. We all need more of that in our lives." Let's keep the fire burning and embrace these two great-sounding hours of pure Musical Bliss... Listen back to the 162nd episode of Balearic Breakfast: PLAYLIST Susan Chan Mix Pat Metheny Group – Are You Going with Me? Laid Back – Fly Away/Walk in the Sunshine Aswad – Dub Fire Sade – Why Can't We Live Together Los Niños – Star Odyssey Moloko – Forever More (Francois K & Erik Kupper Vocal Mix) Jacob Gurevitsch – Elevation in Minor (Cosmodelica Remix) Paul Young – Every Dub (Pete Blaker Balearic Dub Edit) Matt Raistrick Mix Steve Hiett – Kinda Knew Anna Simon Peter – You Don't Send Me Slow Waves Anymore Citron Citron – Tu m'as Reveillée Dans Mon Sommeil Statues – Comienzio Sade – Love is Stronger than Pride (Mad Professor remix) Lova – Venizia 26 02 Optimystic – Trust Me Ichisan – Vitranc '86' Ron Basejam – FAKE Tooli – Solution Dub DENA – Idealize (Lauer Remix) Jean Claude Gavri/Howard Jones – Mental Chains Jean Claude Gavri/Pet Shop Boys – Love Trip Captain Sensible – Wot! (Daniel Monaco edit) Tina Turner – We Don't Need Another Hero (Plastic Fantastic instrumental Dub) THE LISTENING EXPERIENCE Susan's mix very quickly gave me the impression of a river flowing to its destiny: the sea... She was thrilled to have done this mix for us: "It’s a mix of old and new favourite tracks of mine. Definitely a privilege to put something together for the Balearic breakfast family!" (to read my interview with Susan, click here). Every track follows the previous one in a beautiful musical flow, and there is an underlying tension to the whole mix, something intangible yet very strong, something that pushes the listener, a driving force, a musical engine. I felt that so strongly that it even reaffirmed some thoughts I had for the last few days about how we could be more Balearic in our lives. But we'll come back to these thoughts later in this post. Opening her set with the absolutely sad track Pat Metheny Group – Are You Going with Me? [1982 - Discogs] really surprised me as I thought it was rather a closing song. Still, when I gave it a second thought, "Are you going with me?" really is a plea; it's a question waiting for an answer, but the answer to that question will not change the Destiny of the one who asks it. It's an affirmation, it's an affirmative question, the underlying answer being "no matter what you'll do, I'll go. If you want to stay by my side, I'd really love it, but I can't force you, my destiny is waiting and I can't stay here longer..." Strangely enough, I searched the internet to find more information about this heartwrenching song and only found these few lines: "It's a special song, probably one of the favourites of my own songs, and it is my favourite song to play live with the group. There really is no story to it. i was just trying to find a way to use that c minor/a flat major common tone thing that i love so much in a way that sounded good to me. it was written very fast, basically i improvised it into the synclav in the same amount of time it takes to play one chorus. i don't think i ever changed a note of it - it seemed just fine. i then remember playing along on the (at the time new) roland guitar for about 5 hours without stopping - always a good sign for a new tune. if it is about anything for me (other than the c minor/a flat thing i was talking about) it is about a little walk that i took just before i wrote it near where it was written. (upstate new york) - somehow i always think of that when i hear it. but most people make up their own thing of what that song is "about" and they are all pretty different definitions from each other - and i think that is also a good sign for a tunes life". Then enters the second song, Laid Back – Fly Away/Walk in the Sunshine [1983 - Discogs], with a visual accent to it, almost like a feather falling somewhere; beautiful mix, by the way, simple yet very effective. This song directed me towards the image of the river. That rhythm really lets you picture the free and generous but somewhat boiling waters (if the sound of that song reminds you of something, search no further as Laid Back was responsible for the Hit "Sunshine Reggae" that can be found on the same album "Fly away" has been taken from, namely "Keep smiling" from 1983). Since it's very long too, "Fly Away/Walk in the Sunshine" accentuates the idea of the Flow, which is well maintained with the following song, Aswad – Dub Fire [1982 - Discogs]. Can you feel the lingering tension in the music's tonality, too? Nothing is really happy here for the time being. And we keep that "uneasiness" during Sade – Why Can't We Live Together [1984 - Discogs] (the original being by Timmy Thomas from 1972), which tends to show that Susan has a trained ear as she was able to create here a beautiful musical unity. I love how Sade's song enters the mix, with an uncertain affirmation followed by Los Niños – Star Odyssey [2021 - Bandcamp], and the river is still flowing strong. Keeping the rhythm intact, Susan's next choice seems absolutely logical in the "déroulé" of her mix; such a great choice putting the very ocean-driven Moloko – Forever More (Francois K & Erik Kupper Vocal Mix) [2003 - Discogs] here! This beautiful and strong musical moment is followed by Jacob Gurevitsch – Elevation in Minor (Cosmodelica Remix) [2023 - Bandcamp] (read a review here), a track we all love I believe! Ending this somewhat romanticosad mix, Susan proposes to us the beautiful Paul Young – Every Dub (Pete Blaker Balearic Dub Edit). "Everytime You Go Away", released in 1985 on Paul's "The Secret Association" studio effort, was, in fact, written by Daryl Hall and originally recorded by Hall & Oates for their 1980 studio album, Voices. Yet, it has not been released as a single; Young's version becoming a hit nearly five years later. Daryl Hall listed this version as one of his favourite Hall & Oates songs and explained, in various interviews: "Paul Young had a pop hit with it a few years after we released it. It's just one of those songs. I feel very proud of its craftsmanship. I never thought of it any other way than the way it was 'til Paul Young did it ... I was just doin' a kind of gospel/soul song; that was all I had in mind for it. I was really surprised to hear the production they did because it kept the elements but commercialized it - made it sound like a pop record". As I said in the beginning, this mix got me thinking that we, as humans, should try to take things with distance, especially when we're drawn into situations we absolutely can't control. We should try to distance ourselves from what is coming at us, what is "attacking" us and know that we are not That situation. We should allow ourselves to surpass any situation that we encounter; this should help us to keep our emotional balance. And this is where the image of the river is interesting. Can you see Why? (...) Matt's mix is the most laid-back, unpretentious mix I've ever heard, yet its structure is nice, it does exist (it pops out musically, so that's great, too), and its last part is just perfect, right up until the end, where the Plastic Fantastic instrumental Dub serves as a beautiful ending credit list. We actually did a great interview together that you can read here. Starting his mix with the very soothing Steve Hiett – Kinda Knew Anna [2019 - Discogs], whose album "Girls in the grass" contains unreleased material recorded between 1986 and 1997, Matt breaks the flow with Simon Peter – You Don't Send Me Slow Waves Anymore [2023 - Bandcamp]. Simon shared his thoughts on his Facebook about this very song a few weeks ago, saying "Key inspiration for this track was Cornelius - 'Point of View Point' (Yann Tomita mix) - a track I've loved for years!" Matt keeps on surprising us as he, once again, breaks the rhythmical flow by selecting Citron Citron – Tu m'as Reveillé Dans Mon Sommeil [2022 - Bandcamp] (you woke me up from my sleep) and Statues – Comienzio [2023 - Bandcamp], which beautifully ends the first part of this mix. When you think about it, musically, "Tu m'as reveillé dans mon sommeil" is a nursery rhyme! The lyrics are gentle and present a "love story for two voices": Augustin sings the male version while Zoé sings the female version of the lyrics. The brother and the sister present an unconventional love song which really got into our hearts. Even though the English translation can not reproduce the duality created in this song, the lyrics go like this "I was crazy/ I was alone/You told me that the pain/Was worth it/And you woke me up in my sleep/Aaaa/I was terrible/in my cocoon/You told me that life/Was worth the effort/ And you woke me up in my sleep/Aaaa/I was lame/Without ecstasy/You told me that love/Was worth the effort/And you woke me up in my sleep/Aaaa". Obviously, Matt wanted to convey, in this first part of his mix, a Balearic Message, regardless of the musical unity, and that's great as every track shines in its own independent way! Then, nicely keeping up the rhythm for the first time, Matt takes us to the second part of the mix, starting his journey with Sade – Love is Stronger than Pride (Mad Professor remix) [1996 - Discogs], beautifully followed by Lova – Venizia 26 02 [2023 - Bandcamp] (click here for an interview I did with the great Davide Lovato). This moment of the mix really shows you Matt's freedom; there is a constant "take off", and surprise is always lurking from an invisible corner... The last two tracks, nicely mixed together by the way, and preparing us for the next big part of Matt's musical journey, are Optimystic – Trust Me [1991 - Discogs] & Ichisan – Vitranc '86' [2023 - Bandcamp]. Finally, from Ron Basejam – FAKE [2016 - Bandcamp], you can hear the same sample in the tribute "JTHZ MIx" I did (Julius Thysen & Hens Zimmerman); Matt takes us onto the Dancefloor for a nice boogie, which deserves to be given the Wow effect! There are no rhythmical breaches here; the flow is real. We surely don't need another DJ, but we do love Record cueers when they know what they're doing, and that's exactly what happens here with the next five songs that are Tooli – Solution Dub [2023 - Bandcamp], DENA – Idealize (Lauer Remix) [2023 - Bandcamp], Jean Claude Gavri/Howard Jones – Mental Chains [2021 - Bandcamp], Jean Claude Gavri/Pet Shop Boys – Love Trip & Captain Sensible – Wot! (Daniel Monaco edit) [2022 - Bandcamp]!!! Matt ends his mix with a perfect closing track, Tina Turner – We Don't Need Another Hero (Plastic Fantastic instrumental Dub) [2021 - Bandcamp].