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Colleen 'Cosmo' Murphy broadcast the 208th episode of Balearic Breakfast on her Mixcloud on January 21th 2025. About this episode. – Today we weren't as lucky as always, laughs! While being on vacation on the Canary Islands in Spain, Colleen tried to stream today's episode, but destiny had other plans and despite Colleen's willingness to share the show she worked on, the wifi connection wasn't strong enough and, sadly, cut our hapiness short after half an hour! Yet, just as she said, Colleen posted the full episode on her mixcloud a few minutes later! " Frizzy hair and frumpy top - I must be on holiday! Any guesses? Today’s Balearic Breakfast is now up on my Mixcloud at https://tinyurl.com/46jacdxj  and as I’m away and cannot stream live from my beloved record room, this show features a guest mix and interview with Phil Mison of Cantoma music . Phil is a legend in the Ibiza / Balearic chill out scene who was semi-discovered by Jose Padilla when he asked Phil to fill in for him at the Café del Mar in 1993. Since that time, Phil has graced many chill out spaces with both his DJ sets and his own music. As Cantoma, he has released 5 albums of deep Balearic goodness and we have a chat about the latest ‘See in the Sun’. You will love the mix he did for us, too. After Phil’s mix we have a family mix from one of our regular contributors to the show. Balearic Breakfast family member Christina DeSouza has been making great requests for the past few years and this time she gets an hour all to herself. I think you’ll love it. Thanks to all who joined me for the live stream this morning and sorry we had to jump ship. The WiFi here isn’t powerful enough to handle our heavy tunage - what can I say . We’ll try again next week as we have another great show with a guest mix and interview with Tigerbalm and a BB family mix from David Stoddard. In the meantime, I’m going to get back to my book (reading Karl One Knausgaard’s The Morning Star series) so please kick back and relax to this week’s show..." Listen back to the 208th episode of Balearic Breakfast: PLAYLIST Phil Mison's Mix: ( 1971 ) Ennio Morricone – Rodeo ( 1985 ) Airé  – Airé ( 2016 ) Bendith  – Mis Mehefin ( 1972 ) Os Borges  – Es Sou Como Voce E ( 2022 ) Disperazione Gioia Mia (Bottin Edit) ( NOL ) Ambala  – Amor Bailar (Idjut Dan Dub Reprise 2) ( 1989 ) Piero Fidelfatti  – Experience ( 2023 ) Kim Anh  – In The Stars ( 2025 ) Kenneth Bager, Findlay Brown & Anna Domino  – Don’t Look Back ( 2024 ) East Coast Love Affair  – A Gradual Precipitation ( 2022 ) Calm  – Late Summer Night ( 2023 ) Michael David ft Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith  – Here With You ( 2024 ) Cantoma  – First Nothing (Noche Espafiola Remix) Christina DeSouza's Mix: (XX) Serenity  – Serenity ( 1983 ) Will Powers  – Smile ( 1988 ) Giant Steps  – Steamy ( 1983 ) Marcella Bella  – Nell'aria ( 1988 ) Mike Francis  – Times Out of Time ( 2012 ) Michael Franks  – Jealousy (Geyster Remix) ( 1977 ) The East St. Louis Gospelettes  – Have Mercy on Me ( 1972 ) Odyssey  – Our Lives Are Shaped By What We Love ( 1979 ) Christian Gaubert  – Sweet Maryline ( 1989 ) Malcolm Mclaren  – Deep in Vogue ( 1982 ) Eye to Eye  – Nice Girls ( 2010 ) Cristina  – When U Were Mine ( 1969 ) Stelvo Cipriani  – Mary's Theme ( 1983 ) Robert Palmer  – Deadline ( 1981 ) Marti Caine  – Love Is Running Through Me ( 1976 ) Jaye P. Morgan  – Keepin' It to Myself PHIL MISON'S INTERVIEW WITH COLLEEN Greetings, I'm Colleen Cosmo Murphy hosting your weekly Balearic Breakfast on my MixCloud Live until high noon. And a big hola to everyone joining me on the live stream. Thanks for being there. Today we have two special guest mixes. The first is from Phil Mison, a DJ who for the last three plus decades has had a strong connection with Ibiza as he was mentored by the late José Padilla of the Café Del Mar. Phil is a wonderful DJ and a seasoned producer who as Contoma has released several albums of deep Balearic goodness. On today's show we have a chat about his latest album Into the Daylight and we are treated to a special one hour mix from him. After Phil we have a special guest mix from one of our Balearic Breakfast family members, Christine DeSouza. For years she has made some great requests and we're excited to hear what she has in store for us. But first here is Phil Mison of Cantoma . [Colleen] Well, greetings Balearicans. With me in the studio right now I have DJ and producer Phil Meissen who has a new Cantoma album out called Sea in the Sun which we have featured here on Balearic Breakfast before. And he is a Balearic stalwart and I'm just so excited to have him here in the studio with us. He joined us once when Balearic Breakfast started after the passing of José Padilla but we haven't really had a chance to talk just about his own kind of career and journey and music. Phil, how are you? [Phil] Very good, Colleen, thank you. Are you? [Colleen] I'm good, thank you! I'm good. It was good to see you yesterday at the Idgit Boys. It was lovely. I know many people know your name from various places, whether it's Reverso 68 or your Cantoma moniker or your own name Phil Mison. How did you get your start in music? [Phil] Yeah, my mum always played records indoors, and she works briefly for Polygram or Polydor but she was on the assembly line sort of packing records in boxes. That was when I was about eight so she used to bring loads and loads of records home. So yeah, I always just had them on. [Colleen] Are there any records that you remember in particular? [Phil] Yeah, she bought home a bright pink one, Generation X, King Rocker. I was really into Blondie. I was kind of a bit obsessed and my mum joined me to the New York Fan Club or something when I was nine or ten. So I had a lot of Blondie albums on. I was going to the local record shops as well. I'm just buying all sorts of records and I was showing as well. [Colleen] And then how did you kind of get into the whole DJ world? [Phil] Yeah, that was kind of by accident really. Actually, first of all, it was a couple of friends from school. We sort of started just doing local parties and stuff and then seriously, you know, I was buying a lot of records from 87 onwards, going to Groove Records in Soho and then, you know, in 88 I was buying, you know, going to Black Market and then Tracks when it opened. And then the real DJ thing was, it was a quite random thing. I had a cassette tape that I'd done, so it was all sort of pretty ambient sort of thing and Darren Emerson heard it in a car. My friend was driving and he said, like, who's this? And he went, oh, it's Phil. And he asked me to do a warm-up at the milk bar for him in 91, which was Nicky Holland. And so I kind of did that and then I think Darren left and Chris, the manager, said, look, you want to come back and because you're playing nice music at the beginning of the night, you're not kind of playing all the hits and turning it up super loud. And so from there really, I just kind of fell into it really. [Colleen] I think that's kind of what happened to many of us, especially in the past when we didn't even know you could have a career as a DJ. It was like, who even knew you could have a career as a DJ? I didn't know that when I started. [Phil] The milk bar was great. It's a really fantastic place to start playing. [Colleen] What was it like? [Phil] It's quite small. It was maybe 250 people. It was just off Soho Square, Sutton Row. It's downstairs, just one room, simple DJ booth in the corner. And that was it really. I did the Mondays, but I first went on a Wednesday for pure Danny Rampling's night, which was fantastic. Yeah, so I played there in 92, 93, and it closed in 93, I'm pretty sure. [Colleen] Not soon after you went to Ibiza. Can you tell us a little bit about that and that whole connection? [Phil] Yeah, that was, you know, friends have been going there for years, and I just went there with them. Heard, you know, we didn't know who he was, José at the Café du Mar, but you know, everyone bought the tapes. That was the thing you did, you know, clubbing, tapes. And then I think... the one year I didn't go back in 92, but I'd made these cassettes for my friend to give to the DJ. And it was José. And José's a bit confused. Then I randomly bumped into him in Tag Records in Soho in 92, winter of 92. He's like, Oh, yeah, I've got the tapes. And I invited him to play the Milk Bomb with me. And then, yeah, and then he said, Look, in February 93, I'm going to go away touring for a month in Asia or something. Do you want to do the Café du Mar while I'm away? So I said, Yeah, sure. So he came down the next week with a plane ticket and his house keys. And I thought... [Colleen] Here we are! We are on. Wow. That must have been a real dream. [Phil] It was. Yeah, it was pretty random. I was quite young. I was 22. So it was pretty nuts to do that. Picked up by Pepe, the owner. Couldn't find Jose's house because it was right up in the hay balls. And yeah, but it was an adventure. It was brilliant. [Colleen] So what was the Café del Mar like in 1993? [Phil] It was the same as it is now. Interior designed by Liuís Güell It opened in 1980. So I think, you know, that was the same, but there was not much around it then. I guess there was just less people going there. Obviously, no one had mobile phones or anything, obviously. So people were kind of just there, maybe playing backgammon, having a sort of, you know, the old world, wasn't it? That's just the way things were. But yeah, it was it was a great thing. [Colleen] And what kind of music were you playing then? [Phil] It's weird because the first year, I seemed to pick a soundtrack to play from a film. So that year, 93, I played a lot of Betty Blue , Gabriel Yared . And the next year, I played the piano by Michael Nyman and a lot of things like that. [Colleen] And what was the island like for you at that time? [Phil] I think because it was springtime in 1993, it was pretty, it wasn't that busy, really. At night, the Café de Mar wasn't so busy. But at sunset, it was pretty packed. Yeah, I used to just go with the people living in José's house. We used to kind of just go into town in the evening, a few drinks in bars and what have you. Yeah, it was, I just had my little moped because I didn't have much money. So I just used to zoom around. It's quite far to go, but I used to do it. [Colleen] That sounds great! It sounds so free and wonderful. [Phil] Yeah, I was thinking about it in José's house. We didn't even have a landline, but loads of people found us at the house. [Colleen] How did you start to get into production? [Phil] That was, I met Kenneth Baker, Kenneth Bayer ( ed. Bager, Music For Dream's label founder, see here ), in 93 at Roskilde Festival. And we just kept in touch. And then in 94, he was in Ibiza. He's always, Kenneth's been going to Ibiza since, you know, the 80s. And we just all started hanging out. And he came to the Café de Mar. And then in the winter of 94, me, José, Steffen Andersen from Mental Generation, who made the Café de Mar record, went to Copenhagen and we all made an album, and parts of which came out later on José's solo album. And then, yeah, Kenneth, in the late 90s, asked me back to sort of do some more music with Cantoma stuff. So I started that with Kenneth. But yeah, I'm still in touch with Kenneth a lot now. I do music for him now under Ambala , which is another name I use. We work with a lot of people in Copenhagen. Walter, his son, Trollsheba. But yeah, I think the second album should be out next year, I think. [Colleen] Now, you also did a lot of compilations, Pure Ibiza . You did a compilation called The Original Chill Out in 1995. You did one for Claremont 56. Which one was the first compilation that you did? [Phil] That was the one in 95, The Original Chill Out. [Colleen] Can you tell us a little bit about that? Because that's around the same era that José Padilla was starting to do the Café Del Mar compilations , which we were selling at Dance Tracks in New York. [Phil] Right. Ben Turner was in the Café Del Mar a lot in 94. In his Musik Magazine , he was a dance writer for Melody Maker in the early 90s. And he kind of promoted Underworld and a lot of Orbital and a lot of dance music. Then for a kind of, which was, I guess, more of a Melody Maker, it was a dance Musik Magazine. So then he's the editor of Musik Magazine, which became a big thing. And so Ben, there's records like Paper Moon, 51 Days, Sands Your Man, Alabama Blues, Mechanical Soul Saloon. They became like the backbone of that compilation, really. [Colleen] 51 Days, Paper Moon was a record that I used to play at The Loft as well. [Phil] Wow. Yeah, that was like a peak record at the Café Del Mar in 94 at night when the bar was just heaving with people. I used to play that record and it's really long as well. So you can wander around and chat. But you actually listen to it now. It's quite a mellow record-ish really. And so you used to play it at The Loft. [Colleen] Yeah, I remember bringing it before it was on Touché. And I played it at The Loft and it became one of the kind of loft classics because David used to kind of turn to me to bring the new stuff in. So it'd be like Pasha, One Kiss, Fathers of Sound remix and a lot of Karma, High Priestess was another one. It was quite a few records like that. In any case, why don't we listen to some of your music now? This is a great exclusive mix that you've put together for us. And we'll return and talk about the new Cantoma album. [Colleen] And we're back with Phil Mison from Cantoma. And even though I knew you, Cantoma landed on my radar in a really strange way. I was in Los Caños de Meca in Andalucía in 2003. And we had rented a house and somebody had left behind a CD. But it was one of those CDs that you burned. It didn't have any writing on it. And we listened to the CD over and over and over again. And I actually also burned a copy so I could bring it home. And we listened to it all the time. And then later found out it was the first Cantoma album. And you and I were already friends. I didn't even know this. And since that time, you've put out five albums, the fifth being See You in the Sun in 2024. So Cantoma, you work with a lot of different people. And one person that you work with is Robin Twelftree . Can you tell me a little bit about him and how you got together? [Phil] I had to do a remix for Cirque du Soleil , the Canadian circus people. And then I was looking for an engineer to work with, to do it with. And then someone recommended Robin, who was working in Arch 25 in King's Cross, which was the arch next to the Cross Club, where Coal Drops Yard is now. Robin is the core of, I think, the Bubble Club. But yeah, Robin's worked with a lot of people. And yeah, he's someone I've worked with since then, really. I've also worked with Robin Lee. Robin lived at the end of the Metropolitan line. So it's easy just to jump on a train down there and do a lot of stuff with him. That was the Into Daylight album, did a lot of stuff with Robin there. And I'm working now also with Justin Drake in Staines. This album, a lot of it was done See You in the Sun with Justin. Justin Drake, I got put in touch with by Diesel from Express 2. So he works with Express 2. [Colleen] How would you describe the music and what you're trying to do? [Phil] I think primarily, just make something you like. That's important. Not too worried about, you know, I don't want to follow trends of thinking, oh, you know, people like this now are going to make that. I kind of just stick to this path of doing what I like. It's just ideas and words and songs just appear in my head sometimes. And I just write them down and go from there. [Colleen] Well, I think most people would agree it has this kind of more like the chill out balearic kind of sound that you're trying to express through Cantoma. At least that's what I've heard on the five albums. With this album, I see a step in a more kind of musically mature direction. And I noticed that you have about 20 different contributors. And you mentioned, you know, you have obviously Robin and Justin, but there are a bunch of guest musicians here as well. Can you talk us through some of the people that have participated on this record? [Phil] It's an important one is Quinn Lamont Luke . [Colleen] I love Quinn. Yeah. [Phil] I met in 2008 at The Loft in New York. [Colleen] Oh, yeah. Wow. [Phil] That's where I met Quinn. Then we were just hanging around. We were introduced through mutual friends. I think I was aware of his music and everything. So, yeah, it's always great to work with Quinn. And there's through Robin 12. I got hooked up with a girl, Luna Asteri . She's a Spanish singer. Who else did I work with? There's always Patrick Dawes on percussion. We worked with Gruvomodo. Yeah. My friend Sebastian Lilja from Stockholm on guitar. So, yeah, there's lots of people. [Colleen] And was there anything that you wanted to accomplish with this record before you set out to make it? [Phil] I think maybe more songs. I thought I'd give it a go, having more songs, then do an instrumental version as well. It's sometimes more popular than the actual vocals. Oh, yeah. André Esposito ( ed. Espeut ) , I worked with him as well. I used to leave big gaps between making albums, but now I'm just carrying on. I have another album I'm working on. [Colleen] Oh, my gosh, that's great. You're being very prolific then. That's wonderful. And you said before that this album also has an instrumental version and you've done this before, like when you had the album out of town, you had another release with the remixes, which actually included a remix of mine for you, Dix Werte, a Cosmodelica remix. Why did you put out an instrumental version of Sea and the Sun? Do some people prefer just to have instrumentals? [Phil] You know what? They do, I think. Some people, yeah. You wouldn't think so, but yeah, some people just like instrumental versions. I don't know why, but I thought I've got them sitting there. I'll just give people the choice. [Colleen] It's a beautiful cover as well. It's Dix Werte that did the cover, correct? [Phil] Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's correct. Yeah, and she's got a few more too. [Colleen] Really, really wonderful. Now, before we love you and leave you, I just wanted to ask you first, what's coming up in the near future? You have the Ambala album with Music for Dreams coming out next year. What else is happening? [Phil] The 7-inch that's out the 29th of November, hopefully. That's 250 limited little 7-inch, which is just a new track that I remixed. I don't know why I've done this, Colleen. I've just done it. And then doing a couple of remixes of the Sea and the Sun of some other stars, doing a remix of that. And then, yeah, just carrying on with the new album, really, and a bit of DJing here and there. [Colleen] Lovely. Thank you so much for joining us. And you do have this last song that you wanted to tell us about, which I believe is the one that's coming out on 7-inch in the near future? [Phil] Yeah. The next release is First Nothing, a Nocciaspergnola remix, which is coming out on 7-inch on the 29th of November. [Colleen] Thank you, Phil. That was wonderful. And now a special guest mix from one of our family members. Christine D'Souza was born in Lisbon and brought up in Manchester. And her love for music started via her late father, who collected well over 5,000 albums throughout the 70s, 80s, and 90s, which she has inherited and to which she is making her own editions of CDs and vinyl as she loves looking through the record shops and charity shops. She also worked in pop music PR for many years, but she says she is purely just an amateur collector lover of music. But the Balearic Breakfast family and myself absolutely love her musical choices. And for the next hour, she'll be taking us on her musical journey. Here is Christine DeSouza. CHRISTINA DE SOUZA'S MIX A one-hour, uplifting, free and all direction moving nice musical trip, with some beautiful light mixes between the songs, having its best moment in the mid-section (around half an hour into the selections played). This is how we could present Christina de Souza's mix in a few words! Although we would have loved to have a more pronounced melodical and rhythmical unity, the mix really grabs us by the hand and takes us to dance, and this happens right from the start between Serenity  and Smile , the latest track taking the listener by surprise but still allowing the previous song to end beautifully! Keeping the energy intact, Christine then plays Giant Steps ' Steamy (I love the huge and spacy soundstage on that one!!) nicely followed by the gorgeous Marcella Bella's Nell'aria , showcasing here Christina's free musical spirit and perfectly followed by Mike Francis' Times Out of Time , do you feel the fresh air taking you away here? Christina then keeps the open and relaxed feeling a little bit longer by playing Michael Franks' Jealousy (Geyster Remix) oh so beautifully introduced in the mix! We're 30 minutes into the mix and the most beautiful moment starts here, with The East St. Louis Gospelettes ' Have Mercy on Me , incredibly and beautifully followed by the mesmerising Our Lives Are Shaped By What We Love (Odyssey) , not forgetting here the perfectly fitting Sweet Maryline by Christian Gaubert (a huge figure in French Music's history as he orchestrated a lot of music for movies, also working with international artists like Celine Dion, also crafting the astounding arrangement of Charles Aznavour's 1968 Desormais or working as a composer for Mireille Mathieu)! To me, this part of the mix, starting from 1h30, is the absolute Wow Moment of today's episode!! Then, Christina takes us to the last part of her mix, keeping her open and free musical spirit with Malcolm Mclaren 's Deep in Vogue , followed by Nice Girls (we would have loved to be able to keep Deep in Vogue 's vibe and rhythm a little bit longer, we must admit that ^^). With the next songs, Cristina 's When U Were Mine (written and first released by Prince in 1980 ) and Stelvo Cipriani 's Mary's Theme , and despite their revelancy, the listener feels a bit lost in the music as there are a lot of changes to deal with. This feeling is also very present as Robert Palmer 's Deadline enters the musical scene (taken from his Pride Album), slightly rebalancing the mixe's musical homogeneity though. The last two songs, Marti Caine 's Love Is Running Through Me and Jaye P. Morgan's Keepin' It to Myself beautifully open up the end of this nice mix which only lacks a tiny bit more of rhythmic and musical homogeneity to be Perfect! Nice musical moment indeed!

With the huge influence Calm has in the Music's realm, and with all the love the Balearic Breakfast Family has for him, I asked the great Japanese composer a few questions... 1) Thank you so much for joining us on the blog dear Kiyotaka! It's a real Honor! Calm's music is often played during Colleen's Balearic Breakfast show and we all tremendously appreciate the beautiful musical creations the band offers! The last track that was featured was "Drift to Dreamland" from the "Quiet Music Under the Moon" album, dedicated to "new family members, and those who sadly passed". How did you start working on that album, was it an easy album to work on? Thank you very much for your invitation, Artur. For me, it is very tough to start working on a brand new album. I use all my energy to make an album, so I need enough energy and new input to start a new project. As for "Quiet Music Under the Moon" , about three months after my son was born, I was so busy taking care of him that I didn’t have time to make music. Still, when seeing him live and grow up, I decided I should start making music dedicated to him. Incidentally, the previous album called “before” was made to thank my son for the new life he was going to offer me, the album being composed when he was still in my wife’s belly. This was the first impulse that led me to start working on a brand new album. The second impulse was my mom’s death. Four months after my son was born, suddenly my mom died. I made a video call the day before my mom passed away, and I still can’t forget what she said back then to me in a thin voice, she wanted to see my son soon... She lived far away from my place, and at that time COVID was raging all over the world, so, very sadly, it was hard to go and see her. I should have had a little more courage to go and see her... I still regret I wasn't able to do that... Both these joys and sorrows have been the driving force behind this “ Quiet Music under the Moon ” album... 2) "Drift to Dreamland", as a lot of your other musical pieces, allows the listener to create mental pictures, and thus to reach a relaxed piece of mind. It seems that you draw your inspiration from the Moon. And it is present in a lot of your other compositions (I'm thinking here about your "Moonage Electric Ensemble" album). What makes you being so close to the moon as an artist? As you may know, I was born late on July 15th, 1969. The 16th was a special day when Apollo 11 flew toward the moon. My parents had a hard time choosing my name and Apollo was among the candidates. When I was teenager, I discovered David Bowie’s wonderful album “Ziggy Stardust', I love this album so much... This is when I heard the song “Moonage Daydream” which is the third track on David's album. This moment was like a thunder from heaven, marking the beginning of my moonage story! By the way, my son’s name is Tsukito, and in English it means “Moon” and “Sound”... 3) You collaborated with other djs who did beautiful reworks of some of Calm's tracks. I am thinking here about Lova's "Authentic Love Song Batticuore Remix". It is, indeed, a beautiful remix and it shows how much you and Davide Lovato share a common sense of inner relaxation. How did that collaboration happen and what memories do you keep of it? I really really love Lova’s remix! He is a wonderful producer on the Balearic scene, I really think that. I love his production, so it was only natural for me to ask him to make a remix of my track! 4) On your last studio album, you worked with great musicians such as Toshitaka Shibata on piano, Yuichiro Kato on saxophone, Tomokazu Sugimoto on upright bass and Kakuei on steel pan. Can you tell us how you all worked together? Did you have all the partitions written in advance or did you let a huge part to musical improvisation? I always enjoy collaborating with musicians. That’s why I always try not to give them too much information when we play together, other than concepts and themes... I believe that this musical freedom is able to instill new ideas in my compositions. Still, when I was making “Quiet Music under the Moon” album, I suggested various information like melody lines, or a certain playing style to the musicians. It was the first time it hapenned, but with “Quiet Music under the Moon” being such a personnal album, I couldn't do it otherwise... 5) As a producer, and with technology's constant evolution, is it always easy to keep Calm's sound signature intact? Do you believe Calm has a sonic signature or do you believe sonic differences may happen from one album to another and that sound should only serve the mind's travelings, surpassing any "sonical gimmics"? I’m still an inexperienced musician, and I think I’m always in the middle of evolution. I always firmly believe that my next work will be my best one... So I always take the time to stop and think things other so I won't take a wrong path... However, I always try not to lose sight of the destination I want to follow: creating wonderful music and music that I can share with you... Words can not express my gratitude, dear Kiyotaka... The Balearic Breakfast Family wishes you all the best for this new year... We keep you close to our hearts...

Colleen 'Cosmo' Murphy broadcast the 207th episode of Balearic Breakfast on her Mixcloud on January 14th 2025. About this episode. – Following last week's episode, Colleen took us today on an unexpectedly haunted trip, playing tracks the Balearic Breakfast Family requested for the new year. Although there was no request line this past Saturday, we all knew this show would be a great one, did we all expect this one to be lurking into despair, nothingness and hope? Somehow we could have guessed it since the tragic events that unfolded in Los Angeles the past few days, known as the " Palisades Fires " ... Still, we were all surprised by the intensity that pierced through these 2 musical hours... " On today’s show we have your remaining new year requests along with some new tunes and some cuts from new Folk Funk and Trippy Troubadours compilation coming out on BBE Music  and DJ Notoya’s forthcoming Tokyo Bliss compilation on WEWANTSOUNDS . We have some tributes to Los Angeles and sending love to all who have been affected. For LA-based musicians, in need there are some charities to which you can donate including MusiCares  and the Sweet Relief Musicians Fund . Our hearts go out to all who have been affected." Listen back to the 207th episode of Balearic Breakfast: PLAYLIST ( 1977 ) Joe Henderson – Black Narcissus ( 2024 ) Common Saints   – Rebel Paradise ( 1975 ) Fox   – Yuli Yuli ( 1978 ) Nina Simone   – Baltimore ( 2025 ) Robin Frederick   – Night Blooming Thing ( 2024 ) Max Essa & David Harks   – Lobster Boys (Hifi Sean Mix) ( 1986 ) Yasuko Agawa   – L.A. Nights ( 2025 ) Masatoshi Kanno   – Day by Day ( 2025 ) United Freedom Collective   – Higher Drums ( 2025 ) ASHRR  – Please Don’t Stop the Rain (Ron Trent Remix) ( NOL ) Eagles   – One of These Nights (Ashley Beedle Remix) ( 2025 ) Ghost Assembly   – I Keep on Making the Same Mistake ( 2025 ) Tonarunur   – Lifting Off ( 2017 ) Auntie Flo (ft. Anbuley)  – Dance Ritual I (Leonid Lipelis Dream Dance Remix) ( 2001 ) Dennis Ferrer  – Funu (Hi-Life Mix) ( 2024 ) Nickodemus (ft Pat Kalla)  – Mama Tchipp (Follow Me) (Tigerbalm Remix) ( 1979 ) Black Ivory   – Mainline ( 1981 ) The Clark Sisters   – You Brought the Sunshine ( 1985 ) Curtis Mayfield   – We Got to Have Peace THE LISTENING EXPERIENCE Today's episode is one of those I love the most, one of those that has a strong musical and intellectual core and a slowly evolving pace , if I can put it that way, meaning there are no "quick jumps" in the playlist and that even "happier" or "quicker songs" retain that "worried, unexpected, lingering soul set at the start of the show"... There's no denying, when I saw the picture Colleen chose to promote today's show on her socials, I knew she had something on her mind. To those of you who read the blog since I started it a few years ago, you know I experience something quite strong here, and from the start, I mean, I feel the show's soul, Colleen's intentions and I don't need explanations, I simply feel our Captain and where she leads us. It changed the way I interact with her, and also with the show in itself. It's like I was deeply connected, a story without words... And today was no exception... Listen to the first hour of today's show, Black Narcissus (to find out more about its specific structure, click here ) / Rebel Paradise / Yuli Yuli / Baltimore (the lyrics were written by Randy Newman although he knew nothing about the city , with Simone's version being much more passionate and personal ): I mean, don't you have tears in your eyes when thinking about what hapened in LA and can't you see the abandoned ship, lying there on a lonely beach, with the sea so far away from it... Of course, Ana's request won our hearts without the shadow of a doubt and, consequently, the Wow Moment of today's episode! Rebel Paradise is the longest record on the album and is a real journey. I think everyone will feel the Pink Floyd vibes here. This one took some years to create as I parked it for four years and then picked her back up for the album as I felt like it had an incredible energy to it. This is all about magic and the world and how we must try to solve things together as a united humankind. This is where Cinema 3000 exposes the power the media has over us and can change our minds in whatever direction it feels it wants. Essentially a call to remaining conscious and grounded when everything is breaking around us. Charlie Perry - The WhyNow Interview The soothing Night Blooming Thing is a little lie as its darkening tones don't bring the true peace we'd love to find here, there's always something lurking in this night, the music is a sexy number, waiting to strike... The feeling presented here can also be found, of course, in the lyrics of the songs, and, in the end, it all comes down to the Balearic Breakfast's family strong intellectual connection to the music... We're doing an incredible show all together and your emotions really shines through, dear Balearicans... Lobster Boys (Hifi Sean Mix) bring another worried musical moment, and it makes me think that "night" is quite present in the lyrics and in the imagery of today's songs, brilliantly selected by our Captain, this feeling being of course confirmed when listening to songs like L.A. Nights ( Augie Johnson (from the group 'Side Effects') wrote and produced both 'LA Night' and Light of the World's 'London Town' of course played during Balearic Breakfast ) which explains the similarities found in both songs ) ; Please Don't Stop the Rain and of course One of These Nights (Ashley Beedle Remix) . The lyrics of One Of These Nights are all themed around the pursuit of a mysterious woman but also serve as a wider metaphor for chasing your dreams. “It’s about putting things off,” Frey once explained. “We’ve all said, ‘One of these nights I’m gonna do something – get that girl, make that money, find that house.’ We all have our dreams – a vision we hope will come true someday. When that ‘someday’ will come is up to each of us.” Henley admitted that “the search” is an overarching subject of many of the best Eagles songs , with the group exploring how, although the whole of life is a journey, “getting there is more important than the journey’s end”. Many Eagles fans are drawn to the beguiling imagery of One Of These Nights, in which Henley sings “I’ve been searching for the daughter of the devil himself/I’ve been searching for an angel in white/I’ve been waiting for a woman who’s a little of both/And I can feel her, but she’s nowhere in sight”. Colleen's selections, the way she chose to play them, creates a ligering feeling of dizziness: we'd love to relax, but there's that something, somewhere, in the music, in the flow, that prevents the listener to feel a positive freedom... Of course, this beautiful musical tribute to LA, which is undergoing extreme fires at the moment, does not help to feel relieved... Will the second hour of today's show be happier? Not really as  I Keep on Making the Same Mistake , which opens the second hour of the show, sends us a strong and worried message, explaining us how the moments we live on this earth are just borrowed time and that, ultimately, we will have to "give them back", even the greatest of them... Perfectly followed by Lifting Off , the vibe does not seem to get onto a happier scheme and, judging from the record's cover, still offering nightly visions which Colleen keeps very alive during her next mini mix. Starting it off with Dance Ritual I (Leonid Lipelis Dream Dance Remix) – find out more about the original album here – , Colleen lets Funu take the worried feeling away for the first time today. The next 3 songs will allow us all to have a proper dance for sure, including a nice request by yours Truly... Vinyl Vault: This 1979 release of Black Ivory’s “Mainline,” was a favorite of Frankie Knuckles and was often played at the Warehouse, also known as the birthplace of House music. This record from the Frankie Knuckles Collection was given to Frankie by his collaborator and legendary Chicago House DJ, Chip E ( @iamchip_e_ ). Black Ivory, made up of Leroy Burgess, Stuart Bascombe, and Russell Patterson, was an R&B group which formed in Harlem, New York in the summer of 1969. “Mainline,” a groovy soul ballad, was written by Burgess and sang by Patterson. The song eventually released in the group’s album Hangin' Heavy, in 1979. Black Ivory, originally known as the Mellow Souls, is also known for their hits “Don’t Turn Around,” “You and I,” “Time Is Love,” and “Will We Ever Come Together.” As you can feel, today's episode has a strong intellectual unity, a lot of the songs share a worried, lost, intrigued musical feeling, sharing lyrics of sadness, hope and encouraging the listener to keep on moving forward despite the events... Ending the show with Curtis Mayfield 's " We got to have peace " , a song Curits Mayfield wrote during the then raging Vietnam war , Colleen perfectly ends a show which was a demanding listening experience through and through... Let's hope we will all find peace someday soon... on every level... COLLEEN'S PRESENTATION I Black Narcissus , the title track of the 1977 LP by the late American jazz saxophonist Joe Henderson . In the early 70s and after working with Herbie Hancock, Henderson began experimenting with funk fusion and electronic effects, and his music became more political with titles like Power to the People , In Pursuit of Blackness , and Black Narcissus . That was a request from Scott Towers, the saxophonist for Fat Freddy's Drop, who are now back in New Zealand after a sellout tour, and Scott's back from a family holiday in Sri Lanka, and he said that song was on rotation on his headphones whilst he was away for a few months. Good morning, Balearicans. I'm Colleen Cosmo Murphy, serving up your weekly Balearic breakfast until high noon, and greetings to the family over on my MixCloud Live, and thank you once again for joining me on a Tuesday morning. Coming up on today's show, we'll play some of your New Year requests, catching up with those, along with some new tunes from United Freedom Collective, ASHRR, Ron Trent, Tona Ruehner, and Ghost Assembly, and also songs from the latest edition of Paul Hillery's folk-funk and trippy Troubadours compilation series, and Japanese DJ Notoya's forthcoming Tokyo Bliss compilation, We Want Sounds. Now, this next one is from our friend Ana Sancho in Barcelona, and I loved it so much, I had to buy the album on Bandcamp, as I need this on vinyl in my collection. It's the debut LP from Common Saints , who is British producer, songwriter, and musician Charlie J. Perry . He worked with Georgia Smith, and also K-pop superstars BTS, but as Common Saints, he began releasing music with the Idolize EP in 2020, followed by the Starchild EP, which I supported on Balearic Breakfast when it came out. Well, he released his debut LP on his label, Starsonics, last autumn, and it is brilliant. I've had it on repeat all weekend, and if you like Tame Impala or Michael Kiwanuka , I think you will absolutely love this. Ana selected a song that sounds like it could have been lifted from a lost Pink Floyd LP, so sit yourself down, turn on, tune in, and drop out to Rebel Paradise by Common Saints. II Robin Frederick with Night Blooming Thing , and this is from the third volume of Paul Hillary's compilation series, Folk, Funk, and Trippy Troubadours , and the third edition is coming out on BBE in February. You can pre-order the vinyl on the BBE Music Bandcamp, and the whole LP is great. Solid selections, as you would expect from Paul Hillary. Features an array of funky folk, jazzy AOR grooves, fuzzed-out lo-fi dub, DIY folk-tronica, private press grails, and previously unreleased material, and it also has extensive sleeve notes, which I haven't read yet because I don't have the vinyl, so I don't know anything about Robin Frederick or Night Blooming Thing . In any case, I interviewed the enlightened heathen, as Paul calls himself, for his We Are the Children of the Sun compilation series on BBE, and that's on the Balearic Breakfast archive, so make sure you follow me on Mixcloud, where you can access all of the past four-plus years of Balearic Breakfast shows, and really looking forward to that forthcoming compilation from Paul. Ahead of that, Baltimore by Nina Simone , the title track of her 14th studio album, released in 1978, and the song was originally penned by Randy Newman , all about the harsh realities of life in the capital of Maryland. However, it was requested by Mick Cole, who is experiencing the harsh reality of life in Los Angeles at the moment. Mick is the solid selector in Los Angeles, and he wanted me to play that song in honor of Moon Shadows , which has burnt to the ground. It's a venue in Malibu, and this is a staple song that Mick has played over the many years of playing music for their beloved customers at Moon Shadows. Moon Shadows Malibu has a GoFundMe campaign , which you can find on their Instagram, and later in the show, we'll share the names of some other charities that are helping musicians who lost everything in the fires. It's just so incredibly horrific. Ahead of that, the British 70s pop band Fox with Yuli Yuli from their second album, Tales of Illusion . The band was put together by Kenny Young , who composed the song, Under the Boardwalk for the Drifters, and it features the charismatic Australian singer, Noosha Fox . It was requested by Gemma Bagnell, who loved this album as a child. She bought all their albums and loves this song because of the beautiful drums and lyrics, and she wants to dedicate it to her late friend, the singer Linda Lewis . She said she used to play her Fox, and she loved it. "Thank you, Colleen Cosmo Murphy, for your contribution to music and the world and bringing joy" . Thank you, Gemma, and she's hoping 2025 will be a year of wonder and peace and sending love to the Balearic Breakfast family. Okay, this next one came out a few months ago on paper recordings, and somehow I never got to it, and I'm still trying to play catch up. It's called the Clean Trip EP , and it's by the Japan-based British producer and DJ Max Essa and the Berlin-based English artist David Harks , and it was given a remix by Hi-Fi Shawn. Here they are with Lobster Boys . III Loving that tune, and that is Masatoshi Kanno with Day By Day , and that's on the upcoming compilation Tokyo Bliss, which is compiled by Japanese funk expert DJ Notoya , and the DJ has picked a diverse selection of great funk, boogie, and city pop tracks recorded between 1974 and 1988 for King Records , one of the most venerable record labels in Japan, and the tracks on the compilation are very much in demand on the Japanese groove scene, and they're mostly new to the international ears and showcase the breadth and quality of Japanese music recorded during the 70s and 80s, and I have no information on the artist. I do have to wait for the compilation to actually come out and read the liner notes, but I'm really looking forward to it. All the songs are fantastic, so great job, DJ Notoya and We Want Sounds. Ahead of that, the Japanese singer Yasuko Agawa with L.A. Nights , her 1986 love letter to Los Angeles. It came out on Bluebird Records, and the flip side has a love letter to New York called New York Afternoon , and both of these songs most likely were recorded in the footsteps of Light of the World 's song London Town , which I played a few weeks ago, but of course I'm playing it for the residents of Los Angeles, where the fires have taken lives, livelihoods, homes, all of people's memorabilia and personal belongings. It's just so, so, so tragic, and really tragic for the musicians, for everybody, but we can't forget the musicians and artists in Los Angeles, many of whom have lost everything, and there's a few different places where you can donate, a few different charities. There's Music Cares , which provides financial aid, grocery cars, and instrument replacements for the affected musicians. The Sweet Relief Musicians Fund provides immediate financial assistance to music industry professionals impacted by the Los Angeles wildfires, and the Guitar Center Music Foundation is offering grants to replace instruments lost in the fires, and you can make donations to some of these, and there's loads of GoFundMe campaigns as well. I'm sure you're seeing them on your social media feeds. It's just incredibly, incredibly tragic what's going on there. This next one is the United Freedom Collective , founded by Robbie Redway and psychedelic researchers Mathieu Seynaeve and Wai Fung Tsang . They're based in Margate in the UK, where I was this past weekend, eating fish and chips from Pete's on the Parade and sitting outside in this glorious sunshine. It was beautiful there. In any case, I digress. United Freedom Collective was originally conceived around creating soundscapes for psychedelic therapy sessions, online yoga, and breathwork channels, and the musical scope has expanded on each of the four EPs released on Maribu State's Dama Dama label, and here they continue with their debut on Multiculti. It's called the Between Memories EP , and here they are with Higher Drums . IV I bet you think I dropped some Eagles in the middle of the show. You know, I know we're paying tribute to Los Angeles in some of today's songs, but maybe you feel I overstepped the line here. In fact, I distinctly remember playing this at Plastic People. That shows you how underground I am. It's an Ashley Beedle remix, people, and we saw Ashley this weekend, actually. He's doing really, really well. In any case, that was a request from Rob Eggleshaw, as the Eagles are one of the favourite groups of the late British radio host, Johnny Walker , who passed away on New Year's Eve. He began his career in 1966 on the pirate radio station Swinging Radio England before joining Radio Caroline. Then he joined BBC Radio 1 in 1969. He was also reprimanded for criticizing On Air, Give a Little Love by the Bay City Rollers, then at the height of their popularity, describing them as musical garbage. He left Radio 1 and then moved to the United States where he stayed for five years working for K-Sound and Soundfrown, KPFA in Berkeley, California, and also WHFS in Maryland. He recorded some shows for Radio Luxembourg until he taped a record at the wrong speedball party in the studio. Sounds like a really interesting life. Then more recently, he presented Sounds of the 70s on Radio 2 and the Radio 2 Rock Show on Friday nights. He retired last October due to a fatal illness and passed on to the next realm on the 31st of December. The Eagles, One of these nights , the Ashley Beedle rework going out to the late and great Johnny Walker as courtesy of Rob Eggleshaw. Ahead of that, we had ASHRR , Please Don't Stop the Rain , and we're sending love to the Los Angeles outfit Asher. They released their debut album, Sunshine Low, on 2020 Vision last year and I did an interview with them and they did a great remix, a great mix for us too. You can find that on Mixcloud. And we heard their next single, Please Don't Stop the Rain. They have their own sound system remixes on the B-side and two from Ron Trent on the A-side and that's what we heard, the Ron Trent remix, and it's coming out on the 3rd of February. So pre-order your vinyl now. Okay, this next one is from our friend Abigail Ward in Manchester going under the name Ghost Assembly and she really is one of Manchester's finest DJs, curators, and all-around top humans. She and Kath Middermott played in the Love Dance in Tent this year for my Cosmodelica takeover and you should follow her on Mixcloud. She does some great mixes. I listen to them all the time. And her debut release, the original Ghost Assembly 12-inch , I Missed Your Love , it dropped a year ago and it sold out almost instantly. It's going for 100 quid on Discogs, so I'm feeling kind of smug because I snagged one. In any case, she's back with a forthcoming single called I Keep On Making the Same Mistake , which also has some Choice Remix names. Feel free to investigate further. In any case, it's coming out and net proceeds from both the vinyl and digital versions sold through Bandcamp will be donated to medical aid for Palestinians for the duration of 2025. V Icelandic producer Tonarunur , who is Björn Gauti Björnsson , who's released music for over a decade as BG Vardagarn, Arm Whiskey Disco, and Silhouette Records. And as Tóna Rúnar has released the Dive Into The Night EP in 2020, this is Lifting Off from his forthcoming Gym Tech EP coming out next week on San Francisco label Dream Chimney. So head on over to the Dream Chimney Bandcamp to pre-order. And also please head over to the Ghost Assembly Bandcamp to pre-order I Keep On Making The Same Mistake , which we heard before. And please be aware that net proceeds from both the vinyl and digital versions sold through Bandcamp will be donated to medical aid for Palestinians for the duration of 2025. Okay, Brian D'Souza is an award-winning sound artist, DJ, music producer, and live performer known for taking world music into the future, and as Auntie Flo has been releasing records since 2011. And the Glaswegian's album Theory of Flow was nominated for Scottish Album of the Year in 2015. This next one is a cut from that album, but given a dreamy remix by Russian producer Lipolis , as requested by Virginia Tsioti in Athens, here is Auntie Flo featuring Anbuley with the Lipolis Dream Dance Remix of Dance Ritual 1 . VI A little track to the eighth album by the gospel group the Clark Sisters released in 1981. And this song actually became a hit a couple of years later. And as a group, the Clark Sisters won two Grammy Awards, and they are the highest selling female gospel group in history. And thank you to London House Music Works for that request. Ahead of that Black Ivory with Mainline . And the group was originally known as the Mellow Souls and formed in Harlem in the summer of 1969 and included teenagers Leroy Burgess and Stuart Bascom. And the audition over the phone with the late Patrick Adams, who took the group under his tutelage, and they became Black Ivory and they began performing at private parties, block parties, social programs, eventually signing to Today Records in 1972. And they released five albums in the 1970s, including Hangin' Heavy released in 1979 and featuring the single we just heard, Mainline. And thank you to Artur in Paris for that request. Ahead of that we had Nickodemus featuring Pat Kala with Mama Chip Follow Me , a very funky, fresh, tropical mix from disco queen Tiger Balm, loving that one. And it's really an afro disco summer anthem. And that is from the original is from Nickodemus' Soul and Science album and that came out last autumn. And Tiger Balm has certainly been prolific. We loved her Profunda Alma EP on Razor and Tape last year. And she has a new album coming out this year. And in fact, we have an interview with her and an exclusive mix from her in two weeks' time. Ahead of that, an old favorite of mine, Funu , the High Life mix from super producer and DJ Dennis Ferrer . Absolutely love that. And starting it all off with Auntie Flo featuring Anne Buley with Dance Ritual One , the Lipolis Dream Dance remix as requested by Virginia Ciotti. Well, I am heading to the sunshine, Lanzarote, in fact, for a couple of weeks and some vitamin D and some sun and some surf. But I will be streaming remotely over the next couple of weeks with some special shows featuring interviews and exclusive mixes. Next week, we have Phil Mison on the show. We'll be chatting about his latest Cantoma LP . And he's also sent us an exclusive Balearic mix. And we also have a mix from our Balearic Breakfast family member, Christine D'Souza . And the following week, we have an interview with an exclusive mix from Tiger Balm , along with the Balearic Breakfast family member mix from David Stoddard . So really looking forward to this. I love streaming remotely and just having other people do the music while I hang out on the chat group. It's a lot of fun. This last one is our last New Year's request. It was requested by Chris Lee a few weeks ago. It's by Curtis Mayfield . It's called We Got to Have Peace . And I'm also going to send this and hope that we see a Gaza ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas. It's looking hopefully likely. Hopefully, we'll be able to get some humanitarian aid to the Palestinians who we all know are in need, and the return of some of the hostages back to Israel. So fingers crossed, there will be a ceasefire deal. Of course, we want everlasting peace. That could be a bit simplistic to think about. But you know, you can only hope. And let's leave you all with this lovely uplifting song and meditate that we do see some peace in the Middle East. Thank you all for joining me and looking forward to seeing you next week. And again, thanks for listening.

Colleen 'Cosmo' Murphy broadcast the 117th episode of Balearic Breakfast on her Mixcloud and Twitch TV socials on December, 20th 2022. About this episode. – After the poignant show dedicated to Ukraine, Colleen decided to end the year on a more balearic note, asking us, on december, 17th 2022 to chose songs we discovered through the show: "It’s the last Balearic Breakfast of the year this coming Tuesday from 10am to high noon GMT on my Mixcloud Live & Twitch TV. This show is a recap of our favourite tunes of 2022 so please nominate a song you discovered through or requested for the show. I can’t wait to see your suggestions! And I want to give a very big thank you to the Balearic Breakfast family. Your support throughout the year, especially after Worldwide FM hit the pause button, and your musical curiosity and passion is a lifeline to me. I can’t even express in words how much it means to me. Thank you 🙏" With a more relaxed soul, and a slightly longer running time, the first part of today's show has a wandering soul (still allowing Colleen to keep a beautiful musical unity, listen for instance how much Yu Su's Little Birds , Moonbath is close to Shawn Lee's Ping Pong Orchestra's San Diego 😉 ) while the second part is much more upfront and solid, with an incredible Soulful groove (notably containing 3 (yes 3!!) beautiful mini mixes that will make you dance without the shadow of a doubt) ! If you ask me, this episode is in my top ten 😍 On december 20th, 2022, a few hours after the show took place, Colleen posted on her socials the following message: "The last Balearic Breakfast of the year is now up on my Mixcloud. For this show I asked you to contribute your favourite songs from Balearic Breakfast in 2022 and some are songs released this year by artists like Ron Trent, Khruangbin, Rheinzand, Sam Redmore, Mountain of One and Nightlands and others are older tunes that you discovered on the show over the last 12 months by artists like Shuya Okino, Pilooski, Phil Mison, Ashley Beedle, Yu Su, The Reflex, Marxist Love Disco Ensemble, Mark E Quark and more. There are also a couple of previews of songs featured on the forthcoming Balearic Breakfast 2 compilation which will come out on Heavenly Recordings in Spring 2023. And of course a tribute to the late Terry Hall may he rest in peace. It has been quite a year for Balearic Breakfast. A big thank you to Jeff, Danny and Daisy at Heavenly Recordings and to all of you who bought the first compilation - I really appreciate your support. I also want to thank Gilles Peterson, Simon Goffe and the entire Worldwide FM team for their support of the show and I hope one day Worldwide FM will release the pause button. But until that time, I’m happy hosting the show on my Mixcloud Live and thank you for following me - the number of people joining in on the live video chat has been inspirational. I also want to thank my dedicated husband Adam for getting up early every Tuesday morning to set up the cameras, the lights and the stream. You may have noticed there were no cameras today but that’s because he got back home in the middle of the night after playing in Thailand over the weekend so I give him extra credit for getting up early to set up the stream. And the biggest thank you goes to the Balearic Breakfast Family. I have been hosting radio shows for four decades and this show is one of my favourites to host. Maybe because it was launched during the pandemic, it has deep emotional connection and I appreciate the contributions of each and every one of you. Your support means the world to me. I’ll be back hosting Balearic Breakfast on my Mixcloud Live on Tuesday, the 10th January. Until then, I wish you all a wonderful holiday." Listen back to the 117th episode of Balearic Breakfast: PLAYLIST ( 1978 ) Pharoah Sanders – As You Are ( 2022 ) Nightlands  – Down here ( 1972 ) Labi Siffre  – Cannock Chase ( 2019 ) Yu Su  – Little Birds, Moonbath ( 1985 ) Godley & Creme – Wet Rubber Soup Recycled ( 2008 ) Shawn Lee's Ping Pong Orchestra  – San Diego ( 2022 )  A mountain of One  – Custards Last Stand ( 2022 ) Khruangbin & Leon Bridges  – B Side ( 2019 ) HF International – I can't go for that (No Can Do) (feat. KASHIF) Kaoru Inoue Extended Disco Dub Remix ( 1983 ) The The  – Giant ( 2021 ) Ennio Morricone  –   Amore Come Dolore (Needs Remix) ( 2022 ) Sam Redmore (feat. Lumi HD)  –   Just Can't Wait ( 2008 ) Dolle Jolle  –   Balearic Incarnation (Todd Terje's Extra Doll Mix) ( 2022 ) Rheinzand  –   Facciamo L'amore (Scorpio Twins Remix) ( 2020 ) Mark E. Quark  – Doin it Right (Slo Mo Edit) ( 2021 ) Shuya Okino (feat. Navasha Daya)  – Still in Love (The Reflex Extended Remix) ( 2022 ) Marxist Love Disco Ensemble  – Brumaire ( 2022 ) Ron Trent (feat. Khruangbin) – Flos Potentia ( 2020 ) Lady Blackbird  – Beware The Strangers (Ashley Beedle's 'North Street West' Remix) ( 1981 ) The Specials  – Ghost Town (Extended Version) COLLEEN'S PRESENTATION I Two titans of music, Phyllis Hyman and Pharoah Sanders with the song As You Are, featured on the late saxophonist's 1978 LP, Love Will Find a Way, which not only features a late singer, Phyllis Hyman, but also Norman Connors, amongst others. And I believe that was initially a request by Bert Francois, who is a diehard Phyllis Hyman fan for good reason. It was requested for this show by Rob That Primitive Sound. Good morning, Belaricans, and welcome to the last Belaric Breakfast of the year. I'm Colleen Cosmo Murphy, taking you until a bit after high noon, as I can't fit all of your requests in two hours today. And as I'm hosting on my own Mixcloud Live and Twitch TV rather than a radio station, I have more freedom and can go over the time limit. So I hope you can hang out a bit longer than usual today. Now, this past year, we have lost many musicians, including Pharoah Sanders, Christine McVie, Klaus Schulz, Irene Cara, Julie Cruz, Vangelis, and recently, Manuel Gottsching. And I know we didn't do a tribute to him, as I already had a Ukrainian end and end of year special planned. But if you have time over the holidays, you can check out my interview with him about his masterpiece, E2E4, as a podcast on the Classic Album Sundays website. And sadly, yesterday, we lost another great, Terry Hall of Fun Boy 3, The Color Field, and The Specials. And we'll pay tribute to him later in the show, too. But the cosmic sphere of music keeps on revolving, making way for new artists, new albums, and new songs. And for today's show, I asked you for your favorite songs that you discovered on Bolero Breakfast. And initially, I was intending for it to be a recap of 2022's best releases. But you had other ideas and suggested tracks that you discovered on the show in the past year. And I thought that was rather nice and roll with it. So it really doesn't matter when something came out. If it's a new discovery, it feels fresh. And I had quite a few eureka moments this year, thanks to your requests. Now, one of my personal discoveries from the show is a new album that evokes the spirit of two bands that I adore, Tame Impala and The War on Drugs. And when it was suggested this summer, I went out and bought the album and was not disappointed. Nightlounds is Dave Hartley, a native of Philadelphia, who relocated to Asheville, an artsy cultural small city nestled in North Carolina's Blue Ridge Mountains, where the pace of life is a bit slower. And you can hear this on Hartley's sophomore release, Moonshine, released in July this year. It's a beautiful album, and you can find out more on the Nightlands Bandcamp. And it includes this little treasure down here. II La Vie Sifre with Mechanic Chase, which is a beautiful park in the Midlands. And that was requested by Kieran McCann, who said it was his most listened to track this year. How did I not know this before? And I agree with you, Kieran, as I admittedly didn't know his work before either, probably because he doesn't have the same kind of profile in America. At least that's my excuse. And I actually discovered him via our daughter, Ariana. And then I went down a rabbit hole, which is one of the things I love about this show, as it's a portal for sonic exploration. Anyways, that song was from the British singer-songwriter-guitarist's classic 1972 LP, Crying, Laughing, Loving, Lying, which is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year. And it has a new box set reissue on the horizon coming out early 2023, and I'll be snapping that up. The album also features his song, It Must Be Love, which became a major hit for Madness in the following decade. And if you have access to BBC iPlayer, here is some holiday viewing for you. A one-hour documentary called Imagine. Labisifre, this is my song. So I think I'm going to watch that one again. Okay. This next artist is one I found through Balearic Breakfast when I played her remix of transient or transient version of Plant Life by Parke Courts. And then somebody requested one of her own songs for our International Women's Day special last March. Siobhan Murphy of Detox Kitchen still listens back to that show for inspiration, and she wanted a bit of girl power this morning. So I have chosen this one for her. The artist is Yusu, an electronic music producer and DJ who was born in China and moved to Vancouver about a decade ago. She released her debut album, Yellow River Blue, on her own label, BA, last year. And I believe a new one is on the horizon. So I look forward to that with great anticipation. Here is Yusu with Helen McKenzie with Little Bird's Moon Bath. III A bit of California dreaming from the prolific composer, producer, Sean Lee, who is best known for his work on the Rockstar Games video game Bully, and who has collaborated with all sorts of artists like Young Gun, Silver Fox. I mean, you got to check out his discography when you have a minute. It's extensive. And it's another rabbit hole. You can you can go tumbling down into like Alice free falling. And that was a release from his ping pong orchestra, the song San Diego, remixed by our Balearic Breakfast buddy, Phil Meissen, and requested by Settle 15, who first heard it on the show and calls it an absolute beauty of a tune. And it sure is. Ahead of that, we had the former Ten Seas Seers, Godly and Cream with their 1985 hit, Cry, co-produced by the duo with Trevor Horn. And we heard the extended version, remixed by Trevor Horn collaborator, and SARM Studios and Art of Noise programmer, J. J. Jeksalik, which was requested by James Scott. And he said the show, the song sounds so much better stretched out like that. Some things should be luxuriated in. And I completely agree. Now, on today's show, we're featuring some of the favorite tunes featured on Balearic Breakfast over the past year. And family member Steve A. Clark says there's far too many to choose from. The beauty of the show is not only the sequencing, which he says I make sounds so effortless. Thank you very much. But the narration and education that's provided, which brings him so much joy. So he's saying Merry Christmas to the Balearic Breakfast family. And he will be listening as he finishes distilling for the year. That sounds like a lot of fun. I just decanted my slows, my slow gin and started filling up the flasks for my prezzies and just had a little bit of a taste, of course. It was a really good year for slows. I think it was all the heat this summer. Now, another one of my favorite albums of the year is by Mountain of One, who, after a 13-year hiatus of releasing albums, put out their sophomore effort, Stars, Planet, Dust Me. And we had the band's Mo Morris up on the show earlier this year to tell us the story behind a Mountain of One and their latest release. John Bocum agrees this was one of the finest Balearic offerings of 2022 and requested any song from the album. And I have chosen Custard's Last Stand. IV Now, for many in the U.K., the highlight of the festival season is Glastonbury. And each year I plant myself on my sofa and watch in the comfort of my own home and on the cliff shores, of course. And this year there were some great highlights. Paul McCartney, Roisin Murphy and the mighty Kuangbin, the Houston, Texas trio. And they just get better and better. And it was fascinating to witness their impeccable musicianship. So cool to watch them. And they often collaborate with fellow Texan soul singer-songwriter Leon Bridges. And we just heard one of the fruits of their alliances, Texas Moon B-side, which was suggested by Rob Calcutt. Now, one of my personal highlights of 2022 was the release of my first Balearic Breakfast compilation on Heavenly Recordings. And I want to shout out to Jeff, Danny and Daisy, who really are a heavenly bunch and have been so supportive. And I'm excited to announce that the follow-up, Balearic Breakfast Vol. 2, will be released in spring 2023 and will be another double album filled with goodies that either never came out on vinyl or are difficult to find or are pricey, like this one, which goes for eye-watering sums on Discogs. Peter Caria requested it. It's a cover by Japanese act HF Frequency, featuring Kashif of I Can't Go For That. And I'm giving the test pressing of the second compilation a spin right now. V A request from Craig Bradshaw for the Poluski edit of Giant, originally from the 1983 LP Soul Mining by The The. And frontman Matt Johnson recalled hallucinating about giant spiders when writing that song. And in fact, he wrote most of those songs on that LP when he was a teenager. And he said he took songwriting inspiration from John Lennon, who was quoted as saying, tell the truth and make it rhyme. Wise, wise words there. Now, this next one is from a 2003 compilation on Compost, featuring remixes of the late and great Italian film score composer Ennio Morricone. And it was requested by Giancarlo from Our Last Note Parties in Italy. And just a little note, the next time I'm DJing, in fact, my first party of 2023, will be at Last Note in Perugia, Italy on Saturday, the 4th of February. And if you want to join us for some great food, music, dance in a stunning setting and a great sound system, you can find out more on the Last Note Loft Party Facebook page. This is Ennio Morricone with Amore Come Dolore, the Needs remix, going out to Giancarlo and the Last Note team. VI Kenneth Baier's label Music for Dreams, a balleric breakfast favorite, and so is their signing Belgian group Rhinesand, who released their second LP, Atlantis Atlantis, as a follow-up to their impressive 2020 self-titled debut. The album's great, and this is my favorite song on the album, Faciamo l'amore. And to be honest, I really wanted to remix that song, but Scorpio Twins did. And I have to be honest, they were so, so good. I mean, gosh, I just love that remix. I don't think I could have done it that kind of justice. But instead, I'm helping out with another remix. I'm heading into the studio in early 2023 to remix another one of my favorite Music for Dream artists, Danish guitarist Jakob Gurevic. So really looking forward to that. Ahead of that, we had Dolly Yolly, the balleric incarnation, Todd Terrier's extra doll mix. I know I'm mispronouncing that. It's one of those weird Norwegian vowels. They have so many vowels. That was requested by Bert Francois, and that was a 2008 dance remake of Jean-Luc Ponty's Computer Incantations for World Peace. And that, the one I just played, the balleric incarnation, is also coming out on the next Balleric Breakfast compilation. Ahead of that, a 2022 release from the soulful record label Jalapeño Records, based in Brighton. And the song was by Sam Redmore, who released a great album called Universal Vibrations, which featured that single, I Just Can't Wait. And that was requested by Arter in Paris. And Jalapeño Records is also the home of singer-songwriter-musician Iso Fitzroy. She had a great release called I Want Magic, which was remixed by Dimitri from Paris a couple of years ago. And I'm excited to say she has a new album coming out in 2023. And once again, yours truly has been asked to do a remix. So I'm excited to get back in the studio for that one as well. All right, keeping it going here on Balleric Breakfast, on my MixCloud Live and my Twitch TV. And this is a request from Paul Broughton. He says it's a favorite from the past year, purely based on how many times he repeated it on a car journey at full blast. And he wishes us all a great Christmas. I have to say this is also a great musical discovery for me. It's by Southern California DJ producer Mark E. Cork, doing it right, the slo-mo edit on Balleric Breakfast. VII The best band name of the year, Italy's Marxist Love Disco Ensemble, with their distinctive post-disco 80s pop sound, almost city pop, on that song Brumaire, requested by Andrew Greenman. And you can listen to more on the Marxist Love Disco Ensemble Bandcamp. I highly suggest you head over there. Ahead of that, we had the Kyoto Jazz Massive frontman Shuya Okino, with Gil Scott Heron's cousin Navasha Daya, with a cover of Rolls-Royce's Still in Love, which originally came out over a decade ago, and last year was given the revision treatment by The Reflex, and that was requested by Carmen Estrada. So over the summer, we had quite a few pre-records on Balleric Breakfast. Usually I like to host the show live, as I am today, as you can tell with skips and all. But I had Ron Trent up, and this is Ron Trent's latest album, What Do the Stars Say to You, and it's a great LP. And this was requested by Uncool Jag and Alley 12 Alex. Katie Stringer also requested a song by Ron Trent, but I'm just not going to be able to fit it on, even though I'm going over time. This again features the mighty Kerrangbin. It's called Flos Potentia Sugar Cotton Tobacco, here on Balleric Breakfast. VIII I love that song so much. It was actually my tune of 2021, Lady Blackbird, Beware the Stranger, the Ashley Beadle remix, which came out on vinyl for the first time on my Balleric Breakfast compilation, Volume 1, and that was requested by Vinyl Del. Thank you so much for requesting. And another highlight of mine from 2022 is getting to remix her for Lost in Looking. I did the Cosmodelic remix, but no one requested it. That's absolutely fine. This is the last Balleric Breakfast meal of 2022, and I'll return hosting the show live on Tuesday, the 10th of January, when we will also have our Balleric Breakfast family member, Prince Paul Ajamal, opening up the show with a mantra mix to welcome in the new dawn of 2023, a new era. In the meantime, feel free to check out the Balleric Breakfast playlist on my Mixcloud, all the shows on one playlist. And some of you have also asked about my set from our love dance intent at We Out Here this past August, and I'll be publishing it on my Mixcloud over the next couple of days as a little prezzy, something you can dance to when you're socializing and entertaining over the holidays. And I'm looking forward to a short winter's nap, so I'll be back on the 10th of January and leaving you with a song to pay tribute to the late Terry Hall, who was in Fun Boy 3, The Color Box, and best known in the specials. He also collaborated with The Lightning Seeds, Bananarama, and more. He had a very interesting and difficult life. There's loads of obituaries. You can read the one on The Guardian. You know, challenging, challenging life, but what a great songwriter and performer. And his biggest song is arguably, arguably my next song, and our last Balleric Breakfast song of 2022. I remember hearing it driving in the middle of the night through the desert in Baja, Mexico just over 30 years ago. It was coming in all eerie over the AM radio. And it's a song that reflects the social woes of early 1980s Britain, the urban decay, the unemployment and violence of the formal industrial cities. You know, when the factories closed, that's what happened. And it was a really difficult time here in the UK. And I think Terry Hall captured it beautifully. Here is the specials with Ghost Town. Rest in peace, Terry Hall. Thank you all for joining me, my Balleric Breakfast family. It's been so wonderful to have your support throughout the year. Have a wonderful holiday and just be Balearic.

In an exclusive interview, Greg Wilson explains the hows, the whys and the importance of the new reference book "John Hamilton's Disco Pages" he worked on with Mike Atkinson and Norman Cook. https://superweirdsubstance.com/product/james-hamiltons-disco-pages/ 1) Dear Greg, thank you so much for joining us here on the blog! I spent quite some time flipping through the pages of your book, and I found it is a very practical and directly useful book! Can you tell us how, and why, with the editor's help, you expanded Jame's original work in this first volume?   Thanks for having me on the blog Artur. I’d been exchanging emails with Mike Atkinson, the book’s editor, for a number of years. He knew that I felt that James had been lost to history, and he obviously shared the same sentiment (Mike got to know James when he married his step-mother, Sally, just a few years before his death). After I’d successfully published my own book, Discotheque Archives, in which James was one of the featured DJs, we discussed the possibility of a book compiling James’ columns. The initial plan was to cover 1975 to 1989, but it became clear that a lot of detail would be lost if Mike had to fit everything into the one book, so the decision was made to split it into two volumes, Disco Pages covering 1975-1982, with Dance Pages to follow, taking it through from 1983-1989. It works really well this way, Disco Pages concluding as the dance music scene was going through major changes, when drum machines, sequencers and samplers replaced the live musicians of the disco and jazz-funk eras, with New York electro-funk (or electrophonic phunk, as James referred to it) the catalyst for hip-hop, house and techno, which would emerge during the following years, and provide the main thrust of Dance Pages. Disco Pages also documents the rise of gay disco, leading to hi-NRG, and the influence of the futurist/new romantic movement and its music.   2) All in all, if I'm being correct, the book took 7 years to complete (a few of the editorial steps are presented in the book's introduction). Can you tell us, working hand in hand with Mike and Norman, which part of the project was the hardest? I think that may have been the time its taken for Mike to complete transcribing all the columns. Once we made the decision to publish the book, it came together relatively quickly, there were no bumps as such along the way.  Norman had bought a copy of Discotheque Archives, which led to an interview I did with him in 2023 at the Big Beach Café in Hove, which he owns. Norman was particularly happy to see James included, having followed the column in his younger years, so when we were thinking of the introductory section I asked him if he’d write a few words. Given all the groundwork Mike had already put in, it all came together pretty painlessly. Slim Smith, who also designed Discotheque Archives, was invaluable to the process, for, apart from the content, the aesthetic of the book was really important, needing to reflect its encyclopedic nature – there was no thought of it being anything but hardback, given these considerations.   3)   As a renowned and an experienced DJ you were also on the front line when Disco Music exploded and when it faded due to the events we all know. Still, even though we can feel your professional, and "historical" approach, we can't put aside the passion for music that runs through your veins and your soul. Enhanced by James own passion, which one can feel oh so very much in these 400+ pages) this book shines bright as being an absolutely thriving piece of musical literature! Was it part of the project to put out a "reference" book about James' Legacy or do you feel it should be first seen, and thus experienced, as a "professionally fan made book" set out to share a piece of Music's Story? I’m interested in these events you mention that we all know about, for if this refers to Comiskey Park and the ‘Disco Sucks’ movement, you might be interested to know that there was no mention of this in James’ columns – it wasn’t something that most people here learned about until well after the event, thanks to books like ‘Last Night A DJ Saved My Life’ and ‘Love Saves The Day’. US lineage has been so well documented in the past thirty years, but there are still missing chunks in the UK story, which people often fill in via stuff they know about the US, but in reality, they were two separate paths (which began to converge in the late-‘70s). I think many DJs will be surprised by the differences in what was being played in the US and the UK during this period – there was obviously a sizeable crossover, but, despite it being largely black American music everyone was drawing from, the British DJs approached it with a different personality, and sometimes a different groove to their US counterparts.   There was a disco backlash of sorts in the UK, but no record bonfires or suchlike - it was more to do with DJs who’d previously supported the music feeling it had become commercialised following the juggernaut success of ‘Saturday Night Fever’, leading them to move towards jazz-funk, which was really beginning to establish itself and would dominate the underground for the coming years. Back to the question, it was always approached as a reference book, for that’s what it essentially is – our job was to facilitate that as best we could. I’m almost as passionate about books as I am about music, and I know what I want out of a reference book, which is the ability to pull it off the shelf and quickly access the information I’m looking for. To aid this process we put together a multi-source index for easy navigation. As soon as I received a proof copy, some months ago, I began to use as a reference for other stuff I’m writing, so I’m more than happy with how it all works.   4) With the (almost) insane amount of music being released today, one may feel lost, not knowing what listen to. My feeling is that James's legacy should be shared and valorised as it might encourage musical journalists to share useful thoughts on certain musical genres, that are, again it's my subjective point of view, underrepresented, like the Balearic musical scene for which it's hard to find a cohesive presentation of what's new. How do you feel about the way music is introduced to djs and to the public today? Do you feel it's optimal? Back in the days of James’ column, he provided a central hub for the DJ/club community throughout the country, which afforded him a lot of power. There’s no equivalent now, all the information dispersed, rather than available in one place – not that it could be, for the sheer amount of music recorded nowadays dwarfs what happened in the past, when to make a record you had to go through the expensive process of booking a recording studio and hiring equipment/musicians. Nowadays the studio is in the computer, so it’s easy for people to make music with little outlay, but, given the overload of tracks/edits/mixes, this is part of the devaluation of music – as Syndrome once said, "when everyone is super, no one will be".  Once there was a whole process before you could even think about getting your music to other people. You had to find a way to record demos, and then look to place them with a record company, hoping they’d give you a budget to get back into the studio and record them properly. You had to sign contracts and hire a lawyer. There were a lot of hoops to jump through before you finally reached the holy grail – an actual record on sale. The payback, of course, would be all the avenues a record company could open up to you – press, radio, tv, video, tour support. You only had a foot on the ladder, there was still nothing guaranteed, but your music was finally available and you could call yourself a recording artist. This filtering was done via the A&R departments, where people were hired on their ability to spot and help develop future hitmakers – there was constant risk, but the rewards were significant when it all came off. It's changed with the digital age, when it became possible for someone to record and mix their tracks within their own computer and upload them to various online platforms, whilst sharing/selling digitally. A much more democratic system that, on the surface, bypasses the need for a record company, but given the sheer deluge of tracks appearing, everybody’s feeding off scraps to one degree or another – hence the current disgruntlement with the miserly royalty rates for streaming. Nowadays, to a large degree, artists need to be their own A&R, developing themselves before the record company gets involved. The risk aspect has been seriously negated, as the record companies can see the amount of social media followers their prospective signings have, knowing whether there’s already a solid fanbase for them to market towards – the development already in place. The harsh reality is that your social media following is an indicator of your worth, be it to record companies, or venues and promoters in the DJ realm. It’s very difficult for DJs who are starting out in this climate – the role more a glorified hobby than a profession for many, because the gigs are rare and the fees small to non-existent. Some DJs have benefitted hugely from their social media presence, and excel in their use of the medium to attract people to their gigs, whereas others feel awkward creating content to help put themselves in the marketplace. Outside of the mainstream, its more about micro-scenes, not necessarily connecting to each other as yet. When something like Northern soul or jazz-funk started off, there was no ready-made scene, as such, just a small amount of outlier DJs and clubs, which eventually got bigger as further connections were made with the likeminded, eventually constituting ‘a scene’, and finally garnering mainstream attention. That was the natural flow of things back then. You can’t return to the past, but things do go around in cycles, and sometimes you need to adopt an old ethos to a new time.   Mike Atkinson on the left, Greg and Norman Cook on the right. 5) When listening to the podcast you did with Mike, we can understand how James, through the columns he wrote, was able to reach out to his fellow DJ friends, creating a community and communicate in an effective and useful way about the scene, their activity (including his own of course) and, at the same time, be historically right in the spot. Back then, beat mixing was a new trend and, dare I say, James' "breadcrumbs". With the evolution of technology and mentalities, some readers might think "well, it's nice and all but it's a thing of the past". As a professional DJ, why do you think James Hamilton Disco Pages are still relevant in 2024? The tagline for Discotheque Archives was ‘to know the future, first you must know the past’. Patterns emerge within the course of history, be it world affairs or music culture, and although the methods and conditions may change, history does have a habit of repeating itself. Besides, knowing your roots is something I’m sure most DJs would, at least, be intrigued about. Then, of course, there’s the trainspotter aspect. Many DJs playing nowadays draw from the mid-‘70s-early-‘80s, so this provides a mine of information given the huge amount of reviews and all the chart detail. The fact that this era of music is still alive in clubs and festivals, be it via the originals or re-edits/reworks/samples, is testament to its impact and enduring influence, so I’d figure that anyone playing stuff from this timescale would be inclined to investigate, to see what other gems might be uncovered. Throughout the past 20 years and more, ‘disco’ has become a key part of the contemporary dance music soundscape, played by DJs throughout the world. Walk through many festivals these days and it won’t take long to hear some of the tunes that were first unveiled here in James’ columns. So it’s not as though we’re asking people to engage in some remote history, but a history that is still, all these decades on, continuing to write itself.

Worldwide FM broadcast the 111th episode of Balearic Breakfast on October 18th 2022. About this episode. – We all knew we were reaching a changing point in our musical travel. With WorldwideFM taking a break, we didn't know what was lying ahead of us. Still, together, there was a lot we could do, and we were all aware of that. So, it is with a lot of Positivity, mixed with a light sadness, that we gathered together for that beautiful 110th episode of Balearic Breakfast, all sails out! I mean, look at the track's titles, listen to the lyrics, pay attention to Colleen's mixing... The speed is absolutely perfect here; the Aura of that show is one for the record, with songs like "Keep in the Family" , "Keep the Fire Burning" , "Love is on your mind" , and even "Feel it" ! The message is plain to see... The Balearic Breakfast ship was not ready to end its travelling... Listen back to the 110th episode of Balearic Breakfast: The penultimate Balearic Breakfast on Worldwide FM is now up on Worldwide FM and my Mixcloud. Next week is the last show on WWFM but we're keeping the femily together. From the 8th November you can join me every Tuesday from 10am to 12 noon GMT for Balearic Breakfast on my Mixcloud Live and Twitch TV and I also have set a Discord Commmunity server so we can stay in touch. All links are in the linktree in my bio. Today's show has a lot of uplifting energy with your requests and tributes to some legends who have passed: José Padilla, Patrick Cowley and David Mancuso plus music from Ray Mang, Tigerbalm, Lucinda Chua, Calm Music, Hell yeah, Photek, Celestial Being, Citizens of the Worlds Choir, London Contemporary Voices and more... Enjoy! Colleen, 19th oct. 2022, Instagram PLAYLIST Lucinda Chua – Whatever it Takes José Padilla – Bosaxi Sounds of Blackness – Optimistic Calm – Feel It Tigerbalm ft Joy Tyson – Kete (Mang Dynasty Remix) Jhalib – Mysteries of the East Blue Nile – Tinseltown in the Rain Deodato – Keep It In the Family Patrick Cowley – Sea Hunt Mission Control – Outta Limits Street Corner Symphony – Street Corner Symphony Photek – Mine To Give (David Morales Happy Mix) Celestial Being – Raise the Vibration Gwen McCrae – Keep The Fire Burning Gladys Knight and The Pips – Love Is Always on Your Mind Charles Earland – Drifting Odyssey – Hang Together DETAILED PLAYLIST Broken dreams, fear, somewhere. The show opener, Lucinda Chua – Whatever it Takes [ 2019-Bandcamp ] , taken from Lucinda's " Antidotes 1 EP ", is not your ordinary calm track. It is indeed a somewhat inquisitory song, searching for answers. " Chua’s intonation gives her storytelling an air of inquiry, as if her voice were debris in a narrative storm. “You better have bore a son,” she mutters in the opening line, not as a threat but with remorse. Plot points remain just out of frame: a family split, a voyage undertaken, oppressors at home and afar, and the mysterious “witches in exile.” Elusive and timeless, it sounds like the husk of an old folk song, barely recalled by the last woman alive ". Not a stranger to finding a way at crosspoints, Lucinda Chua proves here once again that sometimes, asking questions is not all about finding answers but, on the contrary, your own voice. It is in this unknown, quite uncertain, yet promising voyage that we are immediately and musically thrown into with " Whatever it takes ". What a clever way to start Balearic Breakfast's penultimate show on Worldwide FM, ain't it?... As often, the following song, José Padilla – Bosaxi [ 2001-Discogs ] , seamlessly fits into the previous one, allowing the listener to ease into the show. With its rather sad lyrics, this love song is one of aching. For those of you interested in finding out more about José Padilla, please listen to Balearic Breakfast's 8 & 9 episodes. His album, Navigator, from which this song is taken, is considered by many a classic Balearic Album ! Keeping the flow coming our way, Colleen chose to play the beautiful song Sounds of Blackness – Optimistic [ 1991-Discogs ] followed by the somewhat jazzy number that is Calm – Feel It [ 2022-Bandcamp ] . It seems obvious here that these first tracks constitute the first part of this edition of Balearic Breakfast: throughout challenges that are awaiting us, we're invited to carry on with positivity! There is a sense of moving forward in a lot of the tracks played in this episode. The second part of the show starts with a great example: Tigerbalm ft Joy Tyson – Kete (Mang Dynasty Remix) [ 2022-Bandcamp ] really Wowed the whole Balearic Breakfast familly allowing Colleen to take us to another great Balearic track, Jhalib – Mysteries of the East [ 1982-Discogs ] that of course may make you think about some of Talking Head's songs! This tripped out, percussive eastern voyage trance dancer of an album was produced by Indipop label mastermind and Monsoon man Steve Coe and got heavy rotation on the Cosmic and Balearic scenes in the 80's. Colleen beautifully blended this track with Blue Nile – Tinseltown in the Rain [ 1983-Discogs ] (find out more about the album the song is taken from, just here ), which is also a song dealing with how one deals with feelings as time goes by. Still, the questioning is lingering somewhere, obviously, closely linked to what the band experienced when recording their debut album! Keeping the rhythm alive and well, Colleen takes us further down our trip towards uncertain times in quite a "Grand" way, actually! Starting with Deodato – Keep It In the Family [ 1982-Discogs ] , followed by Patrick Cowley – Sea Hunt [ 1981-Discogs ] and Mission Control – Outta Limits [ 1994-Discogs ] , our Musical Captain takes us on one of these unforgettable musical rides! Can you feel the wind blowing hard? Do you see our Balearic Breakfast ship facing the Sea and the clouds gathering in the distance? Can we picture our inner motivation and our Belief towards beautiful tomorrows? Because right now, I can! For those of you interested in discovering more about the Minergy Book, available here , don't hesitate to watch Louie Niebuhr's interview. The wind is blowing, and we're all on the Balearic Breakfast Ship, dancing our hearts out as our Captain keeps on dropping heavy and Balearic Vibes! Starting with Street Corner Symphony – Street Corner Symphony [ 1995-Discogs ], Colleen takes us into heaven with the incredibly sounding Photek – Mine To Give (David Morales Happy Mix) [ 2000-Discogs ]  - what an incredibly large soundstage on that one, astounding!, and Colleen's mix, which to me ends the second part of this show, is absolutely Delicious! For those of you who would like to know, Street Corner Symphony is a contemporary a cappella  group based out of Nashville, Tennessee. Founded in 2010, the group of singers worked with renowned artists like Ben Folds, Alison Krauss, and Take 6's Claude McKnight. Find out more about this beautiful vocal band here . The last part of this show starts with Celestial Being – Raise the Vibration [ 2021-Discogs ] , followed by what I consider to be Balearic Breakfast Hymn, Gwen McCrae – Keep The Fire Burning [ 1982-Discogs ] , lightly followed by the Magnificent song that is Gladys Knight and The Pips – Love Is Always on Your Mind [ 1977-Discogs ] , this beautiful lightweight trip ending its journey with Charles Earland – Drifting [ 1976-Discogs ] . The show ender came logically in the form of a song that the Balearic Breakfast Family likes a lot, and that has been played during very trying times when Covid hit us all. This song, Odyssey – Hang Together [ 1980-Discogs ] , is a promise; it's a statement; it's the Family knowing that whatever happens, we'll stand tall behind our Captain. Long may live Balearic Breakfast!

Colleen 'Cosmo' Murphy broadcast the 112nd episode of Balearic Breakfast on her Mixcloud and Twitch TV socials on November 8th 2022. About this episode. – Good morning! After a week’s break I feel rested and ready for the next era of Balearic Breakfast. I’ll be streaming on my Mixcloud Live and Twitch TV this coming Tuesday from 10 am to 12 noon GMT and then the show will be archived on my Mixcloud. Go on - tell me what you would like to hear 🍁🎶 Did you notice the slight change in the post's presentation line, going from "Worldwide FM broadcast..." to "Colleen 'Cosmo' Murphy broadcast..." ? Well, times were changing since Worldwidefm had to reduce its activity. Still, there was no way for the Family to leave the Balearic Breakfast ship nor to wave goodbye to its Musical and oh-so-courageous Captain... So, when Colleen greeted us with a new request line offering to follow her in a new musical era of our beloved show, we answered all as one, making requests that showcased how we all felt about this fresh start. All I can say is that this 112th episode of Balearic Breakfast holds both hope and sadness in its musical soul, a "questioning sadness" ( John Martyn – Bless the Weather ), I would say, one that asks about what's ahead without entirely accepting its nature ( Massive Attack – Weather Storm; Rhetta Hughes – Throwing It All Away )... There is a sense of discovery in that 112th episode ( Cornelius – Tone Twilight Zone; Labi Siffre – Watch Me; Primal Scream – Higher than the Sun (The Orb Mix); John Lee & Gerry Bown – Celebration ); the music has a somewhat "unexpected" nature ( Gabriels – To the Moon and Back; Chez Damier – Close; Xavier – Love is on the One ), and it is often slightly "mysterious" too ( Quantic – The 5th Exotic ). I love diving deep into the older shows; since I don't remember what was going on back then on the chat, I always try to find the hidden message from each of the shows and I thus consider them as real "albums", giving them several listens (up to 4/5), really taking the time to find the "right feeling" and to be sure I don't write too much stupid stuff ^^ All in all, It is one of these episodes that I absolutely love listening to again and again; it has depth, and it quickly became, rightfully, very successful! Wow - my first Balearic Breakfast stream/upload post Worldwide FM is now number one in the Mixcloud Balearic charts! Thanks to all of you who helped make this happen - I really appreciate your support. See you tomorrow (Tuesday) from 10am to 12 noon GMT on my Mixcloud Live for the next weekly helping of Balearic Breakfast. Listen back to the 113rd episode of Balearic Breakfast: The new era of Balearic Breakfast has begun! This morning we streamed on my Mixcloud Live and Twitch TV from 10 am to 12 noon and I would like to thank everyone who joined us - it was quite the turnout! And thanks for your requests, too. The show is now archived with a playlist on my Mixcloud. The Wow Effect. – The feeling of "strangeness" and "expectation" can be easily heard in the first part of the show, where we discovered real new gems like Gabriel's "To the Moon and Back". This track is not your ordinary Jazz beauty... Other tracks that wowed the Family included the absolutely beautiful Rhetta Hughes' "Throwing It All Away", which has that light sadness mixed with the anticipation of a new start! New Music. – This episode allowed us to discover the following new songs: Gabriels – To the Moon and Back ( serendeepity.net ) SAULT – Love Is All I Know ( Bandcamp ) PLAYLIST Cornelius – Tone Twilight Zone John Martyn – Bless the Weather Bob Dylan – The Times They Are A-Changin' Labi Siffre – Watch Me Gabriels – To the Moon and Back Primal Scream – Higher than the Sun (The Orb Mix) Massive Attack – Weather Storm Rhetta Hughes – Throwing It All Away Stevie Wonder – Love Light in Flight (DJ M remix) Quantic – The 5th Exotic Chez Damier – Close Xavier – Love is on the One Gary Toms Empire – Sexy Lady Bohannon – Let’s Start the Dance III (Francois Kevorkian Mix) John Lee & Gerry Bown – Celebration GALXTC – Life is a Mirror SAULT – Love Is All I Know Kerri Chandler & Roy Ayers – Good Vibrations Shaboom – Bessie The Return – New Day GALLERY & STORIES Click on the images to find out more...

Colleen 'Cosmo' Murphy broadcast the 113th episode of Balearic Breakfast on her Mixcloud and Twitch TV socials on November 15th 2022. Introduction. – When you think about it, Balearic Breakfast came into our lives when we all needed it, allowing us to escape, at least for a few hours each week, from the Covid-19 pandemic. What we didn't know back then was how much "the world" (or a part of its inhabitants, should I say...) would keep on losing its ground as we would all go along, trying to forget, thanks to our Musical Oasis, the sad events occurring on a daily basis... The war started by Russia on the old European continent is, sadly, a good example of how crazy the times were (and still are - 09/09/2023 as of today). On November 15th, Russia conducted the most extensive set of missile strikes against Ukraine since the start of the war. If any proof was needed, this attack showed that Russia hadn't the slightest intention of withdrawing, further pushing its deathly "mission": inflicting an "unbearable war" on Ukraine... As always, the Balearic Breakfast Family gathered under the loving musical care of its Captain, choosing tracks that helped all of its members to escape the gloomy events that were taking place... About this show. – When I first listened back to the show, working on this post, I very quickly had a mental representation, seeing a young couple, holding hands and laughing while walking on clouds... And, indeed, from the first song and throughout the show, you will Feel like you are walking in thin air! Listen to the depth of the tracks and the light echo in all of them... Immerse yourself in their ethereal world and pay attention to how carefully Colleen chose the tracks for this gorgeous 113th episode of Balearic Breakfast! Once again, this episode shows the absolute Strength of the Balearic Breakfast Family, allowing our Musical Captain to create a coherent and dreamy show. Undoubtedly, this beautiful two-hour edition of Balearic Breakfast is the lightest of them all! Listen back to the 113th episode of Balearic Breakfast: New records . – This edition of Balearic Breakfast allowed us to discover new tracks by the following artists: Soyuz – Como é que vai vocé (feat. Sessa) ( Bandcamp ) Crazy P – People (We can Transform) ( Bandcamp ) The Wow effect. – I clearly remember "feeling" this show was special when I experienced it live. Only when listening back to it did I realise how coherent it was! The tracks that really wowed me back then were Roisin' Murphy's "Incapable" (The Reflex Revision), Love's Tempo "Change for the Better" and Gotan Project's "Triptico"! PLAYLIST Gino Soccio – Closer Soyuz – Como é que vai vocé (feat. Sessa) Arno E. Mathieu –Temps libre America –Ventura Highway Congress Alley – Congress Alley Dr John – I walk on Guided Splinters Suede – She's in Fashion The Smiths – This Night has opened my eyes The Style Council – Headstart for Happiness Gal Costa & Caetano Veloso – Que Pena (Ele Jà Nao Gosta Mais de Mim) Surface – Falling in love (A Shep Pettybone remix) Crazy P – People (We can Transform) Roisin Murphy – Incapable (The Reflex Revision) Sunshine Jones – Fall in Love not in line (12" version) Monday Michiru – Love Flow (Mango Margarita Mix) Love Tempo – Change for the better Gotan Project – Triptico Michel Ciels – Mir a Nero Roxy Music – Same old scene GALLERY & STORIES Click on the images to find out more...

Colleen 'Cosmo' Murphy broadcast the 114th episode of Balearic Breakfast on her Mixcloud and Twitch TV socials on November 22nd 2022. “I understand that everything is connected, that all roads meet, and that all rivers flow into the same sea.” Paulo Coelho. That 114th show of the series was very special on many levels. First things first, it has a Soul of its own. Very often, you read me writing about the Soul of the Balearic Breakfast shows, and this one is no exception to the rule: can you picture the beautiful river the Balearic Breakfast was on back then while listening to the show? Can you see all of us on these nice flatboats, making our way through a bushy yet gentle jungle on a Tuesday morning with the sun rising in front of our happy eyes? I definitely can! Listen to the rhythm of the waves in every song, hear the sound of water and experience the wilderness expanding around you, feel our joy of being together in this particular moment; I bet you can already hear a four-legged spirit complaining because he needs more rest (laughs)! While I leave the rest of the trip to your imagination, the second reason the show was so special is simple: we were celebrating Thanksgiving! Also, this show featured some of the books recommended by members of the Balearic Breakfast family. As you'll hear, the proposals were eclectic (the booklist is reproduced below)! Last but not least, Colleen paid a warm tribute to her daughter Ariana whose Birthday was the following day, on the 23rd of November! And since Balearic Breakfast is the gift that keeps on giving, here is a little story : at one point of the show, Colleen made a mistake and admitted live, while stopping the record, that she played the wrong side. I vividly remember we all exploded in a laugh of absolute joy (did she really do that ?! Yes she actually did)! This was another of these moments where we all felt that we belonged to this show, to this time, to this place... All in all, Such a Great Bealeaic Breakfast Trip on the river of life... !!! Listen back to the 114th edition of Balearic Breakfast : PLAYLIST Carwyn Ellis – Thank God Joni Mitchell – The circle game Abunai – Sixteen hours FC Kahuna – Hayling (feat. Hafdis Huld) Those guys from athens – 4 your love Stephane Sévérac – Hold on JT Donaldson – Dis oui ! Alicia Myers – I want to thank you David Bowie – Golden years Daniel Wang – DSDN Sunrise HWY – Kinky Afro ( Extended vocal mix) Freeez – I.O.U. (12" Mix) The Intruders – I'll always love my mama Osunlade – Give Thanks Will Downing – A love supreme Honey Dijon – Love is a State of Mind (feat. Ramona Renea) LCD Soundsystem – All my friends Jah Wooble, The Edge & Holger Czukay – Snake Charmer 18 years ago today an amazing person was brought into the world - our daughter Ariana. Witnessing her grow up and evolve has been a joy and an honour. She is kind, talented, smart, funny and an old soul. I’m a very, very proud Mum. She has given me so much joy and has made me evolve as a person and I thank her for that. The world is a better place with her. Happy birthday Ariana! I love you more than words can ever express. Colleen to her daughter, Instgr., 23/11/2022 It’s the biggest shopping day of the year and as promised here are some music book recommendations suggested by the Balearic Breakfast family. There’s something here for everyone - even you. Go ahead and treat yourself. Colleen, Instgr., 25/11/2022

Colleen 'Cosmo' Murphy broadcast the 115th episode of Balearic Breakfast on her Mixcloud and Twitch TV socials on December 6th 2022. A Time of peace had arrived. It is often the case when December knocks on someone’s door. It is also a reflective time, where everyone thinks about the year that has passed, the successes, the trials, the failures, the new friends that came in and, sadly, the ones we lost... This December marked Balearic Breakfast's 115th show and it was impacted by the passing of Christine McVie, Fleetwood Mac’s singer and songwriter. So when Colleen opened the request line on December 3rd 2022, several members of the Balearic Breakfast Family suggested a tribute should be made to the late and beloved singer. We all were deeply saddened by this loss and I remember walking the Parisian streets on December 1st with tears in my eyes while thinking about Christine’s "Songbird" song. “In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all; and, to the young, it comes with bitterest agony, because it takes them unawares. The older have learned to ever expect it. I am anxious to afford some alleviation of your present distress. Perfect relief is not possible, except with time. You can not now realize that you will ever feel better. Is not this so? And yet it is a mistake. You are sure to be happy again. To know this, which is certainly true, will make you some less miserable now. I have had experience enough to know what I say; and you need only to believe it, to feel better at once.” Abraham Lincoln No need to tell you I got emotional once again at the end of the show when I heard what Colleen had in her bag for the musical tribute… “I woke up in the middle of the night and the song just came into my head,” said McVie of Fleetwood Mac’s classic Rumours ballad. “I got out of bed, played it on the little piano I have in my room, and sang it with no tape recorder. I sang it from beginning to end: everything.” She added, “I can’t tell you quite how I felt. It was as if I’d been visited. It was a very spiritual thing. I was frightened to play it again in case I’d forgotten it." “It doesn’t really relate to anybody in particular; it relates to everybody. “A lot of people play it at their weddings or at bar mitzvahs or at their dog’s funeral. It’s universal. It’s about you and nobody else. It’s about you and everybody else. That’s how I like to write songs.” Christine Mc Vee But before that closing moment, we had a beautiful show that had a nice "musical unity". Listen back to the 115th episode of Balearic Breakfast : TRACKLIST Alina Bzezhinska & HipHarpCollective – Meditations Rickie Lee Jones – Living it Up Pharao Black Magic ft Peter Coyle – Amulet (Begin Remix) Gabriels – Angels (Leo Zero Edit) Donald – A Ver, a Ver (Ric Piccolo Edit) Skyy – First Time Around (Larry Levan Remix) Barbie Bertisch – After the Storm (Gene Tellem Remix) Tortured Soul ft Saucy Lady – It’s Your Turn The Orb – Apple Tree (Abacus Remix) Malcolm McLaren – Paris Trois SIRS CUT – Tennis Barry Can’t Swim – Like the Old Days Touchdown – Ritmo Suave Fleetwood Mac – World Turning (Flying Mojito Bros Refrito) Fleetwood Mac – Everywhere (Psychemagik Remix) Fleetwood Mac – Keep On Going Fleetwood Mac – Songbird

Colleen 'Cosmo' Murphy broadcast the 116th episode of Balearic Breakfast on her Mixcloud and Twitch TV socials on December 13th 2022. The roots of Russia's invasion of Ukraine go back decades and run deep. The current conflict is more than one country taking over another; it is — in the words of one U.S. official — a shift in "the world order." (Npr website, Ukraine invasion — explained) Ukraine and Russia are two countries that border each other in Eastern Europe. Russian President Vladimir Putin sees Ukraine as historically part of Russia. In 2014, Russia invaded Crimea, in the south of Ukraine, and continues to occupy it. On Feb. 24, 2022, Russia sent its army into Ukraine and began trying to take over the country by force. This invasion surprised many people, as it was Europe's first major war in decades. But Russia and Ukraine have had a problematic relationship for centuries... We encourage you to read this excellent article that explains the roots of the conflict and how History led to the saddest events of 2022... Fear. And then. Sadness. A deep Sadness as the horrific news of Ukraine's Invasion spread worldwide. Sadness and Hopelessness. War. What a horrendous word. We've had enough wars and didn't want more people dying. All we needed was peace after all we'd been through during the pandemic. We, the Balearic Breakfast Family, coming from all places of the World, led by our Beloved Captain 'Cosmo', were Ready to make a Stand and support Ukraine. And this is precisely what we did on that 13 December 2022 on Mixcloud. A few days before the show, we sent Colleen our songs of Hope for a better future, our songs of Protest against a War we despised and our messages of Love towards Ukraine. This commune effort resulted in one of the most poignant Balearic Breakfast show ever, dedicated to the Ukrainian Radio Station EDEN and their listeners, the people of Ukraine... Listen to the Balearic Breakfast Family Unite for Ukraine : PLAYLIST Alina Bzhezhinska & HipHarpCollective – Alabama Leonard Cohen – The Partisan Bill Withers – Lean on me (live at Carnegie Hall) Ocean Colour Scene – Profit in peace The Roots – Tomorrow (feat. Raheem DeVaughn) Donny Hathaway – Someday we'll all be free Stevie Wonder – Heaven help us all Stevie Wonder – Love's in need of love today The Staple Singers – Freedom Highway Earth, Wind & Fire – That's the way of the world Paolo Nutini – Iron Sky (Hudson Mohawke Remix) Nightmare on wax – Up to us (feat. Haile Supreme) Kate Bush – Cloudbusting New-York Community Choir – I'll keep my light in my Window (12" Version) The Police – When the World is Running down, you make the best of what's around Coldcut ( with Lisa Stansfield) – People hold on Sounds of Blackness – Hold on - Change is coming (Blaze) Horace Andy & Ashley Beedle – When the rain Falls (Cosmodelica Remix) Czesław Niemen – Dziwny jest ten świat

Colleen 'Cosmo' Murphy broadcast the 203rd episode of Balearic Breakfast on her Mixcloud on December 10th 2024. About this episode. – Sometimes, well, maybe more than that (laughs!), things fall into place. Once again, Balearic Breakfast was the place to experience – how to put it – a perfect alignment of... Musical and Historical planets! Since she had a busy partying schedule playing at Corrie Doon's party on November 30th and this very Sunday at the London Loft – we all know how that goes, no partying without preparation and hard work, right?) – Colleen did not publish the request line this Saturday. Of course, the Balearic Breakfast Family was slightly sad (because we can't get enough of that requesting game, laughs!), but we all kept a positive mindset knowing that Colleen would present a live show this very Tuesday, so all that was left was the unbearable... waiting (laughs)! As expected, time flew in a blink and we were all present today, welcoming our Captain and our Beloved Adam for what hapenned to be a Splendid episode with a soul of its own! "Having a little boogie on this morning’s Balearic Breakfast and the show is now up on my Mixcloud and thank you to everyone from the BB Fam who joined in on the chat on the Mixcloud Live Stream. Looking forward to seeing you all next Tuesday and a reminder the request line goes up on Saturday on my socials. In the meantime, enjoy the show!" Listen back to the 204th episode of Balearic Breakfast: PLAYLIST ( 2022 ) Calm   – Drift to Dreamland ( 2024 ) Caoilfhionn Rose   – Dying Star ( 2000 ) Jaffa   – Elevator ( 1983 ) Letta Mbulu   – Nomalizo ( 2024 ) Gloria Taylor   – One Day Happiness (Love is a Hurtin’ Thing) (Disco Blending by Al Kent) ( NOL ) Jill Scott (ft. Anthony Hamilton)   – So In Love (Edit by Mr. K) ( 1981 ) Light of the World   – London Town ( 2024 ) Silvertooth   – Shut Um Down (Pop Up 2 Get Down Remix) ( 2019 ) Leroy Burgess   – Barely Breaking Even (Louie Vega NYC House Remix TV Track) ( 2024 ) Pellegrino & Zodyaco   – Sadite ( 2024 ) Saucy Lady & U-Key (ft Omar)   – I Can’t Shake This Feeling ( 1990 ) Key Tronics Ensemble   – House of Calypso ( 2024 ) Meshell Ndegeocello   – Love (Tedd Patterson’s Kinship Remix) ( 2024 ) Zer-0 – Real Time (2024 Retrospective Dub) ( 2024 ) Tigerbalm   – Profunda Alma (Make A Dance Acid Remix) ( 2017 ) Glenn Underground’s Jaz Collective   – Fuego de Sangre ( 1979 ) Charanga 76   – No Nos Pararan THE LISTENING EXPERIENCE Today's show started with Colleen selecting the wrong speed on her turntable, laughs! Our dear Captain started the show again selecting the right speed and the image went from "Falling leaves" to... "A World of Peace". I kept the title as, quite quickly, I felt it was what the music C onveyed. Of course, Thanks to Calm 's Drift to Dreamland which opens today's episode but also thanks to the following songs, both in the first and in the second hour of the show... Caoilfhionn Rose 's Dying Star is also another incredible soothing musical journey and, Caoilfhionn kindly shared with me the following thought: " When I was writing the lyrics to Dying Star I was thinking about a good friend of mine. I felt very inspired by them, they’d gone off travelling on a solo trip. They’ve had a difficult life, and I think a few words on the song would be "it’s really just a moment of reflection of the inner strength and resilience of my friend". Thank you so much dear friend for sharing these thoughts with the Balearic Breakfast Family! The calmness emanating from today's episode is something to experience, and more so when you think about the Political changes the world went through the last few days ( the French Cathedral Notre Dame reopened its doors this very Saturday after a fire nearly destroyed it back in 2019, Bashar Al Asad's regime has been put down by rebels who attacked the regime from their base in Idlib, in Syria's north-west and Trump is advocating for a cease-fire in the war Russia is leading against Ukraine... ). In a nutshell, It's like Colleen somehow felt the need to share this powerful shift, consciously or unconsciously this we don't know, still it's a beauty to witness... Really! Following this relaxing start, Colleen plays David Kakon 's Elevator , just to let a Classic flow in the name of Nomalizo – "the name of a young woman who comes from the countryside to the city of Johannesburg, looking for work,” Mbulu explains. “She knocked on all kinds of doors trying to find work, and the response was very negative. They would just slam the door in her face" – sang by Letta Mbulu (whose beautiful voice can be heard on Michael Jackson's "Liberian Girl" – Click here to get In The Music… The Village Never Ends' reissue)! Keeping the Calmness intact, listen to the piano and the long silence in the Rhythmic guitar's parts..., Colleen then plays Al Kent's remix of Gloria Gaynor's One Day Happiness . Although Mixcloud compresses the sound, this peculiar track allows you to hear a lot of beautiful high-pitched notes: take the time to listen to them, can you picture, can you picture the form they have? Can you see the way they end? When listening to music, take the time to listen to the ending of the notes being played, it's a world in itself... If you're able to picture the "form" of the notes played, the way they die, you'll hear Music in another and unique way... Don't take my word on this, keep that in your mind, and exercise your ear, one day you'll thank me. This is just one thing I discussed with my friend Men Tensel when we met together a few days ago! Yes, Balearic Breakfast is a Musical Family Affair! And we ain't faking here! Think of music as Philosophy, take some distance, observe it as it were a movie, listen to it as it were your closest friend talking, and get into it like you were making love... Experience it. Believe me, you don't need crazy priced Hi-Fi sets to Feel its power... Of Course, Colleen's delicate touch does wonders today, absolute wonders. Listen to how Jill Scott 's So In Love arrives in the mix... Here, the Calmness comes from the splendid way the sonic layers are used. The strong beat is on the front while in the background there is a flying and light element, supported by violins. Rhythmical, Musical and instrumental dynamics right there. Alive pictures in front of your ears... Colleen keeps the calmness in the rhythm today, playing the wavy and funky number that Light of the World 's London Town is (making use of London Big Ben's notes 😉) ... Collen then ends the first hour of today's episode by playing songs ( Silvertooth 's Shut Um Down / Leroy Burgess ' Barely Breaking Even – previously featured in the show in its Opolopo Vocal Mix – and Pellegrino & Zodyaco 's Sadite ) that do have a quicker and more engaging tempo for sure, but which keep on showcasing how much a groove can soothe you when it's supported by long sustained notes or with well-used echo effects... Calmness is a groove, you got it by now, don't you (by the way, listen to what happens at 58min 24seconds, if that mixing groove does not soothe you, you might need to listen back to it, my gosh!) 🤗 "Barely Breaking Even" is a mid-tempo Golden Disco classic that was first released in 1982 on New York's Moonglow record label and originally produced by Greg Carmichael and penned by one of the era's top writing teams: James Calloway, Sonny T Davenport, including the legendary Leroy Burgess. In 1988, Leroy was tasked by Bobby & Steve’s Zoo Experience Records to create a 6-track mini-album, with "Barely Breaking Even" (BBE) being re-recorded and re-vocalized by Leroy and Tyrone Williams, known from Orange Juice Jones. With the Disco sound still prominent in today's club scene, Groove Odyssey’s Michael Hughes enlisted Opolopo to revive BBE for the dance floor, and the result is outstanding. Retaining many of the original BBE elements, Opolopo has crafted a dance floor classic that appeals to both the old and new generations. The second part of today's 204th episode keeps the relaxed and happy mood intact with a Big and flying mix including Saucy Lady's I Can’t Shake This Feeling / Key Tronics Ensemble's House of Calypso (I love how the "rhythmic stop" surprises the listener while keeping the flow and relaxation intact...) / Tedd Patterson ’s Kinship Remix of Meshell Ndegeocello's Love and Zer-0 's Real Time and Tigerbalm 's Profunda Alma (which made me think of Carrie Ann's cover of Donna Summer's I Feel Love). For those of you who are interested, Greg Wilson, with Norman Cook wrote the introduction to James Hamilton's brand new book " Disco Pages ". This episode puts you in such a calm and positive mindset, it's crazy... On the chat, I can tell you we were all grooving, talking about Yacht Rock (there's a new documentary that's out) with Colleen sharing one short satyrical clip ( see it here ) and Matt Raistrick sharing how much he liked what the Yacht Rock Boys proposed ( listen here ). Of course, a lot of our friends thanked Colleen for the wonderful London Loft Party which raised their spirits High! Colleen then ends the show by playing two incredible songs, Glenn Underground’s Jaz Collective 's Fuego de Sangre and Charanga 76 's No Nos Pararan (a very nice cover of McFadden & Whitehead's 1979 classic " Ain't No Stoppin' us Now " by Hansel Enrique Martinez and Raul Alfonso, both born in Cuba who started their professional musical careers in 1976 in New York City as vocalists and Co-founders of Charanga 76 and later releasing records and touring as Hansel and Raul). The message is plain to see... You can't stop peace now... COLLEEN'S NEWS Colleen will be featured in these forthcoming events: 28th December: Romjulsfestivalen 31st December: Fever105's Midnight Funk 8 March 2025: La Discothèque - Albert Hall Mnachester 3rd May 2025: Queen's Park Spring Weekender '25