Colleen 'Cosmo' Murphy broadcast this new episode of Balearic Breakfast on her Mixcloud on June 23rd, 2026. ABOUT THIS EPISODE After playing an intense set at the Sonar Festival (the weather was very hot, and, speaking of that, France has been hit by a heatwave with temperatures rising above 40°C!), where she met our Friend Ana, Colleen came back and presented a prerecorded show, with two great guests, and musical friends two, in the name of DJ Philippa and DJ Jeannie Hopper. Both sets contained incredible songs that the Balearic Breakfast Family enjoyed to bits, of course, see the playlist below, should you need to buy some of these infectious tunes! On the chat, happiness was all over the place as I came back online after a few months away from the Balearic Gang (thank you all for the warm welcome!). Listen back to episode 26-24 of Balearic Breakfast: Groovy housey vibes on this week’s Balearic Breakfast - now up on my Mixcloud for your listening pleasure. This week’s radio show features two guest interviews and mixes. First up is New Zealand born & raised and Berlin based DJ and producer Philippa. She’s been crafting some great deep house tunes for labels like Freerange Records and SlothBoogie and now has a fabulous series called Panther Cuts on her bandcamp. In our chat she relayed how the Kiwi music scene & its caretakers set her on her musical journey. Next up is my dear friend and long term colleague radio host & DJ Jeannie Hopper of Liquid Sound Lounge ltd. Jeannie and I came up as young DJs and broadcasters on the early 90s in New York - she was on WBAI and I was on WNYU and she worked at Eightball Records and I worked at Dance Tracks and so on and so on. She was also the first one to host boat dance parties on nyc and the photo above is from one of those special parties nearly a decade ago. I think you’ll find her story that starts as a political journalist and leads her to dance music fascinating. There is also a gofundme campaign for Jeannie is she is facing high medical costs due to an accident - find out more on her socials. A massive thank you to both of my special guests. I’m back hosting Balearic Breakfast live this Tuesday from 10am on my Mixcloud Live and this one is a biggie - the annual BB Pride marathon. I hope you can join me and thanks for listening. THE PLAYLIST Philippa Guest Mix: Radic The Myth – Forest of White Trees Introbeatz – Its Been Good Henna Onna – Shibuya Oiran Milesun – Move Like This Plaisance – I'll Be There For You Groovecat – Live Your Life (Miguel Migs Piano Love Dub) Dany Ivy ft Biyi – Location Willie Rodriguez – Little Moonlight Leo Janeiro, Jhayam, Tuccillo – Time Goes (Tuccillo House Mix) Gledd – Its Not That Easy Mr G – That Special Place (G's Nagoya Underground Dub) Los Hermanos – Keep Hold Tight Detroit Rising – Don't Stop the Feeling (Jimpster Dub) Philippa – Hear Me Philippa ft Sena – Motion State Jeannie Hopper Guest Mix: Dennis Collins feat Ada Dyer – What Can I Do For You 2FTHER – Rise (Maurice Joshua extended mix) 808 BEACH, Belle Humble – Here's Where the Story Ends Groovecat – Live Your Life (Miguel Migs Piano Love Dub) Sal Negro – Tell the People (Trey Max mix) Groove Junkies, Munk Julious, Solara – Dialed In (GJs vs Moroder Afro Excursion) Dizzy K – Afrikan Djamboree (Lipelis Disco Dub) Peter Matson – Alien (Phenomenal Handclap Band remix) Addy Weitzman – No Man's Land (The Time & Space Machine remix) FSQ, Prins Thomas, Moniquea, XL Middleton – Feeling Wide (Prins Thomas mix) DJ Romain – Amazement Kai Alce – Boogie (House of EFUNK mix) Alan Russell – Piano Peace

Following the absolutely gorgeous, and delicate, set that Gina did for Balearic Breakfast, I had to know more about her views on Music... Join us for a nice chinwag! 1) Hello, Gina, thank you so much for joining us here! You did quite an astounding mix for the show recently. Can you share with us how you worked on it and what you wanted to convey through the songs you chose? It was December and cold. I felt like hibernating and wanted something very gentle and soothing, but connected to where I live and who I am. I had heard Anna Phoebe in Margate shortly before, and as she lives in Deal, I thought it would be a personal choice. The track by Public Service Broadcasting felt to me also to have a Kentish link – It is from The Last Flight and is the story of Amelia Earhart's last flight before she disappeared. There is a statue in Herne Bay, near where I live, for another famous aviator, who also disappeared over water – Amy Johnson. Somehow, the sea united those pioneering women in my head. It's how I join those musical dots. I have been soothed by Bill Laswell's version of The Heathen a lot this past year, so I wanted to include that one too. The rest was just stuff I have enjoyed listening to and felt right. 2) Generally speaking, what is your relationship to music? How do you listen to it? How do you engage with it? I hear lyrics all the time – songs tell my life story better than anything. I listen to the radio as soon as I get up. I listen to music on my phone, on earbuds, on the way to work. I dance to it at weekends, and I go to live events during the week. It is a big part of my life. I'm off to listen to Wolfgang Flur at the Jazz Cafe as I write this, while listening to Wooden Shjips on my earbuds on the train up to London! 3) If you were left on a lonely island, and if you were to pick up 3 albums to listen to, which ones would you choose and why? Duh! George Harrison – All Things Must Pass, James Murphy and Pat Mahoney –Fabriclive 36 (for dancing), Pink Floyd – DSOM (obviously played on a top-end desert island hifi 😉). 4) Some people say that "Writing about music is like dancing about architecture" What is your take on that? Music is very personal – the same piece can evoke different feelings in different people at different times. I think reviews are also subjective. They're a good starting point, but never the full answer. Feelings go beyond words – listen to Sofia Kourtesis, 'How Music Makes You Feel Better'. 5) I know it's a hard question, but could you share with us two/three memories associated with Balearic Breakfast? What does Balearic Breakfast mean to you? I like the inclusive nature of the show, and the fact that people from so many different parts of the world tune in at the same time. It has kept me sane and connected through some turbulent times. Love the show and the compilations!

Colleen 'Cosmo' Murphy broadcast this new episode of Balearic Breakfast on her Mixcloud on June 16th, 2026. ABOUT THIS EPISODE Once again, in this new episode, Colleen demonstrates how great she is at crafting coherent mixes, not just musically speaking, but also intellectually. The first hour is an absolute masterpiece; the selected songs share an intimate message. Colleen's mix, flawless as usual, intensifies the initial musical intent by allowing the listener's spirit to form mental images as he drifts away... Let’s dive deeper… The show starts with the airy, forward-looking instrumental Greyscale. It perfectly allows the listener to feel, for the first time, the windy feeling. Then, the second song, River Man, originally sung by Nick Drake, reinforces that first feeling, on an intellectual level: take the time to listen carefully, you will clearly understand that this song is about “the passage of time, the Seasons of life, and of loss”, quite windy, don’t you think? How do you feel when you have to make changes in your life? It isn’t always a “peaceful” time, and the song's structure and depth allow you to picture the dreams lying somewhere… Gonna see the river man, Gonna tell him all I can, about the plan, for lilac time… This beautiful musical and intellectual unity will keep on evolving through the first hour of the show, and both Ground Loop (with its somewhat worried and jazzy feel allowing you to picture palm trees being bent by a fierce wind…) and of course Trade Winds (despite its lighter musical domain, it is a tense musical moment where you can feel a certain tension), keep on carrying the initial message at arm’s length. Colleen’s delicate mix enhances the message. It does not try to keep the music flowing in an automated way. You can clearly feel the groove there too, and the musical selections she made are clearly linked together perfectly, aren’t they?! En La Playa Blanca (listen to the depth of this track, the use of the effects and how they allow you to lose your mind), followed by the perfect and funky number Rmoosh Arabiya, opening the second half of the show’s first hour, keeps the vibrant wind alive and well. Clearly, Colleen had something in mind here… Kotoa’s Love and Light also has that jazzy and windy touch, and it lands perfectly besides that! Our Windy trip keeps on taking us to higher grounds with Piper’s Summer breeze... Mmmh, do you start to feel me now? Laughs! Colleen is the Only One who's able to craft such wonderful sets, with so much imagery! Here is another great example, right? Robot 84’s remix brings us back to the 90s, and his version of Voodoo Chile is another example of how windy this episode is! We’re almost reaching the end of the first hour, and as always, time flies! Of course, The Illusions’ Float has an interesting beginning if you see what I mean, laughs! I could go on and on, but I think you got the message by now. The rest of the show keeps the message alive, and Colleen's mix is clearly perfect there! But, by the way, do you know where these trade winds will take us? … Listen back to episode 26-23 of Balearic Breakfast: This morning’s Balearic Breakfast is now up on my Mixcloud for your listening back pleasure. Today’s show has a lot of new tunes on the jazzy tip along with some classic cuts and has a real international feel. I played a lot of vinyl on this morning’s radio show as.I’ve been going through a big stack of promos and also bought some new records for our London Loft party this past Sunday. We had another wonderful party celebrating 23 years since we started with David Mancuso so it was a combo of our anniversary and our Pride celebrations. Sending huge gratitude and love to our London Loft team - shifting sound equipment, blowing up balloons, hanging up the decor, preparing the food and everything else that goes into the party before a single record is played. And once we take off, its the dancers who fuel the party and thanks to all who brought their generous spirit and positive vibes and great moves - seeing more and more fabulous dancing at our parties so thank you! Our next party is the 20th September and if you would like to receive an invitation you must be on our mailing list. You can join the Friendship Train at loftparty.org Thanks for listening. Love saves the day. THE PLAYLIST (2026) Kessoncoda – Greyscale (Sunrise Mix) (2026) Seu Jorge & Beck – River Man (2026) Your Brother's Keeper & Gary Bartz – Ground Loop (2026) Hideo Ichikawa – On the Trade Wind Bandidos del Ocio – En La Playa Blanca Sadeedo ft Dani Moham – Rmoosh Arabiya (2026) Kotoa – Love and Light (2019) Piper – Summer Breeze Kiss the Sky – Voodoo Chile (Robot 84 Voodoo Dub) (2026) The Illusions ft. Nathan Haines – Float () Woolfy vs Projections – Aliens (Turbotito Dub) (2025) Plastic Bamboo – Touki Bouki (2022) Summer Vee – Key to All Your Love (2026) Captain Ahoy Edits – Beefa (2026) John Silas ft Marquinn Mason – Nasty (2024) Doug Gomez – Get Down (2024) Lady M – Kali Raat (Edit) (2026) Tema Due – Shaman's Prophecy (2025) Coflo – Tsunami's Muse (2023) Herb Alpert – Rotation (Sly's Sunset Mix)

Colleen 'Cosmo' Murphy broadcast this new episode of Balearic Breakfast on her Mixcloud on January 06th, 2026. ABOUT THIS EPISODE Amidst a few streaming problems, and to start this new year on the right foot (or maybe the left, who knows?), Colleen broadcast Balearic Breakfast's 253rd episode almost in the middle of nowhere, saying, "Even on my end - it's not a strong wifi signal - I'm out in the middle of nowhere in Northern Lanzarote". Keeping her interactions with the Balearic Breakfast to a minimum to allow for a stronger signal and a better streaming quality, Colleen still took part to the chat with the fam, directly participating in a new successful streaming party of our beloved show! This episode is one of the most important and interesting we've ever had, due to the historical and musical aspects The Secret DJ (follow him on Facebook / Instagram) shares in the interview he did with Colleen. It's an absolute must-listen. There's a transcription of the interview below as well. Lastly, and of course, both mixes were absolutely great, and won our hearts for obvious reasons shared here (follow Pooky & The Bonsai Hifi Sound System on Instagram). Enjoy! Listen back to episode 26-01 of Balearic Breakfast: This morning’s Balearic Breakfast is now up on my Mixcloud and features two guest mixes. First up is an interview with and a mix from The Secret DJ. He has written three books the reveal both hilarious stories and also dire accounts of mental and physical health issues delivered from the perspective of a touring DJ. He’s a natural raconteur with a quick wit and I’m sure you will love our interview about aspects of Ibiza’s history and his life as a foreign resident on the White Isle. You should check out his Facebook for his personal story with the late and lovely DJ Alfredo, as well. The Secret DJ is also an intrepid journalist who has uncovered some of the more unsavoury aspects of our beloved dance music world - namely emotional, physical and sexual abuse of women. For that, I truly applaud him. Thank you Secret DJ. He’s also a great DJ and I think you’ll love his exclusive Balearic Breakfast mix. Up next is my dear friend Pooky who hosts the Bonsai Hi Fi Sound System parties up in Liverpool. I had the pleasure of joining him a few years ago and he was also one of our DJs in our Love Dancin’ tent at the inaugural We Out Here. He’s also a top human. Thanks to both of these guys for filling in whilst I take a break. NB: My intro and links were recorded in a very echo-y room so apologies for that. I’m on holiday and decided not to spend too much time being my usual Virgo self and perfecting everything. After all, my 2026 resolution is all about ‘letting go and moving on’. Enjoy the show and I’ll be back next week with a Balearic Breakfast show featuring two more special guest mixes from J Kriv of Razor n Tape and a Balearic Breakfast Family mix from Gina Lapsley. Thanks for listening. THE PLAYLIST The Secret DJ Tracklist: (1987) Man Parrish – Water Sports (2018) Mildlife – Im Blau (2019) Caroline Polachek – Hey Big Eyes (NOL) Sum Such – Don't Go (2017) Kid Francescoli and Julia Minkin – Moon (and it went like...) (2024) Glass Beams – Mahal (1991) Kwanzaa Posse – Wicked Funk (2018) Charlotte Gainsbourg – Bombs Away (2024) Bedford Falls Players – Beautiful Chaos (1990) Blow Monkeys – La Passionara (1990) The Fall – Bill is Dead (2021) Floating Points and Pharoah Sanders – Movement 7 (2025) Young Gun Silver Fox – Curious (2025) Doobie Brothers – Learn to Let Go (2025) Everyone Says Hi – On the Same Side Pooky of Bonsai Hi Fi Tracklist: (2023) A Vision of Panorama & Sykes – Let Me (Poolboy Mix) (2024) Steve Cobby & Third Attempt – Language of the Heart (2014) Payfone – Subconscious Lamentation (NOL) Andy Ash – Castles in the Sky (2017) Session Victim – Over & Over (2014) Onyricon – Sweet Dream (Balearic Militant Dub) (2019) Space Echo – Distratto (NOL) Heatwave – Star of the Story (Smoove's Multitrack Mix) (NOL) Rudy Norman – Back to the Streets (Pookash Exclusive Mix) (2017) Caserta – Ricky (Jeep Mix) (NOL) D'Angelo – D'Angela (Jim Sharp Mix) (1979) Randy Crawford – Endlessly THE SECRET DJ'S INTERVIEW WITH COLLEEN Good morning, Balearicans. I'm Colleen Cosmo Murphy, hosting your weekly Balearic Breakfast until 12 noon GMT on my MixCloud Live. And greetings to the family over there joining me right now. Thank you as always for your support. Happy New Year, everyone. I hope you had a great holiday. I'm still taking a little bit of a break, and I am away. But in my place, I have two special guest mixes for you. And I also have an interview with the secret DJ, who resides in Ibiza. And he tells us a little bit about the history of Ibiza, and why it's been invaded by so many different groups of people. And he's also provided a special guest mix. And up after him, we have my friend Pookie, a Balearic Breakfast family member who also hosts a regular party called Bonsai Hi-Fi, up in Liverpool. But first, it's over to the secret DJ. Ed. Note: The Secret DJ Issued two books, which you can purchase here and there. He also gave a great interview to Test Pressing a few years ago. There's also a Mixcloud stream he did back then. [Colleen] Here in the studio with me is the secret DJ. [TSDJ] Hey, buddy, how you doing? [Colleen] I'm good. How are you doing? [TSDJ] Good, thanks. It was great to see you in Ibiza recently. At least, you know, it was great that you actually came. A lot of the Balearians actually never even been to Ibiza. So it was fantastic to host you there, and show you some of the sights. We had a good time, right?! [Colleen] This is the reason why I wanted to interview you for the show, because you know so much about the history of Ibiza. [TSDJ] Actually, I've lived in Ibiza for 40 years. [Colleen] Yes, exactly, exactly. So you've been there for, like, decades now. And, you know, I love what you're writing on Facebook when you're talking about your own experiences, and how you started to kind of get immersed into the culture, and the kind of faux pas that you would say, like, asking people for Ibiza, what do you do for a living? [TSDJ] Oh, yeah, very, yeah. [Colleen] So you've really kind of tried to understand the culture. You speak Spanish to the best of your ability, no matter what DJ Alfredo used to say about you. And... [TSDJ] Well, ironically, I sound like a reverse Manuel from Fawlty Towers, you know! I learned it from a book. I talk myself, so I do. I've never got a Spanish person to laugh with me, but they will laugh at me! I mean, for instance, if you say that, like, we say, in Spanish, you say that you have 47 years. You don't say you're 47 years old, you say, I have 47 years. And I once introduced my dad, who at the time was 80. And I said, I thought I said, this is my 80-year-old dad. But what I actually said was, because papa and papa, potato and father, are almost exactly the same. And año and ano is anus and years. So I said, this is my potato, he's got 80 anuses. And I said, this is my potato, he's got 80 years! And I said, this is my potato, he's got 40 years. And I said, this is my potato, he's got 40 years! Oh, so I used to live near the McDonald's roundabout, and I'd say to the taxi driver, rotundo, which actually means chubby. Rotunda is roundabout, and rotundo means chubby. So I'd get into the taxi and go, rotunda like chubby, and they'd be like "Dude, I know I've got a sit-down job, but you know, give me a break man"! Laughs [Colleen] Well, what I loved, one thing you wrote about Ibiza, that I wanted to kind of start with, is that Ibiza is a place where people have always gone to escape. And it's really, it's a refuge, and it's not even, not only like Spain, but it's also not even like the other Balearic islands… [TSDJ] Dude, I woke up from a coma in Mallorca, and first of all, they've got completely different accent, you know. And and also their, their version of catalan is medellín, is not like ibizan, it's a different language. And they think that we're like satan, he was like "there's a dj in there he's from ibiza!" you know. And, they they kind of come, they would file in to have a look at you, you know like, you're like a monkey in a in a cage, you know because they think that the mayorkans are is where the government is, and that's who we pay our taxes to. And, and that's the center of the balearic government, so they hate Ibiza, and Ibiza hates Mallorca, so it's, and it's... It's hilarious really, so don't even get started with the main! Laughs [Colleen] You know, I didn't realize there was that sense of isolation, but also a sense of always being invaded, if you could talk maybe, before the british invasion! [TSDJ] It's still being invaded, it's a constant, it's a constant invader, constant slow invasion, but it's been the most invaded piece of real estate possibly in, in the world because it's right in the middle of, you know, classicism. It's right in the middle of the the greeks, and the phoenicians, and the romans, and, and, and right in the middle, because obviously they would use, uh you know the peninsula and Gibraltar, which would then, they would go around to the Atlantic. So you know there was all that other western bit of um... of the ancient empires, obviously the moors, and the barbary pirates, and you know... And right in the middle is this tiny little island that produces salt, and you can't do shit without salt, because salt preserves food before... before refrigeration was even a crazy sci-fi concept, so you couldn't travel, you couldn't trade, you couldn't go to war if you didn't have salt. And that's why the romans invented the word salary, it's because legionnaires used to get paid in salt because it was worth more than gold at one point you know. So salt was everything, salt was the, the engine that drove empire. So to have a salt they also had salt flats in sicily and sardinia as well, and uh... It was, you know, the perfect place. So it's almost like a gas station, you know, the gas station of history. So ibiza would, because it was so tiny, there was never enough ibyshenkos to fight anyone, so they just get steam, and that's one of the reasons why they're so tiny, they were very small people because all the big people got killed. And also like the national dress, it makes every, makes young pretty girls look like old ladies from a distance from the telescope, because there was, they would look on a telescope and say 'oh look a lady", and then they would just go and take that lady unless she dressed like an old hag! So the sort of traditional costume of loads of petticoats, and sort of scars on your head was like an old lady cosplay. And all the houses are painted white if they're facing inland, but they painted brown if the walls face the sea, as a form of camouflage. So the the era of the barbary pirates was particularly bad, you know, so that it's been invaded forever you know, since since the dawn of time because it had this precious resource. And of course, the spanish would invade. Then eventually it was King Philip who took, uh... put ibiza back into the stone age, because Ibiza became quite wealthy until until the, um... the, it's always the christians man, the christians just turn up and just kick the shit out of everything! So King Philip said, Mmh... Nice pile of salt you've got there Ibiza, I'm gonna have that, you know, but I... here look, and to this day there's a big mountain of salt which is a a sock, it's given to the islanders to say, do you know, what we're gonna take your entire economy and your history, and your future, but here's some salt! That pile of salt you can see, there's always a big pile, like a pyramid of salt you can literally just drive and fill your car up with salt. That's King Philip's gift to the people of Ibiza, we're going to take everything that you've got your riches, your your culture, your your, you know, your children's future, but you can have some salt! Laughs [Colleen] Thank you thank you King Philip! Now is Ibiza founded by the Phoenicians, though do they name… [TSDJ] Well, I mean, they were one of the first civilizations, the purple people. Phoenicians had that that purple dye that ended up in the, you know, in the cloaks of kings. It was a very rare uh, in form of indigo wasn't it? And the purple people were, you know, a seagoing empire from north africa really, from Carthage, they became the Carthaginians eventually. The Carthaginians and the Romans kicked the shit out of each other for a hundred years, you know, maybe more. The punic wars are the wars between the root, the Romans, and the Carthaginians. Funny enough there's not many books in english about this stuff, there's not many books of history about Ibiza, and about north africa that are in english because it's of little interest to english-speaking countries. But, um..., once you learn Spanish and start to read some of the many books in spanish about it, then it's... Then it's fascinating because it's a very rich part of the world. I mean, before they had compasses, I mean, The Vikings had a primitive form of navigation, using a sort of slightly translucent stone. But um... Most maps of the mediterranean used to be on the side, so um... Say for instance Gibraltar would be the northernmost point and when you look at, when you tilt the map of the mediterranean, until it's like a long a long um... uh if you like vertical line uh... It makes a lot more sense, you just kind of see it more, as more as a... As a world then, because it's, if you like, a very all the edges of the mediterranean, where all the great um... empires and cultures lived. Because obviously trade and sea travel and, you know uh..., you know, fertile land, and and jewels, and salt, and all these things were essential to survive, and obviously fresh water was essential. And uh..., if you like, everything that we know is, is around the lip of the mediterranean as it were, and then bang in the middle of the Balearics and Sardinia, and, and Sicily, who all, who all, who were equally invaded you might say, but because they were larger land areas, they had, you know, they had perhaps enough population to fight back a little bit. But ibiza was just so tiny it would just get completely razed. Oh you would just take a couple of ships full of nutcases to take a bit, you know, and they would leave with everything as they still do to this day in in different ways. I didn't... I didn't go there professionally until the mid 90s. And then I started to play at Space, and uh... I was... And then I became um... a resident for, for home, which was Darren Hughes's uh spinoff from Cream, and we started to do sundays every sunday at space. And that was when I started to do, you know, whole seasons, as it were, and then I... Actually to my, to my great shame, I didn't really get into Ibiza for a very long time, because I would arrive there, get absolutely hammered, everything was just like neon and vomit because it was either playa de bosa or san Antonio, and I used to think it was like you know like blackpool or margaret. It was just kind of gross, and touristy. And then, once, I missed... I completely, legitimately missed the flight. It was cheap to hire a car and get a hotel. So i ended up driving around ibiza for the first time with my buddy, and I was like... Am i a dickhead or what?! I had no idea this place was beautiful! I didn't have a clue! Because, you know, you'd arrive in the middle of the night, or in the morning, get on a coach, or, or if you're going to playa de bossa you wouldn't even see everybody, you'd go like, you know, it's a hop and a skip from the airport to bossa and just kind of, just do the dj gigs and then leave, and i'd be like how can it be hot at night?! What is wrong with this place?! You know why is it hot at night? Who can sleep? And i couldn't wait to get home! I used to find it like a bit oppressive, and sort of cheesy, and touristy. And then i just accidentally, sort of, drove around. I was like... Whoaa! Am I an idiot or what?! This place is amazing! And that's when I fell for it when i kind of realized what a fool i'd been! And also what a trick it is, because it's 90% uninhabited and 99% awesome. It's just these tiny little twat paddocks where we keep all the dickheads where we just keep them in san antonio, where and that's what the locals do. It's very clever, they just bust them out! It's like you're going to a safari park, you know, careful kid, wind up windows, these monkeys bite, you know, you... You can go, drive around, go drive around san antonio like it's with safari park, and go look at the tigers, and monkeys, and bears... you know, but the rest of it's completely empty! And, and that was... That was a great, that, that's the great beef illusion. That's the trick, that the locals call is, that they they put us into these little, little um... machines for extracting money! [Colleen] But how about now that you've been there for a while, are you still regarded as an outsider, or do you think you have a little bit more… [TSDJ] When i was in london there'd always be somebody in london, I mean... I remember once being told by somebody um... In london, who was about 17 years old, that I'll never be a londoner. And I was like, I've just realized I've actually spent more time in london than you being you know being like nearly 60, you know! And... But it doesn't matter because to them if you, you know, you know..., it's like the, the way the racism we're seeing at the moment. There's always somebody who's more local than you are. The thing is not... Is not to wear a false crown, so you know, it's like, I don't consider myself in a v chenco. I don't call myself an islander because that's basically wearing a t-shirt that says I'm a knobhead, you know. But it's, it's like, you know. But you've just got it, you've just got to be realistic about it. It's like you know. I'm a foreigner, I live there I've got an irish passport I'm a tax paying uh citizen, but I'm not a spanish citizen. I'm a... I'm what's called a full resident and it's a complex, it's a complex system. But I am those things. I don't have a quick... I think it's a bit of a lie to start saying yeah I'm from Ibiza or I'm gonna be, you see people who've got, you know, their, their social media handles is dave Ibiza... [Colleen] Well it's kind of hard for me to say because I have a show that says baleric breakfast! [TSDJ] Yeah but you're... You get it. You... You understand that balearicaring means anything goes... [Colleen] That's i'm using it as a anything goes, and it was also named during the pandemic when we all wanted to be outside of our homes, and it just seemed very enticing as well... [TSDJ] You get it, it's not difficult, you know you get it, it's not a difficult thing to get. You'd be amazed how few people get it, you know? Yeah? because there's nothing more scary to a straight white man than not giving him any rules... I need? Oh my god, I need rules... Give me rules! [Colleen] Well, speaking of no rules, let's talk about the mix you've done for us, because I didn't give you any rules, and it's really great to have a mix from you, thank you so much for doing it. Tell us a little bit about it... [TSDJ] I've been doing my mixcloud for so long, and, and I sometimes call things a balearic this and a balearic that, mocking me because the only reason it's called balearic it's because I did it in Ibiza. It's got absolutely nothing, nothing to do with what the british think balearic is. And, and so that's the first time I've done, an I can't remember, I mean, I think I did an hour once in 1997, so I was very confused by only having an hour, and I did my best, and I'm still scratching my arse after 45 minutes because, you know, for me for me, uh... You know, djing is a bit like the new thing rock and jazz, you know. A jazz solo is, you know, you're still finding your feet when the rock guy's uh, you know, sweating and needs to lie down! So you know, with a rock solo you just burn you know straight away, and like a jazz... A jazz solo it's like you're exploring, you know, you're still sort of wandering around, looking at the supermarket shelves, you know, what, you know, while the rock, while the rock guy's already at home eating the tin beans, you know! So it's it's one of those things where I had to get to the point really quickly in an hour, and I found it very confusing. I did my best; I put a few classics in there like um... Like the passionara. it's just funny enough um... That was made, that was basically just a flamenco guitarist they paid to come in with a sample, um you know, with the classic um batchy sample. But this is really um Marius de Vries who's now a huge hollywood soundtrack guy, you know, he did like la la land and he does like all these movies, and he comes to viva all the time, so it's a weird sort of, um uh... synchronicity going on there, and we often talk about what's balearic and what isn't. He's greatly amused that the passionara is a balearic classic because he just... They did, they did it for a laugh in about an hour you know. I had no idea that this... that this was gonna happen and so yeah, so I sent it to you and I called it a cod balearic mix because um... I don't really understand or participate in the British Balearic thing, because it's like something that the british do, and no other country does it. If you go to an italian in the beach and say hey do you want to go to a balearic night he's like what? Let's go to a balearic night, and he's like we're in Ibiza? I'm like no no no no you don't understand, it's like you know it's it's it's dj balearic Keith from Barnsley! And they just look at you like you're out, you're deranged! So it's like... So yeah, I don't really participate in that thing, but because I've been working from, and with and in ibiza for so long, I differentiate by balearic with, I spell proper balearic with a capital B and British balearic with a small b that's the way that I… [Colleen] Uh okay, I'll remember that distinction... [TSDJ] Or, sometimesn I do balearic with a small b in inverted commas you know, and it's and it's a sort of almost like... A sort of um... It's like a cosplay of balearic, is the british play thing. You know, like those guys who dress up as as roundheads and cavaliers at the weekend, and, and like fight each other with foam each other with shields and swords, yeah, or laughers you know... People who put spock ears on and go at each other with foam swords there's a some of these balearic guys with a small b a bit kind of like cosplaying djs you know. They sort of, they've got nice jobs, and they've got like a lovely record collection in the garage, you know it's sort of, you know, they're cosplaying the 90s. They had a great time in the 90s, and it's sort of um... They're imposing all these rules about you know what balearic is and what it isn't. And you know, exchanging chris records and stuff, and it's kind of... Meanwhile in Ibiza not barsley you know! It's funny enough, I mean... I have what you might describe as alfredo's last mix, which is because when I looked after him when he was poorly in his last few years, last three years of his life, I was tech support, you know, get the phone calls, do sort his phone out, sort his laptop out, and he always, he's always thought he was gonna have this big comeback, which was really cool, you know, and sweet and and um... There's this mix and... And sort of when I look at it, and uh and it's basically any musicologist would call it afro beat, you know. It's very very north african, is the balearic sound, the real balearic sound, capital b. Uh... Not just culturally and historically, but I mean ibiza, ibeza, is the best, is that is a north african god, you know. That is its connection to north africa, I mean every every word in spanish with l on the front is pure arabian, you know. This is a very very north african culture, and in its roots and a lot of that original blare the original balearic djs all have this sort of afro beat kind of um... Strain running through everything that they do... [Colleen] And it's the italians too in the 1970s, I think they even used what was the word they used I think they did call it afro right? [TSDJ] Yeah. And it's very sort of world music kind of vibe. There's a lot of um... It's quite recognizably sort of a bit hippie, let's you know, let's, let's, let's not beat about the bush Alfredo was very much uh a totem for some of the hippie culture there, the hippies love Alfredo and and he's definitely saw himself in that milieu, you know. But it's pure afro, this, this, this kind of final mix, if you like, and it's got nothing at all to do with the British idea of what balearic is, nothing. It's quite dance, I mean, what you know. You'd go to alfredo dj when he was fit and well, and he'd be playing music to dance to, to, you know, and that dancing music was very afro in, in, in feel and, and in stance, and and historically it's just a big big strain the strata that runs through the whole thing, it's where it's north africa's a huge influence on everything to do with the food, you know, the moroccan kind of flavors, little sort of stone pots, it's lamb, olives, and it's very sort of north african. So it's a huge part of it, another thing that the british scene completely doesn't get no clue, you know, and this, this this, part of it's very overlooked, and I'd hate to say it's a little bit racist as well, you know, it's like, it's something that's dismissed in favor of the, you know, the great british white version of events you know... [Colleen] Well they've been fascinating to talk to and I just want to direct people. You wrote three chapters which are up on your facebook... [TSDJ] Well I wrote with Alfredo... [Colleen] Yeah is that coming out? [TSDJ] Yeah... I'm, I'm just... I'm not sure what to do about it. It doesn't feel right making money out of it, so I'm trying to think of a way of what to do about that. So i've got a book about the last three years I was alfredo's carer for want of a better word, and um... And he's been my friend since I, since I first came to ibiza, uh... you know, and a mentor if you like, you know I very much looked up to him and he very much looked down on me, (laughs) he thought I was, he thought I was equal parts annoying and hilarious, depending on what was going on, but um... Yeah, we we were buddies, and um... And then, when I found that, you know, as you tend to, you do tend to get cast aside when you get older, I ended up looking after him, yeah... So I wrote this book that was about, basically, a lifetime of friendship, really. I was going to call it Walking with Alfredo but of course that's a bit like walking with dinosaurs! (laughs) I knew that the british would mock that so I turned it to Dancing with Alfredo, and it's from the first moment I saw him at amnesia in the 80s to to pretty much when he died so... And those three years are a big part of it was sort of going to the old folk. So it's very slow, it's... I mean if my first book was like fair and loathing this is much more like um... you know, mortimer and whitehouse go fishing. It's like, it's it's two, two, two old grumpy old geezers kind of being grumpy old geezers, you know, like uh waldorf and stadler... [Colleen] I loved it, I read the three chapters, I guess. They're in you know, the three parts you put on facebook trying to talk a little bit try to squeeze some of the history in there as well... [TSDJ] Not trying not to make it too me me me, but you know, I couldn't help but be there, but you know, it's you know, it's a kind of, you know, a potted, a potted history built around the friendship... [Colleen] Around the friendship, yeah exactly... Ed. Note: Colleen paid tribute to DJ Alfredo during Balearic Breakfast, you can access the page of this poignant episode here. [TSDJ] Positive as well you know... [Colleen] Yeah. I did and it's it's really, really beautiful. And I had I had the opportunity just to meet him one time, and I was very, very thankful. But it was great reading what you, you know the just, just to get to know him a bit more through your writing, and... uh.... before we go and we just go back to your mix, I also want to just send a personal thank you for all that you do in our community, um... Kind of risking your own sometimes reputation and your own mental health uh... for exposing some of the really nasty things that have been happening in dance music, from you know far-right extremism, to sexual assault on women, and to many other things, and I don't want to get into naming names, but I just want to thank you because what you do is... [TSDJ] I name I name the name so you don't have to! [Colleen] Exactly you name the name so I don't have to, thank you secret dj... [TSDJ] Yeah, I mean I've been getting... I get credible death threats and I have to have security sweeps and things like that, but then again you know I do write for Private Eye and we've had, you know, we do things like deal with the saudis who do chop up journalists and put them in bins, so you know, dj dickhead from rotherham is not a huge problem... [Colleen] Well I still thank you! [TSDJ] You know, and a lot of these guys and they get quite tough with me, and they send me all these threats and stuff, and I'm like guys, you know, I literally, literally the other day, had to talk to mi5 about, about a Private Eye story. You're not that tough you know... [Colleen] I just wanted to thank you, I just wanted to thank you, because, you know, this stuff does need to come out. Yeah, you're very rare in that regard. Most people, well actually, I know a lot of people that really applaud what you do, and I want you to know that. So thank you so much, and thank you for this wonderful mix and for your take on... You know uh... Ibiza... thank you so much... [TSDJ] No, thank you. Thanks also for doing your thing man. You, you're a... You're a bright voice in a very dark place sometimes... I love it! THE LISTENING EXPERIENCE Both mixes greatly present how to build a set, I dare to say it, cleverly. Often, I listen to mixes that keep the same BPM throughout their entire lenght. It's not I don't like these, they can work out well occasionally, but, you know, it's like audio compression, too much of it and it gets tiring. So, and as I've learned with Colleen, and of course also thanks to David, and from my own feelings as a chkd watching rock concerts, I mean, it's great when you have a journey-like musical experience when listening to a mix. And here, both the Secret DJ and Pooky really perfectly showcase what a powerhorse a mix can be when it allows the listener to breathe, to enter an unknown world, to travel through it and get out of it, slowly, having surprises all along the way... One of the thing that stroke me is that both of the mixes we heard in this episode had that growing start, allowing you to enter the mix, then a solid middle musical part , a surprising Breaking point and then an outro, shorter or longer depending on the dj doing their thing. Without being too long, and just to explain my point, the breaking point in The Secret DJ's set happens when he plays the incredible track Movement 7 by Floating Points and Pharoah Sanders. Pooky, on the other side, did also propose a Splendid Break by Cleverly, and Beautifuly slowing down the rhythm of the track he played, namely Jim Sharp's Mix of D'Angelo's D'Angela, allowing him to land perfectly on Randy Crawford's Endlessly! That's a perfect move! By playing with Rhythm, both of our friends instilled a Soul to their set, creating a whole world of emotions... Really, if you want to bring your dancers on their knees, there's no other way round than to follow this way of building and conducting a set! Congratulations guys!!

Colleen 'Cosmo' Murphy broadcast this new episode of Balearic Breakfast on her Mixcloud on January 13th, 2026. ABOUT THIS EPISODE One of the joys of Balearic Breakfast is that even when our Captain is away, she always leaves us with a little something so that our Tuesday are not filled with silence! Despite a few streaming problems, Colleen was able to broadcast today's episode which definitely was a soothing one, and something we all needed as this new year starts with a lot of political and economical turmoil... Just so you know, I'm presently working on a couple of interviews for the blog, so keep it locked, we're going to have some good times soon! I'll see you next week! Until then, remember, Just Be Balearic... Listen back to episode 26-02 of Balearic Breakfast: This morning’s Balearic Breakfast is now up on my Mixcloud and thank you to all who joined in on the live stream. I’m still away so today’s show features two guest mixes: a gorgeous downtempo Balearic Breakfast family mix from Gina Lapsley and a groovy mix from JKriv of Razor n Tape. We also had a short chat about his career and forthcoming projects and his drive and passion (and many talents) really shone through. A big thanks to both Gina and JKriv. I’ll be back in the record room, streaming live on Tuesday the 20th January from 10am to 12pm GMT. Thanks for listening. THE PLAYLIST Gina Lapsley Balearic Breakfast Family Mix: (2004) Susumu Yokota – Song of the Sleeping Forest (2021) Anna Phoebe – Horizons (2025) Celine Dessberg – Chintamani (1980) The Durutti Column – Sketch for Winter (2007) Ahmed Fakroun – Nisyan (Les edits du Golem edit) (1978) RAAW – Just a Little Different (1997) Bob Marley – The Heathen (Dreams of Freedom Mix) (2024) Hermanos Gutierrez – Low Sun (1984) Zenamon – Oh Nandu, What We've Done! (2016) Condor Gruppe – Frog Bog (1987) Robbie Robertson – Somewhere Down The Crazy River (2012) Blundetto feat. Courtney John – Warm My Soul (2024) Public Service Broadcasting – Howland JKriv of Razor-n-Tape Mix: (1982) Chaka Khan – So Not To Worry (NOL) Rene & Angela – I'll Be Good (JKriv's Deep&Disco Rework) (2025) Brochure – Back Off (Jex Opolis Good Timin' Dub) (2025) Takuya Matsumoto – Yamanashi (2003) Camiel – Sintra (Osunlade Main Mix) (2025) Deon Jamar x CTRLZora – Siren Song (Tall Black Guy Remix) (2025) Patrick Gibin ft Kaidi Tatham – Let It Go (Joaquin's Sacred Rhythm Music Dance Version) (2025) Tigerbalm feat. Andre Espeut – Pura Vida (JKriv Remix) (2026) Alistair Colling vs. Tortured Soul feat. Sabina – When You Find Your Love...Hold On (DJ Spinna Galactic Soul Remix) (2019) Shinichiro Yokota, Soichi Terada, Nami Shimada – Sunshower (2025) Tranquil Elephantizer – SFO THE LISTENING SESSION Gina's Mix Gina's mix is an open-minded, freely Balearic, both happy and reflective musical trip which takes the listener onto a continuous and wonderous journey. Starting with Song of the Sleeping Forest (which contains an excerpt of the Beautiful Melody of Ravel's "Pavane pour une infante défunte"), Gina then takes us to a reflective musical moment with Horizons. The third track Chintamani really synthesises what I just wrote in the beginning of this short analysis. Gina's mix is almost an ethereal experience, it's disconnected from reality, it has a freedom, it reaches out to a greater somewhere I should say. And Nature seems quite present too when you think about it, this aspect came to me while hearing Sketch for Winter. After this wonderous introduction, Gina takes us onto a more "solid" part of her mix, far less ethereal, but still open to that other place we're going to. And you can feel that in the echo that's used in the mix on the voices on Nisyan (Les edits du Golem edit). The unexpected element is always lurking in the dark and it surprises the listener one more time when Just a Little Different hits our ears! Gina does not try to hold the rhythm at all costs, her mix is very soulful in the end, when you think about it, that's why it sticks to your mind days after you've listened to it! And the wonderous aspect really holds the whole thing together! Followed by The Heathen (Dreams of Freedom Mix), this is the craziest part of the mix perfectly presenting you the fact that, as it always happened to me, you can identify the soul of a mix within its first minutes! This strange musical moment then sees an opening, a great one, with Hermanos Gutierrez's Low Sun (of course played by Colleen herself in 2024), to me, The Absolute WOW Moment of this splendid mix... Keeping the dream alive and well, I love how much Gina is able to keep a close musical DNA between the songs she selects and still allow for slow evolutions to internefer with the listener's brain, thus keeping the adventurous aspect present. This is the case here with Zenamon's Oh Nandu, What We've Done! which keeps a "Country Music" feel while introducing some electronics to the set! It also shows Gina's extensive musical Knowledge, which is something that must be applauded! With Condor Gruppe's Frog Bog, Gina keeps on taking us to Higher grounds, meeting the prairies that saw so much of Native Americans die, trying to protect their lands and their honor... The timing is perfect, Gina never mises a beat, creating a seamless musical moment, one the listener can enjoy to the fullest, and especially when a banger such as Robbie Robertson's Somewhere Down The Crazy River appears! It seems obvious that, as we're reaching the end of the mix, Gina keeps the slow pace alive and well, preparing our brains to a Grand Ending... And this is exactly what happens as Gina slightly plays with Rhythm as Warm my Soul enters the room, what a splendid mix right there! The last track, Howland, leaves us in a dreamy situation, acting as a reunification process, such a "natural" song to choose! All in all, Gina's mix is undoubtedly one of the most freeing we ever had to listen here on Balearic Breakfast! Congratulations Gina! Jkriv's Mix Jkriv's mix is more upfront, it has a rhythmic solidity that shines from Chaka Khan's So Not To Worry on. Sadly, because of the interview we can't do a full analysis of the mix, still, we clearly are on a stronger vibe when we hear a track like Takuya Matsumoto's Yamanashi! Of course, and as expected from real professionals, the timing and the mixes are absolutely top-notch here! Jkriv's mix is less adventurous rhythmically speaking, which does not mean it is not interesting as he also takes us to a floatation trip somewhere above the clouds, laughs with Camiel's Sintra (Osunlade Main Mix) & Siren Song! JKriv's musical proposition is a never-ending extatic musical momentum, this being proved by the way Let It Go is perfectly mixed after Siren Song, you can hear there's a shift in the frequency response of the two tracks, but the rest is absolute mixing genius, right there! Jkriv then drops the 4 last songs, keeping the happy Balearic Spirit alive and well with Pura Vida (JKriv Remix), followed by When You Find Your Love...Hold On (can you feel the house kick coming in stronger there?!) and ending the mix with the Absolute Classic that Sunshower is, not forgetting here the incredible SFO! All in all, a Happy, down-to-earth yet dreamy Balearic set that will make you dance for sure! Jkriv's interview with Colleen Visit https://www.jkriv.com/ [Colleen] Well, Balericans, I have Jkriv from Razor and Tape here in the studio with me. How you doing, Jason? [Jkriv] I'm good. A little cold, but hanging in there. [Colleen] Ah, New York, this time of year. It's pretty warm here in London, you know. [Jkriv] I'm sure, yeah. [Colleen] But they complain about it anyways. [Jkriv] Oh, of course. Yeah. [Colleen] But you do so many different things, and you really just amaze me. I just want to tell our listeners a few of the things that you do. Of course, you're a DJ. You're a producer. You're also a multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, label owner. And, you just do so many things that are so prolific. And I just wanted to talk with you about a few of the projects you've been working on and what's coming up in the future. Razor and Tape, you started that about 12 years ago, was it? [Jkriv] Yeah, 13. We started in 2012. [Colleen] And you had 150 releases, which is quite something. I mean, this is like a release almost every single month. When you started the label, was that your idea? To be a very prolific label as opposed to just kind of a vanity label of just putting out projects when you do them as you go? [Jkriv] I mean, the label at its inception kind of had a very different focus than it does now. When we started, it was really an edits label. I had made a bunch of edits myself. My partner, Aaron Day, had collected a bunch from events that he had done. Artists had given them some of their personal edits given to him. And we had this sort of little cache of edits, and we were like, let's get these out there. And that was it. That was like the whole thing at the beginning. Just like, let's get some of this music out there. It's good. We're playing it. Be fun to have it on vinyl. Be fun for other people to play it. But as the label progressed over the years, you know we got a very nice response from the early couple of years of releases. So from our origins as an edits label, we then moved into original music. And that has been really our focus. And that has been really the most exciting thing about running a label, is being able to put out the music and uplift, and help support new artists who are making original music. [Colleen] Well, you're a multi-instrumentalist yourself. As I look at you and your studio, I see all these guitars and keyboards and a bass guitar. When did you get your start, and how did you get your start as a musician? [Jkriv] So I kind of entered into the world of club music probably from an unconventional avenue. I started as an instrumentalist. I was into rock when I was a kid. And from like interest in classic rock, that kind of moved. I mean, I started playing bass when I was 12 years old. Bass and guitar. But bass is really my primary instrument. And I moved from like 70s rock to like 70s soul music, funk and stuff like that. And that kind of led me into disco and dance music. But I studied jazz pretty... I was very focused on jazz for about five, six years of my life. I went to school for jazz at Oberlin, and studied it pretty hardcore. And thought that that's what my career was going to be. And then when I returned to New York, pretty quickly I pivoted. And I started playing like acid jazz. And then I began playing with Tortured Soul, which was a live house band. And I played with Tortured Soul through the 2000s until 2010. And in that range, somewhere around then I started doing some production as well. I wasn't DJing yet, but I started doing a bit of production. And, when I left Tortured Soul in 2010, that's kind of when my current music career, as it exists now, sort of began. I started DJing. I started being much more focused on production and writing and making original music and edits. Like the kind that came out on Razor-n-Tape originally. And yeah, from there, it's kind of just progressed to where it is now. [Colleen] You are so busy. I mean, also on top, Tortured Soul is amazing. I loved, loved, loved Tortured Soul. They were kind of to me like almost like a Blaze-esque kind of band. You know, the same kind of arrangements, classic arrangements. But you also have another live band, a disco band in Escort. Can you tell us about that? [Jkriv] Yeah. So I started playing with Escort after I left Tortured Soul. That wasn't my project originally, but I joined and kind of became more involved in the production and writing of the band as the years went on. That band is kind of dormant right now. I'm not exactly sure what's going on with that. But I do have another live project that I'm focused on right now, which is called Joyful Noise. We've been doing these residencies at Public Records for the past three years. It's a night that incorporates live music and DJs into a club dancing night. And we've recorded all of these nights. And I'm in the process right now. Actually, I was in the studio yesterday mixing down a live record for this band, which we're going to release in May next year. [Colleen] That's so fantastic. That's really great. I was just playing at Public Records. Such a great space. Great sound system. Great sounding room. It's fantastic. I love what they're doing over there. But you also have, I think you also do a summer residency in New York, which I think is worth mentioning. It's called Hot Honey or something. [Jkriv] Hot Honey Sundays. [Colleen] Hot Honey Sundays, yeah. [Jkriv] Yes. So that was an event that kind of grew out of post-lockdown New York. You know, when New York opened up again, we started this party. We had access to this big space on the Greenpoint waterfront. We would set up a sound system every Sunday. And it just built because it was like a free event open to the community. Everybody would come, old people, young people, kids, dogs, everything, you know. And it was a really exciting time. But that party has also kind of transitioned into something else. I'm not quite as involved anymore with that. [Colleen] Well, you also have a record shop as well. So I think you're keeping yourself pretty busy. [Jkriv] Yes, definitely busy. [Colleen] The most recent release I think that I have is a really great EP called Adaptation. It's a really beautiful record. And I wanted to ask you about how you feel your sound is evolving, because you had quite a big scare, a health scare recently. If you want to tell us a little bit about it... [Jkriv] Sure. So last year at this time, actually, I was in treatment for lymphoma. I was diagnosed at the end of September last year with stage 2 lymphoma. And I had to undergo chemotherapy. For... basically the last 3-4 months of the year into the beginning of last year. Fortunately, now I'm done with treatment and I'm all clear. And my doctor believes I'm cured. They can't officially say that until you've had a few years of clean scans. But I'm completely well and back to full health. But yeah, an experience like that where you're really forced to slow down. And take a look at different aspects of your life. It gives you a moment to reflect, uum for sure. And I think it was... At that time, I was in the process of finishing the EP that came out before Adaptation. It's called Intuition. Which is a kind of heavier, clubbier record than Adaptation is. I really wanted to get it done, you know. I didn't want to let what was going on with me just completely put everything in my life on hold. Fortunately, I was able to work a bit when I was in treatment. I wasn't able to DJ and travel, of course. But I was able to do work in my little studio where I'm sitting right now. I just wanted to try to not let this be a thing that just completely disconnected everything that I was doing. And I was able to finish that EP. But Adaptation is maybe a bit more reflective. A bit more melancholic, I guess, than Intuition is. And I think that's music that I had started a long time ago. And it just felt like now is the moment to finish it. And, it's amazing how sometimes things can sit unfinished. And you just don't have the thing that you need to complete it. And then one day you wake up and you're like, Ah, I know what it is. I know what needs to be done here. And that's kind of what happened with that EP. And with, in some ways, a lot of other things in my life as a result of going through the experience that I did. [Colleen] Well, I met you, I think, when you were in treatment because I was playing at Razor and Tape. And you look fantastic, by the way. But one thing that was really interesting is that your output didn't seem to slow down. You are incredibly prolific and driven with everything that you do, all the work that you do. You've done sessions for other people as well, like Dimitri and Kathy Sledge and Horsemeat. You have a whole thing with Brazilian music. So many things we're not even going to get to into this interview. So I wanted to ask, what keeps you going? What drives you? [Jkriv] You know, it's just I feel very fortunate to do what I do. And I just wake up every morning with energy for it. And some days, you know, one thing gets more attention than others. But I kind of just wake up and go. And it doesn't feel like work to me. I mean, sometimes it gets overwhelming and stressful, for sure, when you balance all these different things. But just in general, I just kind of feel very driven and motivated and excited about what I'm doing. So whether it's focusing on the shop, and even buying records for our small little curated section of new music, or production stuff, or label specific stuff, A&R or, you know, any of the different things that I do. I also am the kind of person that I'm not like just one thing, you know, stylistically or in my tastes. I sometimes I want to listen to rock music of my childhood. Some days I want to listen to jazz. Some days I want to listen to funk. You know, it's like it just be anything. So having a lot of different things is good. I think they might call that ADHD. I'm not sure. But... [Colleen] I think I think I'm the same. Exactly. I have a lot of friends with ADHD. I think you have it, Colleen. I think it's my superpower. I don't want to be diagnosed. [Jkriv] I feel the same. I'm a highly functioning ADHD, you know, but it's good for me. [Colleen] I get up before six. I'm like, yeah, I'm ready to go. You know, it's like, what can I do today? And people are like, gosh, do you play till this time in the morning and you could just get up like that? I'm like, I don't sleep that much. I just don't need them. I'm really into life, you know, so. Yeah, so I understand. Yeah, I understand. So what's coming up in the future in 2026 for you? [Jkriv] Yeah. So I have a remix that just came out in December. I have a new one that's about to come out for Anorak, a French producer. I have an edit that's coming out on a make a dance comp at the end of January and this month. And then I have some original music. I have an EP that I completed with my friend Jason Lindner, who's a really great keyboard player. That's some kind of like heavier, clubbier stuff with a lot of like synth elements in it. That's going to come out on Razor and Tape. And then I have the Joyful Noise band live album that I was talking about. What eslse?... I also have a track with The Illustrious Blacks that's going to come out on Seamus Hodgey's label. And a bunch of other remixes that I need to finish, but I haven't yet. [Colleen] Well, it sounds like you have a full calendar of releases already. And I'm sure Razor and Tape has Loads coming out as well. So this is great. And I'm so happy for you. And congratulations, you know, on conquering cancer... [Jkriv] Thank you... [Colleen] I'm really, really happy for you. And, you know, I wish you all the best with your future projects. And we'll still be listening to you here on Balearic Breakfast this whole year. So thanks for the mix as well. [Jkriv] My pleasure. Thanks so much for having me, Colleen.

Colleen 'Cosmo' Murphy broadcast this new episode of Balearic Breakfast on her Mixcloud on January 20th, 2026. ABOUT THIS EPISODE Coming back from a few weeks of vacation, Colleen presented this new Balearic Breakfast episode live from the record room, for our utmost pleasure. As we shall see in the listening experience section of this post, today's episode was one of the strongest Colleen has done for quite some time (of course, as she stated, the first part of the show is introspective, but it is also much more than that!). Furthermore, the visuals that the music conveyed were also quite stunning and continuous, I should say. But more about that later on... Listen back to episode 26-03 of Balearic Breakfast: There’s only one radio show where you can hear Japanese ambient techno slide into the Grateful Dead . This morning’s Balearic Breakfast is now up on my Mixcloud and features loads of new releases including two new vinyl test pressings (thank you lovetempo and Mukatsuku), the radio premiere of Christopher Berg’s new Hird single & an advance promo from Test pressing and Alex Kassian. The first half of the show is quite introspective and includes a classic Brian Eno track that soundtracked our trip to Lanzarote (no prize for guessing correctly) and a song from my most played album of 2025 – ‘Whispers of Rain’ by Alina Bzhezhinka & Tulshi (kind of like spiritual jazz meets Basic Channel). Last night my daughter and I went to see/hear Tracy Thorn and Ben Watt at The Moth Club and it was absolutely sublime – an intimate performance in which they played some of their solo work, Everything But The Girl tunes, covers (like the Cole Porter one on the show) and a song from their son Blake’s Family Stereo. My first gig of the year and it was truly inspirational – loved every minute of it. Think I’m going to reread Bedsit Disco Queen on my flight to Japan. And finally, rest in paradise Bob Weir. Thanks for listening. ANNOUNCEMENTS Colleen heads back to one of her favourite countries in the world and to some of her favourite clubs in the world. See you in Japan! Matane! Saturday, 24 Jan: Precious Hall Sunday, 25 Jan: BOARS Friday, 30 Jan: @dj_bar_bridge_shinjuku Saturday, 31 Jan: @woal_music_life Gunma And I should also mention I'm doing two parties with and North America, Friday the 13th of February at Le Bain, and inside this time, not outside like in September. Great view over the Hudson. And we'll be at the Toronto Standard Time on Valentine's Day, so heading up to Canada. A reminder about the London Loft, our invitations have gone out for our next party on the 8th of March. And if you want to join the friendship train, head over to loftparty.org. Now, as I'll be away next week, I'll be streaming remotely. We have an interview with and a mix from Another Taste, the jazz-funk band from the Netherlands on the Space Grapes label. And we also have a mix from Angel Mel of Eavesdrop Collective, the collective of women DJs who play at our Love Dance and Tent at We Out Here, and who do so, so, so much more. THE PLAYLIST (1992) Brian Eno – Lanzarote (2025) Alina Bzhezhinska & Tulshi – Child's Play (1982) Everything But the Girl – Night and Day (2025) Alice Russell & Amanda Whiting – I Am (Acoustic Version) (1993) Peter Bardens – Sea of Dreams (2026) Léna C – Elle, Dani... (TBR) Opal Sunn – Liquid Phase II (1972) Arthur Verocai – Na Boca do Sol (2026) Joel Sarakula – Hands of Love (Monsieur van Prat Dub Remix) (2026) Bangs & Talbot – Keep Love Moving On (2025) Slowly ft. Mahina Apple – Turn Up the Night (TBR) Lovetempo – Thinking About You (2025) Chicco – Shigomase (Opolopo Tweak) (2025) Ayala – Melodia (Cee EIAssaad Remix) (2026) Coflo & Emmaculate – Salutations (TBR) Sade – War of the Hearts (Field2Factory Retouch Mix) (TBR) Hird – Moving Forward (2026) Nate08 ft. Benni Ola – Waiting (Dam Swindle Remix) (2025) Yasutaka Sato – New Era (1980) Grateful Dead – Lost Sailor THE LISTENING EXPERIENCE It took me a few minutes to feel today's show. I was surprised when this happened, although I am quite accustomed to it... Looking back, it's not the fact that emotions came through so quickly to me that stopped me in my tracks but the fact that, once again, Colleen's show came knocking on my life's doors... I always thought that when you love Someone, you have to stay on the side, no matter what happens, no matter what is said or done. Your role, as a lover, as a friend, as a supporter let's say, is to take the good times but also the bad ones, should they arrive... And you should always accept the hard times in Silence, with Resilience, with a light distance, for only distance will help you to get through the storm... Don't try to answer, do not justify yourself, these dark clouds are only here to test your strength and your devotion... The more you will try to fight them, the more you will try to counter them, the more they will keep on knocking you down to the ground... Stay on the side, watch the fury, the incomprehension, the mistakes unfold, try to understand, maybe you've been prepared for them to hit you, maybe, if you're the sensitive kind, you already were observing things from a distance, knowing this dark moment could become a reality... Brian Eno's Lanzarote perfectly depicts these dark moments, these infuriated rivers... You can almost hear the screams, visualise the lost mind yelling, trying to keep things somewhere in between the chaos... And Lanzarote is also an unfolding musical piece, one that keeps on revealing the horror that was waiting to explode... When the second track started, Alina Bzhezhinska & Tulshi's Child's Play, I already had found today's post title. I was just uncertain about the word's order... Unfolding Uncertainties or... Uncertainties Unfolding... As I try to keep Colleen's positive thinking in mind, I kept the first option, as I thought the second one was "passive/aggressive" and a desperate representation of the battles we all have to face one day or another... Listen carefully to Child's Play, there's also that same sense of discovery, there's the same battle somewhere, the same unfolding although it seems to be more open, but the magic is strained somehow as the dreamy sound of Alina's harp is confronted to the cold electronic waves... As Colleen said, the first hour of today's episode keeps these eerie feelings alive and well... A lot of other songs selected by our dear Captain have that same revealing sonical aspect (even in the second hour)... Of course, it's the case of Everything But the Girl's Night and Day, even if the feeling is lighter, the story of a love affair unfolding should remind you of something... Dreams are somehow dangerous in their uncertainties... And the sonics of that version aren't what I would call "free and happy", there's something more in there... A kind of darkness somewhere... Fear is never too far, it reaches out to you with Alice Russell & Amanda Whiting's acoustic version of I Am which is named after the titular and thematic track, and is a song that allowed Alice to articulate something that she had long felt but hadn’t fully understood: “I had started therapy soon after my first child was born, and it opened up a bigger understanding of myself and some relationships that had shaped my emotional landscape.” Dealing with themes of generational trauma, healing and life’s darker side, ‘I Am’ acts as a liberating beacon, showing that we can all be our biggest lovers and advocates, “finding our own power, clear boundaries, and doing the work on ourselves to love so much more deeply.” Do you Feel me now? Unfolding Uncertainties... As if we were watching a movie, Colleen then plays Peter Bardens' Sea of Dreams. There's a Constant tension in there; someone is freeing himself from a life he no longer wants. There's a battle... Also, did you notice how much Nature is present in these first few tracks? Léna C's Elle, Dani... acts as a transition, still keeping the unfolding element alive and well, and of course, as Colleen presented it during the show, the themes of grief and loss add to our reflections... Opal Sunn's Liquid Phase II is another example of the musical kaleidoscope we experience today. It's a revolving track, it turns round and round, but never stays with the same visuals... With Arthur Verocai's Na Boca do Sol you may think the skies will somehow become lighter... However, it's not entirely the case, as this stunning song boasts a soundstage that few songs of that era had. It is such a modern track, keeping the unfolding element incredibly present... The first hour of the show ends with Hands of Love (that keeps a light worried mind if you listen closely) and with Bangs & Talbot's shiny Keep Love Moving On. Usually, when you unfold uncertainties, they tend to disappear... MORE ABOUT THE SONGS Lanzarote from Brian Eno's 12th studio album, 1992's The Shutov Assembly, and that was named after the Russian artist Sergei Shutov, who had gifted Eno a painting, the artist telling Eno that he often listened to his music while he was working. So Eno put together some tracks he hadn't yet officially released, songs that were part of audio-visual installations from around the world in the previous decade, and he thought he would just give it to the artist, but he really liked the assembled works, so hence he released The Shutov Assembly. Now Eno also has a link with Lanzarote. In 2001, Eno performed an improvised concert with Peter Schwalm inside the crater of the Volcan del Cuervo as well, and this track for me is very evocative of the island. We just spent a couple of weeks there in Lanzarote, which is part of the Canary Islands off the west coast of Morocco and the Western Sahara. I've been there a few times now, I've just fallen in love with it, and the environment is really like no other. Black volcanic rock, very few trees, the only trees like palm trees or really big cactus-type trees. This time of year there's a little bit of rain, so back and forth between showers and bright suns, so lots of rainbows, and UNESCO also declared it a biosphere reserve, and it should be protected, it's so otherworldly. This one is from the London-based Ukrainian-Polish harpist Alina Bzhezhinska and Tulsi, who is an Ibiza-based Scottish producer and mastering engineer, real name John O'Rogers, and he's known for his dub techno ambient electronica sound. Now, last summer they released this album, Whispers of Rain on True Thoughts, which is the album I definitely played the most in 2025, over and over on my headphones, also at home, gifted it to a friend, so I'm kind of obsessed with it, and I realised I never really played a track from it on the show. It's kind of like spiritual jazz meets basic channel, and that can only be a good thing, right? So they describe the album as delving into the architecture of memory and human emotion, using rain as a central metaphor for life's cycles, the cleansing of loss, the blossoming of renewal, and the profound inner strength cultivated in moments of serene introspection. Alina Bzhezhinska and Tulsi with Child's Play on Balearic Breakfast. Last night, I got to see this act perform, Everything But The Girl before that with their 1992 cover of Night and Day. And that song was written by Cole Porter for the musical Gay Divorce. And it was originally performed by Fred Astaire. It's a standard part of the Great American Songbook as within three months of the show's opening, more than 30 artists had covered the song. Now, I just particularly love Tracy Thorne and Ben Watt's version. And they performed it last night as their opening song at an intimate show at the Moth Club in Hackney. They've played a of sold-out shows there. I think it's only like 150 cap. It's tiny, great sounding room. I think there's another one tonight. I'm sure it's sold out. Not sure if they're doing any more, but maybe sign up for their mailing list because it was stunning. It was a selection of their solo work, Everything But The Girl tunes, their son, Blake Watt, who has his own act called Family Stereo (Ed. Note: For an interview, see here). He was playing, beautiful voice, plays folk guitar. And it was really poignant because I went with our daughter, and she's the one that found out about it and got the tickets. And she said, I hope they play Night and Day. And voila, that was the opening song. So I really suggest that you try to catch them at the Moth Club. I'm hoping they'll do more. They did loads of different shows over the past few months in 2025. So you may get lucky. The acoustic version of I Am, and the original version is a title track from Alice Russell's 2024 album, but this acoustic version is stripped back and performed with harpist Amanda Whiting. Alice Russell, of course, is just a stellar soul singer. She has a string of solo albums and collabs with Basamba, Quantic, and more, and her 2024 album, I Am, she calls the most personal of her career. It was written after the passing of her father with a baby on the way. So life, loss, and grief are big themes on the album. And if you ever get a chance to see, hear her perform, make sure you do. Sea of Dreams by Peter Bardens, the English keyboardist who was one of the founding members of prog band Camel, and he also worked with Peter Green, Mick Fleetwood, Van Morrison, along with recording 11 solo albums. And the song we just heard was Sea of Dreams, that's from his 1993 LP Further Than You Know, and thank you to Dominic Mesmer for that request, finally got to it. This next one is a new one from French producer and DJ Léna C. And it's from her forthcoming EP Stimuli. And this track was originally sent to Crazy P's Daniel Moore in 2023. After the Crazy P lead singer invited Lena to feature one of her tracks on an upcoming compilation curated by the band. And sadly, that never came to fruition as Daniel passed in September 2024. At the time, Daniel and Lena were both living in West Yorkshire, where they became friends and Daniel supported Lena's musical endeavors. And following Daniel's passing, Elle, Dani... this song was reworked to reflect a deeper sense of saudade, the untranslatable Portuguese term describing a mixture of loss, nostalgia, melancholy, and love. Celebrating the memory of a remarkable human while holding the grief of their loss. Liquid Phase II, a forthcoming three-part composition from Opal Sunn, which is Alex Kassian and Hiroaki Oba. And that's coming out on test pressing. And that's a follow-up to the three-part Elastic series released at the end of 2024. But they've been releasing music as Opal Sunn, you know, earlier releases were more beat-oriented, but I think going back to about 2017 or so. But I kind of like this more spacey, liquidy manifestation myself. And Rick Van Veen on the chat picked up it was Alex Kassian right away, even though the song isn't even out yet. Na Boca do Sol by Arthur Verocai from his 1972 eponymously titled debut album. And after releasing that samba solo record, the Brazilian singer, songwriter, and guitarist didn't release another album for 30 years, as his release didn't really make an impact at the time. So he started making jingles instead. But earlier this century, DJs and crate diggers started picking up on this album and it got a cult following. So it's a little bit like the Sugar Man story. Anyways, I had to play this as our daughter Ari has been playing the album over and over and she is excited that he is headlining We Out Here. So this album was on in the car in Lanzarote and at home over the holidays. She also played it on a radio show. Ari's pirate material, So that's a shameless plug from her mother. And of course, if you're going to We Out Here, be sure to see Arthur Verocai perform on the main stage. We're all looking forward to that. Too Slow to Disco are back with a new comp of Sunshine Grooves that will put a spring in your step and a smile on your face. We had label honcho DJ Supermarkt up on the show this past autumn, and he put together a great mix and told us the story of how he got into the Californian sound from his studio in Berlin. Anyways, he's put together the Sunset Manifesto volume two, and it's coming out in February, and you can pre-order on Bandcamp. And I love the whole thing, but especially this one, a Monsieur Von Pratt dub remix of Hands of Love by Australian soulful pop soft rock artist Joel Sarakula. Keep Your Love Moving On, a single from the forthcoming album Smoke and Aces by Bangs and Talbot, coming out on Acid Jazz this week. Chris Bangs is a DJ and producer, produced Galeano's debut, produced Paul Weller, and he really helped pioneer the Acid Jazz movement back in the late 1980s. In fact, I think he coined the term Acid Jazz. And that's his project with keyboardist Mick Talbot, the other half of the Style Council. And Talbot's also played with Dixie's Midnight Runners and Galeano and Candy Staton, amongst many others. So Bangs and Talbot's latest effort is a follow-up to 2022's Back to Business. And again, the album Smoke and Aces comes out this week. Turn Up the Night by Japan's Slowly, with Fukuo Kodiva, Mahina Apple, from the forthcoming third album Two Steps Ahead by Slowly. And this single's also on 7-inch on Flower Records. And Slowly is Masato Komatsu, who's been releasing records on Flower for the last two decades, including last year's Two Steps Ahead, which features a load of collaborators, including Apple. FYI, the B-side of the 7-inch features a beautiful remix by producer Takuya Matsumoto. Loving that one. It's a new one from Love Tempo, Thinking About You. And Love Tempo is a lonely hearts disco five-piece from Brooklyn. And band leader Mattie Safer sent me their forthcoming album on vinyl. Thank you, Maddie. The album is called There is a Light, and it's Love Tempo's debut album and will be released on the 17th of April. Safer was also in the Brooklyn band The Rapture, also in Poolside, currently leading Love Tempo. And he'll come up on to Balearic Breakfast for an interview and mix ahead of the release of There is a Light. This one is a forthcoming EP from Canopy Records, who officially licensed two 1980s African disco tunes, one by Nigeria's Spirit Koneksan, and this one that we're listening to by Chico. And the EP features remixes by Arup Roy and Opolopo, and it's coming out this week. This is Shigomase. The original is kind of like early South African house, and this has been given a tweak by Sweden's Opolopo. Southern Italy's Ayala with Cee ElAssad's remix of Melodia. And that's a remix of a cut on Ayala's six-track EP, Where Have You Been? The remix came out last month on Casablanca label and sold, and I'm just loving it, and can't wait to play that one out in Japan, bringing it with me for sure. The San Francisco DJ, producer, and movement artist, Coflo, with Illinois producer and DJ Emmaculate, who also runs Terry Hunter's T-Box record label. They're both doing a lot of great things, and they've come together on a new double-sided single coming out this week on the Swedish label Kataleja Musik, with the cut Infinite on the flip. Before that, Sade, a remix of War of the Hearts by Field2Factory. And that is Adrian Loving, the Washington, D.C. based DJ, music, and scholar, musician, I should say, and scholar, and a very lovely person as well. He also released Inner Temple's Travelscapes, Volume 1. And the original is from Sade's 1985 album, Promise. And Sade Adu's birthday was on the 16th of January. So happy birthday, Sade. Hird with Moving Forward. That's the forthcoming single by Hird, who is the illustrious Christopher Berg, producer, songwriter, musician, DJ, and friend. He's worked with so many Swedish pop royalty, including Robin, The Knife, Fever Raised, on programming for Depeche Mode and Massive Attack. And he's produced a lot of singles under Hird. He released the album Moving On over a decade ago, and it's been a while since he's released the music as Hird, keeping busy with his other activities, including helping us out as an audio obsessive with our London Loft Parties. Ahead of that, we have the Damn Swindle remix of Waiting by Nate08 and LA singer-rapper Benni Ola. And that's coming out this week on Need Want Records. And Nate08 is a Mumbai-based musician, producer, DJ, and bassist whose real name is Nathan Thomas. And he's released two albums on the Need Want label, including last year's 27. Yasutaka Sato with New Era. And actually, he's going under the name Virgo there. So that's New Era by Virgo from more ambient techno classics from Japan. And that's a follow-up to last year's System for Zodiac. And Virgo is Yasutaka Sato. He's released some records at the end of the 90s and loads of releases over the last couple of years. And New Era is out on Mukatsuku Records in April. Love that label too. That's Nick Weston from Juno. And thank you for sending that over to me, Nick. I love that one. Now, before I go, I want to pay tribute to a musician who had a significant impact upon my life with his band, The Grateful Dead. Singer, songwriter, guitarist, Bob Weir, who sadly passed the next realm earlier this month. And when he was 16, he met a 21-year-old Jerry Garcia, and they immediately started jamming, jammed together all night, and decided to form a band. First, Mother McCree's Uptown Jug Champions, then became The Warlocks, and eventually The Grateful Dead. And their impact upon music, it just cannot be overstated, especially upon American music. I did go to see them in the late 80s, 1987, March, opening of the Spring Show in Virginia Beach, just after, you know, Jerry Garcia nearly passed away in July of the previous year. So the anticipation and the vibe was just off the hook, and I was just completely, completely blown away. And if you want to find out more about Bob Weir, there's a fantastic documentary that was made just over a decade, decade ago. It's called The Other One, The Long Strange Trip of Bob Weir, and you can find that on Netflix. And also, we should also mention the other Dead, Grateful Dead members who've transitioned, Phil Lesch in 2024, Jerry Garcia, of course, over 30 years ago, and Pigpen. So if you're a Deadhead, leave me a comment on the socials when you listen to this. Deadheads unite. This is from the 1980 Grateful Dead album, Go to Heaven. And this is a song that was co-written by Bob Weir and features him on vocals. The Grateful Dead with Lost Sailor.

Colleen 'Cosmo' Murphy broadcast this new episode of Balearic Breakfast on her Mixcloud on January 27th, 2026. ABOUT THIS EPISODE After hosting last week's Balearic Breakfast, our dear Captain met another one of our heroes during a Classic Album Sunday's event, namely Greg Wilson. Greg has a new book out, which you really should buy: James Hamilton's dance pages. This new book illuminates a crucial period in UK club culture – the role and prestige of the DJ changing as mixing came to the fore, with the technological advances of the electro era radically altering the dance landscape. It is a direct "continuation" of Greg's 2024 previous publication, James Hamilton's Disco pages (and you can read an interview about this one here). And then, a few days after that glorious meeting, Colleen flew off to Japan, where she still is as I write these lines! Adam streamed today's show (thank you, dear Adam!), during which we heard two very nice mixes, once more allowing us to expand our musical knowledge! This week’s Balearic Breakfast is now up on my Mixcloud and as I’m in Japan, features two special guest mixes. First up is with the gorgeous smile is Angel Mel Selector an eclectic selector who has graced our Love Dancin’ tent at We Out Here. She also hosts the radio show ‘Revive the Dancefloor’ on @bcfmradio. Her mix truly expresses the varied musical flavours of Balearic Breakfast. Next up is a soulful mix from Another Taste - the live Dutch jazz-funk-soul collective who have been releasing tasty dance floor treats on Space Grapes. We had a chat about their forthcoming sophomore album ‘Another Taste 2’ coming out in April and the story and ethos behind the record label which has released a lot of great records from Jambonne, Mad Honey, Jéroboam, Arp Frique, GALXTC and more. Thanks to my husband Adam for streaming the show in my absence while I was out catching Mark de Clive-Lowe live at Baroom in Tokyo - stunning show! Catching Incognito at Blue Note Tokyo tonight which makes three live shows in the past couple of weeks alone. Definitely starting 2026 on the right musical foot. Next week Balearic Breakfast is taking a break but will be back the following week. Thanks for listening! Listen back to episode 26-04 of Balearic Breakfast: THE PLAYLIST Angel Mel Mix: (2001) Royksopp – In Space (2001) Zero 7 – I Have Seen (1971) Jimi Hendrix – Angel (1979) Journey – Sweet and Simple (1967) Letta Mbula – What is Wrong with Groovin (1972) Lou Reed – Satellite of Love (1967) The Paragons – Black Birds (xx) Big City – Outside (2018) Cleo Sol – Why Don't You (2018) Ladi6 – Royal Blue (Silent Jay, Sensible J, Leigh Fisher Remix) (2000) Mos Def – Umi Says (2019) Hector Plimmer ft Alexa Harley – Joyfulness (2025) Ana Frango Eléctrico – Nao Tem Nada Nao (1969) Vampire Sounds Inc – The Lion and The Cucumber (2023) Parbleu – Elios Another Taste Mix: (1965) Pete La Roca – Lazy Afternoon (1972) Frank Zappa – Blessed Relief (1972) Timothy McNealy – Easy, Easy, Easy (1974) Cloe Martin – Life Race (1980) The Edge of Daybreak – Eyes of Love (1976) Dom Um Romao – Escravos de Jó (1984) Hot Salsa – Maldito Primitivo (1973) Leroy Hutson – As Long As There's Love Around (1972) Lalomie Washburn – My Love is Hot (Caliente) (1972) Ronald Mesquita – Papagayo (1975) Johnny Hammond – Shifting Gears (1984) Fresh Band – Come Back Lover (TBR) Another Taste – Into the Night (1977) Mad Cliff – It Takes a Little Time THE LISTENING EXPERIENCE Once again, this episode proved to have a beautiful musical "equilibrium", if I can put it that way. First, we had the oh so eclectic, open-minded and, in one word, refreshing mix by Angel Mel, picking songs from all corners of the world and all generations. I remember I told myself, that's a bold mix, that's freedom, it was obvious to me that she did not try to impress or to prove anyone, the flow was good, the flow was Right, the sound was astoundingly realistic at times too! Then, a few hours ago, I just read what Angel Mel wrote on her Instagram while sharing the link to the show, and it suddenly made perfect sense: "Happy Thursday Dears Ones. I hope you are feeling blessed. I was kindly invited by Colleen Murphy to provide a mix for her Balearic Breakfast show. Which goes out live Tuesday 10-12pm on Mixcloud. My selection was partially inspired by my mum Lorraine Wilson and Aunty Lorna Jane love of early 70s & 80s low slung rock. Combined with blissed out memories and adventures of my 6 year residency at the gorgeous La Escollera Ibiza. The selections represents all the feels I experienced during my times in Ibiza. Full track list is available. Listening to the Balearic Breakfast show is a joyful experience for me. Those who know, know! For the first timers welcome, you're in for a ride.🎧💯 Recommend checking out her interview with the Dutch outfit @anothertaste Heartfelt thanks to Colleen & Adam Dewhurst ✨🙏🏾🧡🎧" Also, I have warm memories from the few times I spent on the chat, as Angel graced us whith her presence on the chat. You could feel her kindness all around, such a powerful and beautiful soul to spend time with! When Jimi Hendrix's song was playing, Angel shared the following story with us "I was in Hither Green - London, this weekend. I saw the beautiful parakeets. There's an urban myth that Jimi Hendrix released them, and they've been there ever since. Love that story." When sharing her fear that her mix wasn't so much of a Balearic one, our friend Matt answered, "If there's one thing I've learned, it's almost everything is Balearic in the right moment. Lovely mix". And Matt was so right when saying that as Angel's mix was perfect, having freedom and a strong musical unity, with songs keeping a very close tonality between them (if mixing Journey's "Sweet and Simple" with Letta Mbula's "What is Wrong with Groovin" is not Balearic enough, I don't know what else can be ^^)... Yes, this mix was a Beautiful musical moment indeed! With an impeccable sense of rhythm, the second mix proposed to us by Another Taste was a great follow-up to Angel's body of work (even if it seems to have been quite a challenge for her to fi it in the one hour slot as she shared it on the chat, laughs!). It is a jazzy, of course!, and groovy mix, blending so much songs I never heard before of artists I didn't even knew existed that it almost made me think about the "ego trip" some folks may have while talking about music, you know these kind of "I know this and if you don't well that's soo bad", laughs! I mean, if you have an ego trip, if you feel like you're the "I Know Everything" type, please, spend at least one show by our side, we're all going to clean you up, I swear! Laughs!! Congratulations to Another Taste for that splendid musical trip, and Thank Yoo'z all around the place from the Balearic Breakfast Family! ANOTHER TASTE'S INTERVIEW [Colleen] Thank you, Angel Mel. Next up on Balearic Breakfast, we have an interview with Dutch collective Another Taste, who've been releasing records on the incredible jazz funk label Space Grapes. We had a chat about their upcoming sophomore album and other projects they have going on at Space Grapes HQ. Greetings, Balearicans. In the studio with me right now is Another Taste, and I have been loving their music and all the music on the Space Grapes label, actually. Another Taste released their debut album, Another Taste, in 2024, and now in 2026, they have a new album coming out, their second album, which is called Another Taste 2. And in the studio with me right now is Bobby, Serena, Bob, and Tern, and thank you so much for joining me. How are you guys doing? [Another Taste - Collectively] Great. / Thank you for the invitation. / Yeah, thank you. / Thanks for having us. [Colleen] Ah, my pleasure, my pleasure. I've been loving the Space Grapes label, so I just have a couple questions for Bobby before we get into Another Taste. Bobby, the label started in 2020, I believe, with a Mad Honey single? [Another Taste - Bobby] Yes, correct. And that's actually something we did together with Danilo, so that's Bob, Tern, Barend, and me with Danilo in his studio when he still was, he had a lot of analog recording gear in his parents' basement, basically, back then. And this way, we were already making music for like two years together, figuring out what we wanted to do, doing some kind of like house sample stuff. And together with Danilo, for the first time, we actually recorded live to tape, and we did it all like on the fly, so we didn't really have a plan beforehand. We had a couple of ideas written out, but like the best stuff that the first release we did was all recorded on the fly and mixed on the same day. And for us, that was kind of a revelation like, okay, this is what kind of sound we wanted to have. It was also the first time that we didn't work with computers at all, except for like recording like the master two track that was on a computer, but the rest was all multi-track tape. So, and for us, that was like the big revelation like, okay, this is a big difference in how it sounds, and how we work, and the kind of focus that you need to have to put down the take, you know, all this kind of stuff that just came together like that. [Colleen] Fantastic. Well, that sounds like it's kind of became the remit for the label as well, like live music performed by live musicians onto tape, which, I used to be a tape editor back in the late 80s and early 90s. So, very familiar with editing and all the different kind of pieces of tape around your neck going in the wrong directions. It's fun and it certainly sounds a lot better. It really is the best sounding format there is, better than vinyl, better than anything else. So, that's really great to hear. Really great to hear. Well, you released so many other records, Mad Honey. I always call the other one Galactic, but I think it's G-A-L-X-T-C, Life is a Mirror. I love that one. Jambone, Jerry and the Melange. And a lot of these people have you in the group, Bobby, but it's kind of a shifting group of musicians, I guess. [Another Taste] Well, actually, all the groups that you just mentioned are us all together. [Colleen] Okay, great. Fantastic. [Another Taste] Yeah, it's basically another taste. And Danilo was involved in the first few releases a little more heavily. And now with the last album, it's more down to us writing and recording. And I still go down to Paris, where he has a studio now. I bring the rolls of tape. I put it on the tape machine over there. And there's where I do the mix downs. We have one other group on the label at the present time. That's Jero Bomb. And that's a group from Paris that Danilo closely works with. So, that's more his project over there. [Colleen] Got you. Now it all starts to make sense. Because when the label first started, I was just buying these records. I couldn't really see who was on it. There wasn't a big social media presence at the time, which was nice. I know Giles was playing, maybe the first one as well. And so, there was a really good buzz that was going on around the label. But I think it's really to do with how much care you are all taking with the music. I mean, right now we're in a situation... where TikTok has really kind of lowered the attention spans of people. I'm getting remixes sent to me that are three and a half minutes long. I mean, shorter than a radio edit. And I can't even believe it. Of course, you can have great music that's short. Don't get me wrong. But a lot of music is just recycling and sampling old tracks, doing re-edits. So much of what you see in record shops now is just kind of a recycling of old tunes. And it reminds me of when I started something called Classic Album Sundays, which was kind of like a slow listening movement. And it was kind of in the face of everything going on. And I really feel that your music stands, and the way you present it, the way you record it, and what your ethos is, is really standing against what's kind of going on in the mainstream. [Another Taste] That's also the nice thing and the benefits to be able to do really what we want to do in our own way. Because we're so closely with the label. And also, you can create any tracks that you want in the way that you want to. Also, very heavily inspired by the music from back in the day, like the late 70s, the early 80s. I think it's also from the industry side more and more that they push, especially in the more pop scene, for example, towards like shorter tracks or tracks that would be maximum in three minutes, three and a half minutes like, radio edit. So it can be spent quickly and faster and faster. So yeah, it's nice to be just able to do what we want to do and the way we want to do it. Yeah. [Colleen] And Serena, was this, do you think, a conscious decision from all of you to just do something in a different way? [Another Taste] Well, I think we're all unique in our own way. And to have a blend of all of our interests in music is magical. [Colleen] Well, why don't we just talk about each of your backgrounds, just really kind of quickly. Give me a snapshot of your musical background, Serena, if you would. [Another Taste] Well, I'm the oldest of the band, so my musical background, it starts in the 80s. I grew up with a lot of soul music. My dad used to collect a lot of vinyls. So yeah, my background, I can name a few. It's Chaka Khan, it's Luther Vandross, Al Jarreau even. But I created another interest in rock music as well. I had a period when I wanted to be a rock singer, actually. And now I go back to my roots because my dad used to love the disco vibes, the grooves, funky music. And these guys, they, well, they invited me in. And I found that side of me again. So now it's disco and groove and funky music. And I'm loving it. Yeah. [Colleen] Fantastic. And how about you, Bob? What's your musical background? [Another Taste] Yeah, I'm a bass player. My background, I think I started playing when I was around 13 years old or something. I started at a high school in a school band. And I really caught up to the instrument. And since then, I was just practicing, playing a lot. And eventually ending up studying the instruments, of course. And now I'm actually a teacher myself. So I'm in school right now. And I see my kids on the outside of the classroom waving at me. So I'm on my break now to do this. But yeah, it's all music in my life. And it's growing strong, you know. [Colleen] And how about you, Turn? [Another Taste] For me, yeah, there was always music at home. Because my dad used to play drums when he was younger. My sister played drums, still does. My mom used to play clarinet and my other sister saxophone. So it was always lots of like making music. So I started lessons when I was around eight. And I always kept doing it, basically. Yeah, started to be actually the same as Bob. We were in the same middle school, second year school. I had my first band there. Yeah, basically played since that age. And I grew up with also more like the old school 70s rock and funk kind of stuff. And it was around the conservatory time. I went to the conservatory in Rotterdam, where I got closer to Bob as well. And via friends there, I got connected with Bobby. I got way more into like the whole disco and funk and soul, old school stuff. Since they're both collecting records a lot. So that's been a good inspiration. And yeah, it's been a couple of years of being a session musician for different pop artists, basically. Where I met Serena as well. But then since the last seven years, it's been more like, okay, let's focus on own music with this group. It's been a big pleasure. [Colleen] That's fantastic. I like how you all come from different backgrounds and you're all bringing something unique to the table. With the new album, Bobby, is there a kind of a different tweaked musical direction? I've only heard the first single, which, you know, is a great kind of mid-tempo, down-tempo, I would say down to mid-tempo boogie track, Run Into Love, which I absolutely love. What is the direction of this album? And please let us know if there's something different that you were trying to achieve. I haven't yet heard the album. It's coming out in April. So I have to ask you. [Another Taste] The direction was, I think we wanted to go for more of, like do a bit more songs. Make it a bit more polished. Also to be a bit more inside of the, like to be able to cross over a bit more, let's say. But not lose our core too much. So that's something we wanted to see how we could step out, like do a couple more tracks that are a bit more song-based. But at the same time, we have a few tunes on the album that still we do the lead vocals on. But those are like simple things. Like the first thing we did, Upward Bound, which is just like an eight bar loop of vocals. We have a couple of those on the record as well. We have two down-tempo tracks that are, yeah, like as we say in Dutch, more like like little songs of like three, three, three and a half minutes. But those I also really love to make. [Colleen] Is that for the TikTok generation? [Another Taste] No, no, no, no, no. I don't think so. I don't think so. Hell yeah. No, it was more about like discovering how we could make a short arrangement that also works really well. And instead of like doing long, stretched out workouts to condense it down a bit more. And I also really love that approach. I mean, some of my favorite music is 45s that are three minutes long. So yeah, I didn't see why we couldn't do that. And I'm really happy with the result of that as well. So yeah, I think overall it's just a bit more, a bit more poppy, but not losing our, not losing our core for sure. Yeah. [Another Taste] Let's not forget the second singles, up-tempo disco tune together with ARP Freak and The Perpetual Singers as well. [Colleen] I love ARP Freak and The Perpetual Singers. I just got a new single of theirs, Save Your Soul with a Joe Clossel remix. Oh my goodness. That's, that is absolutely fantastic. There's so much going on in the Netherlands. My goodness. It's incredible. Really great. Are you starting to write songs before you head into the studio now for this album? [Another Taste] Yeah. Yeah. I think most of it was written on forehand. Like it's a bit organic also the process because most of the time we're all together in the same room. And then sometimes I bring some ideas or sketches, sometimes Byron did. [Colleen] Serena for the third single as well. [Another Taste] Yes. Serena did The Night, which was like her vocal and main groove thingy. And then we also have different songs which we collaborated and it just happened in studio. So it's pretty organic, but it's not that we recorded the ideas direct to tape. Like first we had the ideas, created it, make an arrangement of everything and then eventually recorded when everything and all the parts, everybody were like super clear. [Another Taste] What is good to know as well, that with a lot of bands, you see that they write the music and they go into the studio and record everything. The thing is that we have our own studio where we gather at least two days a week. So every Monday, Tuesday, we're there. And then it's either the writing or recording or mixing or organizational stuff or jamming. So it's kind of also not that we have like one set period. Like, okay, this couple of weeks we're going to write and these days we're going to record. It's kind of like an ongoing process all the time. [Colleen] That's a really great idea. I mean, to have a schedule like that. I'm working on a project with a few other people and trying to schedule us because they're members of Hot Chip and LCD Sound System. And then I'm touring and doing my stuff and just trying to get like a studio day. It's really difficult. Doing that every Monday and Tuesday is brilliant. I have a question here for Serena. Serena, you wrote the next single, Into the Night. Could you tell us a little bit about it? You're going to preview it here on your mix. [Another Taste] Yeah. Well, it's a song I dreamt about, but it's not about me. The first single, it was. But I had this crazy thought about a young female who likes to be free, but she likes to play around with all the beautiful men around her. But there's this one guy in particular that couldn't take no for an answer. So yeah, she's kind of bashing. Telling him to just let go. He could have her for one night, but he couldn't have her heart. So this song is, yeah, this song is about that. Yes, she likes to be free. [Colleen] Well, thank you for that. [Another Taste] So it's not about me! [Colleen] Another Taste 2 comes out in late April. And will you be performing this album? Will you be touring this summer, coming to the UK? What's your plan? [Another Taste] Absolutely. We have one gig currently set for the UK in London, Brick Lane Jazz Festival. For the rest, we are still waiting on a lot of things to fall in place. [Colleen] I wish you all the best of luck with it. I hope I get to catch you at the Brick Lane Jazz Festival in April. And I really look forward to the album. And I just want to say thank you for creating this music and doing something that really has a lot of TLC, a lot of tender, loving care, more so than a lot of other music that's coming out today. So, you know, thank you so much. [Another Taste] Thanks for having us!

Colleen 'Cosmo' Murphy broadcast this new episode of Balearic Breakfast on her Mixcloud on February 10th, 2026. ABOUT THIS EPISODE It rarely happens, but it does! This episode was unannounced on Collen's socials, but the show started on time and drew around 500 listeners, slightly more if I recall correctly! We all deeply enjoyed Andrea's mix, which opened with a slow, deep musical mood, like an awakening... We all really enjoyed it all the more that it evolved beautifully over time, a splendid journey indeed (I must admit, Falle Nioke's Falle Le Le Le was a true revelation for me, please read this article as it nicely presents the song! )! Then we had an interview and a sunnier, more joyful mix by the great Dom Servini! In the chat, the family was enjoying the selections, discussing the upcoming Loft party in London, which will be held very soon, and Colleen's forthcoming DJ events; she will be playing Back to Back with François Kevorkian soon! We also spoke about music and series, with Kay telling us not to lose too much time watching "Emily in Paris", which turns out to be a slightly disappointing watching moment! This morning’s Balearic Breakfast is now up on my Mixcloud and features two special mixes while I’m here in freezing Massachusetts. First up is @andreaac , a musical storytelling selector from Manchester who has graced our Love Dancin’ tent at We Out Here both solo and as part of the dynamic Eve’s Drop Collective. I know you’ll love her soulful mix. Up next is @domservini , label head of @wahwah45s and radio host at Soho Radio and Jazz FM. I love Dom’s work and he’s also a great guy and I’m sure you’ll love his musical story which includes one of my favourite music mags Straight No Chaser and London’s Jazz Cafe. Thanks to both Andrea and Dom for filling in for me while I’m away. I’m in North America and this weekend I’m playing two back to back parties with Francois - first up is Le Bain in Manhattan and tickets are free but must be preserved and the following night we head to Toronto for another B2B session at Standard Time. Ticket links are in my linktree. Next week is the annual Loft Anniversary special and this one is a 3.5 hour special! I hope you can join me to celebrate my dear friend David Mancuso’s legacy through special mixes and I also share some of David’s letters to me. It’s very personal. Listen back to episode 26-05 of Balearic Breakfast: THE PLAYLIST Andrea Trout Mix: (2025) Naissam Jalal ft Archie Shepp – Souffle #1 (2018) GoGo Penguin – Hopopono (2015) St Germain – Hanky-Panky (2021) JAB – 5,6,7,8 (Dance is Life) (2025) Falle Nioke – Falle Le Le Le (2010) T. Williams ft Terri Walker – Heartbeat (Mosca Remix) (2017) Bosq ft. Megan Doherty & Nicole Willis – Can't Seem to Hide (2020) Joanna Law – First Time Ever (Radio Edit 2020) (2002) Em-Cee – Better Days (2021) Alice Russell – For A While (1985) Sade – The Sweetest Taboo (1980) The Jones Girls – At Peace With Woman Dom Servini Mix: (2025) IKE ft SHOLTO, Rachel Kitchlew & David Bardon – SIDDA (London Version) (NOL) Him & Earl – Preside (2025) IKE – Risorgini (Live In Heliopolis University, Cairo) (NOL) Soothsayers – Love Is Still The Answer (Prince Fatty Rockers Remix) (2026) Klash & Brown – You Dun Know (2019) Kutiman ft Rioghnach Connolly – So Long (Gene Dudley Remix) (2026) Marxist Disco Ensemble – Dust (DJ Nature Edit) (2025) Lawne – The Huge Balloon (Medlar Remix) (2025) Raz & Afla – Voodoo Zeze (Esa Remix) (NOL) Land Of Echo feat. Ayana Homma – Lean Into Your Own Breath (IG Culture's Post FunkFlip) (2026) Gledd Edits – Gaboon (NOL) King Crowney feat. Afronaut Zu – My People (2023) Eparapo – From London To Lagos (WheelUp Remix) (2026) China Chameleon – Injula (Tribute To Staffa) (2024) Chicago Funk Band – No Communication (2025) Banana Hill – Le Serpent (Cervo Edit) (2025) Kotoa – I Am (Laroye Afrobeat Edit) (NOL) Him & Earl – Away (1977) America – Are You There DOM SERVINI'S INTERVIEW WITH COLLEEN [Colleen] Thanks so much, Andrea Trout, for that gorgeous Balearic breakfast mix. And next up, our featured interview. Well, Balearicans, today I have Dom Servini from Wahwah45s here on the show with us. He's also given us an exclusive mix, and he's just a really great guy. So I'm really happy to have him up here. Hi, Dom, how are you? [Dom] Hi, Colleen, I'm good. Thank you very much. Thanks for having me. [Colleen] Well, I just wanted to first talk a little bit about yourself and how you got into music. I mean, how did you start your whole foray into DJing? [Dom] My foray into DJing? Well, I think, you know, when I left uni, I was down in Sussex in Brighton, which I deliberately headed for because of the music scene. And we're talking early 90s. The music scene in Brighton was pretty decent now, but it was pretty incredible in the early 90s. And it was one of my main reasons for going down there, was the music scene. And I hadn't actually sort of been a DJ formally at that point. But when I was at uni, I kind of got into it. And the scene really inspired me. People like Russ Dewberry and people like that, who were putting on events in Brighton. And I used to see people like Fatboy Slim DJ down there at the jazz rooms playing disco and jazz and funk and stuff, you know, when he was just Norman Cook. And that really kind of inspired me into it. And then I came back to London, and started working in Soho as a runner, and started putting on my own events in London. Actually started DJing in Brighton, but then started putting my own events on in London, and started a night called Mouse Organ that I ran with Jake Holloway for a few years. And probably one of the most important things that happened was I was at Mr. Bongo's one day. If you wouldn't really imagine this ever happening now, there was a sign in the window from the jazz cafe saying DJs wanted. [Colleen] Oh, my gosh. [Dom] It should have been 93. And I've been DJing there ever since, you know, mostly as a resident. So, yeah, so that's like, you know, over 30 years ago. [Colleen] Wow. I had no idea! That's really, I'm glad I asked you that question! [Dom] Yeah! [Colleen] That's really amazing. [Dom] You can't imagine that happening now! [Colleen] I know. Exactly. You can't imagine that. I mean, I actually worked at Mr. Bongo when I first moved here just for a few months in the Latin section, believe it or not. [Dom] Yes, I have a vague memory of you doing that. Yeah. [Colleen] You have also worked as a journalist writing for Straight Note Chaser. Can you tell us a little bit about that? I love Paul Bradshaw's work, and I love that magazine so much. [Dom] And that man who doesn't love Paul Bradshaw. Paul was always really great with me, as he is really, really generous. And I mean that, you know, in terms of his time and his willingness to give someone a chance. That's that's really how I would one of the main attributes that Paul has. He's really up for giving people a go, you know? And at the time when I was working in Soho as a runner and as a sound engineer as well, actually after that many years, I was I mean, it was like early days of the Internet. I was putting out a chart every Friday called the Hello Love Chart. And I would just send it to me. God knows how many I probably sent it to like a hundred people or something in my on my, you know, crunky old email and send it out. And one of those was Paul. And he just used to love getting my chart every week. And then he was like, do you want to, you know, I think it was either. No, it had been Ben Wilcox, I think, was finishing as singles editor. I think before him, it was James Lavelle and then it was Ben. No, then it was Ben. Then it was Sean McAuliffe. And then it was me, as a singles editor for Straight No Chaser, which I did for a few years and wrote articles for them and stuff like that. And it was literally because of that. He'd been getting my chart and was like, come on, then. Which is typical Paul, you know? And that magazine, obviously, for me was, you know, a complete Bible, you know. [Colleen] Absolutely. Absolutely. I just you'll laugh at this, but in the 1990s, I used to fax my chart to all the British magazines. And that was my radio chart! [Dom] I mean, I remember faxing charts and faxing feedback, you know, for for releases. I remember using the fax in my office in the office I worked for in Soho to fax to, you know, people like Duncan at Zonk and people like that. You know, my my reactions to some some some dodgy record that come out that week. [Colleen] Exactly. You're getting those vinyl promos, sending out hundreds when we had Bitches Brew, it's crazy to think about. Another aspect of your career is as a radio host. And I listen to your show. I think you are a fantastic radio host. You're on Jazz FM. [Dom] You know, I'm going to say the same thing back to you because it's true. [Colleen] Oh, thank you. But you have a great presentation style. And of course, I love your music anyways, but you're very warm on the radio and you can really hear it. You're personable, you're charismatic. Could you tell our listeners where they can catch you on the radio? [Dom] So funnily enough, actually, tomorrow, the 11th of February is my last Wednesday night on Jazz FM. I've been doing Wednesday nights for, I guess, the best part of a couple of years now, a year and a half or something like that. So I will be on Jazz FM at nine o'clock tomorrow night, with special guest at Jazz. I have a special guest each week. One a few months ago, I had a special guest called Colleen Cosmo Murphy, I believe, [Colleen] Oh, who's she? And I've heard some terrible stuff about her! [Dom] So, yes, I'll be there with Blackjazz tomorrow evening. And then from next week, you can find me slightly later time, eleven o'clock on Fridays, which I think is a much it's probably a much better kind of natural time and night of the week for me, really, considering the kind of music I play on Jazz FM. So I'm starting off on Fridays next week. From eleven, first special guest, Momoko Gill, which would be lovely. So, yes, you can catch me there. You can also catch me on Soho Radio on a Thursday evening, and that's live from eight p.m., where I have many different guests coming in for that live in the studio. And it's the WahWah45's radio show. We play a lot of stuff on the label. And yeah, as I say, we have some guests in for a chat and some live music as well sometimes. And you can also catch me on OneJazz, which I do once a month for Chris Phillips and Jess Nelson, which allows me to... because my Jazz FM show is a little bit more electronic biased, but it allows me to play sort of more organic jazz music that I'm loving sort of past and present. [Colleen] Wow. So you're keeping busy. That's great. [Dom] You know, well, you know, radio radio is such a wonderful outlet. I think especially as you get older, it's like it's it becomes more important. And, it's such an important outlet. It always has been, really. And I just love doing it. It's so intimate. [Colleen] Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely. And people can follow you on Mixcloud, too, because that's where I listen back to your shows. [Dom] Yeah, they're all on there. [Colleen] Yeah. Now we were speaking about WahWah45, which is celebrating its 27th anniversary this year, which is incredible. And I mean, you have so many releases. I mean, how do you keep up with all of this? But my first question is, why do you start the label? And, if you can just tell us a little bit about your mission, and maybe about some of the releases that are coming up? [Dom] Sure, of course. I didn't actually start the label. So the label was started by Chris Goss and his brother, Simon Goss, his late brother, Simon. The Chris now owns Hospital Records. But him and Simon were doing a night called WahWah at the jazz cafe that I used to go to regularly. And they were sort of inspired by Adrian Gibson, who was the booker at the jazz cafe at that time. And he was, he just started, or was about to start Freestyle Records. And he was like, why don't you? I think this is before Freestyle Records, actually. But anyway, he basically says, why don't you, you know, start a label to kind of represent what you're playing at WahWah at the club night? So about six months before I joined them as a DJ, before Chris asked me to join as a DJ with WahWah, they put out their first single. And then shortly after joining them, I joined the label. And me and Simon really ran the label for quite a long time, because Chris was busy with Hospital before Simon sadly passed away. And then Adam Scrimshaw ran the label together for about 10 years. And then we parted ways. And in a very amicable way. And now I'm kind of running it by myself with, you know, a bunch of younger people who come in and out and help me with it from time to time, which kind of suits me because I'm a bit of a control freak. [Colleen] And what kind of stuff are you signing? [Dom] Oh, you know, I was talking to my publisher about this the other day. And I think what's great is, for all of us, it's always been about songs. The songs, the song is at the heart of what we do. You know, I love improvisational jazz music. I love free jazz. I love all that kind of stuff. But what I love, what I love in whatever genre is, is at the heart of it. There has to be some sort of song, something timeless. And that could be in a kind of environment of, you know, contemporary electronic music, or that could be in the environment of dub reggae music, or Afrobeat, or, you know, jazz and soul. And those are all the kind of genres that we that we move around. Also, I am just about to release the first single with an artist called Him and Earl, which is vocalist Olly Him and producer Wyndham Earl. And their music is very much kind of, it's an area we've dabbled in many times on the label, on the kind of folkier side of things, acoustic-y, folkier, but also with a lot of soul and a kind of a little bit of a, probably a little bit of an African reference in there, a little bit of mulatto reference in there, as much as there is a kind of Paul Simon reference, and Sebastian Tellier. That's all kind of in there. [Colleen] Wow, that's a lot. [Dom] I'm including a track in the mix as well. So their first single is about to drop. We've got an album, beautiful, incredible album coming with them. So that's happening very soon. I have an artist from Italy. I know you're also familiar with called Ike, who again makes, you know, I think often the tricky thing with a label like ours and in general, in the kind of music world that we live in, a lot of the music is quite hard to classify. And we all know people like to pigeonhole, you know, and I just mentioned a multitude of genres with Him and Earl. And I can do the same thing with Ike, you know, there is, you know, classic Italian soundtrack music in there. There's jazz in there. There's soul in there. There's African music in there and a lot of electronic music in there. So it's all those things. You know, if I wanted to be a hugely successful crossover record label, I'd be doing something a lot more simple. Exactly. But, you know, these are the kind of things that attract me. And as I said, at the heart of all these things is the song. So, yeah, there's the Clay EP is out in a week or so from Ike, a track that came out on his album that came out last year, but new versions of it with vocal, and vocal versions with Faye Houston from Resonators, who's amazing. Sue Sayer's album's just come out. We've been working with them for a very, very long time. They've been going, you know, pretty much, they've been going exactly the same amount of time that the label has. So they've been around for a very long time. [Colleen] Oh that long! I had no idea. [Dom] Yeah, yeah, yeah. So we've got in a couple of, yeah, in a few weeks time, we've got a track from their most recent album with remixes from Prince Fatty, which is always an exciting one. [Colleen] I love his productions. He is phenomenal. He really is a phenomenal producer. [Dom] So that that might be in the mix. Listen out. And I've been working with this incredible young band who are talking to Sue Sayer's. Sue Sayer's have been working with young people in southeast London, South London, for about the last, almost a decade now. And they call the project Youth Sayers. And it's basically it's a registered charity, and kids from the local area who can't afford to be taught music privately go there and they learn instruments, and they form bands. And so they have younger youth sayers and they have youth sayers. So they stay there from like the age. The idea is that they work with them once a week from the age of six, seven, eight years old, right through to 18. And a couple of years, a couple of years ago, we released the first ever Youth Sayers album with all the profits going back into the Youth Sayers project. And apart from all those great things, which by themselves are enough. [Colleen] That's amazing, Dom, by the way. That is just such a cool, cool project to do. And I really admire you for that! [Dom] It's like it's it's not just me being completely altruistic, as I was about to say. It's also a nice bit of A&R as well, because, you know, there's young musicians who've come out of there who've then gone on to form their own bands. And the one I've been working with the last year or so is Katoa. And that has really kind of blown up. And we released an EP with them last year, and we're about to release a second EP with them late this spring. We're going to release both EPs on vinyl this summer. But they've been getting lots of plays from all the big people and lots of love and support. And they're an incredible young band, very much in the Youth Sayers tradition of Afrobeat and Jazz and Dub and Reggae and all of that, all that good stuff in their own kind of unique style. And I'm really proud of them. I'm really excited to be releasing more music with them. And I can tell you now, as a little kind of one for the future, is that maybe a little bit of an exclusive announcement on this, that we are going to be releasing another album with Dele Sissimi. And that is we've actually, having worked with Dele for over 10 years now, 11 years this year, and we've released music with him every year. But actually, you know, 11 years ago, he released his first, his debut album, like solo album, Dele Sissimi album with us on the label. And he hasn't released another solo album since. He's just done lots of collaborations with Meddler, S321, all these different things, you know, Get Cake, Wake a Cake, Fly. But actually, next year is going to be his second album, which I'm really excited about. I can't say anything more than that at the moment, but it's going to be really super special, because he's an amazingly special man that has been such a privilege to know and get to know. He's kind of part of the family. He teaches my son piano, so, you know. [Colleen] Oh, really? That's so cool. I mean, just for our listeners who aren't familiar with him, he worked with Fela Kuti. And we also had him over at Classic Album... [Dom] Fela's a musical director. [Colleen] That's right. [Dom] Yeah. [Colleen] So he's, you know, what a great person to have, a great musician to have on your label. That's fantastic. Well, Dom, thank you so much for joining us on Balearic Breakfast. And thank you so much for this mix. And I want to wish you all the best with your radio shows, with WahWah45s, and also with your DJing. And, you know, just thanks for being such a great person in music. [Dom] Well, all those things back to you as well. And keep doing what you're doing because we love you. [Colleen] Aww, thank you!

Colleen 'Cosmo' Murphy broadcast this new episode of Balearic Breakfast on her Mixcloud on February 17th, 2026. ABOUT THIS EPISODE A few days after playing back to back with her longtime friend François Kevorkian, where she met some members of the Balearic Breakfast Family, and just a few minutes upon embarking the flight that would take her home, Colleen streamed the 258th episode of our beloved show, dedicated to the memory of her late and great friend and mentor, the beloved David Mancuso. As expected, although this was a prerecorded show, it was a very moving episode in which Colleen shared memories of her friend, the letters he wrote to her, and, of course, the music that was central to their relationship. On the chat, we all enjoyed the musical selections, the memories, the tunes, chatting happily with one another as we always do during these special musical moments. Of course, when it comes down to the loft and to David, some members get more excited than others, like for real, and I know someone, a young soul, who was really excited as can be, so much so that he, of course, shared his passion for the unbelievable cartridges that the Koetsus are (more about That Sound here)! Other members shared their memories with us, and Aiko Kitawaga wrote, "I remember David's set at Filmore North at Precious Hall when it was still on the east side. My mother came with me, and we danced together. It's a beautiful memory". Our friend Kay shared, "You Pat Metheny fans should get involved in Classic Album Sundays - There'll be a recording of the album that was featured last year". Each song played brought memories and valuable insights. There is a great documentary about Sun Ra (Do the Impossible), available online. And, with Colleen sharing with us that her mom is clear of cancer, we all joined in a happy listening session! Join us! Listen back to episode 26-06 of Balearic Breakfast: Yesterday’s Balearic Breakfast annual Loft Anniversary Special is now up on my Mixcloud. For the last five years, each February I have hosted a Loft special, commemorating the party that my dear late friend David Mancuso inaugurated in his own home on the 14th February 1970. For those radio specials I invited members of the worldwide Loft community to share their reflections on The Loft and what it means to them, and for some, their personal memories of David. What he developed and evolved through the healing properties of music has infinite echoes and vibrations on all corners of the globe. He also had a huge impact upon my own life, obviously professionally as we did a lot together, musically hosting Loft parties together in New York, London, throughout Europe, co-producing The David Mancuso presents the Loft Compilations, working together on his record label, radio documentaries and film projects and of course starting a Loft party here in London over twenty years ago. But he also had a massive impact upon me personally and that’s had far more bearing on my life. He was an extraordinary person, a visionary and a musical healer. And he was also a profound friend, one who had my back and who looked out for me in the male-dominated world of dance music and DJs. I feel blessed. So on this show I reflected upon our relationship and shared some of his letters. I’m not going to retell the story of the Loft – you can do that via a podcast featuring an interview with David by my friend Chris Menist on the London Loft website at loftparty.org. And I’m not going to talk about my first experience at The Loft as I’ve done that in many interviews already. But on this show I shared some of my personal exchanges with David whilst sharing some Loft classics. I hope you will enjoy and thanks for listening. Love saves the day. OTHER EPISODES DEDICATED TO THE LOFT Have a listen to these other shows dedicated to David's Memory and to The Loft: The 2025 Loft Anniversary special (click here); The 2024 Loft Anniversary special (click here); The 2023 Loft Anniversary special (click here). THE PLAYLIST (1968) Van Morrison – Astral Weeks (1971) Alice Coltrane – Journey in Satchidananda (1978) Paz – Kandeen Love Song (1984) Pat Metheny – First Circle (1963) Les Troubadours de Roi Baudoin – Missa Luba Kyrie (2008) Alfredo De La Fe – My Favorite Things (Live) (1981) The Love Unlimited Orchestra – Welcome Aboard (1975) The O'Jays – Family Reunion (1975) Harold Melvin – Wake Up Everybody (1972) Labelle – Moon Shadow (1973) Chuck Mangione – Land of Make Believe (1978) Earth Wind & Fire – That's the Way of the World (1977) Universal Robot Band – Dance and Shake Your Tamborine (1981) Donald Byrd – Love Has Come Around (1980) Ben E King – Music Trance (1979) Brass Construction – Music Makes You Feel Like Dancin (1969) Cat Mother – Track in A (1970) Buddy Miles – Them Changes (1970) Andwella – Hold Onto Your Mind (1972) The Jimmy Castor Bunch – Creation / It's Just Begun (1976) The Equals – Black Skinned Blue-Eyed Boy (1973) Osibisa – Happy Children (1971) Mandrill – Mandrill (1970) Sweet Smoke – Silly Sally (1967) The Chambers Brothers – Time Has Come Today (1972) War – City Country City COLLEEN'S MEMORIES WITH DAVID... Good morning, Balearicans. I'm Colleen Cosmo Murphy hosting your weekly Balearic Breakfast on my MixCloud Live, and greetings to all gathered over there on the chat and thank you for joining me. For the last five years, each February, I've hosted a loft special commemorating the party that my dear late friend David Mancuso inaugurated in his own home on the 14th of February, 1970. For all of these radio specials, I invited members of the worldwide loft community to share their reflections on the loft and what it means to them, and for some, their personal memories of David. What he developed and evolved through the healing properties of music has infinite echoes and vibrations on all corners of the globe. He also had a huge impact upon my own life. Obviously, professionally, as we did a lot together, we musically hosted loft parties together in New York, London, Europe, co-produced the David Mancuso Presents the Loft compilations, worked together on his record label, radio shows, documentaries, film projects, and of course, we also started a loft party here in London over 20 years ago. But he also had a massive impact upon me personally, and that's had far more bearing on my life. He was an extraordinary person, a visionary, and a musical healer. And he was also a profound friend, one who had my back and who looked out for me in the male-dominated world of music. I feel blessed. So on today's show, I'm going to reflect upon our relationship and share some of his letters to me. I'm not going to retell the story of the loft, and you can do that via a podcast featuring an interview with David by my friend Chris Menest. It's on the London Loft website at loftparty.org. And I'm not going to talk about my first experience at the loft, as I've done that in many interviews already. But today, I'm just going to share some of my personal exchanges with David while sharing some loft classics. The first part of the show is part of the set that I musically hosted for the loft's 50th anniversary party in New York after David's passing. No, I didn't record it, but after playing each record like a good Virgo, I put it back in my record box in order, later wrote it down, and then a year later recorded it at home when we were in the grip of a worldwide pandemic. I've only included a segment of this set, the full set you can hear on my Mixcloud. We'll start with a song from an album that David and I both cherished. In fact, I played it on repeat upon learning that David had passed in November 2016. It's an album that's been there for me for my whole life, as it was recorded the month I was born, and at a time when this Northern Irish musician was living in Cambridge, Massachusetts, not far from my home. Van Morrison with Astral Weeks. Les Troubadours de Roy Beaudoin with the Missa Luba, a version of the Latin Roman Catholic Mass using traditional Congolese songs, and the version we heard performed by a Congolese children's choir in 1963. Ahead of that, some more Loft classics: Pat Metheny with First Circle, Paz, Candine Lovesong, Alice Coltrane, Journey, and Satchitananda, and of course, starting off with Van Morrison, Astral Weeks. Now you can hear the varied sounds that David selected at the Loft, not just disco, and he hated being called the godfather of disco. He played all kinds of music, and at that time was a real vinyl digger. He discovered Cameroonian saxophonist Manu Dibango's Soul Makossa, and that became a hit. Woman by Spanish rock group Barrabas, and the Risco Connection version of McFadden and Whitehead's Ain't No Stoppin' Us Now, which we included on the Loft compilations. By the time I met him in the early 1990s, he wasn't out digging in record shops, but others brought records to him. After David invited me to musically host with him for the first time at the Loft in New York back in 1994, he invited me to be part of his music pool, a monthly gathering of local DJs who shared records, and thus I started introducing records to the Loft, both at these meetings, and also when I was musically hosting at the Loft with David, whether back-to-back, my own sets, or even filling in for him. Paz, Candine Lovesong actually is one of those songs, Karma High Priestess, and Pasha One Kiss are all ones that made it onto the Loft canon. David and I continued our listening sessions after I moved to London, as I helped him prep for our Loft parties over here. It became a routine. Every Friday before the party, we spent hours going through records, some that he had brought with him, and others that I introduced to him. He loved coming to our house and once wrote to me, Adam, and our daughter Ariana, "Looking forward to seeing you all in your home soon. Being with the three of you is always a calm center for me. It's one of those precious moments in my life that I continue to cherish and hold dear in my heart." In 2007, David invited me to work on a record label he had put together, the Loft Audiophile Library of Music. The following year, the label released this record, the first and only release, a live version of My Favorite Things by Cuban violinist Alfredo De La Fe. LaBelle with Moonshadow, ahead of that Harold Melvin, Wake Up Everybody, the OJ's Family Reunion, the Loft Unlimited Orchestra with Welcome Aboard, and starting it all off with Alfredo De La Fe, My Favorite Things, the live version from the Loft Audiophile Library of Music. Now the LaBelle record I just played was given to me by David. It was one of his personal copies. In the summer of 2011, I had gone over to his apartment on Avenue B, climbing up the six flights of stairs all the way to the top in the oppressive New York City summer heat. And at this point in his life, he was making plans for the future. A couple of years earlier, he had written to me asking me to be the chairwoman of the Loft, which he described as a not-for-profit foundation with a mission to protect the principles of the Loft. He wrote, "You are the best person for it. You have proven to be a good friend to me and the Loft. You are also involved in the music scene, DJ, producer, owner of a dance business, audio awareness, the list goes on. You have all the know-hows as I do with all aspects and are faithful to the principles. Also, you are a woman, and this gives a yin-yang balance to the overall concepts". Of course, I said yes. So back to 2011, I was at David's and he was getting ready for the future and asked me to host a fourth Loft Party, a summer party, as there was a big demand for Loft Parties in New York City. The next day, he followed up with an email in which he elaborated that he wanted me to transition into his role and envision a scenario in which we would both musically host an equal number of Loft Parties in both New York and London until he could no longer do it. And then he took my breath away when I read these words. He asked me to be the caretaker of his records and equipment upon his demise, and he wanted me to have the rights to name the Loft. At that time, I was still raising a small child, so I knew I couldn't go back and forth to New York City all the time. And then the following year, David got sick. But eventually in 2015, he made plans for me to come back to New York City to do the sound and musically host, and eventually I was able to do it. Of course, things changed after his passing, and things are still changing. But when I read these words, it really meant something to me. "Never feel that you have to be obligated to do anything for anybody, especially when you have earned your space. As you can see, what I'm suggesting to you is not 99.5%, but 100% of something. You have always done the same for me. 100%. And it's always been there between the two of us. It was always that way from day one, which I remember like it was yesterday". And on that hot summer day, he gave me a stack of his records, all with their special markings, including the LaBelle record we just heard. And he also gave me this one. In my ears, the most special record of the Loft canon. And he had stuck a post-it note only on that one with these words: "To a dear and beloved friend, with respect and gratitude, David". Balearic Breakfast with Brass Construction, Music Makes You Feel Like Dancing, Benny King with Music Trance, Love Has Come Around by Donald Byrd, The Universal Robot Band with Dance and Shake Your Tambourine, and Earth, Wind and Fire, That's the Way of the World. All songs that David championed at his party, the Loft. And those were songs that I played at the Loft 50th anniversary back in 2020. Now it's not the complete set, as I wanted to play you another mix I did in tribute to David's first iteration of the Loft at his home at 647 Broadway. This is the Loft that I wish I had gone to, as I feel it was the most pure form of the Loft. And I think David felt that way too. He said that space, his home on 647 Broadway, was the only one he dreamed about. If you have a listen to that podcast I mentioned earlier at loftparty.org, you'll hear him talking about it. I also love this era musically, as it was before there was a genre named disco and before disco was a thing. He was playing R&B, rock, and soul. And a few years ago, I put together a special Loft 647 Broadway mix of some of the songs that he played, starting off with another record that David gave me by Catmother and produced by Jimi Hendrix and Electric Ladyland Studios. It's pretty far out. Catmother with Track N.A., The Chambers Brothers with Time Has Come Today, Sweet Smoke, Silly Sally, Mandrill with Mandrill, O.C. Bisa with Happy Children, a live version of The Equals, Black Skin, Blue Eyed Boys. I don't think David had that one. I found that one a few years ago. Amazing. The Jimmy Castor Bunch creation, It's Just Begun, Anduella, Hold On To Your Mind, Buddy Miles, Them Changes, and Catmother, Track N.A., and that's all part of my 647 Broadway mix. And funnily enough, just up the road from 647 Broadway was our radio station, WNYU's at 721 Broadway. And on the 25th of February, 1994, David joined me there for my Friday night radio show, Soul School on 89.1 FM. After attending loft parties for a couple of years, I finally worked up the courage to extend an invitation. Well, not completely courageous because it was through a friend who knew him. I wasn't the kind of person who went up to the turntables trying to converse with the musical host or DJ as I preferred to be on the dance floor. But towards the late morning hours, David would put on The Orbs, Adventures Beyond the Ultra World or Jimi Hendrix's Electric Ladyland, and sometimes I would quietly sit behind him in the church doors, spacing out and riding the music. On one occasion, he offered me a lift after the party as he would head to Port Authority bus station to take a bus up to his cabin on Mount Tremper in upstate New York. I lived along the way. But he was still quiet and mysterious, and I didn't feel I knew him well enough to ask him to be a guest on my radio show. So my friend asked, and he said he would like to hang out with me and get to know me first. And so we went out for drinks on Avenue A in East Village and talked and talked and we really vibed, we really connected. He was completely different, engaging, dynamic, excited, especially when we shared our experiences of musical synchronicity. And so he agreed to come up to my radio show on the condition that he wouldn't talk on the microphone. He did not want to be interviewed. He just wanted to select the records. And the records he selected reflected not only songs that are long-term staples of the loft musical canon, but also house tunes that were recent at the time. Black Rascals, The Luna Project, Psychotropic, and the gorgeous Love Masquerade by 280 West featuring Diamond Temple. And he also played this song, one that he loved musically, but also thematically, as it reflected the tempo of his life. For half the week he would stay in his cabin in the woods on Mount Tremper, and for the other half at his loft space in Alphabet City in New York. And so I feel this is a special song to leave you with. War with City Country City. Thanks for listening, and love saves the day...

Colleen 'Cosmo' Murphy broadcast this new episode of Balearic Breakfast on her Mixcloud on February 24th, 2026. ABOUT THIS EPISODE Although this one wasn't announced on her socials this morning, we knew Colleen would be live today because of the request line posted there last Saturday! Hurray Hurray, it was a Holy Holy Day, laughs! Also, Colleen's agenda is full, as one would expect. She played last Friday with Crazy P at Night Tales loft. In any case, today's episode was quite interesting, with a slow, evolving pace that made me think about a few things, like how you behave when life gets tough, how you react, and how you move on. But we'll delve into that in the listening section of today's post, and you may even learn a thing or two today! This morning’s Balearic Breakfast is now up on my Mixcloud and features your requests, some new music from @fsqofficial @prinsthomas @justsayfouk @jimpster_gram @slammode @jillscott.official @joutra___ @djbernardopinheiro and a tribute to the late and great salsa pioneer Willie Colón. It was great hosting the radio show live from my record room after so many weeks trotting around the globe. Thanks to all who joined me on the live stream for making my morning so special. And of course, thank you for your requests - we had so many that they will tip over onto next week’s show. Just giving you a heads up that our annual International Women’s Day Balearic Breakfast marathon special will be broadcast live on Tuesday, the 10th March. As I have a lot going on at the moment, I’m posting up the request line this Saturday as I need to get a head start on putting it together. Please get on your thinking caps! Wishing you all a wonderful week and I look forward to seeing some of your at our @lastnote_party this coming Saturday in Perugia. Ciao! Listen back to episode 26-07 of Balearic Breakfast: THE PLAYLIST (2022) Patricia Wolf – Woodland Encounter (2026) Slam Mode – Mojo (1981) Willie Colón – Oh Qué Será (1971) Willie Colón & Héctor Lavoe – La Murga (1974) Fred Wesley & The JBS (ft Rev Jesse Jackson) – Same Beat (1967) Letta Mbulu – What is Wrong with Groovin (2026) Jill Scott – Beautiful People (2025) Matt Johnson ft. Valerie Etienne – Flowers in Their Hair (2025) Payfone – Movin' On (2022) Stella – Pourquoi (2026) Doe Paoro – Teach Us Of Endings (Auntie Flo Extended Version) () Joutro e Pinheiro – Sandra (2017) Ambala ft Laid Back – Walk with the Dreamers (Leo Mas, Fabrice, Giorgio Li Calzi & Luca Donini Remix) played in honour of the Buddhist Monks, Walk for Peace (2025) FSQ, Moniquea, XL Middleton – Feeling Wide (Prins Thomas Diskomiks) (2005) BoomBox – Stereo (2025) Tigerbalm ft Joi N'Juno – Mexicana (Pete Herbert Remix) (2026) Jimpster – Crispy Pancakes (TBR) Fouk & 79.5 – Reverie (Instrumental) (2023) Nyamekye Junction – Too Many Bags (Kaidi's Remix) (1986) Willie Colón – Set Fire (Latin Jazzbo Version by Yvonne Turner) ANNOUNCEMENTS (from Colleen's presentation) Our International Women's Day special will be held on Tuesday, the 10th of March, and I'm putting up the request line this coming Saturday, as I have a lot going on, and I need over a week to put it together. So I'm heading over to Berlin on Friday, the 6th of March for an International Women's Day Bonanza with Lakuti Tamasumo and Suze Ijo at Panorama Bar, and if you're in Berlin, so please join us, and then a couple of days later, we have our London Loft Party, so start thinking of those International Women's Day requests now, please. (...) And also looking forward to seeing some of you at our sold-out last note party in Italy this weekend. If you're making summer plans, and would like to join us at our summer party, it will be on Saturday, the 6th of June in Perugia. And you can email info@lastnote.com for more info. And the following Sunday, I'm heading to another following Friday, I'm heading to Panorama Bar on Friday, the 6th. And then a couple of days later, it's our London loft party. And you can join our friendship train for reservations at loftparty.org. MORE ABOUT THE SONGS Woodland Encounter by Portland, Oregon, musician and field recordist Patricia Wolf, and that's from her second album, 2022's See Through, which is about the spirit of rebirth in contrast to her debut, I'll Look for You and Others, which was written in response to the passing of a loved one. Wolf says, "after a long period of grief, I have been hoping to find my to a place of lightness, peace, playfulness, curiosity, and sensuality again. What I was surprised and pleased to find is that for the most part, I had". Now, I had never heard of her until Rick Van Veen made this request, and I love getting turned on to new music and artists, so thank you, Rick. I listened to the entire album this morning and loved it and highly recommend it. It's a great fit with my recent Pauline Oliveros reading and listening as well. This is a request from Tomohiro Yamada in Osaka, Japan for Slam Mode, a New Jersey duo comprised of Angel Rodriguez and Michael Cole. They've been releasing records for 35 years, and they came onto my radar with their Tabula Rasa EP on their own label, Deep Worldwide Music, in 1997, and later that year, they did the Fiat Mistura EP for Spiritual Life Music when I was working at the label. Their sound is deep and transcendent, whether it's for the mind or the body, and always for the soul. I had them up on my Club 89 radio show around that time as well. They have a new one out, released last week, and it's called the Acoustic Session EP. It's on my friend Antonio Ocasio's label, Tribal Winds, and you can find it on Bandcamp. This is Slam Mode with Mojo. La Murga from Willie Colon and Hector Lavo's 1970 album, Asalto Navideño, which means Christmas Assault, perhaps a more honest description of the holiday period, and that was requested by Marcos Costumato as salsa pioneer Willie Colon passed the next realm this past weekend. The trombonist, singer, songwriter, producer, and actor was born in the Bronx to Puerto Rican parents and was signed to one of the most significant labels for Latin American music, Fania Records, when he was only 15 years old. A couple of years later, he released his first album, El Malo, with singer Hector Lavo, who was also Louis Vegas' uncle. As a composer, Colon combined rock, jazz, salsa with the rhythms of traditional music from African descendants in Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, and Brazil, and he was also an advocate for Puerto Rican people in America. He used his songs to depict their lives in the United States, and he also reflected and paid tribute to their cultural contributions, and along with his career in music, he was an activist. He served as a member of the Latino Commission on AIDS, and he even worked with New York City Mayor David Dinkins, but it's his music he will be remembered for most, as he was one of the most influential Latino artists, selling over 30 million records, and one of the songs he will be remembered for most is the one we heard before, Oh, Que Sera, the opening song to his 1981 romantic salsa album, Fantasmas, named one of the 50 greatest salsa albums of all time by Rolling Stone magazine. Rest in Paradise, Descanse en el Paraíso, Willie Colon, and we will have something else from him later in the show. Well, we also lost civil rights activist and leader, Reverend Jesse Jackson. May he rest in power. He courageously stood for president in the 1980s, I remember that well, opening the way for Barack Obama decades later. One of my favorite authors, James Baldwin, wrote at the time, "Jackson's presence presents the American Republic with questions and choices it has spent all its history until this hour trying to avoid, and nothing will ever again be what it was before". Jackson became an activist when he grew up poor in North Carolina, and he excelled at school. He needed a book for an assignment and it wasn't available in the, quote, coloreds only library, unquote, and he was denied access to the whites only library. He staged a sit down and was arrested, and that moment in 1960 marked the beginning of his civil rights activism. Sean E requested this song that samples Reverend Jackson reciting the poem, "I Am Somebody", which he also recited on Sesame Street. It's Fred Wesley and the JBs with Same Beat Part One. South African singer Letta Mbulu with her 1967 hit penned by Hugh Masekela, What Is Wrong With Groovin? And it was released a few years after both Mbulu and Masekela left their native country due to the brutal apartheid regime. And as an African woman, she had a hard time trying to make a living from her art in the USA in the 1960s. But she was resolute, and she performs that song with fire. It addresses social conformity, controlling behavior, and anti-discrimination. And thank you to Steve Wakley for that request. Philadelphia poet, singer, songwriter, actress, Jill Scott. She's back with a new album called To Whom This May Concern, her sixth album since her incredible debut back in 2000. And it's her first album in over a decade. And I listened to it this morning. It's gorgeous. The birds were still trying to get in, so I guess they liked that one too. It's rooted in community, reflection, and sonic exploration. And I just love her soaring vocals and melodies. We heard the first single, Beautiful People, and thanks to Poppy Shepard for that request. Flowers in Their Hair by Matt Johnson, featuring Valerie Etienne on vocals. And the Matt Johnson we just heard is not the thus Matt Johnson, but the British keyboardist, songwriter, and producer who was in Jamiroquai. And over the last five years, he's released a couple of solo albums, including last year's Warrior Princess, which features a song we just heard. And thank you to Constantinos Folias in Greece for that request. After over a decade of releasing chuggy, grooving singles on labels like Golf Channel, Lange, and their own label, Otis Records, Payfone released their first album, Lunch, last year. It's a great album, originals without samples, down and mid-tempos, great grooves, and a lot of collaborations with singers. If you want to find out more, I interviewed Payfone frontman Phil Passera for The Balearic Breakfast Show on the 17th of June. And Phil also provided an exclusive vinyl mix, so you can find it archived on my Mixcloud. Here's a song from that album that hasn't been played on the show before, and was requested by Barry Bernitz in Washington, D.C., featuring Willis Earl Beal on vocals, Payphone with Movin' On. Pourquoi, by Parisian-born, Berlin-based singer and DJ, Stella Zechri. And it's from Stella's 2022 album, Détends-toi. And the title cut is killer, too. We've played it on the show before. Now, I expect you spotted it's a cover of Carly Simon's Why, her 1982 hit that was penned and produced by Sheiks Nile Rodgers and Bernard Edwards. And thank you to Victor Altenew in Romania for that request. The Auntie-Flo extended version of Teach Us of Endings by Joe Paolo, I should say, the Costa Rica-based singer-songwriter, sound healer, who was born in America as Sonia Jill Kreitzer. And she's released three Joe Paolo solo albums. And earlier this month, Auntie Flo, that was Brian D'Souza, released two remixes on his Bandcamp, and you can head over there if you want vinyl copies. I'm sure they won't be around for long. It's a great collab, as Auntie Flo, like Joe Paolo, also seeks to create acoustic ecologies that explore the psychological and physical benefits of sound, and that's something I'm really researching at the moment, too. Thank you to Kieran McCann in Glasgow for that request. A rework of a song called Sandra by Joutro A. Pinheiro, and that's Brazil-based DJs and producers Joutro Mundo and Bernardo Pinheiro, who've been doing some faithful and soulful edits and reworks of Brazilian classics. I just love their work. And I've searched my inbox and cannot find out how I got this. I guess it's coming out soon, so put on a Google alert for that one. I think I will, too. This next request is from Fuzzy Dunlop, in honor of those wonderful Buddhist monks, their rescue dog, and their walk for peace. I'm sure some of you know, but some of you may not know about the group of nearly two dozen Buddhist monks from Texas who completed a 2,300-mile or 3,700-kilometer walk for peace to Washington, D.C., setting out on October 26 and finishing earlier this month, on the 10th of February. 108 days in which they promoted mindfulness, compassion, and nonviolence. Fuzzy requested this song, Walk with the Dreamers, by Ambala, featuring Laidback. Ambala is filmized in the cantonment of Thomas Schultz, and Laidback is a Danish duo of white horse fame. And it's an all-star lineup, as this is the remix from Leo Maas, Fabrice, Giorgio Licazi, and Luca Donini, Walk with the Dreamers. Love that one. A forthcoming remix from Norwegian disco don Prins Thomas. A nice, long, extended disco mix of Feeling Wide by FSQ, Moniquea, and XL Middleton. And that's coming out soon on SoulClap Records. Boombox, ending very quickly there. That wasn't my fault. That was from Muscle Shoals, Alabama, Boombox. They're an electronic duo. And we just heard Stereo from their 2005 album, Visions of Backbeat. And they've released four albums since then, including 2018's Western Voodoo. And they describe their sound as a little house, a little blues, a little funk, a little rock, and a whole lot of soul. Blast through Boombox. And thank you to Mark Williams for that request. Three years after her debut album, International Love Affair, London-based DJ and producer Rose Robinson, aka Tigerbalm, has a new album coming out in April. It's called Bubblegum Discos. And she's been releasing some tropical-tinged singles in the run-up, including one this week with my friend Daisy Bell. But this is another one I wanted to play for you, a remix by Pete Herbert of her single featuring Joy Njunu, Tigerbalm with Mexicana. Crispy Pancakes in honor of last week's Shrove Tuesday. That's Pancake Day here in the UK. You know, so understated, you know, you have Mardi Gras, Fat Tuesday in New Orleans, you have Carnival in Brazil and Trinidad. Here we eat pancakes. But I missed it again, because I was just returning from America. But I made up for it this weekend when I made buttermilk blueberry pancakes with maple syrup from trees tapped by my uncle Tim. He makes his own maple syrup in the sugar shack he built in New Hampshire. Anyways, back to the song Crispy Pancakes. It's by Jimster and it's from his Basic Rollers EP on his own Free Range label. And I've long been a fan of Jimpster, nay Jamie O'Dell, great keyboard player, love his beats, his very deep, deep house sound. And also loved his stellar work with the Jam Bound The Bays. So I'm excited as he's invited me to his own manor. I'm playing with him at A Canteen in Chelmsford. That's just outside London on Friday, the 20th of March. So looking forward to a real knees up. Ahead of that, Dutch duo Fouk with an instrumental of a song they did with New York City-based project 79.5, led by Kate Madison. And the vocals lovely, but I love the instrumentation. It really shines. So we heard the instrumental and that's coming out this week on Boogie Angst. Fantastic lyrics there from Nyameke Junction with Too Many Bags. And we are listening to the Kydie Tatum remix as requested by Rob Calcutt. And Nyameke Junction came about through some chance meetings in Accra, Ghana, and brings together Burundian producer and vocalist Bettina Quest, Ghanaian singer-songwriter Eli Afri and German percussionist and instrumentalist Matic. And their name is from a bustling junction in the Ghanaian capital, as it signifies a musical approach of the band at the junction of their cultural heritages. Well, until next week's show, I'll leave you with one last request from Susan Chan and Thanos Kotronis for a favorite by Willie Cologne, May He Rest in Paradise. It's Yvonne Turner's Latin jazz remix of Cologne's Set Fire, also a loft classic. And David Mancuso and I included it on our loft compilations that we produced for Newfonic. It's a gorgeous production and a lovely last song and a tribute. Thanks for listening and looking forward to connecting through music again next Tuesday.

Colleen 'Cosmo' Murphy broadcast this new episode of Balearic Breakfast on her Mixcloud on March 3rd, 2026. ABOUT THIS EPISODE Following an incredibly uplifting, and according to some of the friends who were there, life-reaffirming Loft Party held in Perugia, Italy, held on the last weekend of February, and just a few hours after launching the request line for the International Women's Day Special on her socials, which will be held on March, 10th, Colleen presented the 260th episode of our Beloved show. This show, like a lot of others on which Colleen worked before, has that intricate soul, that slightly estranged, cosmic feeling, something like a worried renewal in the making. Knowing that 2026 is the year of the horse makes sense when you listen to this episode. If it is slightly uncertain or weird, it takes you to other spaces, allowing you to relax while anticipating what's coming next... It also has joyful moments, but they are not that "free"... But we'll see that later on... Listen back to episode 26-08 of Balearic Breakfast: This morning’s Balearic Breakfast is now up on my Mixcloud and features your requests and also new music from Chris Todd, Jim Baron and Ben Smith’s @white_elephant_uk @fishgodeeper @amydouglassings @hardtondiscoqueen @massimilianopagliara_ @simonpeter_music @dinaogon @cantomamusic @pepelink @kikonavarrodj . And as always, the show spans the musical spectrum from ambient, psychedelic soul, 80’s boogie, deep house dubs and more. Also thanks to Crazy P’s Chris and Jim for the invitation to play with them at NIghttales a couple of weeks ago and for giving me a copy of their new White Elephant album on vinyl! Next week’s show will be the annual International Women’s Day music marathon and thanks to all who have already requested tunes celebrating women’s musicianship. Looking forward to our next musical journey together on Tuesday. THE PLAYLIST (2025) Sewell & The Gong – Quiet Storm (Ruf Dug Remix) (2018) Gondwana Orchestra ft Dwight Trible – Love is Everywhere (1981) Mai Yamane – (You and Me Still Keep On) Fall in Love (2026) Simon Peter – Still Going (2003) N.E.R.D. – Provider (Zero 7 Remix) (2026) White Elephant – Lovely Day (2018) The Orb & David Gilmour – Metallic Spheres (Gaudi Remix) (2026) Dina Ogon – Orden Brann (1974) American Gypsy – Inside Out (2024) Thee Sacred Souls – Live for You (2023) David Mathmos – Encore Une Histoire D'Amour (1992) Leftfield – More Than I Know (2019) Blank & Jones with Jan Loechel – Secret Hideaway (2026) Cantoma ft Minako – Further (1977) Jesse Henderson – I Did It Again (1980) Truth – International Dancing (2026) Pepe Link & Kiko Navarro ft Afeerika – Koko Ngbele (2026) Fish Go Deep and Tracey K Love – Cloth (Dub) (2026) Hard Ton & Amy Douglas – Fill the Hours (Massimiliano Pagliara Remix) (2011) Lovebirds ft Stee Downes – Want You in My Soul

Colleen 'Cosmo' Murphy broadcast this new episode of Balearic Breakfast on her Mixcloud on March 10th, 2026. ABOUT THIS EPISODE Two weeks ago, Colleen published the Request line for the 2026 International Women's Day Special Marathon show. As ever, the Family gathered together and requested songs by Women, and some of them were really poignant ones. Speaking about this, when listening to this episode, you'll feel a warmth, and a certain kind of reassuring tenderness we did not have in the previous episodes celebrating Women (for instance, a song like Eva Cassidy's "Time is a healer" lets you feel what I'm talking about here°... Of course, Colleen always takes the time to let music enter your soul slowly, not rushing anything, but today, that feeling felt even stronger in the first two hours of the show, and even when the music got stronger, you felt that female embrace, that feeling that whatever happened you were not all alone in your shoes... Of course, the show spanned decades of music and incorporated artists that few may remember, like the great Celi Bee (if you do not know her, I urge you to listen to her 1978 "Fly me on the wings of love" album, which is absolutely splendid! Finally, on the chat, the Family was happy as ever, and we even celebrated our dear Friend's Birthday (Kay, you're the one I'm thinking about right now ^^), even having people listening live for the first time ever, like Kong718 who wrote "This is my first time catching Cosmo ib the "radio" since the loft NYC to move to Europe. I used to bring her flowers to the studio at NYU. After 30 years, it's still a pleasure to hear her voice 'over the air'. Life is coming full circle." Other friends only listen to Colleen when she does longer shows... laughs! Just like ND Stardust, who wrote "Is this the women's day show? I just realized this is the only live I've made every year because it's longer and I get to tune in from the states"! Well, I'm sure you can feel the dedication here! Listen back to episode 26-09 of Balearic Breakfast: Today’s Balearic Breakfast International Women’s Day 4 hour marathon is now up on my Mixcloud. Its the fifth annual IWD celebration and thanks to all who contributed songs by women musicians from a wide spectrum of age, ethnicity and musical genre. Its a truly life-affirming show spanning the classic to the contemporary. And a huge thank you to all who joined me for the 4-hour live stream on my Mixcloud Live. Thank you for your continued support and musical conversations. Happy International Women’s Day (or month :)) THE PLAYLIST (1987) Priscilla Herdman – Ain't I a Woman (2026) Satnam Galsian – Dishonour (2024) Maria Rita – Lamento Africa/Rictus (2021) Sissi Rada – Blueback Tomb (1995) Akiko Yano – Omoide No Sampo-michi (Promenade of Memories) (2025) Cassandra Jenkins – Only Relaxation (2004) Rosie Gaines – In Spirit (2023) Christie Dashiell – Ancestral Folk Song (1998) Eva Cassidy – Time is a Healer (2024) Caoilfhionn Rose – Josephine (2026) Elisabeth Melander – Jardin Botanico (2026) Atlantis Dubois – Personal (1971) Carole King – Music (1972) Esther Marrow – And When I Die (2006) Heather Headley – Am I Worth It (2024) Allysha Joy – Raise Up (2016) Massive Attack ft. Hope Sandoval – The Spoils (1982) Adele Bertei & Richard Edson – Once in a Lifetime (2022) Khan ft. Julee Cruise – Say Goodbye (1984) Sade – Why Can't We Live Together (2006) Mirah – La Familia (Guy Sigsworth Mix) (1996) Björk – Isobel (Deodato Remix) (1980) The Jones Girls – At Peace with Woman (1979) Linda Clifford – Don't Give It Up (2024) Konkolo Orchestra ft. Nongoma Ndlovu – Future Pasts (2013) Solange – Losing You (2007) Electribe 101 – Talking with Myself (Frankie Knuckles Remix) (1989) Janet Jackson – Rhythm Nation (The Reflex Version) (2026) Asha Puthli & Say She She – Pawa! (Boys Shorts Remix) (2025) Lady Blackbird – Purify (Crooked Man Remix) (2024) Crazy P – Portals (1979) Celi Bee – Love Drops (1980) Two Tons O' Fun – I Got the Feeling (1993) Stephanie Mills – All Day, All Night (Def Mix) (1989) Adeva – Respect (Dancin' Danny D Remix) (2024) Maya Blandy – It's in You (Puerto Montt City Orchestra) (2024) Dee Diggs – Go Deep (Extended Mix) (1999) Abacus ft Naomi – Callin' U (Friendly Mix) (2025) Philippa ft Séna – Cloud Walking (TBR) Kridelka, Chanda & The Passengers – Give It to 'Em (Cosmodelica Remix) (1979) Diana Ross – The Boss (1971) Nina Simone – My Way (2022) Deniece Williams – Free (Dave Lee Re-Grooved Mix)