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Hearing Jona's edit of Peter Green's Proud Pinto during Balearic Breakfast brought a big Smile on my face. I decided to contact him to have a chat! 1) Hi Jona! Thank you so much for joining us here on the Balearic Breakfast blog! Can you present yourself to us and share the musical journey that led you to become a DJ? I was born in ’82 & emerged from the DIY skate & graffiti culture with punk & hiphop   but turned into electronics after hearing Ken Ishii’s “extra” in ’95 via my nephew Jo.  Around the same time, Natacha, who worked with my father, introduced me to nightlife. I was still a young kid but started working at the infamous Kozzmozz parties here &  got to hang out with living legends like Jeff Mills, Juan Atkins, Carl Craig, DJ Hell, Green Velvet... inspirational to say the least! My hometown, Ghent, has been quite influential for electronic music: the Boccacio club with new beat & house, R&S records (no introduction needed) and, with parties like I<3 Techno, 10 Days Off or even Kozzmozz & Eskimo I was spoiled and got a proper education. At the age of 18, I was living in the Kuiperskaai, and my neighbours on the left side were Stephen & David (soulxwax, 2manydjs) and on the right side there was Mo & Benoelie (aka the glimmers)! So yeah.. Nuff said i guess? 😂 Fun fact: it happened more than once that I would find some vinyl records just in the middle of the street early in the morning 😍 Crazy years Indeed! 2) How did you start editing songs, remixing them? What was the first song you ever worked on? Coming from the hiphop culture, I have a deep & profound love for both mixtapes & heavy beatmixing, and I always loved the extended 12” versions. So, around the end of the 2000s, with the downfall of vinyl sales due to the rise of serato & digital mixing, I’ve made my first edit. I remember doing it simply because I wanted to mix the song into my set, but the intro was too short… The track was “I’m so happy now” by Willy Wright from Mississippi, and I think it’s still somewhere on soundcloud! Around the same time I started The Eclectic Ladyland Liveshow overhere on local radio. It was an sunday afternoon 2-hour show and, as the name suggests, I would play just anything that i liked – which has always been my nr 1 rule as a dj:  i play it if i like it (and vice versa) – from jazz to techno, psychedelic rock to cumbia, via trip hop to greek Miroloi songs… In the past 15 years i had made tons of edits, solely for my own show and my sets, but I never did anything else with them, and had no other plans whatsoever. Then, this year, in February, I broke my 2 heels (don’t ask me about it) and I was stuck to my couch 24/7 for 3 months. During the first week I managed to create about 27 mixtapes but I just got bored, so I started flipping thru old boxes of photos & loveletters & hard drives which were full of music, and I decided to send the edits I dug up to some musical friends worldwide. One of them told me: “Why don’t you put them on bandcamp?” Honestly, I had no clue, but, like often, I answered “Sure, why not” and while doing that, I realised making some more edits would be a perfect way to kill the seas of time that I had ahead of me! Making edits is fun, of course, but it may also become very boring, repetitive & time consuming, depending on how you work. The first 2 edits I’ve made this year were actually more kinda mash-ups (Bicep’s ‘glue’ vs Sono ‘keep control’ (2 tracks that I loved to mix while dj’ing peak time) & Kelis ‘caught out there’ vocals over my all time fav song Quantic ‘cumbia sobre el mar’)! Another fun fact while we’re at it: I finished the last one after approx 200 hours of non-stop funking around, and had send it in all my enthousiasm to let’s say the A-list of funkateers: Gilles, Lefto, Questlove, etc just to find out, after sending, that I had sent the wrong file! I kid you not 😂 I had also posted the Bicep / Sono track to the Amazing facebook group Balearic Burger (Follow them if you don't already & thank me later). Then, A little later, the Balearic Burger headhoncho John C Bawcombe reached out to me (S/O JOHN! LOVE YOU LONGTIME!!) and told me: "Listen, you got something here, do something with it..." He really pushed me to next level... John will never acknowledge it, but without him we wouldn’t be talking right now!! He connected me with so many key players in the balearic world, and really pushed things further! 3) Speaking of edits, Colleen played your Proud Pinto edit from Peter Green. How did that remix happen? Why did you chose this track? What did you want to achieve with it? I was over the moon when I heard Colleen had played my track! When it comes to editing, my only purpose is to make it dj-friendly. Generaly speaking, I don’t overdo things, because the songs I pick are all favs of mine & I respect the artists so much that I simply extend the tunes, nothing more. As for the songs, well, again, they've been in my bags for 25 years & I would often say to myself ‘Why is this song so short?’ or ‘This could use a longer intro!’. With todays technical possibilities, I’m simply able to answer these two questions! So yeah, i just do it i guess 😉 By the way, my biggest inspiration has always been Greg Wilson, the don of edits! Since hearing Credit To The Edit vol.1, a milestone and true testimony of the art of editing & DIY culture in general, I knew I wanted to edit songs! Jona's Bandcamp:   https://telledits.bandcamp.com Jona's Mixcloud: https://www.mixcloud.com/eclectic-ladyland/ 4) What's next for you musicaly speaking? Both my imagination & songs "to do lists" are endless, so we’ll see where it ends! For now, I’ve got my first official remix coming up and I’m working with the legend Trevor Fung on some things, you’ll hear about those later! TELL#50 was released this week with edits from Jaqueline Taieb, Glass Beams, Venus Gang, Los Pekenikes, Scott Lavene & Pat Metheny & that’s what Tell Edits is all about: from Yé Yé to Outernational Sounds, via Psychedelica to Tropicalia over Rock to Jazz & back. No limits. No gods. No Masters! Make edits, Not war ✌🏻

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

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

On July 04th 2025, Colleen, alongside DJ Daisy Belle and Family member Virginia Tziotti, proposed a nocturnal Balearic Party at the Night Tales Loft. Following a sold-out Balearic Breakfast day party with special guest @joe_hot_chip , @colleencosmomurphy  returns for her debut club show at NT’s Loft on July 4th. This time, she takes things into late-night territory, joined by guests  @daisybelledj  and @virginia_tzioti , two selectors known for their deep, soulful, and cosmic sound. If you were there last time, you already know how special these sessions are, and if not - the clip speaks for itself. Thank you so much dear Virginia for sharing these pictures and videos with us!

Colleen 'Cosmo' Murphy broadcast the 228th episode of Balearic Breakfast on her Mixcloud on June 24th 2025. About this episode. – A friend recently asked me: "You spend so much time on the blog, why?" And I answered: "Because Colleen is a Friend, she's my Musical friend" And my friend went on "But you don't know her personally, you met her briefly only once, how can she be a Musical friend?" I answered "Some things can not be explained. They don't need to. Maybe I'm making things up in my mind, but I'd rather have a musical friendship with her than have a real friendship with other persons I know..." My friend looked at me and said "Yeah, I think I understand where you're going with that..." And if something was to be proven here, today's show is another great example... I initially requested Queen's "Innuendo" and my friend Ana said to me "Colleen is never going to play that, it's too harsh" , and she was right as our dear Captain wrote me and asked if I had another request, suiting a morning show better. I answered, saying, "sadly no, I don't. But don't worry, it will be for the next time!" . What hapenned was my initial request was perfectly hitting the chaos we see in the world today, it is a Grand Track but it did not meet the mood our dear Captain felt was the right one for today's episode. And it's totaly okay! Requesting songs is a Game, really, and the beauty of it is that Colleen is making the final decisions, letting her musical soul speak. So I wasn't expecting anything from my musical friend on today's episode... Yet, then came the live show and the second song... And when I heard what Colleen said, I simply burst into tears. Once again, Colleen took the Lioncub in her arms, and gave him a musical hug. These moments, and I know a lot of other members of the family experienced them too, these moments are absolutely Priceless and Wonderful because Colleen lets her Spirit meet everyone of us . And this kindness is the reason why we love her the way we do... Of course, the link with today's post title is absolutely easy to make... We're all about Love here at Balearic Breakfast, we're sharing the music, we're not sharing our egos, we're sharing our unity, with one another, without paying attention to race, color, sexual or political orientations... If you respect me, if you Love me, I'll always be your brother, and my heart and my arms will always be openned wide... Be You, Be Proud, Join the Family, we're waiting for you... Love is a Rainbow... ( Click here for last year's celebration) Recycling an old photo from Wigstock in the early 90’s in New York’s Tompkins Square Park with my old friend Rich Renaldi for today’s Balearic Breakfast Pride Special! Thank you to all who contributed songs by the LGBTQ+ community for this morning’s 4.5 hour music marathon and thanks to all who kept me company on my Mixcloud Live during the stream. That was a true celebration and HAPPY PRIDE to our friends in the LGBTQ+ community. I also want to thank all of those who have pre-order the next instalment in my Balearic breakfast compilation series on HEAVENLY RECORDINGS . Last week we announced the Balearic Breakfast volume 4 is coming out on the 29th August and its another limited double vinyl album with gorgeous artwork from Ardneks. It features some older songs that are quite expensive to get on vinyl along with cuts from contemporary artists that have never before been released on vinyl and I’m really proud of it. Also being released on the same date is the double CD compiling both volumes 3 and 4 of the Balearic Breakfast series. You can order it via the links in the comments. Enjoy today’s Pride Celebration! Listen back to the 228th episode of Balearic Breakfast: THE PLAYLIST ( 2012 ) George Michael – Song to the Siren ( 1984 ) Queen   – Is This the World We Created ( 2024 ) Ganavya   – F orgive me my ( 2020 ) Pet Shop Boys   – Love Comes Quickly' (Blank & Jones Remix) ( 1997 ) k.d. lang   – The Air That I Breath ( 1973 ) Johnny Mathis   – Foolish ( 2008 ) George Michael   – Edith and the Kingpin (Live) ( 1972 ) Labi Siffre  – Crying Laughing Loving Lying ( 1989 ) Dusty Springfield  – Nothing Has Been Proved ( 1981 ) Sylvester & Jeanie Tracy – Here is My Love ( 2018 ) Sylvester  – I Need Somebody to Love Tonight (Psychemagik Remix) ( 2020 ) Arca   – Time ( 2016 ) Arthur Russell  – Make 1, 2 (Gem Spa Dub) ( 2024 ) kitti   – Everything You Wanted ( 2024 ) Reinel Bakole   – God Complex ( 2024 ) Jessica Lauren   – Alefela ( 2022 ) HANAH  – Solo ( 2023 ) Janelle Monae   – Only Have Eyes 42 ( 1989 ) Adeva   – Beautiful Love (Frankie Knuckles Classic Club Mix) ( 1990 ) George Michael   – Freedom 90 (Back to Reality Mix) ( 1986 ) George Michael  – A Different Corner (A Tribute Mix by Dave Oren) ( 1978 ) Bionic Boogie ft Luther Vandross  – Hot Butterfly (Disco Remix) ( 1976 ) Luther Vandross   – Funky Music (Is a Part of Me) ( 1984 ) Frankie Goes to Hollywood   – War ( 2000 ) Frankie Goes to Hollywood   – Maximum Joy ( 1990 ) Kitchens of Distinction   – Quick as Rainbows ( 2025 ) HAAI   – Can't Stand to Lose ( 1981 ) Pete Shelley  – Homosapien Dub ( 2022 ) Karen Nyame KG   – Taboo (xx) Boy George / Jesus Loves You   – Generations of Love ( 2025 ) Ghost Assembly   – I Keep On Making the Same Mistake ( 2014 ) Kaytranada ft Shay Lia   – Leave Me Alone ( 1981 ) Patrick Cowley   – Sea Hunt ( 2024 ) Queen Latifah   – Hard Times (Queen's Extended House ReTouch) ( 1989 ) Frankie Knuckles & Satoshi Tomiie ft Robert Owens   – Tears ( 2019 ) Sylvester   – I Need You (Opolopo Rework) ( 1993 ) The Look  – Glammer Girl (Bochine Prelude/ Ballroom Mix/ Moog Reprise) ( 2024 ) Wallace ft. Love Letters   – Cravings ( 2008 ) Hercules & Love Affair   – Blind (Frankie Knuckles Mix) ( 1992 ) Erasure  – Take a Chance on Me (Philip Kelsey Take a Trance on Me Mix) ( 2007 ) T-Empo ft Juliet Roberts  – Saturday Night, Sunday Morning (T-Empo Mix) ( NOL ) Gloria Gaynor  – Never Can Say Goodbye (Butch Le Butch Rework) COLLEEN'S PRENSENTATION The gorgeous, gorgeous voice of George Michael with a cover of Tim Buckley's Song to the Siren, the b-side to Michael's 2012 single White Light. And that was his last hit before his untimely passing four years later. Song to the Siren is such a gorgeous song. It first came onto my radar via the 4AD collective, This Mortal Coil, with vocals by Elizabeth Fraser. And I had never heard George Michael's own beautiful take on this song. And thank you to Baker's Hill for that request. Good morning, Balearicans. I'm Colleen Cosmo Murphy, hosting your weekly Balearic Breakfast. And today is our annual Pride special. So it's going to be a long show, I think coming up to about five hours, which is about the same as last year's Pride special. Hello to the Balearic Breakfast family over on my Mixcloud Live. I hope you could stick around as long as possible, as it really will be a marathon. Before we tuck in, I just want to thank all of those who have pre-ordered the next installment in my Balearic Breakfast compilation series on Heavenly Recordings. Last week, we announced the Balearic Breakfast Vol. 4. It's coming out on the 29th of August, and it's another limited double vinyl album with gorgeous artwork from Ardnyx. It features some older songs that are quite expensive to get on vinyl, along with cuts from contemporary artists that have never before been released on vinyl. And I'm very proud of it. Also being released on the same date is the double CD compiling both Volumes 3 and 4 of the Balearic Breakfast series. And you can order it via the Heavenly Bandcamp or from selected independent record stores. And I'll also host some record release parties in September at NT's Loft in London and Pike's in Ibiza. Okay, today is a special show as we are featuring music by artists from the LGBTQ plus community. And I really look forward to this one as I discover new artists, new tunes, and I always learn something new. Thank you to all who contributed to today's show. So many great tunes, and there were multiple requests for certain artists. But because they're so good, I've tried to get on as much as possible. From the legends to the newbies, from jazz to pop to dance to indie, today's show runs the gamut so there's something for everyone. We're going to stay on the more meditative tip for a bit. And this next song is appropriate on a few levels, not only because it's led by Freddie Mercury, but also because the lyrics seem especially poignant and apt right now. We're going to keep the show as positive a celebration as possible. But this next song does acknowledge what is going on around us. This one is going out to Artur in Paris, from their 1984 album, The Works. This is Queen with Is This the World We Created. We had two requests for British singer, songwriter and poet Labi Sifre. And thank you to Jen Ferguson and Rick Van Veen for that request. That was the title track to Sifre's third studio album, 1972's Crying, Laughing, Loving, Lying. A fantastic album from beginning to end. And he has such an interesting story. There was a great doc on the BBC, which you may be able to find somewhere, called This Is My Song, and I urge you to watch it. Ahead of that, George Michael with a version of Joni Mitchell's Edith and the Kingpin, recorded live at Abbey Road and released as a b-side to Michael's 2008 Christmas single. And the original is from Mitchell's album, Hissing of the Summer Lawns. And yes, Baker still got two requests, as I couldn't choose between the two George Michael covers, as whatever he sings just has me absolutely melting. So I just had to pick myself up off the floor. Actually, also for Joni Mathis. I mean, what a voice. Bert Francois requested that song Foolish, which was produced and written by Tom Bell and Linda Creed. And it's from the Texan-born crooner's 1973 LP, I'm Coming Home. Ahead of that, a request from Thanos Katronis for Canadian singer-songwriter and activist and icon, Katie Lang. That's a cover of The Air That I Breathe. The Hollies had a big hit with it in the early 1970s. Lang's version of The Air That I Breathe is from her 1997 LP, Drag, which is a bit of a concept album, a cover album in which most of the songs are related to smoking or dependence and addiction. Ahead of that, a Blank and Jones ambient chill-out mix of the Pet Shop Boys' 1986 single, Love Comes Quickly. I absolutely love that song. That's from their album, Please. The song had a load of great remixes, including one by Shep Pettibone, but the one we heard came out much later, I think 2003, on Blank and Jones' Relax series. And thanks to Dominic Mesmer for putting that one on our radar. And ahead of that, we had the New York City-born and Tamil Nadu-raised vocalist, multi-instrumentalist, and sonic shapeshifter, Ganavya with Forgive Me My from her 2024 LP, Like the Sky, I've Been Too Quiet. This song was produced by Chewbacca Hutchings, and Ganavya composed Forgive Me My from Nigerian writer Teju Coles' words, Forgive me my forgetfulness, no one can forget gentleness. And thanks to Rick Van Veen again in the Netherlands for that request. Okay, you're tuned into the Balearic Breakfast Pride marathon special. And this next one is from another icon whose life took many twists and turns and who often doesn't get credit for all that she achieved, Dusty Springfield. Karen Bartlett wrote a fascinating book about her, Dusty, an Intimate Portrait of a Musical Legend. And I interviewed the author for a podcast called What I'd Say, Woman of Atlantic, if you want to check it out. This is a request from Paul Fitz for a song written and produced by the Pet Shop Boys for the 1989 film Scandal, Dusty Springfield with Nothing Has Been Proved.   Arthur Russell with Make One Two, the gem spa dub and sending that one out too. Herbie King and Terry Fincham. Russell was a fascinating musician who sadly passed away due to AIDS over 30 years ago ago. He crossed and melded so many different musical boundaries from folk to new music to avant-garde to dance. And he definitely made a splash in that arena under monikers like Loose Joints and Dinosaur L. And he was a singer, songwriter, producer, and cellist. And Richard King, the author, excuse me, you can hear I have a bad cold and sinus infection. Richard King wrote the book, put together I should say the book, Travels Over Feeling Arthur Russell, A Life, which was published last year on Faber. Beautiful book, best book on Arthur Russell, just incredible. And if you want to know what Gem Spa is or was, it was a newspaper stand, also a candy store that had the best egg creams on 2nd Avenue and St. Mark's in the East Village in New York, a total institution. Okay, this next one, this next set I should say is from Queer Jazz, a group founded by award-winning jazz musician Aroah and my friend, DJ, curator, and presenter Tina Edwards. And their mission is to celebrate queer jazz artists. They host gigs around the UK, including a residency at the Vortex Jazz Club in London. And you can find out more at queerjazz.org . They suggested a few songs for today's Breakfast Pride special, and I thought, why not play all of them? We're doing a five-hour show. So here is the Queer Jazz segment, kicking off with Glaswegian artist Kitty with Everything You Wanted from her debut album, Something in the Water, released last year on Rebecca Vazmont's label, Rebecca Records. A beautiful song called Solo by Hannah, a singer, songwriter, and producer who rides the gap between experimental R&B, ambient, and folk, and who certainly has a unique sound. Solo is from her debut 2022 EP, Colors of Now and Then. Ahead of that, British keyboardist, extraordinaire, Jessica Lauren, with Alefela from her album, Film, released last year on Impressive Collective and BBE Music. Lauren has been a fixture on the jazz and soul scene in the UK for decades, and she's a true pioneer. She's also performed with loads of legends like Gene Karn, Tom Brown, Dexter Wanzel, and is a member of Nick Wimbenzy's Space Jazz Outfit, Eminitive. Ahead of that, Belgian singer, composer, dancer, and performer, Rainel Bacole, with God Complex. She's a rising star on the avant-garde soul scene and released her debut album, Healing Exhaustion, last year. We heard God Complex. Thank you to Queer Jazz for suggesting those four songs. You can check them out at queerjazz.org . You're tuned in to the Balearic Breakfast Annual Pride Special. We're about an hour and a half in, probably three more hours to go at least. This next one was suggested by Kieran McCann in Glasgow for one of the most exciting contemporary artists and actors, Janelle Monae. It's from her third studio album, The Age of Pleasure, which she dedicates to the pan-African diaspora. It blends Afrobeat, soul, and also reggae like this one, Only Have Eyes 42. Oh my gosh, I don't know if you're tearing up, but I certainly am. A Different Corner, a tribute mixed by Dave Oren. Of course, that's George Michael. We had a doubleheader that was requested by Barry Baranitz in Washington, D.C. who says, all of his music is incredibly important to me and I miss his voice and presence terribly. He also dedicates that to his husband, Kevin. I also want to wish them once again a very happy wedding. They got married a few months ago. There was a George doubleheaders before that. We heard the back to reality mix of Freedom 90, a soul to soul kind of remix. That's also a request from Barry. I know we've had quite a lot of George Michael in the first part of the show, but I just love his voice and he resonates with so many of us. I'm happy to feature him quite a bit. Ahead of that, we had a request from Konstantinos Folias in Athens for some classic Frankie Knuckles. We heard his classic club mix of another house pioneer, A Diva, her 1989 single Beautiful Love from her debut album, A Diva. We'll have more from the late dance music icon, Frankie Knuckles, later in the show. As I'm not feeling 100%, I forgot to back announce some of the other songs that we played earlier. There was another doubleheader from Sylvester. We had Sylvester and Jeannie Tracy with Here Is My Love requested by Eddie Sanchez. It's a 1981 single from Sylvester, singing in a very different register, not in his usual falsetto, which is what so many people recognize him by. I don't think one can overstate how talented Sylvester was. He could do it all, blues, funk, soul, rock, jazz, an incredibly talented singer and songwriter who was signed to the jazz label, Fantasy. He was openly gay and cross-dressing as a black man from the late 1960s. That's before Stonewall. He was a renegade and an iconoclast. We'll have more from Sylvester later in the show. We also played the psych magic remix of I Need Somebody to Love Tonight. Definitely a whole different flavor to Here Is My Love. That was requested by Virginia Ciotti, Andy Dyer, who said it's an absolute summer vibe, quite slinky and sexy, and Sylvester being way ahead of his time. And also to Susan Chan, who said she'd like to dedicate that song to all of the LGBTQ plus family, but most especially to my brother-in-law, Wilson. He's the best companion to parties and vacations. I can definitely attest to that. He's been at many of my parties and he's also an awesome roller skater. Yes, he definitely is. And the best uncle to both of our daughters, forever grateful for you and love you. And I have to say I've seen him in action with his nieces, teaching them how to roller skate at Rockefeller Plaza once when I was DJing there. And that was also requested by Eddie Sanchez, who also points out to the fact that it was produced by another gay icon who was sadly lost to AIDS like Sylvester, Patrick Cowley. Two unbelievably talented and forward-facing artists. We also heard from Venezuelan musician and producer Arca, born Alejandro Garcia Rodriguez with time from their fourth studio album, 2020's Kick One, as requested by DJ Corbian. And that album marked a departure from the artist's previous ambient work and is self-described as an anti-pop album and touches on themes of gender and cultural identity. And the following year, Arca released four more Kick albums, four in one year. Okay. This next artist is also getting a double header today, Luther Vandross. You may have seen the documentary Luther Never Too Much. And if you haven't, please make a point of doing so. I learned so much. He was on so many more records than I had initially thought. I also didn't know he identified as gay as he felt he had to keep it under wraps, which must have been incredibly difficult. He was on so many recordings on records by David Bowie, Roberta Flack, Diana Ross, Donny Hathaway, Bette Midler, Todd Rundgren of more. And of course, he had an illustrious solo career. Here he is with Greg Diamond's outfit, Bionic Boogie with Hot Butterfly as requested by Kevin Fleming.   Maximum Joy from Frankie goes to Hollywood's second album, Liverpool and sadly the final album. And that was requested by Luca Ospitone in Sardinia. And we had a Frankie goes to Hollywood double header. Earlier, we just heard a cover of the Norman Whitfield, Edwin Starr classic War. And that was very pro pro for these challenging times. It's from the Liverpudlian band's debut album, Welcome to the Pleasure Dome, which came out in 1984 on ZTT. And I absolutely adore this album. I asked for it for Christmas that year and I got it for my grandfather. He probably wasn't aware of some of the LP's themes. Thank you to Siobhan Murphy for that request. Ahead of that, we heard a request from David Stoddard for another Luther Vandross song, Funky Music. And yes, it sounds like the song Fascination found on David Bowie's Young Americans. And that's because it sort of is. Vandross sang on that album and Bowie loved that song and refashioned it. And Vandross is rightly credited as co-writer as well. Funky Music was released on Vandross' solo debut, Luther, released a year after Young Americans. You are tuned into the Balearic Breakfast annual Pride celebration special going probably for another two hours, maybe more. I can't remember. I think it's another two hours at least because I'm trying to get to every request or nearly every request. And this we're going to go into a little bit of an indie thing here. And I love this one. British indie band Kitchens of Distinction. And it was a name that caught my eye and a sound that caught my ear when I was hosting shows on college radio in the 1980s. Then I had the chance to interview the band for their second album, Strange Free World, which came out in 1991 and was produced by Echo and the Bunnymen producer Hugh Jones. It's been regarded as one of the best shoegazing albums of all time. Carl Banitoff and Canada requested Quick as Rainbows. Former Buzzcock turned solo artist, the late Pete Shelley, with a great Martin Rushant dub of his classic single Homo Sapien. And I love Martin Rushant's dub mixes of Human League. So thank you to Phil Thornton and Paul Tarpey for landing that Homo Sapien dub on my radar. Ahead of that, a request from Steve Clark for Can't Stand to Love by Hai, an Australian electronic musician who moved to the UK as part of the duo Dark Bells. After their split, she started DJing and released her debut EP and then an album. And her sophomore effort is coming out later this year. It's called Humanize and Can't Stand to Lose is one of the singles. Okay, this next one is by London based DJ producer Karen Yame NG, who has released a few singles over the last few years. This is her second single called Taboo, and which DJ Corbian describes as Corbian describes as a blissful record talking about the taboo of female on female love. And DJ Corbian also says much respects for representing our community. This is from high energy, pioneer producer Patrick Cowley with Sea Hunt from his second album Megatron Man. The New York state native moved to San Francisco in 1971, where he studied music, especially synths. And his future changed when he met Sylvester in 1978. And the two collaborated on so much great music together as we heard earlier. And thank you to Eddie Sanchez for that song suggestion. Ahead of that Haitian Canadian producer Kay Trinata, part of the hip hop duo The Celestics and also Celestine, the first black producer and the first openly gay artist to win the award for Best Dance Electronic Album at the Grammy Awards in 2021 for his work on his sophomore album Bubba. We heard Leave Me Alone featuring Shea Leah and thanks to Bert Francois in Brooklyn for that request. Ahead of that Ghost Assembly, I keep on making the same mistake and Ghost Assembly is Abigail Ward, who wrote the liner notes for the next Balearic Breakfast compilation volume four plug in that right now you can preorder it. And Abigail is also a great DJ, producer and writer. Abby will be coming up, Abigail will be coming up on the show this summer for an interview and a mix. And thanks to Chris Morgan for requesting that. Ahead of that Boy George going under Jesus Loves You, Generations of Love and that's from the Martyr Mantras. The only studio album by Jesus Loves You and the fourth LP by Boy George released in 1990. And that song still holds so much meaning today. It was requested by both Michael Karm and Rina Lady Beige who says I can't stop listening to this. The lyrics feel especially powerful right now and big love to all the LGBTQ plus community. You're tuned into the Balearic Breakfast Pride special featuring artists from the LGBTQ plus community. And I was overjoyed when Sue Forrest suggested this next one. It's by Queen Latifah who wowed us when she debuted as a rapper in the 1980s and then as an actress. And she's just an incredible talent. She's won a Grammy Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, a Golden Globe Award, three Screen Actors Guild Awards, two NAACP Image Awards, a nomination for an Academy Award. And she was the first hip hop artist to receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Two decades ago she released the Dana Owens album in which she sings soul jazz and R&B covers including this song Hard Times originally performed by Dr. Buzzard's original Savannah band. Latifah's original version is sublime but then I found this extended house retouch by Midas Touch and just had to play it for you.   An absolutely killer rework by Abolobo of Sylvester's I Need You. The original the title track to Sylvester's 1980 LP Sell My Soul originally produced by Sylvester and Harvey Fuqua. And I've been playing this rework out a lot of my sets. I actually have to stop myself. Thank you to Tomohiro Yamada and David Stoddard for that request. I had about one of my favorite house songs of all time and I'm not even joking. It's a winning combo of Frankie Knuckle, Satoshi Tomiye and Robert Owens. Tears released in 1989 on FFRR and thank you to Danny Broderick for that request. And starting it off with Queen Latifah, Hard Times, the Queen's extended house retouch and that was requested by Sue Forrest. Still going maybe another hour or just about an hour maybe just under on the Balearic Breakfast Pride special. Thank you all for joining me over on my Mixcod Live. It's a true marathon and I absolutely love, love, love this show. Okay, well, this next one is a true journey and thanks to Rob Calcut the Urban Healer or Bunker Sessions as he's known on the Mixcod Live for this request. It's by Danny Tenaglia. Here going under the moniker The Look along with his longtime collaborator Peter Dow. It came out over three decades ago and whatever time you're listening to this and wherever you may be, try to place yourself into a dark club at 5am right now. It will make even more sense. The Look with Glamour Girl, the Bochinche Prelude, Ballroom Mix and Moog Reprise.   An eternal favorite, I never get sick of this one. The Frankie Knuckles mix of Hercules and Love Affair, Blind featuring Anoni on vocals and thanks to DJ Corbian, AJ Elliott and Sue Forrest for suggesting it. Ahead of that UK based DJ and producer Wallace with his Fantasy Sound debut featuring the evocative vocals of Love Letters. We heard Cravings, a celebration of desire, risk and release and it came out a few months ago and thank you to Matt Raistrick for that request. Okay, you probably know I'm not a DJ who is noted for playing high energy tracks or for remixes with the word trance in them. That is today is a pride celebration. I'm making an exception as all these sound great and are truly uplifting and high energy is a form of dance music that pervaded the gay clubs and should be recognized. Plus, I love Erasure and I love Andy Bell's voice. This is a request from David Lucas for a 1992 ABBA cover by Erasure, Take a Chance on Me, the Philip Kelsey Take a Trance on Me mix. For this Pride special, we just heard Tempo featuring Juliet Roberts. Saturday night, Sunday morning, the Tempo mix requested by Rachel Blackman, who is Robot Florian on the chat. She says it reminds me of finding a home at Paradise Factory, a gay club in Manchester around 1993 to 96. Three floors of great dance music. I used to go on a Friday night when the loft was women only, but I'd certainly explore the other floors to New Year's Eve. Ninety four was memorable that the whole club was taken over by the women's space. One thousand women dancing. Plus, I didn't know that track was based on Thelma Houston from 1978 until you played a lot of discotheque in Manchester. Happy Pride, everyone.   And I want to say a happy pride to our LGBTQ Balearic Breakfast family members. Thank you so much. One last reminder that preorders for Balearic Breakfast Vol. 4 Double Vinyl and Balearic Breakfast Vol. 3 and 4 CD are now up. The release date is at the end of August. And if you aren't in Glastonbury this weekend but are in Ibiza, I'm playing at Pike's on Sunday night, all night long in Freddie Mercury's bedroom. And the following Friday, the 4th of July, Virginia C.O.T. and Daisy Bell are joining me at N.T.'s Loft in London for an evening party. Leaving you with one last song, the title track to Gloria Gaynor's 1975 album, Never Can Say Goodbye. This song was requested by Atul Joshi, who said this song was my husband and my send off music at our, still back then, illegal same-sex wedding. And we left through an archway of 200 arms raised as a gateway to a happy new life. Thanks to all for joining me on the Balearic Breakfast Annual Pride Special. Happy Pride to our LGBTQ plus family members. Wishing you a wonderful month, a wonderful year, a wonderful life. This is the Butchler Butch remix of Gloria Gaynor going out to Atul Joshi. Thanks for listening.

Balearic Breakfast allows its listeners to discover brand new music. When I heard "Mud People" by Torn Sail, I simply fell off my chair. I had to meet Huw again... Order Torn Sail's New Album on Bandcamp More about the band 1- Far away from today’s musical trends, your new album puts music close to the lyrics, inviting it to tell its own part of the story. Was this a way to reflect Steady weather’s soul or would you rather say that it’s the band’s DNA? This album certainly has more time, space, and music surrounding the lyrics. I listen to a lot of instrumental music and it can say a lot just without words, just like a cry, a sigh, or a laugh. Also, I tend to write sparely so there is time for the undercurrents to unfold. Perhaps I am making space for myself in a fast life. 2- We also feel that sonically speaking, and compared to the other albums Torn Sail recorded previously, Steady Weather is more open, almost reaching to an ethereal nature, if that makes sense. How did you work on that aspect of the album? I like to make space for improvisation in our performances – whether live or recorded.  That way we can really express ourselves in the moment we are in and in the environment we are in. It's a way to commune with our audience and it's a magical, physical, mystical happening. I also like to bring the outside world into our music, the spaces let in the unplanned world-sounds – traffic, ice-machines, glasses, coughs. It feels like we hold the time for an indefinite tiny infinite moment.   3- Although a main positive journey, Steady Weather also has its dark, plunging and frightening moments, I’m thinking here about the incredible track that “Mud People” is… Can you take us through the song and tell us its story, how it evolved and maybe what it means? I imagine there are many songs that are for Alan Kurdi, the child washed up on the shore, when the boat he was on sunk during a desperate attempt to flee violence, and not just for Alan but the thousands of men, women and other children who've died or been brutally treated trying to escape war and poverty. It's shameful the way we treat people on the run from the hell we in the western world have done so much to create.  History shows our borders are ephemeral, that common people are pawns pit against each other in the interests of tyrants and psychopaths. It's becoming increasingly clear that as our capitalist society turns our natural world to concrete and gold there are less and less resources to fight over, and so the fighting is getting more desperate and the powerful build bigger and bigger ivory towers.  We need to lay down our borders and brace for a great levelling. Or maybe our leaders try and do good. 4- Steady Weather acts as an invitation to travel. From the title of the album to the songs, beautifully developed and showcasing a breathtaking mixture of sonic layers. Can you share a few memories from the studio with us? Steady Weather has come from more than a decade of recording. When I listen I feel nostalgia. I remember carrying my children through the Sherwood Forest as babies, I remember my Step-father dying in hospital, I remember losing my job and signing on, I remember being 40, then 50.  Friends and Nutshell were recorded live in concert at Peggy's Skylight – a Jazz club in Nottingham where we're based.  We were all incredibly nervous in the lead up to the show – for weeks – and we only shared the feeling back stage before the gig. It was just as clubs were allowed to open again in the UK after the Covid Pandemic, and I think there was a residual fear that came to the surface. We played such a beautiful set – John, Henry, Jim, Jeff & I – one of the highlights of my musical life – the relief of being amongst people and around music was tangible – the nerves turned to elation. It was a night I'll never forget and I'm so glad it was recorded.   Consider Your Position is from when the pubs first opened again, and my partner Caroline and I met up with John, Torn Sail's bass player, in the garden of the Lion. I think it was a sunny April day. I got very drunk and wrote the evening as it happened.  5- Will you take the album on tour? What can we expect from Torn Sail in the near future? The band would love to. I don't know if we can afford to. I'm starting to ask around... but we're very under the radar. We've started making another album! Thank you from the bottom of my heart Huw, and all the best on your musical journey to you and to the ones accompanying you!

Heavenly Recordings just launched the preorder campaign for Colleen's "Balearic Breakfast" Vol. 4 double LP and CD compilation. Colleen ‘Cosmo’ Murphy presents ‘Balearic Breakfast’ Volume 4 Limited edition 9 track double 12” vinyl Limited edition 19 track double CD 'Balearic Breakfast' Volume 3&4 Released 29th August 2025 ***Please note that due to licensing stipulations this release is not available for purchase digitally, however a free download of the full album will be granted with physical orders on release day.*** “There are curators, and then there's Colleen 'Cosmo' Murphy.” - Resident Advisor - The sun has finally come out. It’s the first time something like this has happened for months and months; the first glow of an approaching summer, whatever date the calendar is currently saying it is. The whole thing acts as a curative meditation, miraculously wiping away all the greyness of the past few months. Right now, optimism abounds, outlooks change and your daily soundtrack has shifted from spiky and uptight into a kind of cosmic space where songs ebb and flow and drift on like rivers run on forever towards the glimmering sea. Bliss, right? If you’re reading this, we’re assuming that you’re the kind of person who views summer as a state of mind rather than a good looking day on the BBC Weather app. With that in mind, we reckon you already know all about Heavenly Recordings’ series of untouchable, utterly essential Balearic Breakfast compilations, each one lovingly compiled by visionary DJ, producer and broadcaster Colleen ‘Cosmo’ Murphy - the genius club legend whose radio show of the same name (broadcast 10am to high noon every Tuesday via Mixcloud) began as an escape route from the pandemic before rapidly building a global community of dedicated Balearican listeners. Each Balearic Breakfast album has provided a spiritual getaway from the greyness of the everyday through a handpicked selection of glorious, psychedelically coloured, expansive music. It doesn’t matter where on the planet the music hails from, or when it was made, it just matters that it fits like a jigsaw piece into the musical whole. Be it off world jazz music or vocoder led robo-disco music; whether decades old or pressed to vinyl for the first time, everything on these flawless Balearic Breakfast collections just needs to flow together and bring the listener into the sunshine, whatever time of year they’re listening. Due for release this August, the fourth Balearic Breakfast compilation sees Cosmo take this head trip further than ever before. From the opening track’s swoop and glide that nods to Vangelis’ Blade Runner soundtrack before gliding into it’s own expansive voyage to the stars (Kandeen Love Song) to Cosmo’s own glorious Parisienne stroll through Saint Etienne’s recent Alone Together to Ilya Santana’s Spanish space disco anthem Cosmovision - a track that rolls through like a turbo powered Supernature - and the phenomenal 2015 disco version of Gloria Ann Taylor’s early ’70s classic Love Is A Hurtin’ Thing, this Balearic Breakfast offers the perfect soundtrack to the summer, whether it’s actually happening outside or just taking place in your head. After all, they don’t call breakfast the most important meal of the day for nothing.  PLAYLIST 1. Paz - Kandeen Love Song 2. Santino Surfers - Freedom Surfers 3. Saint Etienne - Alone Together (Cosmodelica Mix) 4. Paqua - Akaliko 5. Tar Blanche - Iguana 6. Bryony Jarman-Pinto - Moving Forward (Cosmodelica Remix) 7. Troy Kingi - Chronophobic Disco 8. Ilya Santana - Cosmovision (Disco Version) 9. Gloria Ann Taylor - Love Is A Hurtin' Thing (12" version)

Colleen 'Cosmo' Murphy broadcast the 227th episode of Balearic Breakfast on her Mixcloud on June 17th 2025. About this episode. – After celebrating the 22nd anniversary of the London Loft with all of her friends and members of the Loft Family (thank you so much dear Marcia for sharing your pictures and videos here with us!) , Colleen, although ill and medicated, embarked on a new edition of our beloved show, joined by the Balearic Breakfast Family as usual 😊 And, as often, there were a lot of reasons to rejoice ourselves: of course sharing memories from the loft is always great because you feel the love on the chat, but, this time around, our time, the one we've waited for so long, had at last arrived: the Balearic Breakfast vol. 4 pre-order campaign had debuted! And, icing on the cake, we were going also to enjoy an interview with Payfone's Phil Passera, including a mix he crafted for us, not forgetting the one Colleen did for us in the first hour (nor her latest releases which are all off the hook)! Did someone here started singing monday, tuesday happy days? I believe we should change the lyrics of the songs, like: "Tuesdays tuesdays happy days"... Well, you know what I mean right? Wow! Thank you to The London Loft family for bringing boundless positive energy to our 22nd anniversary party yesterday. It was uplifting, poignant and cathartic - a beacon of joy much needed in these troubled times. We are privileged to be able to share these moments together. Thank you to David Mancuso for starting The Loft in London with us and for all those who have joined the friendship train in a spirit of love and inclusivity. Happy Anniversary and Happy Pride (Colleen, 16/06/25) Colleen, Marcia Carr with DJ Ron Trent and Jacqueline Thompson This morning’s Balearic Breakfast is now up on my Mixcloud and it features new tunes, new re-edits and reworks and an interview with and mix from Phil Passera of Payfone. They just released their new album ‘Lunch’ last week – it’s only available on vinyl and cassette and you can order it on their Bandcamp. And another album announcement: my next compilation ‘Balearic Breakfast Volume 4’ is coming out on the 29th August on @heavenlyrecordings  . It features fresh tunes that haven’t been released on vinyl by artists like @santinosurfers   @ilyasantana  and @tar_blanche  along with hard to find vinyl cuts by New Zealand’s Troy Kingi and @claremont56 outfit Paqua and a couple of classic cuts from spiritual jazz band Paz and soul singer Gloria Ann Taylor. ‘Balearic Breakfast Volume 4’ also includes the first vinyl outings of two of my Cosmodelica remixes of @saintetienneofficial ‘Alone Together’ and @bryonyjarmanpinto  ‘Moving Forward’. Also coming out on that date is the second CD edition of the series this one featuring Balearic Breakfast Volumes 3 & 4. And once again, it has gorgeous artwork from @ardneks  . It’s a limited release with no digital downloads (that’s why it says £999!) and is available to pre-order at 11am on the Heavenly Recordings Bandcamp and from record shops around the world. I’ll also be hosting record release parties at NTs Loft in London and Pike’s in Ibiza in September. Thanks for your support of the series so far – I just checked this morning and Volume 1 is going for £200 and up on Discogs which is crazy. You can pre-order via my linktree. Next week is the Balearic Breakfast Pride Special and the request line goes up on Saturday. I look forward to your requests for music by LGBT+ artists. You can listen back to last year’s Pride special on my Mixcloud and please give me a follow and consider subscribing monthly while you’re over there . Thanks for listening. Listen back to the 227th episode of Balearic Breakfast: THE PLAYLIST ( 1963 ) Beach Boys – In My Room ( 2025 ) Visions of Light  – The Last Domino ( 2025 ) Taggy Matcher ft John Milk  – Stayin' Alive ( 2020 ) Mark Farina & Homero Espinosa  – The Story ( TBR ) Psychemagik Edit   – Do It ( 2025 ) Loose Ends  – Hangin on a String (Random House Rework) ( TBR ) Lou Rawls  – You'll Never Find Another Love Like Mine (The Reflex Revision) ( 2025 ) The Circling Sun  – Constellation 7:30 Payfone Interview & Mix: ( 1979 ) Cherry Laine  – I'm Hot *( 1978 ) Le Pamplemousse   – Sweet Magic ( 2023 ) Addmoro  – Rock & Roll Skate (Sax Version) ( 1979 ) Sweet Clover  – You're What I Need ( 1984 ) Fresh Band  – Come Back Lover (Dub) ( 2005 ) Joe Mensah  – Africa is Soul ( 1979 ) Taana Gardner  – Work That Body * Thank you to David Stoddard for identifying the song! COLLEEN'S PRESENTATION The Beach Boys with In My Room , penned and sung by the late pop pioneer Brian Wilson , who sadly departed planet Earth last week. But what an illustrious life he led, helping weave the fabric of pop music with the groundbreaking album, Pet Sounds , one of the most classic albums of all time, and which inspired the Beatles to up the ante with their own game changer, Sgt. Pepper . And I wrote about the album on the Classic Album Sundays website , so you can find out more there. But I didn't start the show with the obvious God only knows , but with a single from the Beach Boys' third album, Surfer Girl , because this was the first Beach Boys song that truly floored me. My parents didn't have many records at all, but this was one of them. And I played that song over and over and over. And I think it really reflects Brian Wilson's personality and musicality. May Brian Wilson rest in paradise. Editor's note: Fun fact, although Brian Wilson described the song as about being “somewhere where you could lock out the world, go to a secret little place, think, be, do whatever you have to do” , Charles Manson claimed that the Beach Boys stole the song from him 😂 Good morning, Balearicans. I'm Colleen Cosmo Murphy, and welcome to another weekly Balearic Breakfast Showdown, taking you until high noon on my MixCloud Live. And greetings to the fam gathered in the chat. And thank you again for joining me. And thanks to all those who joined us at the London Loft Party this past Sunday, celebrating 22 years since we started the loft in London with Dave and Mancuso. Wonderful vibes all around. And also a huge heartfelt thank you to the London Loft team, who put so much effort into these parties. I deeply, deeply appreciate you. Colleen and her friend, Kay Now last week, I announced a couple of releases. The Cosmodelica Electric Eden remix of The Cure came out on Friday. And if you're a Cure fan, you can find out more on their website. I listened to the entire album, all four sides of the vinyl on Friday. And there's so many great remixes, Orbital, Daniel Avery, Paul Oakenfold, Ame, Mira , and many more. Profits are being donated to War Child UK . So ordering the physical copy will be helping one of the best charities in the world. And my Cosmodelica remix of The Street People came out on the Spring Revisited series by Cosmos Music and Acid Jazz . And that's also now available on vinyl. And a bit later in the show, I have another announcement for you. Also later in the show, we have an interview with and a mix from Phil Passera of Payfone . Their album Lunch came out last Friday, and it's a physical release only. It's not streaming anywhere. So if you want to hear it, you'll have to head on over to the Payfone Bandcamp and order it. Support the artists, support indie labels, and support independent record shops. Get it on. Get on it, fam. Okay, until then, you can hear I have a bit of a cold, so I'm going to keep talking to a minimum. Until then, I'm spending some new re-edits and new releases, such as this next one by Visions of Light , who is Simon Sheldon , who also produces Solaris , and then drum and bass outfit Spree . He also heads the Free Booter Loung e label, which houses his bandmates, Belfast DJ Musca , and Belfast producer and musician Dan , who got his start in rock bands, and then migrated to a more chill-out, ambient, down-tempo house feel. Visions of Light showcases the trio's spacey dub-infused sound, and this next one is from their forthcoming album, The Mandala Vortex , being released on New Northern Soul on the 11th of July. Here is Visions of Light with The Last Domino . Well, isn't that song resonating with us right now? A groove-heavy statement piece by Mark Farina of Mushroom Jazz fame, along with Homero Espinosa , with a song called The Story , released back in 2020, and sadly, still a reflection on what is happening in the United States right now. The man who stole America is not in jail . I'm truly horrified at what's happening in my native land. I mean, watching mothers being pulled out of cars in front of their children, a state senator being handcuffed on the ground, thrown to the ground for just wanting to ask a question. I mean, the list goes on and on and on, and I feel angry, depressed, and also helpless, you know, being over here. But one thing that's really inspired me is the 10 million people who protested across America this past weekend. No kings. And I want to thank Jeff Peltzner from Christchurch, New Zealand, for that request. And the fact that he's on the other side of the planet of America demonstrates that what happens in the USA has great influence on the rest of the world. The story is on San Francisco label Ohm , and you can get that on Bandcamp. Ahead of that, Taggy Mitch featuring John Milk with a different perspective of the Bee Gees classic, Stayin' Alive . Truly heard that in a different way this time. And that's from the Disco Reggae Vol. 6 compilation coming out on Favorite Recordings on the 11th of July, and it's a great comp. Taggy Mitch also does a great cover of The Seeds 1966 classic, Pushin' Too Hard . And there's also covers of songs by Ramsey Lewis and the Isley Brothers by Soul Sugar, Mystic Jungle, and Mato . Okay, Danny Skyrager sent me over some new psych magic edits, and he's also joining me in our love dancing tent on my Saturday Cosmodelica takeover at We Out Here . I'm looking forward to hearing his deep and obscure psychedelic offerings. It's going to be cosmodelic and deep. Here's the new Psychemagic rework of an artist whom I don't know despite multiple shazams, but it's a great cover of Do It by BT Express . His voice is just so spectacular. Lou Rawls , The Late Baritone, with You'll Never Find Another Love Like Mine , written by Gamblin' Huff and given a revision by The Reflex . It's such an amazing song, and what a life he led, getting his start in the 1950s alongside Sam Cooke . Then he served in the U.S. Army as a paratrooper, and then he nearly passed away, nearly died in a car crash. He was in a coma for nearly a week. But then in the late 1950s, he launched his solo career with highlights, including winning Grammy Awards, performing at the Monterey Pop Festival , and then after siding with Philly International , he had this, his biggest hit, You'll Never Find , which topped the R&B, adult contemporary, and pop charts. And in 1980, Rawls started the Lou Rawls Parade of Stars telethon , which benefited the United Negro College Fund, and by the time of his passing in 2006, the charity had raised $250 million. Okay, I said there'd be a big announcement, and I'm supposed to announce this at 11 o'clock in the morning, so we're eight minutes off, but you'll hear it first. My next Balearic Breakfast compilation, Volume 4 , is coming out on the 29th of August. It features newer tunes that haven't been released on vinyl by artists like Santino Surfers , Ilya Santana , and Tar Blanche , hard-to-find vinyl cuts by New Zealand's Troy Kingy and Claremont 56 outfit Pacwa , a couple of classic cuts from spiritual jazz band Paz and soul singer Gloria Ann Taylor , and the first vinyl outings of two Cosmodelica remixes , my remixes of Saint Etienne and Bryony Jarman Pinto. And also coming out on that date is the second CD edition of my Balearic Breakfast compilation series on Heavenly, this one compiling Volumes 3 and 4 . And once again, it has gorgeous artwork from Ardnex . It's a limited release with no digital downloads. You'll see it on the bandcamp. It'll say £999. It's a joke, people. There's no digital download. You have to order the physical copy. It's going to be available to pre-order at 11am on the Heavenly Recordings Bandcamp and also pre-orders from record shops around the world. And I'll also be hosting record release parties at NT's Loft in London and Pike's in Ibiza in September. Thanks for your support of this series so far. I just checked this morning and Volume 1 is now going for £200 on Discogs and up, so that's a bit crazy. Also another announcement, next week is our Pride special on Balearic Breakfast, and the request line will go up on Saturday. So please suggest songs by LGBTQ artists. I'm really looking forward to your requests. Now, before we get to the interview with and mix by Phil of Payfone , I'm going to spin one more new tune. This one from New Zealand, Aotearoa . I always have a hard time saying that. Aotearoa's spiritual jazz outfit, The Circling Sun , a song from their forthcoming album, Orbit , coming out on the 11th of July. Lots of new releases on that day. The band's sophomore LP channels the cosmic energy of 1970s spiritual jazz filtered through synths, layered percussion, and ethereal choirs, and the collective expand their sonic universe with nods to Rahsaan , Roland Kirk , Azimuth , and ambient jazz. And you can pre-order it from their bandcamp, The Circling Sun with Constellation . PHIL PASSERA'S INTERVIEW WITH COLLEEN [Colleen] I am in the studio now with Phil Passera from Payphone, and their album Lunch just came out last Friday. Hey, Phil, how you doing?   [Phil Passera] I'm doing well, thanks. Doing well, doing well.   [Colleen] Good. Now, I hear you had an eventful weekend last weekend in Paris. Do you want to share any of the details?   [Phil Passera] We did. I mean, we were playing in Paris. We were playing a live show on a Saturday, daytime at a festival called Prairie du Canal. And then I was DJing late at a club called Sacre from about 2 a.m. to 4, I think, in Paris. We flew to Paris in the taxi on the way to the festival. The festival was canceled due to bad weather. And then the evening kind of went into chaos. It's a pretty dangerous place where we were playing in the area. It was pretty rough. A few things happened, ending up with three police officers in our hotel room at 4 in the morning. We weren't guilty of anything, but we just got caught up in something. And also, I had to get on the mic and give the bouncers a real dressing down in the venue because they were being so aggressive with the young punters who were there. I'd been in the DJ booth for 10 minutes, and I'm seeing this big guy behind me just going around intimidating all the young crowd just because they were too close to the DJ booth. They weren't doing anything wrong. And I had to stop the music. I got on the microphone, and I said, I said, whoever's running this club, I said, get this bouncer out of my DJ booth now, otherwise there's going to be no more music. And the crowd gave a big cheer because, you know, it was the guy, I don't know who this guy was. I spoke to the venue, and they said, we're really sorry. We're going to make sure this guy never works there again. You know, it was awful, like, you know, watching this guy going just face to face, intimidating these young girls, who were simply trying to have a good time. They weren't doing anything wrong. You know, it's just outrageous behavior. Who does he think he was? Yeah.   [Colleen] Yeah, well, sorry to hear that. But it sounds like a very interesting story for the hotel room at four in the morning, I have to say. But, you know, the party does start with, you know, the venue staff. And this is one of the things I've always said. There's one venue I just stopped working at because the staff were so aggressive here in London. And it wasn't a surprise that a few years after that, they closed down because there was a stabbing. And, you know, these are the stories of being on the road that, you know, sometimes it looks all great on Instagram. But, you know, honestly, sometimes it has some little bumps and challenges, you know. But there you go. Anyways, thank you for joining us here. I just wanted to kind of rewind back to the start of Payphone, just to kind of give a little encapsulated history for listeners who may be new to your music, because you started in 2013. You had a really cool single called International Smark, which came out. And it did really well. I mean, you did vinyl pressing, it sold out. You started this project with Jimmy Day. Can you tell us how the two of you hooked up?   [Phil Passera] So it started with a previous project, a bit of a failure. And I had been asked to do a remix for Lowe Records, I think it was, for a song by a French, amazing French electronic pioneer called Bernard Ferveur from his album Black Devil Disco Club. And in Brighton, I've just met Jimmy, who he's like, he's a producer, musician based there, has a great studio. And I was like, oh, do you want to collaborate and maybe do this remix? Which we did. And then the remix never came out. And then I said to him, if you're not doing anything with it, we'll do something with it. And it was a track we did called Subconscious Lamentation, which has actually got about like 2% of the original song in it. And the rest of it, we made ourselves. And we were both really happy with it. So at that point, we were like, let's work together. Let's start a new project together. That was 13 years ago. And since then, I think we've had 12 releases. And then now the first album, which has taken us over a decade to make this record. But I think it's because we always said we wanted to make an album that was an album, not just a collection of songs, but like a listening experience from start to finish, how it was in the old days. So much so that we were actually just releasing it on vinyl and cassette only. It's not going to be streamed, maybe in a year's time, we'll put it online. But, you know, we want to do something that's a little bit unique, especially in the face of, I mean, we do quite well on Spotify numbers wise. But, you know, with everything these days being focused on, on this thing called the algorithm, which I hate when it comes up in conversation. You know, please don't bring up the algorithm. It's a bit like, you know, 20 years ago, people just wouldn't shut up talking about brands and branding, you know, now it's the algorithm. So, you know, we have good support from good record shops. And I thought, I think we could do this just on vinyl and now cassette, which has been a lot of fun.   [Colleen] I mean, it's interesting with the vinyl thing as well, in terms of, you know, people like Joe Clossel, he releases most of his remixes and his stuff on vinyl only and doesn't stream it. And there's no digital download copy. And I think having that kind of a physical kind of analog manifestation of something, it really is for the uberfan because people are going to have to go and seek it out and, you know, look for it to find it. Does that worry you at all that you may not capture new fans just because they may not look into it?   [Phil Passera] No, not at all. I mean, you know, we've got, you know, over a decade, we've got the Music Cup online. And that's enough to go around. I think people are finding it through, you know, their own channels. But I just think that you've got to create demand for a release. And this is I think from a few releases back, we started to do the same way. And it's quite common where you put it on vinyl three months ahead of it coming out digital. So it gives the disco beards and the tastemakers, you know, a kind of exclusive. I think that's a good idea. I think that's the way it eventually goes up online and people can access it.   [Colleen] Reward the true music now. Well, it's a really great album. I've been like following your career now for the past, I guess it's been like 12 years. You've been doing a release every single year religiously on labels like your own label, Otis, Lang, Golf Channel. And this album has taken quite a while to make. From what I understand, you've been working on it for about a year and a half. What was your intention with the album in terms of you've had all these singles, you've progressed your sound, your sound has evolved. But did you have a different headspace going into saying, okay, we're actually making a record? I know you said you want to be, you know, great beginning to end. But in terms of the music itself, was there any kind of remit that you had in your head?   [Phil Passera] I think it was just that it had to flow. It was going to be like a mid-tempo experience. It wasn't, you know, I don't think a collection of club tracks ever works as an album. So, and it was just about doing something. I think we've always tried to do something that's a bit different. It fits in the disco world, but it's a bit different. And I think from, like, San Selonio onwards, we started to write more or less real songs, as it were, you know. And that's something that we pushed more. And we're pushing more still, actually, because we have a new element who's a girl from Brooklyn who lives in Barcelona called April Pittman, who she's a singer, songwriter, she's very versatile, brilliant voice and good writer. And she came in about halfway through the project. She's the front of the live show now. And the stuff we've been writing in the last six months going forward for the next record is really exciting. So lots of great stuff to come from there. And yeah, I think it was, our remit was mid-tempo, had to be song-based. You know, you're making a record, you've got 45 minutes, really. How are you going to split it up? And, you know, our songs are long, they're always long. So we got three songs per side, you know, but it's 45 minutes of music. So that's the important thing, like, the old days.   [Colleen] I think 44 or 45 minutes for an album is perfect. And I, you know, and the whole CD kind of revolution really took off in the 90s. People started making albums for the CD length of over 60 minutes. It's just too much, there's so much filler, you know, I mean, there's rarely any good, great double albums. In terms of the writing process, so you're writing with the vocalists, you know, April Pittman's on the song Paper Man, you have loads of other great artists, you have Willis Earl Beale, you have Zara Kian, Ludmilla Rodriguez, Colette Tibbetts, Carmella the Balls, Barbara Alcindor, who's also you've worked with before. Do they also, do you write the lyrics together? Or do they write the lyrics?   [Phil Passera] I mean, I write the lyrics, but now with April, that's becoming more of a shared thing. Barbara Alcindor, who was originally sang on Sofyan, and the track Confession of a Queen, she now has a, she's now appearing on a new song on the album called Pamela. And her story is quite mad, because she used to be the voice and the face of an act called French Affair, which you probably might remember, like a 90s, noughties, sort of big Parisian house thing, ooh la la kind of thing. So this is very different for her, for what she's done in the past. But she's a character, and has a brilliant, deep French voice. And we always tend to try and find the right voice to suit the song. We might go through two or three or four singers per song to find the right one that suits that. And yeah, she's, they're all interesting characters, all of them, and all great voices. And working with Willis L. Beale was a joy, because me, both me and Jimmy were hooked on him. He appeared out of nowhere on the Jools Holland show. And it blew, you know, we were both like, wow, this guy's amazing. And then years, years later, Jimmy suggested that maybe we should try and contact him. And I was thinking, we're never going to get hold of him, never. He seems to fall under the radar in a sense, musically. But we did, we reached out to him and we got him. And he was incredible. We had these amazing phone calls. I wish I'd recorded them, because he's an extreme character. Real, really interesting guy, talks a lot. And we sent him the track, and he came back with it. And it was perfect. And actually, the first time we sent it back, I edited it a bit, rearranged it a bit, and he called me up and he was like, did I ever give you permission to rearrange my track? And I was like, okay, well, there's no problem. Let's keep your track as it was originally, and let's rearrange the track to suit your vocal, which we did. Because his vocal on that first song is one continuous take. It's amazing. It's really brilliant. You know, collaborations don't usually work out as well as this one has. In my opinion, I think it's worked really well. And that's why it starts the record.   [Colleen] It sounds great. I mean, I like all the different voices on there, because especially I love hearing male voices and female voices, especially together, because the duet is a lost art. I mean, it was such a huge thing decades ago. And when you hear those two types of textures together, it sounds great, because you do have a song.   [Phil Passera] I was a big fan. I mean, I've been to all sorts of music. Growing up, one of the biggest fans I had was a rock group out of Virginia called Royal Trucks. We never came across them.   [Colleen] I remember them. Back in the 80s, I want to say?   [Phil Passera] No, no, it was actually mid, early 90s, mid 90s, about 93, 92, 93, late 80s. And they are an amazing, crazy group. I saw them so many times. And I love the way that they offer on every song, it should be the two of them talking or singing at the same time, two voices, male and female. And then years later, I worked with a group called Joy Zipper, if you remember them, from New York, Long Island. And again, their harmonies are beautiful. It's always a male and female vocal together. And I always like that.   [Colleen] Well, one of my favorite songs on the album is Pony Bar. Is that you singing?   [Phil Passera] I can't say. I can't confirm.   [Colleen] If it is, Phil, I think it's freaking great.   [Phil Passera] Thank you.   [Colleen] I have to say. I know you're not confirming or denying. I know, I know. We can't go out of spite, but I think that song is really great. I love the production on it as well.   [Phil Passera] What's the song about? There's two bars that we frequent a lot. One is the Pony Bar, and the other is Van Van Bar. And sadly, Van Van Bar is gone already. The song is, before the song even comes out, the bar is gone. But yeah, you know, meet me at the Van Van, meet me at the Pony Bar with your hangout bar. I'm quite, at Wunderbar, quite happy with that.   [Colleen] It's really good. It's really good. One thing I love about your music, it's so significant. It has a very kind of signature sound in that they're, the arrangements are quite minimal, quite restrained. Like you don't throw in too much to the mix. There's nothing there that shouldn't be there. You're focusing on the actual sounds. Reminds me of like Francois K's productions in a sense, where he just put in what was needed rather than embellishing. I think some of my own personal early productions I over embellished and I had to learn to take out, take out, take out. You know, and also the chord structures are quite minimal too. It doesn't, a lot of key changes. Are you a fan of minimal music? Is that something that inspires you?   [Phil Passera] Yeah, very much. Really. I don't like stuff that's too overcooked or too many ideas. Me and Jimmy, we do kind of spend a long time, too long on these productions. You know, like going into this album, we thought it would take six months. It ended up taking a year and six months. And we've got, we have probably had like 20, 30 versions of a track before we settle. And things come in and we take them out, we replace them. It's a constant sort of patch up job. And yeah, I think we're both very strict. If one of us doesn't like something, it gets taken out, you know, no matter how much one of us might fight for it. You know, so it's kind of like a working process that we have. And our goal from the very start with Playphone was that it would all be original music, no samples at all. I think that was for me because I was previously in a, you know, that was all samples. We just were like two young guys with samplers and, you know, a stack of records. And, you know, I was originally a bass player and Jimmy is a keys player. And from the start, we were like, let's do something that has zero samples.   [Colleen] I think that's so refreshing, because I mean, I've never really kind of understood the whole, you know, ripping off a sample or maybe even an entire record of putting a house kick drum underneath it and calling it your own. It always kind of really drove me up the wall. And I don't sample either. I just feel like it's a little bit cheating, a little bit in a way. Well, it is, especially when you rip off an entire song and put a kick drum underneath it, then it definitely is cheating. There's no line there. And this album is fantastic. And you said before that you have a live unit together. You have April Pittman doing vocals. Who else is joining you in the live unit?   [Phil Passera] So we have a keys player called John Lander. We have a bass player called Joe Harris. And we were joined in Brighton, we were joined by Jimmy on keys and another guitar player called Jay Felix. I think we've got it down to a three piece now, because it's kind of easier to travel with. And yeah, the shows have been going really well, actually. We just played in Oslo, Norway, and then London. We performed at Manchester, Paris this weekend, where the live show didn't take place due to the cancellation. But next one up is Ibiza. We're playing in Bitter Box on the 29th of June.   [Colleen] I'll be there.   [Phil Passera] Oh, really? You're going to Ibiza?   [Colleen] I'm playing at Pikes that night.   [Phil Passera] Yeah, it's a Sunday. It's a Sunday.   [Colleen] You should come by after.   [Phil Passera] Absolutely. Yeah, and then we're doing, I think we're playing We Love Festival in Brighton in late July.   [Colleen] Before we get to your mix, I just wanted to also ask you, aside from Payphone, what else are you up to?   [Phil Passera] Well, to be honest, this takes up all of my time. I'm kind of wearing all the hats at the moment in this project. And apart from that, honestly, it's been a very busy week. We just had to move out of our studio in Barcelona. We're looking at a new place. All I'm thinking of at the moment is the next record. We're working on a song called Opera Singer, which I'm really happy about, and I'm trying to finish that off, put that out as another 12, following the album. The album has been taking up all of my focus and attention in the last six months or so. Yeah, I can't think of anything else outside of my life at the minute that I've got going on. I used to love playing football, but my legs don't move the way they used to.   [Colleen] Well, I think the album is great. You could hear how much effort you put into it, and I'm sure doing the whole kind of live manifestation of this album is a huge challenge as well with one vocalist and keeping your hair down to three people in total. So good luck with that. I really hope that I get to see you perform live sometime this summer. I know what you also mean about thinking about the next project. Sometimes I'm over my own remixes or whatever before they even come out. You've been in the studio, then I don't listen to it, then it comes out on a white label, I play it a little bit, and then I'm kind of on to the next thing in my head. That's a good sign. I think that's a good sign as a creative person.   [Phil Passera] We've been working. The process has been taking too long. For the next recording, we're going to try a different approach. If you can stand listening to a song you've read 1,000 times, it's a discipline because of course you go through the phase of initially you love it, and then you start to realize you're getting sick of it, and then you can't stand it anymore, but you have to push through that. Finishing songs is, I think most people think, that's the hardest thing. You get to a point where you can't stand it anymore, but you have to push through it. You believe that there's something good in it, and then one comes out. Personally, I don't listen to it for six months, and then I'll listen to it. Hopefully, you should be happy. It does sound good. I'm glad.   [Colleen] Well, I can confirm it does, Phil, so thank you.   [Phil Passera] Thank you. Thank you very much. I appreciate it.   [Colleen] All right. Well, good luck. Good luck with everything. Good luck with the album. Good Thank you so much for joining us on Balearic Breakfast.   [Phil Passera] Thanks a lot. It's a pleasure.   [Colleen] Take care.   [Phil Passera] Ciao. Ciao.

When I heard Opolopo's take on Millie Jackson's "We got to hit it off", I knew I had to meet the man behind the music! Let's find out how Peter works his charms on Classics... 1) Hi Opolopo, and thank you so much for joining us here on the Balearic Breakfast Blog! Your remix of Millie Jackson's 'We got to hit it off' has been played during the 220th episode of the series and it took us all by storm. Can you tell us how you got involved in these remixes first of all? I was approached quite a while ago by the Swedish label Cosmos Music. Their subsidiary label, Ace Music, focuses on acquiring catalogues of older recordings. In this case, it was the catalogue of Spring Records, who released artists like Fatback and Millie Jackson. They asked me if I'd be interested in remixing one of Millie Jackson's tracks (and later also Fatback). I jumped at the opportunity as it's such a treat to get to do an official remix for a legendary artist, while also having access to the original multitrack recordings. At that point, I don't think the concept was fully formed but this turned into a wonderful remix project, "Spring Revisited", where a whole bunch of producers were invited to rework the Spring catalogue. 2) How was the song chosen for this project? Millie Jackson's original version is slower with a groovier approach. How do you approach the song's you're working on, what do you pay attention to, and, more importantly, how do you know if a song "fits" you? I got to choose the track I wanted to rework. In this case, I picked one I really like - but that’s not always necessary. The most important thing is that it has the potential to be turned into something interesting. I'm not that interested in merely re-editing a track, I want to get in there and reharmonize, add new musical parts and mess things up. So I listen for tracks that allow me to do those things. The challenge then is to do it while still being respectful of the original. 3) Were there any drawbacks or difficulties when working on this specific song, your remix seems so "easily done", it sounds just so natural and so assertive! I can't say there were any specific difficulties with this particular track. There are always some hurdles and obstacles but that is what makes it fun and creatively satisfying. In general, I'm striving for a remix to sound like it could be an original. So if it sounds "natural", my mission was hopefully accomplished. 4) You actually did two versions for this release, I must admit the Deeper remix has such a beautiful balance between the original light the song initially has and that attractive darker force you put it in! How do you work when putting songs in a new context? What is something you'd never do when making a song take a new path? So the second version, the "Deeper Mix",  was where I left the idea of making it sound like an original behind... Millie Jackson has such a powerful voice, so I thought, after having done a more soulful and boogie-tinged version, I'll aim for a slightly later slot in a DJ set: when the lights are dimmed and things are a bit darker and sweatier. I like contrasting the 70s flavors of the strings, guitars and vocal delivery with more modern elements, like a clubby and moody synth bass and chunkier drums. It's a fine balance, and it's of course subjective, but it still has to all gel together. And in the spirit of contrast, tension and release, I had the lighter and more uplifting chorus from the first version appear in a 16-bar bridge towards the end. Shifting the vibe from swinging hips to waving hands, reminding people where the track came from. Something I wouldn't do: auto tune the crap out of the vocals... 5) Can you share with us what's next for you in the Near future? Next up is a remix EP for Z Records. I had the pleasure of remixing three tracks from Dave Lee's  AC Soul Symphony album "Metamorphosis”. The 12" is coming out on July 28 ! Thank you so much Peter for this interview and of course for the music!

Colleen 'Cosmo' Murphy broadcast the 212th episode of Balearic Breakfast on her Mixcloud on February 18th 2025. A Lioncub's tribute to David Mancuso... – To say that David changed many people's lives is an understatement to me. It is far more than a simple change. Discovering Music through his lens, through his philosophy (be it sonical or intellectual), is a mindblowing experience. And this experience does not simply change you. It modifies your relationship towards Music, it modifies the way you listen to Music, the Way you experience it, the way you discover it, the way you then share it through your own parties. I am not ashamed to say that David was a Musical Soother, a Musical Force. Of course, it comes down to his aura, and what he was, totally, as a human being (calm, shy, and, as a member of the family shared with me a few days ago, with a godlike figure). But it also comes down, on the musical side of the analysis, to his Musical knowledge and to the way he treated music, played it, what it meant to him and how he used it to transform the present time of a Party... David was audacious during his sets, yet, he also knew how to build a Musical Intercourse where Music made love with the dancers and he always used his records proficiently to craft an unparalleled musical unity (some of his transitions were so perfect that, when listening to them, you can't help but ask yourself how he was able to achieve such perfection without a mixer). David was not only an audiophile in the greatest sense of the term (and you know how much this term is misused today...). He was All about sharing his own reality with his friends and the dancers at his parties. He shared his soul so openly, so freely, and with such musical and technical knowledge that, to this day, no one can come close to him. His Musical Aura always hit the listener in a pure moment of freedom and uncontrolled excitement without chasing away his own momentum... Thanks to him, I discovered that you didn't need to be a DJ to be a Great Musical Host... I felt all this when I listened to the Prince St Reels in 2009 for the first time. To this very day, David mesmerizes me and when I think of how many things I discovered thanks to him, and how he expanded my Musical journey, I always get very emotional... About today's episode. – In today's show, Colleen beautifully presents David's Legacy as she selected quite long songs (thus proposing one of the shortest playlists we ever had on a 2-hour Balearic Breakfast episode! ). Thanks to this wonderful musical trip, you'll discover why I wrote these Lines. Close your eyes, the Loft is waiting for you... "This morning’s Balearic Breakfast is the annual Loft Anniversary special and it’s now up on my Mixcloud. On Valentine’s Day 1970, my late friend David Mancuso opened the doors to his 647 Broadway home for a weekly private rent party called Love Saves the Day and which evolved into The Loft. The party’s influence was ubiquitous, inspiring others to share friendship, music and the dance. But it wasn’t easy for David, and he met a lot of challenges on the way including a court case against him by New York City as the officials wanted to shut him down. But David won. He also suffered from gentrification and neighbours who wanted him out of the ‘hood so he just picked up and moved. He was also met with personal challenges, betrayals by people he trusted and sycophants intent on serving their own interests who took advantage of David’s trusting nature. And yet the Loft persevered. When I started going back in ‘92 David lived and held the parties on East 3rd street in NY’s East Village. It was a rough time for David but I deeply felt and understood the magic that was happening as soon as I went through the doors. I fell in love with the party, the music, the sound system, the people and later with David. He became a dear friend, a mentor and the two of us worked together on the parties in NY, musically hosting together, starting a Loft party here in London, compilations, his label and documentaries until his passing in 2016. Each February I reflect upon The Loft and David and invite members of the global Loft community to choose one of their favourite Loft songs and to give us an anecdote. It’s a life-affirming musical celebration. Today in London we continue David’s legacy and vision at The London Loft and our next party is on the 9th March – we welcome people with positive energy and a loving spirit to join us and if that’s you, hit me up via DM for an invitation. And I’m also hosting a listening party featuring some of David’s favourite records at Devon Turnbull’s Hi-Fi Listening Room installation at 180 (swipe for more info). Thanks for listening and love saves the day." Listen back to the 212nd episode of Balearic Breakfast: PLAYLIST ( 1972 ) Cymande – Dove ( 1981 ) Donald Byrd  – Love Has Come Around ( 1978 ) Brainstorm  – Journey to the Light ( 1974 ) Tower of Power  – Squib Cakes ( 1978 ) The Winners  – Get Ready for the Future ( 1978 ) Easy Going  – Baby I Love You ( 2004 ) Depeche Mode  – Enjoy the Silence (Timo Mass Remix) ( 1981 ) Steve Miller Band  – Macho City ( 1982 ) Mike Anthony  – Why Can’t We Live Together (Part II) ( 1977 ) Lamont Dozier  – Going Back to My Roots ( 1976 ) Charles Earland – Drifting ( 1982 ) Pat Metheny  – Are You Going with Me? COLLEEN'S NEWS For your information, Colleen will be playing live on : March 6th (Listening room session / celebrating The Loft, tickets here ); March 8th at La Discothèque ( tickets here ) ; March, 9th 2025 at the London Loft ( tickets here ). THE LISTENING EXPERIENCE Presentation. – Colleen's show is not your usual Balearic Breakfast show, you don't have a lot of mixes as usually. Yet, Colleen is able to create a mesmerising Musical Flow, leading you to The Loft. As always, the way the songs are put together allows the listener to plunge effortlessly into David's sonical journey... For instance, the three first tracks share a common tonality with Love Has Come Around and Journey to the LIght sharing a common sonical color and structure although their rhythm differ. The unity between Journey through the Light , Squib Cakes , Get Ready for the Future and Baby I Love You is Splendid too! Although Colleen's interventions are longer, the music simply Flows right until the end, with Are you Going with Me having that same kind of "Freed Tension" and beautifully ending this great episode! I also love how Colleen ends her introductions before she starts playing the tunes, listen closely, you'll see what I mean... The Wow Moment. – One of the most beautiful moment of today's 212nd episode happens when Colleen plays Steve Miller Band's Macho City followed by Mike Anthony's Why Can’t We Live Together (Part II) ... It's one thing to mix, it's another one to let the listener Feel your Intentions... That's exactly what happens here, and something David was able to do the same way... COLLEEN'S PRESENTATION Good morning, Balericans! I'm Colleen Cosmo Murphy, and it's great to be back hosting Balearic Breakfast, live until 12 noon, and greetings to all over on my Mixcloud Live. Thank you for joining me, as always. Today's show is special, as it's the annual Loft Anniversary special. Way back on Valentine's Day 1970, my late friend David Mancuso opened the doors to his 647 Broadway home for a weekly private rent party called Love Saves the Day , and which later evolved into The Loft . The party grew not only in size, but also in influence, inspiring others to create their own parties and clubs, from the gallery to the Paradise Garage. And The Loft even exerted some influence over Studio 54 , believe it or not, as the glitzy club's promoter was Carmen D'Alessio, who was a lofty, and she tried to recreate the wide mix of people she had encountered at The Loft. Of course, they did it in a much less democratic fashion, though. But it wasn't easy for David, and he met a lot of challenges on the way, including a court case against New York City, as the officials wanted to shut him down. David won.   He also suffered from gentrification and neighbors who wanted him out of the hood, so he just picked up and moved. And he was also met with personal challenges, betrayals by people he trusted, and sycophants intent on serving their own interests, who took advantage of David's trusting nature. And yet The Loft persevered.   When I started going back in 1992, David lived on East 3rd Street, that's where he held his parties in the East Village, and it was a rough time for him. But I deeply felt and understood the magic that was happening immediately. I fell in love with the party, the music, the sound system, the people, and later with David himself. He became a dear friend, a mentor, and the two of us worked together on the parties in New York, musically hosting together at different parties, starting a loft party here in London. We did compilations, worked on his record label and documentaries, all up until his passing in 2016. And today in London, we continue David's legacy and vision at the London Loft, and our next party is the 9th of March. And we welcome people with positive energy and a loving spirit to join us. So you can hit me up on my socials if you're seeking an invitation. Now with regards to today's radio show celebration, each February I reflect upon The Loft and David, and invite members of the global loft community to choose one of their favorite loft songs and to give us an anecdote. And the song that opened the show, Dove by Cymande , was chosen by Antonio Ocasio. He remembers: "David Mancuso played so much amazing music at The Loft, and throughout the years there were those certain jams that really moved me, and one of them is Dove by Cymande. He would play it in early in the morning around 7 a.m., and he played it from beginning to end as he did all the music he presented. What a jam! Dove would transport me to a whole other place, and I could not help but close my eyes and move, however the sounds made me move. It's medicine. David played Dove when the album was released, and he flipped at the album, and he flipped the album over and played Dove when everyone else was playing brah. Think about that. That was David" . And of course, Cymande have come back strong with a recent documentary and a new album, so that's a great story. And we have more stories lined up, including this next one and song. It's from one of my dearest and best friends, Jenny Taylor, and she called it " A Love Story at The Loft ": "Like many lovers who came before us, the love of my life I met at The Loft. It was one of those nights in the summer of 1995 when the city seemed to hum with endless possibilities. My roommate Colleen, that's me , who has always introduced me to new sounds, was the music selector at The Loft for the evening. As I climbed the steps to the party, I could feel the energy building. It was a collective buzz, that kind of electricity you feel in your chest when something magical is about to unfold. Inside, The Loft was alive with dancers being completely free in their environment. The whole place was pulsing with the rhythm of the music. A mix of people of all ages and cultures, each immersed in their own world, yet all connected by the beat. I danced, lost in the sound, in the crowd, in the joy of the night. I met David Mancuso, who complimented Colleen's musical choices to me. After a couple of hours dancing, I took a break on a sofa at the end of the room. There next to me sat a tall, dark, handsome man. He had a huge smile and a kindness that made me feel like I'd known him forever. And it was as if we were the only two people in the room. We began to talk. At first it was small talk, music, the vibe of the night, the usual chatter that fills space between strangers. But it didn't take long for the conversation to shift. We shared our thoughts on what it meant to be truly alive, to embrace life with a sense of expansiveness, to feel that there were no limits to the possibilities ahead. The music, the energy of The Loft, and the way our conversation had flowed so effortlessly, it all felt like fate had conspired to bring us together. That night, amidst the crowd and the rhythm, I found a life partner. From that moment on, our life together was about music, love, travel, family, and endless possibilities. We never stopped dancing to our own unique rhythm". And this is for Jenny Taylor and the late Niles Ford, Donald Byrd , Love Has Come Around . You're tuned into the Balearic Breakfast Loft special, and this next selection was chosen by a long-standing London Loft member, Darren Morgan. And he says: "This song, his selection, holds a deep resonance for him, bringing back memories of some of the most euphoric moments with David at the Sunday sessions at The Light in Shoreditch. More than just a song, this was a portal, a breakthrough moment where energy became boundless. Step into the light, there's no need to be afraid. This line became a mantra on the dance floor, an invitation to surrender, to push beyond physical limits, and to let the rhythm carry us higher" . Darren says, "My 40th birthday trip to the New York City Loft was a transformative experience, witnessing the true essence of love as a message, where the dancer's energy was a focal point, where a movement became an expression of deep connection. It left me with a renewed sense of purpose, a need to bring back to my community, not just music, but a new understanding of how to be, how to lose ourselves, and find each other in the dance. In the parties that followed, the positive corner at the London Loft became more than just a space on the floor, it was a conduit for something greater. As a crew of close friends, we weren't just moving, we were soaring, lifting each other higher with every pulse of the bass, every shimmering key change, the room, the people, the sound, all of it fused into an unstoppable force. Moving through the darkness, guided by the light, we found strength in the music, feeding off each other's energy, pushing through exhaustion, and embracing the purest joy. After more than 20 years of contributing to the party, I still wake up with butterflies on the morning of a loft gathering, until that moment of release when I take my first step onto the dance floor. I hold my role in high regard, knowing that each time I step into that space, I'm part of something much bigger, something that connects us all. And right now, I'm literally busting at the seams to get back on the dance floor at the next London Loft party on March 9th" . This is Brainstorm , Journey to the Light , as requested by Darren Morgan on the Balearic Breakfast Loft Special. Thank you to Darren Morgan for this suggestion, and that brings him back to the light as well. I'm looking forward to gathering at the London Loft on the 9th of March. This next selection is from DJ True in New York City, and he says: "In the 80s and 90s on East 3rd Street in New York, the crowd had thinned out considerably at the loft, leaving us with just the diehards, which also happened to be some of the best dancers on the planet. With all the extra room we had on the dance floor, the dancers would practically turn into full-fledged acrobats, which also led to the occasional falls and heart smacks on the floor. Occasionally, one might unwittingly time the smack perfectly with the quiet part of the song, and everyone would applaud the person that just took the spill. It was a bit embarrassing to bust your ass and have everyone look at you once you scraped your body up off the floor, so I guess that's where the applause started. But at the same time, I might have been sarcastic, being that's how us New Yorkers rock. We love our sarcasm. Either way, it was hilarious, and a testament to how much harder they rocked back then. Ain't nobody busting their asses on the dance floor anymore unless they're messed up. They just don't put in that level of work anymore. But Squib Cakes by Tower of Power was one of those songs that people were busting their asses in over-excitement halfway through the record" . And thank you to DJ True in New York City for that wonderful selection. This next one is from Stefano Fumanti, who is from our Last Note Parties in Italy, a party that was started by our dear late friend Giancarlo Bianchi with the support of David. And the parties are still going strong. And the next Last Note Party will be held on the 7th of June, and you can find more. I think it's infolasnote@gmail.com . So I just wanted to give you all that information before I tell you Stefano's story: "My musical adventure as an amateur DJ began in the early months of 1990 when I was still underage. A dear friend from Perugia asked me to go with him to a club, the Red Zone. A bolt from the blue initially struck my ears and quickly hit my heart. That's how until 1998, I kept going to that magical place where music, friendship, and love reign supreme. Discreetly, I positioned myself around the console and enjoyed the night between a drink and new friends who shared the same passion. One above all was our beloved Giancarlo Bianchi, who out of his great passion for music, came from Rome every Saturday to the Red Zone. The musical selection of Souto Cosimetti, the resident DJ at the Red Zone, was insane. And I also want to send regards to Souto's memory as well. Moreover, we loved staying until the last hour from 5 to 6 a.m. when Souto would pull out some truly incredible gems from his magical bag. The years passed, needs changed, but beautiful friendships remain. Indeed, despite marriage, family, and two children, and thanks also to social media, after about 10 years, we found ourselves even more passionate. So much so that Giancarlo told me he would go to London to the legendary Loft with David Mancuso. I was stunned because for me, it was a dream. The party per excellence, the loft. Giancarlo had befriended David Mancuso when he had come to Perugia to play at the legendary Red Zone, and a few years later at the Urban Live Music Club, also in Perugia. After that, Giancarlo had attended all the loft parties in London for several years, and that's very true , and he invited me to the loft party in London at the iconic Light Bar. So my dream came true. He introduced me to the maestro David Mancuso while Get Ready for the Future by The Winners was playing on the dance floor. Could it have been a coincidence? No one dies on earth as long as they live in the hearts of those who remain. Rest in paradise, David and Giancarlo. We miss you so much. Love saves the day" . And thank you to Stefano Fermante for that beautiful, beautiful request. Now this next request is from a lovely dancing couple in New York City, Ed and Deb Lopez, and I just love this one. Ed says: "I remember hearing this song for the first time alongside my buddy Greg. We started digging the track right away, but the version that David played had a break, and in the background, out comes these horns that sounded like cows. We must have laughed for a half an hour. Of course, we were in high spirits at the time, and next time he played the track, I went and asked David for the name of the track, and as usual, he obliged and gave me that great smile of his" . Easygoing . Baby, I love you . And thank you to Ed Lopez for that request. This next one is from Ian Mackie. And when we bought our sound system for our loft parties here in London, David requested, no, he demanded that we bring a professional sound engineer he had met in Glasgow when he was doing a party up there. Ian Mackie, and as David always told me, "don't lose Ian" . And Ian started coming down for every single party, and well, try as I might, I haven't been able to lose Ian. I'm just joking. He's become a dear friend and part of my family, and my daughter even calls him Uncle Ian. So I have so many incredible friendships from the Loft and David, and I'm so thankful. And this is from Ian: "I ended up having a massive debate with David one night about remixes and re-edits, and he claimed to not be a fan of either, as it took away how the musicians felt the song should be in the first place, and that that was disrespectful. I, on the other hand, was saying sometimes they elevated the original. When I pointed out that one of his current favorites was a remix, it led to much debate, argument, and whiskey drinking. Being it was a tune I lost my virginity to, and Ian, I hope you're talking about the original, not the remix, which came out in 2004. It was a prominent memory. So then we went into a whole debate about tracks that remind you of a sexual encounter, and the rest of that conversation is not for radio. From that conversation on, whenever David played this track, he used to turn around and give me a cheeky smile" . It's the Tima Maas remix of Depeche Mode 's Enjoy the Silence . The wonderful remix by Tima Maas of Depeche Mode's Enjoy the Silence, as chosen by Ian Mackey for today's Galera Breakfast loft anniversary special. And I just also wanted to mention one other thing I'm doing in London in tribute to David. On March 6th, I'll be hosting two listening sessions at Devin Turnbull's Hi-Fi Listening Room Dream No. 1 at 180 Strand in London , and I think it's at 7 and 8.30. In any case, you can find out more information at 180 Strand, where you can book a reservation. And yeah, I'll just be kind of going through some of David's song choices and why he chose certain things, and even to the, you know, talking about the sonics of different songs as well. So that's happening on March 6th. And three days later, we're hosting our London loft party here in London as well. And you can always get in touch with me if you would like an invitation. Now, this next one I decided to choose because I was just in Washington, DC, and it will all make sense. In any case, I'm from a rock background, and that was a really strong connection between David and myself. And I loved it when he would play like Jimi Hendrix's Electric Ladyland at like 11 in the morning on a Sunday, or Van Morrison. And when I first heard this next song at the loft, I was absolutely blown away. It's a long and groovy and somewhat psychedelic track with a political bent. And it came to mind as over the past weekend, I was in Washington, DC, where macho men are shooting up history's pages. Steve Miller Band with Macho City . Mike Anthony with a cover of Timmy Thomas's Why Can't We Live Together? That's the part two. And I just love the funky break at the end. And that one really seemed appropriate. In this divided world we are now living in. And yeah, I remember when I heard that first at the loft, especially that funky break just absolutely loved it. And thank you to David Mancuso for turning me on to that. You're tuned in to the Loft Anniversary Special on Baleric Breakfast. I'm Colleen Cosmo Murphy taking you until high noon. It's another half an hour left to go. We have a few more songs for you. And this next one is a request from Matteo Tidaldi, who is part of the Last Note Party in Italy, our loft party in Italy. He says : "The first time I discovered the story of the loft, it was like finding my origins. And over time, I realized why. I love the loft because it's family and community. It's music and vibes. It's a journey, freedom of expression. It's considering the differences of individuals, a wealth, it's connection. And as David said, all this is social progress. I believe that today's world is making us lose contact with ourselves and the loft in its form of musical purity and expression. It's as if it took us back into time when we were children, reconnecting us to our roots. Music is love forever. Thank you, David" . And this is Lamont Dozier  with Going Back to My Roots . I never get sick of that song. I never get sick of this next one too, is chosen by my husband, Adam Dewhurst. And he says this: "I remember both David and Colleen playing this song at the loft parties. It's one of those perfect loft classics that truly makes sense when everything comes together between the musical host, the music, and the dancers via that transcendental sound system at the right time of the night. This memory is from the London Lofts Party's Memorial Party for David shortly after his passing in 2016. So many of us were missing him deeply and grieving, whilst also feeling the elation of the message being transmitted and the higher collective energy being created by the dancers, becoming as one, as David always reached for. Colleen was playing deep, focused on the musical journey to celebrate our dear friend and started playing Charles Earland 's Drifting . Whilst instantly thinking about David, I saw a balloon break free from the thousand or so that hung from the ceiling. Usually on high alert, watching out for any rogue balloons that could fall and damage the precious Kwetsu cartridges, this balloon was different, if you could say such a thing. It just hovered there, above the heat of the dancers, vibrating directly above them, almost wobbling like a jelly. Over the course of the next few minutes, it slowly hovered its way across the dancers, just beyond their reach, and I was grinning away, watching it, feeling like David was with us, with goosebumps all over. Eventually, the dancing balloon came to settle, hovering above, about one meter above one of the clip-shorn speakers, where it stayed, swaying to the rhythm of the song. That balloon stayed there, dancing away for the remainder of the song, and then fell back to earth as the song came to its end. One of those loft moments of which there are so many. I love and miss you, my dear friend David. Thank you for everything you share with us. Love saves the day" . Oh my gosh, that is just one of my favorite songs, and I also want to dedicate that to the memory of our late dear friend, Giancarlo Bianchi. That was his copy, and he gave it to me shortly before his unexpected passing in October of last year, and of course Giancarlo was the founder of the Last Note Loft Party in Italy, and we'll be remembering him and David on the 7th of June, and if you want to find out more, just email infolasnote@gmail.com . Well, this is Colleen Cosmo Murphy, getting ready to sign off another edition of Balearic Breakfast, this time our loft anniversary special. I want to thank everyone who contributed to this show. There were so many, so many great songs, and it just brings me back onto the dance floor. The first time at the loft way back in 1992 is just amazing. A reminder that next week we will be streaming live again, and this time it will be back to the request line on Saturday, so if you have any song suggestions, save them up and put them in the post comments on my Instagram and Facebook when the request line goes up this Saturday, and also a few more announcements. Don't forget our London Loft Party is the 9th of March. You can always email us if you want to get onto the guest list, onto the, I should say, the members list, and also I'll be hosting a couple special listening parties on the 6th of March at Devin Turnbull's Hi-Fi Listening Room, Dream No. 1 at 180 Strand, kind of talking through some of the more obscure tracks that David loved and championed and playing it on a lovely sound system.   We have one more song left for you, and this is a choice from our friend Roberta Cutolo, who is one of the members of the London Loft Party, and she also had the pleasure to book David once for a private party in Italy, and all she can say is that "This was the one time only in my experience of booking artists that dealing with David was extremely easy in the sense that the man was very clear, honest, and so specific about his terms and requests that our responsibility was to professionally fulfill with no delays, so we did that, and the party was a success" . She chose this song, Pat Metheny , Are You Going With Me . She says : "It was the song that made me understand how music for David was a complete journey, full circle, where the dance floor was conceived as a place that belonged to all dancers coming together to raise frequencies and to be part of the transcendental effect music has on body, mind, and spirit. A beautiful way to close the show" . Thank you all for joining me, and remember, Love Saves The Day...

Colleen 'Cosmo' Murphy broadcast the 226th episode of Balearic Breakfast on her Mixcloud on June 10th 2025. About this episode. – After playing at the Last Note party, in Perugia (Italy – a huge thank you and some fluffy hugs to Sara Petricone who kindly shared a few pictures of the party with me ), Colleen came back to host another exclusive episode of Balearic Breakfast. With the passing of the inimitable Sly Stone, we all expected a musical tribute by our dear Captain. And of course, as always, she delivered an incredible mix dedicated to the one who always wanted to take us Higher... As often, my way of listening (I'm Always Searching for Colleen's Hidden Message...) allowed me to discover the musical soul of today's episode. If you listen carefully, you'll notice that all of the songs have that musical togetherness: of course because of the musicianship which is present in the recordings but also in the intellectual message that the songs convey... And I'm sure we did not have that musical togetherness here at Balearic Breakfast previously! Of course, this feeling is put on a pedestal by Colleen's mixes which, once again, blew us all away: listen to what happens for instance between "Nothing but Love" and Colleen's remix of Crazy P's "Stop Start Return" ... If you don't Feel the musical togetherness I'm talking about, you'd better listen back to the whole show from the beginning! As a last hint for you, think about Sly Stone, think about Last Note's party, add to these elements the explanations I just presented to you... Can you Feel what I'm saying now and do you understand why I chose this title for today's post?... This morning’s Balearic Breakfast is now up on my Mixcloud and features a tribute to the late funk psychedelic soul pioneer Sly Stone. Today’s show also has a lot of new music including my forthcoming Cosmodelica remix of Crazy P coming out on 20:20 Vision in July, new music from Chaos in the CBD, Azymuth, Shuya Okino, a track from Coco Maria’s forthcoming comp, and new remixes from Joe Claussell and Kuniyuki and a lot more. It’s great to be to be back home in the record room streaming live after a few solid weeks of travel and thank you to all my special guests who gave us exclusive mixes: Marcia Carr, Pete Blaker, Carly Foxx and BB family member DJ Macaroon – all of the mixes were fab-u-lous and you can listen back on my Mixcloud. And thanks to all who joined in the parties at Good Room in Brooklyn, Dantes Hifi in Miami, Freddy’s at Pikes and 528 in Ibiza and to all of those who came to Perugia this past weekend to celebrate the life of our late friend Giancarlo Bianchi at our Italian Loft party – @lastnote_party   Apologies for not posting the request line this weekend – I wanted to keep my energy focussed on Giancarlo and Last Note and this coming weekend is our London Loft party this Sunday celebrating 22 years of the party we started with David Mancuso. If any of you want to join us please sign up for the friendship train at loftparty.org  or hit me up via the socials. Alan once again there will not be request line this weekend but it will go up on the 21st June and it is our PRIDE special on Tuesday the 24th June. I love this show – last year’s Balearic Breakfast Pride Special is up on my Mixcloud and it’s a musical marathon. So once again I look forward to your requests for LGBT+ artists in a couple weeks’ time. Until then, head over to my Mixcloud for 4 years of Balearic Breakfast shows and please give me a follow while you’re over there. And if you have the means, feel free to Subscribe. Thanks for listening. Listen back to the 226th episode of Balearic Breakfast: THE PLAYLIST ( 2025 ) B.J. Smith – Decline ( 2025 ) Azymuth ft. Jean Paul 'Bluey' Maunick  – Last Summer in Rio ( 2025 ) Kyoto Jazz Sextet  – Dosojin No Uta ( 2024 ) Nubiyan Twist ft Neone the Wonderer  – Pray for Me (Dub Version) ( 2025 ) Charlie Chimi  – Échale Candela ( 1978 ) Willie Colon & Ruben Blades  – Plastico ( 2025 ) Chaos in the CBD ft Josh Milan  – I Wanna Tell Somebody ( 1975 ) Sly Stone  – Crossword Puzzle ( 1982 ) Sly & The Family Stone  – Ha Ha, Hee Hee ( 1968 ) Sly & The Family Stone  – I Want To Take You Higher ( 1971 ) Sly & The Family Stone  – It's A Family Affair ( 2024 ) Cosmo Klein  – Nothing But Love (Art of Tones Remix) ( 2025 ) Crazy P  – Stop Space Return (Cosmodelica Remix) ( 2025 ) Fatback Band  – Snake (Joaquin Joe Claussell's Sacred Rhythm Mix) ( 2025 ) The Jade  – Let the Light In ( 2024 ) Juju  – Astral ( TBR ) Wood Brass & Steel  – Funkanova (Opolopo Tweak) ( 1983 ) Shiva  – One More Way ( 2025 ) HiFi Sean  – Waiting for the Sun ( 2025 ) Gene Tellem (ft Teddy Bryant)  – Phantom Vibrations (Kunyuki Remix) COLLEEN'S PRESENTATION Decline by BJ Smith , who is Benjamin James Smith , who is also in Aquaba and Bison , Half of Smith and Mud , also in Fug , who are on Nuphonic. Ben Smith is Ben Smith. He did the Move Drill project on New Northern Soul, and he goes under so many other monikers. He's a true, true talent. Decline is from his new five-track EP, Heard , coming out on Friday, and all of the songs are great, and you can pre-order Heard on Bandcamp at BJ-Smith. Good morning, Balearicans. I'm Colleen Cosmo Murphy, hosting your weekly Balearic Breakfast, and I'm thrilled to be back home in the record room, streaming live after a few solid weeks of travel. I mean, five flights in just over a week, so it's really great to be back. Greetings to all over on my MixCloud live. It's wonderful to see you, as always. Thanks for joining me over the past couple of weeks when I was streaming remotely from the US and Ibiza, and thank you to my special guests who gave us exclusive mixes, Marcia Carr, Pete Blaker, Carly Fox, and Balearic Breakfast family member, DJ Macaroon. All of the mixes were fabulous. And also, thanks to all who joined the parties at Goodroom in Brooklyn, Dante's Hi-Fi in Miami, Freddy's at Pikes, and 528 in Ibiza, and to all those who came to Perugia this past weekend to celebrate the life of our late friend Giancarlo Bianchi at our Italian Loft Party last note. It was truly emotional, truly uplifting. Apologies for not posting the request line this weekend. I really wanted to keep my energy focused on Giancarlo and last note, and this coming weekend, it's the same story. It's our London Loft Party on Sunday, celebrating 22 years. If any of you want to join us, please sign up for the friendship train at loftparty.org , or you can also hit me up via the socials. So needless to say, it's another busy weekend, so again, no request line, but it will be going up on the 21st of June, and it's our Pride Special on Tuesday, the 24th of June, and I just love this show. Last year's Balearic Breakfast Pride Special is up on my Mixcloud, and it's a musical marathon, so once again, I look forward to your requests for LGBT plus artists in a couple of weeks' time. On this morning's show, I have a lot of new music lined up for you, including a preview of my forthcoming Cosmodelica remix of Crazy P, coming out in early July, and of course, we will also pay tribute to the late psychedelic soul icon, Sly Stone, who passed to the next realm just yesterday. But now, some new music. Marking 50 years since their groundbreaking 1975 debut, Brazilian jazz funk legends Azimuth prove their cosmic samba soul remains as vital as ever, with a new album, Marca Passo , which has just come out on Far Out . It was recorded in Rio de Janeiro, and is the first full-length release since the passing of drummer Ivan Conti a couple of years ago. Soul remaining original member Alex Malheiros leads the Azimuth evolution alongside devoted collaborators Kiko Continentino on keyboards, and new recruit Renato Massa on drums. And this next one also features Jean-Paul 'Bluey' Maunick from Incognito . Here they are with Last Summer in Rio . Kyoto jazz sextet with Dosojin no Uta , and that means "the song of the road ancestor deity" . Dosujin refers to the Shinto deity believed to protect travelers, villages, and individuals in transition from evil spirits. And it's a traditional folk song from Nagano's Nozawa Onsen Village , and we heard it performed by Kyoto Jazz Sextet , an acoustic jazz ensemble led by Kyoto Jazz Massive's Shuya Okino , and they've been going for a decade. And this new EP marks their 10th anniversary and is coming out at the end of July, and you can pre-order it now. Okay, London's Nubiyan Twist is a blend of virtuosic players, skilled producers, and inspired composers who join forces to create a unique infectious sound drawing on jazz, hip-hop, afrobeat, latin, soul, reggae, and dance music. And their powerful nine-piece band is tight. They've been putting out albums for a decade now and recently released remixes and dub versions from their latest record, Find Your Flame , which came out on Strut Records last year. Here are Nubiyan Twist featuring Neone The Wanderer with a dub version of Pray For Me . Chaos in the CBD featuring Josh Milan , I want to tell somebody. And that's from the New Zealand duo's double album, A Deeper Life , and it is absolutely fantastic. I've had the entire album on repeat on my headphones when I was traveling the last few weeks and loved it so much I bought the vinyl. Chaos in the CBD is brothers Ben and Lewis Helliker-Hales and their debut album was 10 years in the making. A nostalgic imagining of the duo's nature-filled youth exploring the magical coastline and lush rainforests of New Zealand. It is such a breathtakingly beautiful country. And the album has loads of guests including Saucy Lady , Finn Rees , Nathan Haynes , Stephanie Cook , a novelist, and many many more. So go out and get it. The one before certainly wasn't new but I picked it up at Sweat Records in Miami and a shout out to Lolo and her team. As when you're in Miami you can't resist but be swept up by Latin American music. We heard Plastico from the classic 1978 album Siembra by Panamanian singer and songwriter Ruben Blades and Puerto Rican-American singer and trombonist Willie Colon . And that album is considered the best-selling salsa album, and I can understand why the whole thing is great. Ahead of that we had Charlie Chimi with Echale Candela which translation which translated means set it on fire . And that single is now out on Coco Maria 's new label Club Coco . And it's also included on her forthcoming New Dimensions in Latin Music compilation which serves as a sonic portrait of what Latin music can become when it's guided by intuition, keen ears, and an open heart. And that's certainly true of Coco Maria. She's a great selector and a beautiful person. New Dimensions in Latin Music is available to pre-order now. Okay you may have seen the recent documentary Sly Lives aka The Burden of Black Genius directed by Questlove which came out earlier this year. And it's an in-depth look at the life and music of Sly Stone , a musical pioneer who forged both the psychedelic soul sound and funk. Sly Stone passed to the next realm yesterday after battling with an illness. But as the film states, Sly lives through his music. Sly Stone, nay Sylvester Stewart , was born in Texas and raised in the Bay Area of Northern California. And he was a musical prodigy mastering keys, drums, guitar, and bass by the age of 11. He performed gospel music as a child with his siblings and future bandmates, Freddy and Rose as their parents were deeply religious. In fact they recorded and locally released a 78 rpm single on the battlefield with Walking in Jesus in August 1956. In the mid-1960s Sly Stone worked as both a record producer for Autumn Records and he was also a DJ on San Francisco radio station KDIA. In 1966 Stone and his brother Freddy joined their bands together to form Sly and the Family Stone , a racially integrated mixed gender act. And the group would score huge hits including Dance to the Music , Everyday People , and Thank You for Letting Me Be Myself , and classic albums like Stand and There's a Riot Going On . In the mid-1970s Stone's drug use and erratic behavior effectively ended the group leaving him to record several solo albums. He toured and collaborated with artists such as Parliament Funkadelic , Bobby Womack , and Jesse Johnson . And he took part in a Sly and the Family Stone tribute at the 2006 Grammy Awards, his first live appearance since 1987. And he also released the autobiography Thank You for Letting Me Be Myself Again in 2023. He was a complex and complicated genius , a musical game changer , and left behind an incredible body of work through which he lives on. Let's remember him through his music, Sly Stone . I love that song. Sly and the Family Stone, It's a family affair from their 1971 LP There's a Riot Going On . And I want to dedicate that song to the Balearic Breakfast family, the London Loft family, and the Last Note family. You can't even comprehend how much you all mean to me. Ahead of that, Sly and the Family Stone, I Want to Take You Higher from their 1969 LP Stand . We have Sly and the Family Stone, Ha Ha Hee Hee , very baleric song actually from 1982's Eight But the One Way . And starting it all off with the song that you know that De La Soul samples. You probably expected to hear De La Soul. That's Crossword Puzzle by Sly Stone from his 1975 solo album, High On You . And may Sly Stone rest in paradise. Okay, German singer-songwriter Cosmo Klein released his debut album This Is My Time in 2003. And since then has released other solo and collaborative albums and a string of singles, including this next one released last year, but which just came on my radar as I was delving deep into Art of Tones remixes. This is the Art of Tones remix of Cosmo Klein 's Nothing But Love . One of my favorite producers, Joaquin Joe Claussell Sacred Rhythm remix of The Snake by Fatback Band . And that's part of the Spring Revisited project put together by Swedish label Cosmos Music and also the UK's Acid Jazz Records . An incredible and ambitious project of New York label Spring Records featuring artists like Fatback Band , Millie Jackson , and The Street People . Getting makeovers by Opolopo, Dimitri from Paris, Khan, The Reflex, Dave Lee, and little old me. My Cosmodelica remix of The Street People "I Want to Get Over" is coming out on vinyl on Acid Jazz this week. And you can pre-order it now. And the digital is already out. And the mix we just heard by Joe, I think that's coming out in a few weeks as well. Before that, we heard my forthcoming Cosmodelica remix of the Crazy P classic Stop, Space, Return . And I gave it a bit of a freestyle electro vibe as Crazy P had the slinky disco vibe nailed as they always do. So, you know, no need to do the same thing over again. And I actually did that remix last summer amidst dates playing on the same stages as Crazy P. And I'd also DJed alongside the late Crazy P singer Danielle Moore . They had asked me last summer to pick any song and it was a true honor. And tragically, Dani departed planet Earth last September and we still mourn her passing. But at least we can remember her and celebrate her through her music. So, the Cosmodelica remix of Stop, Space, Return is now available to pre-order on 2020 Vision.   Okay, Madrid's Cazbah 73 recently shed his skin and is now ready to introduce The Jade , a live ensemble that prioritizes emotion, excitement, and the art of the song. Led by Oli Stewart of Cazbah 73 , it's a tight live band who specialize in post-pout, studs up, raw soul, free from modern dance floor tyranny. It's intimate disco, dead selfie freedom, Afro-Latin jazz dance, and Iberian funk all rolled up into one. Here's a track from their album Love Harder coming out next week on Spanish label Love Monk . The Jade with Led the Light In . An eternal classic, Wood, Brass & Steel with the opening track from their debut self-titled release Funkanova , which came out in 1976. In 1979, Sylvia Robinson called bassist Doug Wimbish , guitarist Skip McDonald , and drummer Keither Blanc and made them members of the Sugar Hill Gang Band , the in-house session musicians for the hip-hop label of the same name. WBNS released a final album in 1980, and then the trio met Adrian Sherwood at a music seminar in New York, followed him to England where they played on several Sherwood projects such as Fats Comet and Tackhead , and we just heard the Opolopo tweak of their dance floor classic Funkanova . Ahead of that, Juju with Astral , and Juju is helmed by UK drum and bass producer Robert Stewart with a live band, and he's released a couple of EPs on Colin Curtis Presents label including Black Samba and Haute Couture EP . We heard Astral from the latter EP released last year, and the whole thing is great. Okay, a few more songs on Balearic Breakfast going to just after noon. Following on from the 2023 reissue of Shiva , Never Gonna Give You Up , featuring Leon Ware and Joanne Harris , Isle of Jura have revisited 1983's 20 Minute Workout LP once more with Shiva's latest, The Aerobic EP . Four more tracks are on Earth from the original album sessions, all produced by Andy Muson , a seasoned session bassist whose credits include work with Yoko Ono , James Taylor , and Ringo Starr . It's coming out in mid-July, so pre-order now. Here is Shiva with One More Rain . Former Soup Dragons frontman and dance music producer and DJ, Hi-Fi Sean with Waiting for the Sun , and some of us in the UK are still waiting. What a gloomy day it is today, but it's a beautiful gospel house song, and I just love it, and the wait is over as it's coming out on vinyl this week. Well, that just about wraps up another weekly Balearic Breakfast. Don't forget the London Loft is celebrating 22 years since we started the party in London with Dave and Mancuso. It's this Sunday, and you can find out more and sign up to join our friendship train over at loftparty.org , and if you can't make it this Sunday, we host parties in September, December, March, and June, and we hope to see you on the dance floor. I'm going to be on NTS Radio this Friday doing something very un-Balearic . I'm playing a lot of punk and post-punk, as Robert Smith invited me to do a half hour on The Cure's early period from 1978 to 1982 , as The Mixes of a Lost World by The Cure is coming out this Friday, and on it is the Cosmodelica and Electric Eden remix of And Nothing Is Forever , so really excited about that. If you're a post-punk fan, you can, uh, I think Robert Smith is doing two or three hours, and then there's about six, uh, three more hours of all The Cure's different kind of periods to the present day. Next week, I'll be streaming Balearic Breakfast live. Until then, I'm going to leave you with one more song, a lovely new biscuit on Love Injection Records coming out at the end of July. It's by Canadian artist Gene Tellem , featuring Teddy Bryant . The song is called Phantom Vibrations , and it's remixed by one of my favorite producers, Kuniyuki , from the city of Sapporo and the northern island of Hokkaido in one of my favorite places. This is Colleen Cosmo Murphy. Enjoy your week, and thanks for listening.

Fabienne , London born and New-York based DJ, recently launched a new series of podcasts entitled "Last Night a DJ saved my life". For the second episode, she met Colleen. COLLEEN'S INTERVIEW Note: Although the podcast has been initially recorded on March, 03rd 2024, it has been aired on youtube on June, 08th 2025. TRANSCRIPTION OF THE INTERVIEW [Fabienne] Hey guys and welcome back to episode two of Last Night a DJ Saved My Life, the podcast. So I hope you enjoyed episode one, with Bill Brewster and Frank Broughton, and all the most incredible knowledge that they gave and that they brought to the episode, and episode two we have Colleen Cosmo Murphy. I am so excited for this episode not only because as a female DJ it's really interesting to hear another female perspective from someone who's been in industry for 35 years and she's been in, she's been DJing since she was 14, and it's just so incredible to hear her story and where she came from and how her musical career developed and how she came to work with David Mancuso of The Loft. She had so many exciting stories to say and so many points to touch on and I can't wait for you to hear it. So here it is, episode two of Last Night a DJ Saved My Life, the podcast with Colleen Cosmo Murphy. Enjoy! Welcome back to Last Night a DJ Saved My Life, the podcast. On today's show I have a guest that's an absolute icon of mine. Someone that has been described as dedicating every inch of her soul and being to the pursuit of music which feels like an absolute dream for me. Founder of classic album Sundays, the world's leading album listening event and an authority in music, sound and vinyl renaissance, which is something that we definitely have to get into. She has been part of the movement that changed music forever and it's a place that I would sell my soul to go back to. That is of course David Mancuso's The Loft. Famous for her eclecticism, not sticking to one genre, you can find her on Mixcloud every Tuesday for Balearic Breakfast and Sundays on NTS. Please welcome my guest Colleen Cosmo Murphy. Hello.   [Colleen] Hello. Thank you, that's a glowing introduction. I almost started tearing up. [Fabienne] Thank you so much for coming in today. [Colleen] My pleasure, thanks for having me. [Fabienne] We've got so much to talk about. I mean you've got such a rich musical tapestry I can't wait to get into. So with that, with being in the music scene for, I mean since you were a teenager I guess, from producing music to DJing to curating music, I guess let's start from the beginning. How did you start getting into music?   [Colleen] Well how did I start getting into music? I mean it was all around me on the radio growing up outside of Boston and suburbs and we had great radio in Boston because we had so many universities. [Fabienne] Right. [Colleen] It has the most colleges and universities out of any other city in the United States. [Fabienne] Wow, okay. [Colleen] And of course college radio was really big when I was growing up but also the radio stations were really good so I was able to access different kinds of music than other people who were growing up around other cities throughout the United States. I also had a lot of teenage aunts and uncles. My dad was young when he had me and he was the eldest of six, proper Irish Catholic family, and so I would raid their record collections as well whether I found Kate Bush or Pink Floyd. Started making mixed cassettes about 12 years old and then when I was...   [Fabienne] Did you wheel?   [Colleen] Yeah, exactly. But these were just pause, on the pause button, because I didn't have two turntables at that time obviously. Right.  And then when I was 14 years old I started as a DJ on our 10 watt high school radio station, WHHB, and that was kind of the beginning of my journey in terms of playing music and selecting it in public.   [Fabienne] And I guess, so you always knew you wanted to get into music because I think sometimes it's either there in your soul or maybe it comes a little later but it sounds like you always kind of wanted to be part of it.   [Colleen] Well, I never studied music. I mean, I took organ lessons when I was young. I was a singer when I was young as well and I just... It was the radio station and being obsessed with the radio that really led me there. And when I went to university in New York in 1986, the way I chose the university was to have the best college radio station.   [Fabienne] Right.   [Colleen] Oh, that's really cool. Yeah, it was really interesting. But I studied other things too. I studied comparative religions in school. I also was accepted to a master's program for anthropology. Right. But as I was always working in radio, I would... That's just kind of where I would focus my energy. So it's, you know, it's sort of by...   [Fabienne] It wasn't necessarily intentional but I just couldn't stop. Yeah, I think that's the thing, isn't it? Once you focus your energy on something, it just kind of starts pushing you in that direction. With that 54th anniversary of the loft that just happened last month, I wanted to go over and just tell the listeners about what you mentioned recently, about the different things that Mancuso taught you about music, if you will.   [Colleen] Yeah, he taught me so many things. I mean, first of all, he taught me about sound and audiophile sound and getting the best playback you possibly can. I studied sound and radio also at NYU and was mainly recording, editing on tape, mic techniques and things like that. It wasn't about playback. Right. So David really taught me about that, you know, how to set up an audiophile sound system but also how to use it. Okay. Which is very different because there's only certain records you can play on an audiophile system because it doesn't lie. So that's very difficult. He also taught me about the importance of community, you know. The loft is a worldwide community, probably thanks to some of the work that we did together with the compilations and getting David's name out there back in 1999 because not many people knew who he was at the time.   [Fabienne] Yeah, and I guess social media and things that wasn't about, it was just word of mouth.   [Colleen] There was no social media. Yeah, exactly. And the internet had really just come into play a few years earlier. Right. So the importance of community is something that's really is at the heart for me and I have definitely built a community with classic albums, Sundays and Balearic Breakfast. Also, just the whole life energy of music, that idea that music is a healing force. There was a book that he gave out to many friends called The Life Energy of Music by John Diamond. And it's all about choosing music that uplifts people. And, you know, I like all different kinds of music and I listen to different music in different places and at different points in my life and in different parts of the day and on different days. Yeah. But when you're out in a club, you don't want to depress people. Yeah. It's about uplifting. So I do choose music in my party sets more in that way. But also it's just about being a good human being, you know, and really trying to take the higher ground, even when you're faced with some massive challenges. And that has been one of the things that I've really set out to do following David's footsteps in that as well.   [Fabienne] Right. And in terms of the challenges, is that something that was the pandemic, do you think?   [Colleen] Pandemic and also, you know, there's also still sexism in our industry that's really rife and something that's affected me greatly as well. And, yeah, lots of different challenges. I mean, it's a hard business. Yeah. It's very competitive, kind of backstabby, but it can be the best one as well. You know, there's there's advantages and disadvantages to everything. I mean, someone watching this might say, oh, she's going to complain about being a DJ and playing music and traveling the world. And I'm not. I love it.   [Fabienne] I love what I do.   [Colleen] Otherwise, I wouldn't be doing it.   [Fabienne] You've always got to take the good with the bad, isn't it? There's always a balance, but we'll definitely get into that in a bit. But I do want to talk about Balearic Breakfast. And, you know, you mentioned community and you have such an incredible community there, you know, watching you dancing, listening. I mean, thank you for accompanying my all my packing I had to do last night. It was great. So, yeah. How did how did that start? Was that something you saw? I think I read somewhere something that you started in the pandemic. Was it something before that as well?   [Colleen] No, it wasn't before. Basically, I was a broadcaster on Worldwide FM right after Giles Peterson started the station. He asked me to join up and become one of the DJs. And I hosted monthly Cosmodelica shows and monthly classic album Sundays documentaries. When the pandemic happened, I believe only Giles and I had the ability to broadcast live from home. And I'm a broadcaster and broadcasting live is so different than broadcasting. It's a prerecord. I could just never get in the spirit. I don't mind there being mistakes when it's live. When it's prerecorded, it always feels a little bit staged. Yeah. And it's just I just can't get the feeling. I like being on the edge. I think it really is really a good thing for me. I learned to mix, you know, DJing on the radio. I've just learned my chops in front of people, really.   [Fabienne] It's a different energy.   [Colleen] It's a completely different energy. It's really great. So you're feeling something coming back, even though you can't see it.   [Fabienne] Yeah.   [Colleen] But I could kind of see it in a sense because we were streaming live and I was using MixCloud Live, Twitch TV, and people could comment in live time. In any case, I had a show that I called Summer Staycation in the summer of 2020, because Giles decided to take a maybe a month off or two months off, the whole summer off, I think. So I covered one of his shows. And it was called Summer Staycation because I wasn't going anywhere.   [Fabienne] I didn't think any of my listeners were going anywhere. I didn't think the rest of the world were either, yeah.   [Colleen] Exactly. And then when he came back in September, he said, well, there's a lot of pickup on your show. Why don't you keep the slot? Great. But this is September. How can I call it Summer Staycation anymore? And it was kind of a balleric-y vibe show in that it was very eclectic and it felt like the music had a quality of taking you out of your kind of, taking you to a different kind of world. We were all trapped in our homes and there's something transcendental about the music. So I put the word out to the community, suggest some radio show titles. And a friend who is also a member of the community came back and said, how about Balearic Breakfast? And that's how it happens. And then after Worldwide stopped or went on pause or stopped as a full-time radio station, I decided to keep the show going and just do it on my Mixcloud Live and Twitch TV. And it still gets like number one on the balearic charts and new discos charts.   [Fabienne] Yeah, you have thousands of listens. Yeah.   [Colleen] And the thing is, it's like a radio show without a radio station.   [Fabienne] But I think that's the way to go, isn't it? These days, doing it yourself. And didn't you have a sellout compilation of it last year?   [Colleen] Yeah, we're just doing the third volume right now. I just approved the artwork yesterday.   [Fabienne] Great.   [Colleen] Coming out in May. I believe it's the first week of May, May 3rd. Okay, great. And then I'll be doing some album release parties around in the UK and Ibiza.   [Fabienne] Well, that's perfect. Yeah, that aligns nicely.   [Colleen] Yeah. I hate to use the word brand because I feel it's more of a community. Right.   [Fabienne] Okay. Yeah. Well, I guess that's a bit like Classic Album Sundays. I guess, what would you say the difference is? Because Classic Album Sundays is a listening party. It's quite similar to, I guess, what they do in Japan. Yes.   [Colleen] Well, I never even knew about this. I lived in Japan in 1989. I was a radio DJ there when I was 21. And I've been back and forth, you know, as a DJ from the mid 90s. Okay. But no one had ever brought me to a jazz kiba. Right. Before. So I didn't even know about that idea. It really kind of sprang out of getting to know more about hi-fi and having hi-fi in my house and listening to records in full and thinking, oh my gosh, this is so different. But also all of the journalism I've done in the past, all of the radio interviews I've done in the past, I've interviewed hundreds of bands. I've written about music. I've done a lot of different things in music beyond DJing. And it kind of brought all these different experiences together. So I started that in 2010. And I also wanted to address how we listen to music, music quality as well, both on playback and the format, which is why I was championing vinyl. And this was before the vinyl renaissance. And, and also listening to albums in full uninterrupted and immersing yourself into the music, but also the story. And it was great. I had no idea it would take off in the way it did because three months in BBC came along, they put me on BBC Breakfast, and there were no listening bars in the UK. No, yeah. There were, there wasn't a vinyl renaissance.   [Fabienne] I think there's probably minimal now anyway. You know, I know they're popping up, but it's still quite minimal. Yeah.   [Colleen] Exactly. And it just inspired a lot of other people to do something similar. And because it just really hit a nerve in many different ways, whether it was vinyl culture, album listening, or audiophile playback, or just how we listen. Yeah. Because the whole sense of hearing is so important. And it's just as important as your sense of sight, if not more. Because we can listen 360 degrees, and we listen unconsciously. We don't filter out the sounds unless you put earplugs in. But with our vision, we have to turn our gaze, and we have to fix on it. And then we can shut it off and close our eyes. We can't close our eyes. So it's really important.   [Fabienne] Yeah. And I think maybe that also because, you know, we can, like with digital, we don't take the time. People don't really listen to full albums anymore. So doing something like that really brings people back into listening to more than just what's the song that's been chosen for radio play or for streaming play, absolutely. And you have to think of the album as a complete artistic statement, even if it's not a concept album.   [Colleen] It's a representation of where the artist is at that point in their musical journey.   [Fabienne] Yeah.   [Colleen] And you don't even have to like all the songs. But I would say if there's an artist that you really like, just listen to one of their albums all the way through. You don't have to, again, but I think you'll be surprised because so many times there's tracks on the album that you like better than the single.   [Fabienne] Absolutely. But isn't it so weird how that's what you would do, and now we just kind of don't, you know? It's definitely something listening to the whole album is something special now, whereas it was something we just would do.   [Colleen] Right. And it's also nice to take time out and just listen and not do anything else. Turn the phone off, close your eyes. It's really relaxing. It lowers your blood pressure, and it's just really good for your mind and your heart and your body.   [Fabienne] Yeah, it's almost a form of meditation. Exactly.   [Colleen] I call it audio yoga.   [Fabienne] Oh, I love that. That's great. That's another thing you should probably start doing now.   [Colleen] Well, I have a series called Audio Yoga on my Mixcloud, and there's a bunch of just one-hour mixes that are more kind of spiritual jazz and things like that, just music that people have done yoga to.   [Fabienne] Yeah. Oh, that's amazing. So I believe you can find inspiration in any genre of music and don't necessarily have to stick to one, and just like yourself, play quite eclectically. Have you ever felt the pressure to be put in a box and maybe stick to one genre?   [Colleen] 100%. When my career started taking off in Europe, after I moved over in about 2000, this is when dance music was really at a peak. And I remember at one point, a few years after I switched agents, she was a brilliant agent in terms of business. Excellent. And she's the agent and manages some of the top talent, DJ talent, and I was her first woman DJ. Right. And she said, make me a mix that I can send out to promoters. And I made a mix that I thought was kind of this punchy, and I thought a bit more energetic than the way I would always play. I can play in a lot of different ways. And she turned around and said, don't you want to make money? And I realized I just can't be pitch and hold. And sometimes I do feel like that has been to the detriment of my career, because I do feel it is easier to rise through the ranks when you have a definable sound and look and everything is gelling together. And I understand that. And it's easier for people to kind of digest. It's easier to promote. You're known for one thing and you do it really well. There's people that do that. I don't have an issue with that. I'm not saying one way is better than the other. It's just my musical history is so varied, and I love music, all different kinds of music, and it's been such a huge part of my story. And with Classic Album Sundays, I also get to exhibit that passion as well beyond the dance floor. I just couldn't do it. I think you have to remain authentic to yourself. And if that works for you, just I'm going to do just this style and do it really well, that's great. There's nothing wrong with that. It's just you have to know who you are. And that's not me. And maybe the fact that I'm still around and it's been a slow and steady build, maybe that diversity has actually helped me in the end. But it didn't feel like it 25 years ago.   [Fabienne] Right. Yeah, I think me putting yourself into one genre just kind of inhibits any type of play or inspiration from anything else. I remember a long time ago, someone said to me, you can get your inspiration from things that make you feel uncomfortable or sound uncomfortable.   [Colleen] Oh, 100%. Being on the edge and challenging yourself and taking risks is one of the best things you can do in your career. I know David Bowie said something similar, but really getting outside your comfort zone is the only way you're going to grow.   [Fabienne] Yeah.   [Colleen] Otherwise you stay flat. If you don't have challenges, if you don't challenge yourself, you will just remain the same, you'll remain stagnant. So these things are really important.   [Fabienne] Yeah, I think so. So I guess being part of movements such as The Loft, it feels like gender wasn't really an issue at the time. Well, don't make any assumptions.   Right. Fine. Exactly.   So because I was going to say, as a woman in industry, have you felt that things have been gatekept from you?   [Colleen] Well, it's a tricky situation. First of all, I want to just say one thing. I have had amazing male mentors, supporters. And in fact, if I didn't have them, I wouldn't be where I am today. And I also have incredible male listeners and people who support me as fans. And most of my experiences, I would say, have been good. Otherwise, I wouldn't be here. But yeah, there's been a lot of different obstacles in my way. Some that I've overcome and became the first woman program director of that radio station or went to an audition that was only open to men. Or I was at a record shop and I ended up not just working behind the till, but on the floor helping people, all sorts of little things when I was younger. But no scene is exempt from sexism. Absolutely. And what I have found in my own experience, I mean, I have never been sexually assaulted, thankfully, been sexually harassed like I think every single woman has, but not assaulted. So in that way, I'm lucky. Sad to say I'm lucky because I haven't been sexually assaulted, but it's true. But there's been some blatant sexism and that stuff is easier to deal with. When you have a bouncer telling you, you can't enter the club when you're standing there with a box of records because DJ Cosmo is not a woman, that's kind of easy to deal with. You just tell him to go where and you go underneath the ropes and you walk in and say, arrest me. You can do that. So those things are easy because it's so overt. The real problem is unconscious bias. And I suffer from this and every woman suffers from this to this day. And it's generally hard to accuse somebody of that because they will always say they didn't do it. And this is something that even liberal men do. The double standard of how women are treated unconsciously still exists today. So for instance, if I am assertive about something, I'm aggressive. If a man uses language that's even stronger than me, he's just making a point. The boys club and how they gang up on you, there's like certain overall, as I've said, I've had amazing support, but it's really the ones who maybe look at me and maybe they want what I have or maybe they want the relationship I have with David. I'm just told by one person to my face and publicly, everything you've done in your career is down to David Mendeza. They put my entire career onto one man. I was working before he went in. No one even knew we were working together in the 90s for the most part. I helped put on, you know, get his story out to the world. But that's the kind of thing that people will say and that usually comes from a place of insecurity themselves. Oh, definitely. Not everybody likes a successful woman. I think successful women have more challenges than successful men. I'll go on and say that. And we also get more backlash online. It's incredible, you know, the kinds of challenges that we get online because we have the kind of keyboard warriors that are anonymous. But you know, it does stem from jealousy and insecurity and it's really hard because you can't call it out because you can't prove it. And also, these guys would never admit it. But as I said, overall, my experience has been positive and I'm really thankful for that because I know other women have suffered a lot more than I have. And you know, like in any career, you have to take the bad with the good. And things are changing, you know, and there's more highlighting it. And I think the more we talk about unconscious bias and we as a society challenge the double standards that we face and really look what I've said to people is look to where women aren't being mentioned. And that's where you'll find these stories. You know, I'll be mentioning people and promoting them and it may not be reciprocated. And why aren't they mentioning it? You have to question when the women aren't there. Because we can't go out and say, oh, I'm not there because I'm a woman because then we look bad. You know, and so, yeah, there's there's a lot still to be done. And I think there's a lot of accountability. Some some people do need to raise their hands and realize that their past behavior hasn't been fair.   [Fabienne] Absolutely. I think we are becoming slightly more aware of it. It doesn't mean that it's not still going on. But I think having the awareness now, even for the men in the industry going like, oh, because of certain movements, we have to be a bit aware feels feels a bit better.   [Colleen] Yeah. And this isn't just men, too, I should say, as well. There are women who don't support women.   [Fabienne] Oh, yeah.   [Colleen] And, you know, you know, the Equal Rights Amendment was never ratified in America. Right. We're still not protected in the Constitution there. Right. But and there was a woman who was leading a movement against it. And I still encounter it. But it's a minority. And I do also feel like maybe that's because of the patriarchy, they act that way as well. Yes, I think so.   [Fabienne] Yeah.   [Colleen] But, you know, I mean, securities and insecurities and different things or they want to impress men or there's all different reasons that could happen. And I'm sure it's you know, it's it's it's a very difficult thing to deal with. But as I said, you know, I've had mainly positive experiences. And, you know, I'm so grateful for the everyone who has supported me irrespective of gender. And yeah, I think overall I've had a pretty good run.   [Fabienne] Yeah, you've got great staying power. What would you say is the staying power because you're so authentic and true to yourself? I think that's one thing.   [Colleen] I think sticking to your guns. But I also think diversity. I do a lot of different things. You know, I have classic Elvis Sundays. I do remixes. I'm a radio broadcaster. I'm a DJ and it's a lot to juggle. And, you know, a mother, you know, my daughter's now 19. So a bit of an empty nester now. But, you know, that was difficult. Yeah. And I do think don't put all your eggs into one basket. Yeah. And whatever you do, do to the best of your ability and just put your head down and focus on the work. And despite any noise going around around you. Absolutely. Focus on the work.   [Fabienne] Yeah. Don't look what everyone else is doing. It's very difficult in the age that we are in today.   [Colleen] But, yeah, it's awful, isn't it?   [Fabienne] Yeah, absolutely. OK, so let's get into the vinyl renaissance. Obviously, you were playing records years before this happened, but we are now, I think, in the 16th year of just an increase of vinyl being purchased and listened to. What are your thoughts on that, I guess, versus the digital culture? I know we touched on it earlier a bit.   [Colleen] Yes, I think it has a lot to do with tangibility because everything is accessible right now at our fingertips, which is great as well. I mean, it's a lot to be said to be able to access almost any recording and to be able to check it out without having to own it or hear it on the radio, because that was the only way I could hear the songs that I liked before. Go to a friend's house if they owned it, if I owned it, or on the radio. And that was it. You know, in some ways there's something kind of magical about that. But hey, when I want to hear like Arvo Part, hmm, let me hear some of his compositions. And then I can buy the vinyl. So I think part of it is the tangibility. You become the Uber fan if you own the actual physical manifestation of this album. And you also support the artist more because they're not getting anything from the streaming services for the most part. So that's one side. I think there's a bit of romanticism to it as well. You know, you have to interact with the vinyl, you have to put it on the turntable and flip it over. Whereas a digital format, you can just walk away and it turns.   [Fabienne] Yeah, you're using more of your senses, right?   [Colleen] 100%. You have the artwork looks better because it's bigger, you can hold it in your hands, read it. So I think there's a lot of that too. But also the sound if you have a group, a well pressed album that's beautifully mixed and mastered and you have a nice sound system. There is a magical quality to listening back to that kind of a format when it's done well. There's a feeling. It's just more musical. Yeah.   [Fabienne] Yeah. Because I guess being more musical is using again, like we said, all the different senses as well.   [Colleen] And it's not a series of ones and zeros.   [Fabienne] Yeah, exactly. Okay, so as we're coming to the end, just maybe talk about your favourite moment as a DJ. I mean, wow, you must have had so many from radio, from performing at different places. Yeah. What's maybe one that sticks in your mind today? There's so many.   [Colleen] I can't even. There's so many ones. It's really hard to say. And they're so different. So like a festival set when you have thousands of people dancing in a field is a wonderful thing or dancing in a tent like we are, like our love dancing tent that we have here. I always love doing sets in our love dancing tent because we help put together the sound system. Right.   [Fabienne] Yeah. And it is real, really like love.   [Colleen] Exactly. Exactly. All the loft parties that I've been part of that have been, you know, so fortunate to have musically hosted again. Those aren't sort of DJ moments. It's a musical hosting moment. There's so many great dance floor moments. There's a place I love in Japan called Precious Hall that I love playing at. They're all so different. I can't say favourite because I don't believe in that. I don't believe there's so many great places that I've played and so much love, both from promoters and people on the dance floor. I almost don't feel it's fair. And I just feel so thankful. And, you know, the whole thing. I'm so grateful that I am. I'm so grateful that I've had so many different experiences. You know, I've been playing DJing publicly for 35 years, pretty much almost 35 years. So it's there's a lot there.   [Fabienne] Yeah, absolutely. And so what would you give advice wise to DJs wanting to get into people wanting to get into DJing?   [Colleen] OK, well, I would say work really hard, put your head down, become as technically become as technically efficient as you can. But it starts with the love of music.   [Fabienne] Yeah.   [Colleen] And you really have to have that love of music to convey that spirit and to help channel it so that people feel it. Some people might use music as a way to become famous and they can be successful in that. That's not what I do. So I would suggest whatever you do, do it to the best of your ability and find your tribe, find your tribe of people and work together and you'll be amazed at what can happen.   [Fabienne] Lovely. Yeah. And I think just being true to yourself like that's what's going to get you everywhere.   [Colleen] It is. It really is. You know, and you see the DJs that make it. And, you know, I'm not saying that you have to make millions of pounds a year to be a DJ who's made it. If you're able to sustain a career in music, you've made it. You're lucky. I love that. So many people want to have a career in music and it's a hard graft. They don't see everything that goes on, you know, behind the scenes. But you're still fortunate to be able to do that.   [Fabienne] Yeah, absolutely. So I guess my final question is today, what brings you joy?   [Colleen] Oh, so many things bring me joy. I mean, outside of music, what brings me joy is my family and friends. I love nature. I love hiking. I love swimming. I love biking. I love reading. I love films. I love radio. I love I mean, there's so many different things, but you can bring that joy of being alive and just being thankful for being alive and to have the opportunities I've had to, you know, I'm grateful for where I live. I mean, the world is filled with war and all sorts of terrible things happening. And I am privileged and we are very privileged people if you're not experiencing that directly. So I'm thankful for that, you know, so.   [Fabienne] Great. Well, we're very thankful for having you on the show. So thank you so much for coming in. It's been amazing to hear your stories and your history and experiences. I really appreciate you being here. Thank you so much. Thank you. That's it. I think we're done.   [Colleen] You're really good.   [Fabienne] Well, I hope you enjoyed that episode too. So that was so much fun to film. And we actually filmed it on International Women's Day, March the 8th last year. So it had this even more like awesome feminine energy to it. So no trials, please, because it's always interesting to hear from a female perspective. And also, of course, even if you're not a woman, the knowledge that she brought and the things she was talking about, like your authenticity and staying true to that throughout your career. And I feel like that's something that can be touched on on any career, for anything you do in life, as long as you are true to yourself, you're always going to thrive. And that's what I always think anyway. But yeah, I hope you enjoyed it. And yeah, we've got two weeks until episode three. So stay tuned for that one. Yeah, let me know any of your feedback, any of your comments, and also who else you would love to see on the podcast. But for now, thank you so much for listening or watching. And I'll see you soon. Bye.