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Colleen 'Cosmo' Murphy broadcast the 221st episode of Balearic Breakfast on her Mixcloud on May 6th 2025. About this episode. – A few hours before hitting the stage at Queen's Park Spring Weekender '25, and a day before playing at 1BTN's 10 Birthday bash at Patterns, Colleen launched the request line for the 221st episode of Balearic Breakfast. And, as we shall see in the listening section of this post, today's selections showcased, both in the music and in the lyrics, and in a certain way, some positive uncertainties... This morning’s Balearic Breakfast is now up on my Mixcloud. Today’s show is mainly your requests along with some new music from @younggunsilverfox @ musclecars.nyc @alex__kassian @thevendettasuite , @the_mighty_zaf and a new @robot84music rework. This Saturday it’s the Balearic Breakfast Day Party at NT’s Loft in East London and I’m looking forward to playing with my buddy @joe_hot_chip . We’re going to do some back to backs along with solo sets and we’re going to debut our Cosmodelica Electric Eden remix of the Cure so that’s where you can hear it first! Thank@you to @jaynewinstanley for the ace jacket ❤️ THE PLAYLIST ( 2002 ) Andy Bey – Saidas e Banderias ( 1978 ) Shirley Caesar  – Message to the People ( 2023 ) Elisapie  – Taimangalimaaq ( 1988 ) Tanita Tikaram  – Twist in my Sobriety ( 2023 ) Jaakko Eino Kalevi  – Chaos Magic ( 2020 ) Joel Sarakula  – Sunshine Makes Me ( 2025 ) Young Gun Silver Fox  – Stevie & Sly ( 2025 ) Thompson Twins / Robot 84  – Dub Inside ( 2025 ) All Seeing I & Crooked Man – The Return of the Crooked Cat ( 2001 ) Charles Webster  – Forget the Past ( 2025 ) Alex Kassian x Spooky Orange  – Coloured Liquid (Part 1) ( 2025 ) The Vendetta Suite  – The Jam Answer ( 1980 ) Linx – You're Lying ( TBR ) Invisible Man’s Band  – All Night Thing (Alien Disco Sugar Rework) ( 2025 ) Disco Combine 2001 – Disco Party (Dave Lee Psychedelic Funk Mix) ( 2020 ) Joaquin Joe Claussell – With More Love (GTR Version) ( 2025 ) Annie & The Caldwells – I Made It (a musclecars production) ( 2025 ) The Mighty Zaf & Linkwood  – Yokai ( 2021 ) Sun Palace  – Rude Movements (Moodymann Remix) COLLEEN'S NEWS Do not forget to subscribe to Colleen's website ( https://www.colleencosmomurphy.com/ ) to get updates about her upcoming events! Here are some dates where Colleen will be spinning over the next few weeks: 10th May: Balearic Breakfast Day Party at NT's Loft, London 18th May: All Night Long at Pikes, Ibiza 23rd May: Cosmodelica x Love Injection at The Good Room, Brooklyn, NY 28th May: Dantes HiFi in Miami, Florida 7th June: Last Note Party in Perugia, Italy  ( sign up for our mailing list ) THE LISTENING EXPERIENCE Sometimes, an episode directly reflects what you're going through in your life. That's just how I felt when I listened to this 221st Balearic Breakfast's episode. From the openning track, Andy Bey's "Saidas e Banderias" , to All Seeing I & Crooked Man's "The Return of the Crooked Cat" , including songs like Tanita Tikaram's "Twist in my Sobriety" or even Charles Webster's "Forget the Past" , A Loy of today's songs had that worried feeling, that unexpected evolution, and, in the end, that somehow "Positive Uncertainty". This strange equilibrium revelas itself, as I said in today's post introduction, in the music itself, but also in the lyrics. If you take for instance Tanita Tikaram's "Twist in my Sobriety", the song really is about not understanding, and, as Tanita explained it in an interview, "when you're 18, you've got a very particular emotional relationship with the world, you feel very isolated, and everybody else is so distant and cold. And I think I was singing about not feeling anything or not being moved by things around" . Of course, Shirley's Caesar's "Message to the People" directly spoke to my soul too, the lyrics being so evocative: "Do you find yourself in the deepest hole, that you can find, well? / Listen, your life is spinning around and your up seems to be down / You're in deeper than you've ever been / You're time is not yet, oh you'll regret it / If you're too late / Let me tell you, young man, you need to be saved / I've got a message for the people, will you please hear my message / If you can't find your way / You've got to hold on to something / I know of a friend, he'll reach out and pull you in, save your life" Of course, as far as the music is concerned, we can also take for example The Vendetta Suite's "The Jam Answer" which has a worried feeling to it, just to show that the main intellectual theme of the show is nicely extended to the second hour too. But, as often, there's a beautiful equilibrium which never lets enter darkness totally, each song, each track having its own light, its own dose of Hope (including the show, with its last 6 songs beings beautiful danceable moments, Colleen's mix between "Disco Party (Dave Lee Psychedelic Funk Mix)" and "With More Love (GTR Version)" being simply splendid, and the Ultimate WOW Moment of the show...). COLLEEN'S PRESENTATION Saidas e Banderias by the late American jazz singer and pianist Andy Bey , who recently transitioned to the next realm. Known as a musician-singer, the four-octave vocalist got his start in the 1950s, singing with Louis Jordan and with his sisters as a trio, extensively performing in Europe and releasing albums throughout the 60s. His emotive voice was a natural choice as a collaborator with Horace Silver , Gary Bartz , Dee Dee Bridgewater , and Stanley Clark . And Bey released the solo album Experience and Judgment in 1974, which was more of a cult classic. And he didn't release another album until the early 90s and then was quite prolific for 25 years or so. We heard Saidas e Banderias from his 2001 LP Tuesday in Chinatown . And thank you to David Puzzi for that request. Good morning, Balearicans. I'm Colleen Cosmo Murphy, hosting your weekly Balearic Breakfast until high noon on my MixCloud Live. And greetings to the family gathered in the chat group right now. Lovely to see you as always. I had a fun-filled May Day holiday weekend up in Glasgow on Saturday, playing with Horse Meat Disco for Melting Pot at Queen's Park. And then on Sunday, celebrating 1BTN's 10th birthday at Patterns in Brighton, which was a lot of fun. And thanks to all who joined us and to those who said hello. It's really great meeting listeners face to face. I really appreciate your support. And this Saturday, it's the Balearic Breakfast Day Party at N.T.'s Loft in East London. And I'm looking forward to playing with my buddy Joe Goddard of Hotship . And we're going to do some back-to-backs and some solo sets. And we're also going to debut our Cosmodelica Electric Eden remix of The Cure . So that's where you can hear it first. So excited to hear that one out. Now, today's show is mainly your requests, along with some new music from Muscle Cars, Alex Kassian, Young Gun and Silver Fox, Crooked Man, The Veneta Suite, The Mighty Zoff, and a new Robot 84 rework. So let's get on to the music with some requests. This is from our friend Bert in Brooklyn, who says this legendary gospel singer has a message for the Balearic Breakfast family. Shirley Caesar has had a 70-year career, starting when she was 12 years old, and she's won 11 Grammy Awards. So it's no wonder she's known as the first lady of gospel music. She sang with The Caravans in the 1950s and then went solo, releasing her debut album, I'll Go , in 1967. She's had a stellar singing career, and she's also a preacher, and she acted in a few films, including Why Do Fools Fall in Love? and Fighting Temptations . From Shirley Caesar's 1978 album From the Heart , this is Message to the People . Pop folk singer-songwriter Tanita Tikaramam with her hit Twist in My Sobriety . And that's from her 1988 debut LP, Ancient Heart . And she released a bunch of albums in quick succession, including Everybody's Angel . And I got to interview her for that album for my syndicated radio shows back in the day. And I also got to see her perform at the Beacon Theatre at that time, and she was so good. She seems very self-possessed. She has the courage to kind of take intermittent breaks from the music business, so good for her. And then she comes back with more music. And I just checked her Instagram this morning, and tomorrow she's hosting a social event in Hackney, just down the road from me. And it looks like she's having painting and sandwiches. It looks really sweet. And she's also playing at the EFG Jazz Festival later this year. And thank you to Karl Banitov in Montreal for that request. Ahead of that, Inuk singer-songwriter Elisapie with an Inuktitut version of Cyndi Lauper's classic Time After Time . And she grew up in the Inuit community of Saluit in Quebec, Canada, and she started releasing albums in 2009. And the song we heard is on her award-winning 2023 LP, an album of covers sung in Inuktitut, which is one of the principal Inuit languages. And she started singing at the age of 12, and she's also a broadcaster, documentary filmmaker, actress, and activist. Just an all-around interesting person and artist. And thank you to Tom Torres in Vienna for that request. And Bert on the chat just said Cyndi Lauper was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame . And that song, Time After Time, is just such a great song. It's been covered so many times, including by Miles Davis . He has a version on You're Under Arrest , that 1985 LP. Now, this next one is pretty tripped out, and it was chosen by our tripped-out friend, Virginia Tsioti in Athens, Greece. It's by Finnish musician Jaako Eino Kalevi , and he's released loads of albums since 2007, both solo and collaborations. And this next one is from his 2023 LP, his wildest statement yet, a double album of elemental pop and Baroque electronics that plots a thrilling course through the Jakko universe, drawing on cosmic jazz, dub reggae, neon synth pop, tender ballads, and psych rock nirvana. Here is Kalevi with the album's title track, Chaos Magic . You can thank Sarah Joseph for turning on to this latest nugget from Young Gun Silver Fox , the tune Stevie & Sly . And of course, we know who they're talking about, although I think it should be called Stevie, Sly and Steely. Anyways, it's the opening song from their latest album, Pleasure Young and Pleasure . And the Young Gun Silver Fox is Andy Platts and Shawn Lee , and they're touring in the UK right now. And then heading over to the States in June, and they're absolutely fantastic live, a really tight band. In fact, if you've seen Ashla Puthli last year, you would have seen Shawn Lee playing drums. He's also her musical arranger, such a talented lot. Ahead of that, the UK-based Australian artist Joel Sarakula with Sunshine Makes Me from his 2020 album, Companionship . Sarakula is a songwriter who has traveled the world in search of his muse, experiencing everything from being a victim of Caribbean carjackings to performing in the remote fishing villages of Norway before finally establishing his career in the UK and Europe. He's released several albums of his breezy Californian-styled soulful pop, Nine to be exact, including his latest, Soft Focus , released last year and which I listened to this morning. It's fantastic. I'm now a fan. And thanks to Victor Olteanu in Romania for that request. OK, this next one is for Luigi in Houston who asked for the Thompson Twins ' Come Inside , the opening track to their 1991 LP Queer . And it was a big record as a white label in the clubs and should have signaled a comeback for the band. But when it was commercially released, it didn't do as well as expected. And in fact, the British release of the album was canceled. But Robot 84 didn't forget about this tune and put a little twist on it, which I hope Luigi is going to like. Oh, loving this one. Sheffield's All Seeing I & Crooked Man with a tune called The Return of the Crooked Cat . And All Seeing I was Richard Barratt , Dean Honer and Jason Buckle . And they released one album, Pickled Eggs and Sherbet , in 1999. And Buckle went on to be a part time member of Fat Truckers and form Relax Music with Jarvis Cocker . And Crooked Man , of course, is Richard Barratt , a.k.a. DJ Parrot, and is the Sheffield based DJ and producer, who is one half of the duo Sweet Exorcist alongside Cabaret Voltaire founder Richard H. Kirk . I just love the Crooked Cat sound. His remix of Cymande is fantastic, too. And thanks to Matt Raistrick for that request. I'm Colleen Cosmo Murphy on Balearic Breakfast. And this next one is from our friend Barry Bernitz in Washington, D.C., who says it's been a tough week in the USA. And I'd just like to add, I think it's been a tough 100 plus days. So he suggested this one with a very apt title. It's by British Deep House producer Charles Webster . And I just love his stuff. He's gone under many monikers, including Furry Freaks and presents, and has been releasing singles for nearly three decades. This is from his debut album Born on the 24th of July , released on Peacefrog in 2001. And it's called Forget the Past . A new one from The Vendetta Suite , who is Belfast DJ producer Gary Irwin . He's released several singles and an album on Italian imprint Hell Yeah! And is back with this one, which is a great slice of Italo and Balearic. We're listening to The Jam Answer . And I really can't wait to play that at the Balearic Breakfast Day party on Saturday. And the flip is also good. The title is called Island Hill Microdots . So that should tell you all you really need to know. Ahead of that, a new one from Alex Kassian after last year's standout E2, E4 rework. And he returns to test pressing records with the next installment in the series. This time turning his attention to Spooky's Orange Coloured Liquid , taken from their debut 1993 LP Gargantuan . Alongside acts like Underworld and Leftfield , UK duo Charlie May and Duncan Forbes helped reshape the early 90s progressive house sound under their spooky moniker. And now decades later, Cassian delivers two versions designed to serve Dancefloor and Sunset respectively. With the rolling breaks of Part One, and that's the one that we heard, beautifully complemented by the ambient swells of Part Two. And there's also a John Beltran Placid Angles remix. Okay, let's slip into something a bit soulful. A special request from London House Music Works. The early 80s Brit funk group Linx , which featured David Grant , who went on to a solo career, and bassist Peter Martin , who joined 23 Skadoo . Linx were in the same scene as Freeze and Level 42. And a quick aside. I'm hosting the 40th anniversary celebration of Level 42's World Machine with members Mike Lindup and Phil Gold next week for Classic Album Sundays . It's sold out in minutes, but if you want to join us for future events, sign up at classicalbumsundays.com . As our next one is with Graham Massey of 808 State , and we're featuring Xcel . In fact, I interviewed him for that one the first time around when it came out in 1991. Anyways, back to Lynx. This is You're Lying from their debut album Intuition. An old request from Tomohiro Yamada in Osaka, Japan. For Jo, or Joaquin Joe Claussell , With More Love , the GTR version of his lengthy 2009 song that came out on 7-inch in 2020. Ahead of that, a great slice of psychedelic soul disco funk from the UK's Dave Lee . It's called Disco Combine 2001 with Disco Party , and it's out now on vinyl, so don't wait. Ahead of that, All Night Long , the 1979 single by American disco funk act Invisible Man, given a rework by Alien Disco Sugar . And it's the title track of Invisible Man's debut 1980 LP. And the band was made up of the Burke Brothers , and Kenny Burke, of course, went on to an illustrious solo career. And that was requested by David Stoddard, who is going to be there at Pikes for my All Night Long debut on the 18th of May. And I'm doing three All Night Long sessions at Freddy's at Pikes. Also there on the 29th of June and the 28th of September. Okay, Annie and the Caldwells is a family that plays a powerful disco soul from West Point, Mississippi, led by singer Annie Caldwell and her husband of the last 50 years, guitarist Willie Joel Caldwell . Now you can pre-order their forthcoming I Was Living in a World of Sin Part 1 , and you can get the Muscle Cars mix . They turned out a great mix of I Made It , and I played it on Sunday night, and people loved it. So you have to head over to the Annie and the Calwells Bandcamp to pre-order. And you'll also get remixes by Nicky Siano and Justin Strauss . And those two DJ producers will join Annie and the Calwells at Public Records this Thursday. So you'll want to check them out, and they're over here in the UK in August. This is I Made It , a Muscle Cars production on Balearic Breakfast. Absolutely loving this one by The mighty Zaf & Linkwood with YoKai . Requested by Rick Van Veen in the Netherlands. And the mighty Zaf is the man behind the record shop, Love Vinyl and Hackney . And Linkwood is the Edinburgh DJ producer Nick Moore . And that's out now on vinyl. And, of course, we had Annie and the Caldwells before that, I Made It , a Muscle Cars production. Well, we nearly made it to the end of the show. I went a little bit longer because I have one more for you that I really wanted to play. This is Colleen Cosmo Murphy getting ready to sign off. Until next week, I will be streaming live again next Tuesday and playing some new stuff. I'm going to catch up on some old requests as well. And don't forget Saturday is the Balearic Breakfast Day Party with my friend Joe Goddard over at NT's Loft. And we'll be debuting that special Cure remix as well. Okay, leaving you with an old favorite but a real twist, you know. It's Sun Palace , Rude Movements . Loft classic and, you know, one that I thought, hmm, it really shouldn't be a remix, but it was. And it was remixed with aplomb. I've played Francois K's mix so many times. I decided not to go for that one this time. But BBE did this whole package of remixes and along with Kenny Dope and also François . And I think Opoloppo , there's a great Moody Man mix. And I think it's really great because it's really faithful to the original but really adds some beautiful instrumentation. And I heard Hands On Family play it when we were playing together over at BBE. So I thought it was kind of apt. It was requested by Herbie King and Brighton. And thank you all for joining me. Thanks to all over on the MixCloud Live. It's always great to see you. It's a very lively conversation over there. Have a wonderful week and thanks for listening.

Colleen 'Cosmo' Murphy broadcast the 225th episode of Balearic Breakfast on her Mixcloud on June 3rd 2025. About this episode. – Just a few days after playing with Love injection at the Good Room, Colleen played at Dante's hifi in Miami with her friend Rich Medina and then headed towards Ibiza where she's playing in a few hours with Hot Chip at Pike’s at 528 from 7 to 9pm. In between these musical performances, she took the time to stream new episodes of Balearic Breakfast, including this one in which she welcomed both Pete Blaker and Carly Foxx . This episode had a strong moving vibe as while the fam joined Colleen on the chat we exchanged about our parent's health issues, and everyone joined in sharing their experiences, and we all started cheering ourselves up, saying that the show was a lifeline for so many of us. While this hapenned, I noticed how much Pete's mix had a strong force, a cleansing force. We all noticed its circular structure too... You know, I strongly believe that things always happen for a reason during Balearic Breakfast... Carly Foxx's mix was more relaxed, with a beautiful and Jazzy start, but kept the pace with a positive opening that brought us all a lot of joy! All in all, this show was both a moving, a cleansing and an everlasting musical ouverture, allowing everyone to trust that the best was yet to come (indeed, we saw the front cover of the forthcoming Balearic Breakfast's vol. 4 compilation 😉)... Greetings from Ibiza - the perfect place to stream this morning’s Balearic Breakfast which is now up on my Mixcloud (and please give me a follow while you’re over there). Today’s show has an exclusive Balearic mix from and interview with Pete Blaker. Our Balearic Breakfast family are big fans of his deep and trippy re-edits and he has a surprise up his sleeve for us this coming autumn. I’m sure you will love his mix (swipe for the tracklist). After that we have an exlucisve mix from the Australian, London-based DJ Carly Foxx. She has DJ-ed all over the world, has done A&R for Nervous Records and also sat in the producer’s seat with her friend Daisybelle. I recently played with her at La Discotheque in Manchester and thought she would be a great fit for Balearic Breakfast and her mix is testament to that sentiment :). If you happen to be in Ibiza right now, I’m playing with Hot Chip at Pike’s at 528 from 7 to 9pm. If you can make it, please say hello. Wishing you a wonderful week and thanks for listening. Listen back to the 225th episode of Balearic Breakfast: PLAYLIST Pete Blaker's Mix: Extracts of Dope Jams Vol 1 2005-2010 Five or Six – Theme Steven Legget  – River Alan Parsons  – Some Other Time Basil Poledouris  – Search for Lina Marjoe  – God's Now Given Me a Cadillac Jon and Vangelis  – State of Independence Rhythm and Sound  – Hit You Version The Detroit Escalator Co.  – The Inverted Man (falling) With some pieces of Richard Bach  – Illusions Kraftwerk  – The Man Machine Urban Dance Squad  – 3 Heights Patrice Rushen  – The Hump Walter Murphy  – Afternoon of a Faun Shock  – San Juan Harald GroBkopf  – So Weit, So Gut Syn Ka  – Tempete Antena  – Camino del Sol Michael Jackson  – We Got a Good Thing Going OTP Pert Breaks  – Lifetime Groove (Marcos Cabral and Shux Edit) Prince  – Mountains Bohannon  – What is a Dream (Part 2) Radio Tarifa  – El Baila de la Bola Casper Lawal  – Kita Kita Kaoiu Inone  – Rhythms of Dedication Simple Minds  – A Brass Band in African Chimes Psi Performer  – 1999 Steven Legget  – River Extracts of Dope Jams Vol 1 2005-2010 Carly Foxx's Mix: ( 1977 ) Ron Everett  – Glitter of the City ( 1981 ) Twylyte ‘81  – A Dreamer ( 2024 ) Dieta Berliner & Jean Baptiste  – Paula & Kaspar (Club Mix) ( checking ) Willie Colon  – Set Me on Fire ( 1987 ) Before the Storm, Boyd Jarvis & Tony Humphries  – I've Got the Music (Zanzibar Dub) ( 1983 ) Sandy Steel  – Mind Your Own Business ( 1987 ) Chris & Cosey  – Exotika ( 2024 ) Musclecars  – There's Space for Us All ( 2022 ) Jennifer Vanilla  – Jennifer Pastoral ( 2023 ) Djosa, Ronald Snidjers  – Vampiro ( 1979 ) Capone  – Music Love Song ( 1983 ) Flayer  – Wanna Get Back Your Love Pete Blaker's Interview with Colleen [Colleen] Good morning, Balearicans. I'm Colleen Cosmo Murphy, hosting your weekly Balearic Breakfast on my MixCloud Live, and greetings to the family gathered over there. Thank you for joining me.  This morning, I'm in Ibiza as I'm DJing later with Hot Chip at 528, but I didn't want to skip a show, so I have a couple of exclusive guest mixes that I know you will enjoy. First up is one of Balearic Breakfast's favorite reworkers and remixers, Pete Blaker . He's put together a special mix for us, and we also have a chat about his productions and musical story.   Then we have an uplifting and up-tempo mix from the London-based Australian DJ, Carly Fox. In the meantime, I'll be hanging out with you on the chat group with the fam. Now, over to Pete Blaker. Good morning, Balearicans. I'm in the studio here with Pete Blaker, the Dutch DJ, editor, and digger extraordinaire, and we've played a lot of his music here on this show. Thank you, Pete, for joining us.   [Pete] Thank you for having me.   [Colleen] We're listening to your mix right now, and thank you for doing this mix. I know the Balearicans will be loving this. I just wanted to rewind a little bit and find out, how did you get into DJing and doing re-edits?   [Pete] Oh, re-edits. A few years ago, I rediscovered it again. I did it when I was younger. I'm 50 years old, Colleen, and I started collecting and playing music when I was, I think, 14. I grew up in a little village, and there was only rock music. I heard on the radio some DJs play other music, like disco and rap and some early house stuff. And I was like, ah, that's cool. But they were mixing this on radio, and I was thinking, how are they doing that? How is this possible? So that was my invention to play music. And later on, there was a guy, Ben Liebrand. Maybe you've heard that name before. Ben Liebrand was also a kind of editor, a remixer in Holland, and he was playing with other musics, and we recreated his versions. I did it at first with tapes and at home, with double 12-inches and tried to put them on top of each other. And later on, I was more into DJing and collecting and forget about it. When I was, I think, 40 or something, the DJing went a little bit slower, and I had my family life and everything around it. And I was still interested in music and playing along with it. And I rediscovered editing again. And one day, I found the Queen version and made my version out of it. And it was one friend who told me, there's one guy on this planet who can play this and get away with it. And I think you have to send it to Harvey. And so I did. I never heard anything back from him. And after a few months, I discovered a recording on Instagram from a party. Harvey was playing my edit. And that's when the fire started burning again for me. I was like, oh, this is very, very nice, very cool. One of my favorite DJs is playing my stuff. Maybe I have to put more energy in editing and make it my own. And so I did.   [Colleen] One thing I really love about your edits is they're very long. And this is an age where sadly, things like TikTok has made people's attention spans a lot shorter. And I'm finding that sometimes people are doing remixes that are under four minutes long. Or their DJ style is almost sounding a little bit like Jive Bunny. The hits all kind of crashed up against one another as opposed to kind of extended songs that you can really sink into and that just kind of unwind and evolve and really draw the listener in for a real musical journey. Why are your edits so long? [Pete] When I find a song and I think it's good to edit, sometimes there is some bars or some parts I don't like. Or I like a lot. And I think, ah, we have to point out that direction or point out that. And I think for me, an edit can be played not in a set, but just as an edit. So 40 minutes, 14 minutes is also a story. So an edit is for me also a story. It has a beginning, it has a middle, and it has an end. And it has also a purpose to take you on a little journey. And it's 14 minutes. So yeah, I think the beauty of long is, in my opinion, the story.   [Colleen] Now when you're going out and doing record digging, because I see sometimes on your Instagram, you'll hold something up, just got this for a dollar. I mean, are you one of these people that goes into a shop and leaves no stone unturned? I mean, what's your process for searching for records?   [Pete] Leave no stone. And the beauty in searching for records is the boxes with everything in it, from classical to Dutch to whatever. And unselected boxes. That's what I like the most. Because I find things I would never find at Discogs or in a shop with all the labels and everything. Now I can find music that's interesting because of the producer, because of the drummer, because of the whatever. That's my journey when collecting music. And I saw recently, one of my edits was going for 200 euros. And I was like, why do you want to pay 200 euros for an edit if you can buy 200 records for just one euro the piece? And you have 200 records with very good music from all sides of the world. I'm the one euro, one dollar guy who likes to listen to opera music and not like to collect of stamps. Sometimes record buying is also collecting stamps. And that's not my way.   [Colleen] Right. You're collecting music rather than collecting objects.   [Pete] Yeah. I love to discover new stuff. And it goes very wide. You can also hear it in my mix. It's a balearic mix, but it has everything in it. So that's what I like.   [Colleen] Can you describe your mix in your own words for us? I mean, I know people are listening and will have their own descriptions, but what was your intention with this mix?   [Pete] The whole bunch of balearic in one hour.   [Colleen] A whole lot of balearic in an hour. I love it.   [Pete] Yeah. From the 60s till now, 2025. The tempo is quite easy. You can relax to it, but it has all the flavors. [Colleen] And we're back with Pete Blaker in the studio at Balleric Breakfast. Pete, we are loving this mix. Thank you so much. You are not only doing re-edits of older songs, but you've also started editing and remixing new material. And I would love to talk with you about your, I guess it's really a collaboration with Rheinzand, the Belgian band whom I love, and who have an album out on Music for Dreams. They have a couple albums out, I believe, on Music for Dreams. Can you tell me how that whole thing developed?   [Pete] It started with the edits were floating around and Harvey's playing in Mo Disco. Mo is a big fan of Harvey. So he approached me. I think it's for the album before Atlantis. And he asked me to do a remix for them. And I did. And he liked it very much. And after that, he approached me again. He said, I would love that you would remix the whole album for us. And like in the way that Matt Professor did for Massive Attack. And I was like, oh, that's very much. I never did something like that. It's my first time. I never did remixes. My studio is a mess. So what are you expecting? But I was like, also very honored. And I was also a good chance to see whatever it will become.And it became, in my opinion, a really great remix. I'm very proud of it. So yeah, that was quite a journey. If someone asks me again, I will think twice before I say yes, because it was so much work and so much energy. But it developed me also as a remixer and in the way of remixing projects.   [Colleen] For those listening, they may not understand that sometimes when you're doing edits, most of the times you don't have stems. You're usually taking a song and slicing it up and rearranging it. But when you get the parts for a remix, you have something called stems, which is all the different instruments and voices.   [Pete] And that's so much.   [Colleen] Yeah, it's a lot. All of a sudden you have way more choices and decisions to make. So that must have been quite eye opening.   [Pete] It was like a like a candy shop. Like everything was out. Everything was I could use and always in tempo and sounds and voices. But it was too much in the beginning. So I had to find my focus on the project. What do I want to do with this project? That helped me a lot. I don't know if you know the sleeve of the remix record. The sleeve is with some pictures of married couples. That idea came along the way and I was like, yeah, this project has to be about love and it has to be about the difficulties about love and the beauty of love. Then I got my focus on the project and then it eventually became this record. So, yeah.   [Colleen] Well, congratulations. It was a huge undertaking, but you did a fabulous job. And you were telling me earlier, you're a social worker by day. So love and relationships is a big part of your daily work. Talking about love, one song that I am absolutely loving and playing in every single set right now is your dub version of RX's I Love Your Love. Can you tell us a little bit about that and how that came about? It's for Gary Johnson's label, correct?   [Pete] Yes, that's the label. Yeah, he approached me a few years ago. Do you have original stuff? I like your edits and if you have original stuff, maybe you can send it over to me. And I was like, yeah, but I have also a lot of edits. Do you want to give them out or something? No, I can't. I can't. I can't.Running back is too big. I will get in trouble with the majors. And I was like, OK, then it's not our time at the moment. And he approached me, I think, a little year ago and was asking, I have this disco record. I have the license. Do you want to do an edit? I was like, I will. I will. Yeah, that's nice. But it didn't became an edit. It became a remix. So it became something different. It's not the disco edit I did, like the floor is yours or something like that. But it's a remix. It's a little bit housey. You have some techno vibes in it. And on the end, it's my close friend, Dion on keys also. And also, again, I think it's a journey. It tells a little story with a beginning and a middle and an ending. So I think it's beat, but it's not an edit. He liked it very much. So I'm very happy he put it on vinyl.   [Colleen] I bought the vinyl, too. So for my loft sets, I can only do vinyl. I have both. It's getting played everywhere. And people are responding so well to it. So congratulations. So what does the future hold? What does the future hold for Pete Blaker? What's going on?   [Pete] There is some edits coming out. Resurrected. Great. Yeah. And then again, on Just What The World Needs, another one. There is now one on Hot Biscuits is coming out now. And also a double album with original stuff from me. And that will be end of summer, I think. So September, October will be my first original double album with only Pete.   [Colleen] Wow. And how about your friend on keys? Dionysus, is it?   [Pete] Yeah, Dion. Dionysus. He's also working on original material and he's finishing some stuff. And I think he's going to put something out on Russia or label. So he's also climbing, climbing up the ladder.   [Colleen] Is he on your new album as well?   [Pete] Yeah, yeah. He's also involved a little part, but also very, very close. An old friend of mine, Leon. Leon is from the same village where I live in. We work under the name Pleon. You say it in Dutch is Pleon. We found each other in musicals. I think it's 25 years ago. We're still friends and we still make music and occasionally having fun with with the things and the knobs. And he's also involved in this project. So, yeah, it's a project for me, but also with friends who contributed. Yeah. And also Ryan Zandt. Ryan Zandt did something back to me. So that's very, very, very nice. Yeah.   [Colleen] Fantastic. And which label is that coming out on?   [Pete] It's Love and Universal Music. It's part of Heartbeats, but it's the label is called Love and Universal Music.   [Colleen] Fantastic. And so we can look for that towards the end of the summer, early autumn.   [Pete] Hopefully and maybe I can squeeze something into the lyric breakfast set.   [Colleen] I'm sure we'll be playing something off of that album. Well, thank you so much for your time and thank you for this lovely mix. I really wish you all the luck with your future endeavors and keep making great music and make sure to send it to me.   [Pete] Thank you, Colleen. Thank you for having me.   [Colleen] All right. Take care.   [Pete] Bye bye.   [Colleen] Thank you so much, Pete. Now over to a DJ who moved from her native Sydney over to London, Carly Fox. She's played all over the place, including at Pykes and Fabric and also on My Analog Journal.  She also sat in the producer's seat with her friend Daisy Bell and she's done A&R for Nervous Records. I recently played with her for La Discoteque in Manchester and thought she would be a great fit for Balearic Breakfast. Here is Carly Fox.

Colleen 'Cosmo' Murphy broadcast the 222nd episode of Balearic Breakfast on her Mixcloud on May 13th 2025. About this episode. – On may 10th 2025, Colleen hosted a Balearic Breakfast day party alongside Joe Gogdard from Hot Chip (which saw the debut of their new Cosmodelica Electric Eden mix of The Cure’s ‘And Nothing is Forever’ ). The party brought a lot of hapiness and the energy our DJ friends brought to the NT's Loft is palpable by looking at the pictures that both Simon Ellis and Amie-Jo so kindly shared with me. Sadly, there was no request line for this episode but, as we shall see in the listening experience of this post, today's show brought a disconnected, soothing, and floating musical experience, helping us realise that, in the current flow of affairs we all must deal with, in the end, really, nothing is Forever... " This morning’s Balearic Breakfast is now up on my Mixcloud (link in comments). Today’s show sees debut of my new Cosmodelica Electric Eden Remix of The Cure  ‘And Nothing is Forever’ which I did with my Electric Eden partners Joe Goddard  of Hot Chip and Al Doyle of Hot Chip/LCD Soundsystem. Its from the forthcoming ‘Mixes of a Lost World’ release coming out on the 13th June and all profits are going to Médecins Sans Frontières / MSF . You can preorder on The Cure website. There’s also new music from Flying Mojito Bros   Max Essa   be.lanuit  Payfone, Ghost Assembly, Favorite Recordings   Musicmine Inc.   MUSIC FOR DREAMS  Ayane Shino Gratts, and Aldorande and I even slipped in a drum n bass rework of a deep house classic. I hope you will enjoy. If you’re in Ibiza, I’m playing at Pike’s All Night Long this Sunday and next Friday, the 23rd May, I’m with Love Injection Fanzine / Records  at The Good Room  (tix link in comments) and then Wednesday the 28th at Dantes Hi Fi in Miami. Please give me a follow over on my Mixcloud as soon I’ll post my back to back mix with Joe Goddard at Saturday’s Balearic Breakfast Day Party at NTs Loft. Thanks for listening!" Listen back to the 122nd episode of Balearic Breakfast: PLAYLIST ( 2025 ) Ayane Shino – Sayounara ( 2025 ) Aldorande   – Opium des Nuits ( 2014 ) Nathan East   – SeveNate ( 2022 ) Mistura Pura   – Vamo Vive ( 1978 ) Con Funk Shun   – Loveshine ( 2025 ) Payfone (ft Leon Lace)   – Pony Bar ( 2025 ) Ghost Assembly (ft Oliver Cross)   – De Laatste Rit (The Last Ride) ( 2002 ) Erlend Øye   – Ghost Trains ( 2025 ) Pepe Braddock/Kampinos   – Good Looking Pepe (Deep Burnt) ( 1981 ) René & Angela   – Secret Rendezvous (Reflex Revision) ( TBR ) Jean Carn   – My Love Don’t Come Easy (Linkwood Rework) ( 1985 ) Sipho Gumede (ft Felicia Marion)   – Something to Say ( TBR ) Max Essa   – Camel Night-Rate (be.lanuit Remix) ( 2025 ) System Olympia (ft Reinen)   – On Repeat ( 2025 ) Flying Mojito Bros   – Area 54 ( 2024 ) Ambala (ft. Santino Surfers/Walther/OliO/Iyame Aje)   – Amor Bailar ( 2005 ) Sabrina Malheiros   – Maracatueira (Incognito Remix) ( TBR ) Manu Dibango / Adrian Loving   – Manu Echos ( 2025 ) Gratts (ft Venessa Jackson)   – Off My Feet ( UNO ) Maxwell   – Til the Cops Come Knockin (Julius Papp House Excursion) ( 2025 ) The Cure   – And Nothing Is Forever (Cosmodelica Electric Eden Remix) COLLEEN IN THE NEWS Do not forget to subscribe to Colleen's website ( https://www.colleencosmomurphy.com/ ) to get updates about her upcoming events! Here are some dates where Colleen will be spinning over the next few weeks: 18th May: All Night Long at Pikes, Ibiza 23rd May: Cosmodelica x Love Injection at The Good Room, Brooklyn, NY 28th May: Dantes HiFi in Miami, Florida 7th June: Last Note Party in Perugia, Italy  ( sign up for our mailing list ) THE LISTENING EXPERIENCE This episode is musically and intellectually quite interesting as it behaves like the tea you put in the boiling water. It slowly infuses your brain, your psyché, it liberates you, then it grooves you, and the freedom you gained from the show's first songs keep on elevating you as the groove is being built slowly and steadily by Colleen. From a jazzy, cool, somewhat lost and ethereal place, we then go to a synthy, electronic and drum'n'bass place, just to be able to discover a few songs later how much groove was there from the very start, letting ourselves flow constantly in the lost element that life is... If we have to be lost, at least, music should be our only guide, right?! As walways, Colleen's mixing skills participate in our intellectual liberation, listen for instance to what happens between "My Love Don’t Come Easy" and "Something to Say" , that little rhythmic change really act as both a recharger and a liberator, enhancing the wellness in which we float. Simply Beautiful. We then move on to a suspended musical moment, somewhat clubby, but which still keeps that liberating musical element that makes the listener feel as if he was floating above the clouds. Colleen always Amazes me with her ability to propose a different vibe on each of her shows, it's just mesmerizing, really! That feeling of freedom is so strong in this episode, it evolves so beautifuly, and she manages to keep it afloat with such greatness that it just acts as a medecine on the listener! There's a feeling of well-being emanating from this episode, and it's infectious... COLLEEN'S PRESENTATION Tokyo guitarist Ayane Shino with Sayounara from the album River Seiseragi , the Tomb of Guitar No. 2, Rei Harakami . And this is Shino's second album in her Tomb of Guitar series . Her first was Sakura , a Susumu Yokota cover album, which I adore. I did play it on Balearic Breakfast before. And this second album covers the hallucinatory beatscapes and works by late Japanese composer, musician, and filmmaker Rei Harukami , whose debut LP, Unrest , showed him as a successor to such luminaries as Haruomi Hosono and Ruichi Sakamoto . Sadly, Harakami passed away at the age of 40 in 2011, leaving behind a musical legacy that seemed to deserve more recognition. Hence this fitting tribute now comes from the incredibly gifted classical guitarist Ayane Shino . And she's reworked Harukami's standout tracks into an album of tranquil yet complex compositions, and I highly recommend it.   Good morning, Balearicans. I'm Colleen Cosmo Murphy hosting your weekly Balearic Breakfast on a sunshiny Tuesday morning here in London, taking you through until high noon on my MixCloud Live. And greetings to the Balearic Breakfast family already gathered over there on the chat group joining in from all corners of the globe. And thank you as always for joining me. And thanks to all who joined Joe Goddard and I at the Balearic Breakfast Day Party at NT's Loft this past Saturday. How fun was that? Good vibes all around. It was really, really special. And I have a couple more dates at NT's Loft this summer, and we'll be announcing the lineups very soon. Now this Sunday is my first stop in Ibiza this summer. I'm playing at Pike's at Freddy's all night long, which should be fun. Then the following weekend, I'm over in New York City, actually in Brooklyn to be exact, playing with my friends Paul and Barbie of Love Injection at the Good Room on Friday night, the 23rd of May. And first release tickets are gone, but second release tickets are still available as of this morning. And then on Wednesday, the 28th May, I'm in Miami at Dante's Hi-Fi. And then back to Europe for two loft parties, the Last Note Party in Italy on the 7th of June. And if you want to go over to Umbria, to Perugia, please email info at lastnote.org for info and reservations. And then on Sunday, the 15th of June, it's the anniversary of our London Loft Party, which we started with David Mancuso 22 years ago. I'll be musically hosting a seven-hour vinyl-only set on our beautiful sound system. And if you want to join us, you can sign up on the Friendship Train, sign up for our mailing list at loftparty.org . Okay, I hope you got all that. Now it's back to the music. On today's show, I'm catching up with some older requests. And I also have new music from Payfone, Ghost Assembly, Flying Mojito Bros, Max Esa, be.lanuit, Gratts, and I'm even going to slip in a drum and bass rework of a Deep House classic. And I'm also going to debut the Cosmodelica Electric Eden remix of The Cure. The first time it'll be played on air, and it's only been played one other time at the Balearic Breakfast Party on Saturday. So hopefully I've piqued your interest. Please keep it locked. Now you've heard me play many reissues on the French label Favorite Recordings , but they also released new music. And at the end of this month, they're releasing the third album by French jazz funk band Aldorande , and it's fittingly entitled Trois . The quintet is led by Virgile Raffaëlli , and together they push the boundaries of music with boundless passion and unparalleled instrumental mastery inspired by the 1970s fusion movement. The entire album is fantastic. There's a lot of great up-tempo songs, but I'm going to play something a bit more mellow and groovy. This is Alderande with Opium des Nuits . Californian disco funk band Con Funk Shun with Loveshine . That's the title track of their 1978 album, and Con Funk Shun released 11 albums between 1976 and 86. A few like this one were certified gold, and they racked up quite a few hits on the Billboard R&B charts. After they disbanded, singer-songwriter and instrumentalist Felton Pilate went on to work extensively with MC Hammer . Oh, what you learn when you go down these rabbit holes. Thank you to Bert Francois in Brooklyn for that suggestion, and I also want to wish Bert a happy belated birthday. His birthday was last week, and for those of you that are new to the Balearic Breakfast family, Bert is an old listener of mine. Not that he's old. Maybe I am, but he listened to my shows Club 89 and Soul School back on 89.1 FM in New York City back in the 90s. So one of my longest term listeners, and a very, very happy birthday to you, Bert. Ahead of that, Vamo Vive by Mistura Pura , who is Italian DJ, composer, singer, and producer Federica Grappasonni . She began at 19 during the acid jazz era, performing live, and at the end of the 90s, she DJed in the Italian lounge scene. More recently, she's reworked some of her material, and you could find Vamo Vive on the Mistura Pura band camp. Ahead of that, some breezy Brazilian jazz from Nathan East , an American bass guitarist who's played with Bobby Womack , Stevie Wonder , George Harrison , Toto , and Herbie Hancock , amongst a host of other legends. East is also a founding member of the jazz group 4Play . Other members have included Lee Ritenour , Bob James , Larry Carlton , and Harvey Mason . So it's safe to say Nathan East has an amazing pedigree, and he's also released several solo albums. We heard SeveNate from his 2014 self-titled LP , and Michael McDonald also makes an appearance on that album. Which album doesn't he make an appearance on? Thanks to Victor Olteanu in Romania for that request. Okay, Payfone have been a favorite here on Balearic Breakfast, and Payfone is comprised of duo Phil Passera and Jimmy Day . Up until now, they've only released singles of their slow-mo, cosmic disco, late-night sleaze groovers, and now they have an album coming out on vinyl on the British duo's own imprint, Otis Records . The LP is called Lunch , and it's a mixture of electronic and analog instrumentation, and as always, free from samples. They also have a bunch of global collaborators, former XL recording artist Willis Earl Beal , aka Nobody , bassist Joe Gabriel Harris , who's also featured on three other songs, Brooklyn-born April Pittman , Russian-Armenian vocalist Zara Kian , Ludmila Rodriguez , LA singer Carmela The Balls , Parisian pianist Gabriel Casas , and vocalist Barbara Alcindor , ushering us through a deep, heady groovescape. Fittingly, I've selected Pony Bar , and this one features the JJKLS lead vocals of Man of Mystery , Leon Lace , and you can pre-order Payfone's Lunch, and it's coming out in the middle of June. Bet you didn't think you'd hear some drum and bass on Balearic Breakfast, but you never know what you may hear on this show. I love that version. It's a drum and bass version of a Deep House late-night classic, so I thought you'd like it. It's by Kampinos with some extra keys by Jabco , and it's, of course, I guess a cover of Pepe Braddock 's Deep Burnt , and it's called Good Looking Pepe (Deep Burnt) , and it's out on vinyl on GAM, and it's coming out digitally this week, and there's also a great little Sims rework on the flip side as well. Ahead of that, Norwegian singer-songwriter- composer-musician Erlend Øye , with his 2002 single Ghost Trains , produced by Morgan Geist , immaculate production by the Metro Area and Storm Queen producer. Urja is also one half of indie-folk duo Kings of Convenience , and also the frontman for the band The Whitest Boy Alive . Barry Berenitz from Washington, D.C. made that request eons ago, and I eventually got it on for you, Barry. How about that? Ahead of that, we had De Laatste Rit , and in Dutch that means The Last Ride , by Ghost Assembly , which is DJ-producer Ward , along with the harmonica-wielding folk outlaw Oliver Cross , and I just love what Abbey said about it. She has quite a way with words, so she wrote "It's not an AI-generated DJ tool for tranquilized students from the home counties. It's not a chilly scientific exploration of 21st century sound design. It's a slow burn for the true believer, and I'm a believer, Abbey" . You can pick this up when it's released later this week on Ghost Assembly's Bandcamp, and we started it all off with Payfone, Pony Bar from their forthcoming LP, Lunch, which I highly recommend you pre-order now because I'm sure the vinyl will sell out.   Okay, how about a reflex revision of a great 80s soul classic? René & Angela , the early 80s soul duo from Los Angeles. René Moore is the brother of Rufus's Bobby Watson and played with The Brothers Johnson , and Angela Winbush sang backup vocals for Dolly Parton , Lenny Williams , and Gene Karn . René and Angela got together in 1977, and they had loads of hits, including Save Your Love , You're a Smile , and You Don't Have to Cry , before pursuing solo careers in the mid-80s. This is the reflex version of one of my personal favorites, René & Angela's 1985 single, Secret Rendezvous . The late South African bass player Sipho Gumede , featuring singer, what's her name, Felicia Marion , was something to say, originally released in 1985, and part of a four-track retrospective EP on Arup Roy 's label, Vive la Musique , released a couple of years ago. Gumede was a well-known musician in South Africa and played bass for Spirits Rejoice , and Arup found the track, and he tracked down British producer Greg Cutler , who relocated to South Africa in the 1970s and 80s, and he engineered and produced hundreds of records for local Black South African musicians. It's a great story. It's printed on the back of the EP, and all of the songs on the EP are absolutely fabulous. Ahead of that, we had a new rework on Moton. We heard one by Linkwood, which is Edinburgh DJ producer Nick Moore . In fact, I played his collaboration with the Mighty Zaf last week, Yokai , but we just heard his rework of Jean Carn ' s My Love Don't Come Easy , which originally came out on the American soul jazz singer's 1979 LP, When I Find You Love , and that has an all-star lineup of talent, including Dexter Wansel , and the flip on the Moton release is a great rework of M2Me, so you might want to pick that up. Okay, yesterday, Tim Sure of Coyote and Is It Balearic just sent this one over to me. It's a new one from Tokyo-based British producer Max Essa , and it's called Camel Night-Rate , and this is a remix by Ibiza-based DJ producer Be.lanuit on Balearic Breakfast. Ed. Note: Colleen interviewed Be.lanuit during the 150th episode of the series , and he presented back then his brand new album, Carrusel De Sentimientos . Amor Balar by Ambala , which is another Phil Mison project alongside his Cantoma productions. It's from the second Ambala album on Music for Dreams . The first was released nearly a decade ago, and Amor Balar is a collaboration with a few artists, Santino Surfers , Walther , Olio , and Iyame Aje , and the entire double album is lovely. Perfect summer Balearic vibes on that one. Ahead of that, a Balearic Breakfast favorite, the cosmic disco cowboys, the Flying Mojito Bros with Area 54 , and that's from their debut album Just Passing Through , released last month on Ubiquity Records. The British duo has gained a growing following in the US, thanks to their unique style dubbed Desert Disco and Outlaw House , and they redefine the Americana sound, and it moves from poolside vibes to the dance floor, and the album really showcases some of their signature re-edits, along with some great collabs with people like Shawn Lee of Young Gun Silver Fox , and Joe Harvey White of The Hanging Stars , and I want to dedicate that to Barry Berenitz in Washington, D.C. I know we already played one of his requests, but he did request that, and he just got married, so congratulations, Barry! We're all so happy for you. Ahead of that, on repeat from the London-based producer, singer, and DJ, System Olympia , born Francesca Macri , is from her new five-track EP, M3 Opera , and it features collaborations with five female singers, including DJ Daisybelle . We heard On Repeat featuring Reinen , and you can pick up her new EP on System Olympia's own label, OK Nature.  Okay, I'm still catching up with old requests, and this is an old one from Steve Wakley. For Rio's original Nu Bossa star, Sabrina Maleros , a singer-songwriter who delivers golden-era bossa-soul samba, disco, and dance with the help of her partner and producer, Daniel Maunick, son of Bluey from Incognito, and her father is Alex Mejero , bassist of samba jazz funk legends, Azimuth . This is from her album Vibrosans , which came out just under two decades ago and features loads of great remixes. This is Sabrina Maleros with the Incognito remix of Maraca Tuera . Ed. Note: Our friend, Steve Wakley is playing at the Lonely Mouth Japanese listening café where he presently has a residency. Follow him on his Instagram and on his Mixcloud to discover more. Terry Fincham asked for the sheltered dub of this Maxwell classic, Till the Cops Come Knockin' , and that's a wonderful one, but I don't have it, and it goes for a lot of money on discogs. So I looked through my little house boots section, and I found this one, and it was done many moons ago. It's The House Excursion by Canadian producer Julius Papp , and of course the original song is from the 1996 debut of Brooklyn neo-soul singer-songwriter instrumentalist Maxwell , his album Urban Hang Suite , such a great album. Ahead of that, we had the Belgium-born Adelaide, Australia residing DJ and producer Gratts , real name Tristan Jong , with a cut from his forthcoming New Horizons EP coming out on vinyl later this month. We heard Off My Feet featuring singer Vanessa Jackson , who's from Durban, South Africa, and Gratts dedicates that song Off My Feet to restless soul, the late Phil Asher . Ahead of that, a fabulous rework of Manu Dibango by DJ, producer, scholar, author, and friend Adrian Loving , who gave the record to me when I was in Washington, D.C., where he's based. It's called Manu Echos , and it's a rework of Dibango's Echos Beti from his 1985 LP Electric Africa , and you can find that on Fields to Factories Bandcamp, along with some other great Dibango remixes. Well, this is Colleen Cosmo Murphy getting ready to sign off another edition of Balearic Breakfast, and thanks to everyone on the chat joining me live. And don't forget, I will be back next week, next Tuesday, streaming live from the Record Room, fresh from Pikes, doing All Night Long on Sunday, and just before I head off to New York City for The Good Room on Friday the 23rd. So I think I've teased you enough about today's final song, and it's a remix that I did along with Joe Goddard of Hot Chip and Al Doyle of both Hot Chip and LCD Sound System . The three of us have been working along with Alexis from Hot Chip and Lou Hayter and a group called Electric Eden , making some new tunes, but then I was asked in January by Robert Smith to remix The Cure, and I've been a Cure fan for over 40 years. I bought the first, my first Cure single was The Walk , which I got I think in 1983 when it came out. I bought it on import as well when I was only 15 years old, and I've been a Cure fan ever since. So I was over the moon to get a direct email from Robert to ask, and he asked me to pick any song from his album, The Last Album, Songs, what is it called? Oh my gosh, I'm just, I'm just, Songs of a Lost World , which came out in November 2024, 14th Cure album, and there's a new collection coming out called Mixes of a Lost World. It's a forthcoming triple 180 gram vinyl set, a triple CD set, and it's coming out digitally on the 13th of June, and all the profits are going to Doctors Without Borders , who are doing great work around the world. I mean, they're just absolutely amazing, and you can pre-order this on The Cure website , and there's lots of other great mixes, Fortet and Paul Oakenfold and lots of great stuff, so it's really amazing, and I'm so honored to be on this, not only with The Cure, but all the other artists that are featured on it. So, without further ado, here it is, the Cosmodelica Electric Eden remix of And Nothing is Forever by The Cure. Thanks for listening. Ed. Note: Interestingly enough, when paying attention to the lyrics, one may find out that the song is written from the point of view of the person who's actually dying, which is a beautiful and intimate way for Robert Smith to pay tribute to his friend...

Colleen 'Cosmo' Murphy broadcast the 177th episode of Balearic Breakfast on her Mixcloud and Twitch TV socials on May 28th 2024. About this episode. – For obvious reasons, and I let you find them (laughs!), I could have entitled this very post "The Double Trouble Sessions"! But since I'm here to facilitate your navigation through the musical ocean that is Balearic Breakfast, I'll respect the naming system I set up on the blog! After playing at the Good Room in Brooklyn last week, meeting her friends Paul Raffaele and Barbie Bertisch for another incredible musical experience (their first commune Cosmodelica party was held some 10 years ago "in the Bad Room", time flies! – and, should I add, Paul and Barbie are awaiting a Baby, so heartfelt congratulation to them!!), Colleen returned home and streamed this 176th episode of our beloved show, sharing great news about the Balearic Musical scene with the release of another splendid compilation ! As Colleen shared on her socials: "This morning’s Balearic Breakfast is now archived on my Mixcloud for your listening back pleasure and please give me a follow while you’re over there – trying to smash that 10K ceiling! On this show I’m joined by cratediggers @djkelvinandrews and @balearicmike who each contribute an exclusive one hour mix which will have you heading to Discogs. They also chat about their new compilation Down to the Sea and Back – Volume Tres: The Continuing Journey of the Balearic Beat which is coming out this Friday on @musicfordreams" Listen back to the 177th episode of Balearic Breakfast: PLAYLIST Balearic Mike Mix: ( 2010 ) The San Sebastian Strings – Gypsy Camp (Danny Mekanik Edit) ( 2013 ) Josete Ordonez  – Objetos Perdidos (Dagobert Böhm's Las Estrellas Y El Interminable Sonido Del Mar Remix) ( 1971 ) Amancio D'Silva  – What Maria Sees ( 2021 ) Mario Rui Silva  – Dembita ( 2022 ) Greg Foat  – Tropical Love ( 1975 ) Thijs Van Leer  – Street Rondo ( 1970 ) Airto  – The Tunnel ( 1978 ) Robert Williams  – I Believe You’re The One ( 2020 ) Lady Blackbird  – Collage (Greg Foat Remix) ( 2023 ) Steve Cobby  – Everything Is Moved By Time ( 1996 ) Sade  – Somalia (DJ Duke remix of “Pearls”) ( 2013 ) Heikki Sarmanto & Jeanine Otis  – Magic Song (Ashley Beedle's Heavy Disco Joint) ( 2019 ) Larry Manteca  – Hanuman Kelvin Andrews Mix: ( 2023 ) Habitat Ensemble  – Rounded Edges ( 2016 ) Steaua De Mare  – Babadag (Khidja Remix) ( 2021 ) Marten Yorgantz  – Ammenain Serdov (De Tout Coeur) (Fundido Edit) ( 2024 ) Alex Kassian   – E2E4 (Mad Professor Qantas Crazy Remix Beats 2024) ( 2021 ) The Slits  – So Tough (Party Nails Don’t Be So Serious Dub Version) ( 2021 ) Sal Asrula  – Poor Boy (Dub Mix) ( 2022 ) Wham  – Where Did Your Heart Go? (CJ Giovanni Edit) ( 2023 ) Creep Show  – Bungalow ( 2016 ) Atom TM  – Magic Sofa ( 2020 ) Anak Anak Abu  – Korkap Mestap ( 1983 ) Car Crash Set  – Fall From Grace THE INTERVIEW [Colleen] Good morning, Balearicans. I'm Colleen Cosmo Murphy, hosting your weekly Balearic Breakfast on my MixCloud Live until high noon. And greetings to all over there on the chat groups. Always great to see you. Today, we have a special takeover by a dynamic duo of esteemed crate diggers and purveyors of that obscure, elusive, hard-to-pin sound that we like to call Balearic. They've been rightly described as chroniclers of a scene assembling lost gems and unheard marvels into Balearic mythology. Today, I'm with Kelvin Andrews and Balearic Mike in advance of their new down-to-the-sea-and-back volume Tres, the continuing journey of the Balearic Beat compilation, and it's coming out on Music for Dreams . And I'm overjoyed that they've both given us an exclusive mix because they're fabulous DJs. Hello, Kelvin. Hello, Mike. [Balearic Mike] Hi.   [Kelvin Andrews] Hi, Colleen.   [Colleen] How are you doing?   [Kelvin Andrews] Fine.   [Colleen] Good. Good to see you. Thank you so much for joining me.   [Kelvin Andrews] Absolute pleasure. Thank you. [Balearic Mike] Thanks for asking us.   [Colleen] I love the compilation. I wanted to first just talk a little bit about the history of this compilation, and then we'll kind of take a deeper dive into your backgrounds and also what's coming up. Now, this is volume Tres. Tell us first a little bit about volumes one and two and how they came about. [Kelvin Andrews] Mike and I kind of, I think we met around 1993, four, did we?   [Balearic Mike] Yeah, 92, 93. It was early 90s, wasn't it?   [Kelvin Andrews] We actually met playing in a five-a-side tournament between clubs at Keele University , which was quite an interesting way to meet. And I think the first thing I said to Mike was, nice shorts.   [Balearic Mike] No, you said shorts of the tournament.   [Kelvin Andrews] Oh, shorts of the tournament, yeah.   [Balearic Mike] Yeah, I had these big kind of like boxing-style black shorts with big white stars all over them from the boys' shop in London. Because, yeah, at the time I didn't have any football hits or anything like that. So, yeah, as I was walking off the pitch after a hard-fought game against Golden, Kelvin said to me, yeah, shorts of the tournament, they are, mate.   [Colleen] Who won?   [Balearic Mike] Neither of us. Yeah, we were absolutely awful. We'd all been in back-to-basics the night before and come straight there or something. Yeah, it was not very high standard of soccer.   [Kelvin Andrews] I believe the cream team won because they had loads of Liverpool football players playing for them.   [Colleen] Oh, that's cheating. That's absolutely cheating, isn't it?   [Balearic Mike] Yeah.   [Colleen] And how did you end up coming to DJ together? Did you start doing parties together first before you did your first compilation?   [Balearic Mike] Well, I was kind of DJing with a group of guys in Manchester called Love Dot and Kelvin was obviously already resident at Golden and was like really quite huge, or he was, you know, him and Danny were, she was pure and they were remixing everyone and stuff. Yeah, so I let Kelvin tell you what Golden was.   [Kelvin Andrews] Yeah, Golden was a party started by one guy who was in my art class at school, a guy called John Hill and a couple of his friends. And they were coming along to a regular Saturday night thing called the Freetown and they approached the DJ booth and said, we're starting a new club. We want you and the other guy, Pete Bromley, to be residents. Are you interested? And we said, yes. And they just caught a wave really that the whole, the super club era was about to come in, and papers like MixMag were just starting to have this national hold on the clubbing public. And this wave swept in and within a year we were collecting Club of the Year at the Royal Albert Hall. It was quite mad really. It kind of took off very, very quickly. My first paid DJ gig was a 17 year old in 1982. So, and it wasn't very hip when I started DJing at all, especially in the UK. People were like, what are you doing? I said, I like it. I didn't know why I liked it. I just love sharing music. And so I was in the right place at the right time really. And I got, you know, I'd been DJing a few years when that happened. And when the club thing really took off, I was just sort of there and ready. And that's how I met Mike because he was involved with a crew in Manchester and we sort of got chatting.   [Balearic Mike] Yeah, we liked partying very hard and Kelvin and I were both really, really, really, really obsessed about records. And so after the club's finished, because you know, back then in the UK things still finished at sort of two, maybe four. So the after party was very important. And Kelvin and I would invariably just end up honished over the deck, like ignoring everyone else, going, have you heard this? And then Kelvin would go, that's great. Have you heard this? And we did that a lot, like every weekend when we'd meet up after DJing at various places. And then one day I think Kelvin said, we should do a compilation of some of these records, shouldn't we?   [Colleen] Let's talk a little bit as well about what you were doing at the time because you were working in a record shop in Manchester and you were also part of the Loved Up crew. If you could tell us a little bit about what it was like at that time.   [Balearic Mike] Yeah, so I was just really lucky. I kind of bulged up my fine art degree in Brighton by going out clubbing all the time and buying too many records and not really painting any pictures, which is what they were expecting me to do there really. And yeah, I'd been living in the Northwest of England. So I went to Manchester quite a lot. My mum was living in Warrington in the Northwest and I was in Manchester shopping one day and suddenly a job in vinyl exchange and applied and was lucky enough to blag my way into that. And yeah, again, it was sort of right place, right time. It was really early 1991 and it was a really good record shop but it had only been open a couple of years and it was just starting to get its head around the fact that people really wanted house music and dance music. And so I was brought in to sort of help. There was one guy who kind of knew about house music who was Adrian Loved Up and they just said, right, we need more people who can buy this stuff because it's obviously really taken off. And so, yeah, I got the job and yeah. I mean, I was already kind of really immersed in music and clubbing and kind of, I DJ'd a bit when I was back at school and I DJ'd a bit when I was away at art college in Brighton and stuff. But yeah, I was just mainly just dancing and buying lots and lots of records, and the dancing and buying lots and lots of records kind of went into overdrive really when I got a job in a record shop because yeah, I mean, you think you know a lot about music when you start working in a record shop and then within about a day, you realize that you know absolutely nothing.   [Colleen] This is what I always say. I say the same thing because I was so full of myself. I wasn't really full of myself, but I was 16 and I got it when I started first working in a shop. And then I realized I will never be able to even crack the tiniest bit of all the music in the world and it's great. I was just on the phone with François before this interview. We're turning each other onto records the whole time. He's 70, you know, and it's just this kind of passion never really stops, does it? There's just limitless music and working in a record shop certainly does kind of, wet that appetite and feed it and it's sort of a bad way too. Do you two remember any of the early records that you turned each other onto?   [Balearic Mike] Well, you know, it's weird because the one of them is on Dancy in Back Volume 2, it's Jago , isn't it? Jago was the one that I think when I played it to Kelvin, he went, you know, we should do a compilation with these records. Summer 1989, and the clubs and raves are filled with this new, dreamy lighter sound: the sound of Italian house music. It was one of the longest, hottest summers in memory, and my first living away from home. After the grim Northern wastes of Warrington, Brighton in the sunshine seemed, to this young gun, like the Italian Riviera. The Zap Club had been closed for most of the winter, undergoing a major refurbishment and extension, which took it from two rather small arches into four, encompassing a huge, cathedral-like dance floor. I went as often as I could. The week after it opened I remember Soul II Soul DJing there, which was amazing, but all summer long they had a terrific roster of regular nights, with Harvey & Choci’s Tonka Soundsystem on a Monday (I think it was?), an insane new gay midweek night which I can’t remember the name of, and of course Chris Coco’s Coco Club every Saturday night. I heard this record at all of them. I can’t remember exactly how I found out what it was called or who it was by. If I asked a DJ it must have been at a Tonka night. The Zap Club’s DJ booth was high on a balcony above the bar, overlooking the main dance floor, and so it was a pain to get to, but at Tonka, Harvey and co set up the decks on the stage, right in the middle of the dance floor, so you were literally dancing around them. Much easier to pester them. I bought it from Rounder records in Brighton some time that summer - the reissue with the brown label. I remember at the time Mark (I think his name was?) and the other staff in there all thought that it was a new Italian house record and that the Frankye Knuckles (miss-spelt) mention was just a cunning ruse to get people to buy it. None of us had any idea that it was actually an old Italo-Disco track from 1983, or that it really had been remixed in Chicago by the godfather of house three years later. That’s part of the enduring appeal of this record for me. It sounds like it could have been made at any time over the last thirty- plus years, right up until today. Hence no surprise when I relocated to Manchester and found everyone I met here loved it as well. It’s also one of the reasons why it rarely, if ever, leaves my record box. Back in the early 90s when I first met Kelvin, we were back at an after party in the house in Withington I shared with Adrian LuvDup and Chris Sheep. As usual we were hunched over the decks, deeply involved in a game of musical top trumps. When I played this track we both decided we should release a compilation LP, with this on it. It only took us twenty years to get round to it. My friend Oscar’s son is named Jago. [Kelvin Andrews] Mike had a habit of playing me things. I saw, you know, when you think you've got a hot record box and this guy comes along and starts pulling things out and you're like, he's like, yeah, this is promo only. And it's a Colombian B-side seven-inch. I'm like, what, who is this guy? You know, so I was immediately hooked and, you know, and we were just like, we were probably quite rude to everyone else because we were just talking to each other about records, you know.   [Balearic Mike] Ignored the party going on really, didn't we? And yet by putting records on, we're helping facilitate it at the same time, but you know, we're definitely an audience of one rather than everything else in the room.   [Colleen] Well, believe me, I mean, the music that the both of you play, it really does translate. It's a, don't think, it's not that kind of Trainspotter-ish, Trainspotter-ish kind of situation where some people are just pulling out records that are rare just for the sake of it, but they're actually not very good. We do see quite a bit of that because we've excavated so much already, I suppose. But literally every selection, every selection on this double album is fantastic.   [Balearic Mike] Well, thank you very much. We're really pleased with that, actually, aren't we? It's like...   [Kelvin Andrews] Yeah, very much so. It was kind of like, you know, oh, let's do this, because we talked about doing Volume 3. There's been a bit of a gap, as you may know, but... [Balearic Mike] Ten years! [Kelvin Andrews] Yeah, yeah. And I don't think it's really the fact that, you know, we don't have the records to put on there. I think licensing slows things up. This time around, in the past, we put it all together ourselves. This time, we've got a label to help us, and that made such a difference. It was so great. You know, we could concentrate on, like, picking things out and then giving it to licensing people to take care of, you know, which is great. I think when you listen back, you don't know when you're in it, but when you actually listen back to the comp, you think, oh, this is quite good. It's bizarre, isn't it? You know, when you're... I think when you're DJing... When you're DJing, you don't... I'm certainly the same. I'm thinking about the next record.   [Colleen] Yeah.   [Kelvin Andrews] And I'm not really listening to the record that's playing. So when I... Particularly when I hear a mix back, I'm like, oh, that's pretty good, that is. That's what gives me my confidence, and it always has done. I think back to, like, the first time I got mixtapes recorded. When I listened back, it made me go, actually, I'm all right, I can do this. I think it's the same with the comp. You know, the choices are... And we don't really consult each other. We just come up with two lists, chuck them together and see when we've licensed it, what we can get, and then we make the comp. [Colleen] And then when you do that, do you have one person does one disc, one does the other? Is it back-to-back? How do you sequence it?   [Balearic Mike] I think we both just like it to flow like as if we were playing together live. You know, it's like when we DJ, we often do sort of two-on, two-off, or three-on, three-off, or something like that. But we wanted it to work like... We'd like all of them to work like a DJ set almost, haven't we, I think, Kelvin?   [Kelvin Andrews] Yeah.   [Balearic Mike] Have a kind of beginning, middle, and an end, really. You know, like a flow in a kind of sensible, musical way. And it's really weird, actually, when we were putting the running order together, we both came up with separate running orders, and they were almost identical, I think, weren't they? [Kelvin Andrews] Yeah, yeah. And actually, they've only really changed just to facilitate having the right amount of music on a side of a record and stuff like that. You know, it's the only reason that it had to be moved around, really.   [Colleen] Yeah, that's one of the kind of bloody awful things about vinyl, right?   [Balearic Mike] Well, I mean, the worst thing is not being able to get things. I mean...   [Colleen] That's the worst. And then somebody else gets it.   [Balearic Mike] Thankfully, that hasn't happened to us yet, that something's come out that we wanted that's on someone else's comp.   [Colleen] Actually, it's fine. At least it's out there, right? I mean, there's so much great music, and the two of you are proper, proper crate diggers. Why don't we get back into the music for a little bit, and we'll come back and speak some more. Right now, we're listening to a one-hour exclusive mix from Balearic Mike. I should also say he has a radio show on 1BTN, which is really good, so you should check that out, too. [Colleen] You're listening to Balearic Breakfast, and with me right now, I have Calvin Andrews and Balearic Mike, and they have a brand new compilation out called Down to the Sea and Back, Volume Trace, the Continuing Journey of the Balearic Beat. In fact, it's not out right now. It's coming out on Music for Dreams on the 31st of May at the end of this month. And right now, we've been listening to Balearic Mike's mix. We have Kelvin Andrews' exclusive one-hour mix coming up afterwards. I just love the way both of these guys play. We were talking earlier about the methodology of how you created this compilation. I mean, we have two different people. I did a similar thing with Ashley Beedle a long time ago (ed.: on " Dark Star " - Discogs ). Now, when did you actually start DJing together?   [Balearic Mike] It would probably have been sometime in the mid-90s, wouldn't it? I think, did I play at Golden with you, and you played at Loved Up Nights with me? [Kelvin Andrews] Yeah.   [Balearic Mike] We played together at things like Wobble and stuff in Birmingham, and then we had a club that we ran together in Stoke called Sound in some 96.   [Kelvin Andrews] Yeah, 96. So it's like the sort of 94. We were sort of occasionally playing at different clubs. We'd show up at a club on the circuit, and we were playing. When I think back about how we communicated without mobile phones at that point as well, it was quite weird. But we always used to see each other, didn't we?   [Balearic Mike] Yeah, it's mad, isn't it? You see each other like every weekend, and it's like you'd be DJing in Glasgow, and we'd be in London, and we'd meet in Birmingham. It's like, how do you do that without tracking devices and stuff? But yeah, we just did, didn't we?   [Colleen] Kelvin, what was it about Mike that really struck you as a DJ?   [Kelvin Andrews] Well, he was playing at a level with the digging, which I wanted to be, because I didn't know many people like that. It was like, this is how I see it, like obsession, detail, and just... And it was always about the music too. You're playing a record, I don't really go with the idea that if it's rare, it's good, like you mentioned before. It's got to be good. It's got to be exciting. On top of that, if it's obscure and rare, even better, because it kind of gives you something to play with, and not everyone's playing it. And if I learn that 20 DJs are playing this record, I kind of shy away from it, because I'll be looking for something else. And this was a guy who was, he always had music that I wanted. Luckily, because he was in a record shop, he would buy me copies of stuff. [Colleen] They tried to have. [Kelvin Andrews] Yeah, which is really helpful.   [Colleen] Or not, not on your bank balance, that's for sure!   [Kelvin Andrews] Well, no, but I did get a discount, generally, so. But we both had the same kind of appetite for records as well. And it was just like, he would make a call to me in an afternoon and go, we've had these tracks in, there's three, do you want me to put one aside for you? I'm like, yeah. I didn't even need to hear it, because I knew I needed it. Because if he was having it, I wanted it as well. It's a bit like that. And I was running a couple of labels as well, Bits and Bobs coming out. I was in the studio doing that side of my thing.   [Colleen] Why don't we say what that was? Because not everybody knows exactly what you did at the studio, because you did some pretty big things.   [Kelvin Andrews] Well, I worked with my brother, Danny, and we started off by making some house tracks. I was in bands and stuff. It was a very, quite a musical background. My dad was a musician. So we were all into music. My dad said to us, don't go into the music industry. And all three brothers ignored him. We, and it wasn't by design. We were sort of like, we just fell into it because we were into it. You know, it was just the exciting thing to do. You know, you either formed a band or you played records or you, you know, as I was growing up, my parents were into the music that we played. So in 79, we were obsessed with Earth, Wind and Fire, you know, and I was the eldest. My two younger brothers, they were having it drilled into them. So music was everywhere, really. So making music was the next step. So first of all, Danny, younger brother, I was working in 86 for Polygram Records. And I got a cassette of the House Sound of London, Chicago house music. And it was a promo cassette. And I play, I play Jack Your Body to Danny. And he had an epiphany right there. He just went, that's it. That's what I'm doing. Within six months, he'd enrolled into the School of Sound in Manchester. And he was programming drums and, you know, using a mixing desk within, you know, when he was 18, he released a record called Ride the Rhythm by This Ain't Chicago, which almost crossed over. It got to number 41, but it was a big club hit. All of a sudden, remixes started to come in. Then I started to get involved with him. He was like, come in the studio. And then brothers, by 92, we were releasing house records on our own label and stuff. Then we blagged a couple of remixes and then the major started knocking and we were doing remixes like weekly for a while. Some good, some bad. [Colleen] I just want to say some of the names. I mean, Danny was also in Candy Flip.   [Kelvin Andrews] That's right, yeah. Danny was a pop star, age 20.   [Colleen] And then you were doing Sure is Pure. And that is massive. I remember getting those records over in Dance Tracks. Very well-crafted, melodic, lovely arrangements. [Kelvin Andrews] Yeah, it was great because we've just put all our love for music in these records. And a lot of the time, we were putting in our love of disco and boogie and those things that we grew up with into these house records that were becoming very popular. And the club I was playing at, Golden, when I was resident, they loved that sound. It was like, we'd go from, I remember what, because I was digging out records from my dancing past and one track that springs to mind was the Fat Bat Band's Backstroking. And that's like, not many people mention that record, but it was an anthem at a super club, at a house club in Stoke. [Colleen] WOOW!! [Kelvin Andrews] You know, and we had 2,000 people going. So the minute you played that first, that bendy synth riff, hands were in the air. And it was nowhere else either, which was really cool.   [Balearic Mike] Yeah, I'd never heard that record. And like seeing Kelvin play at Golden and 2,000 people go absolutely mental. So it was like, how have I not heard this record before?   [Colleen] You know, it's interesting. It's these regional, the regional hits, because we won't have this anymore with clubs, you know, because of everything being online and everything is available for everybody. But the regional, there was one club I used to play in Perugia called Red Zone . It was massive. It was a huge club (ed. . They had all the American DJs there. 6,000 people in the suburbs. And they had their own anthems. The first time I went to a Northern Soul night, I was just visiting. And you know, I thought I knew something about soul music. I was already a DJ. I was visiting in the 1990s and I went up to Glasgow. I wanted to go to the sub club, wanted to check it out. And that night was the Goodfoot. And I didn't know a single song. Everybody was singing all the lyrics. And I just love how there's regional hits like that, where people really rally around a certain song and it's their song.   [Kelvin Andrews] Yeah. It was buying records as a teenager, before sort of I started buying 12 inch singles in 79, 80 with pocket money. And then, you know, just things that I could get hold of. And we'd go to a local discotheque called The Place. And then The Place was The Place basement.   [Colleen] The Place ?! My husband's parents used to go there in the 1960s.   [Kelvin Andrews] My parents met at The Place.   [Colleen] Oh my, they probably knew each other then. Because, yeah, that was like the place. Well, it was the place to go.   [Balearic Mike] The Place was The Place.   [Kelvin Andrews] Stayed open right through the 70s and the 80s. And then in the, when I was a teenager, they had a teen scene there. And it was like an under-18s thing. But the guy who used to play records on the Saturday nights, in The Place basement, is a guy called Trevor M . Trevor was my DJ mentor. He used to play import, US import, funk, jazz, soul, that kind of vibe. And the jazz-funk fusion-type things. And there was a whole subculture of these working class, mostly black kids, UK kids, getting their sisters to sew up clothes for them so they had their own look. It was like, it was a brilliant thing because they didn't have the money to buy, you know, fashion labels. They would make their own stuff and they, and the music was the best. It really was. I was quite grown up when you're 14, you know, listen to Ronnie Laws and, you know, and Diodato and Al Jarreau, you know, I mean, quite sophisticated when you're 14, really. But I was already tuned to this because my dad was a musician and he had a decent record collection, not a large record collection, but a decent one. And he, when he stopped being a recording artist in the 60s, he then joined tour management and he worked for a company called Danny O'Donovan Enterprise, he's in the mid-70s. And so he, they used to bring over the black American acts to the UK. So I saw Rufus and Chaka Khan's soundcheck when I was 10. Oh, it was? Right, when you're 10, you don't, all I wanted to do was play the pong machine in the corner. Rufus are playing a soundcheck with Chaka Khan and I'm ignoring it, playing the pong game, you know. I look back, it's like, what were you doing? You know, but that's when you're 10, that's the thing. I was kind of lucky in that sense, but my taste, well, the time we'd been to the basement, we were listening to like grown-up music and that was having an influence on us. Cassette culture was prevalent. We were all sharing cassettes. There was a guy in the basement and there was a guy in town who would, his big brother was buying all the hot imports, putting them onto cassettes and selling them for four quid each in town. So we were-   [Colleen] The entrepreneur.   [Kelvin Andrews] We were having the best music, you know, on our little ghetto blaster. And it was like, and you were learning how to dance and, you know, it took a while for me because I was a bit stiff. You know, my other brother, Richard, is a great dancer and I wasn't quite as good as him. So I had to work hard at being a good dancer. The first time I heard Trevor M play in the basement, I heard Harry Thuman, Underwater, completely blew my mind. Literally, it was just like one of the greatest things I'd ever heard. I heard Slicks, Face Bass. I heard, and just on the first night this was, my head was like, I want to do what that guy does. And I'd already made my mind up that I was going to be a DJ. So he collected records, played a couple of parties and then someone said, I'll pay you so much to come and do a gig. This was in 82. And that's when I started.   [Colleen] Professional DJ career.   [Kelvin Andrews] I think I got 15 quid. Yeah. [Colleen] Wow!   [Kelvin Andrews] Yeah. Which bought you about, bought you three imports if you're looking.   [Colleen] That's more than I got for some gigs. [Kelvin Andrews] Yeah. [Colleen] I started in 82 as well, but it was on the radio, on a 10-watt radio station. And I wasn't getting paid, so I can't call it professional, in any of these. We've been, we've been chattering quite a bit. Why don't we get back to the music and when we come back, I'll be speaking with you, Mike, about how you, what you thought about Kelvin when you first met him and what kind of DJ he was. [Colleen] You're listening to Balearic Mike's mix right now on Balearic Breakfast. [Colleen] And we're back and I'm here with Balearic Mike and with Kelvin Andrews, talking about their new compilation, Down to the Sea Volume Tres. And earlier I asked Kelvin what he felt about you, Mike, as a DJ, when you first started playing together. And now I want to ask you the same about Kelvin. When you two started playing together and you started discovering music with him, what were your thoughts about Kelvin as a DJ and musical selector? [Kelvin Andrews] Do I leave the room now? [Colleen] Yeah, you bet. Yeah, I think you should.   [Balearic Mike] Well, I mean, we were at very different stages in our career, really, because Kelvin was already a huge star, really. He had a huge residency, he DJed for years. And so I was just a bit in awe of him, really. He had amazing records, you know, I mean, this is what we really bonded over. We had similar tastes, but really, you know, if you can call such eclectic tastes similar, it's basically like anything that's good, anything that will make people dance, anything that's kind of got something original about it and something interesting, something that's different to what everyone else is playing. So we kind of really bonded over that. But I mean, Kelvin was just like light years ahead of me in his DJ journey at that point, you know. He could take an audience of a couple of thousand people and just have them absolutely in the palm of his hand. So I actually, I've learned so much from kind of studying Kelvin.   [Colleen] So how do you feel the two of you complement one another?   [Balearic Mike] Well, it's just really strange that we just dig around, we have such similar tastes. And yet when we get together, I mean, we haven't DJed together for a couple of years now, have we? What with COVID and everything that's been going on in the world. And we'll come together and we'll both have completely different bags of records. And yet I'll love everything Kelvin plays and he'll like everything I play, you know. And it was the same when we were putting the comps together, you know, we both came up with lists and there was no duplication at all. It was like, you know, you just think some of us, we're going to suggest some of the same records, but no, it's like, you've just got all these records that, you know, some of them I'd heard because we DJed together and I'd heard Kelvin play them, but some of the things on there that I hadn't heard before. I mean, you just, you realize that it's just never ending, isn't it? You never hear everything, you know. So it's good to have something else, a good pair of ears out there that's putting you on to things all the time.   [Colleen] Yeah, exactly. A filter basically, a curator.   [Balearic Mike] Yeah, exactly.   [Colleen] Now, how did you two fall in love with the sounds that are usually associated with the White Isle? Mike, it's in your name, Balearic Mike.   [Balearic Mike] I mean, I only heard the name, the term Balearic Beats in sort of 88, you know. There was the article in ID and then the compilation came out and I liked that, but I didn't really understand what it was. You know, I'd never really been abroad before. I wasn't in a position where I was going to go on holiday to Ibiza and hear this DJ play in this magical club or anything. But I've always had just really quite varied taste and I've always, I mean, growing up during the 80s, I kind of, I moved into sort of listening to clubs and went into dance to music in the sort of, around about 86 when I was about 15, I suppose. So it was before the sort of behemoth that is house music kind of came and washed everything else away before it. And in those days, you just heard lots of different kinds of music. On a dance floor, you know, you'd hear kind of hip hop and electro records and you'd hear kind of smoother sort of jazz funk and things like that. And like electronic pop records and all those kinds of things. And that's basically what Balearic Beats is, isn't it? I mean, it's a kind of, it's a great term, but it's really inaccurate, isn't it? Because actually the DJs in New York were doing exactly the same thing with just slightly different records. DJs in Italy were doing the same thing again with just a slightly different, you know, selection of records. DJs in Belgium were doing it with, you know, a slightly different sound. So, you know, but yeah, so I heard about it then. And I think summer 89 was my first summer kind of living away from home. I was at art college in Brighton. I got a job on the pier selling ice cream all summer and basically went out clubbing every single night to the Zap club in the escape. And again, I heard the term Balearic Beats a lot again that summer because Soul to Soul was such a huge sound. And so, you know, even if you went to hear a DJ who predominantly played house, you'd hear Soul to Soul records and you'd hear De La Soul being played and things like that. And so that kind of, it wasn't just a steady kind of four, four, 120 BPM rhythm that you were hearing all summer. It was all over the place. So there was really unusual records being played. And I went to the Tonka parties at the Zap . I think it was like the first Monday of every month. Yeah, and some of those records were just mad and strange and really interesting. It was like Gaelic Show, Dance Forever and stuff like that. So it'd be strange sort of somewhere between Italo Disco and the Italian house that was just starting to emerge, I suppose. And yeah, and so I've just always liked that kind of stuff that's really hard to categorize. I mean, that's the thing with Balearic, isn't it? It's like you don't know what this is. It's so strange and unusual and it's not really house. It's not soul, it's not funk, it's not a synth pop record. What is it? Oh, I know, it's Balearic. [Colleen] Exactly, it's so much easier.   [Balearic Mike] So yeah. [Colleen] If you just have like a record shop, it's just one category. [Balearic Mike] Yeah, good record.   [Colleen] Balearic. [Balearic Mike] Yeah, so... and then when I went to Ibiza.... [Colleen] But when did you finally go to Ibiza? [Balearic Mike] I didn't go to Ibiza until 94, the first time. So I was like 23. Kelvin was out there DJing. A friend, Graham, was out there for the summer DJing for Jose. Because we'd all met Jose. We'd all got, Jose had come over to Manchester and- [Colleen] Jose Padilla, everybody. But I'm sure most people listening to this show know that by now, but just- [Balearic Mike] We'd all met Jose and he did a good winter residency at the back room of Golden, Kelvin?   [Kelvin Andrews] Yeah, yeah. [Colleen] Really?!! [Kelvin Andrews] He was there as a guest of a few clubs, wasn't he? He had a winter residency.   [Balearic Mike] They played at like a few parties for Love stuff and he did a residency for Kelvin at Golden. And then he, when he went back for the summer, he took one of our friends, Graham, with him. And Graham became resident at a couple of parties that he was promoting on the island. And so, yeah, Kelvin had gone out to DJ at the clubs Jose was promoting at Passion and Space, wasn't it?   [Kelvin Andrews] Yeah.   [Balearic Mike] That order. And Graham said, oh yeah, come. He was staying at Jose's flat in San Antonio. And he said, oh yeah, there's a spare bed. You can come out and I'll get you a gig. And so I just grabbed a bag of records and went out as well. So that was my first visit. And I already, I think actually we had a great time, but we went to like KU one night and it wasn't called KU anymore. It was, they changed its name to Privilege or something revolting like that. And I remember thinking, this is over. This is done. This is like nothing that I want to be involved with. Whereas Passion had been brilliant. I mean, I'd got there, we'd got straight off the plane and went straight into Passion. Caught Kelvin just starting his set. And that had been everything I'd hoped Ibiza would be really. But yeah, it was obviously becoming something else at that point, I think.   [Colleen] Well, I think there's different things that pleases different people. That's a nice way of putting it, at least. Kelvin, was that about the time that you started playing at Ibiza or had you been to Ibiza before that? [Kelvin Andrews] No, I'd just heard this myth about this place and you were hearing about Alfredo and the Balearic Beats Comp came out on FFRR . So, and there was also around that time, just a bit previous to that, 91, around that period. It was like all these little Balearic clubs popping up in England. Cause like, the weather in England isn't Balearic, is it? Far from it. But like, I remember- [Balearic Mike] It's kind of Balearic, it's quite Balearic in Brian.   [Kelvin Andrews] Yeah. Yeah, it is definitely more Balearic than here right now. But I saw that it was something special. So I romanticized about the whole thing. It was like, in my head, this is what I wanted it to be. So when I got the chance to DJ there, it was like, that fed into what I was playing. Funnily enough, one of the records, which is on the new comp, I played that evening. And the very first time I played at Pasha, when Mike came along, that was the pressure drop record. The reaction was the same as I imagined it would be. It was so brilliant, you know? So in my head, I was keeping the Balearic beat alive, somehow. Well, I went into space and tried a similar approach and got booted off the decks. The same time as Andrew Weatherall did as well at Pasha, didn't he? Because he was over there at the same time as us.   [Balearic Mike] Yeah, I miss him being dragged off.   [Kelvin Andrews] One of my greatest claims to fame was when I was booted off the same day as Andrew.   [Balearic Mike] Yeah, he tried his panel beaters of Prague set at Pasha, didn't he? Yeah.   [Colleen] Very well. Oh, I can't see that happening. That doesn't seem like a very good mix. Well, why don't we get back to the mix now? And actually, we are listening to Kelvin Andrews' mix right now, his exclusive mix that he's done for us, which is wonderful. And we'll come back in a few minutes. Right now, sit back and enjoy the music on Balearic Breakfast. [Colleen] And we're back. We've been listening to Kelvin Andrews' exclusive mix for Balearic Breakfast. And I'm here with both Kelvin and with Balearic Mike because they have a new compilation, if you don't know by now, called Down to the Sea and Back Volume tres . And it's coming out on Music for Dreams at the end of the month. Now, this compilation, as I said earlier, is fantastic. And I didn't know the songs. I knew maybe a couple, but most of them I didn't. I mean, there's all different types of sounds. There's 80s Dutch pop, there's 80s Kiwi, electronic Zymoc sounding band. It sounded just like Zymoc to me. You have kind of Sunshine Jones, who's from Dubtribe sound system , kind of bouncy, kind of ping pong electro house, I like to call that. There's a lot of different sounds, but it flows together really well and the two of you did a great job sequencing. I was just wondering if we could talk about some of the individual records, if there's certain ones that have great discovery stories and maybe I can ask about one of my favorites. Was the Lee Ryder or Lee Rita?   [Balearic Mike] Yeah, Lee Ryda. Yes, that's mine. So in 2014, coincidentally the last, the summer that the last Down to the Sea and Back compilation came out on, I got invited, I think I got a message on Facebook from some guys in Athens. And I've been to a DJ in Athens once before, but it was at some big music festival. I've not done any sort of clubs or anything. They ran a record shop and they seemed like nice guys. And so yeah, I went out to Athens and I think I did a gig on the Friday night outside the city at some sort of coastal bar, which was quite nice, but it wasn't very busy. But then the next night Giannis, the next day Giannis took me into Athens to meet Dimitris who ran the record shop, Cassetta Records. And we spent the whole day in the shop, just like rooting through all his stock, playing records, drinking beers, having a great time. And then we went to the gig and it was like in this, Athens is an amazing city. It's a bit like Berlin was sort of 20 years ago where basically if a building's empty, people just move in and do things in it. So it was like this empty sort of office block with like big kind of mezzanine floors. And someone just started a bar on one floor and then put sound and lights in the basement. It was just like squatted almost. It was amazing, but yeah, it was fantastic sort of space. And they DJed before me and they warmed up for me. We kind of went, you know, also went on all night till like basically everyone's left basically in the morning. And yeah, so Giannis was warming up and he played it, he played that record while he was warming up for me to go on. And I was just like, what the hell is this? You know, I was stood on the dance floor just going, oh my God, this is incredible. And it's like, and it's a great sign when the people warming up for you are playing music that you think is great and you don't know. You just think, well, if they're getting away with this, I'm gonna get away with murder here, aren't I really?   [Colleen] And they're also setting it up nicely for you too.   [Balearic Mike] Yeah, I mean, it's just perfect. You just think, wow, this is sort of, if I was playing this warmup set, this is the sort of record I would want to play. And so I immediately ran over and saw what it was and couldn't believe that, yeah, it was a British library record. It's on Bruton and it's like, you see, you know, used to see millions of Bruton library records lying around but not very much. I'd never seen that one before. And yeah, so when I got back, I managed to track what they had on the internet and bought it and kind of hammered it ever since really. It's just an incredible record, isn't it? [Colleen] That's fantastic! [Balearic Mike] Yeah, I was completely, yeah, unaware of it until 10 years ago when I went to Athens.   [Colleen] Well, I was straight onto Discogs and then I was like, this is coming out on vinyl anyway, so I'll get it that way. You've done the work for me. [Balearic Mike] Yeah, that's it, yeah. [Colleen] Kelvin, if there's a tune, an obscurity on this album that you picked that has a great story, could you tell us?   [Kelvin Andrews] The one track which I was like, like, double fingers crossed that we'd get, and that was a car crash set record, the Kiwi Watch.   [Balearic Mike] I knew he was going to say that one!   [Kelvin Andrews] I've been obsessed with this record, but this is another recent discovery, really, you know. A friend of mine who used to be a promoter friend who books both me and Mike back in the day from Plymouth, a guy called Dave Green or DJ Verdi, he was on a late night. [Colleen] Yes Dave. I've heard of him.   [Kelvin Andrews] He was on a late night chat. He said, hi, mate, have you ever heard this? And he sent me a YouTube link to this track. And I was just, I put it on and I had, the kettle was on and I was just like, oh my God. So it's a Car Crash Set, Fall From Grace, and it's a private released record that did nothing in New Zealand when it got released. They only ever played it once live, this band, and I've got the recording, because I ended up finding the guy, Nigel, the vocalist. I found him on Facebook, which was amazing. And I contacted him and he was really lovely. And he told me the story about how the track came about. It was one of the first conversations I've had of a track from 83. And he talked about a 303 being on there and they used the 303 on there. So it's quite a historical track in that sense. You know, they were using it purely for the fact that they could take it out live with them because it was only small. So it was like, and I'm hearing this track and I'm just going, this is unbelievable. It's like one of the best, it was instantly one of the best things I'd ever heard. So it was just like, it was like a double fingers crossed that we'd get it. And I'm amazed that we did quite easily, you know. And if you look on Discogs, it's pretty rare. The 12 is non-existent. The last one I saw go for was about $300, you know. So that was, that's the, you know, for me the gem in the crown, you know, it's like a, you know, a beautiful thing to have on there. And the many tracks on there that I got excited about, things that we were, we wanted to be on the last compilation we've managed to grab for this one. And some that we, some that I was hoping for didn't make it as well. The Car Crash Set one, the reaction I get, it backs up my enthusiasm for it as well. It's incredible.   [Balearic Mike] Yeah, I remember the first time we played it, Mark, that I'd heard it was on one of our dancing team boat and backboat parties at Love International in Croatia . And the reaction to it live, I was just like, oh my God, what is this record? I mean, it's from New Zealand. It's like from the other side of the world. And the only, I think the only reason that Dave knows, he lived there for 10 years or something, didn't he? [Kelvin Andrews] Yeah. [Balearic Mike] So Dave moved out of New Zealand and lived there and he just must have come across a copy of the secondhand shop or a charity shop or something.   [Colleen] I was just looking at the track list again and I just realized Tri Atma. I just have to take a quick look. I think I saw a Tri Atma record in my collection today. And I'm like, you're looking for something? I've been looking, I found it. Yeah, yeah. This one. Do you know that one?   [Balearic Mike] No, I haven't got that one.   [Colleen] This has to be some great stuff on here.   [Balearic Mike] Well, wait a minute.   [Colleen] It must be the same Tri Atma, right? Yeah, I think so. The yummy moon long version.   [Kelvin Andrews] Yeah, the yummy moon from a 12.   [Colleen] Yeah. Yeah, it says : 'an effervescent fusion of buoyant Eastern rhythms and electronic popular music. Danceable, hummable, enjoyable. Probably some of the happiest music to come from Germany in a hundred years!'   [Balearic Mike] Wow, that's a review, isn't it?   [Colleen] That is hilarious. Oh, there's some good stuff on here. Microcosmos is one that I liked.   [Kelvin Andrews] Yeah, that's the other one. I've got a copy of that. [Colleen] Do you?! [Kelvin Andrews] Yeah, I found a copy of, I've got a, it's like a radio seven-inch single I found in a junk shop and that's on that, right? Couldn't believe it.   [Colleen] Really? Wow. I can't recommend this compilation enough. And I know that you said the two of you haven't played together in a while. Will you be playing some more festivals together at all this summer? Is there anywhere else that people can look out for the two of you?   [Kelvin Andrews] Mike and I are playing together in Brighton on the 14th. And we're also playing- [Colleen] 14th of June? [Kelvin Andrews] 14th of June, yeah. That's at the Flower Pot in Brighton on the seafront. And that's gonna be like a release party for the comp. And we're also doing a thing in Newcastle-on-the-Lyme at the Carlton on the 24th with James Holroyd and the pair of us. So yeah, we're making up for lost time, hopefully.   [Colleen] Yes, well, good luck with it. I mean, honestly, I love the way both of you play. It's great to hear you doing this together. Hopefully I'll be able to catch one of your live sets. But for now, the compilation will have to do. Thank you so much. And thanks for your exclusive mixes for the radio show as well. Your exclusive Balearic Breakfast mixes. I really appreciate it. I know the listeners are loving it right now as well.   [Kelvin Andrews] Thank you. Thanks for the invite, Colleen. [Balearic Mike] Thanks for having us.

Colleen 'Cosmo' Murphy broadcast the 223rd episode of Balearic Breakfast on her Mixcloud on May 20th 2025. About this episode. - Colleen came back from Ibiza and, straight ahead, went on preparing Balearic Breakfast's next episode. The Family was happy as ever to participate live, and gathered on Colleen's MIxcloud this very tuesday morning. But, Mixcloud decided it did not want to stream live. The stream cut three times, and each time our Captain tried to start again. Seeing things were not improving, our Captain decided to end the live session and, instead, went on recording today's episode without our presence. Sigh! That is why you may feel that Colleen's presentation is more straightforward than usual. Still, today's episode is such a blissful musical moment. It really takes you higher, like you were gliding somewhere, high in the sky, pushed through life's ups and downs. There's a driving force in the music, and the whole experience has a strong musical unity! Enjoy! This week’s Balearic Breakfast is now up on my Mixcloud and features a lot of new tunes and builds up to some classic jazz-funk dancefloor burners to get your heart rate pumping. Thanks to all who joined me on the Mixcloud Live this morning and sorry the captain had to jump ship due to technical difficulties. But I look forward to seeing you next week on the live chat while I’m in NYC and next week’s show features two special guests: Marcia Carr and Balearic Breakfast family member Steve Wakley (DJ Macaroon). Thank you Samantha (s_a_m) for sharing this video with us! Thanks to those who came along to Freddy’s at Pikes on Sunday night - that was so much fun! I look forward to coming back the last Sunday of June and the last Sunday of September. And I’m heading back to the White Isle for 528 on Tuesday the 3rd June where I’m DJ-ing with Hot Chip. And a couple more dates for those in the USA, tomorrow I’m heading over to the States and I’m playing at Good Room in Brooklyn with Love Injection on Friday and then over to Dantes HiFi In Miami on Wednesday the 28th May with my friend Rich Medina. Enjoy your week and thanks for listening. Listen back to Balearic Breakfast's 223rd episode: THE PLAYLIST ( TBR ) Warriors of the Dystotheque – Hashish Dreams (Beatless Mix) ( 2025 ) Morgan Szymanski & Tommy Perman  – Harmonic Rain ( 1985 ) Princess  – After the Love has Gone (Bad Mix) ( 1991 ) 808 State (ft. Bjork)  – Ooops ( 2025 ) Mauro Pawlowski  – Just All Heart, Flesh and Mind ( 2025 ) Silvertooth  – Rub A Dub ( 2025 ) Ilya Santana  – Love on the Line ( 2024 ) Burns & Tubbs  – Where Were U in 92? ( 2025 ) Hannah Holland  – Intertwine ( 2025 ) Tagua Tagua  – Quimica ( 2025 ) Rayowa  – Can You Feel the Love (Dr. Packer Remix) ( TBR ) Paulinho Da Costa  – Love til the End of Time (G Markus Edit) ( 2025 ) KX9000 (ft Nic Hanson)  – Over Fee ( 2025 ) Sam Redmore (ft Ellie Coleman)  – El Camino ( 2025 ) SHouse  – Sunrise (Extended Mix) ( 2023 ) Gee W  – Brazilian Freeez ( 2025 ) Marchio Bossa (ft. Ryu Zee Su)  – Luci ( 2001 ) Olli Ahvenlahti  – Grandma’s Rocking Chair ( 1981 ) Style X  – No Secret Affair COLLEEN'S NEWS Do not forget to subscribe to Colleen's website ( https://www.colleencosmomurphy.com/ ) to get updates about her upcoming events! Here are some dates where Colleen will be spinning over the next few weeks: 28th May: Dantes HiFi in Miami, Florida 7th June: Last Note Party in Perugia, Italy  ( sign up for our mailing list ) COLLEEN'S PRESENTATION The delightfully hazy, beatless mix of Hashi's Dreams by Warriors of the Distotheque , easing us into this morning's show. The Warriors of the Distotheque are a five-piece of DJs, producers, engineers, and musicians. Johnny Mack and Sean Graham , New York City's twin prodigies, Mike and Nick Ruffalo , and Undertone's drummer, Kevin Sharkey . The single came out a couple of years ago, but this beatless mix is coming out on Kris Coco 's next Chill Out Tent comp. You may remember their track, Looking Through Balearic Ease , which I've played on the show. Good morning, Balearicans. I'm Colleen Cosmo Murphy, hosting your weekly Balearic Breakfast on my MixCloud Live until high noon, and greetings to all gathered over there. It was lovely seeing some of you at Pikes on Sunday night, and that was my first time playing at Freddy's, and it was so much fun. I remember Alfredo saying that one of the fun things about DJing in Ibiza is that there are people from all over the world on the dance floor, and I could really feel that as people would sing along to some of the songs I played in Spanish, Italian, Portuguese. And now that I have one under my belt, I'm looking even more forward to my next two dates as I'm back at Freddy's at Pikes on the last Sunday of June and the last Sunday of September. And I'm also heading back to the White Isle for 528 on Tuesday the 3rd of June, DJing along with Hot Chip. And a couple more dates for those in the USA. Tomorrow I'm heading over to the States, and I'm playing at Goodroom in Brooklyn with Love Injection on Friday, and then over to Dante's Hi-Fi in Miami on Wednesday the 28th of May with my friend Rich Medina. But even though I'm traveling, the Balearic Breakfast show will go on, and I'll let you know who is joining us later in the show. On today's show, we have a lot of new music and building up to a few up-tempo jazz dance numbers, which should get your heart rate pumping. But for now, let's stay in a mellow groove. Mexican classical guitarist Morgan Szymanski and Scottish artist Tommy Perman will release their second album, Songs for the Mist Forest , in July. And while their first album explored the sounds of the Scottish woodland where Tommy's parents live, their new album is inspired by Morgan's ranch in the Mist Forest of Valle de Bravo, Mexico. The music evolved from a soundtrack Morgan and Tommy produced for the documentary film El Dragon de los Postes de Nebia , and that's the Dragon of the Mist Forest. The documentary shines a light on the ecocide that's happening in Valle de Bravo. Overdevelopment is destroying the forests that are home to abronias , beautiful small reptiles native to the region. They are the dragons in the film's title. This is the first single from the forthcoming album, Harmonic Rain . Tommy Perman (left) and Morgan Szymanski (right). Photo by Lavinia Negrete. Well, I managed to catch up with one request on today's show. This is from Craig Bradshaw, who recommended this Wally Bataru Chief Inspector style remix. This is the bad mix of After the Love Has Gone by Princess , which came out in 1985. I'm not sure if Bataru was actually endorsed or was credited for that. In fact, on some of the releases, it's called the Chief Inspector remix, but the original was produced and written by Stock, Aitken, and Waterman, and Princess is the British singer who released a string of solo albums and also worked with O.C. Bisa in the late 1970s. OK, I've been hosting some monthly Classic Album Sunday sessions at the KEF Music Gallery in London since September, and I've had special guests like Wally Bataru , Ned Tohini , Blackbird's Keith Gilgo , and just last week, two founding band members, Mike Lindup and Phil Gould of Level 42 . So we just announced our next session on Thursday, the 19th of June, and my special guest is Graham Massey , and we'll be exploring 808 State's classic album, XL . And I'm really looking forward to this, as I actually interviewed them when the album came out in 1991. If you want to join us, you can reserve free tickets from the Classic Album Sunday's website. But act quickly, as this was just announced and space is limited. Here is one of my favorite tracks from the album, a collaboration with Björk, 808 State with Oops . Silvertooth with Rub-a-Dub , and you may remember Silvertooth's wicked chugging cover of Bill Scott-Heron's Shut Um Down . Silvertooth is Stuart Rowell , who has been on the dance scene, DJing at Cafe Mambo in Ibiza and Home in London. And he was also a founding member of Streetlife DJs , who released music on the label Kitsune and remixed Groove Armada, The Mighty Dubcats, and more. Ahead of that, Belgian musician Mauro Pawlowski with Just All Heart and Flesh and Mind . And that's from his forthcoming second solo album, Unspectacular Times , coming out on Unday Records in the autumn. And the album is produced by Scorpio Twins , and that's Stephane Misseghers of Deuce and Bruno Coussée of Rhinezand . And it also features Brian Dunne , the drummer for Daryl Hall and John Oates . And Pawlowski is a former member of Deuce . He fronted Projects Evil Superstars , Grupo D, Pawlowski , and the Moritz Pauls Band as well. And we started off with 808 State featuring Björk with Oops . And I'll be interviewing Graham Massey on the 19th of June at Classic Album Sundays at the KEF Music Gallery. And we're featuring XL . And if you want to book your free tickets head on over to the Classic Album Sundays website. OK, this next one is from the Canary Islands producer Ilya Santana , who's released a lot of great original tracks on cosmic disco labels like Nang, Fidelity, Permanent Vacation and Balihu records , just to name a few. And one of his originals will be released for the first time on vinyl on the next Balearic Breakfast compilation. But he's also been crafting some great re-edits featured on his Space Rock Oddities album released last month. Here he is with Love on the Line .   Intertwine by Hannah Holland from her forthcoming album Last Exit on Bethnal Green , which will be accompanied by a short film. And the film is a sound and the album is a soundtrack for a fantasy, seductive and sleazy club underworld and made alongside the music film Last Exit on Bethnal directed by Lydia Garnett . The multifaceted London producer shaped ideas born out of iconic queer art house cinema. And Holland said "We wanted to craft something unapologetically for dykes, a poetic, surreal exploration of dyke power and sexuality set in mythic nightlife" . I just love that one. Ahead of that, we heard Where Were You in 92 by Burns & Tubbs , which is Eden Burns from Melbourne, Australia, and my old friend Chris Tubbs in New Zealand. And it's from the forthcoming La Torre Vol. 5 compilation put together by La Torre residents' Pete Gooding and Mark Barrett . And it also marks the 10th anniversary of that gorgeous spot in Ibiza where you can watch the sun go down. And this fifth volume is another great compilation filled with beautiful balearic biscuits from Nina Simone , Mazzy Starr , Talk Talk , Boards of Canada and the late Yukihiro Takahashi of Yellow Magic Orchestra . And it's coming out just in time for summer at the end of June. Well, yesterday, I got home and had this next record in my post, as some know how to win their way into this woman's heart. It's by Brazilian musician and producer Tagua Tagua . And this is his third album, Raio . Tagua Tagua is Felipe Piperi , who is from Sao Paulo, Brazil, and he's helping shape the contemporary sound of Brazil. Raio features U.S. rock band White Denim and is sung in both English and his native Portuguese. And it's a lush, psychedelic blend of tropicalia, neo-soul and disco. And the whole LP is great and worth checking out. For you, I've selected this one, Quimica . The G. Marcus edit of Paulinho da Costa , Love Till the End of Time , a slightly more uptempo dance floor version, which honors the original. G. Marcus is Ben Gamori , who has been doing a lot of re-edits, and he's also part of the London crew who are joining me for the Saturday Cosmodelica takeover in our Love Dancing tent at We Out Here Festival . And we announced Love Dancing's full lineup last week, and you can check it all out on my socials. I have two special guests from New York City joining me, Francois K. and up and coming DJ Lovey . And I'm already looking forward to that. Ahead of that, a tune I've been playing a lot in my DJ sets, Rayowa , Can You Feel the Love , the Dr. Packer remix . And it's on the latest Disco Express EP . And Rayowa is self-taught multi-instrumentalist DJ producer Reece Baker . And with a sound that seamlessly blends disco, funk, soul and R&B, and he's taken it from a studio project to a live nine-piece band featuring his two brothers and friends. I'm Colleen Cosmo Murphy, and we're picking up the pace here on Balearic Breakfast. This next one is from the captivating French electronic producer KX9000 , who has a new album coming out called Dreamlog , and it blends electro-funk, space disco, Chicago house and broken beat. So that's ticking a lot of boxes for me. Dreamlog is coming out next month on the label Pont Neuf and is available to pre-order. This is my selection from the album KX9000 featuring Nick Hansen with Overfeed .   That's Australian and New Zealand electronic duo SHouse , aka Jack Madin and Ed Service . And they're announcing their highly anticipated debut album, Collective Ecstasy , out on the 4th of July via Hell Beach and One Love . And they've been, someone's a plethora of local talent, including some exciting features to create what could possibly be a very human sounding electronic indie record of the year. We just heard the extended mix of Sunrise , which sounded lovely at Freddy's at Pike's on Sunday night. Ahead of that, Birmingham's Sam Redmore , who's been releasing a lot of very musical and beautifully arranged dance floor songs, and they are songs rather than tracks. We just heard El Camino featuring vocalist Ellie Coleman , who says "El Camino is about independence. Solitude is an emptiness, it's possibility, a soundtrack for those who find rhythm in their own footsteps. It celebrates the late night wanderers who embrace the magic of their own company and the beat beneath their feet as they stride through the dark" . And you can pick up El Camino on Sam Redmore's Bandcamp. OK, legendary UK DJ Colin Curtis has been releasing EPs on his own imprint, Colin Curtis Presents , and some of them have been original tunes. And UK producer Gee W is one of them. Gee W specializes in Brazilian and Latin sounds. And this is a Brazilian styled cover of Freeze 's Southern Freeze on Balearic Breakfast. I told you I was in a jazzy mood today. That was Olli Ahvenlahti , a pianist, composer and conductor who's been one of the leading Finnish jazz artists since the 1970s. And he's recorded with several artists and groups like UMO Jazz Orchestra . And in the 1990s, he conducted the orchestra for the all Finnish Eurovision Song Contest entries. That was Grandma's Rocking Chair from his 1976 LP The Poet . Ahead of that, we heard Marchio Bossa featuring Korean soul singer Ryu Ji-Soo with a fantastic Bossa Samba cover , a song I should say, sung in Italian. And Marchio Bossa re-recorded it with this singer and originally released it 20 years ago on his No Bossa, No Party LP. Well, this is Colleen Cosmo Murphy signing off another edition of Balearic Breakfast. I'm off to America this week and hope to see some of you at the Goodroom on Friday. And then the following week, I'm in Ibiza at 528. But I'll still be streaming the show live with guest mixes from Marcia Carr , Pete Blaker , Carly Fox and Balearic Breakfast family member Steve Wakley, a.k.a. DJ Macaroon . So I look forward to hanging out in the chat with you. I'm leaving you with one more uptempo groover, this one from 1981 by Brit funk group Style X . And it's their only single, the only one they released. It's called No Secret Affair and it's been re-released with a geology rework on the flip. Thank you for listening.

Colleen 'Cosmo' Murphy broadcast the 224th episode of Balearic Breakfast on her Mixcloud on May 27th 2025. About this episode. – After playing an incredible set alongside Barbie and Paul (Love injection) at Brooklyn goodroom's (huge hugs to Susan for the the pictures!), Colleen took a nice breath of fresh air with the Balearic Breakfast family by streaming an exclusive new episode of our favourite show. And today's episode will bring you a lot of hapiness with both Marcia Carr and Ste Wakley both taking the con of our beloved musical ship! A few quick word's about Marcia Carr's (she did a wonderful interview with Colleen on the Boat Pod ) and about Steve's mixes. Marcia's mix is really one only the True Music Lovers will savour. I don't mean this in a bad way, but I insist on the fact that only those who Love Music from all genres willl truly understand what Marcia is proposing here, and it's Legit, it's pure, it's raw, it's unfiltered, it's beautifully mixed, reaching pure perfection several times (can you stay cool when hearing Santana's Incident At Neshabur mixed so perfectly right at I Remember Home's end, and crazily followed by Sadar Bahar's Angel Man ? 😍), and, first of all, it's diverse. But Diverse and United, and that's the true Mastery that our dear Marcia proposes us here. On the other hand, Steve's mix is lighter, sunnier, a true musical moment one could have while being on a cruise, heading to a beautiful and sunny island. Steve's mix will take you to the dancefloor and will bring a big smile on your face (listen to how much the sound is clean, it's really something to notice)! Ed. Note: For those of you that would like to discover Steve's musical universe, you can follow him on his Mixcloud , he presently has a residency at the Lonely Mouth, a Japanese listening cafe in Bristol. And, speaking about his own set, Steve shared: " I loved putting this set together, initially had about 3 hours of tracks I wanted to share, including ones I have only digital versions of (still can’t find me a copy of Ed Motta’s AOR, deluxe version, both English and Brazilian lyrics tracks), but slowly got it down to the hour, just. It ended up as a reflection of both my music tastes and also my journey through music. As a disco boy, my heart is always where the funk is at. Throw in some jazzy chords and improvisation, a Latin beat (Cuba, Brazil, Puerto Rico), sassy vocals, danceable power and passion, and I’m there. I do hope you enjoy the journey through this set as much as I do. Let me know what your favourite tracks are? Would love to hear from you." All in all, both sets, each shining under a different musical strength, will take you to the Balearic Side of Life. I would like to end this note by saying that these two mixes show how much freedom a DJ has, and how much his own vision is crucial to craft a musical world... the one he shares with you... Be free, love music, and if you have a story to tell, grab them turntables and share your soul with the world... We're Waiting! This morning’s Balearic Breakfast is now up on my Mixcloud at and features an exclusive mix and interview with Ms Marcia Carr . Marcia’s career has spanned 4 decades and has included international DJ-ing, radio shows and music journalism. Hear her story and her diverse and soulful mix on this week’s show. Swipe to check out a clip of her performing in our Love Dancin’ tent at We Out Here a couple years ago. On the second half of the show we have a soulful mix from our Balearic Breakfast family member Steve Wakley / DJ Macaroon which is absolutely lovely. Thanks to both Marcia and Steve for filling in for me while I’m in New York and to the fam who gathered on the live chat this morning. Next week I’ll be in Ibiza but will still be streaming with exclusive mixes from Pete Blaker and Carly Foxx. Listen back to the 224th episode of Balearic Breakfast: THE PLAYLIST Marcia Carr Playlist: ( 1998 ) Ricardo Marrero Y El Grupo Tiempo – Un Sabor Latino ( 2003 ) Alessandroni & Slope  – Neonato' (Original) Todd Terje  – Preben Goes to Acapulco (Re-Edited With Love) ( 1964 ) Anna King  – If Somebody Told You ( 1976 ) The Immigrant  – I Remember Home (A Peasant’s Symphony) ( 1970 ) Santana  – Incident At Neshabur ( 2013 ) Sadar Bahar  – Angel Man ( 2017 ) Monsalve Y Los Forajidos  – Black & Decker SAPPO  – What Difference Does It Make (A Capella) ( 2022 ) Souleance  – Guili ( 2020 ) Moments of Faith Singers  – Look Up (Al-Tone Extended Mix) ( 2014 ) Hot Issue, Victor Simonelli and Walter Warwick  – Motion 96 ( 2024 ) Gasket & L.D.F. feat., Javonnte  – Heaven D Kintsugi HEAL  – Music the Mantra (Brixton Boogie DUBB Mix) ( 2016 ) Leron Carson  – Lemonlime ( 2024 ) Javonntte  – How Did I Get Here (Love Drop Rework) DJ Macaroon (Steve Wakley) Playlist: ( 2023 ) Leon Thomas  – The Creator Has a Master Plan (Peace) (Edit) ( 1976 ) Ju Par Orchestra – Time ( 1974 ) Love Unlimited  – Move Me No Mountain ( 2024 ) Moar  – Brazilian Rhyme ( 2021 ) Camille & Chez Damier / Nico Lahs  – For Real ( 1978 ) Metropolis  – Every Time I See Him ( 1977 ) Harvey Mason  – Till You Take My Love ( 1978 ) Toto (ft Cheryl Lynn)  – Georgy Porgy ( 2021 ) Alex Malheiros  – Alto Veirdo / High Summer ( 1977 ) Bill Withers & Studio Rio  – Lovely Day ( 2020 ) Scruscru  – One for Xsuxsu ( 2021 ) Scruscru & S Timoshenko  – Slightly Wiggle ( 2024 ) Tiger Balm ft Jodo Selva  – Vem Ca ( 2021 ) King of Nothing  – Alright MARCIA CARR'S INTERVIEW WITH COLLEEN [Colleen] Good morning, Balearicans. I'm Colleen Cosmo Murphy hosting your weekly Balearic Breakfast on my MixCloud Live, and greetings to the family gathered over there. This morning, I'm in Brooklyn, so I have put together a show featuring two guests, my friend and DJ extraordinaire Marcia Carr . We'll have a chat about her musical journey and also her new compilation, and she's also put together a wonderful mix for us that also includes one of my favorite guitarists. It's truly eclectic. After that, we have a special soulful mix from one of our Balearic Breakfast family members, DJ Macaroon, or as we know him, Steve Wakely. I look forward to hanging out with you all in the chat, and now over to DJ Marcia Carr. Greetings, Balearicans. I'm here in the studio with Marcia Carr, a legendary DJ. She's had a very, very long career, a woman I have admired from afar and up close, and she's also worked on a new compilation called Soul Damn Funky Presents New York Classics Vol. 2, compiled by herself and Russell Ruckman, and it's a really great comp, some beautiful soulful house. Hi, Marcia. How are you?   [Marcia] Hi, Colleen. Thank you for that beautiful introduction. I'm well, thank you. It's a glorious week-end, the sun is shining, and yeah, I'm busy doing this, that, and the other, like yourself, sister.   [Colleen] Great! Now, your career started around the same time mine did, and we've been working for about 40 years in music. Can you just give us a little snapshot history of how you got your start in DJing?   [Marcia] So, how I got my start in DJing was basically, it started from the love, which from being a minor, taking my pocket money to buy records at Christmas and birthdays, that sort of thing, venturing into record shops when I became a teenager, and getting into it a lot more from moving on from family events, parties, and that sort of thing, and the school disco. I got into it by accident at university, when people found out that I could DJ, and I had records at home. I was asked to do the student unit disco, and one particular group of people, they wanted it for the women, so they'd found out what I could do, and I got into it a lot more then. I was always into it because of the music, listening on pirate radio stations, but I took it a lot more seriously when I left school.   [Colleen] How did you become a professional DJ? So, you started with the love.   [Marcia] From the student union, really, and getting a gig in the West End at Busby's nightclub, getting paid, you could say, that was it, and then the passion grew a lot more, so that would have been the mid-80s, and I thought, well, I quite like this, and because I was listening to pirate radio as well at the time, and certain radio stations like Capital Radio, Greg Edwards on Capital Radio, Peter Young, and wanting to know more about the records, my curiosity just grew so much, and I was going to a lot of parties, I was also a jazz dancer, you could say, into the boogie music, meeting up with the guys, and I just thought, I can do what that guy is doing there, I can, what that guy's doing on radio, I like what they're doing, I want to do more of that.   [Colleen] In the 90s, how did your career start to go in terms of getting out there and DJing in clubs and parties? Can you give us a little snapshot history of what was going on in the 90s?   [Marcia] So, during the 90s, before my daughter was born, I was already playing out, as I'd say, from 88 to 91, 92, I was playing now a lot of one-off parties here in London, and I was getting some bookings, was starting to trickle through internationally. I was mainly London-based, and then I went to Back to Basics, which is in Leeds, I played with the Offbeat Crew, which is with Johnny Reckless and Seamus RG.   [Colleen] So, I met you at Release the Groove back in 1999, I guess you've been working there throughout the 90s, and one of my philosophies is that great DJs come from working in record shops, because it really kind of promotes a certain diversity. I mean, you really end up listening to a lot of different kinds of music, and I mean, you're known for Chicago House, you're known for Gospel, Afro House, Four to the Floor, Techno, Broken Beat, Soul, I mean, your musical knowledge is expansive. Can you tell me a little bit about how your time at Release the Groove really influenced your style?   [Marcia] So, when you met me in the late 90s at Release the Groove, before that I had worked at a record shop called Unity Records, which was called Red Records, and they had another shop which was in Brixton before that. My taste had already been wide and varied across the spectrum of black music, because of my foundational years, radio, going out to clubs, dancing, and just always buying all of this music coming up as a teenager. So, my experience to that point, getting into the record shops, it was already formed, I would say, and I see that as a really good part of my character building, meeting all the lads as well, and siphoning information from them, because they don't always give it voluntarily! Marcia had her own radio show on The Boat Pod , ¡Take The Con!   [Colleen] Now, when I also met you, you were also at a group of women called Lady bugs. Can you tell us about the Lady bugs crew?   [Marcia] When I joined the second incarnation of the Lady bugs at the invitation and the behest of Orin Afronaut, he brought me, Sophie Callis, Tayo Moroney, and myself, and then later on, MC Marshmello joined in at one point.   [Colleen] And can I just interject, just to say who Orin is, Orin is Bugz in the Attic , so I think not everybody is going to know exactly who he is.   [Marcia] Yes, sorry, Orin Afronaut is a member of Bugz in the Attic as well, but as an artist in his own right as well, worked with the late Phil Asher and lots of other people, he brought us together as the Lady bugs, because we were always going to the parties, I was always going to Plastic People. When I joined them, Orin already knew that I was already writing about Broken Beat through music journalism, because in the 90s, by accident, again, or organically, I became a music journalist, knew the guys at Touch Magazine, Jamie D'Cruz, and I met by chance the artist, recording artist, Tashan in London, and I told the guys, I said, oh, I met Tashan, just bumped into him down the road, going, you lot should be writing about him. And Jamie goes, you can write, you can speak English, can't you? Why don't you write about him? I did it, and that was my first featured main piece ever as a music journalist. [Colleen] Amazing. It's amazing. [Marcia] I then was writing reviews for Blues and Soul, Straight No Chaser, and so the music journalism, the working in the record shops, are all part of the jigsaw puzzle. If you had the jigsaw puzzle of Marcia Carr all of these pieces would fit in there. I then worked on radio, and also, I attended South London College for a period, and I helped them set up a radio station. It was G2K Radio. I literally just remembered that, and I was raising my daughter as well at the time. I was also a single parent, so juggling all of these plates, because I wanted to get back to the music, it can be a lonely road sometimes. I'm not saying I didn't have the support of my family, but sometimes even there can be battles in the family, but I was determined I'm going to get back to the music, so that taking the time out to concentrate and focus on that for a while, I understand that priority. Lady Bugs, all of these things, they all helped me, and I kept the music journalism going, and music PR as well.   [Colleen] That's great. Let's keep the music going right now. We're going to get back to the music. We're listening to a mix from Marcia Carr, which I absolutely adore. Also, she has Santana in it. I've talked about this on the show. Carlos Santana is my favorite guitarist. Let's get back to the music, and we'll catch up with Marcia again towards the end of her mix. [Colleen] And now, we're back in the studio with Marcia Carr listening to her glorious mix. Of course, I was shazamming before I got the track list because it's so freaking good. Anyways, Marcia, you founded a community or a collective called GirlzBLike about a decade ago. Can you tell us a little bit about that?   [Marcia] Yes. Thank you for bringing that up, Colleen. Founded in 2015, We are Girls Be Like 10 is our hashtag. The platform is all about celebrating women selectors who I see have been visually supporting the arts and the culture behind vinyl records that we all love, just as you do, you know? We don't want the pretenders out here. We're not about DJs. It's a digital-free zone, I like to call it.   [Colleen] That's great. Digital detox!   [Marcia] Yes, you can detox all you like because we're not entertaining that in the spaces that we've used over the last 10 years to host all of the parties, which are every other month. [Colleen] Where are the parties, by the way?   [Marcia] Click here for tickets Presently, I've been blessed to facilitate them at Grow, which is in Hackney Wick. It's in East London. The management and the team over there are really lovely, honest, grounded, down-to-earth people. They're about community. It was born partly out of knockbacks, people telling me that I can't, I'm not worthy. No, we're not doing that. We're not entertaining women to do this, that and the other. I personally got tired of the rejection and the knockbacks and being told no. I thought, I'm capable. I know lots of women who are bloody good selectors. I'm fed up with this. Without a financial pot of money or anything, I just started it. It's like God said to me, just start where you're at. Stop putting these obstacles up. I thought, yes, I'm going to grab the ball by the horns and I'll just start where I am. It's coming from a formidable, grounded space. We're not about fanfare and fancy lights. Just come in because I've selected you because I know you've got good taste in music. As we say in Jamaica, you're not of the draw. Bring the tunes, come and play them to the crowd. We're showing them that, actually, women in a DJ booth, we actually do know how to do more than press buttons. And guess what? We're not hiding behind any digital fascia to sync or quantize. We're not doing any of that. We're just going to either play back to back, cut on the beat or mix and blend. That's how it's been the last 10 years and long may it continue. So Yes, we are celebrating Milestone and our motto is, guys dance, girls DJ. I'm just flipping it. I'm just flipping it. That's why the girls is spelled with a Z because it's about women. Whether we look tomboyish or the most feminine women in the space, we are women selectors and you will hear what we've got to say because we've always been here. [Colleen] I've always found, especially women from our generation, that we had to create our own thing and even Balearic Breakfast, in a sense. I do this on my own platform or create a classic albumsundays. You create your own things. My friend Janie Hopper did the same with Liquid Sound Lounge in New York. It's really great. Congratulations on your 10th year. [Marcia] Thank you. [Colleen] It's fantastic. Also, congratulations on your compilation. Is this the first compilation, Soul Damn Funky Presents New York Classics Vol. 2 ?   [Marcia] Yes. On the invitation of Mr. Victor Simonelli, who's from New York City.   [Colleen] Great DJ and producer.   [Marcia] Yes, of course. Legendary as well, who I met in the 90s. And Russell Ruckman . He loved Paul Trouble Anderson as much as I did. We have slightly similar music tastes. Those two were having a conversation and they said, we'd like to invite Marcia to compile the second installment of Russell's series. Yes, he's done it a couple of times before with Todd Terry and also with Victor previously. So I thought, I'm honoured. This is the first time in a 40 plus year career that somebody's actually invited me to come in and put together a compilation album. I was invited. I picked six tracks with great difficulty out of a catalogue of a thousand plus records that Victor Simonelli owns from his vaults. And I had to get it down to just six track titles, which I did. And I decided to include the hot issue Victor Simonelli and Walter Warwick motion 96 track on the mix, which everyone can hear on your show, because I wanted to actually highlight a different side of Victor Simonelli, his sort of more disco side. And so I picked that track and all the other tracks are gospel inspired selections. You've got Ann Nesby on there, of course...   [Colleen] ... and Federal Hell. I love Federal Hell.   [Marcia] And the Ronnie Canada track is a track that Paul Trouble Anderson used to play. And because he is one of my favourite all time selectors who inspired me much as well, I wanted to showcase many sides of Marcia, the many facets musically. So Connie Harvey's on there as well.   [Colleen] Oh, Connie Harvey, Daz and Gru, Tommy Musto, who I produced my first record with. I mean, it's fantastic. This is, you know, it's a great, great. I love it. It's like a soulful house sound. People, if you want to find it, you can find it on Beatport, I believe, at the moment.   [Marcia] It's on the Traxsource, and we are in the midst of trying to get the vinyl compilation together, so it will be out there in hardcopy format. Hopefully late summer into autumn, they'll be in the shops, because I'm also finding part of the selection, there are a couple of tracks I thought, I know from the crowds I'm entertaining, who I'm blessed to say are also younger, and then they're interested in what I have to bring to the music table on the decks. I thought, they'll like this track, they'll like that track, because they tried and tested, and I thought, yes, those will work. And so some of them are going to be available in vinyl format for the first time, some of these picks, and some available for the first time, some of the remixes in digital format. So we feel it, Russell and I feel it's a win-win, and Victor's totally behind it. So I'm proud to be part of this compilation, and I hope it's the start of many more projects to come with other people out there across musical genres that I so love.   [Colleen] Fantastic, and I hope so too. So one last question before we get back to your mix. What's going on this summer? Where can people hear you? Are you at any festivals, or any places playing around the UK?   [Marcia] The last three, four years, I've been blessed with some nice opportunities, and I'm grateful for that. So yes, I'm going to be teaming up with Luke Una bomber. I'm playing at his E-Sol Cultura spot in Manchester, also playing with him and Shea Damier in the autumn as well. Festival-wise, I've also got the Wildwood Festival that's coming up in June. [Colleen] That's a fun one, yeah. [Marcia] Yes, I'm very much looking forward to it. I'm making my debut there, and in between we've got Girls Be Like Dates, and I'm playing at the Pacific Tavern with GW Jazz. Shouts to Gordon and his wife. And yeah, I've got a few other bits coming up. The Margate Soul Festival as well, that's in August.   [Colleen] Marcia, thank you so much for being a guest on the show. I wish you all the best of luck with your first comp, and wishing you many more returns on that one. And have a wonderful summer. And for those listening, I hope you can catch her live, because she played at our Love Dance in Tempe before, and she rocked it. Marcia, thank you so much for joining me.   [Marcia] Colleen, Cosmo, it's been a pleasure. Thank you so much. And you keep flying the flag, doing what you do, because you love it from the heart. That's what keeps us going.   [Colleen] That's right, I agree.   [Marcia] We're mothers, we're friends, we're lovers, we're all this, that and the other. I'm God-fearing as well, but I know this is the mantle that God has given me, and I'm going to continue to pursue it on, while we have breath, yes? Let's slaughter them out there in the dark music arenas, because we have so much goodness to share! [Colleen] Yeah, absolutely. [Marcia] One loves Sis!

When Steve Conry shared with me Marcello Cassanelli 's Starlight, I knew I had to request the track for the show and, hopefully, meet the great composer behind it! 1) Dear Marcello, Starlight is such an atmospheric, rhythmic and funky number! The soundstage is beautifull too! How did you find this track's soul? Hello Artur, thanks for having me! My idea was to create a disco funk atmosphere built on a rhythm made with an old TR707 drum machine. To me, it has a fantastic sound and sometimes you don’t even realize it’s an electronic drum. So I’d say that’s the soul of the track. Everything else developed slowly from there. 2) When composing a song, a melody, where does the inspiration come from? How was starlight born? When I compose, I believe the melodies come from everything I’ve listened to and absorbed over time. I’m very drawn to music from the 1970s. Starlight was born from casually playing a few notes on the flute, which I later developed and arranged with all the other instruments. 3) Your versatility as a musician is splendid as, in 2018 you issued the beautiful album Overtour on Dodicilune Records. This album, in a way, announciates Starlight as you present the same blend of funky sounds associated with a traditionnal Jazzy musical base. Do you believe it is important for a musician, an artist in general, to find its own sound? An artist’s identity is often shaped by their style and sound, and I think that’s something quite natural. Each of us feels comfortable in certain musical worlds, so we tend to explore them more deeply. For someone who makes music, that’s often the path to finding their own sound. But sometimes things shift. You might unexpectedly land in a new world and discover new emotions. In those moments, your sound might change—and that’s the beauty of art. 4) When working on an album, what is the hardest moment? Would you say it is the composition of the tracks themselves, are you trying then to find a cohesion in what you're going to compose or is it the mixing/ mastering steps where you must find that sonic unity? I don’t usually associate the idea of difficulty with music. The more something challenges me, the more I enjoy it. That said, the composition process is definitely the longest for me. After that comes mixing, especially when, like with Starlight , I use an analog mixer and run the final mix through a reel-to-reel tape recorder. If you're not happy with the digital result, you can just click around with plugins and adjust things easily. But when working in analog, if something doesn’t sound right, you have to re-record the mix from scratch. Still, when you find the right sound, it’s worth all the effort. 5) Are you working on new music, and can we expect an album in the coming future? I have a lot of ideas. On my Instagram profile , I post a lot of content where I play original compositions. I think I’ll develop some of them into full tracks. First release of 2025 is The Coin EP Vol.3. Marcello Cassanelli is back on Ten Lovers Music with two stunning tracks and a beautiful outro solo on his Rhodes. Starlight kicks off side A with some superb Italian Disco for 2025, following that a trip to Cuba for Tropical Breeze on which Marcello employs long time collaborators and super talented Giulia Barozzi on vocals and Antonio Rapa on drums. Across both tracks Marcello plays the keys, bass, flute, guitar and drum programming. Rounding off side A is Dream Horizon an improvised one minute beatless outro jam on the Rhodes. On the AA side we have a new project from Caruso and Helen McCormack. First up is Have and Hold which harks back to the Manchester Street Soul scene of the late 80’s. Very simply constructed with electronic drums, bass, piano and a lead synth on top of which Helen’s vocal sits perfectly. Second on side AA is Love You More, a very atmostpheric track written by Helen with the strings arranged by Cormac Fulton. The percussion is from fellow TLM artist Takashi Nakazato (Kyoto Jazz Massive/Jazztronik). Both tracks were produced by Steve Conry who also assisted Jose Rico on the mixes. Finally to finish on side AA is Central, a beautiful Deep House instrumental using only real analogue synths like the Solina String Ensemble, ARP Odyssey and Oberheim Xpander, mixed by Steve Conry and Matt Cox.

Colleen celebrated "Balearic Breakfast", our beloved show streamed every Tuesday morning on Mixcloud alongside Joe Goddard at NT's Loft on May, 10th 2025. Colleen ‘Cosmo’ Murphy has cut her craft as a highly respected and experienced musical selector, establishing herself as an authority on music, sound and the vinyl renaissance. She joins us for a special Balearic Breakfast day party, joined by Hot Chip’s Joe Goddard . Find more information about Tickets here , and about NT's Loft here ( 207, 1 Westgate St, London E8 3RL, UK ). Here are a few pictures from the party that took place at NT's Loft, and I want to thank Amie-Jo (first 2 pics) and Simon Ellis (rest of the pics) for sharing their photographical memories with me!

Colleen 'Cosmo' Murphy broadcast the 220th episode of Balearic Breakfast on her Mixcloud on April 29th 2025. About this episode. –   The Balearic Breakfast Family was sad to see that Colleen didn't post the request line last Saturday, which meant the coming episode would be one where our dear Captain would play new tracks and mayne a couple of songs she had put aside for us, including a few of older requests. But, as she stated a few weeks ago, it's also her duty, as a DJ, to pomote new music and to play new artists. And, with such a talented soul, the Family knew this episode would be great, and unexpected, so there was really nothing to be worried about! We all patiently waited for the show time to arrive... " This morning’s Balearic Breakfast is now up on my Mixcloud and please give me a follow while you’re over there. Also, please consider subscribing to my Mixcloud if you have the means. Each show takes quite a bit of time and any help for my efforts is much appreciated. Today’s show has a lot of new music from @klangkollektor @justinstrauss1 @ejthackray @brian__jackson @masters_at_work_official @natashakittykatt @jimpster_gram @moodymanc_ @lukeunabomber @opoloposweden @margeeandsound @raz.and.afla @subnesiamusic and some records I have had put aside to play for you for awhile now. On Saturday the Request Line will go back up on my socials for next Tuesday’s show so get your thinking caps on. This weekend I’ll be playing back to back with Horse Meat Disco at @meltingpotglasgow at Queen’s Park in Glasgow and on Sunday I’m playing for @1btnradio birthday bash at Patterns and congrats for 10 great years for that community radio station. And then the following week we’re having a Balearic Breakfast Day Party at @ntloft in London and my special guest is @joe_hot_chip . Have a great week and thanks for listening!" Listen back to the 220th episode of Balearic Breakfast: PLAYLIST ( 2025 ) KlangKollektor – Isle of Stonsey ( 1985 ) Patrick O’Hearn  –  Ancient Dreams ( 2025 ) Balaphonic (ft. Ocean Waves Brasil)  –  Oxum ( 2025 ) Brian Jackson (ft. Raheem DeVaughn & J. Ivy)  –  It’s Your World ( 1981 ) Webster Lewis  –  El Bobo ( 2002 ) Dennis Mobley & Fresh Taste  –  Superstition ( 2025 ) Subnesia (ft. Nordal)  –  Baila Gitano ( 2025 ) Ella Andall  –  My Spirit is Music (Luke Una Edit) ( 2025 ) ???  –  Mediterranean Night Long (Eclectic Journeys Edit) ( 2025 ) Margee  –  Tartiflux (Justin Strauss Remix) ( 2025 ) Emma-Jean Thackray  –  Save Me ( 2025 ) Joseph Malik  –  Only Fans (Natasha Kitty Katt Rework) ( 2025 ) Millie Jackson  –  We Got to Hit It Off (Opolopo Deeper Mix ( 2002 ) Blake  –  Saturday Night (Ewan Pearson Al Usher Remix) ( 2025 ) Jimpster  –  Beat of an Era ( 2001 ) Paulo Rocha  –  Dreamwalker (X-Tended E Dub) ( 2025 ) Daisybelle  –  Into the Night ( 2025 ) Raz & Alfa  –  Going Back to My Roots COLLEEN'S NEWS Do not forget to subscribe to Colleen's website ( https://www.colleencosmomurphy.com/ ) to get updates about her upcoming events! Here are some dates where Colleen will be spinning over the next few weeks: 3rd May: Melting Pot at Queens Park, Glasgow 4th May: 1BTN Birthday Bash at Patterns, Brighton 10th May: Balearic Breakfast Day Party at NT's Loft, London 18th May: All Night Long at Pikes, Ibiza 23rd May: Cosmodelica x Love Injection at The Good Room, Brooklyn, NY 28th May: Dantes HiFi in Miami, Florida 7th June: Last Note Party in Perugia, Italy  ( sign up for our mailing list ) THE LISTENNING EXPERIENCE Often, I listen to friends talk about their favourite artists, or their favourite DJ's. They often say, oh that band or that singer is great, that DJ is really one of the best around! And the interesting stuff only happens when I dare ask the question: can you tell me why? Then, there's a pause in the conversation as time has come to search for the good, and true, arguments. Explaining why is the hardest part. It may come down to the musicianship or the qualities of the artist we love. A few months ago I was having a drink with Men Tensel in Paris, and he asked me the question, we were of course talking about Colleen and about our beloved show. And Olivier, Men Tensel's real name, asked me: tell me, according to you, why is Colleen such a good DJ? And I started to think about the Why: first, her ability to shape stories using songs (which is something few DJs do today actually); then, the fact that she's all about music, blending jazz, disco, electro, pop, rock, and, of Course, her technical skills. I think these were a few of the arguments I gave to Olivier back then. And I stopped, lost for words. With a smile, he said to me: "take your time and write that down when you'll have some time". And, when I listened to today's show, I remembered a few of the other reasons why Colleen is up there. As she said once in an interview, when working on remixes, she always try to serve the music, not having a specific sonic imprint, even though, as you know if you read the articles I wrote here about some of her productions, she does have a kind of light "signature". So when I listened to this 220th episode (already!) I remembered how much the statement she made about her productions did also apply to the way she mixes! Think about it, does our Captain mix the same way when she's at the loft, before a huge crowd, when she starts Balearic Breakfast or when she's in a club somewhere in Japan? The answer is, of Course, No! Colleen is a musical painter. She knows perfectly how to cue records, how to mix them, and her technicity somehow disappeard and she only uses it to serve the musical message she wants to convey. Colleen is a Chameleon. And this episode truly showcases that, as we have the first part of the show which presents a light and calm mixing journey, whereas the second part of the show showcases a tense, incredibly precise mix, creating an unparalleled musical unity... And as far as today's post title goes, well, as I said, the first part of the show has some tracks that really feel like you're presently leaving from somewhere and that you're heading towards a new destination, it's really the action of leaving, the physical movement , that you can feel in these songs. With the second part of the show being so clubby, yet still keeping that "freeing my mind" feeling (think of the song "Save Me" for instance...), I found this great title which perfectly mixes these two realitties... COLLEEN'S PRESENTATION Isle of Stonsey by KlangKollektor coming out on his forthcoming Dub Tapes Vol. 2 as a follow-up to Guess What Vol. 1 released last year. KlangKollektor is a solo project by Nuremberg's Lars Fischer who's also part of the psychedelic cumbia band Trak Trak and Dub Tapes Vol. 2 is coming out on the label Before I Die Projects which is Manchester's Jason Boardman 's label and he's one half of Aficionado Recordings with Moonboots who's the other 50 percent. KlangKollektor is a very interesting project and keep your eyes out on Bandcamp to pre-order. Greetings on a gorgeous Sunday London morning. I'm Colleen Cosmo Murphy hosting your weekly Balearic Breakfast on my Mixcloud Live until high noon and good morning, good afternoon, and good evening to those joining in on the chat from all corners of the globe and thank you for being here. I hope you all had a good weekend. I took an epic 20 kilometer walk in Epping Forest followed by some epic Epsom salts and I'm gearing up for another big weekend of events. I'm going back to... I'm going back to back actually with Horsemeat Disco this Saturday at Melting Pot at Glasgow's Queen's Park and then on Sunday I'm playing at Patterns in Brighton for 1BTN's 10th birthday and I just want to say happy birthday to 1BTN . It's a great community radio station with a lot of great DJs whom I follow and I'm so honored they asked me to play for this momentous occasion, and as you know community radio is very important to me as I've been broadcasting on different radio platforms for over 40 years starting on my 10 watt high school radio station back in the early 80s, and I think the pandemic really hit home how radio can really keep us connected. Congrats to 1BTN and wishing that radio station many more decades of happy returns and one more party announcement for the Balearicans. On Saturday the 10th of May we're having a Balearic Breakfast Day Party . I'm returning to East London's Enties Loft this time with my friend Joe Goddard of Hot Chip and I'm looking forward to seeing some of you there. Last one was so much fun, it was really great, and I just noticed they're doing a flash sale this week, so tickets are really cheap, so I've read the moment so head over to residentadvisor.com to get tickets for the Balearic Breakfast Day Party on the 10th of May. Okay, today's show I have a lot of new music for you new releases from Balaphonic, Brian Jackson, Emma Jean Thackray, Daisy Bell, Luke Una, Natasha Kittycat, Opolopo, and Raz and Alpha along with a bunch of records I've set aside over the last few months. The request line will go up again this weekend, so get those thinking caps on. Now, this next one is an older record I wanted to share with you it's by Californian multi-instrumentalist Patrick O'Hearn who was a bass guitarist and keyboard player with Frank Zappa, so you know he has some chops, and then he was in the band Missing Persons, and I love Missing Persons 1982 album Spring Session M later discovered it was produced by Ken Scott, who did Supertramp and David Bowie, and he's now a friend of mine, so really interesting. Anyways I'm rambling. O'Hearn's solo career was inspired by Tangerine Dream's Peter Baumann and he produced O'Hearn's 1985 debut album which went in a different direction than the bands that he was in previously, more new age more experimental, and it was the right journey as he later won Grammy nominations. This is Patrick O'Hearn with Ancient Dreams . Balaphonic with Oshun from the new album Resolution Revolutions on Phil Cooper 's new Northern Soul imprint and Balaphonic is Danny Ward who has a 30-year career in dance music, poor guy just like me, just joking, and he's worked as Double D , Moody Mank and with 2020 Sound System , Feel the Brasilia and also Matthew Halsall , amongst many others. Balaphonic was inspired by lockdown era experiments, and his long-held love for Afro-Cuban and Afro-Brazilian rhythms, and the track we just heard is a collaboration with Ocean Waves Brazil a musical and cultural project focused on the traditional music of an Afro-Brazilian religion called Candomblé and the whole Balaphonic album is really great, and it's out now, and there's another great new album on the horizon. This next one is from keyboard and flute player and singer-songwriter composer Brian Jackson . He's releasing the first single from his forthcoming album on BBE, and the new album is called Now More Than Ever and it's produced by Masters at Work which is incredibly exciting. In fact, Jackson is playing at London's Out Here at Outernet with Louis Vega and Omar on the 29th of May. Now the new album recrafts 17 songs Jackson collaborated with with the late Gil Scott Heron , and the first up is a new version of one of my favorites, It's Your World featuring singer Raheem Devon and spoken word artist Jay Ivy and it's unleashed this Friday. A cover of Stevie Wonder 's Superstition by Dennis Mobley and Fresh Taste released on P&P Records in 1977, and I've had that set aside for months and months and months, and I really didn't know how rare and sought after it was until I checked Discogs this morning. I can't even remember where I got this, but I know I didn't pay what it's going for now. So, uh... love that one! Ahead of that an old request I set aside and I have no idea who requested it because it was from months ago but the song we heard was El Bobo by Webster Lewis the late jazz disco composer and keyboardist. He got his start working with Tony Williams , George Russell , and Bill Evans later worked as a session musician with Herbie Hancock which is quite a pedigree. And in the 70s he hopped on the Disco Express and released some solo albums, and he also produced artists like Gwen McRae and Michael Wykoff , and starting it all off with Brian Jackson featuring Raheem Devon and Jay Ivy a new version of It's Your World and that's coming out on BBE this Friday. Okay this next one has Balearic written all over it. It was released digitally on Music for Dreams in 2023 but I was sent a test pressing, so it looks like it's coming out on vinyl soon, it's by Subnesia who is Danish producer songwriter and saxophonist Michael Rune , and DJ and producer Anders Ponsaing . They released their debut The Beginning digitally in 2023 and they have a new album called Range of Colors but this is from their first collaboration with Nordal Subnesia with Baila Gitano . Tartaflux the title of the forthcoming EP by Margee on Brooklyn DJ producer Timo Lee 's label Chomp Chomp , and you can pre-order the vinyl, and we are listening to the Justin Strauss remix. Margee is the musical project of Alexandre Gimard , and Justin Strauss should need no introduction for the Balericans but, just in case, Strauss launched his career in the 1980s in New Spinning Area the Ritz, and the Mud Club and more, and working with and remixing for Depeche Mode, Tina Turner, Jimmy Cliff, B-52s amongst so many others, and his remix of Tartaflux by Margee is out now. Ahead of that a mysterious re-edit of a cover of Lionel Richie 's All Night Long a Spanish version called Mediterranean Night Long (The Eclectic Journeys edit), and thank you to Sparky who sent me a test pressing of the first release on this Liverpool imprint Melodies of Love, and there's only 150 copies no repress and no digital, so if you want it head over to Melody of Love's Bandcamp now. And this site offers the description of the, of the mysterious edit, it sounds like Elkin and Nelson of Jabiro Jabiro Jabaro fame taking on entertainment duties at Pike's Hotel during the 1980s and delivering a killer gypsy rumba cover version of Lionel Richie's End of the Night Anthem All Night Long. Now, I've asked them who did the original, they're not answering, but this Mediterranean Night Long will be played at my Pike's residency this summer, in which, you guessed it, I'm playing All Night Long. And here are the dates for me over at Pike's, if you can join me, the 18th of May 29th of June and the 28th of September. Ahead of that a request from last week by Rob the Urban Healer, we heard the Luke Una edit of My Spirit is Music by Ella Andall , the Grenadian Trinidadian singer, and an Orisha devotee. She released five albums starting in 1991 when she debuted with My Spirit is Music and it's such a great title. Luke did a respectful edit for his É Soul Kultura project that is coming out on vinyl on Mr. Bongo this week, and we have a few trinnies on the chat group right now, and Brooklyn-based Burt informed us that Trinidad has a new woman Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar and congrats to her, and I just want to say doubles are the best breakfast food ever. Okay, producer singer songwriter multi-instrumentalist and all-around stellar talent Emma Jean Thackray released her second album last week, this time on Brownswood Recordings . It's called Weirdo and it is a triumphant celebration of survival and individuality and was entirely written, performed, recorded, mixed and arranged by Thackray. She also describes it as a deeply personal exploration of selfhood grief and gratitude, and it follows the loss of her long-term partner a couple of years ago. She's also been a guest at my Classic Album Sunday 's Platform on a couple of occasions both times interviewed by Tina Edwards, and once about Thackray's favorite album the Beach Boys Pet Sounds, and also for a series we hosted called Producer Pioneers, and you can find out more on the Classic Album Sunday's website. Here is Emma Jean Thackray with Save Me . Ed. Note: In an interview she gave to Stereogum , Emma shared the stories behind each track of her new album. Speaking about the song "Save Me" , she explained: " It’s definitely what I’m going for, the balance of the heaviness with the lightness; the levity and then the bleak, stark lyrics. I’m definitely trying to have that duality there. And I think if you’re singing about something heavy, you need to have quite a catchy melody with it, or the music that’s surrounding the words needs to have an upbeat aspect to it. And I think it’s the same in how you approach the words; if you’re going to talk about something heavy, maybe try and bring some fun and some joy into it, like making a joke. If you’re just saying, “I’m really sad,” people aren’t necessarily going to pick up on that. But if you’re spinning it into more of a story, people listen more. I listened to more of myself as well when I put stuff in that way, because, as I said before, when I was making everything, I wasn’t thinking about anyone else. I was just thinking about me; I needed to make a joke for myself to help me process it." Colleen Cosmo Murphy with you here on Balearic Breakfast, almost at Club 89, it's feeling like my Club 89 days from the 90s. This is British DJ producer keyboardist and free-range label owner Jimpster , and he's debuted on New Groove the seminal cult house label founded in 1988. He has a new EP out called The Phoenix EP and this is Beat of an Era and the first final run is sold out, but they're now repressing and it's just a great deep house groover. Ahead of that another one I've set aside for you, the Ewan Pearson and Al Usher remix of Saturday Night by Blake. And Blake is Iceland's Magnus Jonsson , and it came out in 2002 on Ideal, and I used to play it all the time. Now, last week I played you my forthcoming remix of The Street People which is part of the spring revisited project by Sweden's Cosmos Music , and we just heard another remix from this incredible series, we heard the Opolopo deeper mix of Millie Jackson 's We Got To Hit It Off which really reminds me of early death mix productions Dave Morales in particular. Opolopo also did a more disco 5 version of the song, and Dimitri from Paris also did two stunning mixes, so you're spoiled for choice and that's out this Friday on Acid Jazz . So head over to their Bandcamp. Now, you may know Edinburgh based DJ Natasha Kitty Katt from her sets at Southport Soul Weekender and Sunset Beat. And now the Soulstress is showing her love of Berlin style synthy space disco with her debut album Synaptic Juice released last month on her own label Shadowrunner , and it sees collaborations with Billy Wirth in the film The Lost Boys , Suki Soul , His Bitter Truth and also Joseph Malik , and we heard Natasha's rework of Malik's Only Fans . This is Colleen Cosmo and Murphy with you on Balearic Breakfast. Let's get back to the music, going until high noon on my Mixcloud Live, absolutely loving this one, Into The Night by Daisybelle , and that came out on HeSheThey Records last month. And Daisy Bell has releases on Nervous, Rebirth and Future Disco . She was born into a musical family in Puerto Rico, and she's been spinning all over the world over the last few years, also on Mott Radio and Bellami Radio , and is now based in London, and she has more productions coming out on Razor and Tape and Apparel Wax one to watch out for, and when I'm going through my record collection sometimes I find older tracks I've been putting aside to play for you. And ahead of that we heard Dreamwalker by a Porto Portugal's Paulo Rocha , one I used to play all the time when it came out in 2001 on Alan Russell 's Black Vinyl Records . And it still sounds great. Sounding a lot like one of my old Club 89 shows in the 1990s and I've been listening back to some of those it's kind of cool, my voice is an octave higher and a very different accent, but it's really fun it's really cool to like hear all these mixes that you did on the internet, people have posted on YouTube, and there's some on DJ M Trax's Soundcloud, and there's a few on my Mixcloud. Actually I have a playlist called Cosmo 1990s and there's one with Rome Anthony on it too, he was one of my special guests, he was an old friend of mine back in the day. Well I hope to see some of you at Melting Pot at Queens Park this Saturday or at the 1BTN Birthday Bash at Patterns in Brighton on Sunday. Don't forget the request line is back up this Saturday on my socials, so think of some good suggestions for next week's show, and you can also subscribe to my Mixcloud. I do these shows for free. Takes a while to put them together and appreciate any support. Totally understand if you can't do it, but three pounds a month isn't too much, and you can do that over on my Mixcloud page. I'm going to leave you with a fresh collaboration from the prolific Hackney based producer Raz Olsher and Ghanaian master musician Afla Sackey , and they present their own take on Afro House, and they did so on their sophomore LP Echoes of Resistance out on Wawa 45s , and they covered one of my favorites Lamont Dozier's 1977 classic Going Back to My Roots , and of that song they said "We love this song, the lyrics resonate with us talking about the meaning of connection to a land and its people, the history of this song is also fascinating from Hugh Masekela and Orlando Julius through to Odyssey and Ritchie Havens. We wanted to give it our own flavor, you can't choose your heritage and where you're born; and it's always a part of you; and we like to celebrate that." Wishing you all a wonderful week, and looking forward to your requests on Saturday. Thank you so much for listening.

Colleen 'Cosmo' Murphy broadcast the 219th episode of Balearic Breakfast on her Mixcloud on April 22nd 2025. About this episode. – Amidst her latest gigs, and with Record Store day hapenning on April 12th, Colleen managed to lauch the request line on April 19th and announced, on April 20th the new remix she did for... The Cure! To say that our Captain is busy would be na understatement, she's prolificaly busy, and that's why we feel here the need to bring her all the support we can! Our appreciation for what she does is endless, she brings us so much pleasure! So, since she's working hard, we're supporting harder, laughs! This episode perfectly represents the "state of grace" our dear Captain is presently experiencing. But we shall talk about this later in this post! " Yesterday’s Balearic Breakfast is now up on my Mixcloud and please give me a follow while you’re over there (link in linktree). This week’s show is mainly requests and we have a wee tribute to both the recently passed Max Romeo and to Prince whom we lost 9 years ago this week (thankfully we still have his music). There’s also new music from IKE, @phi_psonics  , some great reworks from @randomhouseperson  and @thereflexmusic  and a debut of my forthcoming remix of The Street People ‘I Wanna Get Over’ coming out digitally on @cosmosmusic on the 23rd May and on vinyl via @acidjazzrecords  in June. Its been getting a great response on the dancefloor, too. I’ll be back hosting Balearic Breakfast live from the record room on Tuesday from 10am to 12pm BST on my Mixcloud Live and until then, please enjoy this week’s show with music from @peakinglights @bryonyjarmanpinto   @lyndadawn_   @xlmiddleton   @joshmilan6969  @kevin_hedge @privatejoyhq @adafrancis   @cazeauxoslo   @alexander_flood  #ninasimone #larrylevan #prince #maxromeo" Listen back to the 219th episode of Balearic Breakfast: PLAYLIST ( 2018 ) Peaking Lights – Sea of Sand ( 2025 ) Japan  – Ghosts (Random House Project Rework) ( 2025 ) IKE  – Clay ( 1976 ) Max Romeo & The Upsetters  – One Step Forward ( 2025 ) Phi-Psonics  – Healing Time ( 2024 ) Bryony Jarman-Pinto  – Deep ( 2012 ) Ronnie Dyson  – The Captain of Your Soul ( 2021 ) Lynda Dawn  – Roses (XL Middleton Remix) ( 1979 ) Shigeru Suzuki  – Los Enamorados ( 1984 ) Special Occasion  – Flying to Santa Barbara ( 1997 ) Blaze  – The Garden ( 1982 ) Peech Boys  – Don’t Make Me Wait (Extended Mix) ( 2024 ) Private Joy ft Ada Francis  – Let Love Find a Way ( 2025 ) Marcello Cassanelli  – Starlight ( 2024 ) Alexander Flood ft Cazeaux O.S.L.O.  – Life is a Rhythm ( 2003 ) Monkey Brothers  – Invisible (Club Mix) ( TBR ) The Street People  – I Wanna Get Over (Cosmodelica Remix) ( 1999 ) 94 East (feat. Prince)  – One Man Jam ( 1975 ) Earth Wind & Fire  – Africano ( 2022 ) Nina Simone  – I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel To Be Free (The Reflex Revision) COLLEEN'S NEWS Do not forget to subscribe to Colleen's website ( https://www.colleencosmomurphy.com/ ) to get updates about her upcoming events! Here are some dates where Colleen will be spinning over the next few weeks: 3rd May: Melting Pot at Queens Park, Glasgow 4th May: 1BTN Birthday Bash at Patterns, Brighton 10th May: Balearic Breakfast Day Party at NT's Loft, London 18th May: All Night Long at Pikes, Ibiza 23rd May: Cosmodelica x Love Injection at The Good Room, Brooklyn, NY 28th May: Dantes HiFi in Miami, Florida 7th June: Last Note Party in Perugia, Italy  ( sign up for our mailing list ) THE LISTENING EXPERIENCE This episode was special, for a lot of reasons, and we felt it. Its intellectual realm was unique, its flow was immaculate but I must admit I did not seize the imagery as quickly as usual. It took me an hour and a half to get the message, the meaning. Yes, it took me that much time to feel a breeze on my skin, a cool, almost cold, yet consistent Breeze on my skin, a breeze meeting me under a wakening sun… It won’t be easy for you to feel that one, but trust my feelings, the Breeze is here and I’ll tell you precisely how you can feel it  in your head  listening to the show… As Colleen sums it up perfectly, let’s keep the vibe deep and spacey. First, it’s about the rhythm of the show. We don't reach high bpms in this 219th episode. Although things get funkier towards the last 40 minutes of the show, a vast majority of the songs keep a cool and almost steady bpm as time goes on. Also, pay attention to the sound, it stays consistently light and airy, allowing for the breeze to appear quite easily... Indeed, when listening to the songs selected by our dear Captain, you should be able to hear the breeze waving up and down in your head. When listening to songs like Sea of Sand , Ghosts , Clay , or even Deep , allow your mind to leave the moment you're lmentally in and try to picture the lake with the beautiful trees and feel the wind caressing your face. Of course, Colleen's mixing also helps in joining this beautiful place, listen to what happens at 1h21min58s when Colleen blends Marcello Cassanelli's Starlight with Alexander Flood's Life is a Rhythm ... Not only is the mix perfect, it is totally unexpected! The first Wow Moment of this episode is right there! Add to this Colleen's impeccable Remix of I Wanna Get Over , the second Wow moment of this episode, and you're totally set! The last element you must take into account is, as announced, and if I can put it that way, Colleen’s personal “state of grace”. Things happening lately to her in her carreer may have influenced the structure of today’s episode, letting her choose songs with a generous yet cooler pace. Of course, our requests were, as usual, great! All in all, it seems obvious why this episode was Cooler than a Breeze... 😉 COLLEEN'S PRESENTATION Wisconsin Californian psychedelic electronic musical duo and married couple Peaking Lights with Sea of Sand from their EP of the same name, released on Dekmantle back in 2018. And this EP shows off their synth pop, chill wave, balearic beats, dub and ambient sound. And an interesting fact, they were invited by the late Lee Scratch Perry to collaborate on his 12-inch Life of the Plants . And thank you to Barry Berenitz in Washington, DC for that lovely request. Good morning, Balearicans. I'm Colleen Cosmo Murphy, hosting your weekly Balearic Breakfast on my MixCloud Live until high noon or a little bit later. Greetings to the family gathered over there right now, and thank you for keeping me company on Tuesday mornings, and also for giving me a week off. Adam and I were in Cork and Dublin celebrating his birthday, doing some writing. I also DJ'd at a couple of parties, Funk Smack at the wonderful Connellies of Lep in West Cork, and Fidelity in Dublin. And both nights were absolute crackers. And thanks to all who brought their big Celtic spirits onto the dance floor. It was really great. I just love playing in Ireland. Actually, I'll be heading back there on the 23rd of August for the If You Know, You Know Festival in Bell, Oregon, so hopefully I'll see some of you there. Today's show is mainly requests, and we also have a wee tribute to both the recently passed Max Romeo , and we'll also pay tribute to Prince , whom we lost nine years ago as of yesterday. And I'll be playing something a little bit less obvious. There's also new music from Ike, Phisonics, and some great reworks from Random House Project and The Reflex . I'm also debuting one of my forthcoming remixes. Now, you may have seen the announcement last night that I was asked by Robert Smith to remix The Cure. Definitely a career highlight. I may have finally arrived. And I did it with Joe Goddard of Hot Chip and Al Doyle of LCD Sound System as we're working on a project together called Electric Eden . We've actually been making new music for the last year. The Cosmodelica Electric Eden remix of And Nothing Is Forever is on the Cure's forthcoming mixes of A Lost World , and proceeds are going to the amazing charity Médecins Sans Frontieres , also known as Doctors Without Borders , and you can preorder it from The Cure website.   Now I'm actually teasing you because I'm not playing that one today. In fact, if you want to hear it first, you have to come to the Balearic Breakfast Day Party on the 10th of May at NT's Loft in East London, where my buddy Joe Goddard is also joining me and tickets are now up on Resident Advisor. Instead, I'm showcasing another remix I've been playing out for the past few weeks and it's by an early 70s soul group from New Jersey called The Street People. So please stick around for that a bit later in the show. Click Here to buy tickets But let's keep the vibe deep and spacey for now. And this is a request from Matt Raystrick for a great Random House Project rework of the band Japan . It's the song Ghosts from their 1981 fifth and final studio album, Tin Drum , and it's the Random House Project rework. One step forward , the 1978 single by the late Max Romeo and The Upsetters . The Jamaican singer and songwriter worked on a sugar plantation as a teenager until he was discovered in a local talent contest in the mid 1960s. After working with the vocal group The Emotions , he went solo in 1968 and shocked many listeners with the overtly sexual single Wet Dream . In the early 70s, he became more politicized in his lyrics and the Democratic Socialist Party, the People's National Party, chose his song Let the Power Fall as their anthem. And then Romeo worked with Lee Scratch Perry , who produced his most classic album, War in the Babylon , considered his most enduring classic, and featured the single we just heard and also another great Chase the Devil . And thank you to Alex Elliott and Danny Broderick for requesting the late Max Romeo, who sadly passed a couple of weeks ago. Ed. Note: One Step Forward is one of Max Romeo's classics featured on the timeless War Ina Babylon album. The singer refers to Manley's own politics, as he keeps changing his mind about a possible rapprochement with the United States. "One day you've got dreadlocks, the next day you're baldhead! Move on man and get us out of Babylon!" "One step forward, two steps back..." There's also a great documentary on Amazon Prime The Upsetter: The Life And Music Of Lee Scratch Perry Ahead of that, we heard Clay by IKE , who is Isaac Demartini , a composer, musician and producer from Treviso, Italy, who blends jazz and electronics, and who's also inspired by his travels in Egypt and Ethiopia. Clay is coming out on his debut LP, On Higher Dreams , coming out on the 25th of May on Dom Servini's Wawa45's label. I also want to send a shout out to someone who is tuned into the MixCloud live stream. Shout out to DJ Together and the Kaivu Autistics Department in Estonia. Thank you so much for tuning in. Now, if you're a regular Balearic Breakfast listener, then you know I'm a big fan of Matthew Halsall 's Gondwana label. I don't think there's an act or an album that I don't like as the jazzy, ambient, contemplative, transcendental sound is really right up my alley. On their roster is Phisonics , a meditative instrumental project based in Los Angeles, and led by upright bass player Seth Ford Young . Phisonics released their second album, Octava , on Gondwana a couple of years ago, and they're back with a new one called Expanding to One , which will be released at the end of May. Young says this of the new album, Here are Phisonics with Healing Time . Victor Oltanu in Romania always comes up with some interesting nuggets, and this one's no exception. This is Los Enamorados by Japanese songwriter and guitarist Shigeru Suzuki from his 1969 LP White Heat , which is a masterpiece of West Coast jazz rock with a Latin feel, featuring many musicians, including Ritchie Sakamoto , Yukihiro Takahashi , and Akiko Yano . And the Yellow Magic Orchestra connections don't stop there, as Suzuki was on Happy End , a very influential Japanese band along with Harumi Hosono , and they were in that band from 1969 to 1973. And Suzuki has become one of Japan's most respected sly guitarists, and recently reunited with his high school band Sky , and they've released some new albums as well. Ahead of that, the 2021 single by Lynda Dawn , Roses , remixed by XL Middleton , a funk G-funk producer and artist from California. The London singer-songwriter producer Lynda Dawn also released her debut album, 11th Hour, at the end of last year on her own label, and you can find out more about her on Bandcamp and on her website . You can check out her album as well, it's gorgeous. And thank you to Kieran McCann in Glasgow for that suggestion. Our friend Bert Francois in Brooklyn came up with a few soulful goodies this week, and it was difficult to choose but one, and I had to choose that one because it was a really self-motivational song. It's called Captain of Your Soul , that's what we heard, by the late American soul singer Ronnie Dyson . It was a b-side to his 1974 single, Life and Breath , and he released several albums throughout the 70s and early 80s, and even worked with legendary Philadelphia producer Tom Bell . But Dyson possibly had more success as an actor, as he won the leading role in the 1968 Broadway production of The Musical Hair , and he led the show's anthem, Aquarius . Ahead of that, a song named Deep by soul folk singer, songwriter, and musician Bryony Jarman-Pinto , and it's from her second album, Below Dawn , and it was released last year on True Thoughts . The album navigates sentimental themes from societal change to untapped emotions to the profound journey of pregnancy and motherhood. I had the pleasure of remixing her single Moving Forward from that album, and here's a little preview. My Bryony Jarman-Pinto remix will finally come out on vinyl on my next Balearic Breakfast 4 compilation. Thank you to Tom Torres in Vienna for that request. Okay, Konstantinos Folias in Greece put this next one on my radar. A recent reissue on French label Favorite, which is of course a Balearic Breakfast favorite, they put out a great comp called AOR Global Sounds , Volume 4 , 1977 to 1987 , curated by Charles Maurice , and one of the cuts is by Special Occasion , a Belgian band that released only two singles in the mid-1980s. They were produced by Tony Baron , who was deeply involved in several new beat projects and closely tied to the Nunc record label. Here is Special Occasion with Flying to Santa Barbara . Don't Make Me Wait , the 1982 single by New York City's Peech Boys , or Brooklyn's Peech Boys, as Bert François just said over on the Mixcloud Live, produced by Paradise Garage DJ Larry Levan . Peech Boys featured longtime Rolling Stones associate and collaborator and Tackhead singer Bernard Fowler , who also is on Herbie Hancock's electro-tinged albums from the mid-1980s, and also the late keyboardist Michael D. Benedictus , who also worked with Carol Williams , Gwen McCrae , and Denroy Morgan . Don't Make Me Wait was Peach Boys' debut single, and thank you to Christine D'Souza for that request. Ed. Note: In 2019, Greg Wilson shared on his socials: " Musician Michael de Benedictus, former member of influential New York group the Peech Boys (also known as New York Citi Peech Boys / NYC Peech Boys), which also included Larry Levan and Bernard Fowler, died last Thursday, aged 67. His best-known recording was 'Don't Make Me Wait', a seminal underground track released on West End Records , one of NYC's essential dance labels, and first played at the Paradise Garage - its electronic approach an inspiration for subsequent releases, its 'fierce claps' soon re-created on tracks like 'Thanks To You' by Sinnamon and ‘Walking On Sunshine’ by Rockers Revenge. This was an innovative recording that sounded like nothing else on its release, a real catalytic moment. I first heard it on March 21st 1982, when Legend resident Ralph Randell played it at the Wigan Pier All-Dayer. He’d been to London ahead of the event and had grabbed a copy fresh in that day on import. I flipped when I heard it and beseeched him to let me keep hold of his copy for a few days in case I couldn’t get a copy on my own in the meantime, so I had it for my Tuesday at Wigan and Wednesday at Legend – it was that essential. It went on to become a huge tune on the specialist black music scene and, following its eventual UK release, entered the UK chart in October '82, breaching the top 50. It would also reach #6 on the Billboard US Dance chart. The Dub version was my mix of choice back then, and I later included it on the Classic Electro Mastercuts compilation that I put together in 1994." From their second album, Basic Blaze , released on Slip'n'Slide in 1997, we heard the New Jersey duo Josh Malone and Kevin Hedges , known as Blaze , or as I call them, House Music's Earth, Wind & Fire. We heard The Garden , a request from producer Pete Blaker. Still can't get enough of his Eric dub, which closed The Last Balearic Breakfast, and which I've been caning at every every gig since. Now, it's interesting, it's only a week before I went back to this same album and played My Beat at the Cosmodelica party with Hands On Family at BBE. Both tracks still sound fresh. Gosh, nearly 30 years later, I can't even believe it. This is Colleen Cosmo Murphy with you on Balearic Breakfast, going for about another hour, and this next one is by Private Joy , or Pops Roberts , and she made her mark on the Manchester scene by providing guest vocals on records by Rough Doug and Finn , and also as a producer of soul band Love Scene . Her first EP, Desire , as Private Joy, was released last year on Bradley Zero 's Rhythm Section International label. Rick van Veen in the Netherlands requested this song, featuring singer Ada Francis , Let Love Find A Way . Loving that one. Wordsmith and rapper Cazeaux O.S.L.O with a band led by Australian drummer Alexander Flood with Life Is A Rhythm , which came out at the end of last year, and was requested by Wiraik. It was also just released on a vinyl LP on the AtJazz label run by Martin Iveson , who also produces as At Jazz, and I wish I had that one for the BBE Cosmodelica party. I've been playing a lot of kind of spoken word kind of hip hop slash house vocals. Hip house is back, you know? It's back with a storm. Ahead of that, Marcello Cassanelli with Starlight , which is on the Ten Lovers Music label. The Coin EP, which was released earlier this year, and thanks to Artur in Paris for that. And Casanelli also released an album called Overtour in 2018, and he's also in the band Venus Ship . Ed. Note: Steve Conry shared with me these purchase link, feel free to purchase from your location: USA: https://www.rangemusicnyc.com/product-page/marcello-cassanelli-caruso-helen-mccormack-the-coin-ep-vol-3 EU: https://www.mothertonguerecords.com/product/marcello-cassanelli-caruso-helen-mccormack-the-coin-ep-vol-3/ UK: https://www.juno.co.uk/products/marcello-cassanelli-caruso-the-coin-ep-vol-3-vinyl/1070660-01/ Here's an older nugget on the soulful British label Papa Records and a request from Sue Forrest. It's by Monkey Brothers , which was London producers Felix Hopkins and Mike Pato , who was also part of Real People . Here are Monkey Brothers with their 2003 single Invisible . Earth, Wind & Fire with the blazing Africano from their sixth studio album That's the Way of the World , released in 1975, and one of the many Earth, Wind & Fire albums I have obsessed over. That was a huge numbernumber-one-one album on both the Billboard 200 and the Soul Charts, and deservedly so. It also features their huge hit Shining Star . Africano was requested by David Stoddard as he and Izzy just got back from Morocco. Before that, we heard from Prince as yesterday was marked nine years since we lost him. We heard 94 East featuring Prince on One Man Jam , and sending that one out to Sean E. 94 East was led by synth player and percussionist Pepe Wille , and Andre Cymone is playing bass on that one. And that was Prince on guitar, synth, clavinet, and other keyboards. I thought that'd be something a little different to pay tribute to his Purple Highness, as I think most of us are very familiar with his catalog. It was recorded in the 1970s, and is also featured on the Minneapolis Genius album. Ahead of that, my Cosmodelica remix of Street People 's I Want to Get Over . Street People was a New Jersey-based male quintet led by Ray DeRouge , who was a writer on LTD's hit Never Get Enough of Your Love . They released one album in 1976, and in the run-up a few singles on Spring Records, and I Want to Get Over was their first single. Sweden's Cosmos label are heading a project called Spring Revisited , which features remixes of that catalog by myself and Dave Lee, Dimitri from Paris, DJ Spina, Folamore, Joe Clossel, Kenny Do, Khan, Opalopo, The Reflex, and it's an honor to be part of that lineup. I've been playing that remix on dance floors from the UK to Japan to Greece and Ireland, and just got the vinyl test pressing from Acid Jazz, and my remix is coming out at the end of May. This is Colleen Cosmo Murphy signing off another edition of Balearic Breakfast, leaving you with a cover of Billy Taylor 's Civil Rights Movement anthem , covered by many, including Nina Simone, whose version was released in 1967 on her Silk and Soul album. This is a Reflex revision requested by Askoosh, and I think a lovely way to wrap up the show. I'll be back next week hosting Balearic Breakfast live from the record room with some new tunes, and I'll also catch up on some requests. Until then, thanks for listening, and remember, just be Balearic.

Colleen 'Cosmo' Murphy broadcast the 214th episode of Balearic Breakfast on her Mixcloud on March 4th 2025. About this episode. – Over the years, Balearic Breakfast has become a guiding light for its listeners. The Balearic Breakfast Family gladly follows Colleen on this incredible musical journey, always proposing great songs and, especially, when International Women day's around the corner! Colleen's request line (which she published on March 1st, both on Facebook and on Instagram) got around 270 likes over the weekend and a lot, a whola lot of great requests too! Some of us, and it was a first timer for me, thanks Cosmo!, got two of their requests played today. If that ain't a proper party I don't know what it is, laughs! On Facebook and on instagram, members of the Balearic Breakfast Family kept on celebrating an unbelieviably great show. As far as I'm concerned, Steve Clarke's message on Colleen's Instagram totaly nailed it: " What a fantastic show Artur, a few beautiful tracks I need to own 😂 Some really fantastic records that broaden my music taste and then what a beautiful mix to dance too towards the end. I think we've all had a tough year with several artists we all love passing but today's show was perfect ❤" As always, you'll find in this post today's playlist with the links to the records, a short personnal and thus subjective presentation of the episode and of Course Colleen's presentation in full with links. Oh, and should you want to listen to other specials editions like this one dedicated to IWD, be my guest, I added a few liks too! ' Today’s Balearic Breakfast is now up on my Mixcloud and it’s a 4-hour International Women’s Day special. This is one of my favourite shows of the year (along with the BB Pride Special, Black History Month special and BB anniversary special). It is a wonderful to see everybody come together to celebrate women’s musicianship and creativity. Thank you all for your wonderful requests – there were so many that I didn’t even get one in myself! And we also pay tribute to the late Angie Stone, a woman truly ahead of her time as she formed all-female hip hop act The Sequence in the late 70’s! She also collaborated with D’Angelo and wrote for Mary J Blige and released a couple of her own classic albums ‘Black Diamond’ and ‘Mahogany Soul’. Rest in Paradise Angie Stone. Thanks for listening and enjoy the show with music from… #balearicbreakfast #mixcloudlive #internationalwomensday #billieholiday #ninasimone #angiestone @bethorton @syleenajohnson @ganavya @ashaputhli #qlazzarus #kdlang @minami_risa #sinéadoconnor #minnieripperton @victoriaportmusic #gracejones #kirstymaccoll @reynatropical @ruthradelet @ultranatemusic @crazypmusic @angeliquekidjo @alison_goldfrapp @misspattynyc #milliejackson #bettydavis @iamstephaniemills #lettambulu #ettajames " Listen back to the 214th episode of Balearic Breakfast: THE PLAYLIST ( 2024 ) Ganavya – Journey in Satchidananda / Ghana Nila ( 1956 ) Billie Holiday  – I Thought About You ( 1974 ) Minnie Ripperton  – Lovin’ You ( 1980 ) Merry Clayton  – When the World Turns Blue ( 1976 ) Letta Mbulu  – There’s Music in the Air ( 1972 ) Esther Marrow  – Ghetto ( 1981 ) Sharon Little  – Don’t Mash Up Creation ( 2020 ) Syleena Johnson  – Woman ( 1976 ) Etta James  – Woman (Shake Your Booty) ( 1988 ) Q Lazzarus  – Goodbye Horses ( 1996 ) Luscious Jackson  – Naked Eye ( 1993 ) K.D. lang  – Lifted by Love (Club Xanax Remix) ( 2024 ) Risa Minami – Jamaican Blue ( 1994 ) Sinead O Connor  – Fire on Babylon ( 2021 ) Nina Simone  – No Woman No Cry (Live at Montreux) ( 2001 ) Angie Stone w/ Calvin Richardson  – More Than a Woman ( 1999 ) Angie Stone  – No More Rain (in This Cloud) ( 2024 ) Victoria Port  – Cigarette ( 2025 ) Michi  – Walking Away ( 1983 ) Grace Jones  – My Jamaican Guy (Steven Stanley Mix) ( 2000 ) Angie Stone  – Life Story (Jazz Hop Mix) ( 1991 ) Kirsty MacColl  – Walking Down Madison (6am Ambient Mix) ( 2023 ) Asha Puthli  – Right Down Here (Psychemagik Remix) ( 2024 ) Reyna Tropical  – Conocerla ( 2002 ) Abraham  – Magpie (Morgan Geist Remix) ( 1995 ) Betty Davis  – She’s A Woman ( 1978 ) Ms. Sharon Ridley  – Changin' ( 2024 ) Ruth Radelet  – Stranger (Turbotito Remix) ( 2007 ) Beth Orton  – Stolen Car ( 1980 ) Millie Jackson  – This is It ( 2018 ) Angelique Kidjo  – Born Under Punches ( 1982 ) Alfie Silas  – You're A Star ( 1979 ) Stephanie Mills  – Put Your Body in It ( 1980 ) Lenore O'Malley  – First Be a Woman ( 2024 ) Crazy P ft Danielle Moore  – Human After All ( 2025 ) Mamacita  – Tu Amor (Double Drop Luke é Soul Re-Edit) ( 2006 ) Goldfrapp  – Ride a White Horse (FK-EK Vocal Version) ( 1998 ) Ultra Nate  – Found a Cure (Mood II Swing Mix) ( 2022 ) Miss Patty & Saison  – Spark It Up ( 2002 ) Angie Stone  – Wish I Didn't Miss You (Pound Boys Remix) ( 1974 ) The Kiki Dee Band  – I Got the Music in Me COLLEEN IN THE 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 ); Japan Tour 2025 ( tickets here - also see here ); the We are Love Festival in July ( tickets here ). Colleen also has several Classic Album Sundays events to come, one of the greatest being the one she will host with Coco Maria. Click here to find out ! THE LISTENING EXPERIENCE A Huge Thank you to every member of the Family for the great Requests! Yes, We're One... These special editions are always a real musical trip to experience. They allow Colleen to extend Balearic Breakfast's soul with longer mixes and a slower pace, letting the listener enjoy the way in, the bright moment, and the way out, although today's show ended on a beautifully explosive note with Kiki Dee's Incredible " I got the Music in Me " (which has been nicely covered in 1975 by Thelma Houston, among others, on a direct to disk release which every audiophile should own!). As it's a four-hour musical trip, I won't be able to dive as deeply as I used to do. Still, I feel you have several sections which I can quickly analyse and give, for every one of them, the Wow moment: first thing first, the global feeling is one of progression here, no breaks, no rhythmic shifts, every track blends into the next one with superb ease. Colleen always selects the show's introduction with great care and it shows here of course; the first section of the show (meeting a Woman...) starts with Ganavya's Journey in Satchidananda and goes up to There's Music In The Air . Listen to Colleen's delicate mix between Billie Holiday and Minnie Ripperton, the first Wow moment for sure! Everything here is delicate, the music Breathes, Colleen kept both a close tonality and a "melancholic", "romantic" touch in the songs she selected ( When The World Turns Blue wowed us all away too, and Colleen's ability to keep the rhythmic unity immaculate always creates a magic no one else can share to that level of Soulfulness...); the second part of the show (Getting to Know the Lady...) starts with Esther Marrow's Ghetto and goes up to Angie Stone's Life Story (Jazz Hop Mix) . It is a cooler musical moment, a groovy walk and it does wonders in letting you go off everything in your head! the third part of the show (Engaging in the Dance...) starts with Kirsty MacColl's Walking Down Madison (6am Ambient Mix) and goes up to Millie Jackson's This is It . The rhythm here is "heavier", it has depth, it Moves you around ( Asha Puthli's Right Down Here (Psychemagik Remix) or Grace Jones' My Jamaican Guy (Steven Stanley Mix) are perfect examples of that Voluntary Rhythm which could perfectly depict two bodies slowly meeting, embracing each other, dancing, feeding one another...). It's not a light part, it's not easy, it's demanding, it's Driven... the fourth part of the show (Freeing to Dance...) starts with Angelique Kidjo's Born Under Punches , keeping the Driven rhythm we spoke about earlier, but slowly opening itself up, with Alfie Silas' You're A Star positively starting today' Party! The rhythm is still somewhat driven, but there's freedom in there! I love how Colleen reaches out to Eternity in these last tracks, they's Dance Bangers with that Spacy Light Touch that allows you to leave Earth ( Angie Stone's Wish I Didn't Miss You (Pound Boys Remix) perfectly embodying that feeling)! On the chat, we were all happy ( Dancing_james wrote "Is it a four hours show today? Balearic Breakfast ruining my productivity yet again! 🤣), talking to one another despite a few issues with Mixcloud's mobile version. Ana was upset because she missed a part of the show, and I could not tag my fellow Balearicans when answering, laughs! For the record, there's an interesting documentary about Sinead O'Connor's life to watch entitled " Nothing Compares " . As we were paying tribute to the great Angie Stone, our pal Bert François shared with us this great interview she gave back in 2024. Lastly, and for your listening pleasure, other special Balearic Breakfast shows dedicated to International Women's Day, covered on the blog, include: Balearic Breakfast - 28 (09/03/2021)  | This Woman's Work Balearic Breakfast - 125 (07/03/2023) | First be a Woman (4h) Balearic Breakfast - 166 (05/03/2024)   | Not just a Woman to me... COLLEEN'S PRESENTATION Ganavya with Alice Coltrane's Journey in Satchidananda along with Gana Nila from her album Daughter of a Temple released last year. Ganavya is a New York-born and Tamil Nadu-raised singer and multi-instrumentalist, and she performed at the acclaimed Salt performance back in December 2023 here in London. Daughter of a Temple features Ganavya's performances of devotional music, with guests like Esperanza Spalding and Chewbacca Hutchings, amongst 30 other musicians, and thank you to Kieran McCann in Glasgow for that request. Happy International Women's Day, actually it is this Saturday, but today is our International Women's Day Celebration. I'm Colleen Cosmo Murphy hosting your weekly Baleric Breakfast, and I just love this show. It's one of my favorite shows of the year. There's so many great requests and I'm getting to most of them. In fact there are so many on this show that we'll go to about two o'clock this afternoon and thank you for your wonderful song suggestions. Also many of you commented on the Baleric Breakfast International Women's Day eye-catching artwork on my socials and I would like to thank my friend Lee Zee for putting that together. In today's show we will also pay tribute to the late Angie Stone who tragically passed away in a car accident a few days ago, and we will pay our respects through her music. Well we have a lot to get through, many, many, many tunes by both contemporary and classic women artists from all different corners of the world, so let's get on to our next request. It's from Rob Eggleshaw who dedicates this to his wife Helen who he says is also an incredible mother to their children. Rob requested some Billie Holiday and we're going to rewind 70 years to her album Lady Sings the Blues and it was released just after she released her autobiography of the same name , and in fact just a month before the album's release she performed a sold-out show at New York's Carnegie Hall, in which she interspersed readings from her book throughout the show. Here is Billie Holiday with I Thought About You . What a lovely ending there. Letta Mbubulu with There's Music in the Air , the title track to her 1976 LP produced by Herb Alpert and requested by Christine DaSouza. The South African singer left her home country in the 1960s due to the political environment, and the crushing effects of apartheid and she relocated to New York where she teamed up with Harry Belafonte , David Axelrod and Cannonball Adderley and she eventually returned to South Africa after a 26-year self-imposed exile, and she's a founding member of the South African Artists United Organization. I need a big breath for this one! The one before that was Merry Clayton with When the World Turns Blue requested by both Brian McMahon and I wonder could it be the title When the World Turns Blue? Is it turning blue? Maybe it is. The New Orleans-born soul and gospel singer embarked upon her recording career at the age of 14 in 1962 with a duet with Bobby Darin and then she performed with Ray Charles and then in 1969 she duetted with Mick Jagger on The Stones' Gimme Shelter which she also recorded herself on her debut solo album released the following year. She also starred as the original Acid Queen in the first London production of The Who 's Tommy and she collaborated with so many artists too many to recount here, and she released seven solo albums including 2021's Beautiful Scars . Ahead of that Minnie Riperton with her billboard number one hit Loving You from her 1974 album Perfect Angel and that really shows off her five octave range. Okay how many people were trying to sing that top note? I don't. I just I can't even do it. In any case she co-wrote this song with her husband the former chess record songwriter Richard Rudolph and he co-produced it with Stevie Wonder . After scoring her first number one, the former Rotary Connection singer was diagnosed with terminal breast cancer but she continued to record and performed, and she also raised awareness of breast cancer until her passing at the young age of 31. So, uh, Grazie a Stefano Fumanti from Roma for that request. Okay another request, uh, from David Puzzi this time for the Virginia-born soul gospel singer Esther Marrow who was discovered at the age of 22 by Duke Ellington and later performed with many of the greats including Ella Fitzgerald , Thelonious Monk , and Bob Dylan . In 1965 she became active in the civil rights movement where she performed in Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s World Crusade and where she met her idol Mahalia Jackson . From her second album 1972's Sister Women this is Esther Mero with Ghetto . Oh my gosh, I was feeling that and everyone over on the chat group was too! So funky. Cheers to David's daughter for that request. Etta James with Women Shake Your Booty from her 1976 album Etta is Better Than Evvah! , her final album during her tumultuous 16-year run at Chess Records. She produced it herself and it's a funky rewrite of a song she had recorded as Woman for Modern in 1955, and again for Chess in 1971, and her deep kind of earthy gritty voice really connected both with R&B and rock fans. She won 15 Grammy Awards before her passing in 2012. Ahead of that Syleena Johnson with Women the title track from her album released in 2020. The Chicago singer has released nine studio albums including the latest Legacy released last year, and she's collaborated with Kanye West and that's her on his 2004 single All Fall Down and also KRS-ONE Twista and Crucial Conflict on the single Self-Destruction and thank you to Bert Francois and Brooklyn for that request. Ahead of that Don't Mash Up Creation the debut 1981 single from Sharon Little and the original 7-inch goes for an eye-watering sum on Discogs. Luckily London label Common Ground International reissued it both digitally and on 12-inch a few years ago and you can find that on Bandcamp and thank you to Kieran McCann for that suggestion, very apropos given our current political social and environmental climate. All right next up is a great request from Nadia Daniel for the late American singer Q Lazarus . She drove a taxi in New York City and one day, in the 1980s, actually 1985, she picked up filmmaker Jonathan Demme. She played him a demo of this next song and he featured it in two of his films Married to the Mob and later in The Silence of the Lambs and it became a cult hit. In 2019, filmmaker Eva Eredis met Lazarus after getting picked up in her car, and the two soon began working on a documentary about her life. It's called Goodbye Horses The Many Lives of Q Lazarus and I believe it's being released this week. Here is Q Lazarus with Goodbye Horses. I absolutely love that live version of Nina Simone 's cover of Bob Marley 's No Woman No Cry recorded at Montreux Jazz Festival and that's by request from Susan Chan. Simone recorded so many live albums during her long career, and in fact I really like her live albums better than her studio albums as they give a better sense of her personality and also her piano playing. She studied to be a classical pianist, but her dreams were thwarted because of racism, and she was an outspoken civil rights activist and because of sexist biases was often misunderstood as so many are offended by angry women but her live shows show a whole other side to her multifaceted personality. She was really funny, she was really funny actually, and I highly recommend the Montreux Years which compiles some of her best performances. It's a double album and again her piano playing really is just, you know, it's so diverse she goes from blues, to classical, to jazz, to pop, she was just amazing. Ahead of that I have to say thank you to Laurence Green for that very apt request Fire on Babylon by the late Irish singer-songwriter and activist Sinead O'Connor . Now where could Babylon be right now? Anyways it's from her fourth album 1994's Universal Mother after her first two albums were mammoth successes. But life wasn't easy for her, she had a very challenging upbringing, and then she famously tore up a photo of Pope John Paul II during her performance on Saturday Night Live to protest against the child abuse committed by some Catholic priests. She was one of the first to highlight the scandal. She was an outspoken woman and she suffered greatly from it, and many of us still mourn her passing. Ahead of that the award-winning Japanese harmonica player Risa Minami with her 1986 single Jamaican Blue on which she's just singing, sadly no harmonica on that one. She's truly known as one of the best harmonica players not only in Japan but also in Asia. She won the first prize at the 8th Asia Pacific Harmonica Festival and she also performed with the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra. Minami's Jamaican Blue is included on the Time Capsule compilation Tokyo Rhythm Volume 2 1979 to 1986 and thank you to Victor Olteanu in Romania for that request. Oh I just love K.D. Lang 's voice my gosh and thank you to Thanos Katronis for putting the song on our radar and also sending it out to Rachel Blackman. We heard the club Xanax mix of Lifted by Love and the Canadian singer-songwriter recorded the original version for the 1993 film Even Cowgirls Get the Blues which was based on Tom Robbins' novel. Lang is both a Juno Award and Grammy Award winner and she's also an animal rights gay rights and Tibetan human rights activist. She announced her semi-retirement from music a few years ago but I hope she comes back. Ahead of that the New York City band Luscious Jackson with their biggest single Naked Eye , haven't heard that in decades. It's from 1996, and it was requested by Karl Banitov in Canada. The all-woman band formed in New York City in 1991 and I loved them, and I got to interview them for my syndicated radio show at the time and between 1993 and 2000 Luscious Jackson released one EP, three full-length LPs and 10 singles on the Beastie Boys Grand Royale label. They then broke up but reunited in 2011 and released two more albums, including a children's album. Okay, now for our tribute to Angie Stone who tragically passed to the next realm this past weekend. In the late 1970s and the age of 16 the South Carolina-born singer songwriter and actress formed the female hip-hop act The Sequence . She was obviously ahead of her time. They were managed by Sugar Hill Records , Sylvia Robinson and had a hit with Funk You Up and other singles but they broke up in 1985 when the sound of hip-hop was changing. Then Davis worked, I'm sorry Daniel Davis, my gosh, and then Stone worked with electro-funk act Mantronix before becoming the lead singer for the trio Vertical Hold . They released two albums in the mid-90s before Stone then teamed up with Lenny Kravitz's cousin to form the group D-Vox who released one album. So she was a very very busy woman and she also became both a muse and a collaborator with D'Angelo and she co-wrote some of the songs on his first two studio albums Brown Sugar and Voodoo . A&R legend Clive Davis then signed her to Arista and in 1999 she released her debut solo album the wonderful Black Diamond named after her teenage daughter. It's a great album, a classic album and she followed it two years later with another fantastic record Mahogany Soul , and our next song is one of the singles requested by both Steve Wakeley and Siobhan Murphy. This is a duet with Calvin Richardson , Angie Stone with More Than A Woman . A request from Tom Torres in Vienna. This is the jazz-hop mix of Life Story by the late Angie Stone . The original was featured on one of the late singer, songwriter, producer's classic albums Black Diamond . Great song after great song after great song, in which she showcases not only her incredible vocal performances and co-productions but also her songwriting prowess. I mean don't forget she also penned songs for D'Angelo who is also a former lover and Mary J. Blige as well. Ahead of that, well you know I can never get enough of Grace by special request from Alex Elliott. We heard Grace Jones My Jamaican Guy a special mix by Stephen Stanley and every time I play Grace Jones I have to mention her autobiography I'll Never Write My Memoirs . If you are a fan, or even if you just like some of her music, it's really a must read because she's such a big personality and she's often so outrageous that I don't think she's really been given the credit she's really due for her own artistry. And actually this is the plight of many women artists especially those who recorded in times past. Anyways, give it a read and then you can thank me, and more importantly you can thank Grace Jones for being Grace. Ahead of that a great request from Daniel Dewey Scott for a new single by Los Angeles artist Michi who released her debut album Dirty Talk last week on Stone's Throw. The album was conceived when Michi moved from Los Angeles to a small seaside town, following a harrowing breakup, and I'm making a promise to myself right now to listen to the entire album once I finish this show, because that song has had me grooving every time I've heard it. Such a slick slick slick groove! Ahead of that another new single, this time from British singer-songwriter Victoria Port . She's previously released two albums as half of electronic soul outfit Anoushka on Brownswood and True Thoughts , and with a third album from the duo scheduled for release in 2025 on BBE. Now Victoria is finally making the move to showcase her solo music in her own way, and she released the single we heard Cigarette on First Word Records last November. And there's more coming, a project that's largely inspired by the legacy of her Dominican mother and the tales of all the powerful women she has known and is yet to know, and also encompassing their truth, and also her journey as a mother. So I look forward to hearing more, and thank you to Matt Raystrick for that request. Ahead of that, Angie Stone with No More Rain in This Cloud . Many people requested this song and again that one is from Black Diamond . I want to send that one out to Susan Chan, Sue Forrest, Bert Francois, Angelita Biondolio and Greca Mack and we'll have one more song in tribute to the late Angie Stone later in the show and rest in paradise Angie Stone. I'm Colleen Cosmo Murphy and you're listening to the Balearic Breakfast International Women's Day Special. We're going probably for a couple more hours actually over on my MixCloud Live, and thanks to all joining me live on the chat. Now this is a request from Gareth Bratman for Kirstie McColl , daughter of the folk singer Ewan McColl . Actually it seems the entire family is musical. After a brief stint in 1978 with her first band, The Drug Addix , she went solo and she scored a hit with the single, There's a Guy Works Down the Chip Shop, Swears He's Elvis . She released six studio albums, the last being Tropical Brainstorm , released posthumously as she tragically passed after getting hit by a speedboat while swimming with her children in Mexico. I just remember that whole incident. It was just absolutely shocking. It's still shocking actually. This is a song she co-wrote with Johnny Marr, Kirstie McCall with a 6am ambient mix of Walking Down Madison . The 2002 Morgan Geist remix of Magpie by Abraham . A request from Mark Sanford who said, "If I were an internationally famous and industry-renowned DJ and decided to put together a compilation album, that would be the opening track for International Women's Day, the very lovely Rachel Cumming and the band Abraham with Lee Jones" . This being the opening track on the album Blue for the Most .   A request from Ana Sancho in Barcelona for Reina Tropical , a project led by guitarist, singer, songwriter and producer Fabiola Reina . The band formed when Reina had been immersed in full-time work founding and building She Shreds , the world's first magazine dedicated to women and non-binary guitarists, and was itching for a creative release to return to her musical roots. By January 2018, the band's self-titled EP Reina Tropical dropped and last year they released their first album Malegria and we heard Conocerla . Ahead of that, we heard the Psych-magic remix of Asha Putli 's cover of J.J. Cale 's Right Down Here , released on Naya Beat Records as requested by Uncool Jag. The Indian-American singer, songwriter and producer Asha Putli has such an interesting story, which I know I've recounted many times before. She was a British Airways flight attendant who got a dance scholarship from Martha Graham and then, while in New York City, was discovered by Columbia Records A&R legend John Hammond and she then released 10 studio albums and has recently enjoyed a comeback. I got to see her perform at We Out Here  last year and she was fantastic and really funny, telling all these stories and anecdotes in between songs. Absolutely loved it. Okay, you're listening to Colleen Cosmo Murphy on Balearic Breakfast, going for another hour and a half or so for the International Women's Day Special, and this next one is a request by Gemma Bagnell for the punk-funk icon Bette Davis . She says, "I love Bette Davis. They tried to ban her from the stage saying she was too sexual. A truly underestimated singer and songwriter who survived a marriage with Miles Davis who also tried to suppress her creativity. In fact, just a little anecdote on that. He did name Bitches Brew after her and her kind of group of women friends at the time. Now, if you haven't watched her 2017 biopic film, They Said I Was Different , please give it a watch. I would like to request this amazing 1979 track, She's a Woman by the survivor Bette Davis and this is from her fourth studio album" . Here is Bette Davis, She's a Woman . A great cover of Kenny Loggins and Michael McDonald 's This is it by Millie Jackson with a great introduction as always. The Georgia-born artist is known for her long spoken word sections which are sometimes funny and sexually explicit. She's a bold artist and I admire her for that. She's released nearly 30 studio and live albums and according to the website whoseample.com , samples of her songs have appeared and 189 samples, 51 covers, and six remixes. So, I hope she got the royalties for that. In any case, it was requested by Rina Lady Beige who said "this is it because we need some of this power and energy in our lives right now. This one is for everyone who will be celebrating International Women's Day with us at Suffragette City in Manchester this Saturday" . Ahead of that, a request from Dani Broderick for the English singer-songwriter Beth Orton . The song Stolen Car from her third album, Central Reservation , released on Heavenly Recordings in 1999 and it features collabs with the late Terry Collier , Dr. Robert , Ben Harper , and Ben Watt from Everything But the Girl . And Orton has released eight albums since her 1993 debut and she's also an actor having appeared in two films, Southlander and Light Years . Ahead of that, Ruth Radelet who is best known for fronting the influential group Chromatix , but she solidified her solo career with her debut EP, The Other Side, released a couple of years ago. Since then, she has been featured on tracks by Soft Kill and Krakow Loves Adana and has released solo singles including Shoot Me Down and Stranger , which was released last year. And thank you to Steve Clark for that suggestion. Stranger, the Turbo Tito remix by Ruth Radelet. Ahead of that, the 1978 single from Taboo Records by the Washington singer-songwriter, Ms. Sharon Ridley . She worked with Van McCoy early on in her career, collaborating on her debut 1971 album, Stay A while with me . It didn't do that much, but when McCoy's career exploded with the song, The Hustle, we had Ms. Sharon Ridley's albums reissued. And in 1978, she released the album, Full Moon , which she arranged and played keys on and which featured the single we heard, Changing , requested by Reed Franklin Bolton. Okay, next up is another request from Reed Franklin Bolton. You know, some of you got two requests this week because they were so good. This one is for Angelique Kidjo , the Grammy Award-winning Beninese French singer, songwriter, actress, activist, and Polar Music Prize Laureate. Due to political conflicts, Kidjo left Benin and moved to Paris in the 1980s. And she initially planned to become a human rights lawyer, but ended up studying music at the CIM, a jazz school in Paris. And that's where she met musician and producer, Jean Hebrail , with whom she has composed most of her music and whom she married in 1987. In 1985, she was the front singer of Jasper Von Toff's band, Peely Peely . And in 1991, she signed to Island Records as a solo artist. And that's when she landed on my radar. I used to play songs like Batonga and Wei Wei . In 2018, she covered the Talking Heads album, Remain in Light , in its entirety. And this is her version of Born Under Punches with guest guitar licks from Adrian Belew . Thank you to Poppy Fields for this request. Human after all from the latest Crazy P album, Any Signs of Love . Released two months after lead singer Danielle Moore unexpectedly and shockingly took her own life. I actually still can't believe it. She was an amazing woman, talented singer, songwriter, really compassionate, and very, very down to earth and very, very, very funny. I don't think many of us in the community still aren't, you know, haven't come to terms with her passing. It was really strange because I had just finished a remix for Crazy P, and that should be coming out this year in 2025. And I'm also playing after them this Saturday at La Discotheque in Manchester's Albert Hall. But her spirit lives on, her music lives on, and she is with us in spirit. So, you know, rest in paradise, Danielle Moore. Ahead of that, the Pennsylvania singer Lenore O'Malley with First Be A Woman , love the lyrics on that one, as requested by David Stoddard. It's the title track of her first album released in 1979 at the height of disco, and then she followed up with Lenore a couple of years later. And that's all we have from the late O'Malley. Ahead of that, Brooklyn's Stephanie Mills was in the house. We heard the A-side of the 1979 single, which I always play the B-side of. I've always played What You Gonna Do With My Lovin' on the flip, and that's the song I usually play. So thank you to Christine DaSouza for making me flip it over and play Put Your Body In It . Both songs were produced by James Mtume and Reggie Lucas . Mills first rose to fame playing the part of Dorothy in the Broadway run of The Wiz . And during the 1980s, she had five number one hits. She was always on the radio. And last year, she returned to Broadway after 40 years as Mrs. Hermes in the musical Hadestown . And before that, we had You're a Star by American singer Alfie Silas , who had a long career as a session musician. She was a backing singer for Martha Reeves and Gina Vanelli , and she also had five hits as a solo artist in the 1980s. You're a Star is from her debut 1982 album, Alfie, and thank you to Bert Francois for that suggestion. I wanted to let you know about another event I have going on for Classic Album Sundays. On Wednesday, a week from tomorrow, March 12th, I will be joined by the Mexican DJ Coco Maria. You know, I'm an American who is friends with our Mexican neighbors. And I'm really excited because she's a really great, great, great DJ. She plays music that I don't really normally play, and I don't really have a lot of knowledge of. She has a lot of, she plays Brazilian, Latin, Caribbean, and she's a real digger. She plays on vinyl. We're going to feature her compilation Club Coco, which she also has her own composition, her first composition as an artist. If you want to come along, the tickets are free. Again, that's Wednesday, the 12th of March over the KEF Music Gallery in Central London. And you can head over to the Classic Album Sundays website to book your free tickets. Okay, Mamacita 's Tu Amor is a Chilean cover of Jamie Principle and Frankie Knuckles ' Your Love . It's by DJ Mamacita and producer Persona RS , and it's getting its first vinyl release next week on Mr. Bongo. It was originally released in 2012 and started making waves after The Idjut Boys were playing it, and then Mr. Bongo picked up on it. While playing it in Barcelona, Luke Yuna dropped the track and it instantly clicked. And here it's his re-edit along with Luke Solomon. It's the double take of Luke Asol re-edit as requested by Jen Ferguson. The Pound Boys ' Stone Face Bootleg remix of Angie Stone 's Wish I Didn't Miss You . Sending that one out to Thanos Kotronis, Artur in Paris, Steve Wakely, David Stoddard, and Emily Bucknell. Came out in 2001. And that's, my husband says he remembers me playing that all the time in the early days of our courtship. Rest in paradise, Angie Stone, and thank you for the music. Ahead of that, the 2022 single by Miss Patty & Saison on Seamus Hodge's big love label called Spark It Up . And they first appeared on the label with a remix of Mike Dunn 's It's A Groove Thing , and the London based Deep Duo are releasing their original feel-good house track. It's called Spark It Up and has vocals by Miss Patty . And thank you to Georgina Cousin for that one. Ahead of that, Ultra Nate Found a cure , sending that out to Barry Zare in Washington, D.C. I love that 1998 single from the Maryland-born singer, songwriter, and producer. She's one of the superstars of house music, and virtually all of her singles have released the top 10 on the U.S. dance charts, Free , If you could read my mind , Automatic . But I love Found a Cure. I haven't played that in so long. I love the mood to swing rock guitar production. Then we had Goldfrapp before that, Ride a White Horse , the FKEK, that's Francois Kevorkian , or Francois K , and Eric Cupper vocal version of remix of their 2006 single from their album Supernature , which I love. In fact, I love all the Goldfrapp albums. I love Alice in Goldfrapp's voice. They've done so many different sounds, from electro to pop to more pastoral sounds that you can find on the seventh tree. And thanks to Gareth Bratman for that request. Okay, so wow, that was a little bit of a mega mix. It's funny, I was listening to a mix I did 30 years ago when I was hosting Soul School on WNYU on 89.1 FM. And it was really funny. This guy, DJ M Traxxx with three Xs, kind of, he has all these old cassettes of loads of different radio shows and posting up mixes of mine. My voice is literally like an octave higher, and I had such a New York accent. Cosmo. Anyways, I think I reposted it on my SoundCloud if you want to have a listen. But it kind of has that energy of that last set there. And as I mentioned, I'm in Manchester this Saturday for La Discotheque. On Sunday, it's the London Loft Party at the London Irish Centre. If you want to come along, you can message me to get on the mailing list. The following week, I'm heading over to Southport Weekender. And then I'm heading to Japan for a couple of weeks. And then to Ireland, to Cork, the first time in Cork. And that's where the Murphys are from. I've never been there. And to Dublin in mid-April. So I'll announce those dates a bit closer. And you can always find out more on my socials. Now there won't be a request line this week. I'll be catching up on your requests as I have a busy DJing weekend. But I also have an exclusive mix from Music for Dreams , Kenneth Beyer. And we also have a chat about his new album with Finlay Brown , Silence With Singing . Well, this has been another joyous International Women's Day tribute here on Balearic Breakfast. Thank you all for your requests. And I love this last request. It's from Artur in Paris, who spends so much time working on a great Balearic Breakfast blog. Thank you, Artur, for all of your hard work. And this song is just, you know, I forgot how much I love it. And I forgot how much I love her voice. It's by Kiki Dee , who's won a local talent contest at the age of 10 in Yorkshire. At 16, she had her first paid job in show business, singing with a band in Leeds. And a record scout liked her and signed her to Fontana. She sang backing vocals for Dusty Springfield. And then she had her debut album, I'm Kiki Dee , in 1968. And her biggest hit came in 1976 as a duet with Elton John, Don't Go Breaking My Heart . And the two of them toured America together. In fact, my aunt went to go see them. I remember it because I remember sitting in her bedroom afterwards, like just so starstruck, and she had just given me Elton John's greatest hits for my birthday as well. Anyways, this is such a joyous song. I want you to all sing it out loud at your office desk, in your home, or wherever you're listening to this. And thank you so much for listening. It's Kiki Dee, I got the music, and thanks for listening.

Worldwide FM broadcast the 107th episode of Balearic Breakfast on September 27th 2022. About this episode. – Time's duality is sometimes really frightening. While a life stops, while some people suffer the loss, other ones keep on living not aware of what just hapenned. And this situation, as we shall see in the listening experience, happens too on another level, in our everyday's lives, hence today's post enigmatic title... When Colleen launched the request line for the 107th show of the series, we knew it was going to be a special one as we had to pay our respects to the great Pharoah Sanders, and, with our Captain preparing her next Loft Party, we knew we were going to experience, somehow, another deep show. We just didn't know how deep this one would be! Asour buddy Steve Clarke wrote: " Without doubt one of the best shows of all time this week, start with Pharaoh Sanders and ending with him too. Was going to request Risco Connection on the last one on @worldwide.fm but alas it got played here. " " This morning’s Balearic Breakfast is now up on Worldwide FM and my Mixcloud - and please don’t forget to follow me on Mixcloud or Twitch TV as I will continue Balearic Breakfast when Worldwide FM takes a pause :) Today’s show features a tribute to Pharaoh Sanders may he rest in peace. Thank you for the music. Also music from Floating Points, Brian Jackson, Opolopo, Jura Soundsystem, Claremont 56, Coldcut, Mixmaster Morris and some Balearic and Loft classics. Enjoy and please make your suggestions for next week’s show when I put up the request line on my socials this coming Saturday." Listen back to the 107th episode of Balearic Breakfast: PLAYLIST ( 2021 ) Floating Points & Pharoah Sanders – Promises: Movements 4 & 5 ( 1993 ) Coldcut   –   Autumn Leaves (Irresistible Force mix) ( 1972 ) Joni Mitchell   –   Electricity ( 1972 ) Annette Peacock   –   Pony ( 1987 ) Herb Alpert   –   Pillow ( 2021 ) Hillside   –   Walpole Days ( 1985 ) Double   –   The Captain of her Heart ( 1985 ) Change   –   Mutual Attraction ( 1983 ) Tullio De Piscopo   –   Stop Bajon ( 2022 ) Jura Soundsystem   –   Crystal Voyager ( 2020 ) SAULT   –   Strong ( 1991 ) The Rude Awakening   –   The Dip (5 Am Dipsco Mix) ( 2022 ) Sandy Barber   –   I Think I’ll Do Some Steppin On My Own (Opolopo Rework) () Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson   –   The Bottle (Live Version) ( 1979 ) Risco Connection   –   Ain’t No Stopping Us Now (Version) ( 1971 ) Pharoah Sanders   –   Astral Travelling THE LISTENING EXPERIENCE Listening to older Balearic Breakfast episodes is always a great and moving experience. It seems there's always something to find there, and also, it's funny how you remember parts of some of these shows, like sentences Colleen said or songs you loved hearing back when you first listened to the episodes live or things that happened. Intellectually speaking, this episode is exciting as it presents the idea of suspended openings. What does that mean? Well, first, it means, of course, suspended time, a thing that happens for instance, when someone passes away (not thinking at all about the great Pharoah Sanders here...), when everything stops and when everything possible suddenly disappears. An Idea I felt quite strongly when listening to Floating Points & Pharoah Sanders '  Promises: Movements 4 & 5,  for instance. Of course, with WorldWide FM pausing its activities, this first idea takes another meaning yet keeping its first intellectual meaning intact... This idea of hopes disappearing is very much present in the first part of the show, the lingering sadness proposed by Coldcut's Autumn leaves  perfectly representing the void... We will find this theme in other songs too, yet on a more subjective level, such as in the third track, Joni Mitchell's Electricity. The song deals here with a somewhat problematic relationship . To explicate ‘Electricity’ in the broadest of strokes, there’s a couple dealing with an electricity problem/outage which symbolizes their relationship. It’s all a mess (“She’s got all the wrong fuses and splices”; ”The masking tape tangles, It’s sticky and black”), and neither they together nor she alone can “fix it up too easy”. It’s a real, undeniable problem–the circuit just keeps shorting. I'm sure you feel where I want to go here, this show is all about lost opportunities if you will. But not only! The title also refers to suspended moments in time, where everything reaches another dimension, letting us leave our everyday life. And this is very much the case with Annette Peacock's Pony . Peacock's first solo album, I'm The One (RCA, 1972), offers blues ballads that are transfigured by dark and intimate premonitions. The ensemble (Tom Cosgrove on guitar, Stu Woods on bass, Rick Morotta on drums and Peacock on keyboards) is augmented with jazz luminaries such as Michael Moss on tenor sax, Barry Altschul on percussion and Airto Moreira on percussion. The players introduce themselves in the brief free jam that opens I'm the One, before Peacock intones the first of her torch blues ballads (Michael Garson on piano and organ). These are formidable exercises of self-contrition in which Peacock's voice 7 Days, Been & Gone, Blood (Paul Bley on synthesizer and piano, Glen Moore on bass), reaches shamanic degrees of intensity. Bley's keyboards provide a discrete but disorienting countercurrent to Peacock's tormented stream of consciousness. If the vocalist's performance is virtuoso, the arrangements engage her shizoid psyche with endless stylistic metamorphoses, from the funky rave-up of Pony (that enhances her dilated melisma) to the funereal fanfare of One Way (Garson on organ, and her best impersonation of Janis Joplin) to the guitar shuffle of Gesture Without Plot (Paul Bley on synthesizer and piano). With the next three songs, we're touching another level of interpretation of today's post title, dealing with love, relationships and expectations, these songs perfectly embrace these almost unbearable and quite fearful Hopes and desires of a future we feel close but that might never happen yet (Herb Alpert's Pillow falls so greatly in the mix here!)... And even if Hillside's Walpole Days  don't have lyrics, the song fits the theme so well you can picture a couple dancing with the man hoping the one he just found won't go away as dawn arrives... And this track made me think of another song I love to bits, Jojo by the great Boz Scaggs! The culminating point of today's show arrives with the much beloved Captain of her heart , so perfectly embracing today's post title and today's episode's reality... And I am so grateful to Kurt Maloo for answering my few questions  about the 1985 "Blue" album he recorded as the Swiss duo "Double" with the great Felix Haug. Colleen keeps that suspended feeling very alive with the next songs, stepping up the tempo a bit with Change 's  Mutual Atraction , followed by Tullio De Piscopo 's  Stop Bajon  (Colleen's mix is astoundingly perfect here, this is a WOW moment of today's episode for sure!) and  Jura Soundsystem 's  Crystal Voyager . Yes, we're totally experiencing suspended openings here (do you Feel the third interpretation of today's post title?)... Laughs! One last song deserves to be quoted here as it really helps grasp today's post title: Gill Scott-Heron's The Bottle in which Gil adresses how much Alcohol destroys the life of people it touches ... Ironically, one of the last songs played during this episode is the true and tested classic that is Risco Connection 's  Ain’t No Stopping Us Now (Version) , well you should know by now why I wrote Ironically! COLLEEN'S PRESENTATION Movements four and five of Promises by Floating Points with the late Pharoah Sanders who sadly passed to the next realm this past Saturday. The tenor saxophonist was encouraged to use the name Pharoah by Sun Ra who would often provide for him, house for him, feed him when Sanders was homeless in New York City. And then it was John Coltrane who took him under his wing as part of his band in 1965. And the two saxophonists learned so much from one another and also Albert Eiler. And after John Coltrane's death, Sanders continued to work with his wife Alice, including on the album Journey and Satchitananda. And Sanders released a string of his own albums that bravely explored the boundless worlds of spiritual and free jazz.   And we just heard a couple movements from the last recording released in his lifetime from the critically acclaimed Promises in Collaboration with Floating Points. And we will pay our respects again later in the show. Good morning, Balearicans.   I hope you had a good weekend. I'm Colleen Cosmo Murphy, hosting your Balearic Breakfast until high noon here on World Wide FM. And greetings to all over my Mixcloud Live and Twitch TV.   Just a reminder that World Wide FM will be pausing and reassessing from the end of October. But I will continue Balearic Breakfast streaming live and then archiving on my Mixcloud and Twitch TV. So please be sure to follow me over there.   If you're in the Northern Hemisphere, you're probably starting to feel a crispness in the air, a little nip in the air, and witnessing the days growing shorter and the night times longer. And some of you have requested songs in keeping with this seasonal change. This one's a Balearic Breakfast favorite, but I don't mind giving it another spin, as it was requested by Alex Ali.   It's Mixmaster Morris' Irresistible Force remix of Coldcut's Autumn Leaves. The Brooklyn-born, California-raised, experimental artist and Moog pioneer, Annette Peacock with Pony. From her 1972 album, I'm the One, as requested by John Boakum, who wrote when he requested it, Peacock asked Bob Moog himself to let her have a prototype of a new modular system he had built.   And shortly after that, she'd be performing with it live, rooting her vocals through its modules to create an unsettling alien voice, and that was 1969. She was one of the first artists to ever synth her vocal. Of course, we heard the song from her 1972 LP, I'm the One.   Ahead of that, another 1972 song and album, this time from Joni Mitchell's fifth LP, For the Roses, much of which was a reflection upon her previous relationship with James Taylor, who had broken it off after he struck international fame. And then a few months later, he was with Carly Simon, who he later married. Mitchell was obviously heartbroken, and For the Roses documents some of this.   But Electricity, the song that we heard, was more about extolling the virtues of the quiet country life, as Mitchell had retreated to her own estate in Canada around that time. And thank you to Artur in Paris for requesting that. Now a lesser known song by American trumpet player and record label mogul Herb Alpert, as requested by Luis Amira Marquez Pazabon, three weeks in a row, so I got the hint, Luis, is from Alpert's 1987 album, Keep Your Eye on Me, which was co-produced by Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis, which is so interesting.   They were in the time with Morris Day, of course, tour with Prince. Actually, I saw them tour with Prince. Then they left to become one of the 80s best songwriting and production teams.   They work with the SOS band. Of course, Janet Jackson, Control was their big breakthrough. They worked with Alexander O'Neill.   And of course, they worked with Herb Alpert on this song, Pillow. A tried and true balleric classic that we have featured once before in the show, but it was time to give it another spin, as it was requested by Craig Murray. That was Swiss pop duo Double and their hit single, The Captain of Her Heart, from their first album, Blue, released in 1985, which also featured the quirkier Woman of the World, another track I really love, two balleric classics by Double.   I was actually wondering about the whereabouts of its members and found that Felix Hoge sadly passed away nearly 20 years ago now, and Kurt Malou carried on as a solo artist. Now, I always have a bunch of records lying around in the record room, a stack of records to listen to, and I'm always working my way through it, even though the pile seems to keep growing bigger and bigger. But I absolutely love the record that I played before that one.   It was by Hillside, which I've been playing quite a bit, having had it for a few months now. It's another one of the many projects of Claremont 56 label owner, Paul Mud Murphy, who we had up on Balleric Breakfast a while back, and we heard Walpole Days from last year's release, Sunday in June by Hillside. Now a request for George Miles for Change, a studio band that I absolutely adore.   Change recorded in Italy with founding producers Jacques Fred Petrus and Mauro Malavasi, and the act featured a revolving door of session musicians, which initially included Luther Vandross and Jocelyn Brown. But by the time they recorded this, their sixth album, Turn On Your Radio, they had already departed. And I can't say that this album received the best of reviews, but it did include this song as requested by George Miles.   Here are Change with Mutual Traction on Worldwide FM. Jura Sound System with Crystal Voyager from their album, Return to the Island, released last month on the label Isle of Jura, run by Kevin Griffiths. And we had Kevin up on the show a few months ago, so you may remember that Jura Sound System is his very own project.   And this is his debut, which was made in Australia during the height of the pandemic, influenced by the tropical bird songs heard in his Adelaide garden, and thanks to Simon also down under for requesting. And as we near our final weeks of Balearic Breakfast on Worldwide FM, some of you are asking for some of our Balearic Breakfast staples. So we heard another Balearic classic, this time from Italy and requested by Andy Stodden for Tullio d'Episcopo with Stop Bajon.   And I also want to dedicate that to my Italian family, the Last Note family, as we are holding our Last Note autumn party in Perugia this coming Saturday. If you want to join us and find out more, you can email infolasnote at gmail.com . Okay, you are listening to Clean Cosmo Murphy here on Balearic Breakfast on Worldwide FM. And you got to know that I just can't get enough of Salt.   And on Saturday night, I listened to Salt's last three albums all in a row. So I'm delighted that Greca Mack has requested this next song. Salt is super producer Inflo, who won an Ivor Novello for producing Little Sims Gray Matter.   He also produced her last album. He got a Mercury Prize for producing Michael Kiwanuka's album Kiwanuka, which was my favorite album of 2019. And he won Producer of the Year awards from both the Music Producers Guild and this year's BRIT Awards.   This is the opening song to Salt's 2020 LP, Untitled Rise. And it has a message that is really resonating with me right now. It's salt with strong.   Oh, boy, that song takes me back to the early days of house. The sample of Crown Heights Affair is the debut release on Newark, New Jersey label Kaleidoscope. And it was produced by Mark Mendoza under the name The Rude Awakening.   And this, his only single, The Dip, was released in 1991. Around the same time, David Mancuso reignited his weekly loft parties in his home in the East Village. And this song brings me right back to that dance floor on East Third Street.   That was the 5am Dipsco mix, as requested by Matt Raistrick, who is tantalizing us with his story to be Bitha over on my Mixcloud Live. So Matt, hope you're enjoying your Bitha. Sounds like you really are.   Thank you for that request. Now, Swedish producer Opo Lopo is quickly becoming one of my favorite reworkers and remixers. And I just love this rework that he did of Sandy Barber's, I think I'll do some stepping on my own, originally released on the singer Sandra Barber's only LP, The Best Is Yet to Come.   It was released in 1978, actually. And it was lovingly reissued by BBE a decade ago. But this rework is coming out on BBE next week with another, actually, I think it's this week now, the 30th of September.   Gosh, that's this week. We're almost in October now. It's unbelievable.   Anyways, it's coming out on vinyl on BBE this week with another mix by John Morales on the flip side. And thanks to Steve Wakeley for requesting this. Sandy Barber, I think I'll do some stepping on my own, the Opo Lopo rework on Balearic Breakfast.   I love that one. Sounds like I need a new copy, though. I was just working on that and realized the song was just about to end as I was trying to get a new copy of this one.   Risco Connection ain't no stopping us now going out to Manami House Record Store in New Zealand. Also sending that one out to David Mancuso's best friends, Elise and Donna and his nephews, Ricky and Mark, as there ain't no stopping us now. Ahead of that, a request from Katie Stringer for one of my favorite songs by Gil Scott, Aaron and Brian Jackson, The Bottle.   And how much do I love that live version? I remember picking it up when I lived in New York City on the Lower East Side at a local bodega. It just had a couple of boxes of random vinyl and I found that one sealed and also a white label promo, 12-inch single of Steve Miller, Bands Macho City. So yes, the vinyl guardian angels were looking down on me.   Oh my goodness, the time has run away with us. Thank you so much for joining me today on Boleric Breakfast here on World Wide FM. We'll be back next Tuesday.   The request line goes up this Saturday on my Instagram and Facebook, so be sure to follow me there and to make your requests. I'm going to leave you with one last Pharoah Sanders song. It's one of my favorites.   It's from his 1971 LP, Thumbie. It's astral traveling. Thanks so much for joining me and have a wonderful week.   And remember, just be Boleric!