Not because I don't like them but because they plunge me back into a mental place (and times) I wish is waiting ( 2015 ) Andy Bey & The Avener   – Celestial Blues (The Avener Rework) ( 1991 ) Sounds of Blackness Read that again... and listen back to the songs. Isn't what's happening here simply beautiful?! ( 1991 ) Sounds of Blackness   – Optimistic From Sounds of Blackness's first studio album, issued in The book Colleen speaks about, " Halo: The Story Behind Depeche Mode’s Classic Album ‘Violator’ " is

But it took about six months to get going. How often were you doing them? Every two weeks. But after six months it started really taking off. After six months, it opened up every week. So in 1974 I had the longest hearing in the history of consumer affairs. They gotta start splitting up the nights between gay, black, white. Slowly, but surely...

I wanted to first just talk a little bit about the history of this compilation, and then we'll kind of It's coming out on Music for Dreams on the 31st of May at the end of this month. Within six months, he'd enrolled into the School of Sound in Manchester. I think it was like the first Monday of every month. And it's coming out on Music for Dreams at the end of the month.

No great story. Maybe it was just a tad autobiographical! Then, a month or so went by and Steve came up with the "CATHEDRALS" title.  of the Disco Era, you saw its rise, lived its fall, and met the greatest names associated with its history How do you reflect upon what you experienced back then as an artist? But I guess, looking back, it took courage. Really. 

Listen back to the 159th edition of Balearic Breakfast: "You can now listen to the last live Balearic Baalti – Kirpa Monyaka – Go Deh Yaka (Go to the Top) Paul Johnson – Better Than This (Dego & Kaidi 2000 Black Starting with Paul Johnson – Better Than This (Dego & Kaidi 2000 Black Mix) [2015 - Bandcamp], it is Youth. – Inner City – Good Life (Magic Juan Mix) [1988 - Discogs] just brought us back to our younger Should you want to find out more about the original cut, head over here, the story is Great!

EPISODE I would like to dedicate this post to our friend, Christina de Souza (Tee) who passed away a few months Last month, our first Classic Album Sundays at Hidden Grooves, was with DeLotta, Patrick Forge, and Chris And that's from their latest album, It's Always About Love, which came out on Gondwana last month. And their latest EP is called Power Hour, and it came out on Balearic Ensemble a few months ago. It lands next month in November.

On this week’s show I look back to my indie roots with a tribute to the late Martin Phillips of The Chills WOTD second album It's a Beautiful Thing, which came out on Chris Coco's label Disappear earlier this month Spain. – The album was not something people, and medias, were expecting from Aretha Franklin back in finds an introspective Franklin atypically tackling the subject of drug abuse, singing on a prideful black Cheryl Lynn provided the female backing vocal, singing an adaptation from the nursery rhyme "Georgie

musical trends, your new album puts music close to the lyrics, inviting it to tell its own part of the story here about the incredible track that “Mud People” is… Can you take us through the song and tell us its story History shows our borders are ephemeral, that common people are pawns pit against each other in the interests were all incredibly nervous in the lead up to the show – for weeks – and we only shared the feeling back

"The revolution was the idea that music was a whole body activity … the revolution of black music was Though it seems pretty laid-back at first, the combined tonality and rhythm, beautifully enhanced by This track is a somewhat dark evolving piece of Music (another aspect we will come back to later on) There’s no real distortion. you might have noticed that there is an inversion and that Colleen's track is on the wrong side (the black

back to back set at Wonderfruit Festival. We're going to be at Wonder Fruit Festival, playing on Sunday back to back with DJ Nori. of a four-part series of meditative compositions that will be released on the first Friday of each month But for his solo project, his sound is more ECM, like this new one released last month, First Moonbeams And that was released on and he's done the releases for Lange Records, King Street, Black Riot.

was listening to the show, I asked Colleen if she could share with me a picture she published on her stories acknowledging its painful power will you be able to become the adult you were always meant to be… Listen back We’ll discuss my own history with Japanese culture and music, and how Classic Album Sundays helped establish I’ll be back with Balearic Breakfast next Tuesday and wishing you a Happy St Patrick’s Day and a lovely Show You the Way (1996) Ten City – All Loved Out (Serenade Mix) ANNOUNCEMENTS As you know, I went back

This lead on to some investigation work online which ended up unearthing a site called DJ History. When I retired myself from djing and putting on parties, I was simultaneously getting back into clothing