Colleen 'Cosmo' Murphy broadcast the 210th episode of Balearic Breakfast on her Mixcloud on February 04th 2025. About this episode. – Following Marianne Faithfull’s passing, and shortly after returning from vacation, Colleen launched the request line last Saturday, February 1st 2025. As we shall see later in the Listening experience part of this post, today’s episode was a moving musical experience, allowing the listener to experience what the last exodus might feel like. Enhanced by the passing of Family members’ loved ones, today’s musical trip was a deep dive into sorrow and strangeness, allowing us all to find in the music an airy and floating path to the next realm… "This morning’s Balearic Breakfast is now up on my Mixcloud and includes tributes to the late Marianne Faithfull, music from Wally Badarou (I’m hosting a event with him in London on the 19th February - reserve your free tickets on the @classicalbumsundays website), some Loft classics (London Loft party on the 9th March and our website at loftparty.org is going live soon!), italo, soul, dub and more. Thank you to the Balearicans who joined me on the live stream this morning - it was great chatting with all of you. I’m streaming remotely next week and have an interview and mix from @gregwilson who is not only a DJ and producer extraordinaire but a great music journalist and has also edited James Hamilton’s Disco Pages. We also have a mix from British born Ibiza based DJ @SAM and we chat about her new comp Suenos de Ibiza. Until then, kick back and enjoy the music…" By the way, we also learned today that Colleen spent some time in the studio lately, working on a very special remix which she can't wait to share with us, so stay tuned 😊 Listen back to the 210th episode of Balearic Breakfast: THE PLAYLIST (1986) Marianne Faithfull – The Hawk (El Gavilan) (2005) Richard Hawley – The Ocean (1997) Bob Marley – Exodus (Bill Laswell Ambient Translation) (1995) Marianne Faithfull – Love in the Afternoon (NOL) Cymande – Coltrane (Crooked Man Remix) (1984) Wally Badarou – Mambo (1983) Marianne Faithfull – The Blue Millionaire (1983) Al Jarreau – I Keep Callin’ (1976) Flowers – For Real (1984) World Premiere – Share the Night (2021) 122 North – Drive (1980) Marianne Faithfull – Broken English (Special 12” Single) (2025) Pellegrino & Zodyaco – Mario (1992) Mission Control – Outta Limits (2025) Electric Wire Hustle – If These Are the Last Days (Eliphino Remix) (1992) Liquid Variety – The Edge (New Dimensions) (1986) Enzo Avitabile – Black Out (2024) Surya Botofasina (ft Radha Botofasina) – Your Soul Is Perfect (Supreme Uniter) THE LISTENING EXPERIENCE Destiny lies there, where we, in our humility, accept receiving it... (The Lioncub) Death is nothing at all. It does not count. I have only slipped away into the next room. Nothing has happened. Everything remains exactly as it was. I am I, and you are you, and the old life that we lived so fondly together is untouched, unchanged. Whatever we were to each other, that we are still. Call me by the old familiar name. Speak of me in the easy way which you always used. Put no difference into your tone. Wear no forced air of solemnity or sorrow. Laugh as we always laughed at the little jokes that we enjoyed together. Play, smile, think of me, pray for me. Let my name be ever the household word that it always was. Let it be spoken without an effort, without the ghost of a shadow upon it. Life means all that it ever meant. It is the same as it ever was. There is absolute and unbroken continuity. What is this death but a negligible accident? Why should I be out of mind because I am out of sight? I am but waiting for you, for an interval, somewhere very near, just round the corner. All is well. Nothing is hurt; nothing is lost. One brief moment and all will be as it was before. How we shall laugh at the trouble of parting when we meet again! Henry Scott-Holland, 1847-1918 As I started working on this post, I saw this picture on Luke Una's Instagram... Of course, it brought tears to my eyes. Death is just another part of life as they say. I wish it didn't Hurt That Much though... Whenever I hear The Hawk, I always have Richie Haven's version in mind, but also Kris Kristofferson's music video (he initially composed the song)... The Hawk is about transmission, about hope, about letting things go and moving forward... What else can we do in the face of adversity... There's a lot of it in our world today, violence almost everywhere, death on every side of our stories, less and less joy... We got to have peace one day soon... And The Hawk brings that hope, even if it does so with an unbearable amount of sadness... Today's episode is exactly about that peculiar mood The Hawk presented: a long, somewhat uncertain and worried yet constant march in an undisclosed space towards a heavenly destination... All the songs have that incredible eerie feeling, letting you go, unaware, to a place you know nothing about. This feeling is perfectly represented in the first 44 minutes of the show, where the ambience is calm, yet uncertain as with Richard Hawley's The Ocean which seems to be about "returning to a place of familiarity and comfort with someone you’ve shared a wealth of experiences and feelings with". Colleen's ability to pick up the songs dealing with the same subject (even if on separate intellectual levels) is just mindblowing. I mean, starting the show with these two purely sets the message clear: yes, you'll lose me one day, but you'll have to keep moving on, and you'll remember the places where we were happy. I'll always be there, with you. After all, we don't know if the man in the song speaks to a real woman... it may just be his imagination.... you see me coming, don't you...? In any case, the tone is perfectly set here. And there's more to come. Colleen's delicate mixing helps us see the path, gently leading us to Bob Marley's Exodus (btw, thanks to davstod for recomenting David Rodigan's biography!). If you're not walking towards heaven with us right now you'll never do it again in your entire life, this I can tell you. As Bob Marley shared it in his own words "After the shooting, me never want to just think about shooting,” Marley told Vivien Goldman of Sounds. “So me just ease up me mind and go in a different bag. What me stand for me always stand for. Jah [God] is my strength.” "The album is Marley’s most political and religious work but it also features beautiful, vivacious and downright funky and sexy jams. As a committed Rastafarian, Marley would often quote from The Bible, so it was no surprise that he chose to name his album after The Old Testament’s second book which portrays the exodus of the Israelites. However, there is another reason for the title choice as ‘Exodus’ also portrays a man experiencing his own personal exodus" (Classic Album Sundays). If you listen closely to today's episode, you will undoubtedly share with me the feelings I felt, and the following song in Colleen's mix, Marianne Faithfull's Love in the Afternoon keeps the pace to an unmatched perfection... We clearly feel the "marching force", we still have the lost feeling, we're searching for something, is this path the right one, is a secret love affair meaning to last... At this point of the show, we could almost refer here to those of us believing secretly in god without speaking about it openly... Once again, you see me coming, don't you...? After all, what do you think about when transitioning to the next realm?... These thoughts are so aligned with Marianne Faithfull's dark-sounding, and oh so lost album, A secret Life... With Cymande's Coltrane, an open-hearted tribute to the Jazz Saxophonist, and generally speaking to music, the message is now plain to see. Think about what I Just wrote earlier, and also to a few of older posts where I explained how Colleen constructs the show, you might feel we reached here a transitioning point as Wally Badarou's Mambo starts... Think about it and try to see why... 😉 With Marianne Faithfull's The Blue Millionaire, a strange song, undefined, the music still keeps us moving forward... The "marching feeling" that accompanies us throughout the show can be explained by Colleen's choice to put Marianne Faithfull's songs along with the other songs she selected for this episode, creating a beautiful musical unity with Colleen always taking great care of the cohesivity of the whole mix. There's an intention here... (even if unconscious) confirmed by the first hour's last two tracks which are I Keep Callin’ and Flowers' For Real and also by the fact that a song like Broken English has been inspired by Terrorism, and you know how much, according to some of these extremists, these barbarian acts are supposedly linked to Faith... Another way of seeing today's theme, don't you think?... The second hour of today's episode is also all bout this journey, with Colleen's mixing being perfect and transmitting the phases of the journey like it was a painting... I mean, listen to what she does during the mini mix (Outta Limits / If These Are the Last Days (Eliphino Remix) / The Edge (New Dimensions) / Black Out), it's astounding and this one wins the Wow Moment of today's episode! We were all on our knees while listening to it, perfection on our marching journey! Do I need to say more as the last song comes onto your mental screen? Your Soul Is Perfect... “The question of our individual purpose as we traverse on Earth is often one we are scared to meet. The intention of this song is to acknowledge the truth about us all- we are beautiful for the beings that we are, with a Light that can never be extinguished. Having courage to be content and happy is no small feat when mental health is involved… The Supreme Uniter is not only a nod to this, but to Meghan Stabile as she dances to this one from stars back to down to us. All of this is only possible due to Magnificent Shakti of Swamini Turiyasangitananda.” (Surya Botofasina) COLLEEN'S PRESENTATION Marianne Faithfull with El Galivan, arranged and accompanied by Mark Isham. And she recorded this song in 1985 for the film Trouble in Mind, directed by Alan Rudolph. And it's a beautiful song, and I'm kind of picturing her as an El Galivan, or a hawk. And I have this image of her flying off into the sunset as she transitions into the next realm after a life filled with beauty, joy, and a lot of pain and suffering as well. She was an incredibly resilient person, having been on top of the world in the 1960s with a successful recording career, acting in several films. She was also a style icon and Mick Jagger's girlfriend. But her life soon spiraled out of control when she became addicted to heroin. And she also ended up homeless and also tragically without custody of her son. But after a successful comeback in the late 1970s, she found a new voice, both literally as she suffered from a severe bout of laryngitis and her voice changed forever. But she also found a new voice figuratively, and that she found and wrote songs that suited her next stage of life. Torch songs, chanson, also she kind of dipped into the kind of whole new wave sound. And she also acted on television and did about 20 films. She also wrote an autobiography in the mid-1990s. And when it came out, I interviewed her for a radio show I was hosting at the time. And we did an interview at her friend's apartment. I think it was on Fifth Avenue. It was very posh, very flash. But she was delightful. And I was just absolutely mesmerized as a young 20-something-year-old woman. What a life. Thank you to Rick Shearman and David Puzzi for that request. And we'll have some more Marianne later in the show. Good morning, Balearicans. I'm Colleen Cosmo Murphy, hosting your weekly Balearic Breakfast. And greetings to all over on my MixCloud Live. It's great to be back hosting the show live from the record room, although we had a great two weeks off in Lanzarote, which is just such a weird and wonderful place. You have the artwork of Cesar Manrique, like in roundabouts. And it's dotted around the island, this volcanic, rocky, black-sanded island that sometimes looks like a moonscape. It's like 80 miles, I think, west of the Western Sahara. It's just really different. And I absolutely love it. And thank you to our special guests, Phil Meissen and Tiger Balm and our Balearic Breakfast family members, Christine DeSouza and David Stoddard, for the mixes they contributed while I was away. I know you all love them. I'm away again next week, so I have Greg Wilson and Sam from Ibiza taking over the reins while I stream remotely. But on today's show, we have mainly your requests and some new tunes. And this next one is quite a poignant one for me, as it's a song and an album I listened to over and over again when my father was dying about 15 years ago. And he lived near the ocean in North Carolina. And every day I would drive his truck to the hospital and I would play this song. Matt Raistrick requested this from the classic album, Cole's Corner, released 20 years ago. This is Sheffield's Richard Hawley with The Ocean. A request from Christine D'Souza for Love in the Afternoon. From Marianne Faithfull's 1995 LP, A Secret Life, which mainly featured songs she had written or co-written rather than covers. And it was a collaboration with American composer Angelo Battalamenti after his work on Twin Peaks. And it was influenced more by Faithfull's passion for classical music. And it was released just after her biography came out. And that's when I had the chance to meet and interview her. And you got the sense that the book was both a relief, but also a weight and that now her personal life was public, which is why I love the name of the album, A Secret Life. And we'll have some more Marianne Faithfull later in the show. Now, this Thursday would have been the 80th birthday of Bob Marley. And it's not an exaggeration to say that he single handedly brought reggae to new heights around the world. I remember when I was a teenager and in university, everybody had the Legend compilation, including myself. It was just one of those records you have like Dark Side of the Moon or What's Going On. And it's really incredible how Marley globally popularized Jamaican music and sent many people digging deeper into the sounds from that island. We heard Bill Laswell's fabulous ambient translation of Bob Marley's Exodus from the 1997 LP Dreams of Freedom, which featured ambient dub reworks of Marley's songs. And that must have been a lot of fun in the studio and sending that one out to A.J. Elliott. And ahead of that, a request from Matt Raystrick for Richard Hawley's The Ocean. And I'm sending that out to my late father, Roger Murphy, who was a boat captain, a scuba diver and an amazing swimmer and just absolutely loved the ocean. And he gave me my love for the ocean as well. Now, some of you may have seen the recent documentary Getting It Back, the story of Cymande, the British funk band that had been had a lot more success, actually, in America, switched around with their debut album, which featured some great tracks, including Bra and Dove. Well, they are back with a new album and it's great. It's called Renascence and it's really a spiritual and sonic successor to their 70s output. And it also features guests Celeste and Jazzy B. Ana Sancho in Barcelona asked for a cut from the new LP, but I was just sent a new remix by Crooked Man and it's an advanced copy as well. So I wanted to share it with you. So I hope you don't mind, Ana, that I'm taking some creative license. Here is Simon Bay with the Crooked Man remix of Coltrane. Blue Millionaire from Marianne Faithfull's ninth studio album, A Child's Adventure, released in 1983 on Island Records. And it features some of the amazing talent that was featured on loads of records from that era on Island Records. Mikey Chung on guitar, Barry Reynolds, who also wrote and collaborated with Grace Jones when she was on Island, and also Wally Batteru, who co-wrote and produced that song and a few others on the album. And they were all, of course, part of the Compass Point All Stars, a group kind of put together, a session group kind of really put together by Chris Blackwell for the Compass Point Studios in Nassau in the Bahamas. So some people on the chat were saying, oh, that sounds like Talking Heads or Tom Tom Club. Yeah, because it's some of the same crew of musicians there. But that one was co-written and produced by Wally Badarou, who was the song before. Now, perhaps when the previous song started, you may have thought it was Daydreaming by Massive Attack. Well, that's because they sampled it. We heard Mambo by French African musician, songwriter, producer and all-around amazing talent, Wally Badarou. And that's from his 1984 LP Echoes. And that also has Chief Inspector on it as well. That's a balearic classic. Badarou was also a de facto member of Level 42 all throughout the 1980s. He collaborated with and produced Marianne Faithfull, Fela Kuti and Salif Keita. And he was a central figure and part of the Island Records Compass Point All-Stars. He performed on records by Grace Jones, Talking Heads, Mick Jagger, Gwen Guthrie, Robert Palmer, Sly and Robbie, amongst many others. He also scored music for films, including Kiss of the Spider Woman and more recently, the award-winning documentary, Tahomee. And he will be my special guest for our next Classic Album Sunday's event, being held at the KEF Music Lounge in London on Wednesday, the 19th of February. We will explore his illustrious career and we'll have an in-depth look and listen to Echoes. Tickets are free and they've just gone up on the Classic Album Sunday's website. So be quick. And for those on the chat on the Mixcloud Livestream right now, I have put the link into the comments. So there are limited tickets. So please be quick with that. All right, let's slip into something smooth and soulful. And I'm loving this request from our friend Victor Olteanu in Romania. And funny as it's from the same early 80s era as the last two songs I just played, it's by the late American singer-songwriter Al Jarreau, who had a massive album in 1981, Breaking Away. And it spent two years on the Billboard album charts and it hit number one on the jazz and R&B charts. So how does one follow that up? Well, with another hit record. Two years later, he released Jarreau and it did rather well as it became his third consecutive number-one LP on the jazz charts and reached high numbers on the R&B and album charts, too. This is the last cut on the album. It's Al Jarreau with I Keep Calling. Everyone on the chat's loving this one. Going back, World Premiere with Share the Night and it's some more smooth soul and it's kind of a studio assemblage like the Act Change, but this time put together by songwriter-producer Douglas Pittman under the name World Premiere. And they put out a couple of singles on EZ Street Records and we just heard Share the Night, co-produced by the late New York City DJ Jonathan Fearing and requested by Peter Jongenil. I had about a rare soul tune that I sadly used to only have on bootleg, but I sadly think the one I just played is on bootleg. I think it sounds worse. So sad. Sorry. But it's had the vinyl reissue. It's it doesn't sound wonderful, but it's such a great song. And it's called Flowers, which is really Richard Flowers. He only released two singles in 1976 on the label L.A. Expressio, and we heard the song for real. I just love that one. And starting it all off with Al Jarreau, I Keep Callin' as requested by Victor Olteanu. All right, let's send some love to our friends in Canada. Our friend Karl Banitov in Montreal made this next request for Quebec Act 122 North, which was assembled by Danny Provencher, who is also in the band Under the Lights. 122 North released one EP called Night Drive back in 2021, and this is the original version of Drive on Balearic Breakfast. Italian jazz funk producer Pellegrino and his band Zodiaco, they have a new album out and the whole thing is worth a listen. It's called Koine and Leonardo Lau requested that song, Mario. Absolutely love it. In fact, I don't think Pellegrino and Zodiaco put out a bad record. So head on over to their bandcamp and their latest is also out on vinyl as well. Ahead of that, we heard the title track from Marianne Faithfull's 1979 comeback album, and I'm sending that one out to Gemma Bagnell and Artur in Paris, who also made additional Faithfull requests. And after reaching the depths that she probably never thought was imaginable, drug addiction, homelessness, Faithfull tried to stage a comeback in 1976 with an album called Dream in My Dreams, but it didn't really work out. And then Chris Blackwell signed her to Island Records and really encouraged her to forge a new sound, a more modern sound. He brought in people like Steve Winwood and kind of really transformed her career much in the way that he helped transform Bob Marley's career, who we played earlier, encouraging him to fuse more rock and pop sounds. In any case, it worked. Broken English was the album that redefined Faithfull as an edgy, contemporary chanteuse, and it's a great record. And Broken English is also our Classic Album Sunday's album of the month for our online album club, which is open to Classic Album Sunday's Patreon members. And the album club this month will be held on Tuesday, the 25th of February on Zoom. And if you want to find out more about it, head over to the Classic Album Sunday's website and rest in paradise, Marianne Faithfull. OK, this next one is an old Loft classic and one of the records that I heard my friend David Mancuso play quite a bit when I started going to the Loft in 1992. The Loft anniversary is coming up on the 14th of February and we will be doing a Loft special as we do every year on Balearic Breakfast in a couple of weeks. And the London Loft will be launching our new website this month as well and be at Loftparty.org and it will feature a complete interview with David that has never before been published in its entirety. And of course, we also have our next Loft Party in London on the 9th of March. If you would like to join our mailing list, you'll be able to do so on the new website, but you can also message me on the socials until then. This was requested by Ben Oliver, who loves the introduction by Timothy Leary. This is Mission Control with the Shelter Mix of Outta Limits. Oh, caught me unawares. I love that one. Kevin Fleming requested it a few weeks ago and I just thought I got to get this on vinyl. So I did. And that's what you just heard. It's by Neapolitan saxophonist and songwriter Enzo Avitabile, who collaborated with Pino Daniele, James Brown, Afrika Bambaataa, Randy Crawford, Tina Turner, amongst others. And we just heard the club mix of his 1986 single Blackout, the original of which is on his LP SOS Brothers. And you can file that with Pino Daniele, I Know I'm On My Way, or Stop Bajon by Tulio Piscopo. I think it has that same kind of feel on that one. Ahead of that, another Loft classic, also from 1992. I was just I just bought it recently, actually just found a new copy. Liquid Variety, who is JT Irish, Joey Campbell and Joey Gold with The Edge (New Dimensions). It came out in Kaleidoscope and it followed their single The Best Part of the Trip. So I think you know what they're talking about over there. And I just love that one. And again, in a couple of weeks, we'll be doing our Loft anniversary special here on Balearic Breakfast and our London Loft parties on the 9th of March. If you want to join us, you can message me. And we started before that with New Zealand's Electric Wire Hustle, who have released three albums and the original of the song we heard, If These Are the Last Days, can be found on their 2014 LP, Love Can Prevail. We heard the Elefino remix of If These Are the Last Days, quite a relevant title for these challenging times and requested by our friend Barry Zare in Washington, D.C. And I'll be in Washington, D.C. next week, playing at 618 D.C. next Friday on Valentine's Day, the 14th of February. Admittedly, it will be a bit strange to be there at this time, but I'm looking forward to meeting some listeners like Barry and some old friends. And also, I think it's my first gig since New Year's Eve, so I'm ready for you. I'm ready to play. I'm coming over and I'm ready to play some records and really looking forward to that. So as I said, I will be in the States. I'll be streaming next week remotely. So I have two guest mixes. I have one from Greg Wilson. I'll also be talking with him about James Hamilton, who is the late British disco and soul DJ who had a column in Record Mirror from 1975 to 82. And Greg has just edited James Hamilton's disco pages and compiles all of his columns from the Record Mirror. So that will be really interesting. And we also have an interview and mix with DJ S/a/m from Ibiza, and she has a new compilation coming out called Sueños de Ibiza. And I thought you would like a mix like that as well. Well, this is Colleen Cosmo Murphy signing off another edition of Balearic Breakfast. But before I go, I'm going to leave you with a beautiful request by Rick Van Veen in the Netherlands. It's by keyboardist and composer Surya Botafossina, who was taught in the tradition of Alice Coltrane by Swamini Turiya Sangitananda herself on her ashram in California, which is where he grew up. He also recently toured with Andre 3000. So you may have seen him on stage. Botafossina creates deep listening, spiritual jazz and meditative sounds and is devoted to one love, family and music. I guess that's what we're devoted to here on Balearic Breakfast as well. And this song is from the album Ashram Sun, released last year as a follow up to his acclaimed debut, Everyone's Children. And this one features Radja Botafossina. It's a beautiful, beautiful song and it's called Your Soul is Perfect, Supreme Uniter. Thank you so much for listening and I'll see you next week.

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

Colleen 'Cosmo' Murphy broadcast the 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! Listen back to the 214th episode of Balearic Breakfast: '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" 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.

Colleen 'Cosmo' Murphy broadcast the 215th episode of Balearic Breakfast on her Mixcloud on March 11th 2025. About this episode. – After a few busy days (she played at La Discothèque at Manchester’s Albert Hall and hosted 2025's first annual London Loft Party), and with the passing of one of her dear friends (the gofundme campaign dedicated to Andy Williams is accessible here), Colleen came back and presented her 215th Balearic Breakfast show on Mixcloud. Since there was no request line this time, Colleen decided to play mainly new tunes during this episode! And boy was it great... A few minutes after the show started, our friend dancing_james asked on the Mixcloud chat "Is it just me that imagines Colleen lives in a Beatlesesque Magical Mystery World of swirling psychedelic patterns?", a question which got an instant response from our Captain, saying "That's where I permanently live @dancing_james :) We missed you Sunday!" As we shall see in the listening section of today's episode, James question was really resonnating with the shows's Soul, hence the title of today's post! A Huge thank you to Rob, Iain, Kay, Aiko and Simon for sharing their London Loft pictures! "This morning’s Balearic Breakfast is now up on my Mixcloud and it features a lot of new music including a song from Ron Trent‘s forthcoming album and also my new Cosmodelica remix of Saint Etienne Official I have so many new records and promos and I feel moving forward I’ll ensure I do one show a month that is a catch up of all the great new music coming out – it’s really my duty to do so. This show also features tributes to the late Roy Ayers and also to my late friend Andy ‘Yam Who’ Williams. May they both rest in paradise. I’m heading to Japan next week but the show will continue thanks to my supportive husband Adam who will stream some pre-produced shows. In the upcoming weeks we have a mix from Kenneth Bager of MUSIC FOR DREAMS and we also have a chat about his new album with Findlay Brown ‘Silence Was Singing’. Saucy Lady also joins us on the show with a DJ mix and we have a chat about her new album ‘Love Fest’ which also features a collab with our friend Andy Yam Who?. And we have two Balearic Breakfast family guest mixes – one from Jen Ferguson and Glenn Williams of Hop Burns & Black and one from Darren Morgan of Love Machine and one of our London Loft family members. You’re in good hands! Thank you for listening and please kick back and enjoy the music from… HELL YEAH recordings @michele_mininni Ubiquity Records @sonsofsevilla @cantomamusic @deliarecordings @brown_fang HEAVENLY RECORDINGS @tornadowallace Test Pressing @red_laser_records @msdivablu @randomhouseperson @londonafrobeatcollective @kikonavarrodj @canopy.records @tribalwinds @djkennydope" Listen back to the 215th episode of Balearic Breakfast: Note: On March, 12th 2025, the new https://www.loftparty.org/ website was launched, with a previously unheard 2000 Interview with David conducted by Chris Menist on the "Music is Love" page. PLAYLIST (2024) Michele Minnini – Carousel of Tears (2025) Brown Fang – Light No Fires (2025) Tornado Wallace – Bitter Suite (Symphony) (2025) Saint Etienne – Alone Together (Cosmodelica Remix) (1972) Santana – Song of the Wind (2025) Roy Ayers – Everybody (Random House Project) (2004) Alison Crocket – U R (Yam Who? Rework) (2024) Sons of Sevilla – Everything I'm Looking For (1979) Roy Ayers – Love Will Bring Us Back Together (2024) Il Bosco – Destiny (1999) Funk Against Junk – Born Under Punches (2024) Ron Trent – Just Another Love Song (2010) Arthur Russell / Lola – Wax the Van (Yam Who?) (2025) Cantoma – Some Other Stars (Cazela Remix) (2025) London Afrobeat Collective – My Way (Kiko Navarro Discoterraneo Remix) (2025) Unified Spirits – Meant to Be (Antonio Ocasio Remix) (2005) Roy Ayers – Holiday (Kenny Dope Main Pass) THE LISTENING EXPERIENCE Starting her set with the very kaleidoscopic Carousel of Tears, the main picture of today's show is set straight by our Captain. And, as James put it when speaking about Colleen, today's show is, indeed, a "Beatlesesque Magical Mystery World of Swirling Psychedelic Patterns..."! Speaking of this track, Michele Minni shared: "It would be too presumptuous to claim to want to create the soundtrack of a hypothetical end of the world, yet I thought of nothing else but the end of a long journey during these 5 minutes, when ancestral memories, aspirations, and cosmic tensions mix, farewell tears and the nullification of time. Past and future no longer exist and become a cosmic and bucolic sonic orgy, imploding into a silent black hole that marks the end of everything. But now I wonder, is it really over?" Oh how much I love listening to the songs during the show, having a feeling, pictures flowing in my brain, and then later realising that these subjective images do actually meet the musical and philosophical reality of each song played! This is something I've experienced so many times when listening to the show and it Always amazes me!! The colourful and slightly psychedelic feeling will stay with us for the rest of today's show. Can't you feel the turning kaleidoscope on Light No Fires, and can you see yourself slowly drifting away? Once again, when reading the description of the Album on bandcamp, here is what you can find: “These pristine recollections are a means to delve into the soul of space; to link earth, tuning peg, ears and fern. To give emotional latitude for musicians dipping their toes into cartography. To put our locale under the magnifying glass in the form of a vibrational tonic. Take a listen to the lakeside sunset or the moon on the lagoon and nod to their computer rhythms. For, if you let them, these familiar ghosts will walk you down private roads and ferry you across algae-filled waters”. Trippy, don't you think, and Colleen's selections really put that voyage to the forefront in this episode, especially with the next number, Tornado Wallace's Bitter Suite (Symphony)! Colleen's delicate mixing really helps the track breathe into one another... A Wow Moment for sure as far as I'm concerned! And the Dynamics on that track are Huge! Soundwise, I feel this third track is somehow close to the show's opener. Although Saint Etienne's Alone Together has a more direct and concrete musical approach, Alina Bzhezhinska's Harp playing adds that ethereal feeling we found in the first few tracks of this great episode! There's a lot of depth in Colleen's version, the mixing is astounding, it takes you away, and fits perfectly into the Beatlesesque feeling we spoke about a few minutes ago! With Santana's Song of the Wind, the never-ending swirling feeling just keeps on taking you away in its multicoloured musical frames... Did you realise these first tracks are closely linked to the Universe and to Nature?... The body melts into the universe. The universe melts into the soundless voice. The sound melts into the all-shining light. And the light enters the bosom of infinite joy Did we say that Colleen is living in a Beatlesesque Magical Mystery World of Swirling Psychedelic Patterns, yes we did! Stepping up the rhythm a bit, Colleen then plays the ultimately revolving and never-ending Everybody (Random House Project). Despite the small silence, Colleen was able to keep the rhythmical flow, ensuring the listener kept on being lost in the music. Can't get better than that, Alison Crocket's U R (Yam Who? Rework), followed by the also mind freeing Sons of Sevilla's Everything I'm Looking For, opening up to the funky number that Love Will Bring Us Back Together is! Such a seamless transition there, my gosh, if this part doesn't free your mind...! On the chat, some family members shared their memories with us, of meeting the great Roy Ayers. Our friend Davstod wrote "I met Roy at Ronnie Scott's in 1990 where I took a copy of 'Red Black and Green' for him to sign - he said in that unmistakable raspy voice 'hey kid, where did you get this from? Not seen this for years'... He couldn't believe a couple of teenage London kids (me and my friend) had some 70s vinyl..." Also, dancing_james shared the tribute that Patrick Forge wrote on his Facebook page: The second hour of today's 215th episode keeps the mind-boggling feeling alive. Take the time to listen to the "space" in the songs, to the effects used, the reverb, you'll be lost in music too for sure! Speaking of being lost, we all lost our minds on Wax the Van (Yam Who?), followed by the Italo-Disco number that Some Other Stars (Cazela Remix) is (despite being issued this very year, laughs!). I mean, Wow moment again! Speaking of Italo Disco, we also loved to bits Il Bosco's Destiny, which is an edit of Vivien Vee's Destiny. Also, while searching about II Bosco's remix, I was intrigued by the sleeve of his record which reproduced a "Zero-Value Manifesto" which contained a text about AI and our organic nature, stating: "AI (language models) is the last step in the process started by humans of developing conscious thought (Logos in Greek). As humans we have valued that above our organic nature. We have identified ourselves with that thin self-conscious layer. AI is showing us that this is a mechanical process and it will be much better than us soon. We add zero value there! E.g. if an exam (school, university, etc) should be done without AI help otherwise it is cheating, then it means it is worthless. By definition, it focusses on useless skills. This was true also when you could not consult books during an exam, but this is deeper. Traditional education will crumble as a consequence. This poses the question then: what is the value of the self-conscious surface ? What is left of us when we remove that ? Solution: Let's stop identifying ourselves with our self-conscious surface Let's identify ourselves with our organic nature, the inside. As quantum physics shows, the ultimate reality is relative. Relations, not particles exist. The particle-based, absolute time view of the word, is obsolete. Our value is in the relations we form. (Daniele Turi 2024)" So I started digging the internet once again (🤣), and found Daniele Turi's blog, where he explains his idea in greater details, thus making me also think about today's show, about its intellectual and musical unity... Read the start of this analysis and make the link with Daniele's words... We need to connect to our deeper selves and meet the Beatlesesque Magical Mystery World of Swirling Psychedelic Patterns... The moment we stop identifying ourselves solely with the rational mind, we begin to see something more profound. Beneath the thinking self, there’s a vast, interconnected process of life. It’s the breathing, pulsing rhythm of existence. We are not just the crest of the wave, but the whole ocean, inseparable from everything else. And here, we begin to glimpse what really matters. (Daniele Turi, On AI and what it is teaching us, 2024) The last three songs also blew us away, including the incredible My Way (Kiko Navarro Discoterraneo Remix), with Colleen's mixing taking us to another realm (Siobhan Murphy then shared with us on the chat "Love it when Colleen goes in deep")... And we really should have a Balearic Breakfast show every day... COLLEEN'S PRESENTATION I Michele Minnini, an Italian DJ and producer who started releasing singles just over a decade ago, and he now has a new album out on Hell Yeah! Recordings. It's called Pop Archetypes and we just heard the original version of his latest single Carousel of Tears and there's also a great remix from Gallo which is worth checking out. So head on over to the Hell Yeah! Bandcamp to discover more. Good morning, Balearicans. I'm Colleen Cosmo Murphy hosting your weekly Balearic Breakfast until high noon, and greetings to the family over on my Mixcloud Live. It's great to see you up bright and early and thank you for sharing your Tuesday with me. Well, I'm fully charged after a wonderful weekend of parties and then an acupuncture and massage session yesterday when you don't have a day off in a month. Self-care is, of course, of the utmost importance. On Saturday, I had a lot of fun up north in Manchester playing at the Albert Hall for the wonderful women behind La Discotheque and we celebrated International Women's Day in style. It was really great. We're hanging out with CC Disco, Errol Elkin, Hot Toddy of Crazy P, and Jim and Sevi of Horse Meat Disco and also Bessley. So a lovely lineup to be part of. And thanks to those of you who joined us. And then on Sunday, we had our London Loft Party and oh my gosh, the vibes were through the roof. I just have to say our London Loft team is just a joy all around. I mean, the party was set up in just a few smooth hours and the whole team is just so positive and inclusive and I really just couldn't be happier. So thank you to the London Loft team and to all who joined us on the dance floor. The next date for your calendar is Sunday the 15th of June when we will celebrate our 22nd anniversary and invitations will be going out soon. So DM me if you want to join our mailing list. I should also announce a few more festival, club, and party dates. This weekend I'm playing at Southport Soul Weekender and that's always a lot of fun. And on Monday, I'm off to Japan for two weeks for a tour. So please follow me on my socials as I'll be posting up the details of that Japanese tour. On the 10th of April, I'm joining my friends Hands On Family at BBE for another shindig. And then in mid-April, I'm heading over to Ireland for Connelly's and Cork and Fidelity in Dublin. So I hope you can join me at some point somewhere. And if you are able to, please do say hello if you can. Well, so far in 2025, we've lost some very special musicians and this week we pay tribute to two more. Roy Ayers and also to my friend Andy Williams who also went under the name Yam Who? Coming up in the show, we'll have a lot of new music also from artists including Ron Trent, Tornado Wallace, London Afrobeat Collective, Bosco, and I'm also going to share my new remix for Saint Etienne. And moving forward, I'm going to host at least one show a month featuring new releases as I feel like I'm seriously behind, you know, with the request shows. We'll keep that request line going, but I think we need to have at least one show where I can catch up on new releases. And also we of course have our guest mixes. But it's really a duty that I have to share in the music and I have to say I listen to something new that I've never heard of before almost every single day. So I want to share that as well. And this is one of those records. This is Nottingham instrumental duo Brown Fang. They're John Thompson who's played with Jim, Bent, Crazy P amongst others, and Torn Sale bassist and guitarist Henry Claude Scott. Last month they released a new album of Chilled Out, Ambient Vibes and that follows up their 2022 mini album Sherwood Pines. This new one is called Netherfield Lagoons and it's out now on dealer recordings. And it's an absolutely beautiful offering. I mean, the vinyl package is just gorgeous. And you can head over to their bandcamp to order it. This is Brown Fang with Light No Fires. II A request from our friends Shelf Peltzner and Christchurch, New Zealand for one of my favorite bands Santana. We just heard Song of the Wind with a nice, you know, start, you know, I'm just still learning how to DJ. And that's from their fourth album, 1972's Caravanserai, which is an album that really showed the band's musical breadth as it was more of a jazz fusion direction. Also a new spiritual direction for Carlos Santana. It was produced by Carlos and the band's drummer and percussionist Michael Shreve. And if you're a fan of that kind of sound, also check out the solo albums by Michael Shreve and also Carlos Santana, who is one of my favorite guitarists of all time. Ahead of that, that was my new remix of Saint Etienne, their song Alone Together. It's a single from their latest album, The Night, which is a real chilled-out affair. It was released in December last year. And I was just so overjoyed to do this. You know, I was a huge fan of Fox Base Alpha when it came out, gosh, in 1991, was it? And on Heavenly Recordings, or was it 1990? I'm forgetting now. But I did interview the band. We did a great, great session for Classic Album Sunday and National Album Day at the British Library in October. And it was just so great to hear the stories behind it. And then they asked me to remix this single. And I had such a great time doing it. It's a real balearic affair. I brought in my friend Darren Morris of North Street West Studios. And also my friend, I brought in my friend the harpist Alina Bzhezhinska. And they brought a lot to the song, I think. It's coming out next month as a CD single, but that's already sold out. But I have some good news for you. It's going to be on my forthcoming Balearic Breakfast Vol. 4 compilation, which is coming out this summer. Ahead of that, we had the Berlin-based Aussie Tornado Wallace with Bittersweet, his forthcoming single, and Appianto's test-pressing imprint. We heard the Ambient Symphony mix, but the other mixes are perfect for the dance floor, including Wallace's own original mix, and also a great remix from Rui da Silva. It's coming out in May, and I highly suggest you pre-order it from your favorite record shop, as test-pressing releases usually sell out very, very quickly. Okay, sadly, Roy Ayres departed our planet for the next realm last Tuesday after a long illness. The vibraphonist, composer, and producer touched so many people's lives, including my own. I actually got to meet him around 15 years ago when he was rehearsing for an event at the ICA that my husband was putting together, and he was such a humble man. We totally bonded on being Virgos. At the age of five, the future godfather of neo-soul was given his first pair of vibe mallets by jazz legend Lionel Hampton. Ayres grew up in Los Angeles' South Park, which was the center of the Southern California black music scene, and even in high school, Roy was singing and playing in bands, and also producing fellow schoolmates like the late saxophonist Dexter Gordon. In 1963, he released his first solo album, West Coast Vibes, and in the early 1970s, he formed the pioneering jazz-funk outfit Ubiquity, and they released a string of game-changing albums, including Mystic Voyage, which features dancefloor burner Evolution, which sounded great at our London loft party on Sunday. Ayres also founded R.A.M.P., Roy Ayres Musical Productions, and they released one album, Come Into Knowledge, and then Ayres had his biggest hit with Running Away, and of course, there's Everybody Loves the Sunshine, and that's one of the songs he's most remembered for, and both records sounded great on Sunday at the loft. He collaborated with a lot of people. He toured with Fela Kuti, produced Sylvia Stripland, collabed with Rick James, and he's also on Jelly Bean's mix of Whitney Houston's Love Will Save the Day. First, we'll pay tribute with something that's a little different, as it's not a Roy Ayres original, but a rework by Random House Project that he sent me this week, which I thought you would like. It's a great chugger, and we'll play some Roy Ayres originals later in the show. III I can hardly hear myself there. Roy Ayres, Love Will Bring Us Back Together, and that's from his 1979 LP Fever, and that's Bernard Purdy on the drums there. Last week, Roy Ayres passed to the next round at the age of 84, and gosh, what a stunning career he had. As we said earlier, he was a pioneer of jazz funk, but he also worked with artists from younger generations, like Erykah Badu. He's on Mama's Gun. He worked with Guru. He's on Jazzmatazz, and he also collaborated with house legends, and I have something on that tip coming up later in the show. Rest in Paradise, Roy Ayres. Ahead of that, we had Everything I'm Looking For from Sons of Sevilla's album, Lullabies for a Wild Cat, and that was released on San Francisco label Ubiquity at the tail end of last year. The duo of the Smiths brothers are from Northern England, but now live in, you guessed it, southern Spain. In fact, one of them, I think, played for Seville's football team. In any case, they started the project during the 2020 lockdown, and they were inspired by J.J. Cale and the sounds of music emanating from their parents' family pub, and this album is a result of their efforts, and if you're a fan of bands like War on Drugs, I highly recommend you check out Sons of Sevilla's whole album. It's a bit more balearic and less rocky than War on Drugs, but I'm sure you get the idea. Ahead of that, we had the Yam who? rework of Alison Crockett's You Are, and I play this for a couple of reasons. First, Alison Crockett was the first singer I worked with as a producer on my debut single, Loneliness, which was released on Suburban in 1998, and I just love her and also her voice, and secondly, it's my late friend Andy Williams' rework. He did it as a Yam Who? rework, and I first met Andy when I moved to the UK back in 1999, as we were both working with the record label Newphonic. He, with his live band Fuzz Against Junk, and I was co-producing the Loft compilations with David Mancuso. I also regularly saw Andy over at Reckless Records in Soho, as like many of the best producers and DJs, he worked in a record shop for a stint. I started working with Andy in the studio when Ashley Beedle and I were doing our Darkstar Disco Tech productions, and then later I produced some of my Cosmodelica remixes with him, including one of my favorites, Mother Mother by Fat Freddy's Drop. Andy was also behind the record label Midnight Riot, and he did loads of reworks and re-edits as Yam Who? He was also quietly behind many other productions and worked with other songwriters and artists, some of whom I didn't even know until the tribute started pouring out last week when his sudden passing was announced. The night before his passing, I was actually talking about him in an interview with Saucy Lady for the show that's coming up in a couple weeks. As Andy is on her new album, they actually did a duet together. It was really lovely to hear his voice. Little did we know that hours later, he would no longer be with us. He's sorely grieved by our new disco and deep house community, and I want to send huge love to his family and to his nearest and dearest friends, and we'll have some more from Andy later in the show. Okay, now a great rework from Manchester DJ and producer Bosco, née Christian Wood. These tracks were unearthed during his many trips to Italy and have since been refined for the club. Now, I have no idea what the original is. I've shazammed away to no avail, so if you know, let me know please. This came out on the vinyl EP Please, No More Edits... From The Manctalo Disco! on his own label Red Laser last year. This is Il Bosco with Destiny on Balearic Breakfast. IV Phil Mison's Cantoma project with Some Other Stars, the Cazela remix, and I had Phil up on the show back in January. He gave us an exclusive mix, and we had a chat about his latest Cantoma album, Sea and the Sun, so you can check that one out as well. Just a really good mix there from Cazela. Ahead of that, the 2014 rework of Lola's Wax the Van by my friend, the late Andy Williams, Yam Who?, and I just absolutely adore that mix, and I have to say, doing a rework of that song is a really tall order for me because the first song I ever played with David Mancuso at his loft party, which was like over 30 years ago, was the John's dub mix on the original 1987 Lola 12-inch, so I really have strong ties to it, and generally when I'm really attached to a song, I don't want to hear a rework. I don't want to hear a remix. I even turn down reworks and remixes by songs that I'm so tied to, but Yam Who's remix really does it for me, and I've played it countless times, and sadly today playing it as a tribute to an old friend. Ahead of that, we had Ron Trent with Just Another Love Song, and that is from his forthcoming album Lift Off. It's coming out in May, and you can pre-order the vinyl on Ron Trent's Bandcamp. Now, for the last five years, Ron has mainly DJed in the States. Of course, he had his live show with his live project Warm at We Out Here, and we had Ron up on the show to talk all about that when the album What Do the Stars Say to You came out in 2022, and he's DJed a few times in the UK. Southport Weekender last year was great. He had a memorable set in the Bowl at We Out Here, and I just caught him actually a couple weeks ago over at Groove Odyssey at Fabric, and that was great. He sounded fantastic. I really love his kind of deep, rhythmic sound. In any case, he's called the album Lift Off because he's going to celebrate international touring again, so good luck to Ron Trent, and I love that song. There's some other great stuff on there, too. There's Street Wave, which I remember he played at the Bowl, and I was like, what is this song? And it's coming out on vinyl in May, so I'm really excited about that. Ahead of that, we had Fuzz Against Junk with their second single on New Phonic after their debut in 1998 with Country Clonk. Fuzz Against Junk was Andy Yim Hu and with Gordon Smith, with whom he also did Striker with Tony Rosano and Crispin J Glover, and we heard Fuzz Against Junk's cover of Talking Heads, Born Under Punches, and rest in peace, Andy Williams. Okay, this next one is a eight-piece live band called London Afrobeat Collective, and this is the song My Way. It's the third in a string of singles which have showcased reimaginings of songs from the band's fourth studio album, Asengo. Other remixes have been by and Patchworks, and this latest remixer is Mallorca's Kiko Navarro, who's had a great project called Afro Terranio, which you should check out. This came out last month on Samu Sui's label Canopy Records, and you can find it on Bandcamp. Everyone was loving this on Sunday. It sounded so good. It's a remix by my friend Antonio Ocasio from Tribal Winds. He gave me a test pressing when I was last in New York, and I messaged him and said, God, the sonics on this are just absolutely amazing. So many people asked about it on Sunday. It's Unified Spirits, meant to be, as remixed by my friend Antonio Ocasio, who started putting out his own productions on his own imprint, Tribal Winds, gosh, nearly 30 years ago, and then over at Dance Tracks, and he used to come in with all of his daughters. I can't remember. He had so many of them, all girls. It's really funny. Anyways, thank you to Antonio for that, because it's just a beautiful, beautiful record. Ahead of that, we had the London Afrobeat Collective, My Way, and we heard the Kiko Navarro Disco Terranio remix, and you can find that on Canopy Records Bandcamp. Well, this is Colleen Cosmo Murphy getting ready to sign off. This is the last live show of the month, because I am heading to Japan on Monday for a two-week tour. Again, all my gigs will go up on the socials. I will be announcing that this week, but the show will continue while I'm in Japan. My husband Adam is going to stream for us, so I'm going to pre-produce a bunch of shows for you. Next week, we have an interview with Kenneth Beyer and an exclusive mix. We talk about his new album with Finlay Brown, Silence With Singing, and we also have a mix and interview with Saucy Lady the following week. We talk about her new album, Love Fest, which also features a collaboration with my friend, the late Andy Williams. The Boston DJ and producer's new LP has a lot of other collaborations, too. We recorded the interview only hours before his passing, so it was really strange and really sad. We also have some guest mixes from members of our Balearic Breakfast family, including Jen Ferguson and Glenn Williams of Hot Burns Black, and also Darren Morgan of Love Machine and also a London Loft team member. We will keep streaming, and Adam's going to help me out on this one, because I don't know what time it's going to be over in Japan. I don't know what's going to be happening in my life at that time. So the show will continue. We have one final tribute to the late Roy Ayers. This next one is by request from our friend Bert Francois in Brooklyn. In the 1990s, I was saying that Roy Ayers started collaborating with house producers like Kerry Chandler, and he also collaborated with Masters at Work or New Reconsole. This one was released 20 years ago on a compilation called Roy Ayers' Virgin Ubiquity Remix. There's lots of great remixes like King Brit, Phil Asher, Ocean Lotte, Pepe Braddock, but the one we're listening to right now is Kenny Dope's. It's Roy Ayers' Holiday, the Kenny Dope main pass. Thanks for listening and rest in paradise, Roy Ayers.

Colleen 'Cosmo' Murphy broadcast the 218th episode of Balearic Breakfast on her Mixcloud on April 8th 2025. About this episode. – Taking a week off from the show after her incredible tour in Japan, Colleen came back live in today's episode, better than ever, gifting us with a 2h18min. episode (hence the post's title...) ! The Balearic Breakfast family was happy as ever despite Mixcloud's mobile app not allowing us to tag our fellow friends as we would have loved it. Grargf, Message to Mixcloud sent today! Listen back to the 218th episode of Balearic Breakfast: This morning’s Balearic Breakfast is now up on my Mixcloud (link in comments) and its an extra long show as I have so much music to play for you – a true cornucopia of sounds. Today’s show features some of the music I picked up on my recent trip to Japan and includes new albums on an experimental tip along with some Japanese jazz and city pop from yesteryear. There’s a great italo classic rework, a forgotten Austrian treasure from the 80’s, some Balearic chuggers, deep house, nu soul and a lot more. Swipe for the playlist. Today’s show is also a bit longer as I’m taking next week off as both my husband and I will be en route to Ireland for his birthday celebration and also some parties. After a much needed rest this past weekend – actually walking nearly 20 km in Epping Forest may not be considered restful by some although you can see from the pic above the weather was glorious – these next few weeks are packed with parties and I hope you can make it along to one of these dates (and if you do please say hello): 10th April: Cosmodelica at The BBE Store with Handson Family in London 13th April: @Burger-Disco-Club Athens, Greece 18th April: Connolly's of Leap Cork, Ireland 19th April: Fidelity Dublin, Ireland 3rd May: Melting Pot at Queens Park, Glasgow 4th May: 1BTN Birthday Bash at Patterns Brighton 10th May: Balearic Breakfast Day Party with Joe Goddard at Night Tales Loft London 18th May: Pikes All Night Long, Ibiza 23rd May: Cosmodelica & Love Injection Fanzine / Records Good Room in Brooklyn, NY 28th May: @danteshifi in Miami, Florida The Request Line will go up Saturday, the 19th April and Balearic Breakfast will be back streaming live from the record room on Tuesday, the 22nd April. Until then, you can enjoy this show and others on the Balearic Breakfast playlist on my Mixcloud. Thanks for listening. The Listening experience. – Taking us through a calm yet unknown Journey, where everything simply glows and grows in musical harmony, Colleen developed this episode in two parts, the first one showcasing pictures of spring (the first 40 minutes / 6 songs) while the second one was more upfront (yet still keeping intact that Wow feeling we all feel when Spring comes back into our lives – Payfone's Volt to Volt and Kraak & Smaak's Butter Bath are nice examples of that feeling)! There were several Wow Moments during this episode, including the show's opener Indigo Line (which made me think of Max Richter's Vivaldi Recomposed album), Julia Mestre's Vampira (What a soundstage!), Salphunk's How Do You Like It, B.W.H's Stop (Danilo Braca ReStop Edit), Tatsuro Yamashita's Love Talkin (Honey It's You) & Minako Yoshida's Let's Do It – which both made me think about these incredible Japanese productions with the sound being realistic, Neutral (yet on the warmer side) while being open and dynamic, with a dominant rhythmic guitar and a light pumping bass! Last but not least, we can't forget the incredible Jam On by Jambonne! All in all, this episode is a blooming musical experience! THE PLAYLIST (2025) Tomo Nakaguchi – Indigo Line (2025) Shin Sasakubo & Matchume Zango – Kumkomba (2025) Mark de Clive-Lowe – Embrace (1981) Masabumi Kikuchi – City Snow (2025) Julia Mestre – Vampira (1980) Crumb – Love is a Game (2025) Salphunk – How Do You Like It (Munich Mix) (2025) B.W.H. – Stop (Danilo Braca ReStop Edit) (1982) Tatsuro Yamashita – Love Talkin (Honey It's You) (2025) Rudy's Midnight Machine – Foxtrot (2025) Payfone – Volt to Volt (40 Thieves Remix) (2025) Peter Visti (ft Dawda Jobarteh & William Winding) – Atlantic Fever (2025) Kraak & Smaak – Butter Bath (2023) Lack of Afro (ft. Greg Blackman) – Make it Shine (1978) Minako Yoshida – Let's Do It (2025) Jambonne – Jam On (2025) Joseph Malik ft Kameelah Waheed – My Whole World (Variant Issue Orchestra Vocal Remix) (2025) Omar – Can We Go Out (Zed Bias Remix) (TBR) Harvey Sutherland – Nobody Like U (Glenn Underground Dancer's (1999) Ciel Ernest St Laurent – We Are One (Frankie Feliciano Remix) (2025) Aric – I Love Your Love (Pete Blaker Dub Remix) COLLEEN'S PRESENTATION Part I Tomo Nakaguchi, the musician and sound artist from Yokohama, with Indigo Line, from his forthcoming LP, Out of the Blue, coming out on the 3rd of May on Audiobulb. And it's his third album for the label, and it meticulously crafts audio elements from traditional instruments, field recordings, and broken tape machines into a complex and beautiful soundscape. And Nakaguchi is also a member of the experimental rock band, 1769, and a member of the multimedia group Skyward Photo Film. And you can head over to his Bandcamp to pre-order. Good morning! Ohayou gozaimasu! I'm Colleen Cosmo Murphy, hosting your weekly Balearic Breakfast, live on my Mixcloud, and greetings to the family over there, and thank you for joining me when I was streaming remotely from Japan. I also want to thank the guests that filled in for me, Kenneth Bager from Music for Dreams, Saucy Lady of Dippin' Records, Jen and Glenn from Hot Burns and Black, and Darren Morgan from our London Loft Party and Love Machine. They all did an amazing job, and thank you for giving them so much support. And it's great to be back hosting the show live from my record room, after an amazing trip and tour in Japan. I've been going to Japan since 1989. It was the first place outside the USA where I hosted radio shows, as I was a radio host on JOGZ in Nagoya, right after my 21st birthday, and I had barely traveled outside the USA, so it was a huge deal for me. And Japan is strangely also the first place I DJed in clubs outside of America, as I started playing there in the mid-90s. So Japan means a lot to me, and this is my first time back since 2019, just before the global pandemic. And I'd like to thank Ryo Watanabe for putting together a wonderful tour. It's the first one we've done together. All of the clubs who invited me, Club Mago in Nagoya, Boars in Obihiro, Bar Inc. in Osaka, Bar Bridge in Shinjuku, Woal in Takasaki, and of course, Precious Hall and Satoru-san in Sapporo. That's one of my favorite places in the world to play, as he changes the entire sound system when I go over to a loft-style system, with the Klipschhorn's Mark Levinson amplification and the lovely, gorgeous Koetsu cartridges. So it was truly sublime. And most importantly, arigatou gozaimasu to all who joined me on the dance floor. Today's show, of course, features some of the music I picked up in Japan and includes new albums on an experimental tip, along with some Japanese jazz and city pop from yesteryear. And also coming up in today's show, a great Italo classic rework, a forgotten Austrian treasure from the 80s, some Balearic Chuggers, new deep house and soul, and a lot more. So, ikimashou! Japan still on my mind. 1989 Photo booth ‘selfies’ and pics of the barefoot hippie DJ at JOGZ FM DEPO 76.4 FM with my old WNYU buddy Chris Cullen (CCM, 04/04/2025). We're going to start off with some spacey, atmospheric, and transcendental sounds from Japan. And this is a new one from Japanese guitarist and composer Shin Sasakubo, who has recently been releasing albums over the last two decades, many of which are collaborations, like this one. His most recent album, which is a collab with Mozambique composer and musician Matchume Zongo, who is a master of the timbala, a traditional wooden xylophone. And he's released one solo album himself, WataM'Cande. Together, Sasukubo and Zongo released the LP Kalamuka last month on Chichibu Records. And here they are with the album opener and a true journey in itself, Kumkomba. Ed. Note: Kikuchi in 2013, performing at a tribute concert for his former collaborator, Paul Motian (Getty) A little something I picked up while record shopping in Sapporo. 80's Japanese jazz, courtesy of pianist, synth keyboardist, composer Masabumi Kikuchi. He worked with many musicians, including Sonny Rollins, Miles Davis, McCoy Tyner, Elvin Jones, Gil Evans, and Toru Takemitsu. We just heard City Snow, which reminds me of snowy Sapporo, the biggest city in the northern island of Hokkaido. And I played it at the listening party at Precious Hall, where Kuniyuki, Yano, and myself played some jazz, African music, world music, experimental sounds. City Snow also featured James Mason on guitar and Ayrton Morera on percussion. And it's from Kikuchi's 1981 LP, Susto. Ahead of that, Mark de Clive-Lowe with Embrace from his new album, Past, Present, Tone Poems Across Time, coming out later this month on Greg Boreman's impressive collective label in partnership with BBE. And I met up with Mark in Tokyo, and he told me the backstory of the album. You may know he grew up in both Japan and New Zealand. And this record is a sonic exploration and reflection on family, heritage, and healing, created while he was retracing his late Kiwi father's journey across Japan 70 years ago. It's a gorgeous record of ambient jazz and emotional cinematic soundscapes. And it was all written, performed, and produced by Mark, using a ridiculous number of synths, along with some of his own field recordings. So you can head over to his Bandcamp to pre-order the vinyl, which was mixed by our friend Kuniyuki-san, and is coming out on the 18th of April. And we started off with Shin Sasakubo and Matchume Zongo with KumKomba. You're listening to Balearic Breakfast. And this next one is from contemporary Brazilian music sensation, actress, and creative director, Julia Mestre. Mestre is a member of the Latin Grammy-winning Brazilian supergroup Bala de Seijo. And her forthcoming third solo album, Maravilhosamente Bem, is coming out on the 8th of May. Sorry, I don't speak Portuguese. I might be murdering the language. Apologies for that. This is the latest single from her new album. It's called Vampira. And it's her reinterpretation of Ray Reyes' original salsa song. And she transforms it into something more sultry, dreamlike, and sensual, which is her trademark style. Part II Yes, I do. I do very much. I really like it. That's a new disco chugger from Lisbon's rising talent, Salphunk. And we just heard the Munich mix of their new single, How Do You Like It, which came out on Dutch label Universo Positivo last month. And it's a follow-up to their debut Live On, released at the end of last year. So definitely ones to watch. And that's some 80s blue-eyed soul by Crumb with Love is a Game. And that's from The Other Sound of Music, forgotten Austrian treasures from the 1980s compilation, which came out at the end of last year on Austrian reissue label Edition Hawara. And there's some great tunes on there. Incidentally, the band Crumb only released one album in 1980, The Day When Mr. Goodbar... And it has a photo of a teddy bear on the album. And then they disbanded soon after. So you can now get that song on The Other Sound of Music compilation. OK, here's an old Italo classic that I only ever had a bootleg of. You know, I don't really like buying bootlegs because I like supporting the artists. I would never do one myself, but I have been guilty of buying and playing them. It was conceived of and developed in the early 80s by the club DJ and producer Stefano Zito with a very young composer and arranger, Stefano Galante. And I believe Stefano's wife, Helen, and actress also played a part. They released a single, Living It Up, with the B-side Stop in 1983. And the Italian-born and New-York-residing DJ and producer Danilo Bracca has given it a great re-edit. D-W-D-B-W-H, with Stop, the Danilo Bracca re-stop edit. Loving this new one. From Robin Lee, who is one half of Faze Action, under the moniker Rudy's Midnight Machine. And put out so many great records on this Rudy's Midnight Machine. Releasing records for the past 15 years. And this one, Foxtrot, is on the new album, Maestro, which came out this week. Ahead of that, another nugget I picked up on my travels in Japan. Singer, songwriter, guitarist and city pop megadon, Tatsurō Yamashita. He's also the husband of Mariya Takeuchi of Plastic Love fame. And Yamashita began releasing albums in 1972, up through to his latest in 2022. And in 1980, he broke through with his album Ride on Time. But all of his releases are worth checking out. We heard Love Talkin' Honey It's You from his 1982 LP, For You. And Minako Yoshida was on backing vocals and will be playing one of her classics later in the show. So please check out Yamashita's catalog. And if you can secure a vinyl copy of his sought-after 1977 LP, Spacey. Which goes for eye-watering sums on Discogs, well then, congratulations. Ed. Note: Mariya Takeuchi RCA YEARS Vinyl Box Collection Capture the moments, one song at a time! Don't miss to listen to the greatest city pop songs with the Mariya Takeuchi RCA YEARS Vinyl Box Collection! Directly from the heart of the 80s, this limited 6-disc analog box set highlights her distinctive voice and poetic lyrics, capturing the essence of youthful romance and hope; the sound is simply exceptional, with improvements made to enhance the listening experience. Vinyl aficionados may delve deep into the warmth and richness of the analog format, allowing Takeuchi's smooth vocals and intricate arrangements to shine in all their glory! Even if you are fans of Mariya Takeuchi or if you are curious about city pop genre, lose yourself in these songs that celebrate the magic of her enchanting sound! Okay, I have quite a few gigs coming up in the next couple of, next few weeks, I should say. And I just wanted to let you know because you may be somewhere in the world where you can come on by and say hello. This Thursday, I'm hosting Cosmodelica with my friends Cindy and Christian from Hanson Family at the BBE store in London. And that's this Thursday night. On Sunday, I'm heading over to Athens for Burger Disco Club. And then the following week, I'm going over to Ireland. First to Cork, my ancestral seat, which I've never been to. Playing at Connelly's and Leap in West Cork on the 18th of April. And then on the 19th, heading up to Dublin where I'm playing at Fidelity all night. On the 3rd of May, I'm playing for Melting Pot at Queen's Park in Glasgow. Along with a stellar lineup of horse meat disco and many others. On the 4th of May, the next day, I'm down in Brighton for 1BTN's Birthday Bash at Patterns in Brighton. Also playing with a Rup Roy down there. So that should be a lot of fun. On the 10th of May, a Saturday all-dayer in London. It's a Balearic Breakfast Day Party. And my special guest is Joe Goddard. And that's at N.T.'s Loft in London. So I'll be doing a few Balearic Breakfast shows there. I think the next one's in July and then one in September for the album release. On the 18th of May, I'm playing at Pike's all night long in Ibiza. And I have three dates there. One at the end of July and one at the end of September as well. And then at the end of May, I'm heading over to the States. Doing Cosmodelica with Love Injection at the Good Room in Brooklyn on the 23rd of May. And then heading down to Miami for Dante's Hi-Fi on the 28th of May. So quite a few parties going on. If you're able to make one, please come along and say hello. Okay, since 2013, Brighton and Barcelona duo Payfone have been crafting atmospheric, mid-tempo grooves on labels like Golf Channel, Lange & Defected. And this one is a late-night, sophisticated, synth-driven, drum machine-powered sound. This time featuring vocals from North Carolina's Joe Gabriel Harris and New York City's Terry Jackson. This is the slow-burning, moody remix by San Francisco trio 40 Thieves of Volt to Volt on Balearic Breakfast. Loving that one. It's a new one from Kraak & Smaak. It's a Dutch duo, Kraak & Smaak, along with Butter Bath. And that's their latest single, Heat, which came out last month on Boogie Angst. And it's a great collaboration as it melds Crack & Smack's soulful, funky sound with the psychedelic pop sound of Butter Bath. And I have to say, it really resembles some modern yacht rock. And I dare say that's a great thing. It's the perfect song to kind of blast in the car when you're cruising on a sunny day with the windows down, like really pure pop bliss. And ahead of that, I'm loving that new Peter Visti album on Music for Dreams. The Danish producer and DJ earned his stripes in the late 80s and 90s playing cool venues around Europe and beyond. And he's been releasing records for two decades, including two albums on Steve Cote's Bare Funk label. This new album is fantastic. It's called Vesti's Vinyl Collective Volume 1, so I expect there's going to be more. It's on Music for Dreams. And it features some collaborations like the one we just heard, Atlantic Fever with Gambian Kora player Dawda Jobarteh and Danish songwriter, producer and DJ William Winding. And we started it all off with Payfone, Volt to Volt, the 40 Thieves remix. Okay, we have a new single coming out tomorrow on Bastion Music Group by Lack of Afro. Absolutely love him and Greg Blackman. They released a gorgeous, feel-good, soul tune, Loving Arms, a couple of years ago. And it was on Lack of Afro's or Adam Gibbon's album, Square One. And there's a follow-up album and a tour on the horizon. So this is a new one, a beautiful, uplifting song called Make It Shine. Scottish singer-songwriter Joseph Malik, who released his first album, Diverse, in 2002 on Compost. And since that time has released many records, including three albums on Joe Wallace's Ramrock label. We just heard his collab with the talented Camila Wahid. I'm just really digging her right now. With the song, My Whole World. And we heard the Variant Issue Orchestra vocal remix. Ahead of that, a new one on Spacegrapes. The independent Dutch label run by Bobby Van Pooten and Danilo Plessow. Focusing on the best in contemporary live music. And they started releasing records in 2020. And I managed to scoop up a couple on vinyl. They now have a new one coming out by Jambonne. A moniker for Another Taste. A live and studio band that record for Spacegrapes. And it's called Jam On. And it's coming out soon on Spacegrapes. So do follow them because their records do sell out very, very quickly. Ahead of that, we had the Japanese singer-songwriter-musician Minako Yoshida. With Let's Do It. The title track to her 1978 LP. Which some say was really the beginning of the city pop sound. Now I'm sure that's the subject of debate. People like to claim firsts. But at the very least, Yoshida and this album pioneered the sound. And she's been incredibly prolific. Releasing albums up to about a decade ago. And the song Let's Do It was co-written with Tatsuro Yamashita. Who we heard earlier in the show. So I hope you like that little wee jazzy segment of the show. This is Colleen Cosmo Murphy with you. Going a little bit later than high noon today. And moving on to something a bit housier. And I'm going a little bit longer because I have so much to play for you. But I have also a little confession. I'm not going to be here next week. We are going to be on a plane to Ireland. So we can't even stream a prerecorded show. So sorry about that. But many of us fell in love with the British singer-songwriter Omar's voice. When he debuted in 1990 with the song There's Nothing Like This. Oh my gosh, I can hear it in my head right now. What a gorgeous voice. He has a new album coming out in June on Impressive Collective. In partnership with BBE. And it's called Brighter the Days. And over three decades he's been a defining force in modern black music. Crafting a sound that seamlessly blends soul, funk, jazz, salsa, dub, and hip-hop. With roots in classical music. And as he puts it, each album is an evolution, if you will. But I'd like to think this one is my magnum opus. Here is Omar with the Zed Ballas remix of Can We Go Out? Colleen Cosmo Murphy getting ready to sign off another edition of Balearic Breakfast. We just heard an old classic from 1999. Ernest St. Laurent We Are One. The Frankie Feliciano remix. Came out in 1999 on Yellow Productions. Loved that label. I also did a compilation for them in 2002 called The Disco-Tech of DJ Cosmo. If you ever want to check that one out. Ahead of that we had Melbourne DJ and producer Harvey Sutherland. Born Mike Key. With his single Nobody Like You. And we heard a forthcoming remix by Deep House and jazz producer DJ Glenn Underground from Chicago. Absolutely loving that one. Ahead of that, Omar, Can We Go Out? The Zed Ballas remix. Out now on BBE. And just a reminder, this Thursday if you're in London. Doing a free Cosmodelica party with Hands On Family at the BBE store. So it was rammed last time. Hope you can make it. Please say hello. Now I have to confess I'm taking one more week off next week. As I'm going to be on a plane to Ireland. And Adam is going to be with me. So he can't even stream a pre-record. It's his birthday coming up. Taking him out to a nice restaurant. Have a couple of gigs over there too. At Connelly's and Leap on the 18th. And at Fidelity in Dublin on the 19th. But then the request line will go up on Easter weekend. And the show will resume live on the 22nd of April. So hope to see you back here with me. Thanks to all who joined me on the Mixcloud Live. Leaving you with this great Groover from Pete Blaker. Loving this one. It's by Aric Sigman who is a musician and psychologist. And the song is called I Love Your Love. And this remix is from Gerd Janson and Elado. It's on Gerard Johnson's Running Back label. This is the Pete Blaker dub on Balearic Breakfast. Thanks for listening. And remember, just be Balearic.

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

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

Colleen 'Cosmo' Murphy broadcast the 232nd episode of Balearic Breakfast on her Mixcloud on July 22nd 2025. About this episode. – The Great French Poet, Alphonse de Lamartine, once wrote: "The book of life is the ultimate book / That you can not close or reopen at your will ; The appealing excerpt can not be read twice / But the fatal page turns on its own / You would gladly come back to the page where you loved / And the page in which you die is already under your fingers". The first part of today's shows starts with somewhat of a forced smile, in the summertime, but there, sometwhere, in the distance, stands a Totara Tree, under a lonely summer sun and, if you look up to the sky, you should see a few lost blackbirds flying high, turning above your head in an endlessly swirling motion while a tired cry can be heard coming from somewhere... Cajun moon, where does your power lie / As you move across the southern sky / You took my babe way too soon / What have you done, Cajun moon / Someday babe, when you want your man / And you find him gone, just like the wind / Don't trouble your mind whatever you do / 'Cause Cajun moon took him from you / When daylight fades, the night comes on / You can hear the silence of this song / Don't trouble your mind whatever you do / 'Cause he got me like he got you... Listen back to the 232nd episode of Balearic Breakfast: This morning’s Balearic Breakfast is now up on my Mixcloud and please give me a follow while you’re over there. Today’s show is mainly your requests with a few new nuggets thrown in and we also pay tribute to the late Chris Faiumu. He was known as Mu to fans of Fat Freddy's Drop, the jam band he founded in the late nineties in his native Aotearoa. Last week Mu passed to the next realm and family, friends and fans from around the globe are mourning his loss, but we still have the music - his eternal legacy. Sending big hugs to our friends in New Zealand who worked with him, played with him and who knew him well. Kua hinga te totara I te wao nui a Tane. Next week’s show will feature an interview with and a mix from Café Del Mar resident Ken Fan and a Special Kay mix from Balearic Breakfast family member Kay McMahon. Until then, enjoy today's show with music from Hermanos Gutiérrez DJ Spen Kerri Chandler Kuniyuki Takahashi Randy Crawford Daniel Avery Troy Kingi Holy Ghost! Brian Jackson BBE Music and thanks for listening! THE PLAYLIST (1970) Ken Boothe – In the Summertime (2001) Burning Spear – Travelling (2005) Fat Freddy's Drop – Wandering Eye (2013) Fat Freddy's Drop – Blackbird (2025) Hermanos Gutiérrez ft Leon Bridges – Elegantly Wasted (1996) Randy Crawford – Cajun Moon (Cajun Long Trip Version) (2025) Mudd – Mahalo (Instrumental) (2021) Daniel Avery – Hazel and Gold (1977) Peter Gabriel – Solsbury Hill (2024) ASHRR – What's Been Turning You On (Soundsystem Version) (2020) Troy Kingi – Chronophobic Disco (1981) Pino D'Angio – Ma Quale Idea (1982) Cheryl Lynn – Say You'll Be Mine (2020) Longhair – The Forbidden Dance (Original Version) (2018) Holy Ghost! – Anxious (A Tom Moulton Mix) (1988) Raze – Break 4 Love (2025) Brian Jackson ft. Omar – The Bottle (2022) DJ Spen & Soulfuledge – Goin' Home (To See My Savior) (Kerri Chandler Vocal Mix) (2025) Kuniyuki & Cushty – Tremor (Kuniyuki Dub Mix) (2025) Los Twangueros – Star Guitar (2004) Fat Freddy's Drop – Hope (3 Generations Walking Remix) COLLEEN'S PRESENTATION One of Jamaica's finest, Ken Boothe, with his cover of British band Mungo Jerry's 1970 hit, In the Summertime. Boothe had already been recording with Studio One's Sir Cox and Dodd for the latter half of the 60s, and was already known as Mr. Rocksteady. And then he made the move to Duke Reed's Trojan Records, where he had a slew of hits, including Crying Over You. And a big thank you to Victor Olteanu in Romania for that summary request. Ed. Note: Find out more about Ken Boothe's career and life in this 2 part interview: Part 1 / Part 2 Good morning, Balearicans. I'm Colleen Cosmo Murphy, hosting your weekly Balearic Breakfast until high noon on my MixCloud Live. And greetings to all gathered over there from all corners of the globe right now. Thank you for joining me. Today's show is mainly a request with a few new nuggets thrown in. But first, I would like to pay tribute to the late Chris Faiumu, known as Mu to fans of Fat Freddy's Drop, the jam band he founded in the late 90s in his native New Zealand, Aotearoa. As DJ Fitchy, Mu collaborated with musicians from the Wellington music scene, including singer Dallas Tamaira and trumpet player Toby Lung, and providing the live musicians with beats and bass from his Akai MPC. Mu and his long-term partner Nicole also founded a record label they called The Drop, and released Tamaira's first solo EP, and then a song called Hope that was inspired by an acid trip. The blotters displayed the image of Fat Freddy's cat from the fabulous Furry Freak Brothers comic strip, and because the music makers liked to drop, Fat Freddy's Drop was born. They invited other local musicians to jam sessions that fused reggae, soul, dub, and funk, all mashed with Maori and Pacifica culture. And as a seven-piece, they became known for live improvs, imprinted onto vinyl on their first LP, Live at the Matterhorn. They released several singles, like Midnight Marauders, which was championed by Germany's Sonar Collective, and other international DJs. And in 2005, they released their debut solo album, Based on a True Story, polished versions of their Far Out jams. It went to number one in New Zealand and gold on the same day, and won New Zealand's Album of the Year award. Since then, Fat Freddy's Drop have released eight studio albums, have toured internationally nearly every year to sell out crowds, getting bigger and bigger and bigger. And they've established themselves as New Zealand's most successful independent band. Aotearoa and the international dance music community are mourning the recent passing of Fat Freddy's Drop founder, Chris Faiumu, or Mu. This next set is dedicated to his family, friends, and fans. And this next song is a dedication to the spirit of Mu himself, and to Fat Freddy's Drop band members. From my husband, Daddy Adz, of Trojan Sound System. A very fitting tribute as the band traveled together, and Mu's spirit is traveling now. Burning Spear with Traveling. The title track to Fat Freddy's Drop, third and platinum selling album, 2013's Blackbird, and sending that one out to DJ Hefe or Dan Edwards, who wanted to commemorate the late Chris Faiumu, the founding member of New Zealand's most influential and successful independent band, Fat Freddy's Drop, and lovingly known as Mu, who suddenly passed to the next realm last week. Ahead of that, Wandering Eye from Fat Freddy's Drop's debut album based on a true story. And Adam and I are dedicating that to all our Kiwi friends who are mourning the loss of their dear friend. Kay, Rob, Jen, Glenn, Kyan, Chris Tubbs, Nikki Lucas, the Flamingo Pier crew, Nathan Haynes, Benny, and the New Zealand music community. And also, of course, to all of Mu's Fat Freddy's Drop bandmates, including our personal friends, Joe, Mark, and Scott. And we have a dedication from Scott to his late bandmate Mu later in the show. Kua Hinga Te Totara I Te Waonui Atane. I hope I said that right. And may Mu rest in paradise. Well, I've played Hermanos Gutierrez at Balearic Breakfast before, and they've just released their first English language single, this time with Leon Bridges. The Ecuadorian-Swiss brothers met the Texan soul singer when they were in Nashville for a gig. Bridges heard a song they were trying to finish up, grabbed a mic, and sang over it. And the Hermanos thought he sounded like an angel. As requested by Ana Sancho in Barcelona, here are Hermanos Gutierrez with their first new tune of 2025, this one with Leon Bridges, the song Elegantly Wasted. The ASHRR Sound System version of What's Been Turning You On by ASHRR, who are releasing an album of their own sound system versions of songs from their debut album, Sunshine Low, released last year on 2020 Vision. And you may remember I had the band up on the show for an interview and an exclusive mix last year. You can listen back on my Mixcloud to hear all about them. They're amazing musicians. They've been session musicians, they've played all over, and they're very, very varied in genre, and I just love their work. And this new sound system version album is coming out this week, and you can find it on Bandcamp. And thank you to Barry Bernitz in Washington, D.C. for that request. Ahead of that, a song you probably know, but it seemed to fit in brilliantly on a balearic show, and Gareth Bratman thought so and made the request for Peter Gabriel's Solsbury Hill. And it's from the former Genesis frontman's debut solo album, his 1977 self-titled LP, and that was the first single. It became a top 20 hit in the U.K. and really marked a departure from his early prog roots. Ahead of that, from his fourth album, Together in Static, we heard British DJ and producer Daniel Avery with Hazel and Gold, an acolyte of the late Andrew Weatherall. Avery was first known as Stop Making Me and collaborated with Little Boots, Hercules, and Love Affair. And I should also mention that Daniel Avery did an amazing remix for The Cure's Mixes of a Lost World, and his remix of Drone, No Drone is really one of my favorites on the album. In fact, that song was my second choice if Robert Smith didn't let me remix "And nothing lasts forever". Avery's remix is on fire. And thank you to DJ Corbian for the requests for Hazel and Gold. Paul "Mudd" Murphy just released a new limited vinyl single on his Claremont 56 imprint, instrumental versions of his forthcoming, of two tracks from his forthcoming third album, a follow-up to his record In the Garden of Mindfulness.The new single was written and produced with regular collaborator Michele Chiaverini, and we heard the instrumental of Mahalo, and the flip is an instrumental of Matane, and there's still vinyl copies around, so be quick. And thank you to Bobby Connell in Sydney, Australia for that request. Okay, another beloved Maori musician and actor and icon in New Zealand is Troy Kingi, who has had a remit of releasing one album per year for a decade, each with a different genre from funk to reggae to soul, and the project is called Ten Ten Ten. He tours the album and then goes back up north to fish for the rest of the year, or at least that's what I heard. I was turned on to his music by Flamingo Pier's Luke Walker when I was in New Zealand last year, and I fell in love with the next song so much that I had to include it on my forthcoming Balearic Breakfast compilation. The vinyl edition of Balearic Breakfast 4 and the CD edition of Balearic Breakfast 3 and 4 is coming out on Heavenly Recordings at the end of August, and I'm featuring a cut from the new comp on every live radio show until its release. This is Troy Kingi with Chronophobic Disco. Ed. Note: Colleen met the great Ardneks a few days ago, and posted the following message on her socials on July, 17th: "@ardneks popped into town in May and @heavenlyrecordings Danny & Daisy and I had the chance to meet the man behind the Balearic Breakfast comp series artwork - a fantastic talent AND a great guy. His designs are AMAZING and he puts so much effort into both the vinyl and CD version - each with their distinct design along with inner sleeves and labels. Thank you Ardneks! You can check out and pre-order the forthcoming vinyl and CD releases via my link tree. And a big thank you to @test_pressing_official for this glorious review (you can read the rest on their website)…" Cheryl Lynn with Say you'll be mine, as requested by Daniel Townes, and that's from the 1982 LP Instant Love, produced by Luther Vandross. He just keeps popping up all over the place now. She got her start as a singer in church, and then she toured as a backing singer for the musical The Wiz, but it was an appearance on The Gong Show. I don't know if you remember that. If you're a Gen Xer, you probably do, and on it she performed a cover of Joe Cocker's You Are So Beautiful, and that landed her a deal with Columbia Records. She was signed and had a huge hit with Got To Be Real, and the rest is history. She's also noted for being an inspiration to R&B singers like Mary J. Blige. Ahead of that, we had Pino D'Angio with Ma Quale Idea from his seminal Italo disco album 1981's Balla!, which was reissued last year on Pure Music. Ma Quale Idea is still a favorite, and has more than a little bit of a nod to Ain't No Stoppin' us now, and Pino D'Angio released many albums before his passing last year, and thank you, or grazie mille, to DJ Macaroon, or Steve Wakely. We started off the set with Troy Kingy, Chronophobic Disco, which is coming out on the next Balearic Breakfast Vol. 4 compilation. Okay, Longhair is a DJ and production duo from Berlin. It's Marco, aka Homeboy, and Bene from Peak and Swift, and in 2022, they released the album Hotel Solaris, their only album out on Permanent Vacation. But a couple of years earlier, they released this single, requested by our friend Virginia Ziotti in Athens, Greece. It's LongHair with The Forbidden Dance. Tune. Raze with their 1987 proto house single Break 4 Love, and it was written and produced and performed by Raze's Vaughn Mason, and Vaughan Mason led Vaughan Mason & crew, and they had a roller rink jam with Bounce Rock Skate Roll, and of Rediscover Break For Love recently. Played it a couple of times, I think at Pykes and also NT's Loft, and it still sounds so fresh. I also love the female vocal on the flip as well. Thank you to Matt Blythe for that request. Ahead of that, we had the former Brooklyn synth pop duo Holy Ghost with Anxious, featuring Nancy Wang from LCD Sound System on vocals, and we heard the incredible Tom Moulton mix, as requested by David Puzzi. And you know, Tom Moulton is just a force of nature. He kind of really helped define the disco sound along with many others, but his was certainly a hugely significant contribution, and still doing remixes, and that's, you know, electro pop synth dance, and you know, it still sounds great. His arrangements are just absolutely fantastic, and I got to meet him at The Loft once, and I was definitely starstruck, I have to say. I don't always get starstruck, but I definitely was starstruck meeting Tom Moulton. Okay, you've probably heard there's a forthcoming album by Brian Jackson, the former collaborator of Gil Scott-Heron, who released his debut solo album, I think it was a couple years ago on BBE, or no, a few years ago now, I think. But he has a new one coming out, produced by Masters at Work, and it's a great album. It's called, I'm just trying to remember what it's called, it's something that I think Now More than Ever, I believe it's called, trying to remember what it's called. In any case, it's a fantastic album, covering 17 covers of songs that he had formerly collaborated with, with Gil Scott-Heron, but really updating them. And we heard some great, great ones on the show before. He did one of It's Your World with Raheem Devon and Jay Ivey. There's also a great, great version of The Revolution Will Not Be Televised with Black Thought. And this is the next single, a new version of The Bottle, one of our favorite Gil Scott-Heron songs, especially for the dance floor. It's a real dance floor burner. And this one has Omar on the lead vocal. The delightfully, delightfully titled Los Twangueros, who come from the Balearic seaside town of Hastings in Kent, with their version of the Chemical Brothers' Star Guitar, as requested by Matt Raistrick. And Los Twangueros are also fans of the best meal of the day, breakfast, of course, as they have two albums out called The All Day Breakfast Part One and Part Two. Just love that song. I played that original when it came out. Gosh, it must have been 20 years ago, 25 years ago, maybe. I always love that one by Chemical Brothers. And Los Twangueros, such a fun name to say, just did it really justice. Ahead of that, we have Kuniyuki Takahashi and UK bassist Nick Cohen, aka Kooshji, in collaboration, blending live instrumentation and sleek electronic textures with tremor. And that is out now. And Kuniyuki has a signature sound that results in kind of roomy rhythms and great warmth. And I know him from Sapporo in Japan. And Cohen is an acclaimed London session player who's played with Massive Attack, Roy Ayers, and Jimster, just to name a few. And that is out now. Just picked that one up on vinyl and requested by my friend LiZy. Ahead of that, Bert Francois and Brooklyn requested the Carrie Chandler mix of the Gospel House classic, Going Home to See My Savior, the 2021 single by DJ Spen and Soulful Edge. And I hope you got some hand clapping and foot stomping going on for that one. And we started it all off with Brian Jackson featuring Omar with their version of The Bottle. And that's coming out on the forthcoming album, Now More Than Ever, coming out on BBE in September. And it was produced by Masters at Work. And I'm really looking forward to that one. Okay, hopefully I'll see some of you at the We Are Love Festival in Brighton. It's also hosted by 1BTN and a shout out to them. I'm doing the closing set on the Sunday, I think 10 to midnight, but the lineup for the entire weekend is fantastic. So it's a real honor to be part of that one. Hope to see you there. I'll be hanging out on Sunday. Trojan Sound Systems also playing as well. For the next couple of weeks, I'll be streaming Balearic Breakfast remotely as I'll be away. But we have some great mixes coming up. Next week, we have a mix from Ken Phan of Café Del Mar, and also a mix from our Balearic Breakfast family member Special K, or K McMahon. And the following week, we have an interview with and a mix from Abigail Ward from Ghost Assembly, and also an exclusive mix from our Balearic Breakfast family member Barry Berenitz in Washington, DC. So really looking forward to that. Okay, I'm now leaving you with one last tribute to the late Mu, the founder of Fat Freddy's Drop, who passed the next round last week, a Maori, a Maori and New Zealand icon. And this is from Scott Towers, aka Chopper Reed, the saxophonist from the band and a regular listener and contributor to Balearic Breakfast and also a friend. This is the 2004 remix of Hope by 3 Generations Walking in tribute to Chris Faumu. May he rest in peace. Thank you so much for listening.

Colleen 'Cosmo' Murphy broadcast the 240th episode of Balearic Breakfast on her Mixcloud on September 30th 2025. ABOUT THIS EPISODE After playing an all-night set in Ibiza's Freddy’s at Pike’s, celebrating the 4th intallment of the Balearic Breakfast compilation series, and also recording a special set for Open Lab FM, Colleen came back to her record room and prepared a nice show, lined up with new tunes including the new Cosmodelica remix of Santino Surfers which was very much appreciated by the Family! As always, Colleen crafted a beautiful set, quite relaxed we should say as even the second part of the show kept a detached feeling, hence the title of today's post! When listening to the songs with your eyes closed, you should see lines, grooves, and you should feel the music directly and gently Leading You. The Wow moment, to me being when Colleen played Federation of the Disco Pimp's incredibly powerful and soulful song Gratuitous. This morning’s Balearic Breakfast is now up on my Mixcloud and features a load of new music including a new Cosmodelica remix of Santino Surfers now out on Music for Dreams - please give me a follow while you're over on Mixcloud too I was a bit physically knackered as I got back from the White Isle late last night. But I feel spiritually and emotionally fulfilled because I played all night long at two wonderful parties Neuhm in Napoli and then Pikes on Sunday night for the Balearic Breakfast 4 Release party. It was off the hook! Thank you to all who were able to find a spot in the very packed Freddy’s. The vibe was fantastic from the first song which was James Mason ‘I Want Your Love’ as it had been an earworm since last week’s 5th anniversary show. I just can’t get that groove out of my head! This Friday I’m playing at Arkestra in Istanbul if you happen to be in Turkey. And then next Tuesday I’ll be streaming live again from the record room and will be catching up on a few requests, some older tracks I have set aside and some more new tunes. The next request show will be in two weeks’ time - 14th October Black History Month Balearic Breakfast Special so get your thinking caps on as that will be an all request show. Thanks for listening. Listen back to the 240th episode of Balearic Breakfast: THE PLAYLIST (2025) Sewell & The Gong – Morning of the Magicians (TBR) Warriors of the Dystotheque & Balaphonic – Gone Sailing (2025) El Combo Batanga – Darling (2025) Federation of the Disco Pimp – Gratuitous (2025) Tambores En Benirras – Extensor Entregado (Steve Cobby Remix) (2025) Scott Grooves x Allysha Joy – stay (raw silk edit) (TBR) Visti's Vinyl Collective – Sunshine in Atalaya (Be.lanuit Balearic Dub) (2025) Da Lata ft. Bembé Segue – Arena (TBR) Gold Suite – Coast Along (Dan Idjut Bassinvader Version) (2025) Stars Before the Sun (Lovehandles Rework) (2025) Santino Surfers – Underwater Disco (Cosmodelica Remix) (2025) Michael Franks – Ladies Night (Monsieur Van Pratt Re Dub) (2025) Woolfy Vs Projections – Seeds (2025) Pellegrino y Zodyaco – La Malia del Sur (2025) Incognito ft. Zebulon Ellis – Strangers Become Friends (Ski Oakenfull Mix) (2024) The Matsiko World Orphan Choir – Rise (Black Sonix & Sean McCabe Extended Mix) (TBR) Linda di Franco – T.V. Scene (Danilo Braca Epic Remix) ANNOUNCEMENTS (From Colleeen's presentation) Now this Friday, I'm heading over to Istanbul in Turkey, and I'm playing at Arkestra. And then because I like Halloween so much, I'm DJing at two Halloween parties later in October. On Saturday, the 25th, I'll be at Public Records for the Dope Jams Halloween Ball. And I can tell you, New Yorkers really know how to put together a Halloween costume. It's always so much fun to watch everybody on the dance floor. And then on the actual night of Halloween, the 31st of October, on Friday, I'll be back at Pike's and Ibiza for the closing party, this time sharing the night with my friends, CC Discos. So that's their last party of the year. [...] And I'm also looking forward to tomorrow, Wednesday, the 1st of October, as I'm hosting my first Classic Album Sundays at Hidden Grooves in Shoreditch in London. And my special guests are Da Lata's Patrick Forge and Chris Frank. We're exploring their debut album, Songs from the Tin, which was released 25 years ago. Tickets are free but limited, and there's only a handful left. So if you want to join us, head over to the Classic Album Sundays website to reserve your space. And just a little kind of heads up, next month, or in a month and a half, I should say, in November, my special guests will be Marc De Clive-Lowe, and we'll be celebrating Six Degrees. [...] I'll be streaming again live next week. I'll be catching up on a few requests, some older tracks that I've been setting aside for a while, and some more new tunes. But the next request show will be in two weeks time, the 14th of October, when we will be celebrating Black History Month, so it will be probably an extra long special, so get your thinking caps on, as that will be an all request show. ABOUT THE SONGS Seawell and the Gong with the aptly titled Morning of the Musicians, as I thought that was the perfect way to open a morning show. And that's the artist, illustrator, and bestselling author, Matt Seawell, who is an avid ornithologist I should say. And Seawell also plays a guitar in Seawell and the Gong, and that's a music project with producer Chris Tate. Their new album, Patron Saint of Elsewhere, is a sonic journey into a whirling world of wild woods, dancing in the mud, late-night pastoral adventures, and some sort of 21st century hedonism connected to ancient rituals that mark the passing of seasons. A forthcoming release on Kris Koko's Disappear label. It's by Warriors of the Distotek and Balithonic. Both artists have played individually on the show, so it's exciting to hear this collaboration. Warriors of the Distotek is Johnny Mack, Mike and Nick Ruffalo, and Sean Grams. And Balithonic is Danny Ward, who released the album Resolution Revolutions earlier this year. And as a drummer, he's worked with Ray and Christian, Fila Brasilia, Matthew Halsell, and so many others. This is from their forthcoming collaborative album, It's a Beautiful Thing, being released in October. Here is Gone Sailing. The Afro-Cuban band El Combo Batanga with the lovely Latin soul song Darling. That was released on 7-inch in the spring on Ubiquiti Records. And the band released one album in 2020. And Darling is a flip of the lead single La Cuota from their forthcoming album Spanish Dogs. Federation of the Disco Pimp with Gratuitous. And that's the kind of psychedelic soul that I love, but it's modern-day psychedelic soul. And Gratuitous is by Scottish Group. It's Federation of the Disco Pimp. And it's the title track of their new album, released last week on Acid Jazz. Extensor Entregado by Tambores En Baneras, which is the alias of Graham Newby, aka DJ Gripper, a long-serving DJ and producer, based not on one of the Balearic Islands, but in Barrow-in-Furness, an industrial UK coastal town. And this remix was released in August on the lovely New Northern Soul record label, which is run by British label head and DJ Phil Cooper. But he does live in Ibiza. It's a remix by Fila Brasilia's Steve Cobby. Scott Grooves did a rework for Australian singer, Allysha Joy. He reworked a single, Stay, from Joy's album, The Making of Silk. He said "I first heard Stay last year on lot radio, and it caught me right away. Bought the record and recommended it through my Bandcamp channel. And around that time, I had a DJ date at Public Records with Hidden Spheres, and I created an alternate version of the song. Well, Joy loved it". They went into the studio to jam on it with Finn Rees, and that's how the Raw Silk edit came about. Danish musician, DJ, and legendary radio host, Jonas Visti, with his project, Vistie's Vinyl Collective. We heard the new Be.lanuit Balearic Dub of Vistie's 2024 singles, Sunshine in Atalaya. And the remix will come out on Music for Dreams sometime in the near future. Da Lata ft. Bembé Segue, who is a singer-composer, producer, DJ, poet, arranger, and Afro-Brazilian percussionist. And she's also part of the Mighty Eavesdrop Collective, who played for us on our Love Dancing tent that we had here. Arena is the first single on Delada's forthcoming album, Edge of Blue, which I'm very much looking forward to its release on 24th of October. A forthcoming release on the Citizens of Vice label by Gold Suite, who is the Bali-based musician and DJ, Joey Fitzgerald. This is Gold Sweet's forthcoming single, Coast Along, with a Bass Invader remix by Idgit Boy's Dan Tyler. Stars Before the Sun, the LoveHandles rework. And I have no idea who the original artist is. I've shazammed. I've asked the group on the MixCloud live chat, but to no avail. But I love it. And it's called Stars Before the Sun, which Juno Records described as a recut of a thrift store Hare Krishna disco funk gem with Selena strings, drum breaks, and an optimistic pulse. I just thought that was a great description. And I played another track from Love Handles' forthcoming reworks EP on the show that I did for Open Lab Radio in Ibiza as well, if you want to check that out. My new Cosmodelica remix of Underwater Disco by Santino Surfers. And you know I'm a big fan of the instrumentalist and songwriter Jonas Krag of Santino Surfers. Love the chilled out surf style of his guitar playing, kind of carambin-like as well. In fact, Santino Surfers' Freedom Surfers is on the latest Balearic Breakfast 4 compilation. So I was delighted to get the chance to remix that mid-tempo disco chugger, which came out on The Sunset Sessions Vol. 13 on Music for Dreams. Also on Too Slow to Disco, Monsieur Van Pratt Re Dub of Ladies Night by Michael Franks, who is one of the most prolific musicians of the California West Coast Jazz AOR yacht rock scene. And he approved personally all of these new versions. It came out on Too Slow to Disco a couple of weeks ago, Michael Franks' The Reworks Vol. 2, which also includes reworks by the Flying Mojito Brothers and Jack Tennis. DJ Supermarket from Too Slow to Disco will be one of my special guests on Balearic Breakfast later in October as well. Seeds by Woolfy vs. Projections, which is a studio and live act comprising Simon Wolfie James and Dan Hastie. They've been releasing music since 2000 on a who's who of contemporary disco electronic labels like DFA, Wrong, Future Classic, and Permanent Vacation. And this is from the Sunset Manifesto Vol. 2 on Too Slow to Disco, a great compilation. Napoli-based musician and label owner Pellegrino Snickelotto has been releasing some great music over the past decade, exploring Italian jazz funk both on his own and with his Zodyaco project. He's also the founder of the label Early Sounds Recordings, which released the latest Pellegrino and Zodyaco album, Koine, released earlier this year, and of which he says there is no defined goal, rather a desire to explore new sonic languages that hold firmly to Neapolitan roots while opening up to a global and contemporary musical aesthetic. And this is the cut La Malia del Sur. Incognito featuring Zebulon Ellis, Strangers Become Friends, the Ski Oakenfull Mix, and that came out this year on 10-inch on Splash Blue. And I finally had the chance to meet Bluey back in July. We had a great Classic Album Sunday session celebrating the 30th anniversary of 100 Degrees and Rising, and the podcast with that interview will be posted up soon. I think I'll do it today or tomorrow, actually, on the Classic Album Sunday's website, so you can check that out. And just a heads up, Incognito are performing at the Barbican on the 15th of October, celebrating 45 years with a live orchestra, so I'm really hoping to go to that. I caught their 40th anniversary show in early 2020, before the world shut down. I think it was my last live show before the pandemic encroached upon us. Rise by the Matsiko World Orphan Choir, whose mission is to use a unifying power of music to uplift every child, bring hope, love, and joy to all who listen, and inspire generosity that provides a complete education for vulnerable children. Matsiko World Orphan Choir members are ambassadors of hope for the voiceless and invisible children of the world coming from Liberia, India, Peru, and Nepal, and the choir featured in that song, Rise, are based in Liberia and have been on many tours of the USA. And we just heard a remix by Welsh producer Black Sonics, aka Justin Stride, and Bristolian producer Sean McCabe, both very soulful producers. And the remix was released last year, but it's now coming out on vinyl on a compilation EP called Good Vibrations Volume 3 later in October, and you can pre-order that now. If you're a Balearican, you will know the original Balearic classic T.V. Scene by Linda di Franco. Well, this is a wonderful new remix by the New York-based Italian DJ and producer Danilo Braca, who I saw in Napoli over the weekend. He took the train down from Rome just for the party, and he also has a vinyl hi-fi bar in Brooklyn called Suono, named after the Italian audiophile hi-fi magazine his father founded. This is his epic remix of TV scene, and thank you all for joining me. Thanks for listening, and see you next week.

Colleen 'Cosmo' Murphy broadcast the 247th episode of Balearic Breakfast on her Mixcloud on November 18th 2025. ABOUT THIS EPISODE On August 3, 1990, President of the United States George H. W. Bush declared the month of November as National American Indian Heritage Month (You can find more information on the dedicated website, here), and of course, there would be no Balearic Breakfast if we didn't celebrate it all together musically (and I think it's the first time we celebrated Native Americans on the show, although we did pay tribute to the late Chris Faiumu a few months ago). Our Captain loves these shows just as much as we do, we always come together stronger whenever we celebrate black, gay people, female pioneers... All of them made strong contributions to Music as it always served their battles in the best possible way... Today's episode has a certain grandeur. It was a relaxed musical moment, with a very slow and nice rhythmic evolution, allowing the listener to dive into the music and let his mind wander on these everlasting sacred grounds... On the chat, we were all talking about music and arts in general – Bert sharing with us "FYI: The Native American Music Association Hall of Fame has a great source of native american heritage artists" – and Barry sharing his Friend's Instagram (kwadepatton) – more about his artwork on his website, here – and we also exchanged about some places to see! Our friend Barry recommended visiting the black hills in South Dakota, saying "The drive through Custer state park is amazing. Free roaming buffalo and mountain goats". In any case, the chat was a warm place to be today, despite some dropouts in the audio with Mixcloud ultimately and unexpectedly crashing here in France, right during the last song of the show! Listen back to the 247th episode of Balearic Breakfast: This morning’s Balearic Breakfast is now up on my Mixcloud and today’s show is mainly your requests which includes a set dedicated to Native American Heritage Month. Thank you for your song suggestions – there are a lot of great stories surrounding these songs and artists and I’ll be digging more into the music of R. Carlos Nakai and the Halluci Nation over the next week – that’s for sure. So, I listened back to last week’s radio show and I certainly talked a lot! I guess there was quite a bit that I needed to get off my chest. There’s a lot going on in the world – both positive and negative – and at the end of the day, we’re just trying to keep it together and music and community can help us do just that. Next week will be the Balearic Breakfast Thanksgiving Special and the request line will go up on my socials on Saturday. Until then, try to keep your head above water and thanks for listening. THE PLAYLIST (2008) R. Carlos Nakai – Song of Darkness (1971) Jim Pepper – Witchitai-To (1994) Robbie Robertson – The Ghost Song (1967) Jimi Hendrix – Little Wing (1971) Link Wray – Fire and Brimstone (2005) Willie Nelson – The Harder They Come (1973) Redbone – Clouds in my Sunshine (2013) The Halluci Nation – Look at This (Remix) (2025) Random House Project – Opus for One (A Tribute) (2006) Massive Attack ft. Terry Callier – Live with Me (2025) Mohinder Kaur Bhamra – Mainu Apne Pyar Wich (Mystic Jungle Remix) (TBR) Lovetempo ft. Mattison – Wanna Be with You (Turbotito Remix) (2025) Eric Hilton ft Natalia Clavier – Lost in the Light (1990) Julee Cruise – 'Rockin' Back Inside My Heart (Tibetan 12-inch Remix) (2023) Sweet Reaction – Take It Easy (1979) Discotheque – Disco Special (2025) Emma-Jean Thackray – Thank You for the Day (2012) Elements of Life ft Josh Milan – Children of the World (Roots Mix) (2025) Gledd – Move Me (2025) Close Counters – I'll Be There For You (1978) Willie Nelson – Stardust ANNOUNCEMENTS (from Colleen's presentation) Our next London Loft Party will be held on the 7th of December, and reservations are going very quickly as it seems everyone loves the new Riverside venue in Hackney Wick. If you want to join us, head over to loftparty.org, and you can hop on the Friendship Train tab and enter your name into our mailing list, as the next invitation goes out this week, so please do it soon. (...) Next week is a Thanksgiving special on Balearic Breakfast, and we can interpret Thanksgiving beyond just the implications of the American holiday, although, you know, it is great to get together with friends and family. When the request line goes up this week, let's focus on songs about gratitude for the gift of being alive, gratitude for other people, and any other songs by Native American musicians are also welcome, songs about food, whatever Thanksgiving means to you, regardless of where you're from. ABOUT THE SONGS (from Colleen's presentation) Song of Darkness by R. Carlos Nakai, a Native American, flautist of Navajo and Ute heritage, and Nakai's father served as the chairman of the Navajo Nation from 1963 to 1970. As a child, he would audition tapes for a Navajo language radio show hosted by his parents, and in doing so, he heard a recording of William Horn Cloud, a Lakota musician from the Pine Ridge Reservation, playing the flute. But when he enrolled at the Colorado River Indian Reservation High School, he was assigned brass instruments, and he played those for years until a car accident made it impossible for him to continue brass. And after a brief struggle with drugs, he was given a flute, and since that time, he has released more than 50 albums, and he's collaborated with many musicians, including Philip Glass. He has 11 Grammy nominations, and I'll be digging into his music a lot more. In fact, I was listening to a lot of it this morning, and it would make a great soundtrack for our Thanksgiving dinner, and to recognize and honor America's Indigenous founders, and thank you to Rick Van Veen for that request. This next one from Alex Elliott. It's by the late American saxophonist Jim Pepper, who was of Kaw and Muscogee descent, and his career took off in the late 60s as a pioneer of jazz fusion, and his band Free Spirits with the late guitarist Larry Corryell. Pepper also wove Native American music in with jazz, and he played at powwows and supported the AIM, the American Indian Movement, a grassroots movement founded in 1968 to address the systemic issues of poverty, discrimination, and police brutality experienced by Native Americans. The saxophonist's debut album, Pepper's Powwow, opened with this next song he learned from his grandfather, and is derived from a peyote, from a peyote ceremony of the Native American church. Jim Pepper with Wichitai-To. Robbie Robertson from this 1994 album Music for the Native Americans. We heard The Ghost Song, and that's from a compilation album with music by the former leader of the band and the Bob Dylan guitarist, along with other colleagues billed as The Red Road Ensemble, and the album was sort of a soundtrack for a TV documentary of the same name. Robertson was of Native American heritage. His mother was Cayuga, a Mohawk, and grew up on The Six Nations of the Grand River Reservation in Ontario, Canada, and that's where a young Robbie spent his summers, where he was exposed to Indigenous culture and music, and he reflected this in both his music for the Native Americans and also on his score for his long-term friend and collaborator, director Martin Scorsese's film Killers of the Moonflower, I think it's called. The Ghost Song was requested by Gina Lapsley, and I'm also sending it out to Carl Banatov, who asked for Somewhere Down the Crazy River, but I've played that before, Carl, so sending that one out to you as well. Little Wing by The Jimi Hendrix Experience from their second album, Acts as Bold as Love, as requested by Artur in Paris, and Hendrix, of course, is one of the world's most influential guitarists of all time, and he was of both African-American and Cherokee descent. The Cherokee descent was from his paternal grandmother's side, who told him Native American stories and made him clothes inspired by her Cherokee roots. And here's an interesting tidbit. As you know, Hendrix's career was launched in the UK, and he was signed to a British record label, Track Records, and he told them he wanted a record cover that expressed his Indian heritage rather than saying Native American, and the Brits interpreted that as culture from India, and that's why the album cover is inspired by Hinduism with the god Vishnu. And Hendrix didn't get final approval of the album cover, which is shocking, and there was a lot of controversy around the cover when the album was released. Ed. Note: The song "Castles made of Sand" celebrates Jimi's roots "Taken from his second album, Axis: Bold as Love, the song sees Hendrix take on an uncharacteristically mellow sound. In contrast to the psychedelic adrenaline of popular tracks like ‘Fire’ or ‘Stone Free’, ‘Castles Made Of Sand’ is a melancholic ode to self-reflection and one’s past. Dealing with the inevitability of death and how hopes and dreams can be cut tragically short, the lyrics detail the stories of various characters, including one described as “a little Indian brave”. As the verse continues, the young indigenous boy dreams of being a fierce warrior and chief, only to be suddenly snuffed out by a surprise attack in the middle of the night. The tale is interspersed with other depressing tales, including a disabled girl committing suicide. For the musical accompaniment, Hendrix recorded the guitars and then played them in reverse, giving the song an outlandish, psychedelic atmosphere in keeping with the rest of the guitarist’s work. While this piece is, by no means, an autobiographical tale of Jimi Hendrix, it nevertheless offers an insight into his heritage and his celebration of Cherokee roots." A request from John Weir for Link Wray, his track Fire and Brimstone, from his self-titled 1971 LP, and on this album, the late pioneering guitarist adopted more of a country rock sound to better illustrate the songs that depicted the hardships of Wray's early life as a poor Shawnee child in the Deep South. This included living in mud huts without electricity and heating, going to school barefoot, and having to hide out from the Ku Klux Klan. Wray had a few songs named after Indigenous people, Shawnee, Comanche, and his big hit Apache. A request of mine for a cover of Jimmy Cliff's The Harder They Come by Willie Nelson from his superb album Countryman, which I was drawn to not only because of the pot leaf grace in the album cover, but also because it showcases Nelson's deep love of reggae, and I should also say Nelson's counterparts in Jamaica also covered a lot of country songs, too. Nelson's mother, Merle Greenhaw, was predominantly Cherokee, and she was quite a strong and fierce woman, as I recently discovered when I read a biography of Willie Nelson a few months ago. He has certainly had an eventful life, and for a pothead, incredibly productive. He's released over 150 albums, he's been in nearly 30 films, he's won 12 Grammys out of the 57 nominations he's received, amongst so many other awards, and he's just a fascinating man with an incredibly emotive voice. Ahead of that, Clouds in My Sunshine from the album Wovoko by Redbone, a band that formed in Los Angeles in the late 1960s, and all of the members were of Mexican American and Native American heritage. Now, you may remember they had a massive hit with Come and Get Your Love. I've played that on the show before, but you may not know they were also banned a few years later with their song We Were Wounded at Wounded Knee, as earlier that year, Oglala Lakota activists and members of the American Indian movement occupied Wounded Knee, South Dakota, and demanded the U.S. government comply with the U.S. 19th and early 20th century treaties (Ed. Note: more about this event here), and sending that song out to F. Lauren in Canada and Ana Sancho in Barcelona. Look at this by The Halluci Nation. They rename themselves after going as a tribe called Red, and that's a duo comprised of Bear Witness from the Cayuga First Nation tribe, and Tim Toolman Hule, a Mohawk of the Six Nations of the Grand River, and they name themselves the, rename themselves The Halluci Nation, a great name, to reflect the evolution of their music and mission, which blends electronic music with elements of First Nation music. Some even call it powwow step. This year, The Halluci Nation became the first independent Indigenous artist from North America to reach 100 plus million streams on Spotify, so they probably made 10 bucks, and John Boakum recommended Look at This, which was released back in 2013, and you can find the releases through to today on Bandcamp. This next one landed in my inbox at the same time that my friend Kay McMahon requested it. It's a little bit of musical synchronicity, so I have no choice but to actually play it, and thankfully it's great. It's a new one from Random House Project, just released on his Bandcamp in the last week. His Opus for one (A tribute) to the art of noise on Balearic Breakfast. Massive Attack with the late jazz folk soul singer Terry Callier with Live With Me, a track from Massive Attack's 2006 compilation album Collected, and Callier won a United Nations Peace Award for his musical promotion of peace, and Massive Attack are continuing, actually amplifying their political messages, raising climate awareness, voicing their support of the Palestinian people, and speaking out against the censorship of artists, and thank you to Barry Bernitz for that request. And Barry Bernitz lives in the very politically charged Washington, D.C. as well. Goodness me, politics. Well, let's lighten up a bit more with some good music, some music that might take us away. Ahead of that, Mohinder Kaur Bamra with Mainu Apne Pyar Wich, I hope I got that right, which is the second single from Naya Beat's reissue of an astonishing lost Holy Grail, the first British Asian electronic dance music album ever recorded, and that is Mohinder Kaur Bambra's 1982 masterpiece, Punjabi Disco. Now there's an interesting story behind that album. The concept for a Punjabi Disco album was subsequently stolen from the Bambras by the very record label that had agreed to distribute the album, and eventually they self-released it with no label support, and Punjabi Disco became a lost relic, unknown to even the deepest of diggers, but not anymore thanks to Naya Beat. And we heard a remix by Mystic Jungle, who is Dario Di Pace, a central figure in the Neapolitan sound, and that was requested by Susan Chan in New Jersey, who says that is her celebratory request for last week's election outcome in the USA, and I'm sending lots of applause for that. Ed. Note: Mystic Jungle recently issued the great Sunset Breaker album which will take you to the heart of the eighties. The album has an unmatched analogue vibe including what sounds to me like tape hiss. Songs like Secrets, Some Lovin', the very groovy and Reggae-LIke Innervisions or even the somehow lost Sunset Breaker are all hits to me! You can purchase the album on Mystic Jungle's Bandcamp! The solo project of Brooklyn's Mattie Safer, the singer and guitarist from The Rapture, and Lovetempo also features Safer's band Poolside, and the song we just heard, Wanna Be With You, features 79.5's Kate Madison on vocals, and we just heard the remix by Turbotito, who is doing some great Balearic groovers at the moment, including ones for DJ Supermarket's Too Slow to Disco label. And thank you to Matt Raistrick for that request. This next band is from Washington, D.C., if I remember correctly, Thievery Corporation, definitely the darlings of all things balearic, and one-half Eric Hilton is back with a new song called Lost in the Light, composed exclusively for the Cafe Del Mar, and it features the ethereal vocals of Natalia Clavier, a frequent Thievery Corporation collaborator, and it's really warm and wonderful, so perhaps it'll make you feel as though you're watching the sun set on the White Isles. So come on, close your eyes, and just do it as you listen to this. Julee Cruise with Rockin' Back Inside My Heart, which was written by David Lynch and Angelo Badalamenti, and was featured on the late singer's debut, Floating Into the Night, released in 1989, and she also performed that song on Twin Peaks. And I remember I lived in midtown Manhattan in the early 90s, and she lived in the same building. I remember seeing her on the elevator, and one time she couldn't talk. She was just, you know, had some kind of throat thing where she had to really be careful of her voice, and she was just miming the whole time. In any case, we also sadly lost Julee Cruise back in 2022 during the pandemic as well. That was a remix, a song that we heard, Rockin' Back Inside My Heart. It was a Tibetan 12-inch remix by Gregski Royal, and definitely had a very distinct white-lines bass line. And thank you to Asi Sharabi for that request. A request from Steve Wakley for Take It Easy by Sweet Reaction, which was recently reissued on South African label VoomVoom Records with some remixes, and singer-keyboardist Giuseppe Cotumacio was a central figure of that 1980s band, Sweet Reaction, and they released only one album. It was more of a five-track EP, also called Take It Easy, and you can head over to VoomVoom's Bandcamp to find out more. A duo studio project called Discoteque, and they released one album called Disco Tech Party in the year that you would expect, 1979, and the duo was comprised of Dutch producer Bart van der Laar and Belgian musician-songwriter Francis Weyer, who also went by Francis Goya. And a big thank you to David Stoddard for that, for unearthing that obscurity and sharing it with us. The incredibly multi-talented musician, songwriter, singer, and producer, Emma Jean Thackray with Thank You for the Day, from her latest album, Weirdo, on Brownswood Recordings, and she's just sensational. She gets better and better as she grows, and she's also playing this Thursday at Coco and London, and if you want to find out more about her, there's an interview with her by Tina Edwards for a Classic Album Sunday series called Producer Pioneers, and you can find it on the CAS website. And thank you to A.J. Elliott for that request. I'm loving this request from our friend Bert Francois in Brooklyn, who requested some uplifting soulful house courtesy of Louis Vega's Elements of Life outfit, featuring Josh Milan, formerly of Blaze. Here is the Roots mix of their 2012 single Children of the World on Balearic Breakfast. Italian producer Gledd with Move Me, which just came out this week on Seamus Haji's label Big Love, and I heard it first on Saturday. I was listening to a bunch of promos and promptly played it the same night. It sounded fabulous in the Globus Room at Tresor, and thanks to all who joined us in the Globus Room, and to Tony Surgeon for bringing me back. I love playing in that room. It's a great sounding room, has a wooden down floor as well, and I can play anything I want. I really, really love it. Melbourne, Australia's Close Counters with I'll Be There For You, and that's from their new album Lovers Dance Academy, as requested by Kieran McCann in Glasgow. And Close Counters is Finn Reese and Alan McConnell, and they're performing around Australia over the next couple of weeks, so check out their Bandcamp for more info. A request from Athanas Koutronis for the title cut of Willie Nelson's 22nd studio album, released in 1978. Reminder, he has released 150 albums. The album Stardust, produced by Booker T. Jones, and which features Willie's covers of 10 of his favorite songs from childhood. And here is the redheaded stranger with his cover of Hoagy Carmichael's Stardust. Thank you for listening.

Colleen 'Cosmo' Murphy broadcast the 250th episode of Balearic Breakfast on her Mixcloud on December 09th 2025. ABOUT THIS EPISODE After hosting the last Loft Party of the year ("the best sounding room in London" according to Adam ^^), Colleen came back and hosted a brand new episode of Balearic Breakfast, blending new tracks and some older requests she did not play before. This episode was a great one as it allowed the listener to picture some glittering visuals, and we all were hapilly surprised as, despite a busy week-end, Colleen was in top form, proposing us a mini-mix that really made us all lose our heads! The Wow moment of this episode without the shadow of a doubt! I would like to thank our friends from sylk_hifi_lounge, Marc and Peter, and also my dear Simon, for sharing nice pictures from the London Loft Party! And don't forget also to follow Iain Mackie for more great pictures of the audio setups on which Colleen has the chance to play ^^ Listen back to the 250th episode of Balearic Breakfast: This morning’s Balearic Breakfast is now up on my Mixcloud and features some new music from Pete Blaker, Another Taste, Prins Thomas, Alina Bzhezhinska and a new revision from The Reflex in remembrance of two musical legends who passed in 2025. On today’s show is also mysterious white label that only says ‘unofficial edits’ and that I played on Sunday at our London Loft party. So many people asked about it today on the Mixcloud Live chat and at the party. If you have any info, do let me know and thank you to Darren Morgan for lending it to me. I don’t want to give it back I also want to thank the London Loft team for their positivity and creativity and their endurance. We had an incredible party on Sunday – it truly reminded us of The Light days with David Mancuso. One person had so much fun in our ‘kitchen’ area that she didn’t even know the party was in the next room! Our next party will be in March and you can head to loftparty.org to join the friendship train for future party invitations. Next week I will not be streaming Balearic Breakfast as I’ll be en route back from Thailand where I’m playing with @norihisamaekawa on Sunday at @wonderfruit (DJ Nori supported Larry Levan and Francois K on their Rainbow tour in Japan 35 years ago). Nori and I have played back-to-back a few times in Japan and I’m really looking forward to our 4-hour back to back set at Wonderfruit Festival. And if you don’t have New Years Eve plans, I’m spinning with the @voices_radio crew in The Galkery at @marestreetmarket Kings Cross in London, bringing in the new year on the 31st December. I’ll be back on Tuesday, the 23rd December streaming Balearic Breakfast on my Mixcloud Live so I hope you can join us. Thanks for listening. THE PLAYLIST (2025) Alina Bzhezhinska – Cala Pada (2025) Andrew Wasylyk – First Moonbeams of Adulthood (2024) Amanda Whiting – Liminal (2025) JJ Cale – Durango (Flying Mojito Bros Refrito) (2025) Sewell & The Gong – Communion Phase (Sounds of Slackness Holy Spirit Dub) (1983) Paula Moore – Valparaiso (2026) Diogo Strausz – Com Magia (2025) MDA Grooves – Cristo Rei (2025) D'Angelo & Roberta Flack – Feel Like Makin' Love (Reflex Revision) (2025) Prins Thomas – Heartbreak (2025) Mad Disco Edits – Good to Me (TBR) Billy Bogus & Daddario – Drunk on Guard (In Flagranti Remix) (2025) Aura Safari & Jimi Tenor – Your Magic Touch (Reverso 68 Dub) (NOL) Sade – I Never Thought I'd See You Again (Sumantri Deep House Mix) (2025) Pete Blaker – Richie (2003) Salif Keita – Madan (Martin Solveig Remix) (2024) Lex Athens – Without You (2021) Return To Forever - Rumble (Fred P. Journey Interpretation) (TBR) Another Taste ft Arp Frique & The Perpetual Singers – Peace Call ANNOUNCEMENTS (from Colleen's presentation) I'm recovering today from a glorious London loft weekend. We just had a great second party in our new home and I want to thank our incredible team. It's really great working with positive people to create something truly joyous and they're just a wonderful group of people. I can't say enough good things about them and of course, huge thanks to all who joined us on the dance floor as well. What a vibe it was. The next party will be in March and just a heads up, we had to close reservations for the last party as we reached capacity, so the early birds truly caught the worm. So you can join the friendship train over at loftparty.org if you want to join us for future parties. And later in the show, I'll play a couple of tunes from the party, including one white label that had some people clamoring for an ID. (...) Next week. I will not be streaming because we are coming back from Thailand. We're going to be at Wonder Fruit Festival, playing on Sunday back to back with DJ Nori. And Nori is a legendary Japanese DJ. He played Larry Levan and Francois K on the Rainbow Tour. I think it was 1990. I think that was Larry Levan's first, maybe only tour actually of Japan. And so I'll be playing back to back with him. We've done it many times, but it's been a long time. So I'm really looking forward to that. So yes, no show, sadly, but I will be back. I think it's the 23rd of December. So two days before Christmas, I'll be hosting another live stream. So sorry about no show next week. We can't stream it because we're not around. So there you go. (...) And then on New Year's Eve, I'll be spinning with Voices Radio in the gallery at Mare Street, King's Cross in London. And I believe we're bringing in a Danley sound system for that as well. Info is on my socials and I hope you can join us to bring in the new year. No plans yet for NYE? We’ve got you covered. We’re handing the keys to the first floor over to our friends at @voices_radio for their famous New Year’s Eve takeover at Mare Street Market King’s Cross. @colleencosmomurphy takes the lead on a specially installed Danley system engineered by Iain Mackie - the kind of setup that feels like a warm hug on the friendliest dancefloor in the city. Joining her upstairs are @helenastardj @mariahanlon and Cara Crosby, with a full crew of Voices residents running things alongside them. A proper NYE send-off, top to bottom. Expect balloons, midnight surprises, legendary DJs, delicious cocktails and snacks courtesy of MSM and a room full of people ready to bring in the new year properly. All ticket holders get 20% off food with a COMPLIMENTARY glass of fizz on us to kick off the night. Just show your ticket to redeem. 🥂 Let’s bring in 2026 the right way. The Glittering Milky Way… Far above us… Up there, in the Sky, a million little stars shine almost every night, sometimes brighter, sometimes dimmer… Without a single sound, they shine with all their might, trying their best, night after night, to enlighten the dark sky… When thinking about it, sometimes I wonder… Do they know? Do they think about the destiny that empowers them in their shining journey? As the silence rumbles in this precise moment, I tend to laugh at myself, thinking that, of course, it’s a stupid question… But you know, you never really know anything about the Cosmic Laws of our universe… I wasn’t able to sleep last night and, thinking about this last episode, I felt it perfectly illustrated how destiny empowers people, things, making them shine to the best of their capabilities… Once again, and it didn’t happen for quite some time, Destiny came knocking upon my Door… I always thought Colleen was a shining star, and I even told her once, “To me, you’re a Leader, I should write about it one day, you know…” And here we are, on this Tuesday morning, with that wonderful playlist, perfectly presenting the moments Colleen experienced a few hours ago, allowing her to express her very musical soul and sharing it with us, once again, once more, constantly, calmly, with that detached assurance, that strong yet indirect determination… Yes, every aspect of what Colleen does shows the picture of what a Leader should be, of what a true leader is… In a dark sky, Colleen sets a picture, a vision, a reality, that of a family united in music, with human values that she shares both directly and indirectly… She never imposes things; she has distance in the way she interacts with people, in the way she behaves, in the way she presents herself to an audience, in the way she speaks when presenting the show… She does not consider herself above any of us, she blends within every single one of our souls by receiving our requests, by making suggestions when we can’t find the right songs, even making surprises, and she’s both passionate about her craft and generous. This generosity shines through during the show, essentially when she speaks but also when she plays music, keeping the light distance so present, allowing her to bow in front of us while, at the same time, showing us how perfection is done… Just like a star, she does not shine only for herself, egocentrically showing her beauty… She shines through because she’s on a journey, a journey through the light, knowing that she couldn’t do what she does without the sky that she loves so much, despite the darkness it holds... And, more importantly, she shines through because she knows there are other beautiful stars out there ready to shine along with her, all of them helping her to illuminate the Milky Way… Yes, Colleen is our Captain because she empowers us all, sharing with us the best of what we are, creating unity, sharing joy, understanding that We’re One, and allowing every member of the family to be loved and recognised… And, sometimes, I wonder… Does she know that? Does she feel as a… But, suddenly, as the silence rumbles in this precise moment, I laugh at myself thinking that, of Course, it’s a stupid question… But you know, you never really know anything about the Cosmic Laws of our universe… Shine On Colleen, after all, what is the Milky Way if not a Disco Ball? Who cares? Let’s dance some more on a beautiful musical beach… Sooner or later, we’ll vanish in time… Let’s make the best out of it while we still can… To Our Glittering Moments… ABOUT THE SONGS (from Colleen's presentation) Ukrainian-Polish harpist Alina Bzhezhinska with Cala Pada, the first of a four-part series of meditative compositions that will be released on the first Friday of each month on Alina's Bandcamp and all proceeds will go to Tepli Dolony 'Warm Palms', that's what it translates to, and that's a Ukrainian charity for children providing art therapy and emotional support for those who have been displaced by the war. Bzhezhinska has been supporting the organization for some time and she'll travel to Ukraine this December to perform some concerts and work directly with the children, and she's such a great person and an incredible artist. Her last album, Whispers of Rain with Tulsi, it's been on repeat on my headphones, just can't get enough of it. It was even the soundtrack to yesterday's post-London loft Epsom Salt Soak, and her music certainly eases the pressure that we sometimes feel during the holidays, so I urge you to check out her music. This next one is from Scottish producer and multi-instrumentalist Andrew Wasylyk, who has released loads of records on labels like Athens of the North, and more recently, Clay Pipe Music, which specializes in atmospheric music with a strong sense of place. Andrew is also a member of Scottish rock band, Idlewild. But for his solo project, his sound is more ECM, like this new one released last month, First Moonbeams of Adulthood. Amanda Whiting with Liminal. And that's from her eighth album, The Liminality of Her. And that was released last year on First Word Records. And Amanda Whiting is a classically trained harpist who, like Alina Bzhezhinska, has found inspiration from jazz harpists like Dorothy Ashby and Alice Coltrane. And thanks to Luca Ospitone in Sardinia for that request. And speaking of Alice Coltrane, music journalist Andy Beda has a new book out just in time for Christmas called Cosmic Music, The Life, Art and Transcendence of Alice Coltrane. And it's on White Rabbit here in the UK. And there's limited editions signed by the author. And I just bought one for myself this morning for Christmas. JJ Cale with Durango. And I've always loved that spacey, spacey blues sound of that track. And we heard the Flying Mojito Brothers Refrito mix. And I'm glad they took that one on. I've been listening to JJ Cale quite a lot lately, actually. And his music always reminds me of these long road trips I used to take across America with my friend Hugh Foley, who is also from Oklahoma, like JJ Cale. And he's the one that, of course, turned me on to JJ, who's actually from Oklahoma City, although I thought it was Muskogee because he has that song, Okie from Muskogee. Anyways, love, love, love that song. And I love that kind of refrito from the Flying Mojito Brothers. The Sounds of Slackness, Holy Spirit Dub of Communion Phase by Sewell and the Gong, which is a musical project from ornithologist and illustrator Matt Sewell, who is also the deep cut compiler of the A crushing glow comps. And his collaborator on this project is multi-instrumentalist and fellow astral traveler Chris Tate. And the original of the remix we are listening to now is on the Seawell and Gung new album, Patron Saint of Elsewhere, which I've played over and over and over again. I love the entire album. Okay, I love this next request from Victor Olteanu, who always turns me on to something new. And this time, it's Paula Moore, a classically trained American singer who relocated to Paris and performed in the jazz clubs in the late 1970s and early 80s. And she released one album in 1983 under her name. And then in this century, a couple of albums as Bird Paula. And here's a little fun fact for you. Some of you may remember the French electronic dance producer Jackson, who was active in the mid 1990s through to the early 90s. Well, Paula Moore is his mother. This is from her 1983 album High and Low Paula Moore with Valparaiso Diogo Strausz with Com Magia. And Diogo Strausz is a producer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist who lives between Paris and Sao Paulo. And he's released a couple of albums, including last year's Samba from Outer Space. And he also released the Caramba EP on Razor and Tape last year. And the song we heard Com Magia is from his forthcoming album, Danse Para Se Salvar, coming out in January on Favorite Recordings. Cristo Rei by MDA Groove. And that used to be a collaborative project in the mid 1990s. But at the moment, it's just Joseph Salvador. He's been very, very prolific, loads of releases over the last year or so. And this one just came out last week on the Riomantic EP on Universo Positivo. And you can find that over on Bandcamp. As the year draws to a close, we often think about the people we lost. And this year, like every year, we lost some musical legends who passed to the next realm, including D'Angelo and Roberta Flack. So in remembrance, The Reflex has created a poignant rework of D'Angelo's cover of Roberta Flax from his album, Voodoo. Prins Thomas with Heartbreak from his new album, Thomas Moen Hermansen, which is his real name. And I believe this is the Norwegian producer and DJ's 10th album. His debut is called just Prins Thomas, and it was released 15 years ago. So that's quite a lot of music on top of all the remixes he has done. And you can find that on Bandcamp just in time for Christmas for the new disco fan in your life. I'm not sure what the original is, but we heard Mad Disco edits with Good to Me. And it's the second release on the Melodies of Love record label from Liverpool. And it just came out last week on Vinyl Only, and it's a limited pressing. So head on over to Melodies of Love Bandcamp if you want to snag yourself a copy. Drunk on Guard, an electro-funk collaboration from Billy Bogus and Daddario. And they've spent years working together across music production, sound design, and DJ performances. And we're listening to the Swiss duo In Flagranti's remix. And that's coming out next week on Kodak Records. Okay, I'm loving this new this one. It's not new actually came out last year. It's a Reverso 68 dub of Your Magic Touch from Jimi Tenor & Aura Safari. And that's a band from Perugia that fuses jazz and new disco, much like their counterparts in Napoli. And last year, they did a collaboration with Finnish musician and producer Jimi Tenor. And word has it they've just recorded over a dozen new songs. So looking forward to that on the horizon. And it's great hearing this Reverso 68 together again. That's a collaboration between Phil Meissen and Pete Herbert. And this is their dub. A lovely new Deep House mix of Sade's I Never Thought I'd See You Again from Sumantri Limon from Indonesia. He also goes under the aliases Nima and Optika. I remember getting my first Sade boot of that song by The Muskmen back in 1995. Gosh, Sade's always sounds good though. All the bootlegs sound really great because she's just fantastic. Richie by Pete Baker. And that's from his forthcoming album Swimming Limbs coming out on Love Universal Music in March 2026. And don't forget, I did an interview with Pete and we have an exclusive mix from him. That's on a May edition of Balearic Breakfast. (...) His album Swimming Limbs is coming out next year on Love Universal Music. This is another older tune, a song that originally came out on 2002 on Salif Keita's album Mofu. And the Malian singer had this song, Madan. And then Martin Solveig, the French producer, gave it a remix, I guess it was a year after, about 2003. And it also came out on the French DJ and producer's album Sur La Terre. Love this one. Haven't played it in a while. And it sounded great at the London loft party. So I thought you'd like it on Balearic Breakfast. We had Without You by Lex from Athens. That's Alex Andrikopoulos. And that was released on and he's done the releases for Lange Records, King Street, Black Riot. And that's from an EP of the same name, which came out on Delusions of Grandeur label last year. I'm going to send that one out to Greca Mac because when I listened to it, I thought, you know, Greca is just going to love this one. And sure enough, she was just loving it over on the chat group. So sending that one out to you. Okay, well that one had loads of people coming up at the London loft party on Sunday when I played that. It's not my record. I wish it was. It's my friend Darren Morgan's. He came over on this week and played me that. I'm like, I gotta play this on Sunday. And I must bring this to Thailand. It's a white label. It just says unofficial edits. I'm really sorry. I still don't know what it is. If any of you do, you can always message me and let me know because I definitely need a vinyl copy of that. It was just so, so, so great. So I want to thank Darren Morgan for lending that to me. And to all of you on the chat group who are asking about what that was, I'm really sorry. You know, I don't really I don't know what it is, but had to play it and lots of you that are on the chat saying you remember that on Sunday. And yeah, it was quite a moment. Ed. Note: Our Friend Steve Mack shared the information about this very track on Colleen's Mixcloud, saying: " That massive tune is "Return To Forever - Rumble (Fred P. Journey Interpretation)" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqipt3eKyeE I first heard it on Luke Una's Essential mix not long ago). I wanted to leave you with one last song. And this is a lovely song, a new one from Another Taste. Another Taste is Bobby Van Putten and crew, a whole band from the Netherlands. And Bobby Van Putten, along with Danilo Plesso are the two guys behind the label Space Grapes. And they put out loads of live music, boogie music, dance music, disco, jazz, funk under different monikers like Mad Honey, Gal, XTC, Jambone. And Another Taste is Bobby along with a few other members. And I am interviewing them next year, early, I would say late January. They'll be doing a mix for the show because I'll be away in Japan. And yeah, it's really great. They have a new album coming out. And this is from that album, which is coming out next year. It's a follow-up to their self-titled debut last year. And they have a new album coming out in February. And this is the second single called Peace Call. It's Another Taste featuring Arp Freak and the Perpetual Singers with Peace Call. So thank you so much for tuning in. And I'll see you in a couple of weeks.

Colleen 'Cosmo' Murphy broadcast the 251st episode of Balearic Breakfast on her Mixcloud on December 23rd 2025. ABOUT THIS EPISODE Sometimes, it takes only One song to put together a set, to start a musical journey, to find a story to tell. One song, nothing less, nothing more. I spent the last 20 years crafting mixes under Wavelab, and also cueing up records for fun when night was coming in my shed, a little place full of Crown amps, loudspeakers, with loads of records and of course two Technics turntables... To say that music is a passion is an understatement; it's just another beat of my soul, another beat of my heart... Chris Rea's passing hit me hard, and generally speaking, every artist that leaves our planet reminds me how much we lose every time, and how much, in these lost times, we need that artistic connection, how essential it is to our lives... In this beautifully driven episode, which includes several Loft Classics played by our friend David Mancuso, Colleen led us to a place we know nothing about, paying tribute to two of these musical heroes we love so much... So, close your eyes, feel the sorrow, feel the pain as the car drives through the snowy landscapes, and, while you feel tears rolling down your face, don't ever lose sight of the road... You know, the curse of the traveller may have a hold on you... I wish my bones could form a bridge And carry you to the other side I wish my bones could form a bridge To our home, our homeland, to our path Listen back to the 251st episode of Balearic Breakfast: This morning’s Balearic Breakfast is now up on my Mixcloud and features tributes to two Balearic kingpins, Chris Rea and Claudio Rispoli known as DJ Mozart of Soft House Company and Jestofunk. And no I didn’t play ‘Driving Home for Christmas’ as I’m sure you will hear it elsewhere. But I couldn’t resist another Christmas song. There’s also new music, reissues, remixes, reworks and the new charity single from Together for Palestine. Swipe for the tracklist. Thanks to all who joined in the Mixcloud Live chat this morning, too. You make the live stream special. I’ll be back in the record room on Tuesday, streaming the last Balearic Breakfast of the year and this will the last request show of 2025. On Saturday, the request line will go up on my socials and please request songs that set your intention for 2026. Matt Raistrick already suggested ‘Stayin’ Alive’ which sounds about right! Wishing you a Merry Christmas, a (belated) Happy Hanukkah, Happy Kwanzaa and a peaceful holiday. Thanks for listening. THE PLAYLIST (2025) Together for Palestine, Nai Barghouti, Leigh-Anne & Neneh Cherry – Lullaby (2025) Cantoma ft Gizelle Smith – Drifting (Ambient Version) (1976) Yoshiko Sai – Haru (1973) The McCrary – Emerge (2025) E.R. Thorpe – Red Dust (Generalisation Red Dub) (1987) Chris Rea – Curse of the Traveller (2019) Chris Rea – It’s All Gone’ (Pete Blaker Edit) (1985) T.C. Curtis – You Should Have Known Better (2025) The Funkin' Machine – Chiki Chikankan (NOL) Matsubara – S.0.S. (Prins Thomas Rework) (2003) Chris Rea – Tennis (SIRS CUT) (1990) Soft House Company – A Little Piano (1994) Jestofunk ft. Cece Rogers – Can We Live (2025) Kora Koumakan – Sombe Nanfan (Ben Gomori’s Forest Bathing Remix) (2001) Osunlade – Cantos A Ochun Et Oya (Juan Valentine Re-Edit) (NOL) Chris Rea – Josephine (Chida Edit) (2001) Pete Christlieb – The Christmas Song ANNOUNCEMENTS (from Colleen's presentation) I'm heading back to Asia on the last two weekends in January going to Japan, Precious Hall in Sapporo, Boers in Obihiro, Bar Bridge in Shizuku, Tokyo, and Wawal in Takasaki. I love going to Japan as it's the first country outside the USA that invited me to DJ back in the mid 90s. And I also worked as a radio DJ in Nagoya in 1989. So I can't wait to go back, have a lot of friends there. (...) I'm playing with Voices Radio over at Mare Street Market, just in King's Cross, so that's going to be on New Year's Eve, and looking forward to playing with Helena Starr and Maria Hanlon from Voices Radio, and you can find tickets over on Resident Advisor. No plans yet for NYE? We’ve got you covered. We’re handing the keys to the first floor over to our friends at @voices_radio for their famous New Year’s Eve takeover at Mare Street Market King’s Cross. @colleencosmomurphy takes the lead on a specially installed Danley system engineered by Iain Mackie - the kind of setup that feels like a warm hug on the friendliest dancefloor in the city. Joining her upstairs are @helenastardj @mariahanlon and Cara Crosby, with a full crew of Voices residents running things alongside them. A proper NYE send-off, top to bottom. Expect balloons, midnight surprises, legendary DJs, delicious cocktails and snacks courtesy of MSM and a room full of people ready to bring in the new year properly. All ticket holders get 20% off food with a COMPLIMENTARY glass of fizz on us to kick off the night. Just show your ticket to redeem. 🥂 Let’s bring in 2026 the right way. I'll be back next week, streaming live for the Record Room. And this will be the last request show of 2025. I think we should feature songs that set our intention for 2026. And on the MixCloud Live chat group, Matt already suggested Stayin' Alive. I'm down with that. The request line will go up on my Instagram and Facebook on Saturday, and I look forward to your requests. ABOUT THE SONGS (from Colleen's presentation) Lullaby by Together for Palestine, Nai Barghouti, Leanne and Naina Cherry, featuring Amina, Bastille, Brian Eno, Celeste, Kieran Brunt, Lana Lubanni, London Community Gospel Choir, Mabel, Nadine Shah, Sura Abdo, Tyson, Yasmin Ayashi, and Ize. And that is the charity single for Together for Palestine. It didn't make the Christmas number one on the official UK chart this year, but it did reach number five. And it reached number one on the Apple iTunes chart in the UK, and many other countries. The singles raised more than 70,000 pounds for Palestine and still counting. And with the Together for Palestine concert organized by Brian Eno and company back in September, it's raised more than 2 million pounds. In fact, in October, my daughter and I went on a march for Palestine here in London. And Brian Eno was there at the very end of the march really surprised me, and he read the poem he had read at the concert. It was just very, very poignant. You can still donate to the cause by making a donation to the Together for Palestine fund. This one is from Ana Sancho in Barcelona, who asked for this one from our friend Phil Mison. It's Cantoma featuring Gizelle Smith with the ambient version of Drifting. Yoshiko Sai with Haru from her second album, Mikkou, originally released in 1976 and recently reissued by We Want Sounds. And it was produced by Isamu Haruna and features some of Japan's finest session musicians, including the legendary guitarist Masayoshi Takanaka. And the record showcases Sai's signature blend of poetic songwriting and ethereal vocals. I just love that song. It's so bluesy and has a real subtle, funky arrangement. And for that album, the Japanese singer-songwriter drew inspiration from the Silk Road and the rich cultural heritage of her native Nara. And she explores themes of femininity, freedom, and the passage of generations. The McCrary's With Emerge, the title cut of their 1973 LP that was pressed in very small quantities, and is a fine example of what was considered progressive soul and what became known as neo-soul. Now, an original copy is eye-wateringly expensive, but not any longer as it's been reissued by BBE with the cooperation of the McCrary family. And they started out as a gospel group in Ohio and then turned to secular music upon relocating to Los Angeles, where they recorded this album for the Tiny Cat's Eye label. And the McCrary's would later gain wider recognition with their hit, You, featuring Stevie Wonder on harmonica, and with Any Old Sunday, which was covered by Chaka Khan. From the Nottingham singer, songwriter, and visual artist E.R. Thorpe. And her distinctive guitar work and poetic lyrics draw inspiration from her blues guitarist father. And this single, Human Love, is from her forthcoming eponymously titled debut LP, scheduled for release in March 2026 and produced by Crazy P's Jim Barron. It's his first venture into producing other artists. And this is the red dub, Red Dust backed up by them and the generalisation dub interpretation from label boss Damian Harris. Chris Rea, his Curse of the Traveller, and that's from his 1987 album, Dancing with Strangers, which was his big breakthrough in the UK. It peaked at number two after Michael Jackson's Bad, and it was recorded with only three microphones in his garage studio. He said, "Nobody heard it. Nobody witnessed it. It was just me having fun". And strangely, I had put that on today's show before hearing the news of Rhea's passing last night, as that was requested by Barry Nitz in Washington, DC, and also sending that one out to Artur in Paris. And we'll have some more Chris Rea coming up in the show. Pete Blaker edit of It's All Gone by Chris Rea. And that's the lead single from Chris Rea's 1986 album, On The Beach. And Carrie J. Kidd over on our Mixed God Live chat said he had never listened to Chris Rea much. Then his first time in Ibiza in 1991, that first day on the beach at a bar, they were playing On The Beach and he got him from then on. Such a great artist. He grew up in New Yorkshire, didn't pick up the guitar until his early 20s. And while working for his Italian father's ice cream business, he taught himself how to play rock and blues slide guitar. Later recalling that for many people from working class backgrounds, rock wasn't a chosen thing. It was the only thing, the only avenue of creativity available for them. And a couple of bands, he was in a couple of bands and he became a singer as a replacement for one of the singers and then released his debut album, Whatever Happened to Benny Santini in 1978. And his first single, Fool If You Think It's Over (Ed. Note: greatly covered by our beloved Elkie Brooks) became the biggest hit of his career and the only single to hit the American charts. And it earned him a Grammy nomination. His then American label, Tamla Motown, told him that to break America, he had to tour there for three years and Rea declined as he wanted to spend time with his wife and daughters. And Rea really avoided the trappings of fame. He saw himself as a musician who's been successful rather than a star. He was also plagued by illness for the last half of his career, cancer, stroke. But he developed a massive fan base in the UK and Europe and New Zealand in the mid 80s, not because of an image, but through his own music, his gravelly, soulful voice, and poignant songwriting. And we'll have some more Chris Rea reworks coming up in the show. This next one was a British soul hit in 1985 by TC Curtis, who was born in Jamaica, and emigrated to the UK when he was 14 years old. He played in various bands, and then made the move to dance music and got recognition with his 1981 song Body Shake. He had a few more charting singles in the 80s, including this one, TC Curtis with You Should Have Known Better on Balearic Breakfast. The Funkin' Machine with Chiki Chikankan, the instrumental version, and that's the Neapolitan jazz funk act, and DJs and funk fans around the world may recognize their contributions on albums from fellow Italians such as Mystic Jungle, Parbleu, CHOP, Bassolina, Pellegrino & Zydeco, Danger Boys, and even Nugenia. And earlier this month, the Funkin' Machine released their third album, Napolitanite. I think I got that now on the Chicago record label, Star Creature, and I highly, highly recommend that. Matsubara with S.O.S Society of Soul, the Prince Thomas rework, and that's the 1984 single by the late Japanese guitarist Masaki Matsubara. And the Norwegian producer and DJ's rework came out in 2005 on his Disco Mix EP, and that may only be out on vinyl, so I dug that one out. And Lucy over on the MixCloud Live chat asked me to play that on New Year's Eve, and I will bring that with me. Chris Rea with Tennis the Sirs Cut, and that's the title track to his 1980 LP. And on the Mixcloud Live chat, Gareth Bratman says he grew up on Chris as his dad was a massive fan, massively talented writer, vocalist, guitarist, and those bass lines, hence why they do rock a dance floor. Okay, and speaking of Italy, we lost another Balearic kingpin, Claudio Rispoli, who was born in Ancona, Italy, and he was a pioneer of the Italo-Afro style. He DJed as DJ Moz-art, and like all the legendary Italian DJs, he was incredibly technically proficient and known for his wide-ranging and left-field selections. And along with Daniele Baldelli and DJ Miki (Ed. Note: See also here) of Czach, Rispoli helped shape the Italian cosmic sound, and he had marathon sets in Rimini and all along the Adriatic coast. He was also a producer, working with Francesco Montefiore as Soft House Company, and on the forefront of the Italo house movement with its euphoric piano chords, they really were. And along with Alessandro Staderini and Farias, he was JestoFunk, more jazz-funk rather than house. So now we'll remember the late Claudio Rispoli with these two selections. We just heard JestoFunk with C.C. Rogers, Can We Live, and Soft House Company with A Little Piano. And may DJ Moz-art rest in paradise. This next one, is Kora Koumakan meeting Word of the Kora, a balladry-pushing afro-banding group from Conakry, Guinea, led by master cora player Sakuna Conte. And it fuses Guinea's rich musical heritage with contemporary sounds. And we're listening to Ben Gomori’s Forest Bathing Remix of Sombe Nanfan on Balearic Breakfast. Osunlade with Cantos A Ochun Et Oya, the Juan Valentine re-edit, and the original came out in 1999 on the Beef de los Muertos EP, and I played it all the time. I just moved over to the UK, and I remember playing that song over and over. The Chida Edit of Chris Reas' Josephine from his 1985 LP Schamrock Diaries, and that's a song he wrote for his daughter. He said, "When I'm on stage, I kind of shut my eyes when I'm singing, and I'm always where I wrote the song. I'm always on the third floor of Intercontinental Hotel in Dusseldorf, and it's raining. That's where I am when I sing that song every time." Well, Josephine is the last Chris Rea song today. I'm not going to be playing Driving Home for Christmas, as if you're in the UK at least. You will most likely hear it in shops or on the radio in your car. Driving was quite a theme for Chris Rios. He was a motor racing enthusiast who raced models by Ferrari and Lotus, and he participated in the 1993 British Touring Car Championship. For the 1995 Formula One season, he joined the Jordan team as a pit mechanic, which is incredible. I really didn't want to do the VIP thing, so I was in charge of Eddie Irvine's right rear tire, he later said. I don't know if you're into Formula One, but I'm into the Drive to Survive series. It usually comes out in February. Lando Norris won this year, so congratulations to Lando Norris, a British driver. I'm really happy about that, and driving for McLaren. In any case, I'm not a huge petrol head, but I do admire Formula One. My father wasn't into sports, but he was into motor racing, and he used to build cars and engines and all that kind of stuff. He was a drag racer as a teenager, and yesterday would have been his 79th birthday. So, dedicating this show to my late father, Roger Murphy. And also to Claudio Rispoli, may he rest in paradise. And Chris Rea, such a cool dude, and he left us an amazing body of work, rest in paradise. I'm going to leave you with a song for the holiday season by saxophonist Pete Christlieb. And he was the guy who did the sax solo on Steely Dan's Deacon Blues. And this is his rendition of the Christmas song. Wishing you all a peaceful and happy holiday season. And thanks for listening.