He’s outdone himself on this one!

Eddie C - Best Friend 037 mix for Idle Cellars

Hey everyone! I just released a 100% vinyl mix featuring rare disco, zouk, calypso, and Balearic vibes. Recorded for the Vienna-based Tropical Thunder collective, it’s a journey through the diaspora of french and creole music. Would love to hear your thoughts!

🎶 Listen here on soundcloud : https://on.soundcloud.com/frGWQtjucq6GoPdk6

Perfect for vinyl lovers and tropical sound enthusiasts 🌍🔥

Beautiful, orchestral, choral…

Read about it here: https://markbarrott.bandcamp.com/album/everything-changes-nothing-ends-3

A late contender for AOTY.

https://ddmirage.bandcamp.com/album/feel-it-so-hot

Hello everyone, I just came up with the glorious idea of just asking on Reddit. I've been looking for a song for quite some time. I found it in a Balearic set. Can someone help me here? I cut the song out of the set and uploaded it on SoundCloud: https://on.soundcloud.com/ARNb1G3DZ3a7vtVp6

The mix i got it from (Timestamp 1:43:28) https://on.soundcloud.com/qm1HnuxLmSfSxi2N9

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Has anyone stumbled across Channel Swimmer’s new mix on Mixcloud? Loads of great tunes I’ve never heard before, one by Laura Michele on there is absolute gold. Really good stuff! https://www.mixcloud.com/channelswimmer/suntrap-001-aired-on-dublab-25-august-2024/

Hello all --

I was turned on to Balearic music by Despacio, the 2manydjs + James Murphy project. I'm looking for suggestions for Balearic "essential" tracks that define the genre to help me better understand it.

Please suggest as many tracks as you like and that you feel help define the genre.

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For background, as I hunted for a way to understand what defines the genre, I found this great definition (from the book: Last Night a DJ Saved My Life):

... "when it became clear that the very foundations of house and techno were built with records from continental Europe, snobby British musos started reappraising Italian, German, Spanish, Dutch, even Belgian club history, re-evaluating the music these scenes prized and produced, and plundering them for unheard tracks. As well as inspiring such historical revision, by making lyrics largely irrelevant, house and techno further eroded the English-speaking world’s great pop-cultural advantage. The Balearic spirit is a willingness to try anything in the service of your dancefloor. Forget music snobbery, an artist’s credibility is irrelevant. Forget the division of different genres, and the obsession with newness, you can even sometimes ignore the correct speed of a record. The established rules of DJing need not apply. All that matters is the power and beauty of each song in the context you place it. Named after the Mediterranean archipelago which contains Ibiza, and originally referring to the music of Ibiza’s DJ Alfredo, ‘Balearic’ implies a musical openness, an anything-is-possible attitude. It was often born of necessity – the need to stretch a limited number of records to fill long summer nights – but it taught an important lesson to any DJ who treated music with too much reverence. Balearic is ‘Flesh’ by A Split Second played at the wrong speed to turn it from gothic industrial to deep proto-house; it’s the indie guitar mash of The Woodentops energising glamorous queens in the open air at Amnesia; or trippy Klaus Schulze records washing over kids zonked out on heroin by the side of a gorgeous Italian lake. Balearic invokes the holiday defencelessness you get from warm sand between your toes and a horizon of sparkling waves. Importantly, Balearic is an attitude to music more than a specific style or location. Or, as dance music writer Frank Tope quipped: ‘It’s pop music that sounds good on pills.’

Brewster, Bill; Broughton, Frank. Last Night a DJ Saved My Life: The History of the Disc Jockey . Grove Atlantic. Kindle Edition.