Various Artists - Colleen ‘Cosmo’ Murphy presents ‘Balearic Breakfast’ Volume 2 [2LP]

Heavenly

£29.16

Format: 2 x LP
Catalogue No.: HVNLP212
Barcode: 5400863089641
Release Date: 09 Jun 2023
Genre: Balearic / Electronic

“Like David Mancuso and the original Ibizan DJs, Murphy understands Balearic to be a hard-to-define mixture that’s both soothing and gently envelope-pushing” The Arts Desk

“This tantalising selection of tracks is reason enough to swap the cups of tea snd toast for exotic fruits and poolside cocktails” Electronic Sound

Murphy's definition of Balearic seems more tied to music's capacity to take you to limitless backdrops than it is to any specific destination, a natural outlook for a curator whose career has been one long, fruitful journey. Resident Advisor

Colleen ‘Cosmo’ Murphy serves up a second helping of Balearic Breakfast with another phenomenal compilation for Heavenly Recordings. Like 2022’s acclaimed first Balearic Breakfast album, this one features eleven tracks that drift between space rock and soul, disco and deep house, ambient and electronica, old and new, fast and slow. In the words of Cosmo herself, these tracks are a “hodge-podge of chill out, spiritual jazz, deep soul, percussive house, quirky disco, indie-dance and what may ‘traditionally’ be called ‘balearic’ (whatever that may be).” In the words of Heavenly, these albums are horizontal masterpieces that should be prescribed on the NHS as they’re filled with the kind of blissed out music that’s guaranteed to lift you out of the mundane and the everyday, wherever you are.

Many of the tracks on Balearic Breakfast 2 have never been available on vinyl before.

Balearic Breakfast Volume 2 features:

1. Mental Remedy - Omamiuda (Prayer For Japan Version)
2. Manolo - Amalfi Drive
3. Gallo - Abysso (Calm’s Mellow Mellow Acid Dub)
4. HF International ft Kasif - I Can’t Go For That (No Can Do) (Kaoru Inoue Extended Disco Dub Remix)
5. Residentes Balearicos - - Juno's Dream (Gold Suite Remix)
6. Dølle Jølle - Balearic Incarnation (Todd Terje's Extra Døll Mix)
7. Hard Feelings - Love Scenes (Cosmodelica Remix)
8. Monks Road Social - The Wings of the Morning
9. Midlake - Roscoe (Beyond The Wizards Sleeve Re-Animation)
10. Lunar Dunes - Moon Bathing
11. Dip in the Pool - What About This Love (Chaos In The CBD Remix)

Both volumes of Balearic Breakfast will also be available as a double CD with sleeve notes by Bill Brewster (DJ History).

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Colleen ‘Cosmo’ Murphy is a highly respected and experienced musical selector and curator, founder of the album listening event and content hub Classic Album Sundays and an authority on music, sound and the vinyl renaissance. She was mentored by David Mancuso at his seminal Loft parties in New York City. Together they co-produced the compilation series David Mancuso Presents The Loft and worked together on David’s record label The Loft Audiophile Library of Music. In 2000, David told Time Out New York City “ She is very devoted and very pure about the music. She’s one of the only people I would trust, both with the music and with the equipment, to fill in for me.” She is one of the musical hosts at The Loft, the co-founder of the Lucky Cloud Loft parties in London and DJs internationally on the world’s best sound systems and dance floors.

Classic Album Sundays tells the stories behind the albums that have shaped our culture and in some cases, our lives. Colleen founded Classic Album Sundays as a stance against the increasing devaluation of music and sound. What began as a passion project is now the world’s most popular album listening event with satellites in four continents and the website and social media channels host content on classic albums and artists such as interviews, videos, playlists and more. BBC Breakfast Television remarked, “Classic Album Sundays treat our best-loved records like great symphonies.”

She has been a radio host and DJ since the age of fourteen and today hosts Balearic Breakfast, Cosmodelica and Classic Album Sundays Worldwide on Worldwide FM. She also wrote, co-produced and hosted the Classic Album Sundays series ‘This Women’s Work’ for PRX, ‘Sounds of a City’ series on BBC 6 Music and ‘Turntable Tales’ on BBC Radio 4. As a producer Colleen has remixed Roisin Murphy, Mildlife, The Rapture, Fat Freddy’s Drop, Beardyman, Candi Staton, Two Bears, Phenomenal Handclap Band, Cantoma, Horace Andy, Chaka Khan & more under her Cosmodelica moniker and as DarkStarr Diskotek with Ashley Beedle. Along with former Captain Beefheart guitarist Gary Lucas, she recorded and produced as Wild Rumpus.