Balearic, Chill Out & Sunset Music

There's definitely a lot more music inspired by the early 90s, specifically '89-92 which I still think was an incredible, unsurpassed time for Ibiza or chillout inspired music. In the UK, you also had the crossover with dub, indie and the Soul II Soul beat, which you can hear in the early tunes.

In more recent years, I think it's also gone from being the preserve of a few balearic DJs and now has a much wider audience. Interesting how many Australians are making it.
 
That era's productions are super interesting sound-wise. I’m especially into the echo effects and acid sounds in that context.

I’ve noticed the same – there’s a surprising amount of quality stuff coming out of there lately. Any idea why so many Aussies are doing so well with this sound right now?
 
It's a good question. I used to live with some Aussies in London 20 years ago and they were mainly into trance and hard house but society has changed in cooler places like Melbourne. There's a lot more disco, house and chillout these days, and I guess some people were inspired by the success of Tornado Wallace, Confidence Man, Mildlife and Late Nite Tuff Guy. I would love to pay a visit one day if I could get the money together for a 3 week tour.
 
diver said:
I think I'm satisfied this can go on this thread rather than the Tracks for 2025?

Kimo - Whirl

paperecordings.bandcamp.com

Whirl (Mr BC & Bleepfakes Reworks), by Kimo

2 track album
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I don't bother with any of the other music threads on here now. I would rather sever my limbs than listen to "melodic techno" or "Ibiza classics" or big room anthems and I don't want to have to sift through them either. Whereas I treat this thread as a catch-all for pretty much anything I like, but obviously everyone will approach it differently.
 
https://soundcloud.com/voicesradio_ldn%2Fbalearic-sunrise-w-mooreo-010825-voices-radio


This months mix...a few tunes I heard at various stages in Tisno and some others that I thought would fit around them well...usual mix of new and old.

Nature Boy - Relax Man
Discotecas 002 - Resistors Dream
Space Ghost - Inner Focus
D.D. Mirage - Feel It
100th Monkey - Raindance
Cantoma - Estalaro (Faze Action Mix)
Still Going - Still Going Theme
Paradise Orchestra - Satisfy your Dream
Car Crash Set - Fall from Grace
Alex Kassian - Live Your Life (Lonely Hearts Mix)
Night Communication - Loose Control
Womack & Womack - Love Wars (Extended Mix)
 
A few albums of the balcony persuasion from recent weeks:

Morgan Szymanski and Tommy Perman - Songs for the Mist Forest
blackfordhill.bandcamp.com

Songs for the Mist Forest, by Morgan Szymanski and Tommy Perman

11 track album
blackfordhill.bandcamp.com blackfordhill.bandcamp.com

AA.VV - El Mundo es Sondido - The World Is Sound
imaginariarecords.bandcamp.com

(EL MUNDO ES SONIDO) THE WORLD IS SOUND - THIRD: HOME, by AA.VV

9 track album
imaginariarecords.bandcamp.com imaginariarecords.bandcamp.com

Perth Lewis - Jetty Summer
dreamchimney.bandcamp.com

Jetty Summer, by Perth Lewis

12 track album
dreamchimney.bandcamp.com dreamchimney.bandcamp.com

The Mandala Vortex - Visions of Light
visions-of-light.bandcamp.com

The Mandala Vortex, by Visions-of-Light

10 track album
visions-of-light.bandcamp.com visions-of-light.bandcamp.com

Simon Herody - Hard Lounge
recordswereleaserecords.bandcamp.com

Hard Lounge, by Simon Herody

8 track album
recordswereleaserecords.bandcamp.com recordswereleaserecords.bandcamp.com

Resavoir & Matt Gold - Horizon
intlanthem.bandcamp.com

Horizon, by Resavoir & Matt Gold

10 track album
intlanthem.bandcamp.com intlanthem.bandcamp.com

Sewell & The Gong - Patron Saint of Elsewhere
sewellandthegong.bandcamp.com

Patron Saint Of Elsewhere, by Sewell & The Gong

7 track album
sewellandthegong.bandcamp.com sewellandthegong.bandcamp.com

Jonny Nash - Once Was Ours Forever
jonnynash.bandcamp.com

Once Was Ours Forever, by Jonny Nash

11 track album
jonnynash.bandcamp.com jonnynash.bandcamp.com

Celestial - I Can Hear The Grass Grow
celestialecstatic.bandcamp.com

I Can Hear The Grass Grow, by Celestial

8 track album
celestialecstatic.bandcamp.com celestialecstatic.bandcamp.com

Azzurro 80 - Flashback
fourfliesrecords.bandcamp.com

FLASHBACK, by Azzurro 80

13 track album
fourfliesrecords.bandcamp.com fourfliesrecords.bandcamp.com
 
Amigo said:
The Grid - Flotation (Mark Barrott’s Return to Sa Trinxa Remix) played on Chris Coco's Melodica show last week ahead of a full release along with more MB interpretations. Sounds ace.

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love Floatation. All-timer

In this excerpt from a 2020 interview, Richard Norris told the story behind it:


“I’d kind of heard about Ibiza, but it wasn’t that well known outside of the scene, so I said to the NME editor, ‘You’ve got to send me and my girlfriend to Ibiza for two weeks to find out about this new music’. I could have said anywhere, Torremolinos or Benidorm, but amazingly he said, ‘Brilliant, let’s do it’. That was the summer of 1989, so going there had an impact on The Grid’s ‘Floatation’. The basic idea of the track was to make a slower record you could play on the beach in the open air.

“When Dave and I had finished the album, Cally said, ‘Can you just do one more track?’. Begrudgingly, we ended up back in the studio a couple of weeks later to record the track that would become ‘Floatation’ and Dave was saying, ‘Let’s try and do something that sounds like the end title credits of a film’.

He’s obsessed with John Barry and was always playing these two Barry-esque chords, but they didn’t resolve, they needed another chord, so between us we got the chords together. So although Ibiza was in the air, it was actually more about John Barry.

“We asked Andrew Weatherall to remix the track and it was one of his earliest remixes, either the second or third mix he did. I’d met Weatherall through clubbing. In fact, when me and Genesis P-Orridge went to Shoom for the first time, the very first person we saw there was Weatherall, who proudly showed us his Psychic TV tattoo. Gen was very pleased about that.

“The final version of ‘Floatation’ was an 11-minute instrumental, which people seemed to like, so we thought we’d put some words to it and make it a single. We got our friend Sasha, who we’d met at Shoom, to do some breathy, sub Gainsbourg vocals. I’ve still got the DAT of us doing it. You can hear me and Sasha in the booth and Weatherall in the control room, and we’re basically making it up as we go along. It probably took about five minutes.

“There are a few samples on the record, various bits and pieces and a little film dialogue, which you absolutely wouldn’t get away with nowadays. Most of it, like the clarinet and all the keyboards and the drums, were ours, but Weatherall did put a bit of Stone Roses on it at the end. The original mix was done at Battery Studios in west London and the Roses were in the studio next door, so he borrowed a copy of their album for a loop. From what I heard, Ian Brown gave it his blessing.

“There was a big buzz when the single came out. I remember going to shops in Soho and there’d be signs in the window saying, “No copies of ‘Floatation’ left”. It didn’t chart massively, and I think the fact it didn’t crack the Top 40 was one of the reasons our days were numbered at Warners. They were used to people like Simply Red getting high chart positions, so this strange, left-field band born out of ‘Jack The Tab’ wasn’t quite doing it for them. In the end, ‘Floatation’ was more influential than it was successful, but I’m happy with that.”
 
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