Balearic, Chill Out & Sunset Music

Daniele Baldelli & Marco Dionigi just released a rework of Azymuth - Young Embrace.

A four-on-the-floor pattern at a steady 100 BPM make it suitable for contemporary dance floors, but -unsurprisingly- it also lacks the magic of the 1979 classic which must be one of the funkiest and most fun tracks produced to date.

Original


Baldelli & Dionigi Remix
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Azymuth - Young embrace [Baldelli & Dionigi Remix] | 100 bpm, by Daniele Baldelli

from the album Azymuth vs Daniele Baldelli
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soha said:
Not quite balearic, or chill out, but more comedown/reflection

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Don't mind the name tags. Balearic isn't synonymous with massage parlor music.

On the same page with Bill & Frank when it comes to that, more specifically page 375:

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 lbiza's DJ Alfredo, 'Balearic' implies a musical openness, an anything is possible attitude. lt 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. lmportantly, 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.'

This is balearic
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Talking Heads - Girlfriend Is Better (Dan Wainwright Remix), by Dan Wainwright

from the album This Is The Music We Dance To (Volume 3)
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So is this

So is this
 
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^They pretty much nailed it there imo. FWIW i don't think it is possible to consciously create a balearic record. All the classics happened by accident and were just lucky enough to find themselves in Alfredo's record box at a time when the island's tiny number of DJs had limited access to new records. It was a feeling, a moment in time when all the ingredients came together. Everything thereafter was a pastiche of a more innocent time.
 
Tourist said:
^They pretty much nailed it there imo. FWIW i don't think it is possible to consciously create a balearic record. All the classics happened by accident and were just lucky enough to find themselves in Alfredo's record box at a time when the island's tiny number of DJs had limited access to new records. It was a feeling, a moment in time when all the ingredients came together. Everything thereafter was a pastiche of a more innocent time.
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Best things in life are seldom planned, are they?

That DM track is well hidden on the flipside of Enjoy The Silence. Fits nicely with the B-side of Shout btw


A-sides to put the place on fire and B-sides to clean out the balearic bar a few hours later
 
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Lori Scacco - The Order of Things

I wasn’t quite sure what to say about this piece, or about art that is made or not made in a pandemic. I started on it well before New York City went into lockdown in March of 2020, paused through a long period of collective trauma and reckoning (social, political, personal), and finished it in June of 2021. If anything it’s a map, tracing a suspended reality in which the chronology of routine was my pendulum. And more than about deep listening, it became about time – the way music reveals itself with duration; a pathway to opening up; an illumination.

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The Order of Things, by Lori Scacco

track by Lori Scacco
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Sunlit house tunes coming from a wide variety of artists that all indulge in a beloved 90's vibe. Think they would all do very well on the island. Sven Van Hees with the surprise. Scorchio!



 
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