Emotion: Dismissive
Artist: It’s Immaterial
Track: Driving Away From Home (Dead Man’s Curve Version)
Release Details: A&M, 1987
Balearic pop example #203810.
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Emotion: Loss
Artist: Womack & Womack
Track: M.P.B (Folk Version)
Release Details: Island, 1989
A combination of David Morales on percussion and Frankie Knuckles in charge at the controls results in this track featuring the monster piano riff as used on this other Knuckles remix. HUGE!
Enjoy the weekend. We will mostly be dancing at the front of the stage with our #topsoff as Danielle Baldelli plays the Roadhouse for Cutloose this Saturday after which will be be flexing our vocal dexterity at Corridor Bar.
Come join us.
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Emotion: Bliss
Artist: The Lighthouse Family
Track: Question of Faith (Idjut Boys Mix)
Release Details: Polydor, 1998
If we are to continue from the Kylie post and Balearic-Pop mixes then surely there is nothing that can compete with the Idjut Boys remix of The Lighthouse Family’s ‘Question of Faith’.
Dubby and strung out to within an inch of it’s life making even this dull as dishwater, easy listening duo palatable.
We ain’t driving on ocean drive or getting lifted here. It’s all about the horizontal position.
Massively ‘Bally-ear-ache’.
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Emotion: Escape
Artist: Various Artists
Album: Horizons
Release Details: K-Tel, 1988
Taking you back to 1988 here. Aspirational desert island bliss from K-Tel. Full LP for download. It’s ripped from Vinyl so the sound quality varies but there you go.
Emotion: Hunger
Artist: Tullio Di Piscopo
Track: Silva Mala
Album: Acqua E Viento
Release details: EMI Italy, 1983
Last day at work before the bank holiday weekend and feel like getting a pizza to celebrate. With that in mind here’s a slice (geddit) of beautiful Italian pop music from Signor Di Piscopo.
Salut!
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There’s no doubt what the best site on the ‘net for all things balearic is right now and it’s a great honour to have another mix up on the always brilliant Test Pressing.
This is a mix of European Pop and slow paced instrumental stuff. Hope you enjoy it.
Now, I’ve not been posting many tracks of late but that’s mainly because I’ve been putting together a couple of mixes.
The first of which is ‘Despicable Escape‘ which I put together for good friends El-Diablos Social Club and is (Believe it or not…) on a Chillwave and Dubstep vibe. The second and below effort is for this very site and is entitled ‘Awakenings’ (Or ‘Awakening’ as on the artwork found within the .mp3 file…). There’s not much in the way of ‘Pop’ music in this mix discounting the French downbeat version of Dawn Penn’s pop reggae classic ‘No, No, No’ by Melaaz (Produced by the brilliant Phillippe Zdar…) but it does rate high on the emotional factor so as Niles has been on my back regards my lack of content I thought this would be a good time to share something with you all.
If you like what you have been hearing on the blog, we have been added to the 2011 Trip Festival line-up where we will be getting primal alongside the likes of The Idjut Boys, Mungolian Jetset, Soft Rocks and many other great DJ’s and live bands. If you fancy some Brokeback Mountain campfire action at a stunning Bangor location at the end of May then this is the place to strip down to your smalls and shed those emotions with us.
In the meantime, stick this on your music player of choice and make the most of the fantastic weather we have been having of late…
An old mix from myself now (well, 2008), originally done for our Cosmic Disco site, that Simon’s been asking about it so here it is for those people that didn’t grab it back in the day.
Sun-kissed foreign vibes is the order of the day so grab a sunlounger and a bottle of Fanta Limon and get this on the stereo.
Emotion: Bliss
Artist: Mike Francis
Track: Late Summer Night
Release details: RCA Victor, 1984. B-Side to ‘Survivor’
What a glorious weekend. This is a track for all those of you who’ve come into the house, hazy, dazed and slightly ruddy faced from le soleil.
Get a glass of wine and sit outside with this on ’til it goes dark.
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My main man Quoonbeatz provides the first of tonight’s aural delights. You can see his (and my) photees over at Message From The Future.
Emotion : Enlightenment
Artist : Enigma
Track : Sadeness
Album : MCMXC a.d.
Release Details : Charisma, 1990
Never was the internal conflict of sexuality versus religion portrayed more evocatively than by Curly MC’s Enigma musical project. This ain’t no band; this is a musical project. This is business time. Getting your wife, Sandra (MC?), to whisper sexy French vibes while a posse of Gregorian monks chant away at the end of bed is the work of a man who gets real deep. Like an edgy Sting.
Its going great guns so far, but hark! A flute solo?! Whats to do? A sensual, mournful wail, fills the air, like a sausage dog howling at the moon– presumably Sandra has got a headache or is a bit tired tonight?
This is music for cushions and hookahs at dusk in the desert, with the curtains gently blowing in the breeze coming through the castle windows. That or it’s the ideal soundtrack for watching the 1991 4th division play-off defeat away at Torquay on a flickering giant screen at Turf Moor.
Sadeness indeed.
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