Without You: Sparkling Athenian house from Lex on Delusions of Grandeur
More house excellentness on Delusions of Grandeur, this time featuring four cuts from Athenian DJ / producer Lex.
Sailing Away: Yacht Soul – The Cover Versions 2
The concept on Too Slow To Disco's Yacht Soul compilation is collecting soul and R&B cover versions that fit that nebulous, slick, smooth, West-coast soft rock "yacht" aesthetic.
Hold On: Citizens of Vice returns with Dutch duo Offshore & Coen
If "Deep Inside" was an imagined time and place it could be 3am, summer 1985, on some silk-draped, fern-adorned Ibizan terrace dance floor coming up on some expensive narcotics. A light, classy Balearic-infused floor filler.
“In The Garden of Mindfulness” is stately 70 bpm Balearica from Mudd
This two track EP from Claremont 56 and Mudd has a general breezy aesthetic somewhere between dub disco, soft rock and jazz fusion. Short version: right time, right place, this could work wonders on your dance floor.
Sundown: Eddie Chacon’s blissed out Balearic soul surprise of the year
One half of '90s R&B duo Charles & Eddie, Eddie Chacon's Sundown album is a superb affair, released earlier this year on Stones Throw.
The Girl With A Hole In Her Heart: Wonderful, windswept English Balearica from A Man Called...
An accomplished and varied collection of house, synth-pop and Balearic, thematically based around the country and city landscapes of Teeside UK where Sally Rogers grew up and spent lockdown.
Love Makes Magic is a classic-album-in-waiting from JIM
The first album from UK producer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Jim Baron (aka Ron Basejam, aka Crazy P co-founder) under his JIM persona sounds to this writer like a triumph.
Claremont Editions Vol 3: A warming winter Balearic treat from Claremont 56
The third edition of Claremont 56's compilation series gathers low-tempo high-temperature grooves via label rarities, unreleased versions and brand new music too.
Exclusive: Dive Into Bruno Belissimo’s ITALA Mixtape
Take a glorious tour from space disco to the great beyond with Bruno Belissimo on a new mixtape in support of his new LP Ghetto Falsetto.
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