Balearic beat

I

mean, they called it the Balearic Network.

Yeah.

There was one club in Nottingham, Venus, one club in Manchester, one club in Liverpool.

weren't they yeah really drunk and then you know and we sit i'm frothing and all i can sit here is plug at the back talking to some old lady telling her about yeah i know boy george you know boy yeah i know george um And that night and that weekend in Ibiza was just, that was just incredible.

Alfredo would have been playing, wouldn't he? Oh, I mean, Alfredo, you know, by then I'd kind of, you know, when Oki had kind of said about...

The Balearic

beats.

Almost everything you'll hear tonight is brand new or still on its way to the shops.

I'm talking about Balearic Sunshine in the start, already playing in the background, saxophones and Rhodes in the middle, a little trip to Messiah and vocal classic in a fresh outfit and some proper of course some proper new york grooves at the very end now as always the full track list is ready and waiting for you on dirtydiscordradio.com so if something catches your ear you know exactly what it was now i also have some news about the dirty disco 24 7 stream what yeah the dirty disco 24 7 stream and i'm going to need your help with it and more about that a bit later so get comfortable turn it up and if you enjoy the show give it a like and send it to one friend who needs good music this week Let's start by two names that are a part of Ibiza's history.

I'm talking about DJ Pippi and Willie Graff, remixed by LTJ Experience.

Thank you.

Great names from the scene.

Pippi was one of the very first resident DJs in Ivica.

So when he makes Balearic music, he's speaking his mother tongue.

The remixes of their album Universal Language are out now and you'll hear two more of them later tonight.

Yeah

... a- a- and the, uh, you know, Balearic.

Yeah.

Absolutely.

But that's how much it s- it stands in our mindset, you know?

Oh, it st- yeah, it stands in your...

Yeah, I mean, yeah, that, that, that Balearic time, you know, we're going mad to the acid house, but we also like that mixture of Balearic in-

Yeah

Uh-huh

... uh, is in the style of Balearic.

Are you familiar with it?

No.

Like, this is Spain in the '80s.

Yeah.

So, so sometimes they would slow a dance record from 45 RPM down to 33 to really stretch it out, and it really kind of, um, it became a signature of the Balearic sound, which is, it's kind of a mid-tempo sound.

You know, between 100 and 115 BPM.

Well,

the music term was Balearic Beats.

Everyone has their

own idea about what it is.

Yeah, yeah, when it's

not, you know, we haven't got all the school runs and stuff and a lot of people on holiday and, yeah, I like the UK in August, July, August.

So next year, me and my wife are thinking of not to do long haul i want to spend more time in spain but work-wise i'm kind of slow i've slowed down a lot now and just kind of focus on key things so i'm involved with pikes they've given me a day by the pool i'd program poolside on wednesdays so which is so that's work but it's my social life as well so djs who might be coming over friends of mine or Or, you know, future friends, people from the kind of Balearic community, for want of a better term, get in touch with me.

So I say, come and hang out and play at Pike's with me.

First time I went to Manumission in like the mid-90s, and it was 94.

You know, the songs they were playing there was that Balearic House, and it just takes me back to the time.

Well,

we talk about the Balearic House a lot, because obviously, yesterday we did Pepe, DJ Pepe, who was a resident.

Yeah, yeah.

How was he, by the way? Is he all right? Yeah,

The good thing about all these sevens is I remember exactly where I was when I got them.

And I was switched onto this one by record dealer Chris Galloway, Brighton's finest, Soft Rocks member, and Balearic Viking to you.

[laughs]

She move a light.

Loads of good little sevens from them.

Right, I'm signing off for another week.

See you down in the Shires, in the Sham, for a big old Balearic chestnut and rare groove session.

I'll leave you with this one.

So, and then we were going down to London, down to Charlie Chester's flying parties and to Venus in Nottingham.

um so it was like by about 1990 91 we were thought like you know we had to about like the scene was jaded we're like like you know the main scene was just you know we've had enough of that you know let's say do something different and um when we'd we've been to um obviously nipped over to ibpo at that point and got the Balearic bug, as it were.

And things were changing, so we realised that we wanted a club that was a bit more, you know, for a more discerning club at the time, we called it, dedicated to those in long trousers and sensible shoes.

So, yeah, so a lot of the clubs were like, it was all that kind of whistleblowing fraternity, you know, and that was...

No, no, no, I completely get it.

It was just, yeah, it was just, you know, the music was changing and we were, you know, there was a big shift of them going on in the country.

So it became, you know, because there was like, they called it like, what did they call it? The Balearic Network or something

like that at one

it's a great piece

it really is and we are going to explore the story of two distinct highly influential dj cultures that emerged in the late 1970s and 1980s right first we have the cosmic movement in northern italy And second, we have the Balearic movement originating in Ibiza, Spain.

And what makes this source material so compelling is that it argues these two movements didn't just invent new styles of dance music to be casually added to that endless list of streaming genres we just mentioned.

Right.

Well, it's a journey that requires us to completely reset our modern assumptions about how media is distributed and consumed.

OK, how so?

To really understand the magnitude of what the cosmic and Balearic pioneers achieved, we have to travel back to a pre-genre world.

We have to look at the landscape of the 1970s.