TRIPLETS: Las Islas Baleares

It's been a while.
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I've been busy. Even too busy to blog, if you can imagine that. There was once a time when I'd post every single day. Maybe even twice a day, if the spirit moved me. Fancy that.
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Faint and distance memories now.
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But by saving grace -- and just in the nick of time -- my good friend Howie who comes to us from London and works with some of the best producers, DJs, and artists this side of the equator, is launching a new series here on PolloxNiner called TRIPLETS. The premise is to take an underlying theme or concept and to post three tracks tying them all together. Rather than explaining it away, I'd just rather let Howie speak for himself:
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My relationship with this blog only started relatively recently. I work with a producer who had found his unfinished production of a great New York band posted up here (mentioning no names). But after it was so ‘rapturously’ received, and after officially berating the author for posting up said work, we quickly realised we had a shared love of the same music. I have been responsible for some of the music posted here already (notably Al Usher’s remix of Grandadbob) so it wasn’t long before Sunny cajoled me into putting pen to paper (as it were) and sharing some music and words with you.
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So for my inaugural post I follow on from where Sunny left.
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The summer.
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At one point is promised so much. So as a disappointing World Cup ends (for most), the summer really begins to heat up. It can only mean one thing --  the silly season is upon us.
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How I dreamt of this moment in February. The moment when the sun rises at 5am and sets at 9pm. The moment when David Beckham lifts aloft that famous trophy. The moment when I get my Birkenstocks out of retirement. And, most importantly to some, the moment when thousands of pasty faced, badly dressed Brits journey to the 'white isle' to get drunk of the streets of San Antonio or dive into the K-hole at DC10.
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Well 3 out of 4 ain’t bad.
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So. Ibiza. What an amazing place.
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With it's mystical charm and spiritual vibes, it has a special significance for me as I grew up on that magical Isle. I spent the first 10 years of my life on the beach at Salinas. It was an idyllic childhood and I like to consider myself to be an original 'balearic boy'.
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They say 'nostaglia is used by older people to take the fun away from younger people' and when I think specifically about Ibiza I can't help thinking there's some truth in that. It WAS so much better back then when Ibiza impacted on our cultural history almost 20 years ago. It was a simpler time. The music too was very different to the glitchy, k flavoured, minimalism that seems to the 'groove du jour' on the island today.
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So anyway, I was listening to a work in progress of a DJ Naughty remix of Grandadbob ‘Pictures’ the other day (the followup to Al Usher's amazing remix of their previous offering "Hide You" ). It's pure modern balearica. It'll get posted up here as soon as it's finished but listening to it (and general loving the fact that summer is here) has made me go back and dig out some balearic classics for my debut post.
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Here are 3 very different 'balearic' records that make this writer long for 'summers of love'. Hope you like them.
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Cocteau Twins – "Suckling The Mender"
A ‘Café Del Mar’ classic and one of those tunes that work perfectly as an aural sun-downer.
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Les Negresses Vertes – "Zobi La Mouche"
Dance music in its true sense. A true balearic classic.
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Fluke - "Philly"
Pure indie-dance. Real ibiza vibes. Shame their post Philly output hasn’t quite lived up to this.

Comments

[Clarissa]

you're back?? hallelujah!

great post, loving it. cocteau twins are a never miss.

[ideateller]

Welcome back, Sunny.

And good to have new posters/friends like Howie. Much love.

[Chris]

Too busy to blog? That's blasphemy! For shame. Well at least Howie's done good on the post -- nice round-up of lovely songs here.

Hope things slow down for you babe.

[Thomas]

Grew up on that magical isle myself. Guess I'm something of a balearic boy as well.

Great tracks. Thanks

[putty]

oh how i wish i could visit Ibiza. all the touristy pictues of it make it look out of this world. i love how different all those tracks were. the idea of the triplet is pretty great.

[Nicholas]

hello Sunny! good to hear from you finally.....sort of. great posts to both of you. keep it up!

[FAFF]

I like fluke but not certain about this particular fluke track. Nonetheless, any ocassion to have Sunny back is a good one. I think Howie has a nice future here at P9. We shall see.

[Peter]

Lovely post. I like the idea of Triplets, too, so please keep it up. I hate to be the one to ask but I connected the dots from PolloxNiner to her Myspace and to her Myspace friends and saw your Myspace page (not as laborous as it sounds)......I guess my question to you Howie is: do you really work with Ewan Pearson, Paul Epworth, Riton, and all those others? What a collection of talent indeed! Makes sense that A&R Sunny has friends like yourself. At any rate, lovely post indeed.

This doesn't get you off the hook, Sunny so please do post :P

[howie]

i manage ewan and riton (plus works with others like tiefschwarz, glimmers, lindstrom, mat jonson, optimo, al usher and a few others) i would LOVE to work with paul but that honour goes to my friend annette. glad you liked the post x

[Morgan]

Absolutely loved that Al Usher remix of "Hide Me" -- still one of my favorites though it's the devil to try to find/buy (at least where I am in L.A.)

Keep it coming! Thanks Sunny and Howie!

[Jess]

At the risk of sounding whiny ----

COME BACK!!!!!

[Chris]

Can you call me?

[ThineAninny]

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