BALEARIC CHALLENGE #4

BALEARIC CHALLENGE day 4... Let's just go with this track below, because I have done much research and found that THIS track is INDEED Balearic, even if my previous posts have not quite been. At least 37 different experts are willing to back me up this time. There is no way that anyone can deny that this is the TRUE SOUND of Balearic music. OK fine, maybe not. Or maybe so. That is for the lords of Balearic to figure out. In any case I included this song on a DJ mix from 2009 for the great www.lovefingers.org (if you want to check the full mix it is posted to my blog http://syntheticheartsclub.blogspot.com/…/secret-circuit-dj… ). Each time I hear this song, I love it just as much as the last. An electronic tropic (electropic?) little number written by the Tropical Dandy himself, Haruomi Hosono from the first YMO LP from 1978. Some seriously melted synth styles abound. Melt away:

David Bowie - Live at The Beat Club - HD

Catching up on S.H.C. here. Of course we lost a great.

Daniele Baldelli, in the DJ booth in a lift at Baia degli Angeli, 1978

Hosono Haruomi, Suzuki Shigeru, Tatsuro Yamashita - The Last Paradise (1...

La Düsseldorf VIVA on TV 1978

holy shit...

The Stranglers - Black and White (Full Album)

Let's talk about faves:

lou reed - disco mystic

Laurin Rinder On 60 Minutes 1978

Posted by Laurin Rinder of Rinder and Lewis---

Paradise Frame - Paradise Frame (1978)

Full Paradise Frame record up here:

Great Canadian cosmic disco jams on this....

Funk - The Equals - 'Mystic Sister' title track from 1978 LP

Funky stuff:

HEPATITIS Haruomi hosono

Just so good:

Supersempfft - I'm Gonna Make You Big My Friend

Mistral - Starship 109

Until the future finally catches up with us... We have this:

NOTE: It is really quite amazing how this dutch band and their song, "Starship 109" still manages to sound incredibly futuristic. They were very ahead of their time. They don't sound dated at all. The video looks like it was made in the future where people will be wearing these clothes. It looks real, like they may have gone into the future somehow and shot this. I thought you couldn't do that though so I'm totally tripping out right now.

Haruomi Hosono - Tokyo Rush

Yellow Magic Orchestra's amazing Haruomi Hosono in funky mode before he went electronic with his mind-numbingly awesome "Cochin Moon" album... What's the rash?

Belle Epoque - Bamalama (1978)

Ahead of the curve...