Sim! Sammy está de volta com dicas quentíssimas de Ibiza 2008. Atenção às novas regras: afters estão totalmente proibidos, mas as festinhas diurnas nunca tiveram tanta vida (elas começam às 4:30 da tarde). WE LOVE SUNDAYS é a festa mais divertida da Space e trouxemos um pedacinho do que pode chegar a ser esse começo de semana na ilha mágica. Postaremos mais novidades cada dia, para aqueles que estão indo e para aqueles que AMAM mas que, infelizmente, não podem estar por aqui neste verão. Continuem ligados no Soma!

Myspace page

Air France on Last FM

No Way Down Pitchfork album review

http://www.myspace.com/dutchrhythm

Jag minns att jag läste en intervju med Stockhausen, den tyske modernistiske kompositören, i tidningen Pop för en massa år sedan. Det var rätt kul läsning som visserligen aldrig fick mig att lyssna, men en sak har jag tänkt på. Som liten fick Stockhausen nämligen en trähammare och med den gick han omkring och utforskade hur världen lät om man slog på den.
Jag gillar den leken. Och någonstans i smyg bär jag på drömmen att en gång lära mig samplingsteknik och musikprogram och göra musik av ljud från naturen. Då är säkert den där trähammaren ganska användbar.
På norra spetsen av Hamburgö i norra Bohuslän finns ett litet område med en ovanlig bergart, rombporfyr. I alla fall tror jag att den är ovanlig. Stenhuggerier finns lite varstans, och också här har man provhuggit, eller i alla fall byggt något slags väg eller kaj som rasat sedan länge..
Nu ligger stenblocken som ett oordnat plockepinn, eller som en marimba som välts upp och ned med alla välljudande träklossar ovanpå varandra. För det fantastiska med denna rombporfyr är faktiskt att stenen sjunger. De låter som malm, som kyrkklockor och ger man sig ut och letar upp ett stycke drivved kan man hitta ganska många olika toner. Varje klippblock svänger med en egen frekvens. Allt på tre meters avstånd från havet. How’s that for balearic? Kyrkklockor i dansmusik? Jag tänker på Chic och I want your love.

xtrataggar: musik, Skuggan, Bohuslän, Stockhausen, marimba, Chic, balearic

In DJ Nova's own words:

If I Was A Balearic Dj I’d Be Playin’ Tunes Like This Mix…

What is Balearic ? Balearic is the coolest music movement in the 80’s … Balearic is
afro, disco, funk,Reggae, soul, punk, rock, new wave, ethnic, pop, Manchester, house.
Downbeat, ambient, dub, earth, sun, sand, a common secret, colour, nights
real groove, summer, sea, drugs, alternative culture, Ibiza, love, sex … Balearic is
my was of life at late 80’s, Balearic changed my life …. Balearic is UNITY !!!
Balearic is if you love somebody … anybody …

01. Peter Gabriel - Don’t Break This Rhythm - 1986
02. Kate Bush - Running Up That Hill - 1985
03. Talk Talk - Life Is What You Make It – 1986
04. Cure - Lullaby (12’’) – 1989
05. Transglobal Underground – Templehead – 1991
06. St Etienne - Only Love Can Break Your Heart (Andrew Weatherall) – 1991
07. Orb - Perpetual Dawn (Andy Weatherall) - 1991
08. Mahlathini & Mahotella Queens - Kazet – 1988
09. Kwanzaa Posse - Wicked Funk (12”) – 1991
10. Herb Alpert - Rotation (12”) - 1979
11. Blondie - Rapture (Special Disco Version) - 1981
12. Pete Wylie - Sinful (12” Tribal Mix) - 1986
13. Waterboys - The Whole Of The Moon - 1985
14. Belouis Some - Imagination (12”) - 1985
15. Illusion - Why Can’t We Live Together - 1982
16. Farm - All Together Now (Farley & Heller) - 1990
17. Duran Duran - Save A Prayer (Steve Anderson Mix) – 1992
18. Blow Monkeys - If You Love Somebody – 1990
19. Last Rhythm - Last Rhythm – 1991
20. Fleetwood Mac - Big Love (Arthur Baker) – 1987
21. China Crisis - African And White - 1981
22. Sub Sub - Past - 1994

Download here

http://www.sendspace.com/file/b85rws

DJ Nova host Balearic show through August on Rodon FM 95, go check out the myspace links.

http://www.myspace.com/djnova_novaplanet

http://www.rodonfm.net/

Anyway in an ironic twist an Italian DJ that sounds more like a face at Millwall dropped me a line yesterday. The DJ in question, Sir Billy, was also kind enough to send over his most recent mix which would sound great sitting on a beach watching the sun sink below the horizon. Of course I'm currently in an office staring at rain soaked, bored looking Italian exchange students which might not be quite so balearic but it still sounds nice nevertheless.

It's actually got quite an early nineties Boys Own vibe to it which you dont get too much of these days, most people heading straight for an endless stream of risk free, credibility ensured re-edits that have received an official stamp of approval instead.

Anyway add to all that Sir Billy's own biography is rather special too (see below) so it's well worth a listen.

'He's been involved in music since 1978. Began his carrier as record collector and radio speaker. Then he's been known as vocalist with Templebeat (a combo who gained massive airplay during the 90es, charted in Germany and Switzerlands, played several european festivals and appeared on RAI + MTV's 120 Minutes). He started writing during the 80es for Music Club and Dynamo, now he's a columnist for Il Mucchio Selvaggio and Il Mucchio Extra.
Remixer, alone and in collaboration with The Bloody Beetroots.
He also wrote a novel called The Queen Of Eyes.
Vinyljunkie and dj.
Quick, Clean & Efficient since last millennium.'

Download: Sir Billy - BackTraxMix

Tracklist:
Ken Nordine – Flibberty Jib
The Ventures – Apache
Saint Etienne – Only Love Can Break Your Heart (Mix Of Two Halves)
Arbeid Adelt – Death Disco (Todd Terje Edit)
Low Motion Disco – Love Love Love (Still Going Remix)
Telex – Rendez-Vous Dans L'Espace (Morgan Geist Remix)
Zsa Zsa Laboum – Something Scary
Mansun – Wide Open Space (Perfecto Mix)
Chapterhouse – Don't Look Now (Sitar Trance Mix)
World Of Twist – She's A Rainbow (Vocal Loop)
Jah Wobble's Invaders Of The Heart feat. Sinead 'O Connor – Visions Of You (Son Of Hank And Johnny Mix)
Dr. John – Walk On Gilded Splinters
Late Of The Pier – The Bears Are Coming (Emperor Machine Remix)
Peter Visti – Heaven Is A Disco
Greg Kihn Band – Jeopardy (Instrumental Mix)
Traesko – Cubacumba
Kano – Another Life (12" Mix)
Canton – Sleepwalking (12" Version)
Knight Action – Single Girl (Extended Version)
Plastic Bertrand – Slave To The Beat (New Beat Mix)
Endgames – First, Last For Everything (Dub Mix)

Tracklist
Volume 1
1. Enigma - Way To Eternity
2. Enigma - Hallelujah
3. Pleasure - Please
4. Electra - Autumn Love
5. Fidelfatti - Just Wanna Touch Me
6. Voice Of Africa - Hoomba Hoomba
7. Phil Collins vs. NWA - Air Express Yourself Tonight
8. Phil Collins - In The Air Tonight (Extended Mix)
9. Nitribit - Harmonic Drive
10. Moses P. - Twilight Zone
11. Saint Etienne - Only Love Can Break Your Heart
12. The Cure - Pictures Of You
13. IJ & The Soundwave - Adopt A Beat
14. Orchestra JB - Come Alive
15. Smash Productions - Moments In Soul
16. Sinead O'Conner - I Am Stretched On Your Grave
17. Soho - Hippychick
save as target
http://www.lostandfoundvinyl.com/1/mp3s/spiritofbedrockvol1.mp3

1. Thrashing Doves - Jesus On The Payroll
2. Piano Fantasia - Song For Denise
3. Code 61 - Drop the Deal
4. William Pitt - City Lights
5. Chris Rea - Josephine
6. Hollywood Beyond - Whats The Colour Of Money
7. INXS - Need You Tonight (Ben Liebrand Mix)
8. Michael Jackson - Billie Jean (Up & Down Mix)
9. The Residents - Kaw Liga (Prairie Mix)
10. RamJam - Black Betty (Ben Liebrand Mix)
11. Scarlet Fantastic - No Memory
12. Prince - Raspberry Beret
13. King - Love & Pride (Heart & Soul Mix)
14. Big Audio Dynamite - E=MC2 (Remix)
15. Bruce Hornsby & The Range - The Way It Is

http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?warm3mdjcy1

Also check out Break on through on myspace

sometime a girl just needs her cat, a cocktail and an island, right?

download here

mo'horizons - dance naked under palmtrees

3rd core - mindless and broken

kid coconutz - needed moonlight

towa tei -senor coconut

art of noise - island

red snapper - lobster

talvin singh- traveller

sisterlove - the hypnotist

art of noise - majorca

lovers lane - island memories

beloved - sweet harmony

solid gold easy amex - enjoy

bentley rhythm ace - bentley's gonna sort you out

bbg - snappiness

blow monkeys - la passionara

ultramarine - saratoga

sheer taft - atlantis

future sound of london - papua new guinea

you've had one crème caramel you've had them all

as his excuse for trying the same. Good choice, Canadian...

Service was laudably professional, efficient and friendly despite the fact the place was packed.  Highly recommended, but do arrive early or book ahead.

Menu del dìa: €17 pp  bottle house white: €10

So we fetched up at Sa Nacra, a waterside bar/restaurant in (or on) Cala Santandria on both our first and last days in Menorca.  I suspect we ordered the wrong things, but I got the idea the setting is so perfect nobody feels they have to pay much attention to the quality of the fare on offer.  Talking about the wrong thing to order...

...bless his heart; to the left we have hamburger, sausage, egg and chips in time-honoured transport caff greasy spoon style. It's a good thing Mr T dislikes ketchup as there was none; just a cruet of salt & pepper, oil & vinegar. The vinegar's always good in Spanish territory, though.

Having awakened at 3 am to catch our Balearic-bound sardine torpedo, T found it satisfying, surprising, but not exactly exciting. And being Canadian he was kind of expecting a bun...

Eyes right for another kind of surprise: my platter of local sausages and cheese("s") - before a bite taken.  No garnish, nor much generosity there.  Ah well, at top right two niggardly slices of queso mahon, and reasonably fresca at that because it was ok but bland. Gnawing clockwise, next lies salchichon, pink and slightly garlicky - Spanish salami. Then the most interesting item, morcilla; black pudding (or blood sausage if you must) - thankfully European-style so it didn't taste like blood-soaked fruitcake, but subtly spiced and savoury; probably bound with rice and featuring the odd fennel seed to lift any heaviness.  Last of all comes sobrassada; essentially the Balearic version of chorizo - no mistaking that tell-tale orange-hue of paprika pimentón.  Good, but not a gastronomic highlight either.

For us francophiles the lack of automatic bread was a bit of a quandary - in Menorca we discover its presence is unpredictable - so, keeping true to my mission to eat local, I ordered another island speciality: pa amb tomàquet.  It's supposed to be country bread toasted over a flame, rubbed with tomato and garlic and doused in olive oil.  Which it was, after a fashion, but you can take the country out of bread just like you can take bread out of the country.  Remember dutch crispbakes?  Squish a tomato into one of those and then take the tomato away - voilà!  Certainly edible on 3 hours sleep when washed down with a bottle of cherry-red rosado de casa .  Penedès I think; in a cooler bucket without ice so we were compelled to drink it fast to drink it cool: a far from odious chore in all that sunshine...

...and for us just arrived from chilly grey England the view was sheer delight: water so clear you can see all the way to the bottom, fish idling below, seabirds wheeling above, all eager for overboard crumbs. 
In my enthusiasm for peering into the depths I tipped the bench and almost launched myself overboard - crumbs!  Rather wish I had though, as Sa Nacra is well-appointed with ladder up and out plus open-air shower, but preferred are plunges from their diving board.

his: €7.25 mine: €4.50 bread: €1.50 wine: €10

You'd have thought that with all the plodding around I might have slimmed down a bit, but as there's no setting out foot without gastro attached and with Spanish temptations tickling an ever-ready appetite, we ate fabulously, well and mediocrely; never badly : with some judicious shopping and despite the facilities even eating in was pretty good - and filling.

We brought back (and therein lie a few tales):

• gin for the gent
• a quarter ham (need a bigger wallet and suitcase for a whole one)
• queso semi-curado
• sobrassada
• wild fennel
• yema tostada turrón - already nearly all gone!
• no tacky touristy belt but avarcas - traditional, practical leather sandals with soles made from used tyres - worn by the locals and totally eco-fab, baby.

A few things we learned:

• Hispanic ham & Iberian eggs are always good
• Gin is not always good
• mayonnaise comes from Mahón
• prickly heat strikes suddenly
• Menorca is a blissful Balearic alternative to party-hearty Ibiza - hardly a teenage tourist in sight
• Menorca is a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve - wild flowers and plants get to do their own thing, birdies are protected, developments restricted and it's all the better for all that
• Menorca has 216 km of coastline and 14 000 km of dry stone walls
• if you know a bit of French or Italian, you'll get by in Menorquí (or use Spanish!)
• earplugs and a compact umbrella are travel essentials

We sniffed out the quietest piglets on earth the other side of one of those dry stone walls and perched on tip-toe to say hello every time we plodded by en route to the DISKONT supermarket or Ciutadella.  This is one of their mothers.  I waited for her to stop tinkling before taking a snap but she just didn't; good for her.

I only wish I'd known Mahón (that's Maó in Català) airport has a jamón bar next to Departure Gate 16 before I purchased my (admittedly fairly delish thanks to the piquillo peppers and olives) tuna mediterraneo baguette: a platter of Ibérico ham plus a couple of glasses of Rioja would have made a preferable adiós, amigos, but the silent T had already joined the queue at Burger King for his bacon-double-cheese fix so I perused the shopping selection and sighed.  Well, at least it wasn't McD's.

There's plenty more to tell but I must gather my thoughts, edit my pics and do my laundry.  Give me a day or two; until then, hasta la vista...

for those who were too young, think the flashback scene in 'human traffic'. whistles, vicks, big fish little fish cardboard box.

actually i was too young but on the odd night i managed to sneak out to a rave, at legendary south coast club sterns, with my older boyfriend who had delusions of dj grandeur.

this mix is a nod to the inbetween years - post-acid house but more balearic and trippy than hardcore. when rave wasn't a dirty word.

this was true warehouse rave. dancing in a field until 6am before that idiotic criminal justice act. the prodigy, autechre and orbital all protested by releasing non-repetitive beats and printed digs at the new law. where is it now?

download here

final cut - take me away

bug kahn and the plastic jam - made in two minutes

rhythm on the loose - break of dawn

cartouche - feel the groove

turntable hype - set you free

digital boy - gimme a fat beat

cola boy - 7 ways to love

oceanic - insanity

bizz nizz - don't miss the partyline

adamski - n-r-g

bowa - different story

nomad - i wanna give you devotion

t99 - anasthasia

lfo - lfo

plez - can't stop

lennie de ice - we are ie

bizarre inc - playing with knives

quadrophonia - quadrophonia

• hierba for the lady
• gin for the gent
• a whole ham for slicing
• queso Mahón for dicing
• sobrasada for the larder
• wild fennel for fish & products porky - ubiquitous on Ibiza but Mr T threw out my fagot, damnit

and while I'm there I'm looking forward to eating ensaimadas, scoffing coca and tucking into tons of tasty tapas and if I have the time, finding a handsome leather belt (not for eating). 

I'm not lugging my laptop there and back - we're on a charter flight for heaven's sake - so comments will have to bide their time until my return.

In the hope that the sun shines brightly enough to make a lycopene boost imperative, I bring you my easy yet delicious version of:

Gazpacho
modified from Paula Wolfert's version in her Mediterranean Cooking
(a terrific book now sadly out of print)

• 750 ml (1½ pints) tomato juice
• 1 green pepper, chopped
• ½ cucumber, peeled and chopped
• 2 large ripe tomatoes, roughly chopped
• ½ clove garlic, peeled & microplaned (or crushed)
• 2 tablespoons olive oil
• 2 tablespoons red wine vinegar
• ice cubes, salt & pepper

Pour 250 ml tomato juice into a blender; add the rest of the vegetables and buzz at high speed until smooth.  Pour into a wide shallow (preferably Spanish earthenware) serving bowl and use the rest of the tomato juice to thin down the gazpacho if necessary.  If it's overpoweringly tomoto-ey add a few ice cubes instead.  Stir in vinegar and oil, season lightly and chill for a couple of hours. 

Check and adjust seasoning and oil/vinegar balance.  Serve annointed with droplets of good olive oil and chopped green and/or chilli pepper, spring onion or chives or coriander, croûtons and/or fresh bread on the side.  If the weather's really hot (fingers crossed!) extra ice cubes will be most welcome.

“Based on the numbers coming through the door so far, it’s going to be the best year ever, said Pacha’s brand director Danny Whittle in a recent article by reporter Gary Smith.

The Spanish-owned Balearic island is located in a stunning section of the Mediterranean. Super-clubs on the island include Pacha, Privilege, Space, Eden, and Amnesia. Highlights of this year’s new clubbing season include Tiesto’s residency at Privilege, Paul Oakenfold and the Bassment Jaxx at Pacha, and Radio One’s Pete Tong at Eden.

From what I can tell, the shift of from the days of the all-night raves to the mandatory opening hour of 4:30pm may actually benefit the island. Having less time to have DJs play means that the clubs have to compete for the best talent and that should benefit the fans.

I definitely plan on making to Ibiza in this lifetime. I have always dreamed of hearing my sounds while watching the same sunsets that have sparked tons of chill-out albums.Talk about inspiration.

i'm an aquarius so perhaps its only natural that i'm drawn to anything watery and aquatic. when i was little, my ambition was to be a mermaid. i thought that was an achievable occupation.

i made this mix in anticipation of hot summer afternoons when i'd need cooling sounds to chill out to. i'm not going to start going on about the damn weather again...oh no...screw it, i am.

looking out of the window today i'm having serious deja vu. last summer it rained a lot. and i moaned about it a lot. seriously, a lot.

weather is a big thing for us brits

download here

audio lotion - jacuzzi jazz

fous de la mer - stars and fishes

morcheeba - the sea

fc kahuna - hayling

groove armada - at the river

aphex twin - on

energy 52 - cafe del mar

ott - shower of sparks

three drives - greece 2000

ultramarine - stella

sheer taft - cascades

black mighty orchestra - ocean beach

the grid - flotation

mental generation - cafe del mar

massive attack -  weather storm

leftfield - melt

"Ask John for some".

"I can't", whined the voice in reply. "I've had loads off him already"

Consciousness began to flood my mind like a deluge of icy water. Shrill cackles mingled with the sound of bodies splashing on swimming pool. I creaked in the narrow bed, rearranging the sheets whose salty dampness barely concealed my legs.

As braying plastic gangster called out to each other for more ice, dread and panic entered my now wide awake brain. I attempted to make sense of the events of the previous day, conducting a quick memory audit but coming up short of key facts.

If the happy-go-lucky poolsiders had an inkling of how I felt right now - and the inevitability of them entering the same mental state before too long - they'd be fighting to get in taxis and get the fuck out of here as quickly as possible.

Everyday by John Ciafone

[audio http://powderdry.files.wordpress.com/2008/06/everyday-main-vocal-mix.mp3 ]