Name: Howler's Balearic Breakdown Vol. 10 by Howler in The Balearic Breakdown Sessions
Duration: 2 h 20 min 54 s
Description: So, what started as a one-off mix and evolved into a series has got to vol. 10. Thanks for all your support and encouragement and just simply for taking the time to listen. I hope you enjoy this one - it starts VERY chilled, but picks up as it goes along, so give it time to breathe x

PLease support the artists by buying their music 1 Daniel Norgren - Everlasting Friend 2 The Swan & The Lake	- Det Ved Jeg Ikke 3 Zoon van Snook - Madre 4 Coyote - Jomo 5 A Separate Reality - The Seagull (Hare Krishna) 6 Phenomenal Handclap Band - Skyline 7 Leonadis feat. Kay Suzuki – Interstellar Vibrations  8 Expositions - Rollerskates 9 Parlour - The City 10 Leo Ceccanti - Andromeda Bound 11 Almunia - Pulsar 12 Juan Moretti - Moroboshi 13 Statues - Lele (Flamingo Flame Remix) 14 Faze Action - Echoes Of Your Mind (Phil Mison's Balearicos Mix) 15 Young Pulse - We Just Wanna Dance 16 Reverso 68 - Piece Together (Todd Terje Spinning Star Mix) 17 SIRS - Love Me Right (Extended Vocal Version) 18 Cosmic Metal Mother - Italian Cowboy 19 Gaznevada – Special Agent Man (Female Version) 20 La Palace De Beaute - Sin 21 Natasha King - AM FM (Extended Dub Version) 22 Tom of England – 30,000 Women 23 Peaking Lights - Noise of Life  24 Pino Donaggio - Telescope (Hysteric edit)

A collection of mixes featuring my own take on the Balearic sound. Slo-mo music to make you happy x

The Balearic Breakdown Sessions

On the Thursday night of Glastonbury 2022 Greg Wilson brought the funk to Funkingham Palace!

GREG WILSON - Live From The Rabbit Hole's Funkingham Palace - Glastonbury 2022

Recorded live at Ibiza Rocks House, Pikes Hotel, Ibiza.

Tracklist
90’s Lovers - I Know You Got Soul
Robot84 - I Need Your
Tasty Hoggies - Lovebug (edit)
Jad & The Lady Boy - Respect
Cottam - B Side EP 2
David Bowie - Golden Years 
Hope - Daylight
Ali OOft  - Here For You
6th Borough Project - Walk Away (Ben La Dash Remix)
Max Essa - Magic
Poolside - Harvest Moon
Buzz Compass - Think Twice
Late Nite Tuff Guy - Out On The Floor
Teenage Girl Fantasy - Cheaters  (John Talabot Remix)
Robot84 - Better Believe
Kiani & His Legion  - Records & Culture
Violent Romance I Got A Lot (Robot 84 Remix)
Bob Marley - Exodus (Remix)
DJ Lavvy Levan & Christian B  - Insatiable (Robot 84 Remix)
Lana Del Ray - Westcoast (MK Remix)

Support

LIVE AT IBIZA ROCKS HOUSE, PIKES HOTEL, IBIZA

Ron Basejam of Crazy P steps up with his signature mix of of chugging disco and electronic infused grooves; live and direct from The Disco Express stage takeover at The Hustle, Wilderness Festival.

DISC0072 - Ron Basejam - Live at Wilderness Festival [The Disco Express Takeover]

Recording from Freddie's @ Pikes in Ibiza 07.10.24.

PIKES IBIZA 07.10.24 (greg wilson live mix)

Recorded live poolside at Pikes Hotel Ibiza on June 24th 2025. I played 3 hours from late afternoon into early evening on a very very hot day !  
First 45 minutes was all styles before settling at 100 bpm (ish) for the rest of the session.
The whole 13 hour day was amazing with superb sessions from DJ Gripper, Legendary Italian producer Don Carlos, Ibiza overlord Andy Wilson, and ace DJ and producer Willie Graff.

Andy Kidd - Live poolside session @ Pikes Hotel Ibiza,  June 24th 2025

Vinyl mix for YouTube video session of Deep House & Housey Disco.

Recorded live and direct on an Alpha Recording System MODEL: 1100w analog rotary mixer + 2 x Technics 1210 mk5 turntables

Youtube video link if you wanna peep that: https://youtu.be/RaWf0odHdDE

Vinyl Records For Sale

Deep Sessions Vol 2 - vinyl mix of Deep House & Housey Disco

My set from Festival No6 2016.

Playing as part of Greg Wilson's Credit To The Edit at the magical Village Limits stage, alongside Henry Greenwood, Derek Kaye and Greg.


Credit To The Edit - Festival No6 - 2016  - Peza set

A three-hour mix from 10 years ago which I haven't until now shared (having only recently discovered a copy, when it was being played at a friends BBQ!). It was recorded at a villa party in Ibiza, timed for the opening parties weekend, and the party itself was celebrating 10 years of similarly favoured soirees. To this day it remains one of the best parties I've played at (playing alongside Lowlifes Michael Cook). With it being a 10 yr anniversary, it's a particularly celebratory set. :)
Download available via LW Facebook.

LW Facebook

10 Yr Ibiza Villa Party

A two hour mix of wonky edits and slipped disco - 80-100 bpm business.

Howler's Balearic Breakdown Vol. 1

1		First Fantasy - SAINT DX		
2		Too Hot - Lexx ft. Woolfy			
3		Dis & Dat (Steve Cobby Remix) -	Soothsayers
4		One More Day To Live (Craig Bratley Remix) - Billy Cobham	
5		Et Tout Est Yin Et Tout Est Yang (Club Mix) - Catherine Brénot	
6		Little Baby Eyes	- Franz Kirmann			
7		Awoke - The Beloved	
8		Scandinavian Bellydance - A Split Second	
9		Close To Life - Atella
10		Slowdown - Soft Rocks
11		Aliens - Oceanus Orientalis
12		Life's What U Make It (Fingerman's VIP Edit) - Talk Talk	
13		Head Over Heels (Fingerman's Stems VIP Edit) - Tears For Fears
14		Descends – Weekend Afair	
15		On A Journey - Warm	
16		You'll Never Know - Marty Mars Edits	
17		Space Talk (Love Creation Edit)	Love Creation	
18		Love Love Love (Soft Rocks remix)	
19		Under the Ice (SIRS Cut) - Topo & Roby
20		We’ve Got Tonight, Boy – Fragile
21		Luther's Jam - Love Creation
22		Dad Forgot The Dishes -	Dazion
24		KKK (SIRS Cut) -  G.A.N.G.
25		Callisto (Micko Roche Balearo mix) – Field Theory

eclectics mix – 117 | Chris Howell-Jones |

More slow-mo sounds to ease you onto the dancefloor.

1 Song To The Siren(Original Mix) - This Mortal Coil
2 Ofiodaimon (Instrumental) - Anatolian Weapons
3 Space is My Place (Mark Barrott’s Re-Imagination to the Sacred Heart Center) - Calm
4 Tunka (Zuma Dionys Remix) - Nordic Namgar
5 Yeke Yeke (Zuma Dionys remix) - Mory Kante
6 Needs Ending - Try to Find Me
7 Berlin - Dennis Young
8 Eminence Front (SIRS Cut) - The Who
9 Brick Wall (V's Ultimate edit) - Pink Floyd
10 Caribbean Son (DC Edit) -Daniel T. & DJ Duckcomb
11 More Than You Can Wish - Harlem Gem
12 Love Comes Quickly - Hidemi Ishikawa
13 Giant (Pilooski Edit)- The The
14 Bad Pulse (Padded Cell Remix) - Sly Mongoose
15 I'll Be Good (Extended Version) - Rene & Angela
16 Hot Pants (original version) - Boy Division
17 Yellow Fever (Reverso 68 remix) - Bakazou
18 Wu Du Wu - Montezumas Rache
19 Jonh Grenades (Original Mix) - Ivan De La Rouch & Mike Sacchetti
20 Balearic Incarnation (Todd Terje's Extra Doll mix) Dolle Jolle
21 Purple (Mix & Fairbanks Edit) Mix & Fairbanks
22 新しい遊牧民 Atarashii Yuhbokumin - Toshifumi Hinata

Howler's Balearic Breakdown Vol 4.

1. Cherry (Ole Smokey edit) - JJ Cale
2. Musow - Neba Solo
3. Baby Come Back (Ole Smokey's Instrumental Edit) - Player
4. Lust (Ole Smokey Edit) - Ben Sidran
5. Sleep 4416 (Original Mix) - Uj Pa Gaz
6. Crow Warriors (Original Mix) - Squarewave
7. Eyes of a Stranger - Payolas
8. Pimiento - Matanza
9. Brothers Dub - Out of the Basement
10. That's My Jam! (Benedek's Midnight Cruiser Mix) - Benedek
11. DSRV (Original Mix) - Ooft
12. Weaver (edit) - Glok
13. Early Morning (Original Mix) - Etienne Vermoessen & Guido Delo
14. Healed - Retouch Edit
15. Falling - Retouch Edit
16. Lullaby (Club Bizarre Edit) - The Cure
17. Little Dark Age (Ghost Vision remix) - MGMT
18. Tell'em Don't - Balearic Skip
19. Don't Let Me Down - Leo Zero Remix - Jutty Ranx
20. The White Room (Field of Dreams Remix) - Bedford Falls Players
21. Digital Versicolor (Rich Lane Cotton Dub) - Glass Candy
22. Rüzgar - Beyhude
23. Forces - Retouch Edit
24. Just Say It - DJ Spun
25. Day 3 (Dark Matter Mix) - Be Svendsen
26. Madame Butterfly - Malcolm McLaren

Howler's Balearic Breakdown vol. 2

Howler's Balearic Breakdown Vol. 5

I always look forward to playing a 'lazydaze' set because it brings a more chilled/downtempo vibe...sometimes we need that...I think this music is generally under-appreciated and under-exposed so any chance to play this style is an extra treat...this virtual live set was recorded at The Continental and also featured Ivan Ruiz...Ivan will be sharing his set as well...enjoy the ride...

lazydaze - Julius Papp virtual DJ set - June 14, 2020

So, what started as a one-off mix and evolved into a series has got to vol. 10. Thanks for all your support and encouragement and just simply for taking the time to listen. I hope you enjoy this one - it starts VERY chilled, but picks up as it goes along, so give it time to breathe x

Howler's Balearic Breakdown Vol. 10

Recording from socially distanced event at Escape To Freight Island @ Depot Mayfield in Manchester 08.08.20.

A socially distanced gig is strange, but it’s all we have for now. With people required to be sat at tables and dancing a no no, a different approach was required, where I could be a bit more free-flowing in what I played without a dancefloor to take into consideration. I started off at Freight Island with a Beach Boys favourite from ’68, ‘Do It Again’, harking back to their surf style of the earlier ‘60s, having scaled the heights and sailed the psychedelic seas in the intervening years, ‘Do It Again’, with those wicked drums, carried a weight of nostalgia and a hint of melancholy – an after the summer song if you will, about a time that can never return. This seemed an appropriate starter for the situation we find ourselves in – dancing in a club or a field already a memory.

This booking, my first since I got back from Australia in March, fell just a few weeks on from the death of Denise Johnson. This was a big shock – she was literally just about to release her first solo album ‘Where Does It Go’, and nobody could have imagined that this would be issued posthumously. Denise came to the clubs I was playing at in the early-‘80s and I remember her first band Fifth Of Heaven from the latter years of the decade. She guested with likes of New Order, Electronic, Ian Brown and A Certain Ratio, but will forever be remembered for her contribution to Primal Scream's ‘Screamadelica’ in ’91.

It has to be said that the Manchester Evening News and a number of publications including The Guardian, The Independent and the NME were shambolic in reporting her death, running a picture that wasn’t Denise. I know that Dave Haslam, the former-Hacienda resident who DJ’d before me that day was one of the first to point out this insensitive blunder on social media, which evoked long-standing black stereotypes and must have been horrible for her family and friends.

I, of course, wanted to play something in memory of Denise, as I had with Andrew Weatherall following his death earlier this year. That two of the key contributors to ‘Screamadelica’ had passed within a matter of months is still difficult to take in, the chaos of the times we’re experiencing amplifying the unreality of things.

Rather than a Primal Scream track I picked out a lesser-known personal favourite Denise recorded for Creation Records with Hypnotone, 1990’s ‘Dream Beam’. The Primal Scream hook-up came about when Hypnotone performed at Danny Rampling’s legendary acid-house party Shoom in London, with Denise impressing. Hypnotone faded into the memory as she scaled the heights with the ‘Screamadelica’ LP and subsequent recordings with Primal Scream. The Jesse Jackson speech over the top of Hypnotone was unplanned, but randomly reeled up on my tape at that point for me to appropriately add its Weatherall reference.

The mix then heads off in its own direction, which turned out to carry a recurring jazz-funk theme via big back in the day tracks from George Benson, The Crusaders, Sea Level, Rodney Franklin and MFSB. These are tracks Denise would have instantly recognised from when she first started going out to the clubs. The late-'70s Jazz-Funk scene in the city, with Colin Curtis and John Grant at Rafters and regular all-dayers at The Ritz, a far too rarely mentioned, a part of Manchester’s musical lifeblood.

My next gig was supposed to be a socially distanced Halloween fancy dress at Camp and Furnace for the Liverpool Disco Festivall, but the new COVID-19 restrictions placed on Merseyside put paid to that. The good news is that it’s now been re-arranged for the final weekend of November, which falls around on the Festival’s 4th anniversary, so all is not lost and there’s something to look forward to after restrictions are lifted. Tickets/details here: skiddle.com/e/13892893

ESCAPE TO FREIGHT ISLAND @ DEPOT MAYFIELD MANCHESTER 08.08.20 (greg wilson live mix)

I play music that I love.  I hope you'll love it too.  Balearic Eclectic Acid House.
Bookings: chris@discotees.co.uk

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