COSMIC BALEARIC BEATS 1 PART 3

TRACKLISTING

A1 Maelstrom - Petrichor
A2 Lo velock - Don't Turn Away (From My Love)
B1 Brendon Moeller - Lost And Fou nd
B2 Coyote - Grow Your Hair



INFO
Cosmi c Balearic Beats Vol.1 features 13 exclusive and unreleased tracks mixed togethe r by Skinny Joey. The emphasis here is on nurturing and developing talented arti sts from all over the world and giving them a platform to shine. As you have com e to expect the production quality is impeccable, matched only by the track's be auty and invention as Eskimo traverses the worlds of disco, house, funk, italo, electro and beyond through its global army of collaborators and artists. And aft er hearing this you'll be wondering why Stratus, Rubber Room, Ichisan and Lovelo ck aren't household names already!

So let's introduce the artists on this trans-global intergalactic funk odyssey: starting with Stratus's discofied , cowbell ringin' 'Footprints' we find Mat Anthony and Martin Jenkins at the hel m. A duo whose epic debut single 'Uplink' announced their arrival in the early N oughties who have since gone on to become respected producers and remixers who h ave re-worked the music of Serge Gainsbourg, Kylie, Playgroup and Calexico among st others, whilst releasing the debut album 'Fear of Magnetism' in 2005 to criti cal acclaim. We then hook up with '80's Boy' Phoreski, aka London based Neil Dun n who also runs his own Fat Fuk Records whilst having his disco-cake and eating it as Richard Gateaux. Coyote then get in on the action as veteran DJs Timm Sure and Ampo, who both started out in Nottingham in '88 playing at legendary nights such as Venus, Deluxe, Stealth, The Bomb, Sabresonic and the Drum Club between them, decide to grow their hair and Maelstrom runs his own Solar Disco label whi ch was recently remixed by Reverso 68 man Pete Herbert and his exclusive track ' Petrichor' maintains his unique cosmic disco vision. Homerun sees the guitar pla ying, electronic producer Laurent Grauwels pick up from his releases on Freerang e and Turbo with his eighties roots on 'The Killer Storm' and the Venice based B ottin's sound is a blend of seventies disco, early eighties electro, Italian Gia llo movie atmospheres and can roughly be defined as "horror disco" as this conte mporary sound design artist hits the groove with 'Fondamente Nove'.

Rubber Room (aka 'Disco Devil' label runners Skinny Joey and Ferre) deliver one of the standout tracks on the compilation with the superb italo infected 'Cockro ach' and Massimiliano Pagliara continues the strong italo influence as this now Berlin based DJ and producer can also be found collaborating with the likes of S nax, Steve Lemercier and Daniel Wang whilst spending ten hours a day playing wit h his collection of analogue synths and drum machines. Which is of course the la w under the Cosmic Balearic Beats Declaration of Disco, 1977.

Spektr um are one of the more known names popping up on this exclusive compilation and here we see DJ Cosmo get to grips with the gorgeous vocal refrain of 'Fit Togeth er' and then we have Lullabies in the Dark getting their lips around an ice cold , staccato funk-filled 'Estrella' whilst Igor Skafar aka Ichisan gets his retro -futuristic-space-funk together on the sublime 'Radar Pulse is Sent'.

We then round things off in fine style as the fast rising duo of Sasha Crnobrnj a and Alex Gloor aka In Flagranti follow up their debut 'Wronger Than Anyone Els e' album with the rolling disco-funk of 'Personal Angst' and we call it a wrap w ith the stunning slo-mo, chord laden funk of Lovelock's 'Don't Turn Away (from M y Love)'.

Roll down the windows, turn the stereo up and let the cosm ic balearic beats flood in...
Vinyl sampler 3/3 of this CD with exclusive & unreleased Eskimo tracks!
'Lost & Found' by Brendon Moeller is exclusive t o vinyl.



FEEDBACK
Prins Thomas: lots of great t racks there, these being favourites: in flagranti, rubber room, phoreski, + ALL tracks on part 3!!! will stay in my bag!
Max Pask: They're all good! eskim o keeping it up!!!! vive la belgique!
Serge (clone): loads of nice tracks. Very decent compilation of what i've heard so far.
Mugwump: picked up the s tronger dancefloor trax to play out but frankly this is amazing... this sounds l ike a freezone comp for the cosmic age.... amazing.