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Cosmic Balearic Beats Vol.2

The second instalment of Cosmic Balearic Beats features 16 exclusive and unreleased tracks of beautiful sun kissed cosmic house, disco, funk and more mixed for the ultimate slo-mo house party.

The emphasis here is on nurturing and developing talented artists from all over the world and giving them a platform to shine. As you have come to expect the production quality is impeccable, matched only by the track’s beauty and invention as Eskimo traverses the worlds of disco, house, funk, italo, electro and beyond through its global army of collaborators and artists. And after hearing this you’ll be wondering why Hot Toddy, Slight Delay, Naum Gabo and Roberto Rodriguez aren’t household names already!

Hot Toddy is the guise of Nottingham based musician Chris Todd, the guitarist and one half of the production team behind Crazy P. His eclectic sound is a technicolour fusion of House, Techno, Acid and Psychedelia and ‘I Need Love’ which sees Ron Basejam on vocals is the perfect way to set sail on the good ship balearica. Segueing into Canary Island’s born man Rayko whose ‘Slowtrack’ evokes the more experimental edge of 70s NYC disco we then find the rolling, euphoric piano break that engulfs Slight Delay’s ‘Can You Feel It?!’. Slight Delay are the Portuguese production and DJ duo Tiago and DJ Al, the guys behind various releases on Rong, Skylar, Claremont 56, Mindless Boogie and more and this is a 100% summer floor filling anthem.

Nelue is Madrid based Fernando Gomez, a classically trained musician who has worked on many projects and TV commercials and video games. ‘No Strings Attached’ forges a bubbling synth into a great percussive workout maintaining momentum into Marbeya Sound’s ‘Salomon's Take’ which fuses two Mexico City residents love of Soviet era synths into a modern day cosmic swirl which will become even more apparent after their debut album on ‘Beat Electric’ this year.

Parisian born Premier Rang’s ‘Zoe et Heine’ brings it down a notch with distorted thunder cloud claps and a French spoken word dialogue weaving the track together whilst The Beat Broker’s ‘Ice Castle’ sees the San Francisco based DJ bring in italo disco elements to the cosmic journey. Naum Gabo are non other than Glasgow DJ legends Johnnie Wilkes and James Savage (aka Optimo), who have already had various releases as ‘Naum’ on Kompakt and have remixed many a current pop idol such as Snow Patrol, Franz Ferdinand, MGMT and Simian Mobile Disco. Social Disco Club’s ‘Portuguese Revenge’ sees Humberto Matias pump things up with a bouncing beat and jittering hand claps that have seen him gain accolades from Steve Kotey, Greg Wilson, Pete Herbert, Aeroplane and Faze Action whilst Phelps, known to his friends and family as Will Phillips, is a relative newcomer to the electronic music scene. At just 22 years of age, ‘Pitfield Girl’ constitutes his first release on Eskimo which draws from disco, eighties pop, new wave and house.

The Outrunners are Pierre de la Touche and Stephen Falken, two Nantes based producers who are closely connected to the French Valerie collective, their sound can be roughly described as a mixture between 80s disco, new wave and italo disco and ‘These Girls Are Dressed To Kill’ is a perfect homage to the John Carpenter-esque synth soundtracks of the late 70s.

Denmark born and bred Peter Visti teams up with fellow Dane Jakob Meyland for the superb rousing house belter ‘Yes Maam’ (All Nite Long)* whilst Mugwump's Geoffroy & Kolombo are two key-characters from the booming Belgian dance scene with releases already hailed by the likes of Sven Vath, Ivan Smagghe, Ewan Pearson, Kiki, Damian Lazarus, Andrew Weatherall, DJ Hell, Peter Kruder etc and ‘Stanza’ shows once more why this dynamic duo are going straight to the top.

Dance Disorder is the new project from Georgina Fernandez aka Baby G. Already a ‘disco’ veteran with releases as L.S.B. with Pete Herbert she also runs the highly successful re-edit label Superdiscoteca and ‘My Time’° sees her team up with studio wizard Robin Craford for more perfect disco tinged action. Finally we sign off with the downtempo thunk of Lyhome’s ‘Other Side of Me’ which sees Dutch producer Martijn Poulus bring it down the tempo scale via a collaboration with Amsterdam based, Italian/Argentinean hip hop & soul producer Shablo.

As the summer hear keeps blasting through its time to roll down the windows, turn the stereo up and let the cosmic balearic beats flood in…


* Visti & Meyland "Yes Maam (All Nite Long)" was the 1st single from this compilation (cat.nr: 541416502835). It includes remixes by Trentemoller and Henrik Schwarz.

° Dance Disorder "My Time" is the 2nd single from this compilation (cat.nr: 541416502845). It includes two remixes by Radio Slave.

The 3rd single - Hot Toddy feat. Ron Basejam "I Need Love" - will come out right after the album, and will include a remix from someone very very special. More info later!

New this time is that there is a free unmixed bonus mp3-cd with all the tracks in their full length beauty!