COLLEEN 'COSMO' MURPHY / VARIOUS ARTISTS

“There are curators, and then there's Colleen Cosmo Murphy.” Resident Advisor
The sun has finally come out. It’s the first time something like this has happened for months
and months; the first glow of an approaching summer, whatever date the calendar is currently
saying it is. The whole thing acts as a curative meditation, miraculously wiping away all the
greyness of the past few months. Right now, optimism abounds, outlooks change and your
daily soundtrack has shifted from spiky and uptight into a kind of cosmic space where songs
ebb and flow and drift on like rivers run on forever towards the glimmering sea. Bliss, right?
If you’re reading this, we’re assuming that you’re the kind of person who views summer as a
state of mind rather than a good looking day on the BBC Weather app. With that in mind, we
reckon you already know all about Heavenly Recordings’ series of untouchable, utterly
essential Balearic Breakfast compilations, each one lovingly compiled by visionary DJ,
producer and broadcaster Colleen ‘Cosmo’ Murphy - the genius club legend whose radio
show of the same name (broadcast 10am to high noon every Tuesday via Mixcloud) began as
an escape route from the pandemic before rapidly building a global community of dedicated
Balearican listeners.
Each Balearic Breakfast album has provided a spiritual getaway from the greyness of the
everyday through a handpicked selection of glorious, psychedelically coloured, expansive
music. It doesn’t matter where on the planet the music hails from, or when it was made, it just
matters that it fits like a jigsaw piece into the musical whole. Be it off world jazz music or
vocoder led robo-disco music; whether decades old or pressed to vinyl for the first time,
everything on these flawless Balearic Breakfast collections just needs to flow together and
bring the listener into the sunshine, whatever time of year they’re listening.
Due for release this August, the fourth Balearic Breakfast compilation sees Cosmo take this
head trip further than ever before. From the opening track’s swoop and glide that nods to
Vangelis’ Blade Runner soundtrack before gliding into it’s own expansive voyage to the stars
(Kandeen Love Song) to Cosmo’s own glorious Parisienne stroll through Saint Etienne’s recent
Alone Together to Ilya Santana’s Spanish space disco anthem Cosmovision - a track that rolls
through like a turbo powered Supernature - and the phenomenal 2015 disco version of Gloria
Ann Taylor’s early ’70s classic Love Is A Hurtin’ Thing, this Balearic Breakfast offers the
perfect soundtrack to the summer, whether it’s actually happening outside or just taking place
in your head. After all, they don’t call breakfast the most important meal of the day for
nothing.