Club Meduse compiled by Charles Bals, by Various Artists

Club Meduse compiled by Charles Bals

by Various Artists

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Arnosunchild This compilation is just perfect for me!
The record is playing non stop at my house and « Ara Macao - Canyon » non stop turning in my head for my biggest pleasure...

DOPE !

Greg Wood favourite compilation of the year! Favorite track: Radio Cosmo 101 (Bals Edit).

R Deschamps This compilation will go down as one of 2018's best.....
Favorite track: Night Fly.

chris ex Comp of summer 2018!

Michael Feihstel This review tasked me with selecting a favorite track and the fact that this mission led me to a 30 minute journey of comparing, playing and replaying all of those fantastic tracks is all the indication I need to conclude that this is a near-flawless compilation. A worthy successor to previous Spacetalk releases like Jeremy Underground's aptly titled "Beauty"-compilation and Jeremy Spellacey's Crown Ruler selection.

A personal contender for compilation of the year.

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1.	Molitva 04:32	buy track
2.	Savannah 03:41	buy track
3.	Canyon 03:32	buy track
4.	Feelin' Good 04:24	buy track
5.	Radio Cosmo 101 (Bals Edit) 04:27	buy track
6.	Take A Chance 04:34	buy track
7.	Night Fly 04:25	buy track
8.	Whatever You Do (Instrumental) 04:39	buy track
9.	Hip Hop 03:08	buy track
10.	At The Banks Of The River 03:43	buy track
11.	Shake It On 04:03	buy track
12.	Nymphomaniac (Instrumental Version) 05:58
13.	Havan’ Hamac 03:42	buy track

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For the third volume of compilations curated by confirmed crate diggers, Spacetalk invites you to take a trip to the magical Mediterranean resort of Club Meduse in the company of Beachfreaks Records co-founder Charles Bals.

A creative director, designer and curator by trade, Bals spends the majority of his spare time searching for superb, unknown, small-run music releases made between the 1970s and 1990s. While some of these are made available for other enthusiasts to buy via Beachfreaks’ mail-order service, many more make it into the racks of Bals’ private collection. With Club Meduse, Bals is sharing rare, hard-to-find and just plain brilliant gems from his personal stash for the very first time.

For Club Meduse, Bals was inspired by countless magic childhood summers spent playing amongst the rocks, beaches and warm seas of the Cote D’Azur. The compilation, then, is a soundtrack to the greatest soft-focus, sunlit teenage summer holiday you’ve never had, with a gaggle of forgotten musicians and overlooked artists for company.

Take a barefoot stroll from the campsite to the beach with Ara Macao, whose warm and lucid “Canyon” is a softly-spun delight, before splashing in the crystal clear waters to the accompaniment of The Clean-Hands Group and their 1984 Balearic blue-eyed soul gems “Night Fly” and “Shake It On”.

As the sun comes down, clamber across the cooling rocks with the tumbling, sun-kissed guitar solos and sparkling analogue synthesizer motifs of The Keyboys’ leisurely “Savannah” ringing in your ears, before using the words of Gemini’s “Take A Chance” – undoubtedly the most Balearic record to emerge from Sweden in the last 50 years – to get flirtatious under the moonlight.

Should you fancy a dance down the camp disco, Bals’ selections will gently ease you onto the dancefloor and into the gaze of the boy or girl of your dreams. The fuzzy Italo-boogie of the C.V.Q Band’s “Whatever You Do (Instrumental)” will get you going, while Miss’s 1984 French electro gem “Hip Hop” should guarantee a celebratory conclusion to the night’s party.

No perfect holiday evening is complete without a stolen kiss in a secluded cove, and happily Bals has it covered. Check the seductive, dub-powered Balearic synth-boogie of Gigi Flag’s brilliant “Nymphomaniac (Instrumental)”, the steamy sweetness of Bals’ own edit of The One “O” Ones “Radio Cosmo 101” – possibly the greatest tune recorded to promote an Italian radio station – and the undulating electronic rhythms and exotic synthesizer lines of Eddy La Viny’s overlooked ‘80s zouk classic “Havan’ Havac”.

A1 Bastion – Molitva
A2 The Keyboys – Savannah
A3 Ara Macao – Canyon

B1 Chris & Kylie - Feelin' Good
B2 The One “O" Ones - Radio Cosmo 101 (Bals Edit)
B3 Gemini - Take A Chance

C1 The Clean Hands Group - Night Fly
C2 The C.V.Q Band – Whatever You Do (Instrumental)
C3 Miss – Hip Hop
C4 Metal Voices – At The Banks Of The River

D1 The Clean Hands Group - Shake It On
D2 Gigi Flag – Nymphomaniac (Instrumental Version)
D3 Eddy La Viny – Havan’ Hamac

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released May 28, 2018

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