Various Artists -Colleen ‘Cosmo’ Murphy presents ‘Balearic Breakfast’ - Volume 5

Various Artists - Colleen ‘Cosmo’ Murphy presents ‘Balearic Breakfast’ - Volume 5

Label: Heavenly Recordings - HVNLP243 - 5400863214135

Format: Album, 2 X Vinyl, Black
Country: UK
Released: 13th Nov 2026
Genre: Disco / Balearic

Description
Take a look at the sonic landscape of club culture today and Colleen ‘Cosmo’ Murphy stands
out as one of the pioneers on many fronts. Whether she’s dropping Cosmedelica remixes on
her Love Dancin’ sound system at We Out Here festival, hosting listening sessions for her
hugely influential Classic Album Sundays, or telling ‘Turntable Tales’ for BBC’s Radio 4, she
has created new avenues for experiencing music and thinking deeply about how it affects us
and our communities.
So here we are at Volume 5 of this series that once again captures Colleen’s unique take on
Balearic. ‘Anger is Divisive’ runs the spoken word sample weaved into the pastoral ambience
of ‘Quiet Storm’ from Sewell and The Gong’s Patron Saint Of Elsewhere on Chris Coco’s
DSPPR label from 2025. It’s a fitting opening to a collection put together with and for love.
Born from the same lockdown isolation as Balearic Breakfast, ‘Fruits of Life’ from Sakura
Murakami’s 2020 album Hot Liquor offers a Tiki flavoured cocktail of tropical psychedelia.
Digging deeper into her crates, Colleen then uncovers Flayer’s ‘Wanna Get Back Your Love’,
a slow and sleazy piece of cosmic soul from Italy in 1983.
Richard Earnshaw’s ‘Rise’, featuring Roy Ayers and spoken word artist Ursula Rucker, was
hidden away on his only album from 2019. This slow jazz infused groover proves to be the
perfect segue record as the collection hits the dancefloor with the Spiritual Life style deepness
of ‘Ore Yeye O’ by Moroccan house producer Cee ElAssaad and vocalist QVLN (Quetzal
Guerrero).
We then return to spoken word with Joshua Idehen’s diasporic club anthem ‘Everything
Everywhere All At Once’. You’re in it deep now, head down next to the speakers as The Seven
Ups bring you ‘A Cosmic Scale’, a heavy slab of psych rock meets afrobeat by way of
Melbourne. We then take a trip over to Sheffield where Richard Barratt under his Crooked
Man alias reunites with his dance music subverters All Seeing I for a wonderfully skewed
mutant disco classic.
Bringing things down gently with the sun kissed ‘80s soul of Lovetempo ft Wattison’s ‘Wanna
Be With You’ (ft. Mattison) out of Brooklyn, Colleen eases into the perfect exit to her eclectic
journey with Santana drummer Michael Shrieve joined by Kevin Shrieve and the great Klaus
Schulze for the Berlin new age cosmic epic from 1984 ‘Transfer Station Blue’.
Music for the head and feet brought to you with love by one of our masters of sonics and
selection.