Babalonia

21/08/2024

Alexanderos's 1-hour mix of pan-Mediterranean summer/fete/panigiri/discoteca music was broadcast on my favourite radio station earlier this week 🥰

Lots of upbeat Greek, Algerian, Neapolitan songs and first plays for superstars like Nikos Zoidakis and Nina Pastori on NTS 🎻💃🏽
Listen back link below... καλό καλοκαιρι 🌞 🎻 🍉

Playing Electronica, Balearic House. Alexanderos leads you on a sweltering pan-Mediterranean excursion from the beachside to the discoteca, taking in a few local fetes on the way. Doumbeks, clarinets and castanets abound in his passionate folk disco – the sound of a summer in Marseille, Istanbul, ...

14/11/2020

💃🏻 Babalonia tonight...
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📯 LIVE ON THE LONDON⁣
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special edition 4 lockdown 2.0 / little Aleko birthday weekend / psychedelik projection / (same-house) dancers / fog / big boy pants / vinylio all night opa / get down saturday night ⁣
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20:00 🇬🇧 22:00 🇬🇷 Link in comment
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#ντισκο #κρητη #λοκνταουν #κολοαγγλια #καλοομως

11/11/2020

Another dose of Babalonia lockdown fun beaming internationally to our disciples this weekend 👀

Details later in week. In the meantime here's our beloved Jorge Ben with his lesser-celebrated 80s sound, here to rock your Wednesday...

Provided to YouTube by Som Livre Rio Babilônia · Jorge Ben Jor Dádiva ℗ 1984 Som Livre Released on: 2013-12-09 Music Publisher: Ed. Warner/Chappell Auto-gene...

26/04/2020

Greetings Babalonians. The mysterious ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔ'ΕΡΩΣ will be playing his 'Balearidika' in a comeback sunset livestream from Kissamos today ⠀
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17:00-19:00 🇬🇧 ⠀
19:00-21:00 🇬🇷⠀
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Go to: www.twitch.tv/houseplants2020⠀
and plug in your hi-fi speaker! @ Kíssamos, Khania, Greece

04/06/2019

EID MUBARAK TO OUR LOVELY FOLLOWERS. LOTS OF FESTIVITIES AWAIT THE BABALONIA FAMILY TODAY. HERE'S A SONG THAT'S GOING TO BE THE SOUNDTRACK TO OUR BAYRAM FUN BY BARIŞ.

https://youtu.be/H5DpbAiw83k

12/04/2019

An important (and sadly now urgent) campaign to support. You can follow progress, fight the demolition and donate via their page:

'We can't stop, we won't stop.'

10/03/2019

What happens when nuclear submariners dream of their lovers? A preview of a new interdisciplinary music, writing and art project from Babalonia:

USS Wyoming (soñando mi amor)

01/02/2019

Tonight! Soothing sounds to salve the soul
+ heavy dancing rhythms to banish the January/Brexit badness...

Guests inc poet Zahrah Sheikh (Barbican Young Poets, Octavia) and ace DJ Poly-Ritmo from the Sounds of the Universe family.

Free before 11pm, £5 after

01/02/2019

Carrie Cleveland dubplate in the box for tonight’s party, the edit is now online too (link in comment) Ace reissue of Carrie’s work available from

31/01/2019

Poly-Ritmo brings a wealth of musical riches to the Makossa basement tomorrow, with knowledge gleamed from her time behind the counter at Sounds Of The Universe, and ethnomusicology studies at SOAS. Guest mixes for Stamp The Wax, Jazz FM and NTS Radio touch upon the beautiful African, new wave London jazz and Brazilian boogie selections you can expect.

31/01/2019

'When I look at how we fail one another there is usually a space called a line'

A beautiful snippet from Zahrah Sheikh's performance at our fundraiser for Syria and Refugees in 2017. She's back tomorrow to share more poetry with you before a DJ set by Poly-Ritmo.

Catch her performance tomo evening at 22.50. Ticket details in link.

📷 Catarina Rodrigues