I recently found a couple of Cafe del Mar mixtapes, vols 2 & 8, I’m guessing they were bought in Summer 1991 (?) from legendary resident DJ Jose Padilla who used to sell them from behind the decks. He got bored of my nagging him for track id’s so he let me copy the track lists from his notebook. Maybe I’ll dig out the cassette deck and digitise them sometime, but for now here’s the track list and some links for volume 2. It’s a seminal collection, the Balearic blue print of ambient, electronics, classical, new-age, film scores and rock all going into the mix…

Update November 2020, finally got round to digitising one of the tapes, this is Vol 8, sides 1 & 2

1. Spiritual High – Moodswings
2. Hoomba Hoomba – Voices of Africa
3. David Morley – Birth
4. Opus for 4 – Art of Noise
5. My Father was a Teacher – Megabyte
6. Cafe del Mar – Frank Fischer

7. Good to See You – Vangelis
8. Marimba Dream – Reed Maidenberg
9. Twilight – Vangelis
10. The Big Blue Overture – Eric Serra
11. Adagio  – Shankar
12. Passion – Peter Gabriel
13. Do You Be? – Meredith Monk
14. Before Night Falls – Peter Gabriel
15. Release the Pressure – Leftfield
16 Struggle for Pleasure – Wim Mertens

Update April 2021 – Finally managed to digitise Vol 2, side 1…

1. Wally Baderou – Mt. Fuji and the Mime
2. Jean-Michel Jarre – Souvenir of China
3. Yello – Blue Green
4. Wally Baderou – The Dachstein Angels
5. Penguin Cafe Orchestra – Perpetuum Mobile
6. Jon & Vangelis – I hear you now
7. Steve Miller – Wild Honey
8. Laurie Anderson – White lily

1. Laurie Anderson – Radar
2. Marianne Faithfull – The Hawk
3. Astor Piazolla – Regresso al Amor
4. Mark Isham – Interest Persued
5. Art of Noise – Moments in Love
6. Jean-Michel Jarre – Oxygene