Copenhagen native Wille makes his Tartelet debut with Progressive Balearic, a new EP shaped by the heady rhythms of early progressive house and freewheeling spirit of Balearic culture. Copenhagen born and bred, and a familiar face in the local scene, it was almost inevitable for Wille to end up on Tartelet.
“I’d been searching for that summer record all winter,” says Tartelet head Emil. “Wille sends me these tracks out of the blue. I nearly choked on my coffee and croissant and panic-called him 15 minutes later. Anyone who’s ever sent me a demo knows this is highly unusual behaviour.”
The release introduces a self-coined genre concept: Progressive Balearic. Equal parts proto-progressive, open-air nostalgia and cosmic dancefloor escapism. Think perfect nights that only exist in memory, and a vague but persistent feeling that life might be better if every journey involved a ferry.
Across the EP, psychedelic patterns, emotional chord progressions and hypnotic grooves intertwine with subtle references to mysticism, cosmic exploration and the sort of conversations that only seem completely reasonable at six in the morning.
“I time warped,” Wille says. “I wanted Planetary Vision to feel like a track playing at an early morning beach party in 1998 while someone you’ve just met is telling you their life story on the dancefloor.”
The result is Progressive Balearic — a warm, emotionally charged club record that blurs the lines between memory, fantasy and dancefloor ritual. Whether the genre catches on beyond Wille remains to be seen, but for twenty minutes or so, the argument is surprisingly persuasive.
