The style of Balearic beat is described by its inventors, as opposed to its UK followers, as the ability for the DJ to play across a broad range of styles, from early minimal New Beat to the first extended remixes of pop-songs, making Balearic DJ sets those that tend to have the sharpest turns of musical direction. While the public outside Ibiza generally describes Balearic beat as a music style, the island based community regard Balearic beat as a non-style or a healthy disrespect to style conformity and a challenge to the norm. It's a freestyle expression that seamlessly binds sporadic vinyl inspiration through technical flair on the turntables. Today, due to stylistic segregation in electronic dance music, few promoters and DJs dare to stretch the spectrum of styles that far in fear of losing identity and clients. DJ Alfredo still heralds the most diversity among Ibiza DJs, but generally the approach to mixing as well as the terminology, have been swallowed up by the Chillout scene.

The1950smoonin (16 January 2018). "The Origins of British Dance Music, Rave & Club Culture: Part 1". Steemit . Retrieved 30 September 2022. {{ cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list ( link) loves & respects to OAKEY, THE RAMPLINGS, GARY HAISMAN, JOHNNY WALKER, STEVE PROCTOR, NANCY NOISE, and to all those out there who truly "shoooom!!!" Foster ·, Dean (12 March 2021). "Trevor Fung's Acid Desert Island Discs". Future Past Clothing . Retrieved 30 September 2022. Sequoia Records Artists: Award Winning New Age Music, World Music, Meditation Music, Drum Music and Chill Out Electronica". www.sequoiarecords.com. Recreating the Balearic vibes of late 1988 with a mix of best songs from Balearic Beats Vol. 1 album, and some other classics

Kaplan, C.D., Grund, J-P & Dzoljic, M.R. (1989) Ecstasy in Europe: reflections on the epidemiology of MDMA. Instituut voor Verslavingsonderzoek, Rotterdam. the birth of balearic". 29 May 2014. Archived from the original on 19 September 2016 . Retrieved 6 July 2016.

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The very nature of this subject means that all Blog Posts are relevant to the creation, building and foundation of what today is globally sanctioned as the Rave Scene. The word Rave actually predates the 1980s, some believe it was brought to the UK by members of the West Indian community in the 1950s. So for us this term had no connection to what was formulating in Europe.

Spektrum are one of the more known names popping up on this exclusive compilation and here we see DJ Cosmo get to grips with the gorgeous vocal refrain of ‘Fit Together’ and then we have Lullabies in the Dark getting their lips around an ice cold , staccato funk-filled ‘Estrella’ whilst Igor Skafar aka Ichisan gets his retro-futuristic-space-funk together on the sublime ‘Radar Pulse is Sent’.

Evans, Helen. Out of Sight, Out of Mind: An Analysis of Rave culture. Wimbledon School of Art, London. 1992. "It was in the upmarket clubs of Ibiza: Pacha, Amnesia, Glory's and Manhattans, that Balearic beat was created. DJ's would mix musical forms as diverse as Public Enemy and The Woodentops, to create that eclectic, highly danceable, don't care holiday feel."

Mixmag editorial, "Famous Last Words on Clubland's Class System or 'How We Learned to Love the Balearic Beat' ". Mixmag: 71–73. July 1990. loads of hugs and kisses … smiley t-shirts and happy faces…. feeling saucey instead of sauced……eating fruits on the dance floor….bashed up converse trainers…..lovely girls with blinding accents…..ice pops…..hedionism….sparklers at the future….indian belly dancers at the shoom….almost everyone finally realising that “only love can conquer hate”….watching the sun set at the café del mar….watching the sun rise on primrose hill….the karma collective….poncho’s pony tails and body paint….dj alfredo….new friendships….loads more hugs and kisses….just let this piece of warm anglo-ibizan club culture rush over you, enjoy it mateys!!!” Girou, Baptiste (3 March 2017). "Beyond Paradise: In Conversation with Nancy Noise & Craig Christon". INVERTED AUDIO . Retrieved 30 September 2022. Armstrong, Jeremy (14 August 2017). "Pioneering UK DJ battling cancer to travel for proton beam therapy due to fans". mirror.co.uk . Retrieved 30 September 2022.Ibiza is still considered by some to have its own "sound", however, including the music of Jens Gad, co-creator of Enigma, and his new chillout-world-influenced hybrid project, Achillea, recorded in his studio in the hills overlooking Ibiza. [43] Compilations such as Global Lounge Sessions: The Balearic Sound of Ibiza, released in 2002, and Sequoia Groove's Buddha-Lounge series, continue to be released. [44] These generally feature house music and certain downtempo selections, not the old style of Balearic beat, per se. Some prefer to use the term Balearic more generally, however, to apply to all of these styles. [45] See also [ edit ] Trevor Fung". Amsterdam Dance Event. Amsterdam Dance Event Foundation . Retrieved 30 September 2022. Balearic beat, also known as Balearic house, Balearic, Ibiza house or Ibizan chillout, is an eclectic blend of DJ-led dance music that emerged in the mid-1980s. [1] [2] It later became the name of a more specific style [3] of electronic dance/ house music that was popular into the mid-1990s. Balearic beat was named for its popularity among European nightclub and beach rave patrons on the Balearic island of Ibiza, a popular tourist destination. Some dance music compilations referred to it as "the sound of Ibiza", even though many other, more aggressive and upbeat forms of dance music could be heard on the island, such as Balearic trance. A Second Summer Of Love". The Observer Music Monthly. The Guardian. 20 April 2008 . Retrieved 30 September 2022– via 808State.com. Baines, Josh. "30 years on, should we still care about the second summer of love?". i-D . Retrieved 30 September 2022.