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Balearic beat

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Balearic beat, also known as Balearic house, or simply Balearic initially is an eclectic blend of DJ-led dance music that emerged in the mid-1980s. [1]

58 relations: Alfredo Fiorito, Amnesia (nightclub), Argentina, Balearic Islands, Bill Brewster (DJ), Bossa nova, Café del Mar, Chill-out music, Chris Rea, Dance music, Dance Music Report, Danny Rampling, Deep house, Disc jockey, DJhistory.com, Downtempo, Drum machine, Dub music, Electronic dance music, Electronic music, Electronica, Enigma (musical project), Europop, Funk, History of the Mediterranean region, House music, Ibiza, Italo house, Jens Gad, José Padilla (DJ), Keyboard instrument, London, MDMA, Mixmag, Music sequencer, New Beat, Nightclub, Pacha Group, Paul Oakenfold, Personal computer, Peter Gabriel, Post-disco, Privilege Ibiza, Public Enemy (band), Rave, Rhythm and blues, Roger Shah, Roland TR-909, Sampler (musical instrument), Soul II Soul, ..., Soul music, South London, Spain, Synthesizer, The Waterboys, The Woodentops, Tropical house, United Kingdom. Expand index (8 more) »

Alfredo Fiorito

Alfredo Fiorito is a DJ who was born in the town of Rosario in Argentina.

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Amnesia (nightclub)

Amnesia is one of several internationally renowned clubs in Ibiza.

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Argentina

Argentina, officially the Argentine Republic (República Argentina), is a federal republic located mostly in the southern half of South America.

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Balearic Islands

The Balearic Islands (Illes Balears,; Islas Baleares) are an archipelago of Spain in the western Mediterranean Sea, near the eastern coast of the Iberian Peninsula.

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Bill Brewster (DJ)

Bill Brewster is a British writer and disc jockey.

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Bossa nova

Bossa nova is a genre of Brazilian music, which was developed and popularized in the 1950s and 1960s and is today one of the best-known Brazilian music genres abroad.

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Café del Mar

Café del Mar ("Sea Café") is a bar located in Sant Antoni de Portmany, Ibiza, established in 1980.

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Chill-out music

Chill-out (shortened as chill; also typeset as chillout or chill out) is a loosely defined style of popular music characterized by slow tempos and relaxed moods.

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Chris Rea

Christopher Anton Rea (born 4 March 1951) is a British rock and blues singer-songwriter and guitarist, recognisable for his distinctive, husky-gravel voice and slide guitar playing.

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Dance music

Dance music is music composed specifically to facilitate or accompany dancing.

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Dance Music Report

Dance Music Report, initially Disco News and later DMR, was a biweekly U.S. trade magazine oriented toward nightclub and radio DJs in the dance music industry.

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Danny Rampling

Danny Rampling is an English house music DJ and is widely credited as one of the original founders of the UK's rave/club scene.

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Deep house

Deep house is a subgenre of house music.

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Disc jockey

A disc jockey, often abbreviated as DJ, is a person who plays existing recorded music for a live audience.

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DJhistory.com

DJhistory.com is a website dedicated to the history of dance music and DJing, and also an online record label and book publishing company.

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Downtempo

Downtempo (sometimes used synonymously with "trip hop") is a genre of electronic music similar to ambient music, but with a greater emphasis on beats and a less "earthy" sound than trip hop.

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Drum machine

A drum machine is an electronic musical instrument that creates percussion.

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Dub music

Dub is a genre of music that grew out of reggae in the 1960s, and is commonly considered a subgenre,Dub: soundscapes and shattered songs in Jamaican reggae, p.2 though it has developed to extend beyond the scope of reggae.

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Electronic dance music

Electronic dance music (also known as EDM, dance music, club music, or simply dance) is a broad range of percussive electronic music genres made largely for nightclubs, raves, and festivals.

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Electronic music

Electronic music is music that employs electronic musical instruments, digital instruments and circuitry-based music technology.

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Electronica

Electronica encompasses a broad group of electronic-based styles such as techno, house, ambient, jungle and other electronic music styles intended not just for dancing.

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Enigma (musical project)

Enigma is a German musical project founded in 1990 by Romanian-German musician and producer Michael Cretu.

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Europop

Europop (also Euro pop) refers to a style of pop music that originated in Europe during the late 1960s and developed to today's form throughout the late 1970s.

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Funk

Funk is a music genre that originated in African American communities in the mid-1960s when African American musicians created a rhythmic, danceable new form of music through a mixture of soul music, jazz, and rhythm and blues (R&B).

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History of the Mediterranean region

The Mediterranean Sea was the central superhighway of transport, trade and cultural exchange between diverse peoples encompassing three continents: Western Asia, North Africa, and Southern Europe.

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House music

House music is a genre of electronic dance music created by club DJs and music producers in Chicago in the early 1980s.

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Ibiza

Ibiza (Eivissa) is an island in the Mediterranean Sea off the east coast of Spain.

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Italo house

Italo house (often simply referred to as "Italian" or "Italian House" in the UK) is a form of house music originating in Italy.

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Jens Gad

Jens Gad (born 26 August 1966 in Munich) is a German producer, songwriter and guitarist of Danish parents.

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José Padilla (DJ)

José Padilla (born 1955) is a Spanish disc jockey and producer of ambient music, best known for his work as DJ in the Café del Mar bar on the island of Ibiza.

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Keyboard instrument

A keyboard instrument is a musical instrument played using a keyboard, a row of levers which are pressed by the fingers.

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London

London is the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.

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MDMA

3,4-Methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA), commonly known as ecstasy (E), is a psychoactive drug used primarily as a recreational drug.

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Mixmag

Mixmag is a British electronic dance and clubbing magazine, published in London, England.

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Music sequencer

A music sequencer (or simply sequencer) is a device or application software that can record, edit, or play back music, by handling note and performance information in several forms, typically CV/Gate, MIDI, or Open Sound Control (OSC), and possibly audio and automation data for DAWs and plug-ins.

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New Beat

New Beat is a style of Belgian underground music and subculture that fused techno and acid genres and flourished in Western Europe during the late-1980s.

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Nightclub

A nightclub, music club or club, is an entertainment venue and bar that usually operates late into the night.

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Pacha Group

Pacha Group is a Spanish holding company specialized in the leisure, entertainment and hospitality businesses.

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Paul Oakenfold

Paul Mark Oakenfold (born 30 August 1963), formerly known mononymously as Oakenfold, is an English record producer and trance DJ.

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Personal computer

A personal computer (PC) is a multi-purpose computer whose size, capabilities, and price make it feasible for individual use.

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Peter Gabriel

Peter Brian Gabriel (born 13 February 1950) is an English singer-songwriter, record producer and humanitarian who rose to fame as the original lead singer and flautist of the progressive rock band Genesis.

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Post-disco

Post-disco is a term to describe an aftermath in popular music history circa late 1979–1986, imprecisely beginning with an unprecedented backlash against disco music in the United States, leading to civil unrest and a riot in Chicago known as the Disco Demolition Night on July 12, 1979, and indistinctly ending with the mainstream appearance of house music in the late 1980s.

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Privilege Ibiza

Privilege Ibiza originally known as Ku Club (1979–95) is the "world's largest nightclub" according to the Guinness Book of Records, also defined as a Superclub with a capacity of 10,000 people.

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Public Enemy (band)

Public Enemy is an American hip hop group consisting of Chuck D, Flavor Flav, Professor Griff, Khari Wynn, DJ Lord, and the S1W group.

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Rave

A rave (from the verb: to rave) is an organized dance party at a nightclub, outdoor festival, warehouse, or other private property typically featuring performances by DJs, playing a seamless flow of electronic dance music.

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Rhythm and blues

Rhythm and blues, commonly abbreviated as R&B, is a genre of popular music that originated in African American communities in the 1940s.

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Roger Shah

Roger Shah (born 29 November 1972 in Esslingen am Neckar, Germany), also known as DJ Shah and Sunlounger is a German electronic music composer and producer.

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Roland TR-909

The Roland TR-909 Rhythm Composer is a drum machine introduced by the Roland Corporation in 1983.

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Sampler (musical instrument)

A sampler is an electronic or digital musical instrument similar in some respects to a synthesizer, but instead of generating new sounds with filters, it uses sound recordings (or "samples") of real instrument sounds (e.g., a piano, violin or trumpet), excerpts from recorded songs (e.g., a five-second bass guitar riff from a funk song) or other sounds (e.g., sirens and ocean waves).

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Soul II Soul

Soul II Soul are a British musical group formed in London in 1988.

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Soul music

Soul music (often referred to simply as soul) is a popular music genre that originated in the African American community in the United States in the late 1950s and early 1960s.

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South London

South London is the southern part of London, England, south of the River Thames, and includes the historic districts of Southwark, Lambeth, Bankside and Greenwich.

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Spain

Spain (España), officially the Kingdom of Spain (Reino de España), is a sovereign state mostly located on the Iberian Peninsula in Europe.

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Synthesizer

A synthesizer (often abbreviated as synth, also spelled synthesiser) is an electronic musical instrument that generates electric signals that are converted to sound through instrument amplifiers and loudspeakers or headphones.

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The Waterboys

The Waterboys are a Scottish/Irish folk rock band formed in Edinburgh in 1983 by Scottish musician Mike Scott.

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The Woodentops

The Woodentops are a British rock band that enjoyed critical acclaim and moderate popularity in the mid-1980s.

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Tropical house

Tropical house, also known as trop house, is a subgenre of deep house, with elements of dancehall and Balearic house.

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United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain,Usage is mixed with some organisations, including the and preferring to use Britain as shorthand for Great Britain is a sovereign country in western Europe.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balearic_beat

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