Talk:Balearic beat

Its's a style of DJing not a music genre
Balearic Beats was never a style of Music but a style of DJing. There was never ever one tune that encapsulated the term "Balearic". This was an awareness of Diverse and obscure styles of dance music ie:Early Chicago House/funk/disco/Pop/European dance bands etc etc.It was a fresh and unelitist way of DJing. Anyway,what was wrong with going to a club and hearing House next to Obscure French funk tunes, German industrial, Italian boogie/disco next to reggae and then a bit of indie thrown in etc etc. It was fresh and opened up a lot of people to new ideas. Balearic Beats were first played in Clubs in Ibiza, such as Amnesia, Glorys etc by DJ's such as Alfredo/Leo Mas and Jose Padilla, partly because there only had a handful Acid/House Tunes back then and partly the Crowds in such clubs were more Musically opened minded that your average London Moschino clad bod nodding there head in the Wag or Delerium ( Although Delerium was trying to introduce House back in early 87) This has been penned by a Thirty Eight year old Dad..who gets misty eyed about spending my youth in such clubs Wag/Mud Club/Delerium/Raw/ shake & finger pop etc etc..Then finding Ibiza, Shoom/future/Loudnoise/BoysOwn/Monkeydrum/Raid..Blah Blah Blah.

I feel like Henry in Goodfellas at the end when he comes out of his little Detached house with his Slippers on to collect the paper. Supevisor.Logistics@BarclaysCapital.com if any more Chaps/Dads need to talk crap about back in the Day!! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.65.133.75 (talk) 16:06, February 25, 2007 (UTC)


 * I think this etymology is quite plausible, but Balearic Beat was eventually used as a marketing term to categorize new music releases. I found one reference for your position already and added it to the article. If you can help find any more information in print (try a Google Books search) that can be used to confirm any of this, please please please add it to the article or mention it here; I'd be happy to help work any citations into the article. Thanks! —mjb 23:31, 9 August 2007 (UTC)

These Terms Evolve
I can empathize with purists, but the fact is that terms evolve in meaning. I am more familiar with the bastardized meaning of this term - the evolved style to which people like Kylie Minogue (circa 2000, 2001) were associated.—User:SebastianCanada 15:49, 16 November 2009 (UTC)

Balearic House, Balearic Trance, Ibiza Trance
Although this article focuses on the original ethos of Balearic Beat, the interwiki links (i.e., to Wikipedia in other languages), refer to "Balearic House" and "Ibiza Trance". Someone had added to the intro, saying, without citing any sources, that Balearic Beat is in fact the same thing as Balearic House and Balearic Trance.

I've edited that a bit, replacing the latter with "Ibiza Trance" because I see no mention of any "Balearic Trance" anywhere, but I do see it in the interwiki links. I also inferred that these terms are not pure synonyms for Balearic Beat, but reflect perhaps new incarnations of it, and/or are specific to certain regions or eras.

However, I am not familiar with these terms and am apprehensive about having them in the article at all, despite the interwiki links and house music footer. I am inclined to remove them. If you want them kept, please find some sources that talk about what those words mean, and cite them. —mjb (talk) 07:25, 9 February 2012 (UTC)


 * Balearic trance and Ibiza trance both redirect to this article. Either the article should talk about them, or those redirects should be removed. Thoughts? —mjb (talk) 01:27, 16 May 2012 (UTC)


 * "Balearic trance and Ibiza trance both redirect to this article. Either the article should talk about them, or those redirects should be removed." - Mjb says... And i full agree with you... This is just another case of a Trance style redirected to an house style without any reference to the given trance style... I don't wanna be unfair but... sounds a sabotage to trance music... —Cratertempus (talk) 11:08, 05 Jun 2012 (UTC/GMT)


 * I found a very solid article about Balearic Trance, i will expand or create a page dedicated to bealeric trance soon... New or merge?? Thoughts?? —Cratertempus (talk) 20:43, 06 Sept 2012 (UTC/GMT)


 * Create a new article for Balearic trance, IMHO. —mjb (talk) 00:59, 7 September 2012 (UTC)

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"The Project Club" concept
According to https://www.residentadvisor.net/dj/trevorfung/biography..."The Project Club" concept was running in Ibiza before it was launched in London...whilst others state that the concept was taken to Ibiza ....so maybe some of the dates need re-arranging on the following...?

"British DJs such as Trevor Fung, Danny Rampling, and Electra's[7][8] Paul Oakenfold are commonly credited with having "popularised" Balearic beat, especially in the UK. In 1987, after a holiday in Ibiza, Oakenfold, Fung and Ian St. Paul returned to London, where they unsuccessfully tried to establish a nightclub called the Funhouse in the Balearic style.[9] Returning to Ibiza during the summer of 1987, Oakenfold rented a villa where he hosted a number of his DJ friends, including Danny Rampling, Johnny Walker, and Nicky Holloway. Returning to London after the summer, Oakenfold reintroduced the Balearic style at a South London nightclub called the Project Club. The club initially attracted those who had visited Ibiza and who were familiar with the Balearic concept. Fueled by their use of Ecstasy and an emerging fashion style based on baggy clothes and bright colors, these Ibiza veterans were responsible for propagating the Balearic subculture within the evolving UK rave scene. In 1988, Oakenfold established a second outlet for Balearic beat, a Monday night event called Spectrum, which is credited with exposing the Balearic concept to a wider audience.[10] It was 1988 when Balearic beat was first noticed in the U.S., according to Dance Music Report magazine.[11] Jose Padilla, is an Ibizan DJ best known for his residency at Café del Mar. Also Jon Sa Trinxa, a british DJ and Producer best known for the longest residency on Salinas Beach at Sa Trinxa defines his style as being Balearic Music". — Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.154.172.230 (talk) 16:50, 12 November 2020 (UTC)