
I realized I've been tossing the term Balearic around quite a bit lately without much preface. Balearic is a genre of electronic music that, as its name might suggest, originated in the Balearic island region, specifically, in the beach raves and nightclubs of Ibiza in the mid-90s. It's also sometimes referred to as Baeleric beat and runs the range from deep house influenced, to my preference, italo disco influenced. Paul Oakenfold and Danny Rampling are largely credited as the godfathers of the sound, but in the past few years its seen a resurgence and re-imagination as sunny, disco-tinged melodies attributed [...]