Balearic trance, also known as Ibiza trance is a
trance music
Trance is a genre of electronic dance music that emerged from Electronic body music, EBM in Frankfurt, Germany, in the late 1980s and early 1990s, and quickly spread throughout Europe.
Trance music is typically characterized by a tempo between ...
subgenre which evolved from
Balearic beat
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. It later became the name of a more specific style of electronic dance/house music th ...
. The earliest known Balearic trance compositions date back to a few years after the emergence of Balearic beat in the 1990s.
History
It came out of
Balearic house in the 1980s, and named after the
Balearic island of
Ibiza
Ibiza (; ; ; #Names and pronunciation, see below) or Iviza is a Spanish island in the Mediterranean Sea off the eastern coast of the Iberian Peninsula. It is 150 kilometres (93 miles) from the city of Valencia. It is the third largest of th ...
. Inconsistently, the style name has always been connected to
trance
Trance is a state of semi-consciousness in which a person is not self-aware and is either altogether unresponsive to external stimuli (but nevertheless capable of pursuing and realizing an aim) or is selectively responsive in following the dir ...
and Balearic beat.
Style
Balearic trance keeps the same "Balearic" timbre as Balearic beat, while Balearic trance is characterized by a higher tempo of around 125 bpm to 145 bpm, typically around 130 bpm. Being based in Spain, it is often derived from Latin music. It has a primary focus on atmosphere, making it similar in many regards to
dream trance
Dream trance is an early subgenre of trance music that peaked prominently on the international dance scene between 1995 and 1998 (colliding with the first time for trance to reach mainstream). The "dream" term has been known to largely influenc ...
.
"This music seems to capture the mood of a soft, Mediterranean sunset perfectly, maybe because of its use of string instruments, like
Spanish guitars and
mandolin
A mandolin (, ; literally "small mandola") is a Chordophone, stringed musical instrument in the lute family and is generally Plucked string instrument, plucked with a plectrum, pick. It most commonly has four Course (music), courses of doubled St ...
s and things associated with the Mediterranean, like oceans, birds, and other things borrowed from ambient trance."
Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music
. Retrieved 22 April 2014.
See also
*Balearic beat
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. It later became the name of a more specific style of electronic dance/house music th ...
*Progressive house
Progressive house is a subgenre of house music that emerged in the early 1990s in the United Kingdom. It is characterized by its evolving, melodic Musical form, structures, subtle Transition (music), transitions, and layered sound design.Gerard, ...
References
External links
An interview with Faruk Gandji about the Ku on Ibiza (part 2)
- "the birth of the Balearic Trance"
Ibiza Trance
- Description
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20th-century music genres
Music of the Balearic Islands
Culture of Ibiza
Trance genres