More & more, true value will shift back to music, shared experiences, and physical spaces. A new generation of promoters is already choosing identity over hype, building long-term projects around residents and coherent musical visions“.

“DJs purposely started to play these records at the wrong speed. And even producers started to record this way, because it was such an interesting sound. The sound in question was new beat, a hypnotic, slowed-down form of dance music that exploded across Belgium in the mid- to late 1980s.

Daphne Oram, a Visionary of Electronic Music

On Christmas Eve 2024, iconic Ibiza DJ Alfredo escaped his nursing home and, ignoring pain and frailty, made his way to nearby Jesus village for a drink...

Every time a drum beats in Benirràs, a boutique sells a white cotton dress, or a DJ plays Balearic music at dawn, the spirit of the hippie era lives on, the island forever changed by “freedom, love, joy, and nature.

Italo disco’s roots are embedded in German music history. It was the German label ZYX that coined this style of music in the early 1980s. The label began licensing the music from Italy, repackaging it and then spreading the sound across the continent.

The Life and Legacy of José Padilla: Balearic Visionary

I recall a specific moment in the summer when we took a few days off, in Paris... some younger families occupied a couple of rooms close...

Balearic Beat History

You could try and make a complete and definitive guide to the Balearic aesthetic in music, but the effort would inevitably destroy your...

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A few days ago on his Blissblog, the LA-based writer and scholar Simon Reynolds highlighted a recently released 8-hour, brilliantly...

Radioshow on Urgent.fm

Radioshow on Urgent.fm

from buying your first turntable to looking after your records

Puthli's extraterrestrial, late night melodies have always been a subterranean treasure among inquisitive groovers and shakers but Disco...

Belgium’s contribution to dance music is often overlooked, but throughout the '80s and '90s the country produced some of the world’s...

a Journey Through The Decades

How it all begon... something that is key to the “Birth Of The Balearic Beat” is the fact that Ibiza is an island !