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Food For Thought...
a selection of must-have '22 holiday items for every avid listener.

Floating World Music: about Balearic
19 dec 20221 minuten om te lezen


Q&A with an Ibiza insider: Dawn Hindle
The co-owner of Pikes and co-founder of Ibiza Rocks and Manumission loves Balearic records...

Floating World Music: about Balearic
1 nov 20221 minuten om te lezen


‘It was Freedom. It was our Church’
How house music changed the world... Link

Floating World Music: about Balearic
14 sep 20221 minuten om te lezen


Italo disco’s eternal evolution
Italo disco is everywhere again. But what does Italo even mean today, and is it at risk of being diluted into a catch-all term for...

Floating World Music: about Balearic
25 jul 20221 minuten om te lezen


Musical Ibiza – a Brief History
The summer of Love of the ’60s brought the hippy culture to the island, and with it, Pacha...

Floating World Music: about Balearic
15 jun 20221 minuten om te lezen


Catch of the Week: Panic Girl
Panic Girl – Memories Combining modular synthesizers and a Moog, along with field recordings and gentle voicescapes, Panic Girl manages...

Floating World Music: about Balearic
15 jun 20221 minuten om te lezen


in Search of Sunrise: a history of Balearic Trance
DJ Mag dives into the roots of a genre that was inspired and shaped by the island’s unique appeal: Balearic trance...

Floating World Music: about Balearic
13 jun 20221 minuten om te lezen


Las Islas Bonitas
More than an escape, Spain’s Balearic Islands have become a thriving creative hub, full of world-class art and architecture

Floating World Music: about Balearic
15 mei 20221 minuten om te lezen


Ibiza Reborn; in search of the Balearics’ Bohemian Past
a former local finds the creative spirit alive and well on the island’s softer, smarter side...

Floating World Music: about Balearic
11 mei 20221 minuten om te lezen


The birthplace of the Balearic beat
Amnesia, Ibiza. The history begins with a young philosopher Antonio Eschotado who signed a lease for the venue in the mid 1970's...

Floating World Music: about Balearic
24 mrt 20221 minuten om te lezen


All About Italo: Origins and Notable Italo Disco Artists
Italo disco was a popular form of dance music in Europe and other countries during the 1980s, known for its electronic grooves and sci-fi...

Floating World Music: about Balearic
24 feb 20221 minuten om te lezen


a history of Electronic Music
From early sound experiments to dub, Krautrock and techno, electronic music has a long musical lineage that is now being celebrated in...

Floating World Music: about Balearic
2 feb 20221 minuten om te lezen


a brief History of Spanish Balearic
What about the musicians of the Balearic islands themselves?

Floating World Music: about Balearic
30 nov 20211 minuten om te lezen


Las residentes | S/A/M: Profiling an island Personality.
The classically trained Scottish DJ earned her stripes in the music industry as a booker and event organiser in her homeland, before...

Floating World Music: about Balearic
13 okt 20211 minuten om te lezen


An insider’s guide to the Ibiza music scene
DJ Howard Hill has been a music obsessive since the 1960s and fell in love with psychedelic music in 1967, the first summer of love.

Floating World Music: about Balearic
4 okt 20211 minuten om te lezen


How a shipwreck influenced Cape Verde's Cosmic Disco Explosion
In the pale lazuline waters of Cape Verde, on the westernmost point of the African continent, lies the rusted shell of a shipwreck that...

Floating World Music: about Balearic
30 sep 20211 minuten om te lezen


Imagination, razor blades and Ganja: Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry changed the sound of Popular Music
Asked about the revolutionary rhythms and songs created at his Black Ark studios in Kingston, Jamaica, reggae producer, dub innovator and...

Floating World Music: about Balearic
30 aug 20211 minuten om te lezen


Phat Phil Cooper: a legend!
“Balearic DJing is about the journey you take through a collection of music that’s not restricted by trends or populist movements”

Floating World Music: about Balearic
14 jul 20211 minuten om te lezen



Floating World Music: about Balearic
8 jun 20211 minuten om te lezen


a Journey Through The Decades
Some people mistake dance and electronic music with EDM. For us, EDM is just a genre that’s commercial.

Floating World Music: about Balearic
28 apr 20211 minuten om te lezen
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