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

Floating World Music: about Balearic
- 18 sep.
The History of Electronic Dance Music
a Journey Through The Decades


floatingmusic
- 8 aug.
Looking For The Balearic Beat: Soundtracking Paradise
How it all begon... something that is key to the “Birth Of The Balearic Beat” is the fact that Ibiza is an island !

Floating World Music: about Balearic
- 11 jul.
Balearic Iconoclast - Apiento
The head-honcho of Test Pressing: Apiento, chats about all that's balearic, bohemian and decadent.

Floating World Music: about Balearic
- 1 jun.
“What was happening back then is all like a dream now”
Richard Sen digs up an alternate history of the UK’s early techno and rave scene


Floating World Music: about Balearic
- 19 dec. 2022
Food For Thought...
a selection of must-have '22 holiday items for every avid listener.

Floating World Music: about Balearic
- 1 nov. 2022
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
- 15 sep. 2022
‘It was Freedom. It was our Church’
How house music changed the world... Link

Floating World Music: about Balearic
- 26 jul. 2022
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
- 16 jun. 2022
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. 2022
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
- 14 jun. 2022
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
- 16 mei 2022
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
- 11 mei 2022
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
- 24 mrt. 2022
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 feb. 2022
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
- 2 feb. 2022
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
- 30 nov. 2021
a brief History of Spanish Balearic
What about the musicians of the Balearic islands themselves?


Floating World Music: about Balearic
- 13 okt. 2021
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
- 4 okt. 2021
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.
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