Balearic beat

La Balearic beat, ou Balearic house, est un mélange éclectique de musique dance ayant initialement émergé au milieu des années 1980[1]^,[2]. Il est devenu plus tard le nom d'un style de musique électronique qui a été populaire dans le milieu des années 1990. La Balearic house est nommée pour sa popularité parmi les boîtes de nuit européennes mais également pour les raves de plage aux Baléares sur l'île d'Ibiza, une destination touristique populaire chez les jeunes britanniques[3]. Certaines compilations de musique de dance proviennent de la Balearic house.

Balearic beat

Détails
Date de création	1987
Origines stylistiques	House, electronica, disco, post-disco, bossa nova
Origines culturelles	Fin des années 1980 ; Royaume-Uni et Espagne
Instruments typiques	Synthétiseur, boîte à rythmes, séquenceur, échantillonneur, clavier, ordinateur
Voir aussi	Tropical house

Histoire

Les disc jockeys britanniques Trevor Fung, Paul Oakenfold, et Danny Rampling sont communément crédités pour avoir « découvert » la Balearic beat en 1987 lors de vacances à Ibiza. Ils apprennent supposément l'existence de cette musique au club Amnesia, un nightclub d'Ibiza, grâce à Alfredo Fiorito (Alfredo) originaire d'Argentine[4]^,[5]. Ce dernier joue un mélange éclectique de dance[5] dont le style couvre un groove hypno indie des Woodentops, le rock mystique des Waterboys, les premiers éléments de house, d'europop, et certains éléments inhabituels adoptés par Peter Gabriel et Chris Rea.

Notes et références

(en) Gilbert, Jeremy ; Pearson, Ewan. Discographies: Dance Music, Culture, and the Politics of Sound. Routledge. 1999. (ISBN 0-415-17032-X). "The musics which fed into acid house and the developing culture were various too; the heterogeneous sounds of the 'Balearic beat' which helped define it did not constitute a discrete musical genre, but an unholy mix of, among other things, hip hop, house, Mediterranean pop and indie rock. DJs' playlists temporarily situated highly disparate musics beside one another. Musical miscegenation reunited several of the dance forms that had emerged after disco, mixing American and European dance musics. Though house music was the dominant mode, the rapid proliferation of styles and sub-genres which followed in its wake, for a short time at least, kept dancefloors moving to a range of grooves."
(en) Evans, Helen. Out of Sight, Out of Mind: An Analysis of Rave culture. Wimbledon School of Art, London. 1992. "It was in the upmarket clubs of Ibiza : Pacha, Amnesia, Glory's and Manhattans, that Balearic beat was created. DJ's would mix musical forms as diverse as Public Enemy and The Woodentops, to create that eclectic, highly danceable, don't care holiday feel."
(en) Peter Silverton, « Balearic beat », Encyclopædia Britannica
(en) Kaplan, C.D., Grund, J-P & Dzoljic, M.R. (1989) Ecstasy in Europe: reflections on the epidemiology of MDMA. Instituut voor Verslavingsonderzoek, Rotterdam.
(en) Bush, John. All Music Guide to Electronica: The Definitive Guide to Electronic Music [Paul Oakenfold entry], Bogdanov, Vladimir, Backbeat Books, 2001 : [Oakenfold] ended up at the Project in 1985-86, one of the first venues for house music in England. With Fung and another friend named Ian St. Paul, Oakenfold was introduced to the exploding club-scene on the vacation island of Ibiza (near the coast of Spain) during 1987 and imported the crucial mix of house, soul, Italian disco and alternative music later dubbed the Balearic style. During 1988-89, house music and the Balearic style gestated at several Oakenfold-run club nights (Future at the Sound Shaft, then Spectrum and Land of Oz at Heaven) before emerging above terra firma as a distinctly British entity.

Portail de la musique électronique

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[1] (en) Gilbert, Jeremy ; Pearson, Ewan. Discographies: Dance Music, Culture, and the Politics of Sound. Routledge. 1999. (ISBN 0-415-17032-X). "The musics which fed into acid house and the developing culture were various too; the heterogeneous sounds of the 'Balearic beat' which helped define it did not constitute a discrete musical genre, but an unholy mix of, among other things, hip hop, house, Mediterranean pop and indie rock. DJs' playlists temporarily situated highly disparate musics beside one another. Musical miscegenation reunited several of the dance forms that had emerged after disco, mixing American and European dance musics. Though house music was the dominant mode, the rapid proliferation of styles and sub-genres which followed in its wake, for a short time at least, kept dancefloors moving to a range of grooves."

[2] (en) Evans, Helen. Out of Sight, Out of Mind: An Analysis of Rave culture. Wimbledon School of Art, London. 1992. "It was in the upmarket clubs of Ibiza : Pacha, Amnesia, Glory's and Manhattans, that Balearic beat was created. DJ's would mix musical forms as diverse as Public Enemy and The Woodentops, to create that eclectic, highly danceable, don't care holiday feel."

[3] (en) Peter Silverton, « Balearic beat », Encyclopædia Britannica

[4] (en) Kaplan, C.D., Grund, J-P & Dzoljic, M.R. (1989) Ecstasy in Europe: reflections on the epidemiology of MDMA. Instituut voor Verslavingsonderzoek, Rotterdam.

[amgem-5] (en) Bush, John. All Music Guide to Electronica: The Definitive Guide to Electronic Music [Paul Oakenfold entry], Bogdanov, Vladimir, Backbeat Books, 2001 : [Oakenfold] ended up at the Project in 1985-86, one of the first venues for house music in England. With Fung and another friend named Ian St. Paul, Oakenfold was introduced to the exploding club-scene on the vacation island of Ibiza (near the coast of Spain) during 1987 and imported the crucial mix of house, soul, Italian disco and alternative music later dubbed the Balearic style. During 1988-89, house music and the Balearic style gestated at several Oakenfold-run club nights (Future at the Sound Shaft, then Spectrum and Land of Oz at Heaven) before emerging above terra firma as a distinctly British entity.