Balearic trance Balearic trance Balearic trance, also known as Ibiza trance and Balearic House is an electronic dance music subgenre which evolved from Balearic beat. The earliest known Balearic trance compositions date back to a few years after the emergence of Balearic beat in the 1990s. It came out of Balearic House in the 1980s, and named after the Spanish island. Inconsistently, the style name has always been connected to trance and Balearic beat. 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
HMS Minorca (1805) HMS Minorca (1805) HMS "Minorca" was a "Cruizer"-class brig-sloop of the Royal Navy, launched in 1805. She served during the Napoleonic Wars in the Mediterranean and was sold in 1814 after an uneventful career. Commander Henry Duncan commissioned "Minorca" in August 1805 and then sailed her for the Mediterranean. Duncan received promotion to post captain on 16 January 1806, but was not actually replaced until 19 April. Commander Granville George Waldegrave replaced Duncan. On 23 December "Minorca" captured a Spanish merchant vessel. As "Minorca" was entering the Straits of Gibraltar on her way to join her station at Gibraltar, 11