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
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