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    Balearic beat

    Jan 09, 2020 2 minutes

    What links avant-garde synthpop pioneers Art Of Noise, Italo house maestros Sueño Latino and gravel-voiced ’80s soft rocker Chris Rea? They all fall under the broad and extremely loosely defined umbrella of Balearic beat – or simply Balearic.

    As the name suggests, the sound was born on the Balearic island of Ibiza in the mid-’80s, widely credited to Argentinian-born

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