Hello everybody at r/realplaylists, I hope you're all well. 🙂

Here's my mixed Balearic Beat Playlist. 100 or so songs. It's a mix of Soul, Ambient, House, Deep House, Indie, Hip-Hop, Pop, Rock and Latin and designed to simulate the feel of 1990 Ibiza.

If you're missing that Ibiza sunset energy right now, this one might hit the spot. Or perhaps the weather's sunny and you just want to chill outside. 

Tracks by Sade, Prince, Primal Scream, Happy Mondays, Carly Simon, Chris Rea, Mandy Smith, A Tribe Called Quest, The Stone Roses, The Cure, Omar, Saint Etienne, Soul II Soul, William Pitt, Backbeat Convention, Tullio De Piscopo, BBG, Electribe 101, 808 State, Sueno Latino, Don Carlos, Pineapples, Frankie Knuckles, Adeva, Turntable Orchestra, Phase II, & N'Joi.  

All the blends are custom 8 bar or 16 bar despite 60 BPM delta across the mix. I've worked hard on mixing them harmonically and tried to push Spotify's mix engine as far as I could. 

\- Created re-edits of tracks to make them more mixable.

\- Mixed between 2 tracks (original and remix) and cued them at the same points to double up vocals for chorus effects. 

\- Mixed between Hip-Hop tracks and the track they sampled.

\- Simulated scratch mixing. 

\- Used Spotify's +-10% pitch lock to deliberately speed up and slow down tracks for deliberate genre transformation.

\- Used drum breakbeat loops when it was hard to mix harmonically and cleanly. 

Hope you like it. 🙂

Classic Balearic Beat Mix