The earliest known Balearic trance compositions date back to a few years after the emergence of Balearic beat in the 1990s.
[citation needed] Inconsistently, the style name has always been connected to trance and Balearic beat.
Being based in Spain, it is often derived from Latin music.
It has a primary focus on atmosphere, making it similar in many regards to dream trance.
"This music seems to capture the mood of a soft, Mediterranean sunset perfectly, maybe because of its use of string instruments, like Spanish guitars and mandolins and things associated with the Mediterranean, like oceans, birds, and other things borrowed from ambient trance.