Recording
Jibaro
Elkin & Nelson
- Released
- 1974
- On one list
- Balearic
- Updated
- 2026-08-31
Analysis
9 sections, the first drop of 3 at 0:08, 2% of the way in.
- Tempo
- 107.7 BPM
- holds throughout
- Key
- A minor
- estimated from the pitch content
- Dynamic range
- 3 dB
- compressed hard — very little between the quiet and the loud
- Length
- 7:31
- measured from the YouTube master
The record, end to end
Click the track to jump · ← → move between sections
- 0:00Aintro0
- 1:06Bsteadybar 29
- 2:46Bbreakdownbar 74
- 2:59Bsteadybar 80
- 3:26Bpeakbar 92
- 4:12Cpeakbar 113
- 5:14Dbreakdownbar 141
- 5:26Epeakbar 146
- 6:00Coutrobar 161
Drops at 0:08 (bar 3), 5:30 (bar 148), 6:00 (bar 162). A drop is a moment, not a stretch — marked on the track above rather than shaded across it.
0:00 · A · intro
opens the record below its own average energy · instrumental
- Lasts
- 1:06
- Energy
- 18
- Brightness
- 68
- Density
- 100
- drums
- bass
- vocals
- other
holding a level — the groove, neither rising nor falling · instrumental · one of 4 stretches of the same music (B)
- Lasts
- 1:40
- Energy
- 80
- Brightness
- 58
- Density
- 43
- drums
- bass
- vocals
- other
energy falling away mid-record, percussion thinning · instrumental · one of 4 stretches of the same music (B)
- Lasts
- 0:14
- Energy
- 49
- Brightness
- 100
- Density
- 53
- drums
- bass
- vocals
- other
holding a level — the groove, neither rising nor falling · instrumental · one of 4 stretches of the same music (B)
- Lasts
- 0:26
- Energy
- 78
- Brightness
- 87
- Density
- 34
- drums
- bass
- vocals
- other
sits at the top of this record's range · sung · one of 4 stretches of the same music (B)
- Lasts
- 0:47
- Energy
- 97
- Brightness
- 61
- Density
- 21
- drums
- bass
- vocals
- other
sits at the top of this record's range · sung · one of 2 stretches of the same music (C)
- Lasts
- 1:02
- Energy
- 100
- Brightness
- 30
- Density
- 26
- drums
- bass
- vocals
- other
energy falling away mid-record, percussion thinning · sung
- Lasts
- 0:13
- Energy
- 0
- Brightness
- 0
- Density
- 37
- drums
- bass
- vocals
- other
sits at the top of this record's range · sung
- Lasts
- 0:34
- Energy
- 88
- Brightness
- 68
- Density
- 0
- drums
- bass
- vocals
- other
the closing fall · sung · one of 2 stretches of the same music (C)
- Lasts
- 1:31
- Energy
- 85
- Brightness
- 56
- Density
- 36
- drums
- bass
- vocals
- other
Brightness and density are scored against this record's own sections, not against music in general — they say how its parts differ from each other, and nothing about how it compares to anything else.
- drums
- the drum kit, separated from the mix
- bass
- the bass part, separated from the mix
- vocals
- the voice, separated from the mix
- other
- everything else — synths, guitars, keys, strings
Separated into parts by a source-separation model, so each lane is the instrument it names.
- intro
- opens the record below its own average energy
- steady
- holding a level — the groove, neither rising nor falling
- breakdown
- energy falling away mid-record, percussion thinning
- peak
- sits at the top of this record's range
- outro
- the closing fall
Measured from the YouTube master on . Section labels describe how the energy of the recording moves, not its musical form — a machine can see loudness climb and jump, it cannot hear a chorus arrive. Anything we were not confident enough to state is left out rather than shown with a caveat.
Ranked No. 1 in Balearic
Colombian brothers recording in Spain, rediscovered by Alfredo a decade later, and remixed for the London crowd in 1988. The definitive Balearic record precisely because nothing about it was meant for a club.