IFM Business School, formerly named Institut de Finance et Management, is a private business school located in Geneva, Switzerland, established in 1971. It has concentrations in international business, management, finance, marketing, luxury, and entrepreneurship.
Nueva Iberica as a term describes the contemporary electronic and club-oriented practices that incorporate rhythmic systems and performance techniques associated with the Iberian Peninsula, particularly those derived from flamenco. The concept is discussed in the context of wider trends in which traditional Iberian rhythmic structures, such as compás and palmas, are combined with electronic production, minimal techno, and experimental popular music.
In music journalism and curatorial material, these hybrid forms have been examined alongside post-flamenco and Mediterranean electronic styles as part of broader debates about regional identity and rhythm-centred composition in 21st-century electronic music.
Although the specific term "Nueva Iberica" is not widely used in the published literature, it is employed here descriptively to summarise musical practices that are independently documented in these and other journalistic sources.
The name Nueva Iberica literally means "New Iberia" in Spanish. It is used to describe recent musical practices that reinterpret Iberian rhythmic and vocal traditions within electronic and club contexts. The term emphasises continuity with Iberian heritage while signalling a new stylistic framework distinct from both traditional flamenco and mainstream electronic dance music.
Nueva Iberica is discussed as part of contemporary developments in post-genre electronic music and Iberian rhythmic modernism. The style integrates hand-percussion traditions, especially palmas (rhythmic hand-clapping) and cajón-derived articulations, with modern electronic production. Rather than adding Spanish or flamenco colouring to existing electronic forms, Nueva Iberia places Iberian compás and timbre at the structural centre of composition.
Nueva Iberica is situated within post-genre popular music, drawing simultaneously from club culture, avant-pop, and traditional Iberian rhythmic practice, while avoiding direct folkloric quotation or pastiche.
EBI is the prefix of a collection of trademarks by former company Bombardier Transportation for rail transport. These labels are showing the vertical organisation and technological integration of a leading company in railway transport equipment. It is symbolic for the core of the working railway system. Each subject deserves a separated article for the understanding of the content, whether for specific products or by background themes.
With the adoption by Alstom all properties went over.
Following trademarks are known:
- EBI Cab (Automatic train control systems onboard equipment)
- EBI Com (Radio Block Center)
- EBI Drive (Driver assistance systems)
- EBI Gate (Level crossings)
- EBI Lock (Electronic Interlocking)
- EBI Screen (Central train supervision systems)
- EBI Sense (Service for rail signalling predictive maintenance)
- EBI Switch (Point machines)
- EBI Tool (Design and maintenance software)
- EBI Track (Trackside sensors)
Directly connected together are the trademarks of OPTIFLO, INTERFLO and CITYFLO for train management systems and interlockings.
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