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concert before Guetta supplies a genre
We swap reality’s harsh bite for fantasy’s luscious
hopping defi nition by way of Soulwax’s
kiss at the Space Closing party...
thrashing ‘Standing In The Way Of Control’
remix, Buzzin Fly’s deep house, his own
hair-sprayed house singalongs (‘Now That
The Love Is Gone’) and even remixes of
s swaps go, we think it’s a swapping grins with catwalk worthy laser-shot trance arm-raisers ‘Café Del
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pretty good one. Just six Senoritas, middle-aged Italians are Mar’ and ‘Insomnia’.
hours ago it was all doom getting their groove on, whilst hundreds
and gloom. Never-ending of English workers seize the fi nal hours of Fast forward fi ve hours and we’ve seen the
drizzle dripped down, a escapism in their three-month summer. terrace rocked by edit king Paul Woolford
cloak of grey cloud wrapped itself round The party might no longer be non-stop and the Groove Armada boys but in the
London and the Sunday papers spelt out but it doesn’t go on anywhere near as
impending economic meltdown. The long any place else on the planet.
chance of a smile breaking on a All-engulfi ng in scale, vast in its diverse
Londoner’s face was less likely than six arenas, there is still no club in
sunshine. existence you could reliably compare to
Right now though we’re washed up in a Space either. And — in a season of
carnival sea of 3000 ravers as smiles uncertainty — its stronghold on the party
radiate across the Space car-park as freely island has tightened further.
as the liberating rays we bask in. On a As The Chemical Brothers rocked and Kate
stage grand enough for Madonna, a giant Moss fl ocked, Sunday’s fl agship We Love
mouse is pulsing out the crisp electronic smashed it week after week again.
grooves of ‘Faxing Berlin’ whilst the entire Wednesday night’s La Troya remained a
cast of Star Wars smile and stomp on packed polysexual carnival, whilst Danny
platforms in front of him. Tenaglia’s Be residency was one of the
Reality, it seems, is a distance memory island’s best fresh additions.
when you surrender to the carnival of
fantasy that is Space Closing party. Yet none of those can boast the festival
vibe of the Closing party’s outdoor
Yet reality is arguably infi ltrating Ibiza like car-park. And as Deadmau5 segues
never before. Once a non-stop party through techno mechanics and hypnotic
wonderland without frontiers, a new melodics the place is going nuts.
hard-line government have drawn clear Feeling the need to explore, we duck into
boundaries in a bid to muscle out the Space to catch the last rays on the
island’s more unrestrained elements. The intimate sunset terrace and fi nd Fedde Le
results are clear. No three-day rave Grand surprising with a smooth electronic
marathons, no after-hour sessions, no house set. But the car-park’s carnival call
morning raving and — after another proves too strong and as dusk descends
crushing fi ne — quite possibly the end of Viva boss Steve Lawler takes place on the
the road for DC10 altogether. huge stage and rolls down a faultless,
Body blows indeed but can the magic deeply percussive journey.
island really be losing its sparkle? Then David Guetta grabs the mic and asks
Not a chance. You only need to glance if we’re “ready for some real Fuck Me I’m
across the Space car-park for proof too. As Famous music?”
Deadmau5 now launches at Darth Vader Not entirely sure what that means, we
with a plastic ray gun, likely Essex lads are cheer like teenage girls at a Take That
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