The day many electronic music fans around the world have been dreading is soon to come. Carl Cox has just announced his plans to retire from DJing and music production, largely due to the Coronavirus COVID-19 outbreak that has crippled the electronic music industry in recent weeks and has caused artists to stop touring.. That’s right, Carl Cox will retire.
The moment we all knew was coming is finally here. The UshuaĂŻa Entertainment Group has unveiled information about the new club that will be taking place of the former Space Ibiza.
HĂŻ is set to open its doors this coming season, located in Playa d’en Bossa across UshuaĂŻa, aiming to “bring together music lovers to dance, discover and experience the magic of the White Isle.”
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Carl Cox and Nic Fanciulli crown Pepe Rosello as the true king of Ibiza’s nightlife during the last minutes of the club’s Closing Fiesta 2016
You would have been forgiven for thinking that 2016 marked the end of Space Ibiza as we knew it. Everything that we heard from Pepe Rosello, Space Ibiza’s former owner, Carl Cox and the Matutes family that own UshuaĂŻa Group and acquired the property seemed to point to a complete revamp and brand change. In fact in a specific interview Carl Cox, long-time resident at the club and personal friend of Rosello, indicated that the Rosello’s plan was to open a new club elsewhere on the island by 2018, thus keeping the dream alive of a Space Ibiza that still focused on music and less on the VIP lifestyle that is unfortunately permeating the island. Rumors even begun to surface of the exact location where this would be, the site now occupied by the Reco de Sol Hotel in San Antonio.
Yet, Periodico de Ibiza is now reporting that “businessman and former politician veteran Ibizan Abel Matutes Juan announced last night that the legendary Space Ibiza will keep its original nomenclature, while studying add a second name to link the venue to other franchises chain Such as UshuaĂŻa Ibiza Beach Club or Hard Rock Ibiza.”
“It will surely open this year as Space. It is an accredited brand, which does not prevent us from adding a new name that links us with all the establishments we have,” said the former minister in the interview broadcast by local television Grupo Prensa Pitiusa. Moreover, Matutes went on to clarify that his company built Space Ibiza, explaining the long history that brought the club into Rosello’s hands, stating that “his business group built the discotheque located on the second line of Platja d’en Bossa and that after ‘five or six years’ of exploitation, and for his commitment to the hotel offer, decided to rent it to Pepe Rosello, who has run the premises since 1989.”
Matutes went on to confirm most of the rumors in circulation, stating that there are plans to convert the space into a more exclusive, luxurious club that cater to more “exclusive tourism.”
Watch the “27 Years of Ibiza” Documentary.
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Outspoken and straight-forward, you’d be mistaken to label Darius Syrossian as brash. An artist that calls it as he sees it, the Manchester-based producer and DJ is coming off one of the busiest years of his career to date.
Labeled by Pete Tong as “one of Europe’s finest house DJ’s and one who has true pure house music running in his veins,” and spurred on by his work with the Do Not Sleep brand, Darius is the epitome of a true workaholic. 2017 has seen him A&R a label, run a radio show, play gigs throughout the world, hold a summer-long residency at Space Ibiza, and yet manage to be as relentless as ever in the studio.
This coming Saturday he will be in Los Angeles to headline 6AM’s Yearender party with Incognito, a warehouse affair that will see him perform for four hours past sunrise. Despite a hectic schedule that has seen him perform in Montreal and New York City over this past weekend, Darius found some time to sit down with us and talk about everything that went on in these past twelve months and more, including sharing his viewpoints on the current state of Ibiza and his plans for 2017.
BURNÂ recently went through a journey to discover emerging talent in the world of dance music through a BURN Residency 2016 program that received over 9.000 applications.
With applicants spanning 26 countries, a DJ from each was chosen to attend the BURN Bootcamp to participate in lectures, workshops and DJ classes ran by some of the most influential and skilled artists in today’s dance music world such as Carl Cox, Seth Troxler, John Digweed and Luciano.
Three finalists, Mira Joo, Ayman Awad and Lollino, were picked from this group of 26 for a 10-week Ibiza residency with gigs at Sankeys and Bora Bora included. Lollino eventually won the âŹ100,000 grand prize, coming out as the winner of the Residency program.
As part of the Residency initiative, BURN has released three separate documentaries profiling the art of the resident DJ, a series we began to explore with Paris’ Rex Club resident D’Julz, one of the best selectors the house music scene has to offer.
The first mini-documentary is called âThe Creatorâ and focuses on Carl Cox’s meteoric rise in Ibiza and his 15 year Music Is Revolution residency at Space that just ended this past summer. The idea behind this first video is to highlight one of the most prominent residencies in the world by an artist still in circulation, albeit one that has just come to an end.
âThe Movementâ looks at the ascent of a new series of top-tier names in underground dance music, developing on the paths taken by Seth Troxler, The Martinez Brothers and Apollonia in reaching the success they have achieved thus far.
âThe Futureâ decides to look at ahead, as the name might suggest, by exploring the next generation of artists and prospective residents with input from BURN mentors Carl Cox, Dubfire and Uner, as well as other key industry figures.
Watch the three short films below:
Space Ibiza has released a documentary chronicling 27 years of history at the iconic Balearic club.
Produced in-house, the 50-minute video takes viewers on a historic through of milestones that have characterized the venue from its conception until yesterday, its final day. The Closing Fiesta was attended by tens of thousands, with nearly 100 artists playing across several stages. You can re-watch videos from the live stream here.
Can’t make it to Ibiza on Sunday, October 2nd? You can still watch the final ever Space Ibiza Closing Fiesta from the comfort of your home or office thanks to streaming service BE-AT.TV.
The Closing Fiesta will be celebrating 27 years of Space at the helm of the international clubbing scene, with nearly 100 DJs scheduled to play. The stream willfeature 20 hours of music from 44 DJs playing on three separate stages.
This high-definition streaming service follows the magical night on September 20th when Carl Cox closed down The Final Chapter of his fifteen-year Music Is Revolution residency with an open-to-close vinyl set that had millions from all over the world watching. To be exact, BE-AT.TV reached 22,348,318 people with 4,049,900 total viewers, 246,522 interactions, 109,216 comments and 54,341 shares during the live stream itself. Many more have viewed the recording since.
The stream will include nearly 24 hours of action from the car park, discoteca and covered terrace, including sets by Solomun, Carl Cox, Tale of Us, Sasha, Darius Syrossian, Steve Bug, Andhim, Josh Wink, Kölsch, David Morales, James Zabiela, Anja Schneider Roger Sanchez, Riva Starr and many more.
You will be able to stream all three rooms directly from this page:
DISCOTECA
CAR PARK
TERRAZZA
Earlier this week we revealed pictures of the rumored location for owner Pepe Rosello’s next project, Space Ibiza Hotel & Club, which he plans to open in 2018.
Months ago Carl Cox revealed that 2016 wasn’t yet to be the end of Space Ibiza, but rather a year of major change for the brand. Its owner, Pepe Rosello, decided to sell the venue to the UshuaĂŻa Group but still maintains control of the brand, intending to re-open in a few years elsewhere on the island.
Where? Reco des Sol Hotel in San Antonio on the other side of the island.
Currently most of Ibiza’s clubbing force is in Playa d’en Bossa, Ibiza Town and San Rafael, with San Antonio’s two major venues Es Paradis and Eden struggling to bring in crowds. Space’s move would of course change that, bringing back focus to a town that right now mostly attracts party-goers thanks to its sunset parties at CafĂ© Mambo and CafĂ© del Mar.
According to rumors coming from the island, Rosello plans to completely renovate the complex, add a bran-new Discoteca-styled dancehall next door and open it as Space Hotel and Club two years from now. Overlooking Es Pouet Beach, the venue will most likely also house a refurbished version of its current pool, meaning that a new pool party series could be on the horizon.
Check out more pictures of the property below.
H/T:Â Mixmag
The final chapter of a fifteen-year love story. The final chapter for one of the leading men in electronic music and in some way a symbolic final chapter for Space Ibiza, arguably the most revered club on the island if not the world.
Although Space Ibiza still has its final Closing Fiesta to prepare for,which Carl Cox will be headlining by the way, last night’s Music Is Revolution Final Chapter has perhaps more real meaning than the festival-like send-off scheduled for Sunday, October 2nd. For fifteen years Carl’s residency has been the face of Space, his personal friendship with Pepe Rosello the emblem of the perfect Ibiza partnership between club owner and resident DJ. And just like that, with Rosello’s decision to sell the property to the UshuaĂŻa Group and possibly re-open elsewhere on the island in 2-3 years, that signature element of Ibiza folklore is gone. Tuesdays on the island will never be the same again.
To close out his residency, Cox chose to play the Discoteca all night, delivering a 10 hour all-vinyl performance worthy of a true DJ masterclass. His set was immortalized live by be-at.tv, and is available for replay in full HD below. It was also broadcasted live by over 50 FM stations worldwide and recorded for the 700th Global Radio radio show.
Carl Cox will play a vinyl set for the first time in ten years at the grand finale of his Music Is Revolution party series at Space Ibiza. The legendary 15 year residency comes to an end Tuesday, September 20th.
It was in 2006 when he last played a vinyl set, leading him to possibly introduce several old tracks that this generation’s ravers may not have heard live yet. He will be in the Discoteca from 8pm Tuesday night until Wednesday morning. The UK DJ says he âwanted to take things back and pay homage to all those years at Space spinning records.â
When talking about his final residency party, âAt the start of my residency, of course I only played vinyl but now everything is digital and has been for some years,” says Cox.
âI want to show respect to those older tunes, dig out some of my old vinyl and play them alongside new tunes. A lot of the crowd probably won’t have even heard them before, so it’s a way of showing the music is still relevant. I thought it was a fitting way to say goodbye. I also want people to know I can still DJ with vinyl and make the house rock. This music has been my life and I want to share it one last time at Space.”
We know Cox will certainly make the house rock for his final show at Space. Joining him for the final celebration also includes tiNI, DJ Sneak, Popof, Nic Fanciulli and others.
