All this is fair enough however one of the first things i noticed was Ibiza Rocks bar, as i said i wasn’t in San An last year and i didn’t really take in the news that Bar M had been re branded. Bar M was a great bar. In the daytime they played relaxing but great music, i feel the food they have got in that bar is spot on! I would almost go as far as to say you get to much food, i would always recommend the spicy wings!!

Ibiza Rocks bar was very different however, still got the same great staff, great food but the one thing that stuck out like a sore thumb was the new music policy in the bar, Not surprisingly considering the name change, the chilled out beats have gone and replaced with Indie all day long. For me, the heart of the bar has been ripped out and replaced with something extremely average and dull. Moving on from the day time too night and things got no better. Again, Bar M was a great bar for the evenings, I’ve never seen it quiet and it always has great music. Unfortunately, Ibiza Rocks Bar does not continue that, we went last Sunday just after Judge Jules had played for the JS pre party and again, bog standard Indie was being played and the bar was the quietest I’ve ever seen it in an evening. Do they really expect people going to Judgement Sundays (who had the tidy boys playing that week) wanting to listen to Indie before they head of to the club? I certainly didn’t want to so moved on very swiftly with great disappointment after bigging the place up to a puzzled friend.

The next experience of Ibiza Rocks for me was the gig at the hotel. After hearing the music being played in the bar, there was no chance i was putting myself on a boat for the Ibiza Rocks boat party.

My experience of the gig itself was as good as ever, The Vaccines were the head liners and when i looked at the line up for the whole summer i really thought i had pulled the short straw, they did however attribute to a really good gig. The dreaded dull Indie was playing when we first got their but it quickly livened up. Darwin Deez played great and was very entertaining musically and visually.

The Vaccines came on shortly after and considering how little i was looking forwards to it, i thought they were really good and really enjoyed it. To finish of the night off, Zane Lowe did a DJ set. I’ve seen Zane do a DJ set at the hotel before at an opening party so i knew what to expect. Extreme high energy music that gets everyone jumping up and down like idiots…. CHECK!!

Following the gig at the hotel we gave the Bar a miss and headed back to the hotel room for a short while before heading over to Es Paradis for the after party.

Last time i went to an Ibiza rocks after party was for Reclaim The Dance floor, My memories were of a rammed club, 3 rooms of music including an electro room, Zane played the after party and the seasons residents were 2 Many D’s, It was the night Jordan made an appearance, Again, lots of really good music, heard lots of Indie / Rock influenced dance music which was a change to anything else i had found, but really enjoyed it. I felt Ibiza Rocks had generated a new genre of dance music and they were packing out the club with people wanting to listen to it. Indie Rock Dance was born for me!

Unfortunately, Es Paradis could not have been and different, it was quiet to start off with but when people realised Zane would not be playing the after party it went very quiet very quick. The same old dull Indie music policy had made a return and if i was being very generous i would say it was slightly worse than the bad nights i had in the students union i went to listening to exactly the same music.

The only reason it was worse was because at my universities student union, we didn’t have shit falling out of the skirts of girls walking round the dance floor, seriously, that did happen, and it stank, credit to the staff of Es Paradis it was cleared very quickly but at that moment in time someone walked past with a ‘San An Trash’ T Shirt on, and it couldn’t be more fitting. This was the final straw for us and we left very disappointed.
My personal thoughts on this were, how can something that was so good now be so wrong?

Ibiza Rocks is in every nook and cranny this season in Ibiza. The gigs in the hotel are outstanding, speaking to one person i hear the house is something very special (something I’ll never be lucky enough to see), however, the rest of it all (i can’t comment on the boat party) seems to have no effort put into it, they are there to push the brand, but it’s doing the opposite, i want to go to Ibiza Rocks bar and it make me want to indulge more in the brand e.g. go on the boat, by my gig tickets, indulge in the after party, unfortunately it doesn’t.

I think this blog post is a first for me on this blog as it is very critical. Usually, if i don’t have something good to say then i just don’t say it, everyone has their own opinion and Ibiza is big enough to just avoid and go somewhere else.

On this occasion however i feel begrudged, Ibiza Rocks bar has removed a great bar and venue from the Ibiza nightlife and the number of people visiting the bar each time i went past should be a ringing alarm bell.

The gig itself was exactly what i expected and can’t be faulted but the after party was such a let down to what i expected based on past visits and not a night i expect from the people that brought us so many great nights with Manumission. Despite this blog post, i do love Ibiza rocks but i think they have taken their eye of the quality in an attempt to spread the Ibiza Rocks brand further.

This isn’t a slating because I’m a hater; it’s a slating because something that was great 100% of the time is starting to slip in terms of quality.

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Специальный гость:

DJ ROLIK (Латвия, Rolands Club)

Scratch Show by ClouderDJ & DJ ROLIK

Dj резиденты:
DJ Roman (Vodka bar, Туннель)
Dj Seth (Bed cafe, Just cafe)
ClouderDJ (Roxbury Club)
DJ Velann (Roxbury Club)
DJ Soyer (Roxbury Club)
DJ Metrolis

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DJ’s
Gurya
Yesipov
Mike K
Del

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Музыкальный формат:

Commercial house, electro / club hit’s

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Название группы вышло из сборника детских имен, которую Элли Джексон извлекла из мусорной корзины, именно там она нашла для себя псевдоним La Roux (рыжий)

Первый сингл группы ‘Quicksand’ был выпущен в ноябре 2008. Его высшим достижением было 8 место в хит-параде Canadian Hot 100.

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It’s hard to believe now, but ten years ago guys like Paul Oakenfold and Pete Tong ruled the roost in clubland. A decade on, and things couldn’t be more different – in fact it’s hard quite to fathom how the white isle and indeed, dance music, has changed in the time since. New sounds, like new drugs, have come and gone, and nowadays Ibiza incorporates everything from dubstep to rock music in to its seasonal roster. There are however, a number of Djs who’ve still managed to maintain their appeal despite straying down commercial roads. One of these men is Norman Cook aka Fatboy Slim, whose Tuesday night set at Carl Cox’s ‘Join Our Revolution’ party was one of the most anticipated of 2010 so far. With Bedrock label owner John Digweed also joining Cox at the party, the wheels where already set in motion for a special night indeed.

In all truth however, the night expectedly belonged to the reformed Brighton native. Ok, so I’ve grown out of much of his music in recent times, but in terms of pure, unpretentious fun, little beats catching one of the first genuine Dj superstars in action. With a set featuring many an Ibiza classic (Armand van Helden’s remix of Tori Amos’ ‘Professional Widow’, Public Domain’s ‘Rock da Funky Beats’), Mr. Cook captivated his audience throughout with a blend of heavy, surefire party starters. Surprisingly straying away from the opportunity to play a set comprising almost totally of his own crowd-pleasing productions, he ploughed through with a technical ability and ease with which I was under the impression was entirely nonexistent.

Well structured and programmed proficiently throughout, the mixing was refreshingly meticulous and while a number of his electrohouse anthems weren’t to my own taste, they more than satisfied the heaving Space discoteca. While there was doubtlessly little spontaneity attached to the set, Fatboy still excelled in what he presumably set out to do, notably captivating the audience from start to finish. Ending with the singalong anthem that is his own ‘Rockafeller Skank’, the Skint label boss played like a man with a renowned vibrancy for a craft he practically personified in the mid to late 90′s. While no means the most underground sounding set you’ll hear this summer, Slim’s set was nonetheless a potent reminder of why we all love dance music in the first place and with fun in abundance, more underground Djs would do well to take note.

Ringleader Cox was up next and the Intec boss toyed with the crowd in a similar manner, using techno remixes of commercial anthems such as Basement Jaxx’s ‘Where’s Your Head At?’ to shrewdly keep the crowd onside. John Digweed was playing his own blend of percussive heavy techno from the off in the terrace and while he held his own in typically assured manner, it had become abundantly clear half an hour in that he wasn’t going to match the atmosphere of Fatboy’s previous set. If too many Cook’s spoil the broth, no one it seemed, bothered to tell Norman. An invigorated return.

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On Saturday 24 March, Laurent Garnier hosted one of his bi-monthly musical masterclasses at The End.

The club is very much his regular London abode, was witnessed by his regular appearances, and of course the fact that the management often let him play well past the 7am closing time. He’s also guaranteed to expand upon his love of music of all types; if you’re a purist you may be disappointed, because he’ll drop drum and bass, electro and even rock tracks next to his beloved techno (his own tracks mixed seamlessly with other people’s – and we really mean seamlessly, just watch his hands blur as his face remains stoic, apart from the occasional grin when a classic peaks, of course).

Nowadays DJs like Erol Alkan are well-known for rocking club dancefloors with guitar tunes, while producers like 2manyDJs started out in the music world as a band called Soulwax, but Laurent was playing random bits of rock, if we may call Nirvana’s ‘Smell’s Like Teen Spirit‘ such, long before London’s indie DJ don was playing a load of ‘Trash’ (his famous indie-electro-dance night, that also resided at The End) and anyone had heard of two Belgian brothers who wanted to play Dolly Parton alongside Vitalic.

However, we digress. Laurent’s all-night-long set was the usual concoction of tunes, with early highlights being Liquid’s ‘Sweet Harmony‘ and Technotronic‘s Pump Up The Jam. Both resulted in early hands-in-the-air moments for many a clubber, plus a quite a smile from M. Garnier himself. The nu-rave people may be playing these tunes ‘ironically’, but it takes nerve to pull these out of your record bag at a club as well-known as The End, ex-Hacienda resident or not.

If there’s one criticism that could be made, it’s that a fan who’s seen Laurent DJ on several occasions can hear the various ‘sections’ in his set i.e ‘the high NRG section, the drum and bass section’ etc. But that’s a small price to pay to see house heads lose it to classics like Lil Louis’ ‘French Kiss‘ mixed into what was revealed to be Jimmy Sommerville‘s highly camp disco classic You Make Me Feel, only to run into Dan Hartman’s original version of ‘Relight My Fire‘. Laurent was a DJ way before house music, back when the term ‘dance music’ meant disco – and way before Saturday Night Fever was made to cash in and simplify the complex melodies that real disco produced ­– and there’s no way he’ll ever let us forget it. True, if you’ve heard Laurent play at The End before, these tracks aren’t new to you, but they still get so little attention that it’s good that a stalwart of the scene rinsing them out for the masses.

The variety never really ends either, with a breaks version of Blur’s ‘Song 2‘ dropping around seven am, and finally ending the night playing the kind of epic techno that is rarely see in these minimal-loving days. So, see you in two months everybody?

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