ISLAND DJS: TRISTAN INGRAM
How long have you been coming out to Ibiza?
“This is my 11th full season now and my fi fth as PR manager for Judgement Sunday. I got my fi rst
DJ break at Simples and have built things up ever since. I feel like a bit of a granddad of the island
now!”
What are your main gigs this season?
“I promote my own night Random, at Hush, which is weekly on Tuesday nights. I’m also putting on
my third Breast Cancer Research party at Gala Night, with BK, Jonathan Ulysses, Oliver Lang and
more on Tuesday 28th July. Then there’s four dates at Judgement Sundays, three for Pukka Up and
a few other ones here and there.”
How would you describe your sound right now?
“Funky progressive tech-house!”
Who have been your biggest DJ infl uences?
“It all started with people like Judge Jules and Tall Paul. These days, it’s people like Steve Lawler,
Carl Cox and Jonathan Ulysses but I still love a good stomp to Julesy!”
What’s been your best Ibiza moment?
“Space opening party this year when Carl Cox dropped my track ‘Perfect Sunrise’, with Ali Wilson
and Matt Smallwood. I had no idea he was going to play it. It was without a doubt the best thing
that has ever happened to me in Ibiza.”
What advice would give to DJs trying to crack the island?
“Get over here, get in amongst it, network and get yourself in front of the promoters. It’s no good
sending a mix CD because people get fl ooded with them. I’ve had about 500 for Random already.”
Pitfalls of a season in Ibiza?
“Sleep. Or lack of. Crap internet that won’t let you upload photos and having a pay-as-you-go
credit phone, which costs a fuckin’ fortune!”
What’s next?
“Making load of music to make the step up. We’ve had a couple of tracks signed to Toolroom —
including ‘Perfect Sunrise’, which Tong has been playing on Radio 1. I’ve also done a remix of my
favourite trance classic — X-Cabs’ ‘Neuro 99’ — with Black Russian."
“We’re putting in quality promoters and DJs but just giving
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people a little more for their money.”
Nathan, who started out promoting nights like Gatecrasher
and Renaissance and now runs the workers’ favourite Viva
Bar, has pulled on a decade’s worth of experience on the
Drinks, DJs and island to pull in favours from a range of promoters.
underground sounds for
London/Ibiza techno and tech-house fi ends Mimo, Phil
just ¤50!
Drummond and Paul Jackson’s tech-house touchstone
Luna, Nottingham’s Love Zoo and The Hoxton Whores’
A 50 EURO NOTE will rarely see you through a whole night’s Whorehouse are amongst those getting in on the main
clubbing in Ibiza but at least you won’t need another trip to room action, while the back room welcomes Oliver Lang
the cashpoint for Eden’s Inside Out, on Mondays. Presents and Kid Massive’s Audio Damage Records amongst
Covering entry to the San An club, as well as wristband ac- others.
cess to Eden’s back room where the drinks run free all night, “When I was promoting Gatecrasher at Space a decade
the all-inclusive deal is putting a twist on the all-you-can- ago I ran a DJ competition in Eden’s back room for a new
drink template by teaming it up with a credible soundtrack resident and it was Oliver [Lang] who won and ended up
of tech-house, progressive, techno, upfront electro and playing Space,” remembers Nathan. “Back then Oliver was
fi dget across the two rooms. a bar DJ at Kiwi, which is now Orange Corner. Now he’s an
On top of residents Nathan Viva and Alex Ellenger, DJs established name and is coming back and repaying the
like NYC house legend Lenny Fontana, Mutiny, The Hoxton favour. Hopefully we can use Inside Out to fi nd the next
Whores, Oliver Lang, Retox’s JB and Sonny Wharton add Oliver Lang.”
their individual sounds.
On that note, Nathan’s Viva Presents room will offer a forum
“We’re not looking for beer boys or to empty out the West for worker DJs looking to get their fi rst break on the island.
End into our club. If we wanted to do that we’d have a He is also running a free workers’ daytime party in Eden’s
cheesy, ritzy music policy,” explains Nathan, who conceived back room, every other Thursday, called Sacked, which runs
Inside Out alongside project partner Gavin Stockman. from 4.30pm – 10pm. FFI
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