A SPACE ODYSSEY
Space Ibiza is one of world’s best-
loved clubs and arguably the island’s
grandest talent showroom. As it
celebrates 20 years, we ask 20 key
DJs and promoters to share their
moments of magic from Space…
Words: ALLAN MCGRATH
W
hen nightclub opener Pepe Rosello took for techno sessions full of strong
on a failing Ibizan discothèque and German and Belgian beats,” he
redeveloped it as Space back in 1989, remembers. “It was like nowhere
there was little inkling it would become else of its time and one of the fi rst of
the global totem of Balearic clubbing that it is today — its kind.”
iconic in the very grandest sense of the word.
A late starter on the island compared to the likes of Over the past decade, though, the
Amnesia, Privilege (then called Ku) and Pacha, and club has been best defi ned by con-
situated just off the then less than fashionable folds of stant evolution.
Playa d’en Bossa beach, Space has planted itself at the Beginning in 1998 under the Home
very forefront of club culture for pretty much its entire banner, Darren Hughes and his We
20-year history. Love team’s expertly programmed
Sunday marathons have ushered
For many Ibiza veterans, it was the moment when Pepe Space into a new millennium and con-
gave a young English DJ by the name of Alex P the green fi rmed it as the White Isle’s premier
light to build an outdoor bar and makeshift DJ booth showroom of cross-genre cutting-
that changed the face of Balearic clubbing forever more. edge dance talent. Indeed, nowadays
Unroofed and unrestrained, the much-romanticised era no Ibiza trip is complete without
of the original Space terrace experience was a riot of at least one We Love session, while Carl Cox’s Tuesday the most crystal perfect Funktion One systems around,
carnival hedonism, genre-mocking eclecticism, freak- night residency has embedded itself as one of the island the glass encased terrace has become every bit as leg-
show frivolity and plane-acknowledging cheers. favourites since 2002. endary as the old one, while the new sunset terrace has
Carl Cox, meanwhile, remembers the club’s early role as allowed those afternoon rays to shine on into a new era.
one of the fi rst great after-hours techno sessions. Of course, not all changes were so celebrated. There Now boasting six separate areas, Space 2009 might be a
“If I went to Space in 1994, I used to wake up, have wasn’t a Space fan on earth that cheered the news that different beast but its unique magic remains. As the club
breakfast, dress up, go stand in the queue at 7am, a roof was being forced on their beloved terrace back in celebrates its 20th anniversary, we ask 20 key DJs and
chillout on the terrace with a drink and then go inside 2005. But with extended 6am programming and one of promoters to pick their favourite moments…
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