Dubfire
Jonathan Ulysses
ALFREDO
on the atmosphere was fuckin’ electric, and they
Balearic beat originator recalls classic carry-on started cutting up the cake and handing it out to
(summer 2001) people.
“My best moments were playing together with my son “That’s the way to celebrate your 30th birthday and
Jaime and Danny Tenaglia for Manumission’s Carry that sums up Space. It’s not about being treated like
On after-hours party in 2001. The terrace was still a superstar… it’s about being treated like part of the
open air, the vibes were really happy, clowns on the family.”
dancefloor, and we played for about four hours. It
was the time of ‘Finally’ by The Kings of Tomorrow so
that got a huge reaction, but we mixed everything DUBFIRE
from tech-house, Balearic tracks like ‘Yeke Yeke’ and Deep Dish round off mental weekend at Space
Ramirez’ ‘Hablando’ and even Artful Dodger’s ‘Woman (September 2002)
Trouble.’” “It was one of those crazy weekends when we were
doing multiple gigs in different countries, spending
JONATHAN ULYSSES
a matter of hours in each one and only seeing the
insides of hotel rooms — and it ended up at Space.
Sunset terrace resident clocks the cat in the hat “We were so late landing in Ibiza that we arrived five
(summer 2001) or ten minutes before we were due on the decks... we
“When I finished playing on the terrace, I noticed Jay didn’t even have time to get to the hotel! I started
Kay from Jamiroquai and TV star Denise Van Outen with an old song called ‘Where Has The Love Gone’
fully embracing the vibe and getting involved with by Holly Johnson — the old ‘GTO Remix’ — a big
the madness that is Space. Then all of a sudden Jay Washington rave anthem for me back in the early-
hopped on top of the speaker and started pulling all ’90s. With tunes that old, there are only a handful of
his crazy Jamiroquai moves. people that get them, but as I looked out into the sea
“Out of nowhere Space owner Pepe Rosello appeared of faces I could see those who it was connecting with
and started tapping Jay Kay on the leg, telling him to and it totally brought me on to their level.”
get off the speaker ‘now!’ Some punter was like, ‘Hey,
do you know who that is? It’s Jay Kay’ and Pepe coolly
replied, ‘I don’t care, it’s my club’. Jay wasn’t in the YOUSEF
club ten minutes later!” Circus leader cleans up for Coxy
(summer 2005)
STEVE LAWLER
“Four summers ago, Carl gave me free reign over the
Le Terrazza from open to close — 11.30pm ’til 6am…
Terrace king's has birthday to remember… and then 7am and then eventually 8am. I really got
(Space opening party 2002) to flex as a DJ, playing deep underground house,
“Playing the Space terrace on your birthday is about blistering techno, Balearic classics and vocals in the
as good as it gets as a DJ, but as I looked out from the best environment possible.
decks and into the crowd I saw this birthday cake the “But as the full morning sun was blazing away I
size of a small swimming pool being carried out by the dropped Danny Tenaglia’s remix of Green Velvet’s
dance troupe. Pepe, the owner, came into the booth, ‘Flash’, which was a total contrast to the emerging
got the microphone out, turned the music right down light — it was chaos!
and — in four different languages — asked the club to “Laurent Garnier and Carl were in the main room that
sing ‘Happy Birthday’. night but I feel I went 12 rounds with the best and
“Having no clue any of this was going to happen, it nudged it on a points decision. It was a really pivotal
was so overwhelming and once we put the music back moment for me a DJ.”
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