DUBSTEP
Bass Breaks
IN IBIZA…
The big question is… will
The Balearics
dubstep in Ibiza work?
It’s round one as the dubstep
BENGA
“Defi nitely. Our
heavyweights hit Ibiza...
sound has got the
energy and that
energy works any-
S
kream, Benga, Rusko, Caspa, Chase & Sta- where we’ve taken
tus… otherwise known as the ‘Big Five’. it. Over the past
They might have torn up the rulebooks few years I can’t
and bossed dancefl oors the world over but think of anywhere
when it comes to Ibiza they haven’t even stepped I have played
foot on the island let alone infl uenced it. where I have had
Until this summer, that is. This year Ibiza Rocks’ a bad reaction.
after-party Reclaim The Dancefl oor is stepping out Ibiza will be just
with a dubstep bolstered line-up that brings dub- the same.”
step’s Big Five to the island for the fi rst time.
Taking place at Eden in San Antonio, the night looks
to smash a riotous, eclectic jackhammer into the
linear house and techno that rules Ibiza’s big rooms SKREAM
with names like Boys Noize, Brodinski, Fake Blood, “With the sort of
Toddla T and Sinden joining the dubstep crew. strength that dubstep
“Dubstep is the defi ning new sound of youth dance is enjoying right now,
music so someone’s got to represent it in Ibiza — it’s hard to see it
why not us?” explains Doorly, resident DJ and music failing. Part of me
programmer at Reclaim The Dancefl oor.
Caspa
is a bit cautious but
“Our night runs in San Antonio so we should have a that’s only because
large English crowd on our doorstep but the sound is I’ve never even been
spreading across Europe and beyond. It really is the The Fat’s Paul Arnold, who has booked master of out there before and
sound of now.” sinister bass wobble Raffertie to play his fortnightly I’ve always seen it as
room at We Love… Sundays at Space. “The younger a house dominated
No longer the preserve of spoddy boys and dark audiences across Europe want to hear the music that island. But then
rooms, dubstep has crossed over the divides this they love, not the music of 20 years ago. So if they there are so many
year and holds fi rm as a bass-heavy party sound- see dubstep and other fresh sounds in Ibiza it surely British clubbers
track wherever it goes. With Skream’s La Roux remix gives them more reason to go.” out there and I am
strong-arming its way onto the daytime playlists of playing some funky
Radio 1 and Snoop Dogg hijacking Chase & Status’s And with Ibiza’s musical plates shifting more than style tracks right
‘Eastern Jam’ beats, its global hype is a force that ever, fans of low bass frequencies will fi nd even more now too.”
Ibiza cannot ignore. reason to visit the island through the presence of
“With the economic issues, everyone needs to work a weekly drum & bass night Prang. Alternating Fabio
bit harder to get people over to Ibiza,” believes Chew and Grooverider as fortnightly residents, Prang will
present the biggest names in the business in its bid
to become the fi rst weekly d&b night to conquer the RUSKO
island. “It’s what people are
“We’ve all been out here for the past four or fi ve loving right now so
years and while there’s been bits and pieces of d&b why not? Me and Caspa
there’s been nothing totally dedicated to it,” says have played lots of
Prang’s Dan Corner. “It has always worked well events where we’ve
when people like Roni Size and Marky have played been the only dubstep
at Carl Cox’s events or at We Love so there’s clearly a DJs on the bill and
want for it. It’s just down to people taking a bit of a people go crazy for it.
gamble.” The best shows are
the ones where you
Reclaim The Dancefl oor takes place at Eden every have a crowd of new
Tuesday, from 16th June, with Chase & Status (23rd ears and clear heads
June & 21st July), Skream (4th August), Benga (25th — you see people
August) and Caspa (8th September). getting their heads
Prang takes place at Es Paradis every Sunday, from blown off by sounds
7th June, with Grooverider, Fabio, Danny Byrd (19th they’ve never heard
July), Benga (26th July), Shy FX (26th July & 9th & before.”
23rd August) and Marcus Intalex (2nd August).
Chase & Status
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