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One of my proudest career signings that become world famous with over 15 Million sales of the CD's and a project that launched a complete genre of music. Originally released on React as a UK only CD I picked up on the series from number 4 and took it for the World. The timing was ripe. Although it took a lot of arm twisting in Mercury to make them sign the project - a few red faces later who said it would never work - a common theme in my work and something that makes me smile because then I know its going to be a success. Oddly enough, almost as a sign of the future to come, in 1988, whilst working for MCA Records, I compiled and named an album called The Sunset Sound Of LA so I was on the right track years before - as usual. And guess where I live now watching the Sunset? Yes in LA. Life is strange how it twists and turns. My daughter Olivia was brought into the world with a Cafe Del Mar CD playing in the delivery room to help her Mummy relax - it must have worked because she was out within 45mins. Also, whenever Olivia used to cry on a long journey in the car we'd put that Cafe Del Mar CD on, she'd stop crying and start listening to the music.
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I can claim the sole responsibility of persuading Pepe and Fritz of Space Ibiza to move their DJ Box from inside the Bar to the centre of the Space Terrace and allowing DJ Carl Cox to play a full on House music set on the Terrace instead of playing his pumping Techno tunes inside the venue. Now every DJ in the World wants to play the Space Terrace and Carl does it every year - but that first time was magic, something extra-ordinary. Carl literally tore the roof off and we had to go up and tie it back down again. I still have the CD to prove it. That performance, recorded by EG that day, won two The Essential Mix of the Year 1998 awards, on BBC Radio 1 and in the Muzik Magazine '98 Polls. Well done and Thank you Carl.
Photo is at Space Ibiza in the now legenday Space Terrace DJ booth where I'm photographed looking tanned and seriously concentrating. I'm probably watching some Space madness or a Space Bikini girl dancing crazy because that dance floor always had something jaw dropping going on :-)
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A zillion words have been written, spoken and sung about Ibiza, that party Island off the coast of Spain, its clubs, music, notoriety and unique place in the world. True to EG life path I did my bit to ignite the flame of interest and true to form the Island's energy caressed me, inspired me, loved me, burnt me and left an indelible mark on my soul, but I'm proud of my contribution. It was always from the heart not the Euro.
My daughter Olivia is 9 years old and loves going to Ibiza which obviously has nothing to do with the clubs, she likes to eat there, visit the beaches and to feel free from School like the children from centuries gone by. In fact she has been going every year since she was 3 months old and I fully expect to receive telephone calls from her in her teenage years to come at 8am saying that she still has not gone to bed yet as I'm making my first cup of tea of the day.
Many have gone to Ibiza to conquer all only to be spat back out, themselves totally conquered.
Please read on and excuse the jovial bits as history needs a bit of humour added to help it along. Going as far back as 654 bc. the Carthage’s landed on Ibiza, naming it Ibossom and building Ibiza City, creating one of the oldest cities in Europe. Then from the 1st and 5th century the Roman's controlled the Island naming it as Ebusus, a place for rest and recuperation, rather than under the Roman realm of control. The Roman remains that are still present today are a copies of statues at the main gate to the old part of town and a small bridge in Santa Eulalia.
After the Roman period between the 5th and 9th century different tribes, such as the aptly named, the Barbarians and the Byzantians came and raved on the islands leaving behind very little that culturally is still evident.
Fast forward to the 9th century the Arabs pulled into the dock, staying for over 4 centuries. They called the island Yebisah, strengthened the City walls, which still stand today, and built their Mosque. Some of today's Ibiza influences in art and music are directly related to that Arabian period.
All was peacefully Shalom until one sunny morning on the 8th August 1235 when the Catalonians conquered Ibiza and tore down the Mosque of IbizaCity, upon which they built today’s Catholic Cathedral. Naming the villages and churches after the saints Santa Eulalia, San Antonio, San Miguel and San Jorge, which are still the remaining elder villages from this period. Freedom of expression was not accepted thank you per favor under strict Catholic rules and anybody not compiling was sent packing without their condoms or straw donkeys.
The island was renamed Eivissa, after the city, put under control of mainland Spain and left to its own devices with periodic raids from Pirates. Similar to today you might say but in a different sense. Now Eivissa, along with the islands Mallorca, Minorca and Formentera belongs to the region of the Balearic, which Spain autocratically rules with half an eye closed to some of the now legendary infamy. They should have opened a club called DeVices, it would have been perfectly apt.
The next 'invasions', as such, come right up to date and they include the hippies who found a form of paradise on the island. The sense of which, with its spiritual freedom, enveloped me on my first visits in the early 90's. The Hippies tell stories of the lost city of Atlantis under the sea bed of Es Vedrá, the rock nearly 400 metres high that sits in the sea off the shore of Cala d'Hort. On our first trip Liz and I were discovering the Island's off the road places by Scooter and ventured down this long long old dirty track to see where it went then after a mile stumbled on the restaurant Es Boldado but it was that Rock that demanded your attention. I have since taken lots of friends down that dusty track to eat and look at that proud creation of nature. Es Vedrá is also known as the Island of the Sirens from the book Homers Odyssey, the Sirens tried to put Odysseus under their spell by singing sweetly across the water to him - sounds like a Sunset evening at Cafe Del Mar. The rock Es Vedrá has often been quoted as having mythical powers around its waters but the crowning glory in mythical Ibiza folklore is being widely claimed as featuring in "The Prophecies, by M. Michel Nostradamus saying that at the fall of the world only Ibiza would still be free to inhabit.
Which probably was mixed into their folk lore from his method of receiving information to his sixth sense as Nostradamus himself describes "emptying my soul, mind and heart of all care, worry and unease through mental calm and tranquility".
Not an uncommon state to enjoy the energies of Ibiza whether from Yoga, more chemical, or alcoholic means especially, again, if you're sitting outside Cafe Del Mar in San Antonio at Sunset with a drink in your hand as the Sun lays its glittery silvery blanket on the sea right up to the shore - bliss.
Continuing with the theme of 'invasions' two profound, no maybe three, chapters were the reason for the 'explosion' of interest in the 1990's through to this very day and they were Ecstasy, the Brits with House Music and the British Broadcasting Corporation. Obviously I have to tread carefully here but 'invasions' they certainly were because they changed the Island maybe forever, personally I hope not.
First Ecstasy, which in the late 60's early 70's was prescribed as a Love-drug to help Vietnam Veterans in the USA re-ignite their love lives with their long suffering girlfriends after their 13 month draft admist the horrors of the Vietcong war. A lot of the Soldiers were so imaged damaged from the scenes of the war that they couldn't get 'old johnny' up for duty so were given a form of Ecstasy to assist the passionate demands of their Mary-Lou's needing to make love. "Listen buddie its been over a year now. I need a good shagging, the rabbit is worn out and hey what's that 'love me long time' tattoo on your butt cheek all about?"
The 'Love Drug' soon found its way into the San Francisco Gay scene and into the New York Disco revolution, itself very openly Gay, before moving across the Atlantic Ocean with the visiting UK pop stars of the 80's like Boy George, Marc Almond, The Pet Shop Boys and Wham who had hit the New York clubs. The infamous parties that Freddie Mercury had at Pikes Hotel tell of the Hotel being closed to guests so Freddie could take the place over with his entourage of dwarfs and leather-laden lads. I know this to be true as it came from the owner of Pikes Hotel, the legendary Tony Pike, now in his 70's. At Pikes you can clearly see a mixture of Arabic and Balearic cultures. Pikes Hotel was also where George Michael and Andrew Ridgley shot the video to their Wham 80's hit record "Club Tropicana".
Here's the Youtube video link as shot in 1984 with Tony's mustache welcoming all in his red neck tie, sombrero and ready for any action shorts. Copy and paste this link to see the vid
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIzVoNq9f9s
Once firmly in Ibiza the 'Love Drug' was soon picked up by the burgeoning House Music DJ's of the mid to late 80's right through to the end of the 90's when a hippie sense of liberty prevailed where a DJ could play across the board musically to raise the spirits of the "ecstasy" filled floors from the melodies of "Pacific State" to "Sympathy for the Devil", a 1967 song by The Rolling Stones. Improvisation was the key to bringing out the rapturous responses from the dancing hordes. As David Bowie once sang 'from Ibiza to the Norfolk Broads" in a song called "Life On Mars", itself a perfect parody of the unique place in the world that Ibiza was in the sense that it might as well be Life on Mars because it is so different to the rest of the world (now the influence has spread far and wide).
DJ Alfredo caused a huge impression with his DJ'ing sets from Amnesia, a club that literally was there for the insomniacs out dancing all night until 7am. Alfredo was not really a mixing DJ at first he spun a tapestry of music to fit the mood so he could literally go from 90 bpm to 140 bpm in three records and not lose the floor because he was mood inspired. It was Alfredo's influence over Paul Oakenfold, Nicky Holloway, Johnny Walker and Danny Rampling, 4 DJ's from London, which started the entire Acid House movement which shook Britain to the very core of its Royal subjects. This UK "acid phenomenon" was naturally brought to Ibiza for its summer holiday where all night partying was de rigour, required, almost stamped on your passport upon entry in Eivissa Airport. A marriage made in heaven I believe, the menage a trios (threesome), of Ibiza, Ecstasy and House Music.
Anybody visiting Ibiza these last 20 years would probably agree with that assumption but when you throw into the bubbling pan the final ingredient of the British Broadcasting Corporation you then have more than a revolution, you have a seismic explosion. And it was. The broadcasting of the parties of Ibiza to the rest of the world via the BBC network brought the eyes of the world's media to the island like the paparazzi to the Oscars. I have often heard it said that if you want to sell an album online just put Ibiza into the title like "The Ministry Of Aliens Chant Ibiza Mantra" and some people will buy it regardless.
Now every year during the first week of August BBC Radio 1 invade the Island and its impossible to park your car, get a drink at the bar or get a seat at your favourite restaurants but its big fun for a lot of people who enjoy the buzz so its cool.
I have opinions on the good and bad of Ibiza in its current invaded state but I understand that opinions are like onions - they are not very attractive or digested well if taken raw so I'll just close by saying I helped ignite the Ibiza flame with some love, sound and vision and without embellishing my contribution I'll just list some of what I remember below in year dates.
Me? I've done my bit and more now I'm looking further afield at new horizons. As the song says by ... Edith Piaf, the first lady of French chanson. ... Je Ne Regrette Rien"
Thank you Elizabeth Walton. Gracias mucho mi amigo Miquel and Rocio Ferrera the Flower of Ibiza. Welcome to the world Carlita. Mucho gracias Ibossom, Ebusus,Yebisah, Eivissia, Ibiza.
I sincerely hope that Nostradamus's Ibiza prophecy's don't come true one day as the last place on earth where civilisation will remain after a global catastrophe....
"Hey are you going to Armageddon tonight? Yeah we all are, I hear its going on forever."
1994 - first visit with lovely girlfriend Liz Walton for a few days on a Scooter a week before we started Manifesto Records for Polygram Music.
1995 - Introduce BBC Radio 1 to the island with the Essential Mix from Manumission and the Pete Tong "I don't want to play in Ibiza" Essential Selection Show live from Cafe Del Mar. (Guess where Tong's been playing for 14 years?)
1995 - Sign the Cafe Del Mar albums to a Worldwide 5 year deal on my dance label Manifesto Records through Polygram.
1996 - Sign Cafe Del Mar DJ Jose Padilla to a 2 album deal with my dance label Manifesto Records through Polygram - 2nd album wins a Latin Grammy.
1996 - Bring BBC Radio 1 back to Ibiza with Danny Rampling, Pete Tong and Dave Pearce Shows from Cafe Del Mar and Cafe Mambo, Essential Mix Show live from Amnesia.
1996 - Bring my Manifesto label with 10 people to Ibiza to market the label and prepare for the first Cafe Del Mar CD release
1996 - Indo Aminata performs the first ever live showcase outside Cafe Del Mar to the Sunset to rapturous applause.
1997 - Bring BBC Radio 1 back to Ibiza with the Pete Tong, Danny Rampling, Judge Jules and Dave Pearce shows from Cafe Del Mar and Cafe Mambo. The Essential Mix with Pete Tong and Danny Rampling live from PACHA. First ever Tong gig at PACHA.
1997 - the first Worldwide release of the Cafe Del Mar CD wins critical acclaim in the media. The chill-out revolution is ignited.
1998 - Design with Cafe Mambo the logo for the Eden club. A Peach cut in half. Juicy.
1998 - Persuade SPACE to put the Terrace DJ on the Terrace itself instead of behind the Bar. Persuade DJ Carl Cox for his first ever Space Terrace gig , he literally tears the roof off. Now the DJ box on the Terrace is a permanent fixture and one of the most desired places to play in the world by DJ's. Carl Cox's show recorded that day by myself wins The Muzik Mag's Essential Mix of The Year.
1998 - Bring BBC Radio 1 back with Dave Pearce, Danny Rampling, Judge Jules, Pete Tong, The Essential Mix Show.
1998 - Manifesto Records release the 2nd Worldwide release of Cafe Del Mar CD - series goes on to sell over 15 million copies.
1999 - BBC Radio 1 in Ibiza wholesale the entire station doing shows from the Island
1999 - 3rd Worldwide Release of Cafe Del Mar CD on Manifesto Records.
2000 - Launch world's first ever duel internet Radio Show with Camera's live from Cafe Mambo - www.ibizamusica.com. DJ Roger Sanchez No:1 Single in UK features live at Sunset on six Cam to the World online.
2000 - Release Cafe Mambo Siesta II Sunset Double CD Worldwide.
2000 - BBC Radio 1 live in Ibiza etc.
2000 - 4th Worldwide Release of Cafe Del Mar CD on Manifesto Records
2000 - Release Live from Space The World's Sexiest Club CD on Neo Records Worldwide.
2001 - BBC Radio 1 Live in Ibiza etc
2001 - Put in a studio above Cafe Mambo to run Ibizamix.com streaming live music and images to the world from Ibiza
2001 - 5th Worldwide Release of Cafe Del Mar CD on Manifesto Records
2001 - Release Space The World's Sexiest Club 01 CD in UK, America, Asia, France, Germany, Australia.
2002 - Siesta II Sunset from Pikes Hotel CD released on Neo Records
2002 - BBC Radio 1 live in Ibiza etc
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2009 - BBC Radio 1 still in Ibiza, Cafe Del Mar, Space Club are Worldwide brands, Ibiza the destination, passage of rites for the young, the wanna-be's and Superstars from all over the world.
Contact/complain/confer - eddie.gordon@yahoo.com
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Ed In Ibiza
Cafe del Mar
One of my proudest career signings that become world famous with over 15 Million sales of the CD's and a project that launched a complete genre of music. Originally released on React as a UK only CD I picked up on the series from number 4 and took it for the World. The timing was ripe. Although it took a lot of arm twisting in Mercury to make them sign the project - a few red faces later who said it would never work - a common theme in my work and something that makes me smile because then I know its going to be a success. Oddly enough, almost as a sign of the future to come, in 1988, whilst working for MCA Records, I compiled and named an album called The Sunset Sound Of LA so I was on the right track years before - as usual. And guess where I live now watching the Sunset? Yes in LA. Life is strange how it twists and turns. My daughter Olivia was brought into the world with a Cafe Del Mar CD playing in the delivery room to help her Mummy relax - it must have worked because she was out within 45mins. Also, whenever Olivia used to cry on a long journey in the car we'd put that Cafe Del Mar CD on, she'd stop crying and start listening to the music.more...
Space Terrace Ibiza with DJ Carl Cox
I can claim the sole responsibility of persuading Pepe and Fritz of Space Ibiza to move their DJ Box from inside the Bar to the centre of the Space Terrace and allowing DJ Carl Cox to play a full on House music set on the Terrace instead of playing his pumping Techno tunes inside the venue. Now every DJ in the World wants to play the Space Terrace and Carl does it every year - but that first time was magic, something extra-ordinary. Carl literally tore the roof off and we had to go up and tie it back down again. I still have the CD to prove it. That performance, recorded by EG that day, won two The Essential Mix of the Year 1998 awards, on BBC Radio 1 and in the Muzik Magazine '98 Polls. Well done and Thank you Carl.Photo is at Space Ibiza in the now legenday Space Terrace DJ booth where I'm photographed looking tanned and seriously concentrating. I'm probably watching some Space madness or a Space Bikini girl dancing crazy because that dance floor always had something jaw dropping going on :-)
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Ibiza
A zillion words have been written, spoken and sung about Ibiza, that party Island off the coast of Spain, its clubs, music, notoriety and unique place in the world. True to EG life path I did my bit to ignite the flame of interest and true to form the Island's energy caressed me, inspired me, loved me, burnt me and left an indelible mark on my soul, but I'm proud of my contribution. It was always from the heart not the Euro.My daughter Olivia is 9 years old and loves going to Ibiza which obviously has nothing to do with the clubs, she likes to eat there, visit the beaches and to feel free from School like the children from centuries gone by. In fact she has been going every year since she was 3 months old and I fully expect to receive telephone calls from her in her teenage years to come at 8am saying that she still has not gone to bed yet as I'm making my first cup of tea of the day.
Many have gone to Ibiza to conquer all only to be spat back out, themselves totally conquered.
Please read on and excuse the jovial bits as history needs a bit of humour added to help it along. Going as far back as 654 bc. the Carthage’s landed on Ibiza, naming it Ibossom and building Ibiza City, creating one of the oldest cities in Europe. Then from the 1st and 5th century the Roman's controlled the Island naming it as Ebusus, a place for rest and recuperation, rather than under the Roman realm of control. The Roman remains that are still present today are a copies of statues at the main gate to the old part of town and a small bridge in Santa Eulalia.
After the Roman period between the 5th and 9th century different tribes, such as the aptly named, the Barbarians and the Byzantians came and raved on the islands leaving behind very little that culturally is still evident.
Fast forward to the 9th century the Arabs pulled into the dock, staying for over 4 centuries. They called the island Yebisah, strengthened the City walls, which still stand today, and built their Mosque. Some of today's Ibiza influences in art and music are directly related to that Arabian period.
All was peacefully Shalom until one sunny morning on the 8th August 1235 when the Catalonians conquered Ibiza and tore down the Mosque of IbizaCity, upon which they built today’s Catholic Cathedral. Naming the villages and churches after the saints Santa Eulalia, San Antonio, San Miguel and San Jorge, which are still the remaining elder villages from this period. Freedom of expression was not accepted thank you per favor under strict Catholic rules and anybody not compiling was sent packing without their condoms or straw donkeys.
The island was renamed Eivissa, after the city, put under control of mainland Spain and left to its own devices with periodic raids from Pirates. Similar to today you might say but in a different sense. Now Eivissa, along with the islands Mallorca, Minorca and Formentera belongs to the region of the Balearic, which Spain autocratically rules with half an eye closed to some of the now legendary infamy. They should have opened a club called DeVices, it would have been perfectly apt.
The next 'invasions', as such, come right up to date and they include the hippies who found a form of paradise on the island. The sense of which, with its spiritual freedom, enveloped me on my first visits in the early 90's. The Hippies tell stories of the lost city of Atlantis under the sea bed of Es Vedrá, the rock nearly 400 metres high that sits in the sea off the shore of Cala d'Hort. On our first trip Liz and I were discovering the Island's off the road places by Scooter and ventured down this long long old dirty track to see where it went then after a mile stumbled on the restaurant Es Boldado but it was that Rock that demanded your attention. I have since taken lots of friends down that dusty track to eat and look at that proud creation of nature. Es Vedrá is also known as the Island of the Sirens from the book Homers Odyssey, the Sirens tried to put Odysseus under their spell by singing sweetly across the water to him - sounds like a Sunset evening at Cafe Del Mar. The rock Es Vedrá has often been quoted as having mythical powers around its waters but the crowning glory in mythical Ibiza folklore is being widely claimed as featuring in "The Prophecies, by M. Michel Nostradamus saying that at the fall of the world only Ibiza would still be free to inhabit.
Which probably was mixed into their folk lore from his method of receiving information to his sixth sense as Nostradamus himself describes "emptying my soul, mind and heart of all care, worry and unease through mental calm and tranquility".
Not an uncommon state to enjoy the energies of Ibiza whether from Yoga, more chemical, or alcoholic means especially, again, if you're sitting outside Cafe Del Mar in San Antonio at Sunset with a drink in your hand as the Sun lays its glittery silvery blanket on the sea right up to the shore - bliss.
Continuing with the theme of 'invasions' two profound, no maybe three, chapters were the reason for the 'explosion' of interest in the 1990's through to this very day and they were Ecstasy, the Brits with House Music and the British Broadcasting Corporation. Obviously I have to tread carefully here but 'invasions' they certainly were because they changed the Island maybe forever, personally I hope not.
First Ecstasy, which in the late 60's early 70's was prescribed as a Love-drug to help Vietnam Veterans in the USA re-ignite their love lives with their long suffering girlfriends after their 13 month draft admist the horrors of the Vietcong war. A lot of the Soldiers were so imaged damaged from the scenes of the war that they couldn't get 'old johnny' up for duty so were given a form of Ecstasy to assist the passionate demands of their Mary-Lou's needing to make love. "Listen buddie its been over a year now. I need a good shagging, the rabbit is worn out and hey what's that 'love me long time' tattoo on your butt cheek all about?"
The 'Love Drug' soon found its way into the San Francisco Gay scene and into the New York Disco revolution, itself very openly Gay, before moving across the Atlantic Ocean with the visiting UK pop stars of the 80's like Boy George, Marc Almond, The Pet Shop Boys and Wham who had hit the New York clubs. The infamous parties that Freddie Mercury had at Pikes Hotel tell of the Hotel being closed to guests so Freddie could take the place over with his entourage of dwarfs and leather-laden lads. I know this to be true as it came from the owner of Pikes Hotel, the legendary Tony Pike, now in his 70's. At Pikes you can clearly see a mixture of Arabic and Balearic cultures. Pikes Hotel was also where George Michael and Andrew Ridgley shot the video to their Wham 80's hit record "Club Tropicana".
Here's the Youtube video link as shot in 1984 with Tony's mustache welcoming all in his red neck tie, sombrero and ready for any action shorts. Copy and paste this link to see the vid
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIzVoNq9f9s
Once firmly in Ibiza the 'Love Drug' was soon picked up by the burgeoning House Music DJ's of the mid to late 80's right through to the end of the 90's when a hippie sense of liberty prevailed where a DJ could play across the board musically to raise the spirits of the "ecstasy" filled floors from the melodies of "Pacific State" to "Sympathy for the Devil", a 1967 song by The Rolling Stones. Improvisation was the key to bringing out the rapturous responses from the dancing hordes. As David Bowie once sang 'from Ibiza to the Norfolk Broads" in a song called "Life On Mars", itself a perfect parody of the unique place in the world that Ibiza was in the sense that it might as well be Life on Mars because it is so different to the rest of the world (now the influence has spread far and wide).
DJ Alfredo caused a huge impression with his DJ'ing sets from Amnesia, a club that literally was there for the insomniacs out dancing all night until 7am. Alfredo was not really a mixing DJ at first he spun a tapestry of music to fit the mood so he could literally go from 90 bpm to 140 bpm in three records and not lose the floor because he was mood inspired. It was Alfredo's influence over Paul Oakenfold, Nicky Holloway, Johnny Walker and Danny Rampling, 4 DJ's from London, which started the entire Acid House movement which shook Britain to the very core of its Royal subjects. This UK "acid phenomenon" was naturally brought to Ibiza for its summer holiday where all night partying was de rigour, required, almost stamped on your passport upon entry in Eivissa Airport. A marriage made in heaven I believe, the menage a trios (threesome), of Ibiza, Ecstasy and House Music.
Anybody visiting Ibiza these last 20 years would probably agree with that assumption but when you throw into the bubbling pan the final ingredient of the British Broadcasting Corporation you then have more than a revolution, you have a seismic explosion. And it was. The broadcasting of the parties of Ibiza to the rest of the world via the BBC network brought the eyes of the world's media to the island like the paparazzi to the Oscars. I have often heard it said that if you want to sell an album online just put Ibiza into the title like "The Ministry Of Aliens Chant Ibiza Mantra" and some people will buy it regardless.
Now every year during the first week of August BBC Radio 1 invade the Island and its impossible to park your car, get a drink at the bar or get a seat at your favourite restaurants but its big fun for a lot of people who enjoy the buzz so its cool.
I have opinions on the good and bad of Ibiza in its current invaded state but I understand that opinions are like onions - they are not very attractive or digested well if taken raw so I'll just close by saying I helped ignite the Ibiza flame with some love, sound and vision and without embellishing my contribution I'll just list some of what I remember below in year dates.
Me? I've done my bit and more now I'm looking further afield at new horizons. As the song says by ... Edith Piaf, the first lady of French chanson. ... Je Ne Regrette Rien"
Thank you Elizabeth Walton. Gracias mucho mi amigo Miquel and Rocio Ferrera the Flower of Ibiza. Welcome to the world Carlita. Mucho gracias Ibossom, Ebusus,Yebisah, Eivissia, Ibiza.
I sincerely hope that Nostradamus's Ibiza prophecy's don't come true one day as the last place on earth where civilisation will remain after a global catastrophe....
"Hey are you going to Armageddon tonight? Yeah we all are, I hear its going on forever."
1994 - first visit with lovely girlfriend Liz Walton for a few days on a Scooter a week before we started Manifesto Records for Polygram Music.
1995 - Introduce BBC Radio 1 to the island with the Essential Mix from Manumission and the Pete Tong "I don't want to play in Ibiza" Essential Selection Show live from Cafe Del Mar. (Guess where Tong's been playing for 14 years?)
1995 - Sign the Cafe Del Mar albums to a Worldwide 5 year deal on my dance label Manifesto Records through Polygram.
1996 - Sign Cafe Del Mar DJ Jose Padilla to a 2 album deal with my dance label Manifesto Records through Polygram - 2nd album wins a Latin Grammy.
1996 - Bring BBC Radio 1 back to Ibiza with Danny Rampling, Pete Tong and Dave Pearce Shows from Cafe Del Mar and Cafe Mambo, Essential Mix Show live from Amnesia.
1996 - Bring my Manifesto label with 10 people to Ibiza to market the label and prepare for the first Cafe Del Mar CD release
1996 - Indo Aminata performs the first ever live showcase outside Cafe Del Mar to the Sunset to rapturous applause.
1997 - Bring BBC Radio 1 back to Ibiza with the Pete Tong, Danny Rampling, Judge Jules and Dave Pearce shows from Cafe Del Mar and Cafe Mambo. The Essential Mix with Pete Tong and Danny Rampling live from PACHA. First ever Tong gig at PACHA.
1997 - the first Worldwide release of the Cafe Del Mar CD wins critical acclaim in the media. The chill-out revolution is ignited.
1998 - Design with Cafe Mambo the logo for the Eden club. A Peach cut in half. Juicy.
1998 - Persuade SPACE to put the Terrace DJ on the Terrace itself instead of behind the Bar. Persuade DJ Carl Cox for his first ever Space Terrace gig , he literally tears the roof off. Now the DJ box on the Terrace is a permanent fixture and one of the most desired places to play in the world by DJ's. Carl Cox's show recorded that day by myself wins The Muzik Mag's Essential Mix of The Year.
1998 - Bring BBC Radio 1 back with Dave Pearce, Danny Rampling, Judge Jules, Pete Tong, The Essential Mix Show.
1998 - Manifesto Records release the 2nd Worldwide release of Cafe Del Mar CD - series goes on to sell over 15 million copies.
1999 - BBC Radio 1 in Ibiza wholesale the entire station doing shows from the Island
1999 - 3rd Worldwide Release of Cafe Del Mar CD on Manifesto Records.
2000 - Launch world's first ever duel internet Radio Show with Camera's live from Cafe Mambo - www.ibizamusica.com. DJ Roger Sanchez No:1 Single in UK features live at Sunset on six Cam to the World online.
2000 - Release Cafe Mambo Siesta II Sunset Double CD Worldwide.
2000 - BBC Radio 1 live in Ibiza etc.
2000 - 4th Worldwide Release of Cafe Del Mar CD on Manifesto Records
2000 - Release Live from Space The World's Sexiest Club CD on Neo Records Worldwide.
2001 - BBC Radio 1 Live in Ibiza etc
2001 - Put in a studio above Cafe Mambo to run Ibizamix.com streaming live music and images to the world from Ibiza
2001 - 5th Worldwide Release of Cafe Del Mar CD on Manifesto Records
2001 - Release Space The World's Sexiest Club 01 CD in UK, America, Asia, France, Germany, Australia.
2002 - Siesta II Sunset from Pikes Hotel CD released on Neo Records
2002 - BBC Radio 1 live in Ibiza etc
to
2009 - BBC Radio 1 still in Ibiza, Cafe Del Mar, Space Club are Worldwide brands, Ibiza the destination, passage of rites for the young, the wanna-be's and Superstars from all over the world.
Contact/complain/confer - eddie.gordon@yahoo.com
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