A quick excerpt on Ibiza + Cafe Del Mar:
The Café del Mar is perhaps most known around the world for its chill-out music compilations. It's located in
Ibiza - an island in the Mediterranean Sea, 79 kilometres off the coast of the city of Valencia, in eastern Spain. The songs are described as balearic ambient, easy listening music.
The collections of the music played at the café were first sold on cassette at the end of the 1980s. In 1994, the first official “Café del Mar” CD was released, which included works by world-renowned artists. Following the great success of the first release, a total of 19 volumes of the main compilation series have been published.
Ibiza is considered to be a popular tourist destination, especially due to its legendary and at times riotous nightlife centred around two areas: Ibiza Town, the island's capital on the southern shore and Sant Antoni to the West.
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| Ibiza Town |
Well-known nightclubs are Privilege, Amnesia, Space, Pacha, Eden, Es Paradís, Underground, Sankeys and DC10. During the summer, the top producers and DJs in dance come to the island and play at the various clubs, in between touring to other international destinations. Some of the most famous DJs run their own weekly nights around the island.
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| Hardwell playing his set during Cream Ibiza |
Many of these DJs use Ibiza as an outlet for presenting new songs within the house, trance and techno genres of electronic dance music. The city has achieved renown worldwide fame as a cultural center for house and trance in particular, with its name often being used as a partial metonym for the particular flavor of electronic music originating there, much like Goa in India.
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| Hotel spa de lujo en Ibiza |
Energy 52 was a project comprising
Paul Schmitz-Moormann and
Harald Blüchel. The 1993 track "Café del Mar" became one of the most heard trance songs in the world; its dozens of remixes have appeared on hundreds of compilation albums. In April 2011, the song was voted number one by BBC Radio 1 listeners in Pete Tong's Top 20 Dance Tracks of the last 20 years.
Original
Remixes
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Simply a timeless track, with an astonishing amount of suave remixes! (I've listed only my favourites.)
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