Jordi Villalta
Amnesia Terrace
Original Mix / Legaz & Spider AKA Majorkings Remix

Label: Balearic Masters

Welcome to Balearic Masters, a fresh new label bringing you the best sounds from the current cream of the crop of Balearic-based DJ’s & Producers.

Kicking off this first release is Amnesia resident Jordi Villalta with the aptly titled Amnesia Terrace. Villalta has lived in Ibiza for nearly 15 years with his musical career starting at local radio station Cadena Cien Ibiza that then led to some big positions at various stations on the white isle. Looking after the dance music policies and interviewing some of the major hitters of the dance scene such as Carl Cox, MANDY, Tiësto and Roger Sanchez, Jordi is renowned for his DJing as much as his radio presence. Playing at some of the biggest clubs in Ibiza including DC10, Space and Privilege, Jordi is currently resident at Amnesia’s longest running weekly night, People from Ibiza.

The Original Mix is a Tech House monster, think swing beats, swirly arpeggios, a hard as nails kick drum and bassline that bounces everything along towards some pretty massive build ups, the sort of record that will tear the roof off the Amnesia Terrace. Judging by the YouTube videos, Jordi has certainly road tested this tune to full affect. Also accompanied by Majorca residents Legaz & Spider AKA Majorkings on remix duties, expect this EP to make a firm dent in the Balearic’s thriving scene plus the rest of Europe and beyond.

With the next EP planned very soon, keep your eyes and ears peeled for further announcements from Balearic Masters!

http://www.balearicmasters.com
http://www.myspace.com/balearicmasters
http://www.myspace.com/djjordivillalta

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LANGE FT. SARAH HOWELLS
OUT OF THE SKY

Club Mix / Kyau & Albert Remix / Myon & Shane 54 Black Army Remix / Glenn Morrison Remix / Aly & Fila Remix

Label: Maelstrom Records

After the hugely successful artist album Better Late Than Never and the killer EP Songless, Lange returns to Maelstrom to drop another belter track from the album featuring Sarah Howells on vocals for Out Of The Sky.

With a hectic year touring across the globe (that included playing Sunrise Festival in Poland before Tiësto in front of 25,000) and launching his Intercity radio show on Afterhours.fm, Lange is one busy man. Famed for classics such as Drifting Away and Another You, Another Me, Lange has produced an incredible 20 UK top 40 hits.

Out Of The Sky is what you would expect from Lange, the production is slick and sophisticated with great hooks and soaring riffs that fit perfectly with Sarah Howells’ vocals. Recommended by a friend at a studio, Howells sings in an indie-rock band but collaborated with Lange for this release and has been contacted by a flurry of trance producers ever since the album came out! With a whole of host of remixes accompanying the Club Mix all giving a different interpretation of the original, Maelstrom Records continue to confirm that they really are the UK’s leading Trance imprint.

http://www.lange-music.com/
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Lange has just confirmed an epic back to back session with Ferry Corsten for Full on Ferry, November 1st @ The Ahoy, Rotterdam. Expect to hear this release on a boat rave / festival arena / nightclub near you soon!

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A 25 year old Scottish man collapsed and died in his Ibiza hotel room last weekend after over-dosing on alcohol and drugs, the Glasgow Herald reported this week.

The Herald said Paul Burns was the 9th holidaymaker to die in San Antonio this season and the third fatality in a week, prompting a despairing response from local tourism chief Jose Ramon Serra.

“This man died from a respiratory deficiency supposedly after consuming drugs and alcohol,” he told reporters, adding, ‘drugs are a cancer in society. We regret this death and only hope that we do not have any more of this type.”

23 year old Brit Michael Robertson died in the budget resort two weeks previously after also overdosing on ecstasy, alcohol and cocaine, two months after a 19 year old Brit died in July after taking 7 ecstasy pills and cocaine (according to the Daily Mail).

22 year old South Shields nursery nurse Carla Newman also died tragically in Ibiza last week, after reportedly falling to her death while climbing between two second floor hotel balconies. However, her fiancé Phil ‘furiously’ denied the claims, while Carla’s mother Lynne questioned them.

“I’m angry there’s so many different tales as to what’s happened, when people don’t know. I don’t even know,” Ms Newman told the South Shields Chronicle, “My daughter was an intelligent, young girl and people are making out she was just a silly British tourist on holiday.”

British youths’ tabloid image as beer monster hooligans was tarnished, however, by respected publication the Economist this week who reported that Brits are ranked 13th in terms of how many fights they have. Analysing official government statistics worldwide, the business magazine said Malta is the ‘teenage punch-up capital of the world’, noting that alcohol consumption is correspondingly the highest in the Mediterranean island.

Another study analysing fighting in Ibiza and Mallorca claimed a strong correlation between drug taking and violence though also discovered that ecstasy ‘curiously’ had no link with fights at all.

“Cocaine users were almost three times more likely to become involved in a
fight than people who did not take it,” study author Amador Calafat told Science Daily.

“Tourists who got drunk five or more days per week were 2.5 times more likely to get into a fight than those who didn’t drink during their holidays,” he added.

http://carla-newman.gonetoosoon.org

Around a hundred riot police smashed into Pacha London last Friday night in a co-ordinated drugs raid that discovered just a small quantity of drugs amongst the 200 revellers present, leading to ten arrests.

Superintendent Simon Ovens described the raid as ‘a highly successful operation which has taken a number of drug dealers off the streets of Westminster’ in an interview with Reuters and suggested it ‘sends a robust message to those that operate licensed premises.’

Pacha London chief William Reilly appeared to disagree, however, issuing his own press release several hours later, which pointed out that cops actually ‘commended the management at Pacha’ after the Victoria venue was ‘found to be clean’.

“Pacha would like to apologise to anybody that attended the venue last night and was subjected to what must have been a frightening experience that was taken out by the Metropolitan police,” Mr Reilly added.

“It is a shame that the police did not inform Pacha of their intentions, bearing in mind we have never had a problem in seven years of operation in Westminster.
For over 15 years the Pacha group have worked closely with the police and councils to deter drug use in the venues,” he continued, “This lack of trust and heavily handed approach has done nothing to stop drug dealing in clubs but drives a wedge between the police, public and management.”

The hugely experienced club executive stressed that Pacha will be open this weekend (Friday September 26), and thanked Ministry Of Sound for rallying round last weekend by offering free admission to ticket holders for Saturday’s event which was cancelled following the raid.

http://www.pachalondon.com

Faithless DJ/ producer/ star Sister Bliss (aka Ayalah Bentovim) chatted to Skrufff this week to promote her out now compilation Nightmoves and revealed that despite her enormous success she remains firmly grounded.

“It might look like I’m confident to the outside world but I’m constantly thinking ‘No, this is shit, we’re not good enough’; absolutely,” she told Skrufff’s Benedetta Ferraro.

“And, you know, there have been periods in the past when I wasn’t working very much. I remember when I was DJing at Café De Paris in the mid 90s and everything was going great then suddenly everything fell apart,” she recalled.

“I didn’t really have many gigs in London and that’s really the reason why I started making records, because I didn’t feel any security coming from DJing. I couldn’t survive on £30 every three weeks, I just couldn’t. Then eventually after
getting through that really tough period things started taking off.”

“What can I say, extremely hard work did pay off and it was the same with Faithless; we had gigs with literally five people in the audience, thinking this is just diabolical. How are we ever going to get people to come and see us?” said Ayalah.

“And remember Faithless were on a very small label with nobody really there to promote us, so all the promotion we did was done the hard way. It took a long, long time for us to have a proper hit, I remember our first record selling five copies a week. Well, they say if it comes too easy it’s not worth having,” she laughed.

She also dismissed England’s thriving celebrity culture centred on reality TV shows and restaurants such as the Ivy, declaring ‘that’s a lot of nonsense, isn’t it.’

“It’s just never interested me. If I go out, I go to the cinema, the theatre or to a club for dancing,” she said, “If I go to a club, I go to hear great music not because I want to f**k a footballer, although some of them have got nice legs! Max gets recognised a bit, but we were never that kind of band. We never sold sex or an image. Our video for “Insomnia” came out a year after the record did. We never get that kind of attention. We’re too old! Too old and too ugly!”

Sister Bliss Nightmoves is out now on Pieces Of Eight.

Noel Gallagher chatted about the direct correlation between his drug habits and commercial success this week and revealed that all three of Oasis’ multi-million selling albums were written on cocaine.

“I remember being ‘off my nut’ (high) and going into the back room and setting the goal of writing a song in 10 minutes - that was ‘Supersonic’. All those albums and all the B-sides were written on drugs,” he told Spin magazine, “That’s why they’re so good. And that pisses me off. I think, ‘Maybe I should get back into taking drugs, and then it would be brilliant again’. But that thought lasts less than a second”, said Gallagher.

Countering his candid comments, however, was the intriguing case of (relatively) struggling millionaire pop star George Michael who was this week released with a caution after being caught in possession of crack cocaine in toilets in Hampstead (London). The former 80s icon’s bust also provided further evidence that drug use in the UK has now been effectively decriminalised for the famous, a point noted drily by Daily Mirror columnist Sue Carroll.

“How fortunate the singer didn’t spill a rock of his crack in the street. Littering is a serious crime these days with a fixed penalty fine,” she said.

“We know that because while George Michael was being chauffeured home by sympathetic policemen, Ian Tomlinson, an ex-Army officer who served in Iraq, was ordered out of his car for dropping a chip outside a McDonald’s - a charge he strenuously denies - and asked to cough up £80,” she said,

In more stimulant news, Redux chief James Kirby issued an enthusiastic press release for ‘Cocaine Fans’ this week, announcing the imminent arrival of his controversial energy drink in European stores.

“The long wait is over,” he declared, “You can now purchase Cocaine Energy in Western Europe. Cocaine Energy will be arriving in stores as distribution spreads. This may take a little time.”

“Not to worry mates,” James added, “You can now buy Cocaine Energy online in the EU without the crazy prices required to ship it across the Atlantic.”

http://www.drinkcocaine.nl

It’s hard to find someone with as much commitment and influence in dance music as Sir Pete Tong, to whom we, the clubbing public, owe a sea of gratitude.

Relentlessly searching out the finest new music, Pete defends and protects our right to the best possible soundtrack all year round, and how better to say thank you than dancing like a mad kid at his next Wonderland party on Saturday 18th October at the infamous Ministry of Sound. Support comes from Christian Smith, and Kris Menace and Fred Falke doing 4 CDJ show, while Paul Harris, Cagedbaby and old school legend Jazzy M keep charge of things the Bar.

It’s what weekends are made for!

Saturday 18th October
Ministry of Sound
11pm-7am
£20 ADV, £20 DOOR

BOX:
PETE TONG
CHRISTIAN SMITH
KRIS MENACE & FRED FAKE

BAR:
PAUL HARRIS
CAGEDBABY
JAZZY M