It's the 25th of September, people are gathering inside the world's most popular club for its 11th annual awards. Its name sparkles in sultry red lights above the stage, a cherry logo is dotted around various walls above world DJ's, producers, technology swots and insiders. This is none other than... The Pacha DJ Awards 2009.
I hadn't heard of them either until a few months ago. Maybe I'm a bit slow in jumping on the DJ-wagon? Whatever the case, the awards handed out are well respected, so is deserved when held within a prestigious nightclub domain. One award that has been continuous from inception is 'Best Ibiza Track'.
Insert a drum roll here.... and without further hesitation, the award, if you haven't already sussed it out through the title, goes to Michel Cleis with 'La Mezcla'. Voila.
It has become the sound of Ibiza this year, which saw early predictions of its inevitable success manifest to truth. Its general release is November 2nd, with new remixes from Copyright, Charles Webster and DJ Roog in the pipeline - so expect this tune to play out on many of the main floors across the country (and world) over the coming months.
The tune itself is broken up and packaged into three surging phases. Upon its beginning you'll unknowingly find yourself lying in a blossoming field of percussion through which roams a rattlesnake shaking its fearful sound. Then phase 2 delivers hypnotic pan flute playing, also used in Timbaland's 'Indian Flute', which lingers like the smell of freshly roasted coffee beans under which tribal drums broaden. One of the highlights of this track and something that makes it work so well is phase 3 - the rousing Latin folk-dance vocal sampled from Toto la Momposina's early 1992 release 'Curura'. When in full swing, the spell-like tune leads your mind deep into a Colombian forest where people shake their shit with strong defiance around a campfire as to stop the sky from striking them down.
By all means, a hugely infectious release from Swiss/French producer Michel Cleis. The hype was big early on and novelty may be running low, but now with a new, raunchy music video I believe it to blow up across commercial radio and tv waves.
I hadn't heard of them either until a few months ago. Maybe I'm a bit slow in jumping on the DJ-wagon? Whatever the case, the awards handed out are well respected, so is deserved when held within a prestigious nightclub domain. One award that has been continuous from inception is 'Best Ibiza Track'.
Insert a drum roll here.... and without further hesitation, the award, if you haven't already sussed it out through the title, goes to Michel Cleis with 'La Mezcla'. Voila.
It has become the sound of Ibiza this year, which saw early predictions of its inevitable success manifest to truth. Its general release is November 2nd, with new remixes from Copyright, Charles Webster and DJ Roog in the pipeline - so expect this tune to play out on many of the main floors across the country (and world) over the coming months.
The tune itself is broken up and packaged into three surging phases. Upon its beginning you'll unknowingly find yourself lying in a blossoming field of percussion through which roams a rattlesnake shaking its fearful sound. Then phase 2 delivers hypnotic pan flute playing, also used in Timbaland's 'Indian Flute', which lingers like the smell of freshly roasted coffee beans under which tribal drums broaden. One of the highlights of this track and something that makes it work so well is phase 3 - the rousing Latin folk-dance vocal sampled from Toto la Momposina's early 1992 release 'Curura'. When in full swing, the spell-like tune leads your mind deep into a Colombian forest where people shake their shit with strong defiance around a campfire as to stop the sky from striking them down.
By all means, a hugely infectious release from Swiss/French producer Michel Cleis. The hype was big early on and novelty may be running low, but now with a new, raunchy music video I believe it to blow up across commercial radio and tv waves.
I envisage this to be a tune that in years to come will inspire sun-kissed memories of 2009.
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