Ibiza - The Reset Rebel

In todays Episode, we preview one of the years biggest annual music events in the calendar as half of the island ship out to Amsterdam for ADE.

With a rich background in music journalism as the Editor of DJ Mag Ibiza and extensive experience as the magazines Tech Editor, Michael Wilson joins Jo at the Hub in his music studio to talk about his island life and transition into writing after a long career in the music industry. 

He says his mission is to bring a deep understanding of both the creative and technology side of the electronic music scene. 

With a career spanning over 16 years at DJ Magazine, he has been an integral part in shaping the conversation around electronic music on the island and beyond. 

From Lighting Director at Lio to intimacy coaching in Ibiza Buzz has seen it all on the island. 

He moved from America to Thailand, India, Barcelona and eventually Ibiza after working in the Circus in the Spanish city. 

In todays episode we hear how he met Leonardo Di Caprio who doesn’t like to be the centre of attention when not at work, Anna Hathaway and Arnold Schwarzenegger at the famous cabaret establishment but now prefers to be working at the Garden of Light. 

Former London and Ibiza club runner, rave MC and dance music journalist, Kirk Field has worked in the night-time industries for four decades.

Armed with “two fingers and the truth”, Kirk Field’s critically acclaimed debut ‘Rave New World: Confessions of a Raving Reporter’ was hailed as a modern cult classic and became the UK’s most popular hardback and audiobook in dance music/club culture. 

In 2024 his narrated audiobook was nominated for an ARIA Award and his spoken word live show is booked for a run at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

His follow up, ‘Planes, Trains & Amphetamines’ tells the inside story on clubbing travel.

Kirk lives in Devon with his family, a cat which is mute, and his tinnitus which sadly isn’t. 

Argentine born, but Ibiza based chef, Sebastian Mazzola is todays guest as he spends his summers working out of a private space close to Dalt Vila. 

He used to work under head chef Albert Adria in Barcelona at the now closed 41 and explains, how as a lover of electronic music, he befriended a group of well known DJ´s  which got him starting to think about the way they fly all over the world showcasing their music and how that could also be applied to the way he creates food. 

Our conversation took place when he was recently in Japan cooking on a tiny island and over the last decade, he has been travelling with his partner, through Cooking in Motion,  all over the world. 

The interview took place as part of The Xarraca Journal  - Issue 4 which launches next week officially and has the theme of human connection which features a mix of fashion, sustainability, technology, regenerative practise, wellness, fiction, poetry, music, art and, of course, the progressive thinking that is so much a part of our island community. 

Fat Tony – real name Tony Marnach – went from living on a London council estate to best mate of Kate Moss and Boy George, and one of the party scene’s most notoriously hedonistic DJs.

Since commencing his sober 17 years ago, he has forged a career as fashion’s go-to DJ and an LGBTQ+ activist.

His new memoir, I Don’t Take Requests, documents his journey from difficult beginnings to kingpin of the 80s and 90s club scene, his drug addiction, HIV diagnosis, rehab and recovery.

In todays episode, ahead of his Ibiza opening gig at Pikes party, Back to Mine, he sits down with Jo Youle at the Hub Ibiza studios to reveal his story from Love & recently getting engaged in NYC to his Fiance Stavros to casting h8is mind back to his glory days at Paradise garage, Studio 54 and the Loft in NYC when he used to play and party on the circuit. 

What does it mean to be truely free? 

In todays podcast we meet Kyan, a film director and musician, who made a film called "The Last Free Man on Earth," about Alex. A man who has lived in a cave for the past 9 years in Punta Galera. 

In search of enlightenment, the platinum-selling record producer left his hedonistic life behind and through the best part of a decade he has learned to live life in  a much more rustic fashion in the thick of things down south.

Kyan got stuck in Ibiza in lockdown and decided to stay a little longer and make his very first film after meeting Alex, taking almost 2 years to study and shoot his new friend over many sessions.

The film recently debuted at the Ibiza Cine Fest in santa Eulalia and Jo goes to meet Kyan after watching it at his studio in Cala Llonga for todays conversation. 

In todays episode we celebrate International Womens Day and head to San Antonio to meet firefighter and  artist, Romanie Sanchez.

She was born and bred on Ibiza and lived through the 70´s Ibiza.....and has seen it all, in many ways.

More info on Romanie here 

Aguascopio is an all-female art collective living in Ibiza. Since 2021 we have made art which fuses artistic swimming, costume design and drone photography.

 Annabelle Widmann grew up in Ibiza and is a costume designer as well as performer. Her work has been seen in parties and clubs such as Woomoon and Chinois in Ibiza, as well as in festivals and exhibitions around the world.  For Aguascopio she provides costumes, some original music, and she is also one of the performers.

 Liz Kueneke grew up in the United States but has been living in Ibiza since 2009. She is a multidisciplinary artist and curator and has had art residencies in the Hangar: Centre de Producció d ́Arts Visuals (Barcelona) and The Outpost for Contemporary Art (Los Angeles).

Tasya Menaker was born in Siberia but grew up in the United States. She has lived in Ibiza since 2013 where she has worked as an event and portrait photographer. For Aguascopio she is the drone operator, as well as the photography and video editor. She has been published in Rolling Stone and Forbes magazines and has exhibited her work in cities around the world including Chicago, New York City and Barcelona.

Tonight Feb 28th, the trio will appear at the CINE fest Ibiza in Santa Eulalia with the world premiere of their Be Like Water film.

More on Aguascopio HERE

There are three types of music in the world according to todays guest Serene Sass. 

The music of instruments, the music of the human body and soul, and the music of the cosmos.

Serene is a music industry, emerging markets, technology and humanitarian expert.

As a visionary entrepreneur, music consultant to some of the most sucessful United Nations music projects and former VP of Emerging Markets for Warner Music Group, Serene has traveled the world building relationships with key political, humanitarian, technology and music industry partners.

Serene is a social innovator and change maker. She is a passionate leader in developing partnerships and initiatives between the creative arts, technology and humanitarian industries working on projects which have reached billions of people, raised millions of dollars and helped to empower musicians from marginalised communities - refugee camps, favelas, ghettos, conflict zones and indigenous cultures all over the world.

She has some big plans for her new Conscious Music Group and is working with artists who live on the island on some exciting new music and projects, including the much loved island local Mr Nick Mulvey.

Join us for todays episode as we get into some of her juicy tales and unleash her plans for the future.

Music & Musicians mentioned :

Natty

Nick Mulvey

Malian singer and composer, Vieux Farka Touré

Conscious Music Group - created by Serene 

UK Music charity Road to Freedom : https://www.roadtofreedom.uk

Last year I got to meet Manu San Felix  - Oceanographer and videographer for National Geographic.

Manu campaigns heavily for the one thing that may just save our climate in the Balearics - The Posidonia.

Our huge acres of sea grass provide a carbon sink which sucks the nasties out of our atmosphere and absorb and hold them.

Protecting them is of paramount importance as you heard in our EP with ambient musician @coco_francavilla. They are the answer to so many issues we face as an island that depends heavily on tourism and Manu runs @vellmari_formentera and every year they replant the beds and try to restore them where possible.

In this weeks episode we talk about that process, why we have to educate people to respect the ancient sea beds that are unique to ours seas and we hear much of his incredible storytelling on expeditions that he has been on for National Geographic as an ambassador for @natgeopristineseas and how he became a marine biologist and fell in love with our islands.

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