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We have a very special mix from someone who has had a huge impact on the balearic musical landscape. Mark Broadbent arrived in Ibiza in the 90’s by misadventure, well perhaps not misadventure but certainly not by design. Heavily influenced by Punk, Krautrock and industrial music coming from Germany in his youth he would later experience the first wave of acid house and the impact it had on UK society. As an avid and adventurous traveller, Ibiza didn’t seem particularly exotic in comparison to his journeys across India with his partner in crime Sarah. However, a summer season spent working as part of the Cream team in ibiza would change his perception of the island he would fall in love with, where he married his wife (at Pikes funnily enough) and where he would go on to program and promote We Love Space with Darren and Sarah for the next decade and half. His electric taste and his passion for new interesting music was the driving force behind some of the most progressive line-ups Ibiza has seen, representing the most relevant artists in electronic music and making Ibiza a destination for credible electronic music acts, something DJ Mag would recognise, awarding him the Outstanding Contribution award in 2013. Despite having a vast musical knowledge and a huge music collection it is only relatively recently that he choose to take position behind the decks and has now become one of the finest selectors on the island, playing at his weekly Pikes On Sundays events with his brother Andrew Livesey (as The Brothers Grim) He has also enthusiastically taken to soundtracking the sunsets at Hostal La Torre and playing all kinds of weird and wonderful music at Casa Maca. The mix he has kindly submitted to our podcast is a fantastic auditory tale told with with an electric mix of music and dialogue, a pretty sound representation of the contemporary Balearic sound we are trying to illustrate in these podcasts.