For the latest edition of our Social Local podcast series we welcome Ibiza resident Luca Averna. Luca is a dj and producer who has called Ibiza his home for the past 8 years. He’s career as a performer and producer dates back to 2010 but he has had a lifelong love affair with music. This Portogruaro (Venice) native forged an eclectic taste and a wide musical knowledge. From an early age, he was a regular of many clubs and record shops around Italy. From an early age, he was a regular of many clubs and record shops around Italy. This is reflected in his mixes and in his productions.

His many years as a collector and a selector have cemented his place among the next generation of Balearic tastemaker. Despite the challenges the world has faced these last two years, in 2020 Luca maintained his summer dj residency at the Pikes Hotel. In 2019 he was chosen as a dj resident at the visually imposing 7 Pines hotel, where he soundtracked the mythical sunsets of Cala Comte. It is here that he shared the decks with the legendary Chris Coco and continued to perfect the noble art of bidding farewell to the sun to usher in the night.

That same year he formed the group Residentes Balearicos, together with Alessandro Doretto. The duo released their productions on prestigious labels such as Music For Dreams and Archipelago Records. Quickly the songs of Residents Balearicos flooded the playlist of djs around the world. By 2021 they have confirmed releases on Live at Robert Johnson, Cala Tarida Music, Wiskey Pickley and Balearic Ensemble.

Since 2016, he can be heard selecting music in spaces such as Café del Mar, Sankeys, Zoo Project, Pikes, Casa Maca, Kumharas, Ocean Hotel and Hostal la Torre. At the same time as these performances, once a month he celebrates HOMIES at the legendary Pikes Hotel with his musical partners Camilo Miranda and Christian Len.

HOMIES was born in 2016 as a different proposal from the super-clubs of the island. Providing music without genres or labels, to dance as if you were in your living room. Currently HOMIES maintains its monthly residence in Ibiza and in the off-season, it becomes an itinerant event with dates in Barcelona, Amsterdam, Madrid and all around Europe. In 2020 the collective diversified even more, transforming the brand into a record label "vinyl only" , releasing edits by the hand of some of the collaborators that are part of the universe HOMIES.

To better understand the DNA of Luca Averna’s sound, you have to go back to the mid-1990s. After his time at the record distributor Musical Box, he founded the record label NOHO with Sagats; and joined the collective The Sound Of Brenta. Beginning a period of important learning in production and composition of electronic music, with instruments and synthesizers 100% analog and inspired by the sound of Detroit House and Techno.

In 2010 he became a full-time musician. Under the pseudonym of Jay Green, he went into the first tours in Europe and performed at Panorama Bar in Berlin. Those who cannot be lucky enough to listen to Luca Averna in his live sessions can connect with his signature style through his residencies on the radio shows he hosts monthly for Rocket Radio Verona (El Bullit Sonico), 1btn Radio and Ibiza Sonica with the Homies crew.

Stepping up for the sixth mix in our Social Local podcast series is native son of Ibiza Valentino Huedo. Music host at WooMoon and Storytellers Ibiza. Music selector at Ibiza Sonica Radio. The affable Huedo has been a leading presence in the balearic musical landscape since a young age

Born and raised in Eivissa, Valentin Huedo grew up surrounded by seductive tunes and grooves connected with the astounding nature and free-minded people. He grabbed the core of the island and understood the way music transcends us and make us bond with ourselves and with each other. And since then he’s been projecting it both in the island and all around the world.

From a very young age, he soundtracked the sunset in the legendary Café del Mar being the youngest dj to hold a residency there that lasted for a decade. In the following years he would do step forward into the balearic scene as resident dj at Blue Marlin and as one of the main hosts of Ibiza Sonica Radio, spreading the sound of the island internationally. In 2016 he started as resident DJ at WooMooN, a rite that celebrates life, love and art in community that brings back the original spirit of the White Island. Since then he's been composing magical grooves and fantastic melodies for music imprints as "Do not sit on the furniture" or "Music for Clubs" as has been said “redefining the Balearic sound of his predecessors. Eclectic, versatile, organic and with one of a kind sensitiveness to mix genres and emotions Valentin bring his true balearic mojo to dance floors around the globe to be danced by all those who live by the sun and love by the moon.

Up next we have our favourite Soul Boy, the illustrious and affable Phat Phil Cooper! Musically, Cooper has long been celebrated for his diverse approach to music. While naturally at home championing seductive, sun-kissed sounds, Cooper’s roots can be traced back to the dance-floors of legendary Liverpool, UK club Cream, where during the 1990s and early 2000s he was a key resident DJ, it was through this residency that he started his love affair with Ibiza, playing the legendary Amnesia Terrace for Cream in the 90's when people danced beneath the stars. Three decades on, Cooper’s club-moving skills remain as sharp as ever, leading some to compare him favourably to Mr Scruff, Harvey and Gilles Peterson. Now residing in Ibiza with regular sunset sessions at La Torre, Phat Phil Cooper remains one of electronic music’s unsung heroes. Of course, he’d never think of himself that way: in his eyes, he’s just someone who lives and breathes music, showcases sounds he loves and promotes artists who inspire him.

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"Earlier in the week I was thinking about Jose and what he's meant to me personally over the years realising just what an important figure he has been in my life both directly & in-directly through his incredible compilations and the handful of true ‘Balearic’ sonic experiences he afforded me whilst I sat listening to him with my wife Sarah on the rocks outside The Cafe, actually seeing him draw the sun from behind the clouds just in time to let it slip into the sea on more than one occasion was really something to behold. That first year we had returned from a year in India and really were at a loss as to what to do when Darren Hughes suggested we go to Ibiza and look after his business interests there. Now at the time Ibiza was the last thing on our minds as a viable option, I mean, who the fuck wants to go to such a seemingly cheesy place as Ibiza after the freedom on the beach scene in Goa?!? but then we thought what the hell, we’d always enjoyed the Cafe Del Mar compilations so there was always that to check out. A safe haven from the English rabble…or so we thought!

I don't think that I’ve ever been as underwhelmed before or after as when I first set eyes on the Cafe Del Mar! I had it in my minds eye that it was going to be a wooden hut on a beautiful beach surrounded by chilled beauties. Not a concrete monstrosity surrounded by drug dealing idiots. Feeling a little saddened by the whole experience we decided to get a beer and watch the sunset anyway. We had another beer and started to relax into the place, the sun was still pretty high when Jose arrived. The funky house daytime soundtrack came to an abrupt end, interrupted by music from a film score I no longer remember and the next few hours slipped by in a dreamscape. We were hooked. All of a sudden Ibiza made a certain sense to us and we were able to see through our pre conceptions, relax and enjoy the company of the people we now found ourselves with every night around sunset at The Cafe Del Mar. Over the next two seasons we fell in love with the island and the people we met there (many of whom we had met in Thailand and India during the winters away from the island) and the rest, as they say, is history. We moved to Ibiza made parties for more years than I care to remember, programming the perfect soundtrack for peoples holiday experience. Always with the memory of our first introduction to the Balearic beat at The Cafe Del Mar firmly in our minds.

I am now weekly sunset resident at The Hostel La Torre and have held that residence for the past few years and although I would never consider myself an equal of The Maestro it always put a smile on my face and afforded me a rare feeling of pride when I saw my name next to his on the billing. Imagine.

So I made a little Sunset 4 Jose mix that I think captured my mood yesterday whilst paying a homage to the man himself. Have a listen. I think you’ll like it…it’s slightly melancholic with a light at the end of the tunnel. Non of the tracks featured would have been played by Jose (to my knowledge) as I’m guessing that there will be a shit load of ‘homage’ type mixes coming through in the next couple of weeks. I also know he hated people stealing his style and generally making a fucking pigs ear out of it. Lots of people play his signature tracks. Nobody else sounds like him.

Good night, God bless and thanks for the memories Maestro."

Mark Broadbent

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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.

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Up next we welcome Karlos Sense, an integral thread in the fabric of Ibiza’s music scene. As musical director, curator, producer and presenter on Ibiza Sonica Radio, Karlos has diligently worked and contributed to the islands musical landscape, searching out new music and championing the esoteric and the underground. Although now a long time resident of Ibiza it was in his birth place Madrid where his love for electronic dance music began, being influenced by artists such as Plastikman, The Advent, Underground Resistance, Oscar Mulero, Aphex Twin, Rhythm&Sound, Matthew Herbert, Jeff Mills and Joey Beltram. He cut his teeth in the music industry working in record shops like New Records Shop & Museek Records in Madrid, this enabled him educate himself on a broad range of electronic music styles and helped him build a serious vinyl collection.

Like many aspiring Dj's around the globe, Karlos decided to take things to next level by making a bold move to the island of Ibiza where a chance meeting led him to his current job at the award winning Ibiza Sonica Radio. During his time there he has interviewed some of the best dj's in the world, he has directed and presenting world famous live broadcasts such as the openings and closings of clubs like Space Ibiza, Amnesia, Privilege and Ushuaïa to name a few, as well as festivals like Sonas, Paraiso, Caprices, MDRNTY and more.

His musical stylings lean towards the hypnotic deeper shades of electronica. He currently presents a number of world-renowned radio shows called LOW BEATS, NOISEGARDEN (Textures & Sounds),

Melomaniac and Music lover, he enjoys playing with the infinite combinations of House and Techno Sounds, Deep, IDM, Electronica, Acid House, Breakbeats and Avant Garde Music as well as downtempo rhythms such as Ambient, Lounge, Dub or Trip Hop.

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Camilo Miranda is this Ibizan bred, Franco-brazilian artist, who has been playing in several iconic venues of the island but stands out for being the Music Curator and resident dj at the legendary Pikes Hotel. His elegant, eclectic and Balearic inspired sets resonate in the iconic Hotel and Ibiza, where he spends his summers hosting his own party and opening the night for dj’s like Jamie XX, Leon Vynehal, Dj Harvey, Crazy P, … When he is not on the island he travels around Europe, where he plays alongside Artwork in one of his XOYO Art’s House parties, host a room at the Ministry Of Sound for their 28th anniversary, do a little mix at the Red Light Radio in Amsterdam or wreck a dance floor under a bridge at Tradgarden in Stockhiolm.

Not feeling recognized with the very crowded, competitive and non-inclusive Ibiza club scene, him and his partner Christian Len decide to start a party with a more homely and comfy kind of concept. In the summer of 2014 they inaugurate “Homies”, in Barcelona. Then moving to Pikes and around Europe, where it has become a popular and well loved party.

His productions are inspired on dreams of distant future, soothing melodies and sounds that transport you to utopical tropical beaches and can be found on labels like Music For Dreams, Is it Balearic and Lips & Rhythm.

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We have started a podcast to highlight the diverse range of homegrown talent Ibiza has to offer from both its native and adopted sons and daughters. What better way to illustrate the eclectic sounds of the contemporary Balearic experience than by curating a music series from its very founders and protagonists. From those who have played its bars, clubs and parties day in, day out, year in, year out. The people who have lived and breathed this island we call home.

Our first episode comes courtesy of Jaime Fiorito. Jaime is an artist and music curator based in Ibiza/Spain. Born on the island, his musical selections are a reflection of his upbringing as the son of the legendary DJ Alfredo, who is recognized as the pioneer of the Balearic Beat movement. After emigrating from Argentina to Ibiza in the 1970s, DJ Alfredo started playing at the open air Amnesia club, where his eclectic DJ style had a major influence on dance music’s explosion in the late 1980s and became the foundation for Jaime’s own musical education.

Jaime ́s own journey started in the late 90’s by promoting small underground parties Switzerland’s industrial area of Lausanne, . Jaime ́s path then took him to play a mixture of organic house & techno sets for a variety of recognized clubs such as Zukunft in Zurich, Kater Holzig and Panorma Bar in Berlin as well as the infamous secretsundaze parties in London.

After moving back to Ibiza in 2008 he held residencies at some of the larger clubs. Most recently, Jaime has found his new home with his new role as music curator at La Granja where he has created one of Ibiza’s most influential private parties – Farmers Ritual– a weekly gathering of global musical artists that has developed an international tribe of followers.

Jaime ́s musical style is now an undefined blend of musical influences, , a variety energetic rhythms and detailed structures to create carefully curated sets that bring people together as each track unfolds into a complete musical experience.