Review: Booom! Ibiza Opening Party 2013 – Ibiza Spotlight
To everyones serious disappointment (especially those ticket holders desperately attempting to scale locked walls of the entrance) BOOOM! did not manage to open in time for last night.
KIDDING!! it totally opened. Its been a long and bumpy road to get to this point, but the Ibiza Town superclub which stands in the scaffolding that also held Penelope, later Heaven, has finally pulled it out of the bag in the best way possible.
Standing outside BOOOM! in the residential area along the marina, you could never guess that the biggest party on the island that night was going on a few metres away. To accommodatethe apartments surrounding the site, the robust sound system hadbeen perfectly insulatedand nary a party peep leakedout of the entrances double doors. Through these, however, we wereimmediately enveloped in this high roofed, mid-sized clubbing cave.
Upon entry we found ourselvesat the back-left of the club, with a bar to theright and some wide stairs leading down to the main dance floor before us. The floor was rectangular with the DJ booth only slightly raised above the crowd at the far end and another bar flanking the left side. There was the standard friends-of-the-DJarea behind the booth, whilst the paying VIP stretchedalong the right hand side of the dance floor in two raised tiers, dotted by hostesses siphoned into tight black corset tops.Yes, there is quite a lot of VIP space, and the view from there is great, but thanks to the layout this simply does not feel like a VIP heavy club. Thesection is not on show or invading the space of the main dance floor in any way; its a very good example, in fact, of how to combine the two clubbing experiences without treading on any standard-ticket toes.
The custom designed Pioneer sound system was also a popular topic of discussion in the countdown to BOOOM! opening and Im glad to report it performed beautifully. Speakers were set into various wall cavities around the club, with the main dance floor edged by some intimidatingly large and robotic speaker towers which not only produced the finest sound waves, but also looked as if they might at any point open up and emit the odd death ray or two, Transformer styles. We caught DJ and creator of BOOOM!s Thursday night Circus residency, Yousef, making the rounds, who impressed upon us how satisfied he was with the quality of sound - so thats a big tick for BOOOM! on the audio front.
Having mobilized quite early in order to observe the club filling up, we arrived during the beginning stages of Kaz James and Destructos back-to-back set, which was later to become so much more than a warm-up. For now, Monkey Safari Hi Life rang in the air and pale gobo spotlights scraped across an almost empty main floor. Other early-markers clustered themselves around the clubs edges, waiting passively for something or someone to shift them into fiesta gear. Ibiza workers can always be counted upon in these situations, and sure enough the energy of a group of young worker lads on the dance floor began to reel in the less bold, two by two.
Thinking back on their set, Kaz James and Destructo proved to beheroes of the night, smoothly traversing the incredibly varied musical terrain that the occasion demanded, with unwavering energy. Starting at the easy, melodic end with tracks like Hi Life and Claptones No Eyes, they later got deep and dancey, testing the new Pioneer with bassy numbers like Gorgon Citys Real and Duke Dumonts Streetwalker. Once the whole house was well and truly on the hop they plucked funky classics out from yesteryear, like the Motown hit Aint No Mountain High Enough, and as clubbers raved deeper into the morning Kaz and Destructo began to pull out savage electro bangers to satisfy the growing need to let loose and match the myriad of laser beams combing and cross-hatching the floor.
The energy that had been steadily escalating hit a wall some time after 3.30, as those who were hanging out for Avicii (set to play at 3) started to despair. But once again the musical chameleons Kaz and Destructo met the needs of their crowd and shifted skins, blasting out Prydas Allein which incitied vigorous clap-alongs and catapulted the atmosphere back up to the rafters. By the time Sebastian Ingrosso took over for a completely impromptu morning set there were few who would have had the night any other way -herocked the house.Avicii, it transpired, haddecided not to playand so dipped out on the club and his fans by going home. Such a shame he didnt stay to see howBOOOM!filled upand got along just fine without him.
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Review: Booom! Ibiza Opening Party 2013 - Ibiza Spotlight