very cool thread, thank you for the good read and laughs!
my first time in ibiza was in august 2001. we stayed for a week. i still remember the moment i got off the plane and got wet hands because of the high humidity. i instantly felt there's some very special energy on the island i can't describe and i still feel it every time i'm on the white island.
we stayed at hotel garbi's in PDB - that was before it got renovated - and went to bora-bora beach almost every day. back then i really liked that place and that at about 3 pm the whole beach was dancing. i remember a crazy guy wearing a spider man costume and kind of a skiing mask was dancing there every day ? i even saw him the year later again and took some pictures of him:
in the evenings we usually did some warmup in a bar called ‘soul train’. back then we thought we're actually best buddies with an austrian promoter who was working there and he let us feel like we were the coolest squad around, but of course he just wanted to sell party tickets.
sometimes we went to a free club called 'kiss' very close to our hotel to kill time until it was 1 or 2 am to get to the big clubs. in retrospective kiss was a terrible place ? it became sankeys later i think.
on sunday of our trip three of my friends went to 'we love sunday's at space' very early in the day - i think it was 10 o'clock in the morning, is that possible?! me and a friend were still hungover from the night before and didn't go. i remember one of my friends coming back to the hotel in the early afternoon, still having sea grass in his pants cause he had sex in the sea with a girl he met at space and he was like super excited to go back asap. so i got myself ready to get to the party too and it was the best decision ever. while dancing on the (back then still half open) sunset terrace i totally fell in love with that place. sven väth was having shots at the bar right beside me and was dancing like crazy.
over the years my most unforgettable nights in ibiza i had at space, including its closing - missing that club so much ?
on monday we did manumission, which was the most expensive party back then. it was the last year we paid with pesos, in 2002 it was euro already i think. to enter the impressive mainfloor of privilege for the first time was unforgettable and animation in general was out of this world on the island and in particular at privilege. i remember in 2002 and 2003 when coming back drunk from the parties i stole the posters at the walls of the soul train bar cause i was so obsessed with the parties. still have some posters of manumission, subliminal sessions, we love sunday's at space at home ... and now thinking of it, i even used one for my profile pic in this forum.
tuesday i think we went to 'el divino' (today's lío). i remember i really liked the special interior design and i was fascinated of the beautiful dancers and beautiful people there in general.
but my most special ibiza club moment in the first year was when roger sanchez played 'another chance' at pacha. had goosebumps all over and it throws me back to that moment everytime i listen to it.
i'm not sure if we went to café del mar already in the first year, but the first time enjoying the sunset and chill out sound there was just magic. and i can't remember where i got my first hierbas after a dinner, but still like to drink it very much (even that head ache the next day gets worse every time).
since my first time the island has a big place in my heart and i went back almost every year. i'm happy i got the chance to experience it. and like others already wrote: ibiza actually changed my life and it influenced my taste of music very much. i'm very thankful for that.
