I haven’t slept for three days straight, and things are beginning to get strange. I keep hearing faint, disconcerting whispers from far-off places. Shadows dance across my peripheral vision, but when I turn to look at them there’s nothing there. A cursory glance at my clothes reveals the minutest of fibres magnified to the size of shoestrings. Worst of all is the toilet with its pulsating floor like a carpet of writhing maggots. Best not mention it to the others,...

The International Music Summit (IMS) is back in Ibiza next week and the full schedule’s been revealed. It kicks off on May 20 at the Hard Rock Hotel, and events on the day include Carl Craig’s Detroit Love showcase with Underground Resistance artist Mad Mike and Pete Tong’s keynote interview with Patrick Moxey from Ultra Records. Later on there’s an IMS Legends dinner celebrating Cocoon and Sven Väth, Black Coffee’s party at Ushuaïa and the first party of Sankeys’ opening...

The party doesn’t stop at Victoria Park for Lovebox; they’ve just announced the massive names joining them after hours at some of London’s best clubs. Heidi (pictured), Shy FX, Soul Clap, Oneman and festival founders Groove Armada are some of the names on the post-festival bills, with The Laundry, Village Underground, Oval Space and Shapes hosts. Artists from a range of genres play at the two-day festival on July 17 and 18 including Rudimental, Bonobo, Annie Mac and Snoop Dogg....

Lovelife San Diego is throwing their third-annual Star Wars themed boat-party during Comic Con and will feature Stimming (Live) and Henry Saiz. The party, appropriately deemed ‘Episode XII: A New Boat’, will take place aboard the Hornblower Inspiration for an open-air rooftop day-party on the beautiful San Diego waterfront. Artists from past years include Soul Clap, Nick Monaco and Audiofly. This will be the highly-successful production company’s 64th event since their founding in 2011 by Jon Dadon and Jimbo James....

Just last week the club known as Patterns launched in Brighton, and now its June schedule has been made public. Over the next month or so, expect to see the likes of Nick Höppner, HNNY, K15, Paleman and Ivan Smagghe back-to-back with Optimo. With carefully curated line-ups and an intimate vibe, you’d be silly not to check out what Patterns has to offer in the near future. Find the full schedule on the Patterns website and watch the video trailer...

If Ibiza Summer 2012 belonged to Luciano and his Vagabundos, Solomun and his Diynamic crew rose in 2013 and 2014 further cemented Mladen as one of the island’s brightest stars with artist residency Solomun +1 in Pacha and Diynamic Outdoors at Destino while Luciano moved back to Cocoon after the not so successful season at Booom. Pacha music director and talent booker Steve Hulme best described the place of Solomun in the white isle music constellation: “If we were a...

Luciano’s Vagabundos returns to Space Ibiza this summer. Iconic clubnight Vagabundos makes its long-awaited return to Ibiza this year, taking over the Terrace at Space every Sunday from June 7 until September 27. Hosted by Luciano, the Chilean house legend will be supported by his extended Cadenza family throughout the duration of his residency. Fresh off the success of his recent single ‘Grace Of An Art’, Luciano promises to transform Sundays in Ibiza with his festive introduction of Latin-infused house...

The two best sets I’ve ever heard in Ibiza were Laurent Garnier on the Space terrace in the early 2000s, and Ricardo Villalobos at Cocoon on June 20th, 2005. Ricardo’s was the one that changed everything for me. Back then I had only visited Cocoon at Amnesia a few times since I’d started going to to Ibiza in 1998. Around the Millennium, it was predominantly a heavy techno night: BPMs in the main room would rarely go under 135 or...

With a number of clubs in the UK shutting in the last few months, notably in London, a new organisation’s been launched to counteract further closures and highlight the importance of nightlife. Plastic People and Crucifix Lane are two venues that have closed in the capital, with Fabric also recently threatened with closure, but Night Time Industries Association (NTIA) aims to undertake and publish research to prove to that the late-night industry has plenty of positives concerning “employment, business rates,...

Recently I was at Half Baked at Studio 338, a big venue in south-east London more than capable of holding a couple of thousand ravers. Though the music was on point, with a killer line-up including Tama Sumo and Motor City Drum Ensemble, everyone in my crew felt claustrophobic. Thankfully the bar was not an issue and neither were the toilets, but space on the dancefloor was scant, leading to friction – people shoving themselves through the crowd, others finding...