Ibiza: 1976-1987

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In recent threads re: psytrance etc, i began to start thinking abuot ibiza before the rise of acid house. A bohemian high-society mdma culture i presume, with roots in psychedelic trance-rock? and what about edm? marc almond? genesis p orridge?

― T 916 lido, se10, *** 3/30 (home is where the heartcore is) (gareth), Tuesday, 20 July 2004 09:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Apparently the followers of osho were big in ibiza before the rise of acid house using mdma and getting into a lot of that fun free love business.

― hector (hector), Tuesday, 20 July 2004 20:36 (twenty-one years ago)

and, how predominantly english were the people going to ibiza during this period, i have a feeling it was more transnational eurogeois bohemia, than purely english at this point, etc

― T 916 lido, se10, *** 3/30 (home is where the heartcore is) (gareth), Tuesday, 20 July 2004 22:52 (twenty-one years ago)

yea that is what I have heard more euro for sure.

Where are you from Gareth?

― hector (hector), Tuesday, 20 July 2004 23:23 (twenty-one years ago)

― T 916 lido, se10, *** 3/30 (home is where the heartcore is) (gareth), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 06:35 (twenty-one years ago)

useful background info:

BAREFOOT IN THE HEAD - THE SURPRISING STORY OF BALEARICA
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/r2music/documentaries/balearics.shtml

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 07:45 (twenty-one years ago)

I think it goes back a lot further than that. I thought I read somewhere that Aleister Crowley lived there or visited or something (maybe I imagined that or am confusing it with another place in the Mediterranean because I can't find any obvious confirmation of it on Google, but if true that would tie directly in to Genesis P. Orridge and loosely to the psychedelic '60s thing). But there's a long standing Brit bohemian connection, I think.

― David (David), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 09:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Yes 'transnational eurogeois bohemia' heh

― David (David), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 09:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Loathesome trendies went to island of ?Formentera? (where they shot 'Sex and Lucia') or something more than Ibiza in the 60s. Vile beyond words.

― Enrique (Enrique), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 09:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Formentera is vile? I don't understand.

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 10:28 (twenty-one years ago)

people enjoying themselves in general is vile, i think

― jess, Wednesday, 21 July 2004 10:40 (twenty-one years ago)

'sex and lucia' was ridiculous.

was there a west coast USA - Ibiza connection in the 70s/early 80s? I'm sure I read about some Californian artist communes being set up there?

― pete b. (pete b.), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 10:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Lovely place, lovely drugs; vile, moneyed hippies.

― Enrique (Enrique), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 12:12 (twenty-one years ago)

I got confused. It was Sicily I was thinking of wrt Aleister Crowley

― David (David), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 19:01 (twenty-one years ago)

doesn't Bowie make reference to Ibiza in the lyrics to "Life on Mars"? surely it wasn't a random word association there...

― rentboy (rentboy), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 19:21 (twenty-one years ago)

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