Chiusura dc10:intervista con un promoter del Circoloco

Usually on a Monday thousands of people are dancing inside this small former airport building in Ibiza, otherwise known as DC10.

But today, aside from the occasional plane that soars overhead and the hum of traffic passing on the road outside, it is eerily quiet.

Like a crime scene, the front doors of DC10 have been boarded up by police tape warning the public not to cross.


Fighting for the party: Antonio from CircolocoBeatportal meets Antonio, an Italian currently in the middle of a judicial storm along with his partner Andrea Pelino.

Together, the two are responsible for DC10’s hugely successful Monday party Circoloco, which is probably Ibiza’s most popular event after We Love at Space.

Two weeks ago DC10 was ordered to close for 57 days by the island’s authorities as part of a continuation of a sentence dished out last summer over drug and security allegations.

“In 2005 the police caught people inside DC10 with drugs and although it was nothing to do with us, they decided to close the club for two months,” Antonio tells Beatportal.

DC10 was forced to close for a few days in June 2007, but somehow Antonio and Andrea managed to persuade the authorities to let it open again despite not serving the full 60-day ban.

That ban however, has come back to haunt them right at the start of Ibiza’s clubbing season.



The empty road outside DC10“I can’t calculate it right now but for sure we have lost a lot of money,” says Antonio.

“More than 80 people work in DC10 and the problem now is that nobody has a job, but we have to do what we’ve been ordered so we can do nothing for our workers.”

Antonio and Andrea, along with their Spanish business partners from DC10 are currently fighting the ban with the help of their lawyers.

Whilst it is unlikely the ban will be lifted altogether, Antonio is hoping that DC10 will open again within “one month.”

“We leave this question for now because for us, DC10 will be open soon,” he says.



The good old days: DC10For anyone that doesn’t know, Circoloco originally started out as an all-day afterhours party in 1999 with the majority of its punters having partied the day and night before at Space.

In the beginning, it was a casual affair and free to get into but before long Circoloco’s exciting blend of underground vibes and relaxed atmosphere began to attract the island’s coolest inhabitants and vistors.

As Antonio explains, “Circoloco is a nice party where good people come and a lot of the people are workers on the island like DJs and artists.

“The party is different to the other clubs. And our music is very different.”



No entry: police tape covers DC10’s doorsCertainly, Circoloco’s music has been its biggest attraction globally as its trenches are aligned deep within the territories of underground techno and house.

With resident DJs such as Tania Vulcana, Luciano, Raresh, Cirillo, Clive Henry, Rhadoo, Davide Squillace and Andrew Grant the club’s become known as the place to hear underground dance music in Ibiza.

“The artists who play at our club know this club,” explains Antonio.

“They’ve played here for 10 years so they know what music we like and what works at Circoloco.”

DC10 and Circoloco’s biggest achievement is that the party has managed to maintain its cachet of cool and its underground credibility in the face of increasing global exposure.

For 10 years the club has been open, and yet its parties are still as wild and infectious as they’ve always been.

If DC10 is forced to close again or is shut permanently would Antonio and Andrea move Circoloco to another venue in Ibiza?

“If Circoloco closes we won’t go anywhere else because DC10 and Circoloco are the same thing,” he says.

“We were born here, and we will stay here. This is our club.”

He adds, “Don’t worry, we’ll be open again soon.”



fonte:www.beatportal.com