With clubs still hoping to open, one becomes a face-mask factory, and Carl Cox declares 2020 'a write-off' for DJs. BARCELONA — For over four decades, the Spanish island of Ibiza has captured the imaginations -- and wallets -- of international clubbers who have headed there to hear the masters of dance music take them on hourslong musical journeys in a beachfront bacchanalia.
Back in the late 1980s, Paul Oakenfold and other British DJs famously took the island’s iconic music style to London and branded it “Balearic beat.” David Guetta turbocharged his 2000s EDM popularity with his fuchsia-decorated F*** Me I’m Famous party at Pacha, a club that opened in the ’70s as a hedonistic escape from the conservative Franco dictatorship.