Seems like there’s only me and a handful of other suckers that didn’t make it to Ultra Music Festival this year, I can almost hear the last whoops and yeehaas of the Miami Music Conference Massive from here in Ibiza. General word on the facebook street is that the festival, which this year was celebrated from the 23rd-25th March, came back with a vengeance with a big, huge SOLD OUT sign hanging above his entrance. That’s a total of 150, 000 clubheads, music and media industry moguls and their minnions, and lets not forget, the Spring breakers, out in force to celebrate electronic life Ultra Miami Stylee…
The UMF is already something of an intuition in the music world, having attracted a total of one million people form seventy-one countries around the globe in its history. As far as Space Ibiza’s role in the international event, 2012 sees the third consecutive year that the club have teamed up with the festival, this edition having taken over the stage for the Gran Finale on 25th March – no mean feat, but with the Space Team at the controls, it was a showcase spectrum of DJ talent comprised of not only some of the most reputable icons of our electronic time as well as a handful of Ibiza veterans including John Digweed, Steve Lawler, Adam Beyer, Joris Voorn, Nic Fanciulli, Umek, Layo & Bushwacka!, Gui Boratto, Popof, Remo, Gelabert, Renato Ratier and RioTGeaR. This is one party guaranteed to go down in the annals of dance history as a Very High Point in this year’s Ultra Music Festival.
If the reports we’ve been hearing back from Stateside this weekend are anything to go by, it sounds like UMF is once again proving its up there with the big boys in the best-festivals-in-the- world stakes- and with the world’s best club, Space Ibiza, helping bring the fun to an end of the three day event for another year, there was no doubt that the event was going to be an out and out smasher- or so I’ve been told by one colleague lucky enough to be swanning round Miami as I speak. “Wish you were here, ‘ she says. Jealous, much?
Ultra Music Festival, the world's premiere electronic music festival returns to Ibiza in partnership with Space for the third consecutive season. UMF IBIZA will be hosting the Main Terraze at the Space Ibiza Opening fiesta on Sunday May 27th.
