Ibiza has long been a haven for those on the edges of society. From those escaping Franco’s fascism in the early 20th century, to the international hippy movement in the late 1960s, Ibiza has welcomed those who are looking for a different life free from the world they left behind. In the 1980s a new sound emerged from the melting pot of Ibiza’s club scene, in part influenced by house music coming out of Chicago. This sound, the Balearic Beat, would change the fate of dance music forever. When brought back to the UK by a group of travelling party-goers, it intersected with acid house and club culture, spurring on an explosive new ecstasy-fuelled youth culture that permeated the whole of Britain. After the police crackdown on these new raves in the early 1990s, England’s youth returned to Ibiza, changing the face of the island yet again.

In this episode, i-D’s Fashion Features Director Osman Ahmed speaks to Fashion East’s Lulu Kennedy and Pacha’s Francisco Ferrer, who both grew up on the island during it’s hippy days. Jamie Holman and DJ Paulette recount the relationship between Ibiza and the north of England during the heyday of acid house, and Dawn Hindle, former Creative Director of Pikes and Ibiza Rocks, and key part of legendary club night Manumission, explains why she came on holiday to Ibiza and never left.