Paul Oakenfold is often credited with pushing the trance movement to the front of the international stage.

In 1999 he was the resident DJ on a show called The Essential Mix on Radio1, a BBC channel in Great Britain.

The two hour show hosted, and continues to host, premier DJs from a variety of genres and myriad locations around the globe. Paul, however, has been invited back repeatedly.

Out of all of the sets of his that I have, this one, recorded live on July.25-99 during Home, which was a party at Space, a club in Ibiza, has probably racked up over one hundred plays on my stereos alone.

After my academic programs in Spain, I went to Ibiza this past summer in search of my mecca. My guide, Ursula and I took the ferry to the Balearic island and spent the night chasing dance culture folkore of clubs that were hot only to realize after we paid their ridiculous covers that they were all empty, full of strange motionless creatures, and playing terrible house music.

When we finally found Space, at 5AM, we were most disappointed to see that 1) gay night and the worst house music on the island were pumping themselves out into the parking lot, 2) The club had been co-opted by Microsoft, and there were XBOX consoles abound adulterating any authentic club experience there was left, and 3) the cover, which was not the most expensive on the island but still asburd, was fifty euros.

I may have waited too long to find that party. But I’ll always have this mix which I horded off of Napster through the pipes at Johson Hall, VCU to remind me of those weekends I spent in that scene.

Does anyone remember Marshall Livingston?