Pacha has its main club base in Ibiza
Town in Ibiza and puts on nights all throughout summer. It
hosts many nights in the summer and on a good night when its
rocking it is easily one of the top clubs in the World.
History
Opened in 1973. Playground of the rich
and famous during the decadent 1970s and 80s, Pacha has now
become Ibiza's most famous international export and there
are noe 70 Pacha's around the World.
Location
Opposite the Marina in Ibiza Town. 5.10 minutes walk from
the Port (depending on the pre-club drinks ;-)
Music Policy
Pacha has become famous throughout the world for quality
House music. The DJ Team is headed by Residents Australian
born Sarah Main and Ibiza-born Angel Linde, they have been
a team in the main room for several years. Apart from the
Main Room, one can find many other areas to choose from, including
the Funky Room - directed by Ibiza icon Vaughn where soul,
jazz, funk and mellow-house rule, and also the Global Room
(ex Zenith room for you oldies!) where theme events take place
as the soulful/funky PACHA Munich party or the FIASCO! night
where resident DJ Andy B spins hip hop and soul.
One of the few discos to open all-year-round (Winter - weekends
only), Pacha guarantees some storming summer line-ups: Erick
Morillo, Pete Tong, Darren Emerson, David Morales, Frankie
Knuckles and new for this year Sasha and Deep Dish. If you
are lucky enough to be on the island for one of the 'Flower
Power' parties, don't miss this opportunity to travel back
in time to hear the best music form the 1960s, 70s 80's and
90's, when many of the original Ibiza playboys and girls dress
up in flairs, loud shirts and bandannas to groove the night
away. Without a doubt, one of the best parties of the island.
Inside Pacha
It took me many visits to Pacha to discover all the little
rooms and corners. It is fabulous fun wandering around, stopping
for a drink and a chat, or sinking into one of their plush
sofas which fill the venue. Although an enormous club, with
a capacity for over 3000, Pacha still retains a very cosy
and intimate feel. A true Ibiza Experience.
DJ Mag Pacha Ibiza Club Review...
When it comes to club branding, the Pacha empire has surely
written the definitive rulebook. Think Pacha and you instantly
think glamour, style and elegance. But whilst all those global
franchises and perfectly styled marketing campaigns have helped,
the root reason lies squarely within the stone walls of their
Ibiza Town venue.
As effortlessly stylish as the models that fill its VIP
areas, Pacha might be a magnet for the rich and sometimes
famous but it is a venue anyone can feel comfortable in thanks
to its organic, unforced design and a spell-binding starlit
roof terrace.
At 35-years-old and counting (weepy sap James Blunt even
wrote his '1973' song about it), the elegant Ibiza venue might
not be the oldest Pacha (that distinction is held by the Stiges
original that opened in 1967) but it remains both the most
iconic and the benchmark by which all others are judged.
And on line-ups alone there will never be any contest. Described
by Sebastian Ingrosso as "the church of house music",
the sentiment is shared by just about every key house DJ past
or present. Hell, half of them have held their longest residencies
here.
Erick Morillo's Subliminal is about to reach its tenth season
here, whilst UK house bastions Defected have been importing
names like Kenny Dope, Bob Sinclar and Junior Jack since 2005.
The flagships, however, are undoubtedly Fridays Pure Pacha
and David Guetta's Fuck Me I'm Famous parties, on Thursdays.
Last season, the former matched dance giants like Faithless
and Basement Jaxx with trailblazers like Fedde Le Grand and
The Swedish House Mafia, whilst the latter saw everyone from
Laidback Luke to 2Many DJs support Guetta's delirious spectacles.
"Pacha is all about looking good and having fun but
it attracts a very mixed and international crowd," believes
David Guetta.
"There is the VIP jetset and the partying clubbers. I
can't think of any other venue where so many different types
of people get together and party
Pacha Buenos Aires
Details...
Pacha Nightclub, Rafael
Obligado e Pampa, Costanera Norte, Buenos Aires
Undoubtedly the most famous club in Beunos Aires, Pacha delivers
it to the masses.
DJ Mag Pacha Buenos Aires Club Review...
You'd better pack some spare batteries for your body if you
want to keep up with the sheer pace of life after dark in
Buenos Aires. And one of the best places to charge them is
undoubtedly Pacha, the club that has powered most of the changes
in South America's dance music scene since opening in the
mid-1990s.
For it was beneath the two cherries in this luxuriant Argentine
outpost of the Pacha empire that Hernan Cattaneo held down
the residency that not only cemented his own status in the
worldwide DJ elite but also South America's reputation as
one of the most fecund breeding grounds for fresh electronic
music on the planet; a legacy being built upon by producers
like Oliverio, Deep Mariano and Martin Garcia to this day.
Favouring deep and progressive house over the more obvious
trance records that reigned at the turn of the century, the
musical direction of Cattaneo and promoter Martin Gontad resulted
in an extremely educated crowd who not only knew how to party
the way only South Americans can, but also respected the quality
of the tunes - and it's still the same way today in the hands
of current Saturday night residents Fran Percamilli and Matias
Sundblad, who have played host to such international big-hitters
as Justin Robertson, David Seaman and Pole Folder in recent
years.
Pacha Buenos Aires is an awe-inspiring venue too, with a
voluminous main room fully tooled up with top-grade sound
and lighting and an outside terrace beneath the flightpath
for Buenos Aires airport, where hands are regularly raised
in the air to salute the aircraft soaring overhead, just like
in the good old days at Space in Ibiza.
But it's the energy of the crowd that's the most overwhelming
thing to take in when the place begins to reach boiling point
after 3am, although with slightly strange South American rituals.
"There's this thing there where everyone sits on the
floor during the breakdowns," reveals Nick Warren, who
describes Pacha Buenos Aires as one of the Top 3 clubs on
the planet. "Then, as the beat builds, they all start
to slowly wind up before leaping in the air and going mental
when it kicks back in.
"It's a staggeringly good club with a killer soundsystem
and fantastic lighting but what really makes it are the people.
The music has always so been carefully programmed and the
quality kept so high that everyone there is so clued-up because
they've been raised on records and DJs of such a high class.
You can tell that just because they scream during the clever
bits of tunes, such as when the hi-hat comes in, rather than
the obvious 'big room' moments. Pacha Buenos Aires is perfect
every time."
Pacha New York Details...
Pacha Nightclub, 618
W. 46th Street,
New York, NY 10036, USA
In December of 2005, the infamous Pacha club name opened
in New York City. As one of the city's largest clubs, it brings
in some of the highest paid DJs in the dance world to its
four floor/30,000 square feet space.
DJ Mag Pacha New York Club Review...
For a city that supposedly never sleeps, just four years
ago New York clubbers were bemoaning the lack of decent venues
in the city. The legend of Larry Levan's Paradise Garage was
long faded, whilst iconic '90s haunts like The Tunnel and
Twilo had been felled by the iron fists of the city's hardline
policing and Draconian licensing laws. Replacements were notable
by absence alone. Step forward Pacha New York on 6th December
2005.
Opening with Morillo, Tong and Louie 'Masters At Work' Vega,
in the years since Pacha NYC - located at 618 W. 46th Street
- has earned its stripes as the city's stronghold for quality
DJs of all shades with everyone from Jeff Mills and Richie
Hawtin to John Digweed and James Zabiela playing.
But more than that, Pacha NYC has finally resurrected New
York's rich tradition for unwinding, marathon sets. Like Larry
Levan's inspirational '70s sets at The Paradise Garage or
the Sasha & Digweed epics at Twilo some 20 years later,
sets at Pacha NYC are true journeys by DJ. It's one of the
few places in the world where you'll hear David Guetta spin
for six hours, whilst Richie Hawtin and Danny Tenaglia's 12-hour
back-to-back session in June 2008 will be etched in New York
clubbing history forever more.
"Pacha NYC is the real deal - it's a major city mega-club,"
explains president and founder Eddie Dean. "When DJs
come here they know it's a place where they can take the crowd
on a journey, a venue where they have the time and freedom
to truly express themselves."
Design-wise, Pacha NYC is everything you'd expect from a
two cherries outpost in the Big Apple. A stone's throw from
the bustling Hell's Kitchen district and flanked by the Hudson
River, the decadent four-storey mansion is the perfect symbiosis
of New York's bold sense of scale and the refined elegance
of the Ibiza prototype. A 2000-capacity main room is wrapped
in encircling balconies, whilst the warm, intimate tones of
the Mirror Lounge and calm, chic vibe of the Shower Lounge
offer more mellow respites.
But for all its elegance and style, Pacha NYC remains a clubber's
club - a venue where everything from twisted techno to the
deepes t house can find a high-class home.
"Pacha NYC is one of the only big clubs I've played
that you actually feel the dancefloor really come together,"
believes New Yorker Adultnapper, a DJ more readily associated
with a twisted and wonky after-hours sound than Pacha's house
heritage.
"I was a bit wary, to be honest, when I first played
there. I wasn't sure if my sound would fit a big well-known
superclub but I was wrong. The crowd was receptive to just
about every turn and I felt as if I could go anywhere with
the music.
"The soundsystem brings out all the detail in the tracks
and it's a big room with the feel of an intimate smaller club.
A pleasant surprise to say the least."
