From next season ‘after-hours’ clubs in Ibiza will be banned. Authorities say clubs which operate between 6am and 10am cause a disturbance for residents and less nocturnal holidaymakers.

The resort town of San Antonio banned after-hours clubs some time ago and now Sant Josep, home to clubs such as Space, DC10 and Bora Bora, is to do the same. Vicent Ferrer, head of tourism in Sant Josep, said: "In an urban space, an after-hours club is a danger and we have to stop it."

Local authorities in Ibiza Town also want to close the clubs between 6am and 6pm, putting an end to afternoon raves.

Paquita Ribas, a local councillor, said: "We know the clubs are attractive internationally but we want tourists and residents to live in a better way."

Pepe Rosello, owner of Space, said: "The new rules mean some of our morning sessions will have to be moved to afternoons. But it also opens the door to more illegal parties in houses and on the beaches.”

For many it marks the end of an era for the island which invented chill-out music and which was famous for its hedonistic, anything-goes attitude.

Ibizan bastion of Monday daytime partying, Circoloco @ DC10, have announced their residents for this coming summer season.
The most interesting capture has to be the master of all that's hot in techno right now, Matthew Dear (AKA Audion). The other new residents are Thomas Melchior (Cadenza), Pikaya (Cadenza), Mirko/Lazy Fat People (Border Community) and David Squillace (Freak n' Chic).
What do you think of these names? who would you like to have seen? Let us know...

It's official! The summer party season is now upon us and things are underway on the white island with Space and DC10's opening parties taking place last Sunday and Monday respectively.

Our contact on the island tells us that the Circoloco party at DC10, our Ibizan club of the year 2005 and office favourite, was the place to be with techno upstart Mathew Jonson playing live to the terrace on top of a scaffolding tower and dangling from a harness!

New weekly resident Luciano and the ever present Loco Dice both rocked the terrace with tough and edgy balearic beats and even though the terrace bar had been moved to create more room, the place was still rammed.

With Pacha, Amnesia and Privelege still to throw open their doors, what are you guys most looking forward to this season?

Is it Cream, Judgement Sundays, Cocoon or Subliminal?

Let us know...