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As if Tiesto wasn’t big enough the people at Ibiza’s Privilege club have gone and thrown in the Electrik Playground to host room two, or La Vaca for those in the know, to partner the Dutch destroyer throughout the summer.

The Leeds-based underground club night will make its debut on the Spanish island on July 7th and join Tiesto’s In Search of Sunrise events which are whopping nights in their own right.

In an interview with Ibiza-spotlight.com, residents and Galaxy FM hosts Riley and Durrant said their sound won’t step on the techno king’s toes at the world’s biggest nightclub, which can pack in 10,000 people at any one time.

“We’ll be bringing more of a deeper, more funked-up sound to the Music Box … We’re going to make the Electrik Playground somewhere to slip off to at 3am for a really wide-range of electronic music - from the deep dark down and dirty to bleeps blips and basslines,” Durrant told the site.

Providing this banquet of choons will be Kate Lawler, Nick ‘Bodyrox’ Bridges, Hauswerks and D and G among others.

The long arm of the law has dealt a crushing blow to this summer’s Ibiza party scene by closing one of the island’s most popular clubs.

DC10 Circoloco has been shut down by the Spanish government on the grounds that it only served three days of a 60-day closure last year and must serve the next 57 days of the sentence to make up for it.

The question is why the authorities waited until the summer to slap the ban on the club considering it was open throughout the winter including New Years Eve.

Andrea Pelino, from Circoloco, told Ibiza-Voice he was gutted by the news and seems to think plod is hell-bent on causing maximum aggro and distress.

“I feel like DC10 is the monster of the island, like they hate us. I don’t understand why this always happens … you have to ask why they chose to shut us now,” he said.

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