10 ways Ibiza will change in 2017

The festival scene in Croatia is booming, especially with ravers under the age of 25. In Ibiza, club politics and festivals don’t mix, which puts the island at a distinct disadvantage when it comes to offering festival-styled product packages to its customers. Cue the rise of the conceptual theme party, which incorporates many of the elements that make dance music festivals so appealing. Take elrow at Space, for instance, arguably the biggest success story of Ibiza 2016. The event itself is unique, with multiple stages and different interactive areas and zones to explore. Expect more abstract-style parties to surface in 2017, as Ibiza attempts to condense the magic of a weekend festival into an eight-hour timeslot.

Expect parties like WooMoon at Cova Santa and Cosmic Pineapple at Pikes, which incorporate elements of underground music, live music, craft, community and meditation, to become more popular in 2017, as the global physical and spiritual health awakening gathers pace.

“Dance culture has always had a tribal subculture,” Josh Wink explains. “Even when you talk about the primal days of music, there was always an aspect of community involved. Today, people are becoming more conscious of world issues and they want to share in something that is more than just this façade of going out and getting drunk and getting laid. I think a lot of people want to go deeper."

“Parties likes Cosmic Pineapple are bringing back the mystical idea of what Ibiza really is,” adds Carl Craig. “I think it has been lost over the last decade. People are tuning their bodies, but they are gonna have to come back and tune their minds. Cosmic Pineapple is a place where people's spirits and minds can be tuned. It will be interesting to see if the whole Las Vegas thing remains separate from this new movement.”