The first Love International proved that paradise can be found

Axel Boman had supplied a special moment on the Percolate boat party without even being present, so we were pretty excited to check out what he could bring to the party before our eyes. The ebullient Swede is reputed among the biggest personalities in dance music, and this translated into his selections in a set underpinned by rapturous belters.

At the Beach Bar, the stage’s dancefloor was essentially a big concrete slab jutting out into the ocean, but it’s a lot more of a romantic spot than that sounds, with waves lapping gently at the side and the tiki-themed booth bathed in fluorescent purple and green lighting.

Axel tapped into the free-spirited atmosphere brilliantly, inducing playful grins with a hand-raising remix of Underworld classic ‘Born Slippy’, but equally pleasing the heads with Omar-S’ electro-bassline powered ‘Ah’ Revolution’. His closing track, ‘All My Life’ by K-Ci & JoJo, united everyone in an emotional, swaying sing-a-long. Take a bow, Boman.