'El Mundo Danza' by Santi Vasques opens in A-flat minor at 126 BPM, and that Spanish-language title sets the tone for the collection: Latin-leaning house built for the island's season opener, on RH2, a label well used to long-running compilation series — 'United Colors of House' and 'Get Housed' among them. From there the programme climbs without fuss: S3RGY N3IRA's 'Make it Smooth' pushes to 127, MRRON's 'House Music' plants the mission statement at 128, and DAMNJAY's 'Move Ya Feet', the longest cut here (7:01), turns the climb into a plateau.
Then the record breathes. Mike Newman eases Trimtone's 'The One You Love' down to 125, and the valley settles at 124 with 'Fuego' by Alfrenk and Mata Jones and Krestovsky's 'La Noche', the programme's only afro house cut; between them, Gino Colombi's 'Superjam', the shortest at 3:48, briefly breaks the calm. It's the tastiest stretch of the journey — the point where the fiesta stops running and starts dancing.
A sermon and a classic to close
The comeback builds by accumulation — Joyce (ARG), the near seven minutes of Half Caste's 'Pitch My Hand' — up to the big-name milestone: 'Disco Sermon', Mercer alongside Ron Carroll, the Chicago vocalist they called The Minister of Sound for singing like a preacher, who passed away in September 2025. Hearing him on a title that fits him like a glove turns the twelfth cut into more than a stepping stone: it is an unintended tribute at 128 BPM.
The finale sheds its skin and goes tech house. 'Thrill Me', the 2002 anthem that put Junior Jack on the map, returns in an extended version credited alongside Juliet Sikora and Flo MRZDK, and Luca Garaboni's 'Nino' with Fabiola Osario, reworked by Marco Lys, turns out the lights in C minor. A journey that opens in Spanish, breathes afro in the middle and signs off quoting the classics — hard to sum up an Ibiza opening any better.
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