015 PEOPLE ARE HAPPY, WEDNESDAY MORNINGS IS WHEN YOU SEE THE MOST INSTAGRAM STORIES OF PEOPLE LEAVING NOW HERE AND THAT’S THE BIGGEST SIGN THAT RIGHT NOW YOU’VE CONNECTED WITH THE AUDIENCE AND THE PEOPLE ON THE ISLAND. You just said it: the people of the island. If I go to 10 restaurants in 8 they tel l me “Al l the chef wants to take a photo with you”. I feel that they are part of me and that I’m part of them, I feel identified and connected with them. I don’t know if you know but in my room I don’t have VIP, I don’t want it. I just want people to be dancing and enjoying themselves. There is also this hype of not wanting phones in the session. I can assure you that if you play good music, there wi l l be some people with their mobi le phones, obviously, but the crowd wi l l be connected to you. Things are much simpler, you play good music and people dance. You make good food, people eat. THIS SUMMER WE’VE BEEN ABLE TO SEE YOU AT OTHER VENUES IN IBIZA, LIKE PLAYA SOLEIL CELEBRATING THE EURO CUP OR USHUAÏA CELEBRATING YOUR BIRTHDAY. WHAT’S IT LIKE PLAYING AT THIS ICONIC VENUE? DID YOU NOTICE MUCH DIFFERENCE IN THE VIBE OF THE CROWD FROM A NIGHT AT HÏ IBIZA? We have to differentiate the three nights. When I played at Ushuaïa Ibiza, I played two sets, I’ll tell you an anecdote. We were putting together the line up for Ushuaïa and they told me “we need one more headliner to open”. I said no, but they told me that people would probably be waiting to come in by the time I came to play. I told them that if that was a problem I would open. I was there at 15:30h opening Ushuaïa. For me it was amazing because I love doing openings, it allows me to play music that I don’t always play and build the vibe that I want to create for the DJs that come after - 80 or 90% of the sessions I have to play the Main Time, with a two-hour set where I have to crush it. In Ushuaïa I did the closing, where, for my 50th birthday, I played some of the music that I really liked, the records that I’ve liked most of my life not as a DJ, but as a person. I wanted to do a set that was a little bit current but always with touches of the songs that have influenced me the most in my career. Hï Ibiza is 100% Paco Osuna. When I play at NOW HERE it’s 100% what I like. I made it a bit minimal techno, tech house, a bit dark. For Playa Soleil I did a completely different set, a bit more musical, with more acoustic tracks where you don’t hear everything so digital. They were three completely different sets that I enjoyed like crazy, but for me there’s nothing like Hï Ibiza, it’s home. Home is home. GOING BACK TO THAT ONE DAY AT USHUAÏA. THAT SAME DAY WAS ALSO THE BIRTHDAY OF ANOTHER FRIEND OF THE BRAND AND A GOOD FRIEND OF YOURS, DJ OLIVER. WHAT IS THE FIRST MEMORY YOU HAVE OF OLIVER? It was one day later (laughs), I was born on the 8th and he on the 9th. The first memory is that I wanted to break his head (laughs), that’s the truth. He was the resident DJ at the Terrace and I was the resident DJ in the Main Room and at first he was really annoying me. The few times I went to play at the Terraza he gave me a bit of a hard time, I don’t want to go into details because I don’t want to make him look bad in this interview (laughs). He’s from Barcelona, we have common interests, he’s a Barça fan, just like me, and I love him very much. We have lived through many experiences over the past 25 years, good and bad, and today Oliver is one of those people that I consider part of my family. His daughter calls me “Uncle Paco”, he calls my son “my nephew Paquito”. He’s my family. But the first few times I had to be with him I wanted to kill him because he really pissed me off. WITH A 25 YEARS LONG FRIENDSHIP LIKE THAT, IS IT DIFFICULT TO MAINTAIN SUCH A PERSONAL AND PROFESSIONAL RELATIONSHIP FOR SO MANY YEARS? It’s difficult when you have a friendship that isn’t a true friendship. When you have friends who say they are your friends but then don’t rejoice in your successes, constantly competing with you… They are not your friends. You have friends when they enjoy your achievements and who are there for you in your difficult moments. I always say that I have many acquaintances and few friends. Ol iver is one of my friends, he is there in my difficult moments. Marco Carola is my best friend because he has been in my most difficult moments. There was a time when we were not on good terms and, in a difficult moment of mine, at that time, he forgot everything and wanted to be by my side. I met Marco when I was 24 years old. I know his parents, sisters, nephews and nieces... I talk to his sisters every other week. I talk more with his fami ly than with him (laughs). They’re real friends, not just a DJing buddies. They are fami ly. When you have a relationship based on honesty, time doesn’t matter.
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