“Los vips ya no son gente muy importante, sino gente a la que exprimir, no hay excentricidad”: vuelve Manumission, la fiesta que revolucionó Ibiza

September is a very special month in Ibiza. It is when you know if the summer has gone well, and you can relax, or if it hasn't gone well, then there is not much to do. There are fewer tourists, and the atmosphere that is breathed in is special, affirms Mike McKay (Manchester, 55 years old), co-founder along with his partner, Claire Davies (Manchester, 51), and his brother, Andy McKay (Manchester, 57), of Manumission, the mythical party that revolutionized the Ibiza nightlife in the 1990s - disappeared in 2008, leaving behind over a million and a half happy customers -, promoting the golden era of club culture on the island with a philosophy that blended the best of the electronic music of the moment with the eccentric and free-spirited spirit that the hippies had brought to the island decades before.

All seasoned with a strong dose of sex and nights that turned into several days. In 1998, they bought a roadside brothel, remodeled it in a week, painting everything pink, and opened The Motel, a hotel without rules or phones where they continued the party with friends, DJs, and several celebrities, becoming probably the first hotel in the world to which no one went to sleep. After two summer seasons, it closed. Exhausted.