One of my proudest career signings that grew to become world famous with over 15 Million sales of the CD's and still selling in this digital age on iTunes, Amazon and Ebay.

Originally released on CD and vinyl by React for the UK. I picked up the series after #3 and took it for the World with the template set by James Horrocks and Tom Foley after the 3 amazing earlier React releases. The timing was ripe to take it universal and an entire music genre was born out of the Café Del Mar series.

Although it took a lot of arm twisting in Mercury to make them sign the project - a few red faces later who said it would never work - a common theme in my career and something that makes me smile, because then I know its going to be a success.

Oddly enough, almost as a sign of the future to come, in 1988, whilst working for MCA Records, I compiled and named an album on vinyl and CD called "The Sunset Sound Of LA" so I was on the right track years before, without even knowing and guess where I live now watching the Sunset? Yes in LA. Life is strange how it circles back to the beginning.
 
My daughter Olivia was brought into the world with a Café Del Mar CD playing in the delivery room which I put on with candles in the room to help her Mum relax - it must have worked because she was out into the world within 45mins. Later, whenever Oli used to cry on a long journey in the car I'd put that Café Del Mar CD on, she'd look at me nod her head and relax to the music. She's now 11 and still has to have her music on in the car no matter how far the journey.
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I can claim the sole responsibility of persuading Pepe and Fritz of Space Ibiza to move their DJ Box from inside the Bar to the centre of the Space Terrace and allowing DJ Carl Cox to play a full on House music set on the Terrace instead of playing his pumping Techno tunes inside the venue. Now every DJ in the World wants to play the Space Terrace and Carl does it every year - but that first time was magic, something extra-ordinary. Carl literally tore the roof off and we had to go up and tie it back down again. I still have the CD to prove it. That performance, recorded by EG that day, won two The Essential Mix of the Year 1998 awards, on BBC Radio 1 and in the Muzik Magazine '98 Polls. Well done and Thank you Carl.
Photo is at Space Ibiza in the now legenday Space Terrace DJ booth where I'm photographed looking tanned and seriously concentrating. I'm probably watching some Space madness or a Space Bikini girl dancing crazy because that dance floor always had something jaw dropping going on :-)
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A zillion words have been written, spoken and sung about Ibiza, that little Island off the coast of Spain, its clubs, music, notoriety and unique place in the world.
 
True to EG life path I did my bit to ignite the flame of interest and true to form the Island's energy caressed me, inspired me, loved me, burnt me and left an indelible mark on my soul, but I'm proud of my contribution to today's Ibiza, my work is on the island forever and it was always from the heart not the Euro.
My daughter Olivia is now 11 years old and loves going to Ibiza which obviously has nothing to do with the clubs, she likes to eat there, visit the beaches and to feel free from School, like the children from centuries gone by. In fact she has been going every year since she was 3 months old and I fully expect to receive telephone calls from her in her teenage years to come at 7am saying that she has just got home to their villa from being out all night as I'm making my first cup of tea of the morning.
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