Let’s try this introduction on Leo Mas without using that one word that comes to mind talking about people like him. Maybe you’re old enough or maybe you’ve just learned your lessons: remember the „Second Summer of Love“?, the times when Danny Rampling, Trevor Fung, Paul Oakenfold, Nick Holloway and a bunch of other sooner or later big names in DJing came back from Ibiza to UK in the late 80s and couldn’t believe what they experienced on that island, importing a sound that affected a whole generation, a sound without which Madchester, Haçienda and Acid wouldn’t have been what it was?

The first „raves“, ecstasy induced parties that ended around noon, the excessive hedonism, the mixture of people and the sound that later got labeled „Balearic“ -  a genre that people often mistake with chilled out sound, ambient, flamenco guitars and Café Del Mar compilations, but in real is nothing else than the abscence of a genre, a genre crossing all others. When Rampling, Fung, Holloway and Oakenfold went to Ibiza in 87/ 88 it was Alfredo who was the resident at Amnesia - and Leo Mas, originally from Milano, that were mixing up everything from Afro to Funk to Disco to Jazz to Wave, Pop, Rock and early House. Leo had been there in ’84 and met Alfredo by accident who invited him to play at Amnesia in 85 after he got a hand on some of Leo’s mixtapes. After that Leo was playing that club for the next seasons - and the Summer of Love. His first own production got released in ’92 on Palmares and since then he’s throwing out a goodie every now and then on various labels such as Ocean Dark, Italian and Is It Balearic?. His newest release (together with his long time friend Fabrice) is a bunch of amazing remixes of the Underground System hit Bella Ciao out on Hell Yeah.

For Lodown he recorded a mix that delivers a trippy and mesmerizing version of House that you rarely get to hear, just right before he left on vacation. We think this one is a perfect vacation buddy for your mind. Press play!