VICE

Escaping Thatcher's Britain for the organic innocence of Balearic beats and Cafe Del Mar.

Coming of age in Britain towards the end of Thatcher's long and tedious tenure was a particularly grim prospect for working class teenagers. In the wake of the miner's strikes and the Poll Tax riots there was little to aspire to, or to inspire. Excluded from the aspirational lifestyle afforded to a privileged few, many turned to music, most notably acid house, as a means of escaping their respective realities. The soundtrack of a generation was accompanied by the legends and mythologies created on a picturesque Mediterranean island out in the Balearics and portrayed with characteristic insouciance in the documentary A Short Film About Chilling, a film depicting the first wave of British DJs, promoters and bands in Ibiza, prior to the subsequent mass invasion of clubbing tourists.

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