Steve Aoki: Why I love Ibiza
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As Radio 1 returns to Ibiza for the 20th year in a row, Steve Aoki has told us about why he loves the White Isle.
He has a Monday night residency at Pacha throughout the summer and says Ibiza is great for two reasons.
Firstly, it is where he does a lot of his "business" and that is, of course, DJ'ing.
"It is the mecca of dance music, so for any DJ, one of the goals in a career is to hold down a residency in Ibiza," he tells us.
"It is difficult, you get a lot of competition because Ibiza represents (dance music) all across the board.
"Not just techno or house music or EDM, it is everything so it was important for me to go, 'OK now we have an offer for residency' to actually be here, so I moved here."
He now lives in Ibiza for four months a year and says he is looking to buy a property on the island.
The second reason the DJ loves the island is because of how "beautiful" it is.
"When you discover all these amazing places around the island that have nothing to do with the music culture but just the island itself, all the cliffs you can jump off , all the places you can swim, it has beautiful waters," he says.
"I recently found this mythological place that looks like Stonehenge," he says.
"People thought that aliens made it and built it in Ibiza, which wasn't the case, but there is a huge mythology about that and it is so cool to find things like that."
Aliens didn't build it, they are giant basalt columns constructed by the owner of Cirque de Soleil.
Steve was speaking to Newsbeat as he donated memorabilia to the Hard Rock Cafe, in London.
"It is hard for me to think ok my Eat Sleep Cake Repeat shirt is next to Lenny Kravitz guitar, It blows my mind," he explains.
He has donated four outfits that he has worn on tour but promises us he has washed them.
"I wore those jeans for months straight, I was thinking 'what are the funkiest clothes I've worn straight through a tour?'
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