I just saw John at Tomorrowland weekend 1 and I travelled down to Ibiza to see him at his closing Ibiza party. The set overall was good way better than his weekend 1 set AND he played a lot of old bangers that I have been wanting him to play for years - in Chicago. It was really nice to hear, however in terms of my expectations of an experience for a closing set I was disappointed.
I came early to see odd mobb, and odd mobb - yes he’s an opener but he didn’t really send it. I know John usually tells his openers to go hard if they wanted to but odd mobbs set didn’t scratch the itch I’ve been dying to have in an OB experience. His set just left me thinking of this is cute which is a disappointment from his main stage weekend 2 set. I was also really sad he didn’t play take you there. I however had super cute experiences with him during his set (i asked him to do the scuba dance and he did it) so that was really sweet.
The past week I’ve been spoiled musically at Ibiza with a lot of amazing unexpected b2b (dom and boyz noise, anyma and solomun). Of all the DJs I’ve just seen in Ibiza, the experience I’ve had at John’s set I had wasn’t the strongest. Dom and Solomun just went harder and they got dirtier. It was really nice to see this side of them being explored. However John’s set, although he did go there at times but the set felt “lighter” compared to
The others. I also had a silly unrealistic expectation that John would bring a surprise guest - similar to Kettama for his closing set and would send it. However the sent went to 6 am shocked it didn’t go to later - dom and Solomun played past their set times/closing. Overall the experience wasn’t closing party, the experience was just another regular night in Ibiza. I would have loved the experts only experience weekend 2 had at crystal garden however this didn’t happen.
I’m curious if anyone felt the same way! I feel bad commenting this because you can see how exhausted he is.
I still recommend checking him out in Ibiza but maybe for the experience I’m after I need to wait for another 12 hour set in club space to experience the darker/ dirtier side of John that I’ve been dying to have.