By guest writer: James Kabat

If summer anthems are born in Miami during the Spring (see Winter Music Conference), they most certainly are cultivated in Ibiza; the white Balearic isle off the coast of Spain where the rich, famous, and the beautiful come to party and rub elbows with European vacationers and a fair amount of obnoxious Brits. Ever since the mid nineties it’s become a staple that whatever hits big here usually becomes a global phenomenon. To give you an idea of just how massive Ibiza’s influence has become, some of the biggest past “Ibiza Anthems” include: Faithless’ “Insomnia,” Nalin & Kane’s “Beachball,” Stardust’s “Music Sounds Better With You,” Modjo’s “Lady,” Fedde Le Grand’s “Put Your Hands Up 4 Detroit,” and Swedish House Mafia’s “One,” to name a few.

One of the most buzzed about and played tracks of the 2012 season is Berlin-based 24 year-old DJ Wankelmut‘s remix of Israeli singer-songwriter Asaf Avidan’s 2008 hit “Reckoning Song.” Although, it first became a big hit in his home country of Germany earlier this year where it hit #2 on the charts, the renamed “One Day/The Reckoning Song” began to pick up some major steam due to its popularity in Ibiza and has now become a set-ending must for DJ’s all over the world. Wankelmut (real name Jacob) transforms the soft acoustic guitar-based folk tune into a proper club banger, complete with a 4/4 kick drum, while still maintaining the beauty and vulnerability of the original. Currently sitting pretty at the upper ends of the Beatport Top 10, “One Day” is on a fast track to becoming a global summer anthem of massive proportions. Be prepared to hear this one for the rest of 2012 and beyond.
 

 

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