In the room
The experience
DC-10 sits on the Carretera de Las Salinas at the end of the airport runway, in a former farmhouse that the brothers Deogracias and Antonio Lara Moreno first ran as a music bar licensed for eighty people. In 1999 two Italian promoters, Antonio Carbonaro and Andrea Pelino, became partners and invented Circoloco: a free after-party from six in the morning to six in the evening on Mondays, for people who had not finished with Sunday. It grew into the Monday of the whole island and the club grew with it, to about 1,500 people across three rooms. The name is the aeroplane's.
Those rooms are La Terrace, the Main Room and the open-air Garden, each with its own music, and the terrace is the one everybody means. It is a sun terrace, so the parties are daytime parties by birth, and the planes come in low over it; a jet over a breakdown is the club's signature and nobody has ever tried to hide it. The sound was engineered by Andy Kayll and Rich Walsh, and the policy has stayed underground since the start, loosening from strict minimal to a wider house and techno brief in recent years. DJ Mag ranks it among the Top 100 clubs most years.
Insider tip
Walk in knowing
Monday is the day: Circoloco's season slogan changes every year and the queue starts early. Skip the headline weekends of July and August and go in May, June, September or October, when the terrace can breathe and so can you.
Why it fits
Why it is in the atlas
A farmhouse, a terrace and a flight path. The place could not be anywhere else, which is the test.
Plan the trip
When to go, hours, getting there
Best time to go
The club opens two or three nights a week in the Ibiza season (roughly May to October). Circoloco holds Monday from opening to closing party.
Hours
Mondays Circoloco from 16:00 to 06:00 (the longest-running residency in clubland). Sundays in season, daytime through to early morning. Closed November to April.
Getting there
Carretera de las Salinas km 1, Sant Josep de sa Talaia, beside Ibiza airport and a short taxi ride from Ibiza Town. Seasonal buses have stopped at the club on opening days in past summers, so check the current timetable before relying on one.
FAQ
Questions people ask
When did Circoloco start at DC-10?
In 1999, as a free Monday after-party from 6am to 6pm, created by Antonio Carbonaro and Andrea Pelino with the Lara Moreno brothers who owned the venue.
How many rooms does DC-10 have?
Three: La Terrace, the Main Room and the open-air Garden, for about 1,500 people in total.
Why are there planes overhead?
The club sits on the Salinas road at the end of the Ibiza airport runway; the terrace is under the approach.
Is there a VIP area?
No. DC-10 has kept an underground, no-frills policy since it opened.
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