Think of Pacha and your mind probably wanders to the thought of ridiculous parties at club events that one never forgets. Through that same club, located on that little island you may have heard of called Ibiza, the name has become a brand, and coupled with two dangling cherries, has established quite a reputation. All that in place, I was intrigued as to what Pacha Classics would have in store.

Spread across three discs, and with a total of 59 tracks, it certainly provides for plenty of music. No short-changing on that front. All up, it’s a compilation of well, most big commercial house tracks of the past fifteen years. Disc one takes us way back… way back… and with absolute classics like Missing from Everything But The Girl, Groovejet (If This Ain’t Love) from Spiller and Stardust’s classic Music Sounds Better With You, there is plenty to take you down memory lane, although that trio probably make up the pick of the tracks on the first disc.

The second is better, and for me, was more representative of a Pacha-like party. The Sound Of Violence from Cassius, Shake It from Lee-Cabrera, Mory Kante’s Yeke Yeke, and I Luv U Baby from The Original (yep, I never quite understood that either), and you’ve got some serious housy shit coming through. Throw in Greece 2000 from Three Drives for good measure, and while it may all be perhaps somewhat cheesy now, looking back on them, and they were pretty big tunes in their day, and would have made for some bang-up partying. And after all, this is a ‘classics’ CD.

Disc three takes it up a notch for me, and yes, while it’s commercial vocal house, it is also ultimately what one goes to Pacha for. Much like you won’t be hearing minimal tech at Pacha, you similarly won’t be hearing it here. Prydz gives us a Proper Education, Delerium the Silence treatment, Deep Dish perform a Flashdance , and the Roger Sanchez is Lost : yeah, I think you get the drift by now. And an Ibiza-inspired CD would not be complete without Sander Kleinenberg reminding us that This Is Ibiza.

Tracks that have sent crowds into a mad frenzy, and will hold memories for many for years to come. Good times. Good classics.