Amnesia, the club where he held a residency during the 1980s, announced the news, writing on Instagram: “Thank you for the nights and beats we share

DJ Alfredo, icon of Ibiza’s dance music scene, dies aged 71

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2024-12-25 09:00:05

Amnesia, the club where he held a residency during the 1980s, announced the news, writing on Instagram: “Thank you for the nights and beats we shared together. Your music and vision shaped the sound of Balearic Beat and the soul of Amnesia. So many memories were made through your energy, your legacy will live on our dancefloor forever. You will never be forgotten.”

No cause of death was given, but he had been unwell in recent years, suffering a stroke in 2021. An appeal for help with medical costs was launched in March while he lived in a retirement home.

Born Alfredo Fiorito in Argentina in 1953, he emigrated in 1976 to Paris, then Madrid, then Ibiza, living a casual existence selling candles and clothes while picking up DJ experience at a bar. “A guy I knew who had a club called Amnesia decided to go to Thailand,” he explained to the Guardian, regarding the farmhouse venue. “He gave me the keys and said I was in charge … We opened at 3am and went on until midday, so people would come down after the other clubs shut.”

His Amnesia residency was characterised by a complete lack of snobbery and an equally total embrace of heady, sensual music across the genre spectrum, from high-gloss soft rock to pop, reggae, disco, funk, electro and early house: a euphoric blend that came to define the bohemian spirit of the Balearic island. Ulises Braun, a bar owner, later described mid-80s Amnesia to the Guardian: “Everything was spontaneous and different. It was a wild time. There were no laws: people were making love on the dancefloor, drinking and dancing, taking litres of liquid ecstasy between them.”

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