Loco Dice is surfing the success of 2025’s fourth studio album Purple Jam this summer, celebrating on the White Isle with a string of appearances at venues such as Pacha, Ushuaia and UNVRS. Rosie Riot reports from his July appearance at the Hï Ibiza residency Más Tiempo to see the ever-popular DJ-producer perform.
It’s just past midnight in Playa d’en Bossa, Ibiza, and the queue outside Hï nightclub is snaking down the road in the balmy summer air. The night? Black Coffee. But it’s not just the legendary South African artist’s Saturday residency that’s causing a buzz. The night is also hosting a summer takeover in the Club Room: Más Tiempo.
The event brand and label (meaning ‘more time’ in Spanish) was founded by grime legends Skepta and Jammer, marking the artists’ pivot from gritty grime attitude to glamorous tech-house groove. The night has gone global since its inception in 2022, proving to be a heady, alchemic example of genre-transgressing club music.
With this in mind, it was fitting to see Loco Dice perform at the event. With his signature blend of hip-hop influences, interlaced with syncopated rhythms and tech-house edits, his style suits the Más Tiempo sound down to the ground.
After navigating the warren of rooms and garden areas, I made it to the darkness of the Club Room. Taking over from the kinetic vitality of Syreeta’s opening set, Loco Dice stepped up to the decks, standing out in a crisp Muay Thai YOKKAO T-shirt.
As a performer, he instinctively knows how to connect with the crowd, peppering his own releases among popular edits. Crowd-pleasers and edits of Chamillionaire’s Ridin’ Dirty were interlaced with Afro-house and dancehall-flavoured jams, such as Chuckie & Gregor Salto’s Get Ready featuring Sister Smurf and Simple Simon. His set also provided a more intimate, yet energetic, caffeine boost to the sultry hypnosis of Black Coffee’s theatre-room sermon.
Some of the Düsseldorf-born artist’s influences include his Tunisian heritage, as well as his formidable love of hip-hop. The result is a DJ set that is rarely linear and often harnesses the passion of percussion, rendering tech sounds into something far more tribal. His commercial vocal selections sound cooler than some of his Ibiza showman counterparts.
With collaborations alongside tech titan Carl Cox on 2025’s Road Runner, unions with US EDM and dubstep lord Skrillex on Heavy Heart, and the urban riot collaboration with 1 UP Crew, Designer Kidz, Loco Dice never shies away from thinking outside the box. Garage and bass inflections also sneak into the fray during the night, taking the crowd by surprise and raising smiles and fist bumps alike.
Much like Skepta, who played later in the night with a suitably uplifting set full of cool party euphoria, Loco Dice is a master at transgressing worlds. Both artists have crossed over into fashion and created label communities.
With Loco Dice’s established record label Desolat now approaching its 20th anniversary, and home to names such as Andrea Oliva, Eats Everything and Mason Collective, it’s exciting to see such expansion and versatility in what can sometimes be a more formulaic tech-house blueprint. Nowhere is that more evident than in his Ibiza performances.
Hï’s Club Room concluded with a superb back-to-back from London’s Djammin and Meeshy, carrying the party into the early hours of Sunday morning. Joyful, dynamic and progressive.
Make sure to check out Loco Dice’s other summer performances in Ibiza, including appearances at Pacha with Mau P on 2 September, as well as Ushuaïa’s closing party on 10 October. Más Tiempo takes over the Club Room every Saturday this summer at Hï. Words by Rosie Riot.
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