The ideal finale to a stellar residency! Swedish progressive house titan Eric Prydz has finally wrapped up his HOLOSPHERE 2.0 residency at UNVRS in Ibiza. The island venue oversaw three months of supreme audio visual magnitude spanning across 14 shows. It also witnessed a host of Pryda and Cirez D classics in tandem with a spectacle hardly witnessed before in a club. The dance music legend was saving the best for the last. Prydz’s iconic ‘Call on Me’ was the chosen one to draw curtains on the 3 month sojourn.
‘Call on Me’ is Eric’s own 2004 take sampling Steve Winwood’s 1982 classic ‘Valerie’. The music video for the classic was the one that made more waves, to the point it caught the attention of then British Prime Minister, Tony Blair. The signs given by Prydz of keeping himself away from the iconic track was to avoid the tag of a ‘one hit wonder’. The progressive house legend obviously went to attain much bigger accolades in career.
The ’20 Years of Pryda‘ show in Austin, Texas earlier this year has witnessed a history of sorts. It saw the revival of the classic after 21 years as a part of Eric’s set. Ibiza 2004 was the last time it graced the tracklist of the progressive house legend. There have been instances post-2004 admitted by Eric himself where the audience came to his shows just for the song. The restlessness and anticipation of those still didn’t convince him to drop ‘Call on Me’ at those shows. It was dead and buried and no one ever presumed in their wildest dreams he would play it again.
Prydz slammed out the classic to close On The Beach at Brighton, United Kingdom in July. A rare 3rd appearance in 21 years was witnessed to close out HOLOSPHERE 2.0 leaving the crowd in awe.
Quite the ideal spectacle to exit probably the most spectacular arena this year!