Acid house legend Danny Rampling, along with fellow DJs Paul Oakenfold and Nick Holloway, will help Trainspotting writer Irvine Welsh bring Ibiza87 to our screens.

In 1987, Danny Rampling, Nicky Holloway and Paul Oakenfold went to Ibiza. When they came back, they introduced the UK to Acid House, and the Rave scene was born. This story is set to be immortalised by the TV series Ibiza87, which will be written by Trainspotting author Irvine Welsh among others.

Ibiza87 has been described by its creators as “the missing link between 24hr Party People and Straight Outta Compton.” With Irvine Welsh’s usual blend of dark humour and hard-hitting drama, this will no doubt be an apt description.

The show is set to detail the famous ‘87 first trip to Ibiza, and the birth of UK rave culture that followed it. Rampling, Holloway and Oakenfold will compile the soundtrack for the series, which they say will be “incredible”. It will likely be chock full of Acid House classics from the era, but it may also have the odd bubblegum pop surprise in keeping with the eclectic balearic DJ style pioneered by Ibiza’s DJ Alfredo, as well as the visiting British trio themselves when they returned.

Ibiza87 so far does not have a release date. But when the series comes out, you’ll hear about it.

Read what the DJ had to say about his first trip to Ibiza in our Danny Rampling interview here.

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Image by athinaf – Ibiza rock ‘volcano’, CC BY 2.0