Targeting the Balearic hot spots he’s become accustomed to with deep, focused house composing suave vocals and pianos striding about the place with a splash of salsa to them.
While there’s plenty of groove as standard from the Roger Sanchez/Mark Knight-supported spinner – springy bass, a warm blast of synths on a breakdown of calming motivation – Meraki builds an aura and gives the track time and space to explore itself, as per the knowledge-of-self lyrics.
In the first week of release the track has been picked up by Pete Tong (BBC Radio One), 3FM (Dutch Radio) and got early DJ support: Jamie Jones, Jansons, Paco Osuna , Claude Vonstroke, Philipp Straub, CASSIMM, Piem, Alaia & Galla, Horatio, Juanito, Tim Baresko, ATFC, Michel de Hey, Ruben Mandolini, David Penn, 1979, Freiboitar, Vanilla Ace, Eelke Kleijn, Sin Morera, Roberto Surace, Lena Estetica, Anastasia Kristensen, D-Formation and David Vendetta.
Antwerp resident Maxi Meraki grew up with music and started to play records at high end clubs in Belgium and Amsterdam. A first memorable highlight was noted during the summer of 2018 with a 4 hour set at the Pacha Destino in Ibiza.
Forward to the middle of 2019, the summer season residencies at the W hotel in Barcelona and Izakaya Ibiza set the tone for a bright summer. A sunny season filled with extra gigs: Soho House (Barcelona), Bagatelle (Ibiza), Plage Casanis (Marbella) and the absolute highlight playing on Ibiza’s most popular boat party “Pirata’s Ibiza”, warming up for Circoloco’s DC10 resident DJ Nathan Barato.