A thirty-year veteran of Spain's dance scene just put Ibiza's economy on trial, and the clip won't go away.

Vicente One More Time, the hardstyle DJ and producer who now directs UNIKA FM radio, is back in people's feeds this week after a 2025 interview he gave on Cancelled Podcast resurfaced on his own Instagram. The quote doing the damage: "Ibiza is a shitty island, where everyone does drugs and gets completely wasted." Per Periodico de Ibiza y Formentera, which reported the clip's recirculation on 9 November 2026, it has split comment sections between people defending the island and people saying he's just saying what everyone already knows.

What exactly is he accusing Ibiza of?

The core of his complaint isn't the partying, it's the pricing. "It's great for people with yachts going to amazing coves and spectacular places," he said, "but for the people who come to work, some go hungry. It's a disaster." His sharpest line is the one now plastered across reposts: "They're scamming you from the moment you arrive to the moment you leave. Something that costs X in Madrid costs three times more in Ibiza."

He didn't leave it abstract. Vicente has worked as a resident DJ at Fabrik, one of Madrid's biggest clubs, and he used it as his yardstick: one of Ibiza's major clubs, he says, charges up to three times what Fabrik does for a night out, despite Fabrik's production, sound and booking policy being, in his view, considerably stronger on a technical and artistic level.

Why is a year-old clip suddenly the story?

Because he put it back out himself. The Cancelled Podcast sit-down aired in 2025 and barely registered outside Spanish dance-music circles at the time, but this week's Instagram repost from his own account gave it a second life and a much bigger audience, the exact kind of recirculation that turns a niche opinion into an island-wide argument every tourist season. Ibiza's cost of living has been a running sore for seasonal workers for years: rents that eat most of a summer wage, bar and club prices pitched at a clientele that isn't counting euros, and a workforce that increasingly can't afford to live where it works. Vicente just gave that grievance a famous enough name attached to it to travel.

"They're scamming you from the moment you arrive to the moment you leave."

Why it matters

Ibiza's entire brand rests on being worth the premium: the clubs, the DJs, the production. A credible insider naming names and putting a number on the markup chips directly at that story, at the exact moment workers and visitors alike are already griping about the island pricing out everyone who isn't arriving by yacht.

What we think

He's not telling the scene anything it doesn't already mutter at the bar, he's just saying it with his own name on it and a direct comparison that's easy to repeat. That's what makes a line like this travel: it's specific, it's checkable against a club everyone in Spain already knows, and it doesn't pretend Ibiza isn't still capable of magic for the people who can afford the boat.