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Roger Sanchez... American house titan, chart-topping producer and honorary Ibizan can be summed up by all of the above. But as of now, his catch-all sobriquet Roger 'S-Man' Sanchez should read as level billing with his other moniker Roger 'Release Yourself' Sanchez. Despite Sanchez's unassailable place In the history books of house music, .it's his multifarious Release Yourself projects that really matters. 'Release Yourself expresses everything that I love about the music: he says of the empire which encompasses the stellar Monday night at Pacha, the radio show, and, of course, the compilations. 'It's about the ethereal experience of nightclubs, and it's for all the people who really. really love music.

It's a passion that has now been recognised with a Grammy. This year. Sanchez won Best Remix for his rework of No Doubt's 'Hella Good', 'You do a bit of stargazing at the Grammys,' he says. 'and I was shocked to win because I'm always the guy Who gets nominated: The gong (you get the real thing months after the ceremony) is going to sit on a mantelpiece in his new studio, In his just-built New Jersey. pad.

Not that hc"lI be spending all year In NJ Sanchez was bitten badly by the Balearic bug and pretty much moves to the island for the summer. Monday's Release Yourself bacchanal takes dedication. and Sanchez plays at every one of the parties. 'I set up my studio and everything', he says. 'My girlfriend Is Spanish and we met there so it's kinda comfortable: The parties have a different feel each year, and 2003's motif was outerspace, We had futuristic costumes for the dancers and we really want the feeling of being out In the galaxy It'll be like theatre, really exciting. I'm playing for eight hours, and I'm gonna take you from one place to another,'

The parties attract the kind of international, cosmopolitan crowd that Ibiza, was famous for In the Jet-set 80's. .It's a very sexy club and It's a very sexy environment It's for people who want to be part of something? no messy lager louts'
Release Yourself isn't Just Ibiza, though, as Sanchez runs brilliant, underground parties In London, Manchester, Amsterdam, Paris, Barcelona and Milan, Even If you've never made It through the wooden doors of Ibiza's Best Club. Ifs easy to catch a glimpse of the pumped-up hedonism created by Sanchez's epic sets. "I've just finished the new compilation. It has a lot of upfronts and exclusives. Things that are going to big over the summer. We're going back to dub plate style." There's a new Sanchez track under the title Tribe called Es which Is 'a little underground thing, a now Scumfrog tune (''kinda on a rock tip. He's very ballsy and funky") and brand new outings from Chocolate Puma, Gattaca and a slam-bang new Jason Jinx rocket.

Right now, Sanchez Is all about Release Yourself - it's also the name of his weekly radio show. which has now been syndicated all over America.