90's Summer Party debuts at Noches Mágicas: Twenty 4 Seven, Double You, Just Luis and Viceversa on July 25 in the Jardines de Abril
Festival Noches Mágicas is adding a new chapter to its history this summer. The festival’s fourteenth edition, running July 24 through August 6 in the Jardines de Abril of Sant Joan d’Alacant, introduces for the first time the 90's Summer Party: a full night dedicated to the music that defined a generation. On July 25, Twenty 4 Seven, Double You, Just Luis and Viceversa will take the stage in a show designed to bring the soundtrack of the nineties back to life in one of the most distinctive outdoor settings in the province of Alicante.
Some songs don’t age — they just wait to be played again. That is the premise behind the 90's Summer Party: not an archive concert or a nostalgia gimmick, but a live encounter with music that conquered half the world in its time and still fills a dancefloor the moment it comes on.
Headlining the night is Twenty 4 Seven, the Dutch project founded in 1989 by producer Ruud van Rijen in Valkenswaard and one of the defining acts of European eurodance and hip house. The group’s story began with the debut single “I Can’t Stand It” (1989), fronted by rapper Tony Dawson-Harrison, who left in 1991 to form his own Captain Hollywood Project. His departure brought Stay-C (Stacey Paton) into the fold, and it was this lineup that produced the group’s biggest moment: “Slave to the Music” (1993). The single crossed every border it encountered — Western Europe, Israel (reaching number 17 in the national chart), Japan, Australia, South Africa, Latin America and Eastern Europe — making Twenty 4 Seven the first dance act to go platinum in Czechoslovakia. “Is It Love” and “Take Me Away” followed in quick succession, completing a trilogy of anthems that defined the dancefloor of 1993 and 1994. The group’s studio discography spans four albums: “Street Moves” (1990), “Slave to the Music” (1993), “I Wanna Show You” (1995) and “Twenty 4 Hours A Day, Seven Days A Week” (1997).
Bringing equal sentimental weight to the night is Double You, the Italian group founded in La Spezia in 1985 by vocalist William Naraine, keyboardist and producer Franco Amato and DJ Andrea de Antoni. Their rise to global prominence came through a meeting with producer Roberto Zanetti in 1991, which produced “Please Don’t Go” — a dance version of the KC and the Sunshine Band ballad from 1979, recorded in December 1991 and released in January 1992. It immediately became the most danced song of 1992, selling over three million copies and earning gold and platinum records across Germany, France, the Netherlands, Spain, Belgium, Austria, Greece, Turkey, all of Latin America, Africa and Asia. In the UK it reached number 2 on the Cool Cuts Chart. The second single “We All Need Love”, recorded mid-European tour in June 1992, reached the top of international charts in record time. “Run to Me” (1994) opened the door to North America — in under three months, 64 shows, over 350,000 people, a record for a dance act. “Dancing with an Angel” (1995), “Because I’m Loving You” and the perennial “We All Need Love” complete a catalogue that has appeared on virtually every serious nineties compilation ever assembled.
The lineup is completed by Just Luis, the Australian-born artist with Spanish roots whose version of “American Pie” became one of the most recognizable dance tracks of the mid-nineties in Europe, arriving in the midst of the commercial electronic music boom that swept the continent in those years. And by Viceversa, one of the most fondly remembered Spanish pop groups of the decade, whose songs have been part of the country’s shared musical memory for several generations and who bring a national, intimate dimension to the night.
The experience begins in the afternoon, with the Noches Mágicas signature atmosphere in the Jardines de Abril: open-air food and drink, rest areas, artistic interventions and the atmosphere of a unique natural setting. After the concerts, AMA Dj’s take over to keep the night going.
The 90's Summer Party joins the festival’s established 80's Summer Parties: July 24 with Modestia Aparte and Toreros con Chanclas, and August 1 with Ana Torroja as headliner. The rest of the fourteenth edition’s program includes Miguel Campello (July 26), Ara Malikian with “Intruso” (July 28), Israel Fernández with “De oro y marfil” (July 30), Nach with “Origen: La raíz de una cultura” (July 31), Rodrigo Cuevas with “La Belleza” (August 2) and La Banda Sabinera (August 6). In 2025 the festival drew more than 20,000 attendees.
Tickets available at www.nochesmagicas.es.
