Manumission — The World Series: Detroit
City of the Week · Episode 7 · Privilege, Ibiza · Blake Baxter / Stacey Pullen · 29 July 1996
29 July 1996 · ★ Gold Star object
Original fold-out Manumission World Series flyer/admission leaflet for the Detroit-themed Episode 7 at Privilege, Ibiza, on Monday 29 July 1996. Styled as a recurring editorial/pin-up series, it names the “City of the Week” as Detroit and features “Miss Detroit” alongside Blake Baxter and Stacey Pullen, while also functioning as a practical discount and free-drink admission flyer.
Read the catalogue note →- Event
- Manumission The World Series — Detroit / City of the Week / Episode 7
- Promoter
- Manumission
- Venue
- Privilege, Ibiza
- Location
- Ibiza
- Original admission / price
- 1,000-peseta discount and a free drink with this flyer. The full entry tariff is not printed in the reviewed coupon.
- Designer
- Mike & Claire — original concept, design and art direction; photography by Phil Silcock; hair & make-up by Marco Latte, as credited by Manumission's own archive for the World Series campaign
- Format
- fold-out promotional flyer / admission leaflet
- Orientation
- landscape when unfolded
- Original / reproduction
- Original period promotional leaflet; not a later poster reproduction.
- Condition
- Very Good appearance from supplied photographs; ungraded.
- Completeness
- Complete fold-out leaflet as photographed, with all visible panels present. No detachable component or original enclosure is evidenced as missing from the supplied object.
- Event relationship
- Manumission — The World Series: Detroit · 1996-07-29
- Venue relationship
- Browse Privilege, Ibiza objects
Catalogue note
Original fold-out Manumission World Series flyer/admission leaflet for the Detroit-themed Episode 7 at Privilege, Ibiza, on Monday 29 July 1996. Styled as a recurring editorial/pin-up series, it names the “City of the Week” as Detroit and features “Miss Detroit” alongside Blake Baxter and Stacey Pullen, while also functioning as a practical discount and free-drink admission flyer. It preserves a particularly clear intersection of Detroit techno, British-led Ibiza club promotion, fashion-editorial visual language and commercial superclub culture.
Advertised programme: Blake Baxter; Stacey Pullen; Seb Fontaine; Alfredo; Cesar de Melero; Salvador on percussion; residents Griff & Jay.
Graphic-design significance: A serial editorial-style nightlife campaign combining pin-up photography, faux-magazine typography, city-specific visual jokes and admission mechanics. The Detroit edition uses burger imagery and Motor City framing to construct a deliberately playful themed identity around the guest city.
Historical context: Episode 7 frames Detroit through guest DJs Blake Baxter and Stacey Pullen while retaining the Ibiza residents and percussion programme. Manumission’s own campaign archive confirms the two Detroit guests. This makes the leaflet evidence of how a local musical identity was represented to an international club audience.
Confidence / uncertainty: The image says “Salvador on percussion”; an earlier transcription incorrectly treated “Recession” as a separate performer.
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Further sources
Event details are drawn from the held object and the qualified catalogue research above. A printed bill establishes an advertised booking, not confirmation that a performer appeared.
Why this object matters
The Detroit episode adds a specific connection between Baxter/Pullen's techno context and British-led Ibiza promotion to the campaign's editorial design. That stronger cross-scene evidence supports threshold Gold, while keeping its importance proportionate to the companion episodes.
Evidence limits: The image says “Salvador on percussion”; an earlier transcription incorrectly treated “Recession” as a separate performer. Complete fold-out leaflet as photographed, with all visible panels present. No detachable component or original enclosure is evidenced as missing from the supplied object.
Historical context
Episode 7 frames Detroit through guest DJs Blake Baxter and Stacey Pullen while retaining the Ibiza residents and percussion programme. Manumission’s own campaign archive confirms the two Detroit guests. This makes the leaflet evidence of how a local musical identity was represented to an international club audience.
Score and assessment method
Archive Importance: 9 / 10 · Gold Star.
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Recorded contributions · 2
- Blake BaxterPerformerCatalogue credit
Performer credit: Blake Baxter; Stacey Pullen; Seb Fontaine; Alfredo; Cesar de Melero; Salvador on percussion; residents Griff & Jay. Original catalogue credit
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Performer credit: Blake Baxter; Stacey Pullen; Seb Fontaine; Alfredo; Cesar de Melero; Salvador on percussion; residents Griff & Jay. Original catalogue credit
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