The festival continues to focus on electronic music and club culture with the duo led by brothers David and Stephen Dewaele, a side project of Soulwax, legends of remixes and mashups.
The Barcelona band arrives in Puerto de la Cruz on September 5 and 6 with the tour of their seventh album, "Futuros imposibles."
The Belgian duo 2manydjs, of the brothers David and Stephen Dewaele, Belgian musicians and producers, side project of Soulwax, the An alternative and electronic rock band they've led since 1995, and the Barcelona-based band Dorian, prominent figures in electronic pop and new wave on the national scene, headline the lineup of artists for the tenth edition of Phe Festival, which will be held in the Tenerife municipality of Puerto de la Cruz on September 5 and 6.
With the confirmation of 2manydjs and Dorian The Phe Festival continues to present the artistic lineup for its tenth edition. The Belgian band is joined by the artists already announced by the organizers: the New York band Nada Surf, the national formations Carlangas and Cycle, and the canaries Ale Acosta, San Tosielo and Los BlodyThe rest of the anniversary edition's guests will be announced soon. Tickets for Phe Festival 2025 are now on sale at Tickety.es, after the first promotional ticket quota sold out in early January.
In addition, in this tenth anniversary edition, Phe Festival collaborates, for the first time, with The Spanish Wave for an emerging national artist to join this year's program. The Spanish Wave is a project to internationalize Spanish talent which aims to help in the export of emerging artists and bands from our country, and which participates with showcases in the most important fairs, festivals of showcases and musical events from around the world, with the presence of national and international industry professionals. All of this is supported by booking agencies, record labels, and promoters, both national and international.
The presence of Dorian In Puerto de la Cruz it is an opportunity to enjoy the live performance of a band that has a very personal sound, with that mix of guitars and synthesizers, organic drums and electronic bases, and lyrics of creality. In his concert at Phe Festival, Dorian will be presenting his latest album. Impossible futures, as part of a tour in which they will travel through different points of Spain and a good part of the American continent.
In this album, Marc Gili, Belly Hernández, Bart Sanz and Lisandro Montes explore territories close to electronic pop, new wave and the folk An alternative, to move the audience with ten songs as profound as they are dazzling, which speak of grief caused by breakups, and the death and disappearance of several friends on the dark side of the night. Issues such as the fragility of human beings and the importance of forgiving and knowing how to ask for forgiveness surface in the story of Impossible Futures. Overall, it is an existentialist album that brings us back to Dorian. more heartbreaking, emotional and visceral.
In the words of the band itself, Impossible futures It is the expression of everything that cannot happen because something stopped or diverted the flow of events. "Almost all the songs on this album are the result of moments of crisis that, nevertheless, led us to understand that for every impossible future, life gives us another that wasn't planned, and that is capable of dazzling us like a new dawn, if we have the will and attitude necessary to overcome grief and reinvent ourselves," the group assures.
Songs from the repertoire of Dorian What Any other part, The sandstorm or The friends I lost, among others, are in their own right generational anthems, thus endorsed by critics and the public.
Active since 2004, to date, Dorian has released six studio albums with original songs, in addition to the unplugged Ten years and one day, and two live albums, one recorded at the Spanish Arenal Sound festival, and the other at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona. Pioneers in the modernization of the blend of pop and electronic music, as well as skillful renovators of post-punk and new wave sounds, their discography includes works such as 10,000 metropolises (2004), The future belongs to no one (2006), The underground city (2009), The speed of the vacuum (2013), Universal Justice (2018) and Ritual (2022).
Dance nights in Puerto de la Cruz
Phe Festival is the third Spanish city where the Belgians will be present. 2manydjs in djset format, and Puerto de la Cruz will be one of the nine dates confirmed in 2025. And Phe Festival's commitment to dance music and club culture is aimed towards Belgium in 2025 with the presence of the parallel project of the electronic and alternative rock band Soulwax led by brothers David and Stephen Dewaele. The pulse of these two Belgian musicians and producers has changed the concept of remixing and the art of mashupDance floor legends around the world for their eclectic sessions where they bring a rock and roll attitude to club culture. Imitated by countless artists since they released the iconic and referential As Heard on Radio Soulwax Pt 2 (2002), with a deluxe reissue in 2022, 2manydjs comes to Phe Festival in DJ format to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the Puerto Rican festival with his catalogue of impossible remixes in which music from different generations and styles intersect, and songs are related that become fuel for the dance floor.
Stephen and David Dewaele have been pushing the boundaries of music since 1995, branching out into new musical territory: a band (Soulwax), DJs (2manydjs), a record label (DEEWEE), and a sound system (Despacio), as well as creating an app and website (Radio Soulwax). As 2manydjs, they've been bridging the past, present, and future like no one else. In their own words, "doing it the hard way since 2002."
Two brothers who have become one of the most innovative remixing and production teams today. Their most recent works include Cliche, by Charlotte Adigéry & Bolis Pupul; Sponge cake, by Rosalia; Too Late Now, by Wetleg; I Go, by Peggy Gou; Sensitive Child, by Oliver Sim; You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real), by Sylvester; and the Grammy-nominated Work It, by Marie Davidson; in addition to Fontaines DC, Diplo, Chet Faker, Roisin Murphy, LA Priest, Robyn, SG Lewis featuring Robyn & Channel Trios, Arcade Fire, The Rolling Stones, Tame Impala, Metronomy, Daft Punk, The Gossip, Hot Chip, MGMT and Warpaint, among other artists.
In September 2023, David and Stephen were honored at the AIM Awards for Outstanding Contribution to Music by Soulwax, 2manydjs, and the DEEWEE label.
Two days of live music
To the two-day live music program, which in 2025 will incorporate a third stage dedicated to dance music after the success of the Dome Space, The tent with DJs and selectors scheduled in the last edition, is added to the program of activities of Phe Experiences, with numerous parallel activities in the days leading up to the festival to enrich the stay of the thousands of festival-goers who come to Puerto de la Cruz during those days, such as Phe Gallery, Phe Yoga, and Urban Sports.
In addition, Phe Festival has reached a historic milestone in its history by obtaining the A Greener Future (AGF) certification, awarded by this prestigious British audit expert in sustainability for festivals and cultural events at an international level. This achievement places the festival as a benchmark in the Canary Islands, being the only event in the archipelago to validate this 2024 certification so far, and underlines its firm commitment to protecting the environment and the positive impact of the festival in Puerto de la Cruz and its surroundings.
Phe Festival has been integrated into Puerto de la Cruz as a fundamental part of a cultural strategy that shares values with the tourist tradition, as has been demonstrated by its continuity and support from municipal institutions regardless of their political colour among its citizens. The festival adds value to its environment and is nourished by it, contributing to the coexistence between citizens of Puerto de la Cruz and visitors. In the last decade and under the auspices of Phe Festival, a new generation of festival-goers, lovers of good music, has been formed, making it possible for this alternative project born in 2016 to become a reference for many other events in the Canary Islands.