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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 is coming to Puerto de La Cruz on September 5 and 6 with the tour of their seventh album ‘Futuros imposibles’
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The Belgian duo 2manydjs, made up of brothers David and Stephen Dewaele, Belgian musicians and producers, a side project of Soulwax, the alternative and electronic rock band they have led since 1995; and the Barcelona band Dorian, leading figures in electronic pop and new wave on the national scene, are leading the line-up of artists for the tenth edition of Phe Festival, which is being 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 the tenth edition. The presence of the Belgians is joined by the artists already announced by the organization: the New York band Nada Surf, the national groups Carlangas and Cycle, and the Canarians Ale Acosta, San Tosielo and Los Blody. The rest of the guests for the anniversary edition will be announced in the near future. Tickets for Phe Festival 2025 are already on sale at Tickety.es after having sold out the first quota of promotional tickets at the beginning of January.
In addition, in this tenth anniversary edition, Phe Festival collaborates, for the first time, with The Spanish Wave so that an emerging national artist can join this year’s programme. The Spanish Wave is a project to internationalise Spanish talent that aims to help export emerging artists and bands from our country, and that participates with showcases in the most important fairs, showcase festivals and musical events in the world, with the presence of professionals from the national and international industry. All of this, with the help of booking agencies, record labels and promoters both national and international.
Dorian’s presence in Puerto de la Cruz 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 quality lyrics. In their concert at Phe Festival, Dorian will be presenting their latest album, Futuros imposibles, as part of a tour that will cover different parts 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 alternative folk, to thrill the public with ten songs as deep 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 the human being and the importance of forgiving and knowing how to ask for forgiveness emerge in the story of Impossible Futures. Overall, it is an existentialist album that brings us back to the most heartbreaking, emotional and visceral Dorian.
In the words of the band itself, Impossible Futures is the expression of everything that will not be able to 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, however, led us to understand that for every impossible future, life gives you another one that was not 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 says.
Songs from Dorian’s repertoire such as Todas otras parte, La tormenta de arena or Los amigos que perdí, among others, are generational anthems in their own right, thus endorsed by critics and the public.
Active since 2004, to date, Dorian has published six studio albums with original songs, in addition to the unplugged Diez años y un día, 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 updating the mix of pop and electronic music, as well as skilled renovators of sounds. Post punk and new wave, their discography includes works such as 10,000 Metropolis (2004), The Future is Nobody’s (2006), The Underground City (2009), The Speed of the Void (2013), Universal Justice (2018) and Ritual (2022).
Dance nights in Puerto de la Cruz
Phe Festival is the third Spanish city in which the Belgians 2manydjs will be performing in djset format, and Puerto de la Cruz will be one of the nine dates confirmed in 2025. Phe Festival’s commitment to dance music and club culture is aimed this 2025 towards Belgium with the presence of the parallel project of the electronic rock and Soulwax band led by brothers David and Stephen Dewaele. The pulse of these two Belgian musicians and producers has changed the concept of remix and the art of the mashup. Legends of the dance floor from half the world for their eclectic sessions in which they print a rock and roll attitude to club culture. Imitated by countless artists since they released the iconic and reference 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 Porto festival with its catalogue of impossible remixes in which music from different generations and styles cross paths, and songs are related to each other and become fuel for the dance floor.
Stephen and David Dewaele have not stopped in their efforts to expand the limits of music since 1995 and have diversified on different fronts in exploring new musical territories: a group (Soulwax), DJs (2manydjs), a record label (DEEWEE) and a sound system (Despacio), as well as creating an application and a website (Radio Soulwax). As 2manydjs, they have been connecting 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 remix and production teams around. Their most recent work includes Cliché by Charlotte Adigéry & Bolis Pupul; Bizcochito by Rosalía; Demasiado tarde ahora by Wetleg; Yo voy by Peggy Gou; Niño Sensible by Oliver Sim; Tú me haces sentir (Mighty Real) by Sylvester; and the Grammy-nominated Work It by Marie Davidson; as well as Fontaines DC, Diplo, Chet Faker, Roisin Murphy, LA Priest, Robyn, SG Lewis with Robyn & Channel Trios, Arcade Fire, The Rolling Stones, Tame Impala, Metronomy, Daft Punk, The Gossip, Hot Chip, MGMT and Warpaint, among others.
In September 2023, David and Stephen were awarded at the AIM Awards for their Contribution to Music by Soulwax, 2manydjs and the DEEWEE label.
Two days of live music
In addition to the two-day live music programme, which in 2025 will incorporate a third stage dedicated to dance music after the success of Espacio Domo, the tent with DJs and selectors scheduled in the last edition, there is also the Phe Experiences programme of activities, with numerous parallel activities during the previous days to enrich the stay of the thousands of festival visitors who come to Puerto de la Cruz on those days, such as Phe Gallery, Phe Yoga or 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.
