During the next week, from Monday July 26th to Sunday August 1st, the Elemental Evolution festival will take place in Turkey. The place to be is Mugla, near the city of Dalaman in the south west of Turkey. On the line-up plenty of Dacru artists. DigiCult, Ephedrix, Chronos and Sufi are the live acts and Nemesis and Hessell the dj's. For full festival info you can visit www.elementalevolution.net.

Friday June 25th is the kick off date for the Chronos and Hessell Europe summer tour. This will happen at the SummerPsy 2010 party presented by PsySociety in Denmark. Next to the Mexican acts also DJ Oonah will play a set. For all three it will be the very first performence in a Scandinavian country! For more information on the rest of the line-up you can have a look at the flyer.

Saturday June 12th is the date for the 'Eclectic Time Disorder' party. It will take place in one of the nicer regions of this globe: Los Cabos, the southern tip of the Baja California peninsula. Dacru is represented on the line-up by Mexicans Chronos and Hessell.

Plenty of Dacru's Mexican artists will be available in Europe this summer! Lots of dates have already been confirmed, but some free dates are left. If you are interested to invite someone to your event, then you can always drop an e-mail at bookings@dacru.be.
In July we have Chronos (live) and Hessell (dj). In August we have Lamat (live) and F.F.T (live). See below to see the schedule so far.

From June 23rd to August 3rd : Chronos (live) & Hessell (dj)

24/06 - PsySociety - Denmark (Chronos & Hessell)
02/07 - Psychedelic Circus meets Phat Planet - Belgium (Chronos)
10/07 - Sanctuary & Sishu festival - Belgium (Chronos & Hessell)
26/07 - Freestyle hosted by Dacru Records - Belgium (Chronos & Hessell)
28/07 - Elemental Evolution festival - Turkey (Chronos & Hessell)

From July 22nd to August 31st : Lamat (live) & F.F.T (live)

-> presenting new albums for both projects!!

22/07 - Morphonic @ Batofar - France (F.F.T)
26/07 - Freestyle hosted by Dacru Records - Belgium (Lamat & F.F.T)
28/07 - Elemental Evolution festival - Turkey (Lamat & F.F.T)
07/08 - Freedom Power festival - Russia (Lamat & F.F.T)
14/08 - Nova's Incident IX open air - Belgium (Lamat & F.F.T)

The next upcoming event for Dacru is a special one! During the Ghent city festival we will enjoy daily free electronic sessions. The venue is the 'Rabot', a historic monument where we have held some nights before. This time there will be 11 consecutive evenings in different music styles hosted by various Ghent based organisations. More info is available at www.dacru.be/freestyle (from July 1st this link will be filled with all you need to know). For now you can already have a look at the flyer to see the line-up for each evening.

Here is the program for all the days from friday July 16th to monday July 26th:



DAY 0 :: Red bull elektropedia - Dance, Disco, House, New Beat
DAY 1 :: El Futuro Recordings - House
DAY 2 :: Sanctuary - Oldschool Psytrance
DAY 3 :: Mental Gymnastics - From Full-on to Oldschool Psytrance
DAY 4 :: Minimanimal - Minimal
DAY 5 :: Steam - Drum'n'bass
DAY 6 :: Vibes in Progress & Ishtar - Progressive, Minimal, Techhouse
DAY 7 :: Bugklinik - Elektro, Acid
DAY 8 :: Progressive Reaction - Progressive Psytrance
DAY 9 :: Warriorz - Dubstep
DAY 10 :: Dacru Records - Full-on Psytrance

Saturday May 15th is the date for the Time Sphere party in Xalapa, a city in the the state of Veracruz, Mexico. Main selling points on the line-up is a nice bundle of Dacru artists: Chronos live, Intelligence live and Hessell dj set. For further information on the event you can enlarge the flyer.

Saturday May 1st Chronos and Hessell will be playing live and dj at the Acid Colors 3 party in Puebla, Mexico. If you are a Poblano, then don't miss the opportunity to go and see them!

A last minute booking for Chronos and Hessell will take them to Ciudad Juárez tomorrow, Friday March 26th. The Psytek crew is throwing another gig in Club Altitude in this city on the northern border of Mexico.

From April 1st to 4th Massive Trance is organizing the fifth edition of the Beach festival in Puerto Vallarta on the pacific coast of Mexico. They are kicking of on Thursday with a special night including Tiesto on the line-up! Then in the weekend it is time for some proper psychedelic trance with artists as Protoculture, Atomic Pulse, Time Lock, Cyber Cartel, X-Noize, Ultravoice, System Nipel and many others. DJ Hessell is representing Dacru Records with a dj set. For more info you can try www.proyectogdl.com.

Dacru Records will be presented at China's most important online radio that is dedicated to electronic music. Go to www.udancecn.com. We will get a full two hours during the Magic Garden Concept show. They will talk about the label, the artists, play some single tracks and also the Essentials mix will be aired in full. It will be on air on Shanghai time, that is Belgian (Central European) time minus 7 hours. Below is some more info about the exact times. Thursday should be the first chance to catch the show. We have also included the info in Chinese for all our Chinese visitors. A number, we are sure, that runs into the thousands :)

Saturday January 30th will be a busy day for our Mexican artists. Also Hessell got himself a gig for this date. He will play a dj set at the Perfect Beginning 2 party in Morelia, Mexico. Other artists on the line-up there include Gataka, Electro Sun and Spade. For mor information you can also visit this link.

Saturday December 5th DJ Hessell will be playing a dj set in one of Mexico's nicest places, Palenque. The event 'Music & Freedom' is organized by Sound&Beat and on the line-up we also see Han Solo. For full info have a look at the flyer.

Today, Saturday November 21st, Chronos and Hessell are playing at the Acid Minds event in Zamora, Mexico. For full info have a look at the flyer.

Ephedrix will be touring Mexico once more. This time a two weekends mini tour is planned for the first two weeks of November. Four weekend nights that have all been filled with gigs where Ephedrix will promote the new album Expander to the Mexican crowd.

This is the tour schedule:

06/11 - Club Altitude - Cd. Juárez
07/11 - Pax & Flora festival - near Tepic
13/11 - Foro 38 - Morelia
14/11 - Matsuwua - Monterrey

Friday November 6th
@ Club Altitude - Cd. Juárez
-> Also Chronos & Hessell will be performing at this gig!



Saturday November 7th
@ Pax & Flora festival - near Tepic
-> Also Hessell will be performing at this gig!



Friday November 13th
@ Foro 38 - Morelia



Saturday November 14th
@ Matsuwua open air - Monterrey

The topic title says it all. This weekend, Saturday October 17th, Chronos and Hessell will be playing in the city of Aguascalientes in their home country Mexico. They have been invited there by the Psylosofia crew. For more info you can enlarge the flyer.

Saturday & Sunday September 19th & 20th there will be a next edition of the T.P.E. open air festival. The event is happening at the Takagawa Space Camp near Tokyo in Japan. On the line-up two live acts by Dacru: DigiCult and Chronos. And also two dj sets: Nemesis and Hessell. Furthermore the line-up is completed with Japanese djs, a few familiar sounding names might be Tokage, Yoshidance and Sari. Take a look at the flyer for more information.

Monday September 21st Chronos is playing a live act in Japan's second city, Osaka. The crowd at Club Neo won't only hear the live act, but Hessell is also taking care of a dj set to please people's ears. The party is organized by the Neurosounds crew. Drop in if you are in the neighbourhood! More info here.

This coming weekend, August 29th & 30th, it is time again for the Nova's Incident open air in the most amazing location of our small country Belgium.

 

This is the full address for the event:

Rue de Bonalfa
Vielsalm

Located somewhere in between Liège (Belgium), Aachen (Germany), Maastricht (The Netherlands) and Luxembourg.

For full party info you can visit the party page by clicking here or just click the flyer below!

See you all there this weekend!

Nova's Incident VIII open air 2009 will happen August 29th and 30th. The concept is known: 28 hours of cosy party time in an amazing location in the most beautiful part of Belgium, close to Liége, Aachen (Germany), Maastricht (The Netherlands) and Luxembourg. We have a main open air area offering mainly full on and oldschool goatrance, an indoor bunker area with progressive powered by Purple Snow and a chill out presented by Mindmelt. Some of the main line-up attractions are Khetzal, Kristian, Loop Generation and a big chunk of Dacru artists like DigiCult, Ephedrix, Aquila, Chronos, Sufi and more. For all info you can visit the party info page. See you there!

This Saturday August 1st 'The Mexican Connection' party is taking place in Brussels. For all info click here to go to the party info page!

This past weekend a good part of Dacru's Mexican artists were playing the Trance Orient Express party at the famous church of Ruigoord in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. The place got packed and the atmosphere was excellent! A bunch of pictures have been uploaded and can be found in the gallery. The videos can be found on Dacru's YouTube account. For direct links, see below.

Lamat : part 1 & part 2
Chronos : part 1 & part 2
Intelligence : part 1 & part 2
Hessell : part 1

A nice compilation video with Lamat's track Fearless as soundtrack can be seen by clicking here.

This coming Saturday, July 25th, Dacru's 'Mexican connection' will be playing in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Lamat, Chronos, Intelligence and Han Solo will be playing live, Hessell a dj set. The event is Trance Orient Express in the famous old church at Ruigoord, the alternative artists commune.

The next Dacru event is coming soon: Saturday August 1st. During 'The Mexican Connection' we will present all our Mexican aritsts to the Belgian crowd. You can see the following artists from the land of the Aztecs: Lamat (live), F.F.T (live), Chronos (live), Intelligence (live), Han Solo (live & dj) and Hessell (dj). From the Belgian side you can see DigiCult (live) and Oonah (dj) play. The venue for this event is the KultuurKaffee VUB in our nation's capital Brussels (remember the Headroom party!).
Because we want everybody to enjoy the party we have a special entry price of only 6 euro! Not too bad for all those live acts coming all the way from Mexico. And as last time you can also now expect a very very nice soundsystem! For the full party info, including ways to reach the venue, you can have a look at the party info page.

Saturday July 18th to Sunday there will be an open air event in Hattingen, near Wuppertal, in Germany. The name of the event is Bunter Galaxienzauber, which means as much as Magic Colorful Galaxy in English. On the line-up we see all the Dacru Mexicans: Lamat, F.F.T, Chronos and Hessell. Furthermore more Mexicans with Intelligence and Han Solo. Finally the line-up is completed with dj's from the organising Der Buntekreis crew.

* Also the links section has been fully updated.

Rumours have already been going around for some time, but now with the launch of the new website, we can officially announce the new aritsts that will be joining Dacru Records!
From Serbia we have Alternative Control, no need to further introduce these guys. Check out www.alternativecontrol.com as a direct link to their spot on this website.
And then also a few artists that will broaden the Mexican family at Dacru Records: the productive Lamat and his side project F.F.T. The Chronos live act will deliver DJ Hessell to join our label dj team.
Last year during Nova's Incident open air and at the Plat Psyché Préféré party more recently we already introduced Alternative Control to the Belgian crowds. August 1st we will present all our Mexicans during a special 'The Mexican Connection' party in Brussels. For all info on the one, click here.

All Dacru's Mexican artists will be available for bookings in Europe this summer. To specify a bit more: Lamat (live act), F.F.T (live act), Chronos (live act) and Hessell (dj set). If you would be interested to invite them over for your event, then you can drop an e-mail at bookings@dacru.be. They only need transport within Europe!

Here is some more info on availabilties and already confirmed dates:

 

LAMAT (available from June 12th to August 10th)

10/06 - The Sunrise open air - near Lisbon, Portugal
11/07 - Paradise open air - near Paris, France

18/07 - Colorful Magic Galaxy - Wuppertal, Germany
01/08 - The Mexican Connection - Brussels, Belgium
08/08 - Freedom Power festival - Moscow, Russia

F.F.T (available from June 12th to August 10th)

20/06 - The Sunrise afterparty - Lisbon, Portugal
18/07 - Colorful Magic Galaxy - Wuppertal, Germany
01/08 - The Mexican Connection - Brussels, Belgium
08/08 - Freedom Power festival - Moscow, Russia

CHRONOS (available from June 24th to September 10th)

26/06 - Dimensional - Brussels, Belgium
05/07 - Heron festival - Lommel, Belgium
11/07 - Blissful Evolution festival - near Lisbon, Portugal
18/07 - Colorful Magic Galaxy - Wuppertal, Germany
01/08 - The Mexican Connection - Brussels, Belgium
20/08 - Aurora festival - Asprovalta, Greece
29/08 - Nova's Incident VIII open air - Vielsalm, Belgium
05/09 - Roenaissance festival - near Bolzano, Italy

HESSELL (available from June 24th to September 10th)

18/07 - Colofrul Magic Galaxy - Wuppertal, Germany
01/08 - The Mexican Connection - Brussels, Belgium
29/08 - Nova's Incident VIII open air - Vielsalm, Belgium