In less than five months, the jubilee 10th year of the largest dance music festival in Central Europe will start, and the organizers announced the main star of the program on Tuesday morning. The winner of two Grammy awards, hitmaker and currently the best DJ on the planet, David Guetta from France, who is famous mainly for his house hits, will come to Beats for Love. Despite this announcement, the organizers promise that they are not done with the star names and fans of electronic dance music still have a lot to look forward to.
The festival takes place from July 6 to 9, 2024. “We’ve been trying to get David Guetta for a long time and we’re very happy that it came out just for the jubilee year. The negotiations were really complex and demanding, and his performance involves a lot of production work, both now and at the festival, because the technical conditions correspond to the size of his name,” comments festival director Kamil Rudolf on the successful acquisition of Beats for Love.
“David Guetta (56 years old) is a native of Paris, France, who has been active in the electronic dance music scene for 40 years. So it is not a comet, but rather a constant representing quality and timelessness. During this long time, he has collaborated with such names as Fergie, Rihanna, Nicki Minaj, Sia, Akon, The Black Eyed Peas, Kelly Rowland and Snoop Dogg,” says the representative of the organizers, Matyáš Ožana.
His long-term successes are crowned not only by two Grammy awards out of a total of 13 nominations, an award at the American Music Awards or four firsts in the global TOP 100 DJs poll, but also by many other international awards. His compositions Titanium, I Gotta Feeling, One Love, I’m Good (Blue) or the songs When Love Takes Over and Revolver, for which he won the aforementioned Grammy, are definitely worth mentioning.
Visitors from the Czech Republic and abroad can look forward to a truly rich parade of famous names this year. In addition to the already mentioned David Guetta, a number of other DJs and groups will perform at the festival with their live dance sets. For example, the British music tandem Chase & Status will present their long-awaited show on the main stage of the Love Stage, and will surely please not only the fans of their drum and bass megahit Baddadan, which won the Track of the Year award in the Best of British Awards and Drum&Bass Arena Awards polls, among other things. On the same stage, lovers of the liquid drum and bass style will also enjoy themselves, who will no doubt be delighted by the Hybrid Minds tandem from England, which is one of the most popular names in this style.
Originally from Ukraine, DJ Miss K8 will present her set on the Empire Stage, which will host hardcore and hardstyle subgenres. This queen of the hardcore genre will perform at the Beats for Love festival for the second time. The same stage will also present the Dutch Dr. Peacock, which focuses primarily on the Frenchcore genre.
Originally from Turkey, Len Faki and Spaniard Lewis Fautzi will delight techno fans and perform on the Techno Dome stage. The organizers also announced new names on the popular Future Stage. For example, the legendary Giuseppe Ottaviani, the progressive duo Eli & Fur, the Dutch Julian Jordan and Danny Avila, who is dedicated to the subgenre called mainstage techno, will appear there.
Not only the non-traditional environment and the specific atmosphere of the Lower Vítkovice area make Beats for Love one of the most unique events of the festival season. “Our fans tell us repeatedly that Beats for Love is their favorite four days of the year. I believe that this is largely due to our sophisticated music program, which offers a wide range of performing artists and stars of the world electronic scene,” explains festival director Kamil Rudolf.
Among other things, the upcoming edition of the festival will feature a number of smaller stages and zones, including a varied accompanying program and the Talking Beats conference.
Source: Press release of the organizers