Soulwax: Portola Music Festival 2026

Portola 2026 - Sunday 09/27 Soulwax play on Saturday 26th September 2026 SOULWAX - ALL SYSTEMS ARE LYING 2025 and what's an album to do? Stephen and David Dewaele, being the brothers from Belgium who are the permanent, fixed members of the group Soulwax, and both of them being in the room for the making of this press release about their new album All Systems Are Lying. This is, after all, how they made the record, the pair of them together in their DEEWEE studio in Gent... a supergroup of two. Then, of course, as has been widely experienced around the world, there is Soulwax live, the full band of Stefaan Van Leuven, Laima Leyton, and the three (yes, three) drummers: Iggor Cavalera, Blake Davies and Aurora Bennett. And when theatres, festivals and whole audiences are reverberating to the rhythm, Soulwax is truly a supergroup of you. Stephen: "Supergroup of you is great." David: "Yeah. One thing I think we're fortunate to have, when fans come up and speak to us, they say, that to them, whatever journey we're on, they're on as well." Stephen: "But isn't the purpose of this interview to say something to people who don't even know we exist, or who have no idea what we did the last 20 years. Just to... fuck with them a little bit?" Indeed, because perhaps we do know that they have made five previous Soulwax albums, enjoyed Grammy nominations for the world famous remixes of everyone from The Rolling Stones to Wet Leg, co-created the Despacio Sound System with James Murphy, produced and mixed every release on their own DEEWEE label... that we should be concentrating on All Systems Are Lying, and the question of what does it mean? Stephen: "The recurring theme is: Is it real? Is it not real? All Systems Are Lying is a phrase we were using while making the record. Whenever the computer crashed, whenever there was fake news, this was our phrase. Eventually, we were like, okay, this is the record." David: "It felt like the studio was an antenna." Stephen: "Is it real what I se