DJ Draeke is the founder of DAT Records, DAT Universe, and Unreleased Goa Records and a specialist in the highest calibre of Goa and Psychedelic electronic dance music.

He started performing at parties in 1997, mainly in Italy where he played House, Dance, and Progressive Trance music. He started mixing Goa Trance, Techno, and Ambient in 1999 when he started getting booked more regularly and played at different venues in Italy, the UK, Uruguay (where he lived for a year), and Belgium. During the 2009-2019 period, he played at many parties and festivals in Belgium, Israel, Portugal, Germany, Spain, Romania, Serbia, and Macedonia. After the pandemic, he restarted performing at events, notably with gigs in Israel and India.

Some notable experiences include playing at Contact, Psychedelic Happy Hour, May Day Street Parade, Fractal Gate, Old Is Gold, Vision of Paradise, Tribal Roots, ZNA (twice), Tanzwald Vision, Apsara, Mental Puzzle, Goa Experience, Travel Through Time, Hueznar, Flipi Flopi, VER – Exploring The Roots.

As a label owner and longtime collector of rare and exclusive tracks from the DAT era of the 90s, Draeke has a phenomenal archive of mind-bending music from the heyday of the Goa scene. With an eclectic style that includes techno and trance tracks from the proto-Goa era, he creates unique journeys that can take the listener to a higher state of consciousness.