In 2007, Chaos Rules was more of a crew than a label. The artistic vision was just a backdrop and the parties were closer to gatherings in private homes. These were not simply group meetings — they united street crews dedicated to something beyond music. In reality these initiatives began in 2004, less cohesive but already alive.
In 2008 the artistic side of Chaos Rules was born with the first secret parties under the name Chaos Rules Klan. These gatherings had an unsettling atmosphere, mixing metal, techno and extreme noise. They were held mainly in rural locations semi-abandoned since the Second World War, with very few participants. They were true 'parties without rules'. Over time this led to situations spiralling out of control: harsh consequences, arrests and the expulsion of various members. Some left for personal reasons. Others were cut out for becoming unmanageable.
In 2011, after the departure of various members, Chaos Rules began to reduce the frequency of the secret parties. Instead, small official groups were created to organise public parties across various musical genres — a way to meet new people and then invite them to more secret events. Unfortunately, in August of the same year, Mestizia CRK (a name adopted later) had health problems and Hazard GM passed away. The 'annual party' went ahead regardless, but the project was officially closed. Many members continued independently in the music industry, founding new crews and new labels.
That same year a pirate web radio was created in memory of the project, broadcasting tracks by various members — mostly noise music, production attempts and experiments. The radio operated exclusively on the deep web, accessible via QR codes scattered across various cities and towns.
In 2017, some former members, friends, attendees and even two founders sought to revive Chaos Rules using various strategies, starting with careful recruitment for secret parties, avoiding people deemed unsuitable for the elaborate system.
Some parties came with an ARG; others admitted only 'Artist' participants. The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the shift to online research methods and began placing Chaos Rules firmly within the electronic music scene.
With the end of the COVID period, Chaos Rules began to professionalise, creating the first record label under the same name. The first releases had no specific genre — EDM, soundtracks, piano sonatas, chillwave and much more — reflecting the chaotic origins of the movement. It was still, however, far from professionalism and a purely musical context.
In 2023, Mestizia CRK decided to dedicate the label exclusively to electronic music, separating Chaos Rules from Chaos Rules Records together with Simon Rown. The first official releases were 'Mestizia CRK – Eudaimonia' in the Peak Time Techno genre and 'Simon Rown – Imperium' in DNB. Simon Rown soon decided to step away from the music world due to lack of time, and the label shifted increasingly and exclusively towards Hard Techno, with the exception of a sub-label that continued with underground sounds.
In 2024, Chaos Rules returned to full activity, resuming the organisation of parties (secret and otherwise) and establishing continuity with the labels, reforming a true crew — no longer made up of street people but of those active in the artistic sector. Still far from covering the breadth of 2010, but certainly not far from surpassing its artistic quality and method.
In 2025, to preserve its originality, the label further professionalised by dividing into four sections: Chaos Rules (for all genres outside electronic music), Chaos Rules Records (dedicated to harder sounds, from high-energy techno to hardcore), White Chaos Rules (for pure techno and its sub-genres) and Black Chaos Rules (for the original Chaos Rules sound — in practice the only section without a proper distribution network, relying instead on secondary channels such as Telegram and similar).
Today, Chaos Rules is growing professionally as a record label, moving from a chaotic and disorganised beginning towards a clear and well-defined goal, with an identity that does not aim to copy successful models but to build its own vision. Many projects are still underway and the crew is looking for new members with similar ideologies to build an autonomous entity, free from the logic of copying what is trending and successful. Despite a low chart position (#90), it has entered the top 100 of hard techno labels on Beatport: not a landmark result, certainly, but a revolution when you consider where it started and how many opportunities it had to destroy everything.