Two decades of British drum-and-bass that keeps crossing into the charts without ever softening the low end — scene elders who never stopped moving with it.
ARC 2026 Lineup
House comes home: four Labor Day weekend days in Union Park with Chicago's own founders on the bill beside the current European vanguard.
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About ARC 2026
ARC's pitch is 'house comes home', and it earns it: this is a Chicago festival that puts the city's own founders on the same bill as the current European circuit. Derrick Carter, Green Velvet, Mike Dunn, DJ Heather, DJ Lady D, Colette and Lil' Louis all appear, alongside Carl Craig, Moodymann and Stacey Pullen from Detroit.
2026 expands to four days across Labor Day weekend at Union Park, with a new Midway stage joining Grid, Area 909 and Expansions. The international end runs from Underworld and Honey Dijon to Anyma, Michael Bibi, Chris Stassy, Sara Landry and Nia Archives. Nearly every act now carries a stage and a set time across the four stages: The Grid, Expansions, area909 and The Midway.
One sourcing note: ARC published its schedule as four day graphics rather than as a lineup page, so stages and times here are transcribed from those images. B2B billings are stored per artist, which is why a slot like Nicole Moudaber b2b Paco Osuna b2b Dubfire shows up three times.
Expect house, techno, dance and tech-house across 139 acts.
ARC 2026 lineup & schedule: all 139 acts
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Chicago house pedigree carried onto fashion-world stages — a DJ who plays for dancers, not the camera, with Grammy-winning production credits to match.
Kentucky-raised, Chicago-schooled — a selector with genuine dance-music scholarship and no snobbery about joy, rave history taught from the booth.
Karl Hyde's stream-of-consciousness vocals over Rick Smith's builds — 'Born Slippy' was only ever the doorway into a much stranger catalogue.
Brazilian techno producer with a melodic streak that lifts her sets out of pure functionalism — big-room pressure with actual emotional architecture underneath.
Matteo Milleri's solo project, pairing cavernous melodic techno with AI-rendered visual worlds built for the biggest screens available — half DJ set, half sci-fi planetarium.
The selector's selector — Hessle Audio's omnivorous ear, no productions needed; a world-class reputation built purely on what he plays and how.
Berlin's gabber-punk duo — screamed German vocals over pummeling club tempos, equal parts rave, hardcore show, and performance-art provocation.
Second-wave Detroit techno architect whose productions still sound like they were made next year — a catalog that treats techno as jazz's rightful heir.
Amsterdam's minimal-house standard-bearer — deep, warm, relentless grooves that made him one of Europe's most booked underground names.
British tech-house producer with a knack for the rolling bassline that empties the bar and fills the floor — label-boss instincts tuned for peak time.
Crosstown Rebels founder and Day Zero curator — desert-mystic house with a theatrical streak, staging dance music as ceremony wherever he lands.
Chicago house royalty and one of the great technical selectors — decades deep and still unpredictable, mixing with a jazz musician's wit.
Chicago house royalty with a green-haired alter ego and a catalogue of acid-house hooks that never stopped filling floors — 'La La Land' still detonates.
Hessle-adjacent producer whose records sit precisely between garage, house, and something harder to name — 'Hyph Mngo' to now, always slightly ahead.
Dutch producer whose breakout single became one of the most-played club records of its year — 'Drugs from Amsterdam' bounce, still going.
Italian trio behind some of the decade's biggest vocal house records, built for very large rooms — 'Piece of Your Heart' just the start.
Solid Grooves boss whose rolling, bass-forward tech-house became the sound of a generation of clubs — London underground gone worldwide.
Brazil's house prodigy — swaggering, sample-happy sets that made him a global fixture overnight, Boiler Room charisma at main-stage scale.
Detroit's most idiosyncratic house producer — soul and funk samples left gloriously raw, played from behind sunglasses and mystique.
Leeds-via-Bradford producer leading the jungle revival — breakbeats under genuinely tender songwriting, rave history reclaimed as diary.
Hard techno delivered with genuine showmanship — one of the fastest rises in the genre in years, industrial pressure with headliner presence.
Detroit second-waver known for long, patient sets that build for an hour before they land — the Kosmic Messenger in no hurry.
Bristol producer and reliable festival closer — big, bouncing, unsubtle tech-house, beard and bass both substantial.
10 Cust
Italian duo whose acid-drenched, punishingly fast techno is performed live on hardware, not laptops — improvised 303 lines and kick drums that treat 150 BPM as a starting point.
Adrian Mills
Anna Maria
Chicago DJ who threads UK garage swing and rubbery low-end through American club tempos, favouring sets that keep shifting rhythmic footing.
Bad Boombox
Banchan
BAUGRUPPE90
Brazilian house phenom — young, relentless, and groove-first, riding the country's house wave onto festival main stages worldwide.
UK tech-house craftsman with rolling, low-slung grooves — club tools built with real swing rather than big-room bombast.
Punchy, bass-forward tech-house built for peak time and nothing else — London-honed grooves engineered for the exact moment the room tips over.
Alex Ridha's brand of electro is abrasive by design — hardware-driven, distorted, and consistently ahead of whatever is fashionable, two decades running.
Brunello
Bullet Tooth
Bushbaby
Sugar-rush club music — Jersey club drums and glittering hyperpop melody, engineered for maximum serotonin per minute.
Canary Yellow
Cello-trained Istanbul selector — sun-drenched, organic house that folds Mediterranean color into long, golden-hour sets, jet-set warmth with classical bones.
New Zealand brothers making hazy, dub-tinged deep house that never rushes — patient grooves with a jazz record collection audibly behind them.
Melodic techno with classical training audible under the sub-bass — cinematic builds engineered with a composer's patience.
Club Angel
Cole Knight
Chicago house DJ who sings live over her own sets — a rare and genuinely tricky thing to pull off, honed across decades in the city's scene.
Newcastle producer and progressive-house mainstay — long, patient builds with the discipline of someone who trusts the room to wait.
Dabura
Monnom Black boss dealing in fast, industrial-edged techno with no soft landings — London-honed pressure that European warehouses treat as gospel.
Dayhota
Spanish producer whose rolling, sample-flecked tech-house is a Solid Grooves staple — Madrid groove-craft built for long, locked-in floors.
Discip
Live From Earth affiliate splicing trance euphoria into contemporary club music — Berlin-honed sets that treat nostalgia as fuel, not a crutch.
Berlin project mining 90s rave nostalgia for hard, quick-footed techno shot through with trance melody — euphoria delivered at speed.
A pillar of Chicago's house scene since the '90s — deep, unshowy, impeccably mixed sets that put craft above spectacle every time.
DJ Hyperactive
Superjane co-founder and long-standing figure in Chicago's house community — soulful selections from one of the scene's essential advocates.
Half of Deep Dish, then a second career in stripped, hypnotic techno — Grammy-winning past, minimalist present, both played with surgical precision.
Dunes of Dawn
London duo who sing on their own records — moody, vocal-led melodic house that carries actual songs into progressive territory.
BPitch Control founder and a foundational voice in Berlin techno since the ’90s — raw, futurist productions from a scene she helped build.
Flores Negras
Frechette
FUMI
GENESI
Bassiani and Berghain regular known for hard-groove sets mixed on three or four decks — vinyl-heavy technique at warehouse intensity.
Chicago DJ and producer who leans hard and hypnotic rather than pretty — a long-standing fixture of the city's techno circuit rather than a recent arrival.
Hotpretty
French producer pairing brutal industrial techno with unexpectedly romantic melodies — heartbreak at 150 BPM, warehouse catharsis with an unexpectedly soft center.
IDEMI
Miami duo making raw, hardware-driven Latin club music with genuine local roots — dembow and techno melted together live.
Jamback
Janesita
JJ Illgen
Manchester house on the rise — rolling, minimal grooves for sunset slots, one of the UK underground's fastest-moving names.
KASIA
Afterlife-affiliated producer working the widescreen, cinematic end of melodic techno — big-screen builds engineered for the label's cathedral aesthetic.
Amsterdam's hard-trance revivalist — acid lines and 150 BPM joy, rave classicism played with total exuberance.
KinAhau
Kirk
KLOUD
American producer working the heavier end of festival electronic music — bass-forward drops built for large rooms rather than headphones.
Ukrainian DJ whose melodic techno sets found an enormous audience through livestreams — scenic-backdrop streams turned into real-world bookings.
Warm, melodic deep house with a hand-played feel and a soft spot for jazz chords — headphone house that still moves a floor.
Made 'French Kiss', one of house music's foundational and most notorious records — Chicago originator status that needs no further argument.
Lindsey Herbert
Locklead
Luke Dean
LuSiD
Amsterdam tech-house workhorse — dark, rolling, precise, and seemingly booked every weekend somewhere in Europe, grooves with total technical control.
M3RCH
Madeline
Marsolo
Croatian producer specialising in bass-house edits that detonate on a festival system — label-boss instincts with peak-time aim.
Max Dean
Live From Earth co-founder making rowdy, meme-literate club tracks — ghetto-tech cheek at Berlin volume, club chaos with a grin.
One of Chicago house's original producers, still making records that sound like 1988 in the best way — delivered with a preacher's baritone.
mischluft
Monty Kiddo
Muffy
Nick C
One of hard techno's fastest-rising names — high-BPM, hands-in-the-air brutality, industrial kicks stacked to the ceiling.
MOOD label boss playing dark, tribal-leaning techno with a heavy emphasis on groove — delivered with marathon-set stamina.
Notre Dame
Irish duo working the harder edges of house — bass-heavy, garage-inflected club tracks aimed squarely at big rooms.
Australian house heater — half of the HYPERBEAM b2b with OMNOM, flip-happy edits with festival-scale bounce.
OGUZ
The British singer and songwriter widely credited with laying the foundations of UK soul as its own thing — decades of work that never chased the American template.
oogie
Barcelona veteran and Music On regular — minimal tech-house played with total precision, a technician's technician.
Pegassi
Phives
Producer who started uploading at fifteen and grew into genuinely lush melodic electronica — bedroom beginnings, headphone-cinema results.
Leeds duo distilling UK rave history into widescreen, hands-up euphoria — piano stabs and breakbeats aimed at the sunrise.
Quest
r00bies4ever
Rika B
Roddy Lima
Big Saldo's Chunkers boss digging into rugged, sample-heavy Chicago-indebted house — Belfast grit with crate-dug warmth.
Euphoric, garage-inflected house with a melodic streak that lands somewhere between rave and daydream — full-color club joy.
Sam Alfred
Melbourne producer and DJ threading UK garage and breaks through house sets — club music with a rolling, low-slung swing.
Fast-rising producer with a knack for a hook that survives being played at 128 BPM — peak-time tools with real earworms.
Serafina
Hot Haus boss playing the groovy, no-nonsense end of tech-house — Berlin discipline with real swing.
New-school UKG — swung drums and sub-bass pressure from the garage revival's next rank, two-step engineered for new floors.
Silvie Loto
Australian producer whose hard-edged, garage-inflected house has spread well beyond Melbourne — grit-first club heat with genuine menace in the drops.
Son of Son
Swimming Paul
Montreal's arch electroclash survivor — deadpan vocals, filthy synths, and a sense of humor most techno lacks, 'Sunglasses at Night' included.
French producer working the groovy, stripped end of minimal house — hypnotic tools with real bounce.
Très Mortimer
Brazil's biggest house export — melodic, festival-scaled, and unashamedly emotive, São Paulo stadiums to global main stages.
Virago
LA DJ in the Dirtybird lineage — percussive, playful, built for a warehouse, grooves with a smirk.
Brooklyn duo making tech-house with actual jokes in it — Dirtybird's sense of humour intact, wobbling basslines with a wink.
Danish trio who play electronic music as an actual band — live drums, vocals, and a knack for the euphoric build.
Brisbane warehouse techno — breakbeats and big-room adrenaline, Australia's rave revival at full charge, breaks with zero brakes.
ZULAN
The headliners
Chase & Status — Two decades of British drum-and-bass that keeps crossing into the charts without ever softening the low end — scene elders who never stopped moving with it.
The Blessed Madonna — Kentucky-raised, Chicago-schooled — a selector with genuine dance-music scholarship and no snobbery about joy, rave history taught from the booth. Saturday's headline slot.Underworld — Karl Hyde's stream-of-consciousness vocals over Rick Smith's builds — 'Born Slippy' was only ever the doorway into a much stranger catalogue. Headlining Sunday, a rare US festival appearance.
Honey Dijon — Chicago house pedigree carried onto fashion-world stages — a DJ who plays for dancers, not the camera, with Grammy-winning production credits to match. Closing the festival on Monday.
Up-and-comers to catch early
Sally C — Big Saldo's Chunkers boss digging into rugged, sample-heavy house.
- Rika B — Sunday booking deep in the undercard.
camoufly — Friday's early slot and worth being there for.
- Hotpretty — One of Monday's newer names.
Other acts worth planning around
Derrick Carter — Chicago house royalty, on home ground.
Green Velvet — The other great Chicago constant, also on Monday.
Carl Craig — Detroit's second-wave architect, on the Saturday bill.
Anyma — The audiovisual end of melodic techno, headlining Sunday.
The lineup by day
Stages and set times come from the four day graphics ARC published on its own set-times page (2026-08-05). A b2b slot gives every named artist the same stage and time, and Josh Baker plays twice on the Monday, so he carries both sets. Live From Earth, Sally C and Héctor Oaks are on the announced lineup but hold no slot on the published grid.
Friday lineup (September 4)
Chase & Status, Chris Stassy, Sara Landry, Joy Orbison, Ben UFO, Meduza + 27 more
Friday set times (33 sets)
- Dabura · The Midway
- Anna Maria · The Midway
- Frechette · area909
- Muffy · Expansions
- Virago · The Grid
- Canary Yellow · area909
- IDEMI · Expansions
- INVT · The Grid
- Azzecca · The Grid
- camoufly · area909
- Notre Dame · The Midway
- Tiga · Expansions
- Brunello · Expansions
- ZULAN · area909
- KI/KI · The Grid
- Korolova · The Midway
- KASIA · The Midway
- Max Dean · Expansions
- Luke Dean · Expansions
- Silva Bumpa · area909
- Chase & Status · The Grid
- Eli & Fur · The Midway
- Cristoph · The Midway
- Pegassi · area909
- Prospa · Expansions
- Bad Boombox · area909
- mischluft · area909
- Chris Stassy · Expansions
- Meduza · The Midway
- GENESI · The Midway
- Sara Landry · The Grid
- Joy Orbison · area909
- Ben UFO · area909
Saturday lineup (September 5)
The Blessed Madonna, Carl Craig, Moodymann, Stacey Pullen, Cloonee, MAU P + 31 more
Saturday set times (37 sets)
- Colette · area909
- Dayhota · area909
- DJ Heather · area909
- DJ Lady D · area909
- Flores Negras · Expansions
- JJ Illgen · The Midway
- Janesita · The Midway
- M3RCH · The Grid
- DJ Hyperactive · Expansions
- Lindsey Herbert · Expansions
- Très Mortimer · The Grid
- Cole Knight · The Grid
- Laurence Guy · The Midway
- Monty Kiddo · The Midway
- Chaos in The CBD · area909
- Dax J · Expansions
- Omar+ · The Grid
- Obskür · The Grid
- 999999999 · Expansions
- Discip · The Midway
- Roddy Lima · The Midway
- Carl Craig · area909
- Moodymann · area909
- Stacey Pullen · area909
- Odd Mob · The Grid
- I Hate Models · Expansions
- Luuk Van Dijk · The Midway
- Sidney Charles · The Midway
- Cloonee · The Grid
- salute · area909
- Nicole Moudaber · The Midway
- Paco Osuna · The Midway
- Dubfire · The Midway
- The Blessed Madonna · area909
- MAU P · The Grid
- Lil' Louis · area909
- Nico Moreno · Expansions
Sunday lineup (September 6)
Underworld, Anyma, Nia Archives, Mochakk, Brutalismus 3000, Will Clarke + 26 more
Sunday set times (31 sets)
- Banchan · The Grid
- Nick C · Expansions
- Rika B · The Midway
- 10 Cust · area909
- Locklead · Expansions
- Mike Dunn · The Midway
- Son of Son · The Grid
- Pluko · area909
- Will Clarke · The Midway
- Jamback · Expansions
- Marsolo · Expansions
- Swimming Paul · The Grid
- MCR-T · area909
- Chris Avantgarde · The Grid
- Kevin de Vries · The Grid
- Nia Archives · area909
- Biscits · The Midway
- Dennis Cruz · Expansions
- Ben Sterling · Expansions
- X CLUB. · area909
- Beltran · Expansions
- DJ Gigola · area909
- Skin on Skin · area909
- Walker & Royce · The Midway
- VNSSA · The Midway
- Underworld · The Grid
- Anyma · The Grid
- Mochakk · Expansions
- Matroda · The Midway
- San Pacho · The Midway
- Brutalismus 3000 · area909
Monday lineup (September 7)
Honey Dijon, Green Velvet, Derrick Carter, Michael Bibi, ANNA, Damian Lazarus + 31 more
Monday set times (37 sets)
- Kirk · area909
- Madeline · The Grid
- oogie · Expansions
- Phives · Expansions
- r00bies4ever · The Midway
- Dunes of Dawn · The Midway
- Hotpretty · area909
- LuSiD · Expansions
- Silvie Loto · The Grid
- KinAhau · The Grid
- ANNA · Expansions
- Traumer · Expansions
- Bushbaby · area909
- OGUZ · The Midway
- Derrick Carter · The Grid
- Sam Alfred · area909
- Club Angel · area909
- Honey Dijon · The Grid
- Quest · The Midway
- Ellen Allien · The Midway
- Bullet Tooth · area909
- Michael Bibi · The Grid
- Adrian Mills · The Midway
- FUMI · The Midway
- Serafina · The Midway
- Carlita · Expansions
- WhoMadeWho · Expansions
- DJ Heartstring · area909
- BAUGRUPPE90 · area909
- Green Velvet · The Grid
- Damian Lazarus · Expansions
- Hiroko Yamamura · area909
- Josh Baker · The Grid & Expansions
- KLOUD · The Midway
- Vintage Culture · Expansions
- Boys Noize · area909
ARC 2026 lineup FAQ
When is ARC 2026?
September 4–7, 2026: expanded to four days over Labor Day weekend.
Where is ARC held?
Union Park in Chicago, Illinois.
Who is headlining?
Chase & Status (Friday), The Blessed Madonna (Saturday), Underworld (Sunday) and Honey Dijon (Monday).
How many acts are playing?
138 acts across four days and four stages.
What kind of music is it?
House and techno almost exclusively, with a strong emphasis on Chicago and Detroit originators.
How do I work out which acts I'd like?
Type a few artists you already love into the search at the top of this page and you'll get ranked matches from this lineup, with reasons.
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