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.
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.
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 Stussy, Sara Landry and Nia Archives. Every act's day is published.
One sourcing note: ARC had not put a 2026 lineup page on its own site when this was compiled, so the day-by-day split here comes from JamBase's listing. B2B pairings are listed as individual artists there rather than as joint billings.
Expect house, dance, techno and tech-house across 138 acts.
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.
- 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.
- 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.
Up-and-comers to catch early
- mischluft — One of Friday's newer European bookings.
- Roddy Lima — Rising name on the Saturday bill.
- 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
- Underworld — Headlining Sunday — a rare US festival appearance.
- Honey Dijon — Closing the festival on Monday.
- 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.
- The Blessed Madonna — Saturday's headline slot.
- Anyma — The audiovisual end of melodic techno, headlining Sunday.
The lineup by day
Day splits are sourced from JamBase, which lists b2b pairings as separate artists. The festival's own site had not published a 2026 lineup page at the time of writing.
- Friday, September 4: Chase & Status, Chris Stussy, Sara Landry, Joy Orbison, Ben UFO, Meduza + 27 more
- Saturday, September 5: The Blessed Madonna, Carl Craig, Moodymann, Stacey Pullen, Cloonee, MAU P + 31 more
- Sunday, September 6: Underworld, Anyma, Nia Archives, Mochakk, Brutalismus 3000, Will Clarke + 27 more
- Monday, September 7: Honey Dijon, Green Velvet, Derrick Carter, Michael Bibi, ANNA, Damian Lazarus + 29 more
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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Chris Stussy
Amsterdam's minimal-house standard-bearer — deep, warm, relentless grooves that made him one of Europe's most booked underground names.
Sara Landry
Hard techno delivered with genuine showmanship — one of the fastest rises in the genre in years, industrial pressure with headliner presence.
Joy Orbison
Hessle-adjacent producer whose records sit precisely between garage, house, and something harder to name — 'Hyph Mngo' to now, always slightly ahead.
Ben UFO
The selector's selector — Hessle Audio's omnivorous ear, no productions needed; a world-class reputation built purely on what he plays and how.
Meduza
Italian trio behind some of the decade's biggest vocal house records, built for very large rooms — 'Piece of Your Heart' just the start.
Azzecca
Bad Boombox
mischluft
camoufly
Sugar-rush club music — Jersey club drums and glittering hyperpop melody, engineered for maximum serotonin per minute.
Canary Yellow
Dabura
Anna Maria
Eli & Fur
London duo who sing on their own records — moody, vocal-led melodic house that carries actual songs into progressive territory.
Cristoph
Newcastle producer and progressive-house mainstay — long, patient builds with the discipline of someone who trusts the room to wait.
Frechette
IDEMI
INVT
Miami duo making raw, hardware-driven Latin club music with genuine local roots — dembow and techno melted together live.
KI/KI
Amsterdam's hard-trance revivalist — acid lines and 150 BPM joy, rave classicism played with total exuberance.
Korolova
Ukrainian DJ whose melodic techno sets found an enormous audience through livestreams — scenic-backdrop streams turned into real-world bookings.
KASIA
Max Dean
Luke Dean
GENESI
Muffy
Notre Dame
Pegassi
Prospa
Leeds duo distilling UK rave history into widescreen, hands-up euphoria — piano stabs and breakbeats aimed at the sunrise.
Silva Bumpa
New-school UKG — swung drums and sub-bass pressure from the garage revival's next rank, two-step engineered for new floors.
Tiga
Montreal's arch electroclash survivor — deadpan vocals, filthy synths, and a sense of humor most techno lacks, 'Sunglasses at Night' included.
Brunello
Virago
ZULAN
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.
Carl Craig
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.
Moodymann
Detroit's most idiosyncratic house producer — soul and funk samples left gloriously raw, played from behind sunglasses and mystique.
Stacey Pullen
Detroit second-waver known for long, patient sets that build for an hour before they land — the Kosmic Messenger in no hurry.
Cloonee
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.
MAU P
Dutch producer whose breakout single became one of the most-played club records of its year — 'Drugs from Amsterdam' bounce, still going.
999999999
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.
Lil' Louis
Made 'French Kiss', one of house music's foundational and most notorious records — Chicago originator status that needs no further argument.
Chaos in The CBD
New Zealand brothers making hazy, dub-tinged deep house that never rushes — patient grooves with a jazz record collection audibly behind them.
Colette
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.
Dax J
Monnom Black boss dealing in fast, industrial-edged techno with no soft landings — London-honed pressure that European warehouses treat as gospel.
Dayhota
Discip
Roddy Lima
DJ Heather
A pillar of Chicago's house scene since the '90s — deep, unshowy, impeccably mixed sets that put craft above spectacle every time.
DJ Hyperactive
Lindsey Herbert
DJ Lady D
Superjane co-founder and long-standing figure in Chicago's house community — soulful selections from one of the scene's essential advocates.
Flores Negras
I Hate Models
French producer pairing brutal industrial techno with unexpectedly romantic melodies — heartbreak at 150 BPM, warehouse catharsis with an unexpectedly soft center.
JJ Illgen
Janesita
Laurence Guy
Warm, melodic deep house with a hand-played feel and a soft spot for jazz chords — headphone house that still moves a floor.
Monty Kiddo
Luuk Van Dijk
Amsterdam tech-house workhorse — dark, rolling, precise, and seemingly booked every weekend somewhere in Europe, grooves with total technical control.
Sidney Charles
Hot Haus boss playing the groovy, no-nonsense end of tech-house — Berlin discipline with real swing.
M3RCH
Nico Moreno
One of hard techno's fastest-rising names — high-BPM, hands-in-the-air brutality, industrial kicks stacked to the ceiling.
Nicole Moudaber
MOOD label boss playing dark, tribal-leaning techno with a heavy emphasis on groove — delivered with marathon-set stamina.
Paco Osuna
Barcelona veteran and Music On regular — minimal tech-house played with total precision, a technician's technician.
Dubfire
Half of Deep Dish, then a second career in stripped, hypnotic techno — Grammy-winning past, minimalist present, both played with surgical precision.
Odd Mob
Australian house heater — half of the HYPERBEAM b2b with OMNOM, flip-happy edits with festival-scale bounce.
Omar+
Obskür
salute
Euphoric, garage-inflected house with a melodic streak that lands somewhere between rave and daydream — full-color club joy.
Très Mortimer
Cole Knight
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.
Anyma
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.
Nia Archives
Leeds-via-Bradford producer leading the jungle revival — breakbeats under genuinely tender songwriting, rave history reclaimed as diary.
Mochakk
Brazil's house prodigy — swaggering, sample-happy sets that made him a global fixture overnight, Boiler Room charisma at main-stage scale.
Brutalismus 3000
Berlin's gabber-punk duo — screamed German vocals over pummeling club tempos, equal parts rave, hardcore show, and performance-art provocation.
Will Clarke
Bristol producer and reliable festival closer — big, bouncing, unsubtle tech-house, beard and bass both substantial.
Matroda
Croatian producer specialising in bass-house edits that detonate on a festival system — label-boss instincts with peak-time aim.
San Pacho
Fast-rising producer with a knack for a hook that survives being played at 128 BPM — peak-time tools with real earworms.
Banchan
Beltran
Brazilian house phenom — young, relentless, and groove-first, riding the country's house wave onto festival main stages worldwide.
Biscits
Punchy, bass-forward tech-house built for peak time and nothing else — London-honed grooves engineered for the exact moment the room tips over.
Chris Avantgarde
Melodic techno with classical training audible under the sub-bass — cinematic builds engineered with a composer's patience.
Kevin de Vries
Afterlife-affiliated producer working the widescreen, cinematic end of melodic techno — big-screen builds engineered for the label's cathedral aesthetic.
Dennis Cruz
Spanish producer whose rolling, sample-flecked tech-house is a Solid Grooves staple — Madrid groove-craft built for long, locked-in floors.
Ben Sterling
UK tech-house craftsman with rolling, low-slung grooves — club tools built with real swing rather than big-room bombast.
DJ Gigola
Live From Earth affiliate splicing trance euphoria into contemporary club music — Berlin-honed sets that treat nostalgia as fuel, not a crutch.
Skin on Skin
Australian producer whose hard-edged, garage-inflected house has spread well beyond Melbourne — grit-first club heat with genuine menace in the drops.
Jamback
Marsolo
Live From Earth
Locklead
Sally C
Big Saldo's Chunkers boss digging into rugged, sample-heavy Chicago-indebted house — Belfast grit with crate-dug warmth.
MCR-T
Live From Earth co-founder making rowdy, meme-literate club tracks — ghetto-tech cheek at Berlin volume, club chaos with a grin.
Mike Dunn
One of Chicago house's original producers, still making records that sound like 1988 in the best way — delivered with a preacher's baritone.
X CLUB.
Brisbane warehouse techno — breakbeats and big-room adrenaline, Australia's rave revival at full charge, breaks with zero brakes.
Nick C
Pluko
Producer who started uploading at fifteen and grew into genuinely lush melodic electronica — bedroom beginnings, headphone-cinema results.
Rika B
Son of Son
Swimming Paul
Walker & Royce
Brooklyn duo making tech-house with actual jokes in it — Dirtybird's sense of humour intact, wobbling basslines with a wink.
VNSSA
LA DJ in the Dirtybird lineage — percussive, playful, built for a warehouse, grooves with a smirk.
10 Cust
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.
Green Velvet
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.
Derrick Carter
Chicago house royalty and one of the great technical selectors — decades deep and still unpredictable, mixing with a jazz musician's wit.
Michael Bibi
Solid Grooves boss whose rolling, bass-forward tech-house became the sound of a generation of clubs — London underground gone worldwide.
ANNA
Brazilian techno producer with a melodic streak that lifts her sets out of pure functionalism — big-room pressure with actual emotional architecture underneath.
Damian Lazarus
Crosstown Rebels founder and Day Zero curator — desert-mystic house with a theatrical streak, staging dance music as ceremony wherever he lands.
Adrian Mills
FUMI
Serafina
Traumer
French producer working the groovy, stripped end of minimal house — hypnotic tools with real bounce.
Hiroko Yamamura
Bullet Tooth
Bushbaby
Carlita
Cello-trained Istanbul selector — sun-drenched, organic house that folds Mediterranean color into long, golden-hour sets, jet-set warmth with classical bones.
WhoMadeWho
Danish trio who play electronic music as an actual band — live drums, vocals, and a knack for the euphoric build.
DJ Heartstring
BAUGRUPPE90
Dunes of Dawn
Josh Baker
Manchester house on the rise — rolling, minimal grooves for sunset slots, one of the UK underground's fastest-moving names.
Héctor Oaks
Bassiani and Berghain regular known for hard-groove sets mixed on three or four decks — vinyl-heavy technique at warehouse intensity.
Quest
Hotpretty
Kirk
KLOUD
LuSiD
Madeline
OGUZ
oogie
Phives
r00bies4ever
Sam Alfred
Club Angel
Silvie Loto
KinAhau
Vintage Culture
Brazil's biggest house export — melodic, festival-scaled, and unashamedly emotive, São Paulo stadiums to global main stages.