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.
From London, UK · Sounds like Wilkinson, High Contrast
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.
ARC 2026 lineup: all 138 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.
From Chicago, IL · Sounds like The Blessed Madonna, Derrick Carter, Kim Ann Foxman, Louie Vega
Kentucky-raised, Chicago-schooled — a selector with genuine dance-music scholarship and no snobbery about joy, rave history taught from the booth.
From Richmond, KY · Sounds like Honey Dijon, Eris Drew, Peggy Gou, Jayda G
Karl Hyde's stream-of-consciousness vocals over Rick Smith's builds — 'Born Slippy' was only ever the doorway into a much stranger catalogue.
From Romford, UK · Sounds like Orbital, The Chemical Brothers, Leftfield, Fatboy Slim
Brazilian techno producer with a melodic streak that lifts her sets out of pure functionalism — big-room pressure with actual emotional architecture underneath.
From São Paulo, BR · Sounds like Charlotte de Witte, Amelie Lens, Nicole Moudaber, Adam Beyer
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.
From Rome, Italy · Sounds like Tale Of Us, ARTBAT, Massano
The selector's selector — Hessle Audio's omnivorous ear, no productions needed; a world-class reputation built purely on what he plays and how.
From London, UK · Sounds like Pearson Sound, Joy Orbison, Objekt
Berlin's gabber-punk duo — screamed German vocals over pummeling club tempos, equal parts rave, hardcore show, and performance-art provocation.
From Berlin, DE · Sounds like Sara Landry, I Hate Models, Boys Noize
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.
From Detroit, MI · Sounds like Jeff Mills, Moodymann, Stacey Pullen, Kevin Saunderson
Amsterdam's minimal-house standard-bearer — deep, warm, relentless grooves that made him one of Europe's most booked underground names.
From Amsterdam, NL · Sounds like Michael Bibi, Archie Hamilton, Enzo Siragusa
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.
From Bristol, UK · Sounds like Fisher, Chris Lake, PAWSA
Crosstown Rebels founder and Day Zero curator — desert-mystic house with a theatrical streak, staging dance music as ceremony wherever he lands.
From London, UK · Sounds like Acid Pauli, DJ Tennis, Bedouin, Rebolledo
Chicago house royalty and one of the great technical selectors — decades deep and still unpredictable, mixing with a jazz musician's wit.
From Chicago, IL · Sounds like Mark Farina, DJ Heather, Green Velvet, Cajmere
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.
From Chicago, IL · Sounds like Claude VonStroke, Chris Lake, Honey Dijon
Hessle-adjacent producer whose records sit precisely between garage, house, and something harder to name — 'Hyph Mngo' to now, always slightly ahead.
From London, UK · Sounds like Ben UFO, Pearson Sound, Overmono, Four Tet
Dutch producer whose breakout single became one of the most-played club records of its year — 'Drugs from Amsterdam' bounce, still going.
From Amsterdam, NL · Sounds like Cloonee, Michael Bibi, Odd Mob, Vintage Culture
Italian trio behind some of the decade's biggest vocal house records, built for very large rooms — 'Piece of Your Heart' just the start.
From Milan, IT · Sounds like Cloonee, Vintage Culture, Solomun, Kream
Solid Grooves boss whose rolling, bass-forward tech-house became the sound of a generation of clubs — London underground gone worldwide.
From London, UK · Sounds like Chris Stussy, Cloonee, Dennis Cruz, PAWSA
Brazil's house prodigy — swaggering, sample-happy sets that made him a global fixture overnight, Boiler Room charisma at main-stage scale.
From São Paulo, BR · Sounds like John Summit, FISHER, Dennis Cruz
Detroit's most idiosyncratic house producer — soul and funk samples left gloriously raw, played from behind sunglasses and mystique.
From Detroit, MI · Sounds like Theo Parrish, Carl Craig, Omar S, Larry Heard
Leeds-via-Bradford producer leading the jungle revival — breakbeats under genuinely tender songwriting, rave history reclaimed as diary.
From Bradford, UK · Sounds like Shy FX, Goldie, PinkPantheress, Sherelle
Hard techno delivered with genuine showmanship — one of the fastest rises in the genre in years, industrial pressure with headliner presence.
From Austin, TX · Sounds like Charlotte de Witte, Amelie Lens, 999999999
Detroit second-waver known for long, patient sets that build for an hour before they land — the Kosmic Messenger in no hurry.
From Detroit, MI · Sounds like Carl Craig, Kevin Saunderson, Jeff Mills, Derrick May
Bristol producer and reliable festival closer — big, bouncing, unsubtle tech-house, beard and bass both substantial.
From Bristol, UK · Sounds like Walker & Royce, VNSSA, Cloonee, Chris Lorenzo
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.
From Milan, IT · Sounds like I Hate Models, Dax J, Nico Moreno, Ansome
Adrian Mills
Anna Maria
Azzecca
Bad Boombox
Banchan
BAUGRUPPE90
Brazilian house phenom — young, relentless, and groove-first, riding the country's house wave onto festival main stages worldwide.
From Brazil
UK tech-house craftsman with rolling, low-slung grooves — club tools built with real swing rather than big-room bombast.
From UK
Punchy, bass-forward tech-house built for peak time and nothing else — London-honed grooves engineered for the exact moment the room tips over.
From London, UK · Sounds like Will Clarke, Cloonee, Matroda, Chris Lorenzo
Brunello
Bullet Tooth
Bushbaby
Sugar-rush club music — Jersey club drums and glittering hyperpop melody, engineered for maximum serotonin per minute.
From Montreal, CA · Sounds like Ninajirachi, Dylan Brady
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.
From Istanbul, TR · Sounds like Dixon, Bedouin
New Zealand brothers making hazy, dub-tinged deep house that never rushes — patient grooves with a jazz record collection audibly behind them.
From Auckland, NZ · Sounds like Laurence Guy, Ross From Friends, Move D, DJ Seinfeld
Melodic techno with classical training audible under the sub-bass — cinematic builds engineered with a composer's patience.
From Berlin, DE · Sounds like Kevin de Vries, Anyma, Rüfüs Du Sol, Massano
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.
From Chicago, IL · Sounds like DJ Heather, DJ Lady D, Kim English, Honey Dijon
Newcastle producer and progressive-house mainstay — long, patient builds with the discipline of someone who trusts the room to wait.
From Newcastle, UK · Sounds like Eli & Fur, Sasha, Yotto, Adriatique
Dabura
Monnom Black boss dealing in fast, industrial-edged techno with no soft landings — London-honed pressure that European warehouses treat as gospel.
From London, UK · Sounds like I Hate Models, Nico Moreno, Charlotte de Witte, 999999999
Dayhota
Spanish producer whose rolling, sample-flecked tech-house is a Solid Grooves staple — Madrid groove-craft built for long, locked-in floors.
From Madrid, ES · Sounds like Michael Bibi, Chris Stussy, Sidney Charles, Marco Carola
Discip
Live From Earth affiliate splicing trance euphoria into contemporary club music — Berlin-honed sets that treat nostalgia as fuel, not a crutch.
From Berlin, DE · Sounds like MCR-T, Live From Earth, VTSS, Anetha
DJ Heartstring
A pillar of Chicago's house scene since the '90s — deep, unshowy, impeccably mixed sets that put craft above spectacle every time.
From Chicago, IL · Sounds like DJ Lady D, Derrick Carter, Colette, Mark Farina
DJ Hyperactive
Superjane co-founder and long-standing figure in Chicago's house community — soulful selections from one of the scene's essential advocates.
From Chicago, IL · Sounds like DJ Heather, Colette, Honey Dijon, Derrick Carter
Half of Deep Dish, then a second career in stripped, hypnotic techno — Grammy-winning past, minimalist present, both played with surgical precision.
From Tehran, IR · Sounds like Nicole Moudaber, Paco Osuna, Adam Beyer, Carl Cox
Dunes of Dawn
London duo who sing on their own records — moody, vocal-led melodic house that carries actual songs into progressive territory.
From London, UK · Sounds like Cristoph, Lane 8, Anjunadeep, Yotto
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.
From Madrid, ES · Sounds like Dax J, Freddy K, Ben Sims, I Hate Models
Hiroko Yamamura
Hotpretty
French producer pairing brutal industrial techno with unexpectedly romantic melodies — heartbreak at 150 BPM, warehouse catharsis with an unexpectedly soft center.
From Paris, FR · Sounds like Nico Moreno, Dax J, 999999999, Charlotte de Witte
IDEMI
Miami duo making raw, hardware-driven Latin club music with genuine local roots — dembow and techno melted together live.
From Miami, FL · Sounds like Nick León, DJ Python, Safety Trance, Kelman Duran
Jamback
Janesita
JJ Illgen
Manchester house on the rise — rolling, minimal grooves for sunset slots, one of the UK underground's fastest-moving names.
From Manchester, UK · Sounds like Michael Bibi, Archie Hamilton
KASIA
Afterlife-affiliated producer working the widescreen, cinematic end of melodic techno — big-screen builds engineered for the label's cathedral aesthetic.
From Berlin, DE · Sounds like Anyma, Chris Avantgarde, Adriatique, Mind Against
Amsterdam's hard-trance revivalist — acid lines and 150 BPM joy, rave classicism played with total exuberance.
From Amsterdam, NL · Sounds like horsegiirL, Marlon Hoffstadt
KinAhau
Kirk
KLOUD
Ukrainian DJ whose melodic techno sets found an enormous audience through livestreams — scenic-backdrop streams turned into real-world bookings.
From Kyiv, UA · Sounds like ANNA, Anyma, Argy, Miss Monique
Warm, melodic deep house with a hand-played feel and a soft spot for jazz chords — headphone house that still moves a floor.
From London, UK · Sounds like Ross From Friends, Chaos in The CBD, DJ Seinfeld, Mall Grab
Made 'French Kiss', one of house music's foundational and most notorious records — Chicago originator status that needs no further argument.
From Chicago, IL · Sounds like Frankie Knuckles, Marshall Jefferson, Derrick Carter, Larry Heard
Lindsey Herbert
Live From Earth
Locklead
Luke Dean
LuSiD
Amsterdam tech-house workhorse — dark, rolling, precise, and seemingly booked every weekend somewhere in Europe, grooves with total technical control.
From Amsterdam, NL · Sounds like Michael Bibi, Reelow, ANOTR
M3RCH
Madeline
Marsolo
Croatian producer specialising in bass-house edits that detonate on a festival system — label-boss instincts with peak-time aim.
From Split, HR · Sounds like Biscits, Will Clarke, Wax Motif, Chris Lorenzo
Max Dean
Live From Earth co-founder making rowdy, meme-literate club tracks — ghetto-tech cheek at Berlin volume, club chaos with a grin.
From Berlin, DE · Sounds like DJ Gigola, Live From Earth, Brutalismus 3000, VTSS
One of Chicago house's original producers, still making records that sound like 1988 in the best way — delivered with a preacher's baritone.
From Chicago, IL · Sounds like Marshall Jefferson, Lil' Louis, Derrick Carter, Larry Heard
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.
From Lyon, FR · Sounds like I Hate Models, Dax J, 999999999, Sara Landry
MOOD label boss playing dark, tribal-leaning techno with a heavy emphasis on groove — delivered with marathon-set stamina.
From Lagos, NG · Sounds like Dubfire, Carl Cox, Paco Osuna, ANNA
Notre Dame
Obskür
Australian house heater — half of the HYPERBEAM b2b with OMNOM, flip-happy edits with festival-scale bounce.
From Brisbane, AU · Sounds like OMNOM, John Summit
OGUZ
Omar+
From UK
oogie
Barcelona veteran and Music On regular — minimal tech-house played with total precision, a technician's technician.
From Barcelona, ES · Sounds like Marco Carola, Dubfire, Richie Hawtin, Nicole Moudaber
Pegassi
Phives
Producer who started uploading at fifteen and grew into genuinely lush melodic electronica — bedroom beginnings, headphone-cinema results.
From Charlottesville, VA · Sounds like San Holo, Whethan, Petit Biscuit, Manila Killa
Leeds duo distilling UK rave history into widescreen, hands-up euphoria — piano stabs and breakbeats aimed at the sunrise.
From Leeds, UK · Sounds like Bicep, Fred again..
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.
From Belfast, UK · Sounds like Sam Alfred, DJ Heather, Ben Sterling, Mike Dunn
Euphoric, garage-inflected house with a melodic streak that lands somewhere between rave and daydream — full-color club joy.
From Vienna, Austria · Sounds like KETTAMA, Overmono, Barry Can't Swim
Sam Alfred
Fast-rising producer with a knack for a hook that survives being played at 128 BPM — peak-time tools with real earworms.
From Amsterdam, NL · Sounds like Matroda, Biscits, Cloonee, Odd Mob
Serafina
Hot Haus boss playing the groovy, no-nonsense end of tech-house — Berlin discipline with real swing.
From Berlin, DE · Sounds like Traumer, Dennis Cruz, Luuk Van Dijk, Michael Bibi
New-school UKG — swung drums and sub-bass pressure from the garage revival's next rank, two-step engineered for new floors.
From UK · Sounds like Interplanetary Criminal, Sammy Virji, Conducta, Salute
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.
From Melbourne, AU · Sounds like Sammy Virji, Interplanetary Criminal, Main Phase, Cloonee
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.
From Montreal, QC · Sounds like Vitalic, Soulwax, Erol Alkan
French producer working the groovy, stripped end of minimal house — hypnotic tools with real bounce.
From Paris, FR · Sounds like Sidney Charles, Luuk Van Dijk, Chris Stussy, Ricardo Villalobos
Très Mortimer
Brazil's biggest house export — melodic, festival-scaled, and unashamedly emotive, São Paulo stadiums to global main stages.
From Mato Grosso do Sul, BR · Sounds like Meduza, Cloonee, MEDUZA, Chris Lake
Virago
LA DJ in the Dirtybird lineage — percussive, playful, built for a warehouse, grooves with a smirk.
From Los Angeles, CA · Sounds like Walker & Royce, Will Clarke, Dirtybird, Sacha Robotti
Brooklyn duo making tech-house with actual jokes in it — Dirtybird's sense of humour intact, wobbling basslines with a wink.
From Brooklyn, NY · Sounds like Will Clarke, VNSSA, Chris Lorenzo, Sacha Robotti
Danish trio who play electronic music as an actual band — live drums, vocals, and a knack for the euphoric build.
From Copenhagen, Denmark · Sounds like Rüfüs Du Sol, Moderat, Trentemøller
Brisbane warehouse techno — breakbeats and big-room adrenaline, Australia's rave revival at full charge, breaks with zero brakes.
From Brisbane, AU · Sounds like KETTAMA, Overmono
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.
- 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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