The heaviest end of North American bass music, staged with a wall of subs and a light rig that does half the assault.
Bass Canyon 2026 Lineup
Excision's dubstep pilgrimage at the Gorge: three days of nothing but bass, in the most spectacular amphitheatre in America.
Bass Canyon is expected back August 2027 (dates aren't announced yet). Until then, here's the full 2026 lineup and the acts you would have loved.
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About Bass Canyon 2026
Bass Canyon is Excision's own festival, held at the Gorge Amphitheatre, a natural bowl above the Columbia River that is arguably the most spectacular concert setting in North America. Three days, one genre, no pretence of breadth: this is dubstep and its immediate relatives, played very loud on a stack Excision designs himself.
Excision plays all three days in different configurations: solo on Friday, a Detox set and a b2b with Slander on Sunday. Around him the bill is a survey of where heavy bass currently sits: Illenium b2b Dabin and Ganja White Night on Saturday, ATLiens and Svdden Death's VOYD alias on Sunday, and a Friday undercard leaning toward the genre's UK originators. Every act's day is published.
Expect dubstep, electronic, dance and riddim across 88 acts.
Bass Canyon 2026 lineup & schedule: all 88 acts
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Excision B2B Slander
Illenium B2B Dabin
Masked Atlanta duo working the dark, alien end of festival bass — extraterrestrial lore, subterranean growls, and drops built for maximum abduction.
Saxophone and live drums over electronic production — the Colorado duo that made horns a festival-stage instrument again, equal parts jam band and drop machine.
Culture Shock (DnB)
RAM Records veteran James Pountney: melodic drum and bass built on big vocal hooks, splitting his time between rolling club singles and pop remixes.
Excision (Detox Set)
Ganja White Night (Sunset Set)
Genre-hopping producer who moves between bass house and full-on dubstep in a single hour — ghoulish branding, versatile drops.
Jump-up drum and bass with an unusually funky low end — rave weaponry with actual swing.
Half of Gud Vibrations — heavy festival trap with a melodic streak that keeps widening, drops built for fireworks cues.
Coined 'Laserbeam' and turned it into one of the most recognisable drops in modern bass music — headbanger melodrama at maximum voltage.
Plays guitar and screams over his own dubstep — the metal/bass crossover taken entirely seriously, pits and drops in equal measure.
Producer's producer — sound design so intricate that other artists study his sessions, drops built like Swiss watches.
Former competitive hockey player turned producer, making trap with unusual emotional range — heavy drops with a bruised heart.
$J
All The Reason
Fast-rising Denver bass producer — melodic drops with teeth, riding the front of the dubstep scene's younger, wilder generation.
Austeria
Avello
UK producer known for metallic, precision-engineered mid-range bass — dubstep at its most abrasive and mechanical.
Disciple mainstays making precise, sound-design-obsessed dubstep — surgical basses and glitch detail that reward headphones as much as rail-riding.
Bear-costumed producer whose gimmick outlasted the joke because the tracks hold up — heavyweight dubstep and riddim with genuine pit credentials.
Israeli producer who coined 'gorestep' — deliberately obnoxious, and very good at it, with filthy drops engineered to offend and delight simultaneously.
Brainrack B2B Wiley
Calcium
Houston producer working the heavier, low-slung end of dubstep — sound-system weight and sub-bass detail over festival-sized drops.
Canabliss
Capochino
Crumb Pit
Dennett
Dutch producer who broke into bass music while still a teenager, pairing brutal dubstep design with a melodic streak he keeps refusing to abandon.
French crew who came up through drum and bass and never lost the punk energy — genre-hopping bass sets played like a rock show.
American dubstep duo trading in the heavy, mid-tempo end of the genre since 2009 — grinding, cartoonishly filthy drops engineered for big rooms.
DØMINA
Dream Takers
Colorado duo making warped, psychedelic bass with genuine melodic instincts — squelchy, playful sound design from the experimental-bass underground.
Emorfik
Flozone
Masked UK producer dealing in the filthiest end of dubstep, and one of its most reliable live presences — DPMO sets with zero mercy.
Riddim producer with a distinctly murky, low-slung sound — phantom-themed bass aimed at the darkest corner of the pit.
Heavy, percussive dubstep with a distinct Latin rhythmic influence — San Diego drops with extra swing in the kick pattern.
Hexxa
Heyz
Hostage Situation
Psychedelic bass producer whose 'Overthinker' became an unlikely streaming phenomenon — Alan Watts samples and warm, curling melody.
Newer bass producer with a clean, aggressive sound — surgical drops from the scene's rising class.
Izadi
Jkyl & Hyde
American duo working the heavy, low-slung end of bass music, built around abrupt switch-ups rather than steady momentum.
American drum and bass producer with a melodic, song-led approach — stateside proof the genre's next wave crossed the Atlantic.
UK producer at the jump-up end of drum and bass — big, rowdy, and built for a rave, double-drops thrown like confetti.
Kill Safari
KLO
Los Angeles bass and UK garage, built for the sound-system end of the room — an underground following and cosigns from Disclosure, Fred Again and Hamdi.
Riddim producer with a heavy, minimal approach — a lot of space around some very large sounds, engineered for maximum stank face.
Liquid Smoak
Luci
Machaki
Mersiv (Sunset Set)
Newer riddim producer whose tracks land squarely in the genre's heaviest lane — no-frills drops built for rail-riders.
Nikita, The Wicked
Otsukare
Paper Skies
Scandinavian duo with a bright, hyperactive take on bass music and a big Monstercat catalogue — neon drops with pop bones.
Phrva
Pretty Sweet
Ravenscoon B2B Jantsen
Richard Finger
Rossy
Seth David
British drum and bass duo who carried liquid rollers to the top of the UK charts, paired here with a vocalist riding out front of the mix.
Siren
Smith.
Bay Area duo working the funky, wonky end of West Coast bass — Oakland low-end with a grin.
Stoog3s
Halftime-leaning bass with a lot of negative space and a very deep sub — restraint as the flex.
Super Future
Svdden Death presents: VOYD
The Resistance
Tripp St.
Ophelia-affiliated producer working the emotional, trance-leaning end of melodic bass — soaring vocals over drops with genuine lift.
Twopercent
Riddim producer with an ear for the exact moment a drop should stop dead — silence weaponized.
Usaybflow
Long-running Minneapolis dubstep producer from the genre's first American wave — an OG still swinging, first-wave credibility fully intact.
Versa
Crankdat and Wooli's tag-team alias — maximum-silliness name, maximum-damage bass.
Emotional melodic bass with a confessional streak — heartbreak anthems engineered for the festival rail.
Yosuf
Z3lla
The headliners
Up-and-comers to catch early
Neotek — Newer riddim producer landing squarely in the genre's heaviest lane.
- Crumb Pit — One of Saturday's newer names, deep on the bill.
- Otsukare — Sunday booking worth arriving early for.
- Stoog3s — Friday's early slot, and a name to watch.
Other acts worth planning around
- Excision B2B Slander — Sunday's headline pairing: heavy and melodic in the same set.
- Illenium B2B Dabin — Saturday's melodic-bass centrepiece from two of its best songwriters.
Virtual Riot — The producer other producers study.
Sullivan King — Guitar and screaming over dubstep, played entirely straight.
Big Gigantic — Live sax and drums: the closest this bill gets to a band.
The lineup by day
Friday lineup (August 14)
Excision, NGHTMRE, Big Gigantic, Sullivan King, Virtual Riot, $J + 24 more
Friday set times (30 sets)
- Vaski · Hilltop
- Brainrack B2B Wiley · Canyon
- Hexxa · Starlight
- BadKlaat · Hilltop
- Capochino · Canyon
- $J · Starlight
- Pegboard Nerds · Hilltop
- Heyz · Canyon
- Versa · Starlight
- Calcium · Canyon
- Funtcase · Hilltop
- Usaybflow · Starlight
- Trivecta · Canyon
- Bear Grillz · Hilltop
- Dion Timmer · Canyon
- Emorfik · Starlight
- Borgore · Hilltop
- Mersiv (Sunset Set) · Canyon
- Ivory · Starlight
- Virtual Riot · Hilltop
- Level Up · Canyon
- Hostage Situation · Starlight
- NGHTMRE · Canyon
- Barely Alive · Hilltop
- Stoog3s · Starlight
- Big Gigantic · Hilltop
- Sullivan King · Canyon
- The Resistance · Starlight
- Dodge & Fuski · Hilltop
- Excision · Canyon
Saturday lineup (August 15)
Illenium B2B Dabin, Ganja White Night (Sunset Set), Ray Volpe, Culture Shock (DnB), Muzz, Alleycvt + 24 more
Saturday set times (30 sets)
- Paper Skies · Hilltop
- Neotek · Canyon
- Siren · Starlight
- Austeria · Hilltop
- Tynan · Canyon
- Crumb Pit · Starlight
- Phrva · Hilltop
- Smoakland · Canyon
- Justin Hawkes · Starlight
- Jkyl & Hyde · Canyon
- Smith. · Hilltop
- Liquid Smoak · Starlight
- Kill Safari · Canyon
- Sumthin Sumthin · Hilltop
- Muzz · Starlight
- William Black · Canyon
- Dennett · Hilltop
- Ganja White Night (Sunset Set) · Canyon
- Culture Shock (DnB) · Starlight
- Tripp St. · Hilltop
- Alleycvt · Canyon
- Sigma with Armanni Reign · Starlight
- Super Future · Hilltop
- Ray Volpe · Canyon
- Dirtyphonics · Starlight
- Canabliss · Hilltop
- Wankdat (Crankdat B2B Wooli) · Canyon
- Kanine · Starlight
- Ravenscoon B2B Jantsen · Hilltop
- Illenium B2B Dabin · Canyon
Sunday lineup (August 16)
Excision B2B Slander, Excision (Detox Set), ATLiens, Ghastly, Whipped Cream, All The Reason + 22 more
Sunday set times (28 sets)
- Machaki · Hilltop
- Flozone · Canyon
- Otsukare · Starlight
- Z3lla · Hilltop
- Luci · Canyon
- Izadi · Starlight
- Pretty Sweet · Hilltop
- Richard Finger · Canyon
- Dream Takers · Starlight
- Eazybaked · Canyon
- Rossy · Hilltop
- All The Reason · Starlight
- Ghengar · Canyon
- Seth David · Hilltop
- Twopercent · Starlight
- ATLiens · Canyon
- Nikita, The Wicked · Hilltop
- Excision (Detox Set) · Canyon
- Hekler · Starlight
- Whipped Cream · Hilltop
- Inzo · Canyon
- DØMINA · Starlight
- Avello · Hilltop
- Svdden Death presents: VOYD · Canyon
- Yosuf · Starlight
- Ghastly · Hilltop
- Excision B2B Slander · Canyon
- KLO · Hilltop
Bass Canyon 2026 lineup FAQ
When is Bass Canyon 2026?
August 14–16, 2026 (Friday, Saturday and Sunday).
Where is Bass Canyon held?
The Gorge Amphitheatre in George, Washington.
Who is headlining?
Excision, who plays all three days: solo on Friday, plus a Detox set and a b2b with Slander on Sunday.
How many acts are playing?
88 acts across three days.
Are day-by-day lineups published?
Yes. The daily lineup poster is out and every act's day is shown here.
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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