The trio who kept melodic trance emotionally serious through the years nobody else would — and built Anjunabeats around it.
Dreamstate SoCal 2026 Lineup
Two November nights of trance on the Long Beach waterfront, across four stages: uplifting, psy and melodic techno, with a bill that reaches back three decades.
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About Dreamstate SoCal 2026
Dreamstate is Insomniac's trance sanctuary, and the 2026 SoCal edition runs two November nights on the Queen Mary Waterfront in Long Beach across four stages. The headline row spans the genre's whole family tree: Paul van Dyk with an Essence Of Acid concept set, Above & Beyond playing Anjunabeats classics, psytrance flag-carriers Vini Vici, and melodic-techno giants ARTBAT.
The 70-act bill is built the way trance heads like it: heavy on special sets and back-to-backs. Uplifting purists get Aly & Fila with Billy Gillies, Solarstone and Cold Blue; the psy wing runs Astrix, Infected Mushroom, Neelix and John 00 Fleming; the hard end belongs to Key4050, MaRLo and John Askew with Simon Patterson; and a techno guest list (Reinier Zonneveld live, Enrico Sangiuliano, Giorgia Angiuli) shows how far the brand's borders have stretched.
Expect trance, techno, psytrance and dance across 70 acts.
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Ukrainian duo whose melodic techno went from small rooms to main stages on the back of a handful of enormous records.
One of trance's founding figures, three decades in and still building sets around momentum rather than drops. The Essence of Acid project digs back into the 303.
The Israeli duo who dragged psytrance onto main stages worldwide — full-on, fast, and completely unashamed about it.
Psytrance at its groove-led, progressive end — rolling and hypnotic rather than frantic.
Arty's ALPHA 9 alias alongside Anjunabeats mainstay Ilan Bluestone — melodic trance from two of the label's most dependable writers.
Egypt's Aly & Fila — uplifting trance purists — paired with Billy Gillies's harder and much newer take on it.
Cinematic, high-drama trance; Extasia is the alias for when he wants it harder and faster.
UK producer and remixer whose fingerprints are on a generation of the genre's defining records.
Full-on psytrance played with a driving, relentless pulse — one of the genre's most reliable live draws.
BT — whose production techniques half the genre quietly borrowed — with progressive producer Matt Fax.
Built on enormous vocal trance singles — the anthems are the entire point and the set is arranged around them.
Italian techno producer with a sound-design obsession — long sculpted builds and a low end you feel before you hear.
Ferry Corsten's three decades of trance beside Marsh's warmer, slower-burning progressive end.
Israeli duo who never sat still — psytrance roots with rock and electronica grafted on, and a live show that leans into all of it.
Thirty years in trance's darker, psy-leaning corner — sets that unfold across hours rather than peaks.
Bryan Kearney and John O'Callaghan's joint project — hard-edged, high-tempo trance from two Irish veterans of it.
Dutch-Australian producer trading in hard-hitting, high-energy trance sized for the biggest room available.
German producer whose progressive-leaning psytrance became one of the scene's most widely played sounds.
Pegassi
Performs techno entirely live on hardware — acid lines assembled and torn down in front of you, nothing pre-baked.
The loudest voice for 'pure trance' — uplifting, melodic and deliberately unhurried, as a matter of principle.
Dutch project behind 'Take Me Away' — vocal trance from the genre's commercial high-water mark.
A.N.I.
UK producer making cinematic, orchestral-leaning techno — closer to a film score with a kick under it.
Dutch uplifting producer Allen Watts alongside Talla 2XLC, a German DJ whose career predates most of the room.
Animato
Barakuda
British DJ and producer long associated with the hard house boom, working the harder, faster end of the club spectrum.
Brazilian producer working the darker, rolling end of psytrance — built for the deep hours rather than the sunrise.
Chris Metcalfe
German producer making uplifting trance that leans on melody and restraint rather than volume.
Two uplifting-trance heavyweights back to back, both known for going harder than the label suggests.
Das Pharaoh
David Forbes + Mark Sherry pres Thick As Thieves
David Rust + Olly James
Not a fixed act — an open-call talent search whose winner takes the slot, so the name behind it changes each time it appears.
Two British radio-era veterans back to back — Halliwell's fast, technical mixing against Judge Jules's anthem-heavy history.
Italian producer and label head dealing in hard, driving techno — relentless kick patterns built for dark rooms and big systems.
Performs techno live using toy instruments and her own voice alongside the hardware — a genuinely unusual stage setup.
Long-running psytrance project rooted in the sound's Goa origins — full-on and fast, with the history to back it.
Hannah Laing + Marie Vaunt
JOA
Two British DJs from trance's harder, psy-tinged edge, playing back to back the way they usually do.
KARMÅ
KAUFMANN (DE)
Dutch DJ working the fast, acid-streaked end of techno — 303 squelch and relentless kick pressure rather than melodic build-ups.
Dutch producer working the trance-techno crossover since before it needed a name.
Maria Healy
Matty Ralph
Italian veteran whose late-'90s records — 'Komodo', 'Lizard' — are still set staples a quarter century on.
Maximizer
Mirage (Live)
NRG2000
Nu Aspect
French producer and Club Cheval alumnus, building hyper-bright rave tools from eurodance and trance — maximalist club music at cartoon velocity.
Bakis Sirros's long-running Greek electronic project, built from modular synthesis and slow-moving dark ambient texture rather than beats.
Progressive psytrance with a deep, patient groove — closer to a slow tide than a peak.
Danish producer at psytrance's melodic, progressive end — big hooks over a rolling bassline.
Rising Dust
Israeli production outfit working the progressive end of psytrance — patient builds and rolling low-end shaped for big outdoor systems.
Schrotthagen
Sequence Six
Shay De Castro
Sighter
Steve Dekay
Terra
TH;EN
The Rocketman
VisionV
German duo behind 'Phatt Bass' — hard dance with a rave-anthem streak that has aged better than it had any right to.
The headliners
Above & Beyond (Anjunabeats Classics) — The trio who kept melodic trance emotionally serious through the years nobody else would — and built Anjunabeats around it.
ARTBAT — Ukrainian duo whose melodic techno went from small rooms to main stages on the back of a handful of enormous records.
- Paul van Dyk pres Essence Of Acid — One of trance's founding figures, three decades in and still building sets around momentum rather than drops. The Essence of Acid project digs back into the 303.
Vini Vici — The Israeli duo who dragged psytrance onto main stages worldwide — full-on, fast, and completely unashamed about it.
Up-and-comers to catch early
Aaron Hibell (Live) — Cinematic melodic techno performed live: the crossover kid on a trance bill.
Cold Blue — Uplifting trance's most consistent new craftsman: pure altitude.
Lee Ann Roberts — The hard-techno ascendant bringing the dark end to a trance crowd.
Other acts worth planning around
Reinier Zonneveld (Live) — Hours of acid built from scratch on hardware. Nothing else on the bill is made in front of you.
Infected Mushroom — Psytrance's restless experimentalists, thirty years of refusing to repeat themselves.
John 00 Fleming — The long-form master: give his set time and it pays compound interest.
Key4050 — Kearney and O'Callaghan at full tilt, the hardest trance craftsmanship there is.
Solarstone — Pure trance as a principled stand, unhurried and proud of it.
- Eddie Halliwell + Judge Jules — British radio-era royalty back to back, a history lesson at 140 BPM.
4 Strings (Classics Set) — 'Take Me Away' and the vocal-trance songbook, played as written.
Dreamstate SoCal 2026 lineup FAQ
When is Dreamstate SoCal 2026?
November 20–21, 2026 (Friday and Saturday nights).
Where does Dreamstate SoCal take place?
The Queen Mary Waterfront in Long Beach, California, across four stages.
Who is headlining Dreamstate SoCal 2026?
Above & Beyond with an Anjunabeats Classics set, Paul van Dyk presenting Essence Of Acid, ARTBAT, and Vini Vici.
Is Dreamstate only trance?
Trance is the spine (uplifting, vocal, psy and tech-trance all get stages), but the 2026 bill stretches into melodic techno and live hardware sets with ARTBAT, Reinier Zonneveld, Enrico Sangiuliano and Giorgia Angiuli.
How many acts are playing Dreamstate SoCal 2026?
70 acts across the two nights, many of them back-to-backs and one-off concept sets.
How do I work out which acts I'd like?
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