· NOS Events Center, San Bernardino, CA

Escape Halloween 2026 Lineup

Insomniac's Psycho Circus takes the NOS Events Center for Halloween weekend: two nights where house, techno, bass and hard dance share the fairgrounds, and Ice Cube is on the Saturday bill.

Escape Halloween 2026 lineup poster — October 30–31, 2026, NOS Events Center, San Bernardino, CA

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Headliner · Saturday

Alok

Brazil's biggest electronic export and a central figure of the Brazilian bass sound — deep, slinky low end scaled up to global-main-stage size.

brazilian-basshouse

Headliner · Friday

Excision

The heaviest end of North American bass music, staged with a wall of subs and a light rig that does half the assault.

dubstepbass

Headliner · Saturday

Ice Cube

N.W.A's sharpest writer, then a solo catalogue that made West Coast rap political, delivered in a voice built for the back of a room.

hip-hopwest-coast-rap

Headliner · Friday

Steve Aoki

Cake-throwing EDM showman — pure crowd-service spectacle, two decades of Dim Mak hustle behind the confetti.

EDM

Headliner · Saturday

Zedd

A classically trained producer whose precision-engineered pop-EDM defined mainstage sound for a decade — 'Clarity' still the gold standard.

edmelectro house

Top billing · Saturday

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.

hard-technoacid-techno

Top billing · Saturday

AC Slater

Night Bass founder and the loudest advocate for UK bass weight in American house clubs, garage swing under a sub that does the shouting.

bass-househouse

Top billing · Saturday

Adventure Club

Canadian duo who helped invent melodic dubstep with a run of era-defining remixes — soaring vocals over filthy-then-gorgeous drops that taught bass music how to feel.

dubstepmelodic bass

Top billing · Friday

Benny Benassi

The Italian producer behind 'Satisfaction', whose filtered electro bassline set a template a whole generation of dance producers worked from.

electro-househouse

Top billing · Friday

Cascada

German eurodance behind 'Everytime We Touch', built for maximum singalong and entirely unbothered about being called cheesy.

eurodancedance-pop

Top billing · Friday

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.

tech househouse

Top billing · Saturday

Dabin

Melodic bass with a guitarist's instincts — emotional drops built around playing rather than only programming.

melodic-dubstepfuture bass

Top billing · Friday

Darren Styles

UK hardcore royalty — piano riffs, pitched-up vocals and an unembarrassed grin, still the biggest name the genre has.

happy-hardcoreuk-hardcore

Top billing · Saturday

Disco Lines

Technicolor disco-house — relentless fun, zero pretension, hooks big enough to convert whoever wandered past the stage.

disco-house

Top billing · Saturday

Galantis

Swedish project built on pitched-up vocal hooks, 'Runaway (U & I)' being the one that defined the sound and never really left.

dance-popelectronic

Top billing · Friday

Getter

Went from Skrillex-adjacent dubstep to genre-hopping and back again — a restless catalogue with genuinely heavy roots.

dubstepbass

Top billing · Saturday

Indira Paganotto

Spanish DJ and producer who drags psytrance's acid-soaked momentum into hard techno rooms — high-BPM sets built on hypnotic, coiling arpeggios.

techno

Top billing · Saturday

JOYRYDE (Sunset Set)

British producer whose bass house arrives at speed, brass stabs and sub weight cut together with the timing of a car chase.

bass-househouse

Top billing · Saturday

Liquid Stranger

Wakaan founder whose bass music leans psychedelic and genuinely weird rather than purely heavy — label boss of freeform bass's whole ecosystem.

experimental-bassdubstep

Top billing · Saturday

Maddix

Dutch producer riding the big-room-to-hard-techno pipeline with real conviction — main-stage scale at underground tempos, drops built for the biggest rigs.

technobig-room-techno

Top billing · Friday

MORTEN

Danish producer whose big-room instincts helped define future rave — melodic hooks welded to hard, festival-scaled kick drums.

dance

Top billing · Friday

Nervo

Australian twins who wrote hits for other people first, including a Grammy-winning one, before taking the booth themselves.

dance-popelectronic

Top billing · Saturday

Nina Kraviz

Siberian-born DJ and label head whose sets swerve from acid to raw hardware techno, with her own voice sitting on the records.

technoacid

Top billing · Saturday

Richie Hawtin

The architect of minimal techno, Plastikman on record and a live rig that treats the mixer itself as the instrument.

technominimal-techno

Top billing · Friday

Showtek (Hardstyle Set)

Dutch brothers who came up in hardstyle, left for big-room and made a second career there, and still play the hard sets that named them.

hardstylebig-room

On the bill · Friday

Adam Ten

Tel Aviv producer whose melodic house leans Mediterranean, sun-warmed synth lines over a groove that takes its time arriving.

melodic-househouse

On the bill · Friday

AniMe - No Boundaries

Italian hardcore producer working at the uptempo end, kicks distorted past recognition and a tempo that only ever climbs.

hardcoreuptempo

On the bill · Saturday

Avalon Emerson

American DJ who spent a decade on widescreen club techno, then made a synth-pop record under her own name and kept doing both.

technoelectronic

On the bill · Friday

Azyr

One of the fastest-rising names in Europe's hard-techno surge — relentless BPMs aimed straight at the warehouse.

hard-techno

On the bill · Saturday

Bou

Manchester's jump-up juggernaut — relentless double-drops and dancefloor pressure from one of drum & bass's most in-demand new-school names.

drum & bass

On the bill · Friday

Cera Khin

Tunisian-born, Berlin-based DJ who plays fast: breakbeat, hard trance and gabber threaded together at speeds most techno rooms avoid.

hard-technobreakbeat

On the bill · Saturday

Champion

Roots in UK funky and grime — skippy, percussive, club-first records that never overstay their welcome.

uk-funkygaragehouse

On the bill · Friday

Clara Cuvé

Berlin-based DJ whose sets tear across techno, trance and electro at speed without losing the thread.

technoelectro

On the bill · Friday

Cyclops

Riddim producer with a heavy, deliberately repetitive approach built for the pit — one-eyed branding, single-minded drops.

dubstepriddim

On the bill · Saturday

DJ Heartstring

Berlin project mining 90s rave nostalgia for hard, quick-footed techno shot through with trance melody — euphoria delivered at speed.

dance

On the bill · Friday

DJ Tennis

Italian selector and Life and Death boss whose sets wander from slow-burn house into indie rock without ever breaking stride.

houseelectronic

On the bill · Saturday

Dr. Fresch

LA producer working the space where house bounce meets bass-music weight — g-house grooves cut with hip-hop swagger.

dance

On the bill · Saturday

Funk Assault

Berlin duo whose hard techno keeps a body-music swing, EBM basslines and industrial edges held under club-functional drums.

hard-technotechno

On the bill · Friday

Gammer

British producer who kept happy hardcore alive through its unfashionable decade, then found a Monstercat audience willing to go that fast.

happy-hardcorehardcore

On the bill · Saturday

Ian Asher

The mashup kid made good — viral edits turned into a real touring house act with a bottomless crate of pop flips.

housedance

On the bill · Saturday

Jon Casey

South African beat scientist — glitchy, off-grid bass that rewards close listening as much as headbanging.

basstrap

On the bill · Friday

Kai Wachi

Bass music with metal's aggression baked in — heavy, dark, and increasingly vocal-led, Boise drops with blast-furnace weight.

dubstepmetal-bass

On the bill · Friday

Kloud

American producer working the heavier end of festival electronic music — bass-forward drops built for large rooms rather than headphones.

dance

On the bill · Friday

KREAM

Norwegian brothers making melodic, festival-facing house — polished grooves engineered for golden-hour main stages, sleek Scandinavian craft with real emotional lift.

housetech-house

On the bill · Friday

Lady Faith B2B LNY TNZ

Los Angeles hard dance meeting Dutch hard bass, two acts from opposite ends of the same map trading on one rig.

hardstylehard-dance

On the bill · Friday

Level Up

Riddim producer with a heavy, minimal approach — a lot of space around some very large sounds, engineered for maximum stank face.

dubstepriddim

On the bill · Saturday

MALUGI

Producer out of North Rhine-Westphalia working the harder, faster end of German club music.

electronic

On the bill · Saturday

OMNOM

Wonky, bass-heavy house — the other half of the HYPERBEAM b2b with Odd Mob, edits engineered for double-takes.

housebass house

On the bill · Saturday

San Pacho

Fast-rising producer with a knack for a hook that survives being played at 128 BPM — peak-time tools with real earworms.

tech-house

On the bill · Saturday

Sedef Adasi

Berlin DJ with a magpie's range, moving between breaks, electro and Anatolian psych without letting the floor notice the seams.

technobreakbeat

On the bill · Friday

Trym

French hard techno played fast and loud — one of the sound's most in-demand exports.

hard-technotechno

On the bill · Saturday

VNSSA B2B ????

Los Angeles house DJ with a Dirtybird streak and a taste for the rowdier end of it. The bill has not named her partner for this one yet.

housetech-house

On the bill · Friday

YDG

Bass music with a wrestling-heel swagger — heavy edits and heavier drops.

basstrap

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