The mouse head outlasted every trend it was supposed to date with. Joel Zimmerman builds progressive house like architecture — long, patient, cold-edged, and unbothered by the drop.
From Toronto, Canada · Sounds like Eric Prydz, Rezz, Kaskade
Nocturnal Wonderland 2026 Lineup
The longest-running dance festival in the country, 31 editions in — two nights and a campground at Glen Helen, with house, bass and hard dance all sharing the same woods.
About Nocturnal Wonderland 2026
Nocturnal Wonderland is the longest-running dance festival in the country — 31 editions in — and the 2026 edition runs two September nights with a campground at Glen Helen Regional Park in San Bernardino. Saturday belongs to deadmau5, Green Velvet and James Hype; Sunday to Illenium and Seven Lions.
The two nights read like two different festivals sharing a forest. Saturday leans house, techno and heavy bass — Patrick Topping, Malaa, Partiboi69, Svdden Death, and INFEKT b2b Virtual Riot — while Sunday goes melodic and fast: Said The Sky at sunset, drum & bass from Friction and Hedex, and a T-Pain bass set under the Teddy Pain alias. Threaded through it all are West Coast rave elders like Stanton Warriors, Donald Glaude and Reid Speed — Nocturnal keeping its own history on the bill. Every act's day is published.
Expect dance, house, dubstep and electronic across 86 acts.
Nocturnal Wonderland 2026 lineup: all 86 acts
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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
The defining voice of melodic bass — emotional, arena-scaled drops built around real songwriting, sad songs engineered for fireworks.
From Denver, CO · Sounds like Seven Lions, Dabin, Said The Sky, Slander
Tech house as sleight of hand — the mixing itself is the show, cut so fast the transitions become the hook.
From Liverpool, UK · Sounds like Fisher, Chris Lake, Dom Dolla
Melodic dubstep with a trance heart — soaring vocal tops over drops that still hit hard underneath, Ophelia-label worldbuilding included.
From Santa Barbara, CA · Sounds like Illenium, Said The Sky, Trivecta, Dabin
Disciple mainstays making precise, sound-design-obsessed dubstep — surgical basses and glitch detail that reward headphones as much as rail-riding.
From Los Angeles, CA · Sounds like Virtual Riot, Pegboard Nerds, Zomboy, Dubloadz
Melodic big-room house from a producer who was making festival anthems as a teenager — 'Five Hours' is the one the whole field still knows.
From Los Angeles, CA · Sounds like Afrojack, Alesso, Steve Aoki
French-touch house with a permanent grin — filtered disco loops and rubber-band basslines in the proud national tradition.
From France · Sounds like Tchami, Malaa
Former Radio 1 drum & bass host turned label boss — sets that run the genre's whole range rather than picking a lane.
From UK · Sounds like Hedex, Sub Focus, Chase & Status
Jump-up drum & bass's loudest new star — pure warehouse chaos, double-drops stacked until the low end wins.
From UK · Sounds like Macky Gee, DJ Hazard, Sub Zero
Two of dubstep's most technical producers trading eight bars at a time — Infekt's blunt force against Virtual Riot's sound-design maximalism.
Sounds like Svdden Death, Barely Alive, Space Laces
UK producer with a bouncy, vocal-sample-driven approach to tech-house — cheeky peak-time tools with London swagger.
From London, UK · Sounds like Michael Bibi, Pawsa, Biscits, Cloonee
LAYZ
Masked French producer who keeps the balaclava on and the basslines filthy — bass house with a permanent running joke about who's under there.
From France · Sounds like Tchami, DJ Snake, Chris Lorenzo
Half of Gud Vibrations — heavy festival trap with a melodic streak that keeps widening, drops built for fireworks cues.
From Los Angeles, CA · Sounds like Slander, Knock2, RL Grime, Zeds Dead
Australian party-starter in wraparound shades — electro and rave cheese played entirely straight, which is exactly why it works.
From Melbourne, Australia · Sounds like Mall Grab, DJ Boring, Skin On Skin
Newcastle tech house with a grin — big, bouncy, unpretentious records engineered for the hour when everyone's already sweating.
From Newcastle, UK · Sounds like Jamie Jones, Fisher, Joshwa
Dutch-Moroccan producer with a release schedule that never lets up — clean, radio-shaped dance-pop on a big-room chassis.
From Breda, Netherlands · Sounds like Afrojack, Nicky Romero, Steve Aoki
Came up on piano and it shows — melodic bass where the songwriting stays in front of the drop.
From Denver, CO · Sounds like Illenium, Dabin, Trivecta
Grammy-nominated house duo — greasy basslines and instant grooves, 'On My Mind' the calling card, grooves greasy enough to require napkins.
From Los Angeles, CA · Sounds like Chris Lake, John Summit
UK breakbeat mainstays who predate most of the room — two decades of bass-heavy sets built on breaks rather than four-to-the-floor.
From London, UK · Sounds like Fatboy Slim, Chase & Status, Krafty Kuts
Riddim's most theatrical figure — slow, mechanical, deliberately punishing drops, with the VOYD alias for when he wants to go heavier still.
From San Jose, CA · Sounds like Subtronics, Excision, Space Laces
One of the most-imitated voices of the 2000s behind the decks instead of the Auto-Tune — the Teddy Pain alias is his bass-music outlet.
From Tallahassee, FL · Sounds like Baauer, Wuki, Flosstradamus
UK producer whose rhythmically intricate trap sounds like nobody else's — 'Do You?' swagger with global percussion baked in.
From London, UK · Sounds like DJ Snake, RL Grime, Whipped Cream, Sam Gellaitry
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
Angrybaby
B-Side
Basstripper
Braydon Terzo
CALLEN B2B SEKTOR 8
CHYL
Dack Janiels B2B Mongrel
Dances B2B Techno Tupac
Not a fixed act — an open-call talent search whose winner takes the slot, so the name behind it changes each time it appears.
DJ Uncle Noah
DMZ and Friends
Two West Coast rave veterans back to back — Glaude's showman energy against Thee-O's deeper, darker end.
Sounds like John Kelley, Doc Martin, Carl Cox
Ed Bailey
Bass producer bridging trap's swing and dubstep's weight, usually in the same track.
Sounds like Wooli, Ace Aura, Dirt Monkey
Ely Oaks
Moves between UK garage, bassline and grime with the same skippy swing — a producer the whole UK bass lineage keeps citing.
From Bournemouth, UK · Sounds like Sammy Virji, Interplanetary Criminal, Conducta
Fleur Shore
GAINZ
Heavy, riddim-leaning dubstep built for the low end and not much else.
Sounds like Svdden Death, Barely Alive, Kompany
GUDFELLA
Heavy, percussive dubstep with a distinct Latin rhythmic influence — San Diego drops with extra swing in the kick pattern.
From San Diego, CA · Sounds like Kompany, Eptic, Marauda, Svdden Death
Liquid drum & bass at its most emotional — festival fields turned choir, soaring vocals over rolling breaks.
From UK · Sounds like Netsky, London Elektricity, High Contrast, Fred V & Grafix
Inntraw
Jkyl & Hyde B2B Nikita, the Wicked
A fixture of California's desert party circuit since the '90s — long, unhurried progressive house and breaks built for sunrise rather than peak time.
From Los Angeles, CA · Sounds like Sasha, John Digweed, Hernan Cattaneo
Works the seam between moombahton, Jersey club and global bass — rhythm-first club music that borrows from everywhere.
From Boston, MA · Sounds like Dillon Francis, Valentino Khan, Nina Las Vegas
Juos
Kendo B2B SLAYY
Kittamami B2B Tony H
Two Disciple-school producers back to back — precision-engineered heavy dubstep from both sides of the decks.
Sounds like Svdden Death, Barely Alive, Space Laces
Kristin Lush
Lenny V
Lily Ardalan
M-High
Mark Lewis
Mattilo
Maximus Grooves
NEDA(:
Nifty Nubez
Nightstalker with MC Dino
Oscar Da Grouch
Oscure
Ragie Ban
Two decades of American bass music from someone who spent them booking and releasing it as well as playing it.
From New York, NY · Sounds like Star Eyes, AC Slater, Flava D
RIOT
SABAI
Shay De Castro
Shima
Simply Jeff feat. Sharyn Maceren (Live)
Australian producer making some of the heaviest and most precise riddim going — surgical drops with zero wasted motion.
From Melbourne, AU · Sounds like Hekler, Kompany, Level Up, Marauda
Trouble & Bass co-founder — club and bass music played with a rave historian's memory.
From New York, NY · Sounds like Reid Speed, Flava D, Nina Las Vegas
Steve Leclair
Steve Loria
Subsonic
TankDubz
THA4SAKEN
Tini Gessler
Trainer Red
Vitamin D
Wolfie
Woof Logik
The headliners
- deadmau5 — The mouse head outlasted every trend it was supposed to date with. Joel Zimmerman builds progressive house like architecture — long, patient, cold-edged, and unbothered by the drop.
- 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.
- Illenium — The defining voice of melodic bass — emotional, arena-scaled drops built around real songwriting, sad songs engineered for fireworks.
- James Hype — Tech house as sleight of hand — the mixing itself is the show, cut so fast the transitions become the hook.
- Seven Lions — Melodic dubstep with a trance heart — soaring vocal tops over drops that still hit hard underneath, Ophelia-label worldbuilding included.
Up-and-comers to catch early
- Hedex — Jump-up chaos straight off the UK circuit — Sunday's rowdiest room.
- Joshwa — The UK's next big tech-house export, arriving right on schedule.
- Sippy — Australia's heavy-bass ambassador — one of Saturday's hardest-hitting sets.
- Fleur Shore — House riser with real groove instincts — worth an early Saturday arrival.
- GRAVAGERZ — Riddim for the late-night woods — Saturday's low-end workout.
Other acts worth planning around
- Partiboi69 — Mullet, shades, and genuinely great records — the funniest serious DJ working.
- Teddy Pain (T-Pain Bass Set) — T-Pain behind the decks — the novelty booking that will out-draw half the bill.
- Stanton Warriors — UK breakbeat lifers — a direct line back to the scene this festival grew from.
- Donald Glaude B2B Thee-O — West Coast rave history back to back — Nocturnal honoring its own roots.
- INFEKT B2B Virtual Riot — Sound design at the molecular level — the bass nerds' main event.
- Said The Sky (Sunset Set) — A sunset slot that fits like it was written for it.
- Friction — Drum & bass's great communicator, covering the genre end to end.
The lineup by day
- Saturday, September 19: deadmau5, Green Velvet, James Hype, Deorro, INFEKT B2B Virtual Riot, Malaa + 36 more
- Sunday, September 20: Illenium, Seven Lions, BARELY ALIVE, Dombresky, Friction, Hedex + 38 more
Nocturnal Wonderland 2026 lineup FAQ
When is Nocturnal Wonderland 2026?
September 19–20, 2026 — Saturday and Sunday nights.
Where does Nocturnal Wonderland take place?
Glen Helen Regional Park in San Bernardino, California, with on-site camping.
Who is headlining Nocturnal Wonderland 2026?
Saturday: deadmau5, Green Velvet and James Hype. Sunday: Illenium and Seven Lions.
What days do specific acts play?
Every act's day is published — the lineup-by-day section below has the full Saturday/Sunday split, and each act card shows its day.
Is Nocturnal Wonderland really the longest-running dance festival in the US?
Yes — 2026 marks 31 editions, making it the longest-running dance music festival in the country.
How many acts are playing Nocturnal Wonderland 2026?
86 acts across the two nights.
How do I work out which acts I'd like?
Tell the finder at the top of this page a few artists you love — it'll match you with the acts on this lineup you shouldn't miss, with reasons why.
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