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.
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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.
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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 Stassy, Sara Landry and Nia Archives. Nearly every act now carries a stage and a set time across the four stages: The Grid, Expansions, area909 and The Midway.
One sourcing note: ARC published its schedule as four day graphics rather than as a lineup page, so stages and times here are transcribed from those images. B2B billings are stored per artist, which is why a slot like Nicole Moudaber b2b Paco Osuna b2b Dubfire shows up three times.
Expect house, techno, dance and tech-house across 139 acts.
At a glance
- Dates
- –Friday to Monday, four days
- Where
- Union Park, Chicago, IL
- Lineup
- 139 acts
- Website
- Official site
ARC 2026 lineup & schedule: all 139 acts
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Kentucky-raised, Chicago-schooled, a selector with genuine dance-music scholarship and no snobbery about joy, rave history taught from the booth.
HouseDisco-house
Karl Hyde's stream-of-consciousness vocals over Rick Smith's builds, with 'Born Slippy' only ever the doorway into a much stranger catalogue.
TechnoProgressive-house
Chicago house pedigree carried onto fashion-world stages by a DJ who plays for dancers, not the camera, with Grammy-winning production credits to match.
HouseDisco-house
Amsterdam's minimal-house standard-bearer, with deep, warm, relentless grooves that made him one of Europe's most booked underground names.
Minimal house
Italian trio behind some of the decade's biggest vocal house records, built for very large rooms, with 'Piece of Your Heart' just the start.
HouseMelodic-house
Hard techno delivered with genuine showmanship: one of the fastest rises in the genre in years, industrial pressure with headliner presence.
TechnoHard techno
The selector's selector, with Hessle Audio's omnivorous ear and no productions needed; a world-class reputation built purely on what he plays and how.
UK bassTechno
Hessle-adjacent producer whose records sit precisely between garage, house, and something harder to name, from 'Hyph Mngo' to now, always slightly ahead.
UK-bassHouse
Second-wave Detroit techno architect whose productions still sound like they were made next year, with a catalog that treats techno as jazz's rightful heir.
Detroit-techno
Detroit's most idiosyncratic house producer, who leaves soul and funk samples gloriously raw and plays from behind sunglasses and mystique.
Deep-houseDetroit-house
Detroit second-waver known for long, patient sets that build for an hour before they land: the Kosmic Messenger in no hurry.
Detroit-techno
British tech-house producer with a knack for the rolling bassline that empties the bar and fills the floor, with label-boss instincts tuned for peak time.
Tech houseHouse
Dutch producer whose breakout single became one of the most-played club records of its year, with 'Drugs from Amsterdam' bounce, still going.
Tech-house
Bristol producer and reliable festival closer, specialising in big, bouncing, unsubtle tech-house, with beard and bass both substantial.
Tech-house
Leeds-via-Bradford producer leading the jungle revival, with breakbeats under genuinely tender songwriting and rave history reclaimed as diary.
JungleDrum-and-bass
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.
Melodic technoElectronic
Brazil's house prodigy, with swaggering, sample-happy sets that made him a global fixture overnight: Boiler Room charisma at main-stage scale.
House
Berlin's gabber-punk duo, with screamed German vocals over pummeling club tempos, equal parts rave, hardcore show, and performance-art provocation.
Gabber-popTechno-punk
Brazilian techno producer with a melodic streak that lifts her sets out of pure functionalism, with big-room pressure and actual emotional architecture underneath.
TechnoMelodic-techno
Chicago house royalty and one of the great technical selectors, decades deep and still unpredictable, mixing with a jazz musician's wit.
HouseChicago-house
Solid Grooves boss whose rolling, bass-forward tech-house became the sound of a generation of clubs, London underground gone worldwide.
Tech-house
Crosstown Rebels founder and Day Zero curator, with desert-mystic house and a theatrical streak, staging dance music as ceremony wherever he lands.
HouseCosmic-disco
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.
Tech-houseAcid house
Anna Maria
Pop
Dabura
Frechette
Muffy
Hip-hop
Virago
Hip-hop
Canary Yellow
Electronic
IDEMI
Dance
Miami duo making raw, hardware-driven Latin club music with genuine local roots, where dembow and techno melt together live.
ClubDembow
Chicago DJ who threads UK garage swing and rubbery low-end through American club tempos, favouring sets that keep shifting rhythmic footing.
Dance
Brunello
Dance
Sugar-rush club music: Jersey club drums and glittering hyperpop melody, engineered for maximum serotonin per minute.
Hyper-danceElectronic
Notre Dame
Dance
Montreal's arch electroclash survivor, with deadpan vocals, filthy synths, and a sense of humor most techno lacks, 'Sunglasses at Night' included.
ElectroclashTechno
ZULAN
Dance
KASIA
Dance
Amsterdam's hard-trance revivalist, with acid lines and 150 BPM joy and rave classicism played with total exuberance.
TranceAcid techno
Ukrainian DJ whose melodic techno sets found an enormous audience through livestreams, as scenic-backdrop streams turned into real-world bookings.
Melodic-techno
London DJ and producer reworking 1990s Chicago house for the club, whose 'Can't Decide' with Max Dean and Locky won Best Track at DJ Mag's Best of British Awards.
House
Max Dean
Dance
New-school UKG with swung drums and sub-bass pressure from the garage revival's next rank, two-step engineered for new floors.
UK garage
Newcastle producer and progressive-house mainstay, with long, patient builds and the discipline of someone who trusts the room to wait.
Progressive-houseMelodic-house
London duo who sing on their own records: moody, vocal-led melodic house that carries actual songs into progressive territory.
Melodic-houseProgressive-house
Pegassi
Dance
Leeds duo distilling UK rave history into widescreen, hands-up euphoria, with piano stabs and breakbeats aimed at the sunrise.
RaveHouse
Bad Boombox
Dance
mischluft
Trance
GENESI
Dance
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.
House
Dayhota
A pillar of Chicago's house scene since the '90s, known for deep, unshowy, impeccably mixed sets that put craft above spectacle every time.
HouseChicago-house
Superjane co-founder and long-standing figure in Chicago's house community, offering soulful selections as one of the scene's essential advocates.
HouseChicago-house
Flores Negras
Techno
Janesita
Dance
JJ Illgen
House
M3RCH
Ambient
Cole Knight
Dance
DJ Hyperactive
Dance
Lindsey Herbert
Techno
Très Mortimer
Dance
Warm, melodic deep house with a hand-played feel and a soft spot for jazz chords: headphone house that still moves a floor.
Deep-houseLo-fi-house
Monty Kiddo
House
New Zealand brothers making hazy, dub-tinged deep house that never rushes, with patient grooves and a jazz record collection audibly behind them.
Deep-house
Monnom Black boss dealing in fast, industrial-edged techno with no soft landings: London-honed pressure that European warehouses treat as gospel.
TechnoHard-techno
Irish duo working the harder edges of house, with bass-heavy, garage-inflected club tracks aimed squarely at big rooms.
Dance
Watford producer who sings his own hooks over house, pulling R&B melody and UK garage swing into club tracks like "Back It Up" and "Can't Slow Down".
House
Italian duo whose acid-drenched, punishingly fast techno is performed live on hardware, not laptops, with improvised 303 lines and kick drums that treat 150 BPM as a starting point.
Hard-technoAcid-techno
Neuquén producer folding hip-hop influences into tech house and minimal, with releases on Desolat, Revival NY and Take Notes.
House
Brazilian DJ and producer of raw, club-weight house, with releases on Repopulate Mars and Experts Only and a Vintage Culture collaboration, 'Analog Ascent.'
Dance
Australian house heater, half of the HYPERBEAM b2b with OMNOM, with flip-happy edits and festival-scale bounce.
HouseTech house
French producer pairing brutal industrial techno with unexpectedly romantic melodies. Heartbreak at 150 BPM, warehouse catharsis with an unexpectedly soft center.
Hard-technoIndustrial-techno
Amsterdam tech-house workhorse who plays dark, rolling, precise grooves with total technical control and seems to be booked every weekend somewhere in Europe.
Tech house
Hot Haus boss playing the groovy, no-nonsense end of tech-house, with Berlin discipline and real swing.
Tech-houseMinimal
Euphoric, garage-inflected house with a melodic streak that lands somewhere between rave and daydream, full of full-color club joy.
HouseUK garage
Half of Deep Dish, then a second career in stripped, hypnotic techno. Grammy-winning past, minimalist present, both played with surgical precision.
TechnoTech-house
MOOD label boss playing dark, tribal-leaning techno with a heavy emphasis on groove, delivered with marathon-set stamina.
Techno
Barcelona veteran and Music On regular who plays minimal tech-house with total precision, a technician's technician.
TechnoTech-house
Made 'French Kiss', one of house music's foundational and most notorious records, which gives him Chicago originator status that needs no further argument.
HouseChicago-house
One of hard techno's fastest-rising names, delivering high-BPM, hands-in-the-air brutality with industrial kicks stacked to the ceiling.
Hard-techno
10 Cust
Dance
Banchan
House
Nick C
Hip-hop
Rika B
Locklead
House
One of Chicago house's original producers, still making records that sound like 1988 in the best way, delivered with a preacher's baritone.
HouseChicago-house
Son of Son
Techno
Producer who started uploading at fifteen and grew into genuinely lush melodic electronica, with bedroom beginnings and headphone-cinema results.
ElectronicMelodic-bass
Jamback
House selector and producer of warm grooves, rolling percussion and low-slung basslines, in sets that take their time before tightening.
House
Utrecht house producer whose 2025 track 'Step By Step' topped Beatport's all-genres chart. DJ sets lean on unreleased material and old records dug back up.
House
Swimming Paul
Electronic
Live From Earth co-founder making rowdy, meme-literate club tracks: ghetto-tech cheek at Berlin volume, club chaos with a grin.
TechnoGhetto-tech
Melodic techno with classical training audible under the sub-bass, plus cinematic builds engineered with a composer's patience.
Melodic-techno
Afterlife-affiliated producer working the widescreen, cinematic end of melodic techno, with big-screen builds engineered for the label's cathedral aesthetic.
Melodic-techno
UK tech-house craftsman with rolling, low-slung grooves, making club tools built with real swing rather than big-room bombast.
HouseTech house
Punchy, bass-forward tech-house built for peak time and nothing else, with London-honed grooves engineered for the exact moment the room tips over.
Tech-house
Spanish producer whose rolling, sample-flecked tech-house is a Solid Grooves staple, with Madrid groove-craft built for long, locked-in floors.
Tech-houseMinimal
Brisbane warehouse techno with breakbeats and big-room adrenaline, Australia's rave revival at full charge, breaks with zero brakes.
TechnoRave
Brazilian house phenom: young, relentless, and groove-first, riding the country's house wave onto festival main stages worldwide.
House
Live From Earth affiliate splicing trance euphoria into contemporary club music, with Berlin-honed sets that treat nostalgia as fuel, not a crutch.
TechnoTrance
Australian producer whose hard-edged, garage-inflected house has spread well beyond Melbourne, bringing grit-first club heat with genuine menace in the drops.
Hard-houseBass-house
LA DJ in the Dirtybird lineage: percussive, playful, built for a warehouse, grooves with a smirk.
Tech-house
Brooklyn duo making tech-house with actual jokes in it, with Dirtybird's sense of humour intact and wobbling basslines with a wink.
Tech-house
Croatian producer specialising in bass-house edits that detonate on a festival system, with label-boss instincts and peak-time aim.
Bass-houseTech-house
Fast-rising producer with a knack for a hook that survives being played at 128 BPM, making peak-time tools with real earworms.
Tech-house
Big Saldo's Chunkers boss digging into rugged, sample-heavy Chicago-indebted house, with Belfast grit and crate-dug warmth.
HouseChicago-house
Kirk
Techno
Madeline
Pop
oogie
Hip-hop
Phives
r00bies4ever
Dance
Dunes of Dawn
Dance
Hotpretty
House
Producer who reached Michael Bibi disguised as a trash collector, leading to their track 'Different Side.' His 2024 mixtape old demos and ripoffs turns teenage unease into house.
House
LuSiD
Dance
Silvie Loto
House
Bushbaby
Garage
OGUZ
Techno
French producer working the groovy, stripped end of minimal house, with hypnotic tools and real bounce.
MinimalTech-house
Club Angel
Garage
Melbourne producer and DJ threading UK garage and breaks through house sets, bringing club music with a rolling, low-slung swing.
House
BPitch Control founder and a foundational voice in Berlin techno since the ’90s, with raw, futurist productions from a scene she helped build.
Techno
Quest
MinimalTechno
Bullet Tooth
Dance
Adrian Mills
Electronic
BAUGRUPPE90
Techno
Cello-trained Istanbul selector with sun-drenched, organic house that folds Mediterranean color into long, golden-hour sets: jet-set warmth with classical bones.
Melodic houseWorld-disco
Berlin project mining 90s rave nostalgia for hard, quick-footed techno shot through with trance melody: euphoria delivered at speed.
Dance
FUMI
Electronic
Serafina
Electronic
Danish trio who play electronic music as an actual band, with live drums, vocals, and a knack for the euphoric build.
ElectronicIndie dance
Alex Ridha's brand of electro is abrasive by design: hardware-driven, distorted, and consistently ahead of whatever is fashionable, two decades running.
TechnoElectro
Chicago DJ and producer who leans hard and hypnotic rather than pretty, a long-standing fixture of the city's techno circuit rather than a recent arrival.
Techno
Manchester house on the rise, with rolling, minimal grooves for sunset slots, and one of the UK underground's fastest-moving names.
HouseMinimal
KLOUD
American producer working the heavier end of festival electronic music, with bass-forward drops built for large rooms rather than headphones.
Dance
Brazil's biggest house export, melodic, festival-scaled, and unashamedly emotive, from São Paulo stadiums to global main stages.
HouseTech-house
Bassiani and Berghain regular known for hard-groove sets mixed on three or four decks, with vinyl-heavy technique at warehouse intensity.
TechnoHard-groove
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. Saturday's headline slot.Underworld · Karl Hyde's stream-of-consciousness vocals over Rick Smith's builds, with 'Born Slippy' only ever the doorway into a much stranger catalogue. Headlining Sunday, a rare US festival appearance.
Honey Dijon · Chicago house pedigree carried onto fashion-world stages by a DJ who plays for dancers, not the camera, with Grammy-winning production credits to match. Closing the festival on Monday.
Up-and-comers to catch early
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
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.
Anyma · The audiovisual end of melodic techno, headlining Sunday.
The lineup by day
Stages and set times come from the four day graphics ARC published on its own set-times page (2026-08-05). A b2b slot gives every named artist the same stage and time, and Josh Baker plays twice on the Monday, so he carries both sets. Live From Earth, Sally C and Héctor Oaks are on the announced lineup but hold no slot on the published grid.
Friday lineup (September 4)
Chase & Status, Chris Stassy, Sara Landry, Joy Orbison, Ben UFO, Meduza + 27 more
Friday set times (33 sets)
- Dabura · The Midway
- Anna Maria · The Midway
- Frechette · area909
- Muffy · Expansions
- Virago · The Grid
- Canary Yellow · area909
- IDEMI · Expansions
- INVT · The Grid
- Azzecca · The Grid
- camoufly · area909
- Notre Dame · The Midway
- Tiga · Expansions
- Brunello · Expansions
- ZULAN · area909
- KI/KI · The Grid
- Korolova · The Midway
- KASIA · The Midway
- Max Dean · Expansions
- Luke Dean · Expansions
- Silva Bumpa · area909
- Chase & Status · The Grid
- Eli & Fur · The Midway
- Cristoph · The Midway
- Pegassi · area909
- Prospa · Expansions
- Bad Boombox · area909
- mischluft · area909
- Chris Stassy · Expansions
- Meduza · The Midway
- GENESI · The Midway
- Sara Landry · The Grid
- Joy Orbison · area909
- Ben UFO · area909
Saturday lineup (September 5)
The Blessed Madonna, Carl Craig, Moodymann, Stacey Pullen, Cloonee, MAU P + 31 more
Saturday set times (37 sets)
- Colette · area909
- Dayhota · area909
- DJ Heather · area909
- DJ Lady D · area909
- Flores Negras · Expansions
- JJ Illgen · The Midway
- Janesita · The Midway
- M3RCH · The Grid
- DJ Hyperactive · Expansions
- Lindsey Herbert · Expansions
- Très Mortimer · The Grid
- Cole Knight · The Grid
- Laurence Guy · The Midway
- Monty Kiddo · The Midway
- Chaos in The CBD · area909
- Dax J · Expansions
- Omar+ · The Grid
- Obskür · The Grid
- 999999999 · Expansions
- Discip · The Midway
- Roddy Lima · The Midway
- Carl Craig · area909
- Moodymann · area909
- Stacey Pullen · area909
- Odd Mob · The Grid
- I Hate Models · Expansions
- Luuk Van Dijk · The Midway
- Sidney Charles · The Midway
- Cloonee · The Grid
- salute · area909
- Nicole Moudaber · The Midway
- Paco Osuna · The Midway
- Dubfire · The Midway
- The Blessed Madonna · area909
- MAU P · The Grid
- Lil' Louis · area909
- Nico Moreno · Expansions
Sunday lineup (September 6)
Underworld, Anyma, Nia Archives, Mochakk, Brutalismus 3000, Will Clarke + 26 more
Sunday set times (31 sets)
- Banchan · The Grid
- Nick C · Expansions
- Rika B · The Midway
- 10 Cust · area909
- Locklead · Expansions
- Mike Dunn · The Midway
- Son of Son · The Grid
- Pluko · area909
- Will Clarke · The Midway
- Jamback · Expansions
- Marsolo · Expansions
- Swimming Paul · The Grid
- MCR-T · area909
- Chris Avantgarde · The Grid
- Kevin de Vries · The Grid
- Nia Archives · area909
- Biscits · The Midway
- Dennis Cruz · Expansions
- Ben Sterling · Expansions
- X CLUB. · area909
- Beltran · Expansions
- DJ Gigola · area909
- Skin on Skin · area909
- Walker & Royce · The Midway
- VNSSA · The Midway
- Underworld · The Grid
- Anyma · The Grid
- Mochakk · Expansions
- Matroda · The Midway
- San Pacho · The Midway
- Brutalismus 3000 · area909
Monday lineup (September 7)
Honey Dijon, Green Velvet, Derrick Carter, Michael Bibi, ANNA, Damian Lazarus + 31 more
Monday set times (37 sets)
- Kirk · area909
- Madeline · The Grid
- oogie · Expansions
- Phives · Expansions
- r00bies4ever · The Midway
- Dunes of Dawn · The Midway
- Hotpretty · area909
- LuSiD · Expansions
- Silvie Loto · The Grid
- KinAhau · The Grid
- ANNA · Expansions
- Traumer · Expansions
- Bushbaby · area909
- OGUZ · The Midway
- Derrick Carter · The Grid
- Sam Alfred · area909
- Club Angel · area909
- Honey Dijon · The Grid
- Quest · The Midway
- Ellen Allien · The Midway
- Bullet Tooth · area909
- Michael Bibi · The Grid
- Adrian Mills · The Midway
- FUMI · The Midway
- Serafina · The Midway
- Carlita · Expansions
- WhoMadeWho · Expansions
- DJ Heartstring · area909
- BAUGRUPPE90 · area909
- Green Velvet · The Grid
- Damian Lazarus · Expansions
- Hiroko Yamamura · area909
- Josh Baker · The Grid & Expansions
- KLOUD · The Midway
- Vintage Culture · Expansions
- Boys Noize · area909
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.
When is ARC 2027?
ARC is expected back in September 2027; the festival has not announced the 2027 dates yet. The 2026 lineup stays on this page until it does.
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