The heaviest end of North American bass music, staged with a wall of subs and a light rig that does half the assault.
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Bass Canyon 2026 Lineup
Excision's dubstep pilgrimage at the Gorge: three days of nothing but bass, in the most spectacular amphitheatre in America.
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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.
At a glance
- Dates
- –Friday to Sunday, three days
- Where
- The Gorge Amphitheatre, George, WA
- Lineup
- 88 acts
- Website
- Official site
Bass Canyon 2026 lineup & schedule: all 88 acts
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Producer's producer, with sound design so intricate that other artists study his sessions, drops built like Swiss watches.
DubstepRiddim
Half of Gud Vibrations, making heavy festival trap with a melodic streak that keeps widening, drops built for fireworks cues.
TrapBass
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.
ElectronicJazz-electronic
Plays guitar and screams over his own dubstep, the metal/bass crossover taken entirely seriously, pits and drops in equal measure.
DubstepMetal
Jump-up drum and bass with an unusually funky low end: rave weaponry with actual swing.
Drum-and-bass
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.
Drum-and-bass
Ganja White Night (Sunset Set)
Electronic
Coined 'Laserbeam' and turned it into one of the most recognisable drops in modern bass music, with headbanger melodrama at maximum voltage.
DubstepRiddim
Masked Atlanta duo working the dark, alien end of festival bass, with extraterrestrial lore, subterranean growls, and drops built for maximum abduction.
DubstepBass
Excision (Detox Set)
Dance
Former competitive hockey player turned producer, making trap with unusual emotional range: heavy drops with a bruised heart.
TrapBass
Genre-hopping producer who moves between bass house and full-on dubstep in a single hour, with ghoulish branding and versatile drops.
DubstepBass-house
Long-running Minneapolis dubstep producer from the genre's first American wave: an OG still swinging, first-wave credibility fully intact.
Dubstep
Brainrack B2B Wiley
Hexxa
Dubstep
UK producer known for metallic, precision-engineered mid-range bass (dubstep at its most abrasive and mechanical).
Dubstep
Capochino
Dubstep
$J
Dubstep
Scandinavian duo with a bright, hyperactive take on bass music and a big Monstercat catalogue, with neon drops with pop bones.
Electro-houseDubstep
Heyz
Greensboro, North Carolina producer who moved from techno into gritty, heavy bass music, built around strong vocals and real songwriting.
Dance
Versa
Dubstep
Calcium
Houston producer working the heavier, low-slung end of dubstep, with sound-system weight and sub-bass detail over festival-sized drops.
Electronic
Masked UK producer dealing in the filthiest end of dubstep, and one of its most reliable live presences, with DPMO sets with zero mercy.
DubstepRiddim
Usaybflow
Dubstep
Ophelia-affiliated producer working the emotional, trance-leaning end of melodic bass, with soaring vocals over drops with genuine lift.
Melodic-bassTrance
Bear-costumed producer whose gimmick outlasted the joke because the tracks hold up, with heavyweight dubstep and riddim and genuine pit credentials.
DubstepRiddim
Dutch producer who broke into bass music while still a teenager, pairing brutal dubstep design with a melodic streak he keeps refusing to abandon.
Dance
Emorfik
Dubstep
Israeli producer who coined 'gorestep,' deliberately obnoxious and very good at it, with filthy drops engineered to offend and delight simultaneously.
DubstepTrap
Mersiv (Sunset Set)
Electronic
Newer bass producer with a clean, aggressive sound: surgical drops from the scene's rising class.
DubstepBass
Riddim producer with a heavy, minimal approach: a lot of space around some very large sounds, engineered for maximum stank face.
DubstepRiddim
Hostage Situation
Dubstep
Disciple mainstays making precise, sound-design-obsessed dubstep with surgical basses and glitch detail that reward headphones as much as rail-riding.
DubstepRiddim
Stoog3s
The Resistance
Electronic
American dubstep duo trading in the heavy, mid-tempo end of the genre since 2009, with grinding, cartoonishly filthy drops engineered for big rooms.
Electronic
Paper Skies
Dubstep
Newer riddim producer whose tracks land squarely in the genre's heaviest lane, with no-frills drops built for rail-riders.
DubstepRiddim
Siren
Austeria
Dubstep
Riddim producer with an ear for the exact moment a drop should stop dead, with silence weaponized.
DubstepRiddim
Crumb Pit
Electronic
Phrva
Dance
Bay Area duo working the funky, wonky end of West Coast bass, with Oakland low-end and a grin.
BassDubstep
American drum and bass producer with a melodic, song-led approach, stateside proof that the genre's next wave crossed the Atlantic.
Drum-and-bass
Jkyl & Hyde
American duo working the heavy, low-slung end of bass music, built around abrupt switch-ups rather than steady momentum.
Electronic
Smith.
Liquid Smoak
Kill Safari
Dance
Halftime-leaning bass with a lot of negative space and a very deep sub, where restraint is the flex.
BassHalftime
Emotional melodic bass with a confessional streak: heartbreak anthems engineered for the festival rail.
Dance
Dennett
Dubstep
Tripp St.
Bass
Fast-rising Denver bass producer with melodic drops that have teeth, riding the front of the dubstep scene's younger, wilder generation.
BassDubstep
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.
Dance
Super Future
Grand Rapids producer building club-weight bass music out of breakbeats and bassline pressure, arranged for sound systems rather than singalongs.
Electronic
French crew who came up through drum and bass and never lost the punk energy, playing genre-hopping bass sets like a rock show.
DubstepDrum-and-bass
Canabliss
Dubstep
Crankdat and Wooli's tag-team alias, with a maximum-silliness name and maximum-damage bass.
Dubstep
UK producer at the jump-up end of drum and bass, big, rowdy, and built for a rave, with double-drops thrown like confetti.
Drum-and-bass
Ravenscoon B2B Jantsen
Machaki
Dubstep
Flozone
Dubstep
Otsukare
Electronic
Z3lla
Dance
Luci
Dubstep
Izadi
Electronic
Pretty Sweet
Dubstep
Richard Finger
Masked dubstep duo who built a following on SoundCloud-only drops, trading in choppy, off-kilter bass tunes.
Dubstep
Dream Takers
Dubstep
Colorado duo making warped, psychedelic bass with genuine melodic instincts, bringing squelchy, playful sound design from the experimental-bass underground.
Experimental-bass
Rossy
Dance
All The Reason
Electronic
Riddim producer with a distinctly murky, low-slung sound and phantom-themed bass aimed at the darkest corner of the pit.
DubstepRiddim
Seth David
Dance
Twopercent
Dubstep
Nikita, The Wicked
San Francisco bass producer working the heavy, aggressive end of dubstep, with sets built on grinding low end and relentless drops.
Dance
Heavy, percussive dubstep with a distinct Latin rhythmic influence, with San Diego drops that have extra swing in the kick pattern.
DubstepRiddim
Psychedelic bass producer whose 'Overthinker' became an unlikely streaming phenomenon, with Alan Watts samples and warm, curling melody.
Psy-bassExperimental-bass
DØMINA
Dance
Avello
Electronic
Svdden Death presents: VOYD
Electronic
Yosuf
Dance
KLO
Los Angeles bass and UK garage, built for the sound-system end of the room, with an underground following and cosigns from Disclosure, Fred Again and Hamdi.
Dance
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.
When is Bass Canyon 2027?
Bass Canyon is expected back in August 2027; the festival has not announced the 2027 dates yet. The 2026 lineup stays on this page until it does.
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