Ukrainian duo whose melodic techno went from small rooms to main stages on the back of a handful of enormous records.
Melodic-technoTechno
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.
At a glance
- Dates
- –Friday to Saturday, two days
- Where
- Queen Mary Waterfront, Long Beach, CA
- Lineup
- 70 acts
- Hours
- Event hours are 4 PM to 1 AM on both days.
- Ages
- 18+ to enter, 21+ for alcohol and VIP areas, with valid photo ID.
- Passes
- 2-Day GA is $189.99 and 2-Day VIP $419.99. Single-day GA is $109.99 and VIP $269.99. Fees are included, taxes and delivery are not.
- Website
- Official site
Dreamstate SoCal 2026 lineup & schedule: all 70 acts
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The trio who kept melodic trance emotionally serious through the years nobody else would, and built Anjunabeats around it.
TranceProgressive-trance
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.
Trance
The Israeli duo who dragged psytrance onto main stages worldwide, full-on, fast, and completely unashamed about it.
Psytrance
Cinematic, high-drama trance; Extasia is the alias for when he wants it harder and faster.
Trance
Full-on psytrance played with a driving, relentless pulse, and one of the genre's most reliable live draws.
Psytrance
BT, whose production techniques half the genre quietly borrowed, with progressive producer Matt Fax.
Progressive-tranceTrance
Built on enormous vocal trance singles: the anthems are the entire point and the set is arranged around them.
TranceVocal-trance
Italian techno producer with a sound-design obsession, delivering long sculpted builds and a low end you feel before you hear.
Techno
Israeli duo who never sat still, with psytrance roots, rock and electronica grafted on, and a live show that leans into all of it.
PsytranceElectronica
Dutch-Australian producer trading in hard-hitting, high-energy trance sized for the biggest room available.
TranceTech-trance
German producer whose progressive-leaning psytrance became one of the scene's most widely played sounds.
PsytranceProgressive-psytrance
Pegassi
Dance
Performs techno entirely live on hardware, with acid lines assembled and torn down in front of you and nothing pre-baked.
TechnoAcid-techno
Psytrance at its groove-led, progressive end, rolling and hypnotic rather than frantic.
Progressive-psytrancePsytrance
Arty's ALPHA 9 alias alongside Anjunabeats mainstay Ilan Bluestone: melodic trance from two of the label's most dependable writers.
TranceProgressive-trance
Egypt's Aly & Fila (uplifting trance purists) paired with Billy Gillies's harder and much newer take on it.
TranceUplifting-trance
UK producer and remixer whose fingerprints are on a generation of the genre's defining records.
Trance
Ferry Corsten's three decades of trance beside Marsh's warmer, slower-burning progressive end.
TranceProgressive-trance
Thirty years in trance's darker, psy-leaning corner, with sets that unfold across hours rather than peaks.
PsytranceProgressive-trance
Bryan Kearney and John O'Callaghan's joint project: hard-edged, high-tempo trance from two Irish veterans of it.
TranceTech-trance
The loudest voice for 'pure trance': uplifting, melodic and deliberately unhurried, as a matter of principle.
TranceUplifting-trance
A.N.I.
Electronic
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.
Trance
David Rust + Olly James
Italian producer and label head dealing in hard, driving techno, with relentless kick patterns built for dark rooms and big systems.
Techno
Long-running psytrance project rooted in the sound's Goa origins: full-on and fast, with the history to back it.
Psytrance
Hannah Laing + Marie Vaunt
KARMÅ
KAUFMANN (DE)
Dutch DJ working the fast, acid-streaked end of techno, with 303 squelch and relentless kick pressure rather than melodic build-ups.
Techno
Dutch producer working the trance-techno crossover since before it needed a name.
TranceTechno
Matty Ralph
Trance producer and DJ from County Fermanagh in Northern Ireland, working the energetic, uplifting end of the genre.
Trance
Italian veteran whose late-'90s records ('Komodo', 'Lizard') are still set staples a quarter century on.
TranceTechno
Maximizer
Dance
Mirage (Live)
NRG2000
Trance
French producer and Club Cheval alumnus, building hyper-bright rave tools from eurodance and trance: maximalist club music at cartoon velocity.
Dance
Danish producer at psytrance's melodic, progressive end, with big hooks over a rolling bassline.
Progressive-psytrancePsytrance
Schrotthagen
Techno
Shay De Castro
Techno
Steve Dekay
Trance
Terra
The Rocketman
Techno
VisionV
Dance
German duo behind 'Phatt Bass' who make hard dance with a rave-anthem streak that has aged better than it had any right to.
Hard-danceHard-trance
Dutch project behind 'Take Me Away', vocal trance from the genre's commercial high-water mark.
TranceVocal-trance
UK producer making cinematic, orchestral-leaning techno that sounds closer to a film score with a kick under it.
Melodic-technoTechno
Dutch uplifting producer Allen Watts alongside Talla 2XLC, a German DJ whose career predates most of the room.
TranceUplifting-trance
Animato
Trance
Barakuda
Chris Metcalfe
Trance
German producer making uplifting trance that leans on melody and restraint rather than volume.
TranceUplifting-trance
Two uplifting-trance heavyweights back to back, both known for going harder than the label suggests.
Uplifting-tranceTrance
Das Pharaoh
Dance
David Forbes + Mark Sherry pres Thick As Thieves
Not a fixed act but an open-call talent search whose winner takes the slot, so the name behind it changes each time it appears.
Electronic
Two British radio-era veterans back to back, with Halliwell's fast, technical mixing against Judge Jules's anthem-heavy history.
TranceHard-trance
Performs techno live using toy instruments and her own voice alongside the hardware, a genuinely unusual stage setup.
TechnoLive-electronics
JOA
Toronto-born DJ and producer now based in Miami, working the melodic seam between house and techno.
Dance
Two British DJs from trance's harder, psy-tinged edge, playing back to back the way they usually do.
Tech-trancePsytrance
Maria Healy
Trance
Nu Aspect
House
Bakis Sirros's long-running Greek electronic project, built from modular synthesis and slow-moving dark ambient texture rather than beats.
Electronic
Progressive psytrance with a deep, patient groove, closer to a slow tide than a peak.
Progressive-psytrancePsytrance
Rising Dust
Israeli production outfit working the progressive end of psytrance, with patient builds and rolling low-end shaped for big outdoor systems.
Trance
Sequence Six
Trance
Sighter
Trance
TH;EN
Dance
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.
The lineup by day
Friday lineup (November 20)
ARTBAT, Andrew Rayel pres Extasia, Astrix, BT + Matt Fax, Dash Berlin, Enrico Sangiuliano + 30 more
Saturday lineup (November 21)
Above & Beyond (Anjunabeats Classics), Paul van Dyk pres Essence Of Acid, Vini Vici, Ace Ventura, ALPHA 9 + Ilan Bluestone, Aly & Fila + Billy Gillies + 28 more
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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Who plays Friday at Dreamstate SoCal 2026?
Friday, November 20: ARTBAT, Andrew Rayel pres Extasia, Astrix, BT + Matt Fax, Dash Berlin, Enrico Sangiuliano, plus 30 more acts.
Who plays Saturday at Dreamstate SoCal 2026?
Saturday, November 21: Above & Beyond (Anjunabeats Classics), Paul van Dyk pres Essence Of Acid, Vini Vici, Ace Ventura, ALPHA 9 + Ilan Bluestone, Aly & Fila + Billy Gillies, plus 28 more acts.
What time does Dreamstate SoCal 2026 start and end?
Event hours are 4 PM to 1 AM on both days.
Is Dreamstate SoCal 2026 all ages?
18+ to enter, 21+ for alcohol and VIP areas, with valid photo ID.
What are the stages at Dreamstate SoCal 2026?
4 stages: The Vision, The Void, The Dream, The Sequence.
Are Dreamstate SoCal 2026 set times out yet?
Not yet. The lineup is split by day below, and set times are still to come. The alert on this page emails you when they're out.
When is Dreamstate SoCal 2027?
Not announced yet. This page carries Dreamstate SoCal 2026 and will carry the 2027 edition as soon as the festival announces it.
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