Belgian brothers who built a career on mainstage maximalism, big-room drops engineered for the moment a festival crowd loses it.
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.
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About Escape Halloween 2026
Escape Halloween is Insomniac's Halloween weekend, and 2026 lands it on the holiday itself: Friday October 30 and Saturday October 31 at the NOS Events Center in San Bernardino. Music runs 4pm to 2am both nights, with a separate indoor afterparty on the same grounds from 2am to 6am. The festival is 18 and over to enter, 21 and over for alcohol and the VIP areas, and there is no re-entry once you are through the gates.
The theme is Psycho Circus and the stages carry it: the Big Top, the Feeding Grounds, the Warehouse, the Sewer District and the Cage, arranged around Crazy Town. The bill divides by room rather than by night. Techno gets both its architects and its current wave, Richie Hawtin and Nina Kraviz on the same weekend as 999999999, Indira Paganotto, Trym and Azyr. House runs from Jamie Jones B2B Franky Rizardo through Cloonee and AC Slater to Disco Lines. Bass is Excision at full weight, with Liquid Stranger, Adventure Club and Dabin around him, and the hard dance room is a genuine one: Darren Styles, Gammer, Coone B2B DJ Isaac and a Showtek set played entirely in hardstyle.
Two things set this bill apart from the rest of Insomniac's year. Ice Cube is on it, closing Halloween night with a rap set on a card that is otherwise entirely dance music. And an unusual share of the sets exist only here: JOYRYDE playing sunset, Frontliner's journey set, k?d under his Kill The Kid alias, Lady Faith B2B LNY TNZ, and a VNSSA back-to-back whose partner the festival still has not named.
Expect house, electronic, techno and dance across 83 acts.
Escape Halloween 2026 lineup & schedule: all 83 acts
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The heaviest end of North American bass music, staged with a wall of subs and a light rig that does half the assault.
Cake-throwing EDM showman — pure crowd-service spectacle, two decades of Dim Mak hustle behind the confetti.
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.
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.
A classically trained producer whose precision-engineered pop-EDM defined mainstage sound for a decade — 'Clarity' still the gold standard.
The Italian producer behind 'Satisfaction', whose filtered electro bassline set a template a whole generation of dance producers worked from.
German eurodance behind 'Everytime We Touch', built for maximum singalong and entirely unbothered about being called cheesy.
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.
UK hardcore royalty — piano riffs, pitched-up vocals and an unembarrassed grin, still the biggest name the genre has.
Went from Skrillex-adjacent dubstep to genre-hopping and back again — a restless catalogue with genuinely heavy roots.
Two house DJs from different schools sharing a booth, the Hot Creations groove set against a Dutch soulful-house pedigree.
Joseph Capriati B2B Sosa
Danish producer whose big-room instincts helped define future rave — melodic hooks welded to hard, festival-scaled kick drums.
Australian twins who wrote hits for other people first, including a Grammy-winning one, before taking the booth themselves.
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.
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.
Night Bass founder and the loudest advocate for UK bass weight in American house clubs, garage swing under a sub that does the shouting.
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.
Melodic bass with a guitarist's instincts — emotional drops built around playing rather than only programming.
Technicolor disco-house — relentless fun, zero pretension, hooks big enough to convert whoever wandered past the stage.
Swedish project built on pitched-up vocal hooks, 'Runaway (U & I)' being the one that defined the sound and never really left.
Spanish DJ and producer who drags psytrance's acid-soaked momentum into hard techno rooms — high-BPM sets built on hypnotic, coiling arpeggios.
British producer whose bass house arrives at speed, brass stabs and sub weight cut together with the timing of a car chase.
Wakaan founder whose bass music leans psychedelic and genuinely weird rather than purely heavy — label boss of freeform bass's whole ecosystem.
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.
Siberian-born DJ and label head whose sets swerve from acid to raw hardware techno, with her own voice sitting on the records.
The architect of minimal techno, Plastikman on record and a live rig that treats the mixer itself as the instrument.
One of UK drum & bass's most in-demand vocalists, now fronting sets of her own.
Tel Aviv producer whose melodic house leans Mediterranean, sun-warmed synth lines over a groove that takes its time arriving.
All The Reason
AniMe - No Boundaries
Italian hardcore producer working at the uptempo end, kicks distorted past recognition and a tempo that only ever climbs.
One of the fastest-rising names in Europe's hard-techno surge — relentless BPMs aimed straight at the warehouse.
Tunisian-born, Berlin-based DJ who plays fast: breakbeat, hard trance and gabber threaded together at speeds most techno rooms avoid.
Berlin-based DJ whose sets tear across techno, trance and electro at speed without losing the thread.
Two hard dance lifers in one booth: Coone's Dirty Workz melody against the harder, older end DJ Isaac has worked since the 90s.
Riddim producer with a heavy, deliberately repetitive approach built for the pit — one-eyed branding, single-minded drops.
Not a fixed act — an open-call talent search whose winner takes the slot, so the name behind it changes each time it appears.
Italian selector and Life and Death boss whose sets wander from slow-burn house into indie rock without ever breaking stride.
Dutch hardstyle from the genre's melodic wing, euphoric leads riding the reverse bass rather than burying it in distortion.
British producer who kept happy hardcore alive through its unfashionable decade, then found a Monstercat audience willing to go that fast.
HerShe
k?d presents: Kill The Kid
Bass music with metal's aggression baked in — heavy, dark, and increasingly vocal-led, Boise drops with blast-furnace weight.
Kana Hishiya
Kloud
American producer working the heavier end of festival electronic music — bass-forward drops built for large rooms rather than headphones.
Norwegian brothers making melodic, festival-facing house — polished grooves engineered for golden-hour main stages, sleek Scandinavian craft with real emotional lift.
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.
Riddim producer with a heavy, minimal approach — a lot of space around some very large sounds, engineered for maximum stank face.
Mish
MODAL NODES
Morelia
Pixie Dust
Silvie Loto
Trancemaster Krause
French hard techno played fast and loud — one of the sound's most in-demand exports.
Bass music with a wrestling-heel swagger — heavy edits and heavier drops.
Acyan
Alex Chapman B2B Zoe Gitter
Andruss B2B Juos
American DJ who spent a decade on widescreen club techno, then made a synth-pop record under her own name and kept doing both.
Manchester's jump-up juggernaut — relentless double-drops and dancefloor pressure from one of drum & bass's most in-demand new-school names.
Cat & Maomi
Roots in UK funky and grime — skippy, percussive, club-first records that never overstay their welcome.
Chrysalis
Berlin project mining 90s rave nostalgia for hard, quick-footed techno shot through with trance melody — euphoria delivered at speed.
LA producer working the space where house bounce meets bass-music weight — g-house grooves cut with hip-hop swagger.
ero808
Funk Assault
Berlin duo whose hard techno keeps a body-music swing, EBM basslines and industrial edges held under club-functional drums.
The mashup kid made good — viral edits turned into a real touring house act with a bottomless crate of pop flips.
South African beat scientist — glitchy, off-grid bass that rewards close listening as much as headbanging.
JSMN
Know Good
LUMI
MALUGI
Producer out of North Rhine-Westphalia working the harder, faster end of German club music.
Wonky, bass-heavy house — the other half of the HYPERBEAM b2b with Odd Mob, edits engineered for double-takes.
PEDROZ
Rommii
Fast-rising producer with a knack for a hook that survives being played at 128 BPM — peak-time tools with real earworms.
Berlin DJ with a magpie's range, moving between breaks, electro and Anatolian psych without letting the floor notice the seams.
LA trio splicing live instruments into radio-friendly melodic dance.
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.
Yanamaste
The headliners
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.
Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike — Belgian brothers who built a career on mainstage maximalism, big-room drops engineered for the moment a festival crowd loses it.
Excision — The heaviest end of North American bass music, staged with a wall of subs and a light rig that does half the assault.
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. Closing Halloween night, and the only act on the bill who is not a DJ or a producer.
Steve Aoki — Cake-throwing EDM showman — pure crowd-service spectacle, two decades of Dim Mak hustle behind the confetti.
Zedd — A classically trained producer whose precision-engineered pop-EDM defined mainstage sound for a decade — 'Clarity' still the gold standard.
Up-and-comers to catch early
Azyr — Friday. Europe's hard-techno surge has produced few names rising faster, and this is one of his first Southern California bookings.
Cera Khin — Friday, and the fastest set on the bill: gabber and hard trance threaded together at tempos most techno rooms will not touch.
Bou — Saturday. Jump-up drum and bass is thin on the ground at American festivals, which makes this the weekend's clearest one-off.
DJ Heartstring — Saturday. 90s rave nostalgia played hard and fast, and the Berlin duo's American dates still sell out on word of mouth.
San Pacho — Saturday, and worth catching before the slot gets bigger: peak-time tech house with hooks that survive the tempo.
Sedef Adasi — Saturday. The widest-ranging DJ on the undercard, and the one most likely to play something you have never heard.
Other acts worth planning around
Richie Hawtin — Saturday. Minimal techno's architect, in a room built like a sewer, which is closer to the sound's origins than a main stage would be.
Nina Kraviz — Saturday, and the least predictable booking in the techno rooms: acid, electro and raw hardware, picked live rather than planned.
Indira Paganotto — Saturday. Psytrance momentum dragged into hard techno, and the crossover that has been filling European floors all year.
Darren Styles — Friday. UK hardcore's biggest name, and one of the few nights an American festival gives the genre a real slot.
JOYRYDE (Sunset Set) — Saturday, timed to the light going. Bass house arranged for the one hour of the night that does not need lasers.
Showtek (Hardstyle Set) — Friday. The Dutch brothers left hardstyle for big-room years ago and only go back for sets like this one.
The lineup by day
Friday lineup (October 30)
Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike, Excision, Steve Aoki, Benny Benassi, Cascada, Cloonee + 36 more
Saturday lineup (October 31)
Alok, Ice Cube, Zedd, 999999999, AC Slater, Adventure Club + 35 more
Escape Halloween 2026 lineup FAQ
When and where is Escape Halloween 2026?
Friday October 30 and Saturday October 31, 2026, at the NOS Events Center, 689 S. E St, San Bernardino, CA. Music runs 4pm to 2am both nights, and you can enter on a valid ticket until an hour before the end.
How much are Escape Halloween tickets?
Two-day passes are $259.95 for GA, $299.95 for GA+ and $379.95 for VIP, all-in. Single days are $145.95, $188.95 and $233.95 for the same three tiers. Front Gate Tickets is the official seller, prices include fees, there is a four-ticket limit per person, and a 50% deposit plan is offered on every tier.
Is Escape Halloween 18+?
Yes. You must be 18 or older to enter, and 21 or older for alcohol and for the VIP and SkyDeck areas. Photo ID is required, and full-face makeup that leaves you unrecognizable from the ID will not get you through the gate.
What is the Escape Halloween afterparty?
An indoor party on the festival grounds from 2am to 6am, ticketed separately from the festival: $71.95 for both nights or $42.95 for one.
What are the stages at Escape Halloween?
The festival's stage page names five, all themed to the Psycho Circus: the Big Top, the Feeding Grounds, the Warehouse, the Sewer District and the Cage, set around the Crazy Town area. Its homepage counts six without saying which room is the sixth.
Can I wear a costume?
Yes, and most people do. The limits are worth knowing before you build one: nothing resembling a weapon or a prop weapon, nothing resembling a police, fire, security or medical uniform, no handcuffs, no glass or ceramic masks, no sharp spikes, and no full-face makeup that hides your face from your ID.
How do I get to the NOS Events Center?
Official coach shuttles run from Downtown LA at USC, Fullerton in Orange County, Granada Hills in the San Fernando Valley and the Riverside Convention Center, with hotel shuttles from near Ontario airport. Last returns leave at 2:30am. Parking is on site but overnight stays are towed, and there is no camping.
Who plays Friday at Escape Halloween 2026?
Friday, October 30: Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike, Excision, Steve Aoki, Benny Benassi, Cascada, Cloonee, plus 36 more acts.
Who plays Saturday at Escape Halloween 2026?
Saturday, October 31: Alok, Ice Cube, Zedd, 999999999, AC Slater, Adventure Club, plus 35 more acts.
Are Escape Halloween 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 the day they drop.
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