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.
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îLESONIQ 2026 Lineup
Montreal's electronic weekend on Île Sainte-Hélène: two days of house, bass and trance on the same island stages Osheaga uses a week earlier.
îLESONIQ 2026 has already wrapped, but you can still dig through the lineup and find the acts you would have loved.
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About îLESONIQ 2026
îLESONIQ is the electronic weekend on Parc Jean-Drapeau, the same island stages Osheaga uses a week earlier, handed over to house, bass and trance. The 2026 edition is its 11th: two days, three stages, 46 acts, plus a downtown prelude, îLESONIQ in the City, on the Friday night before the gates open.
Saturday is the four-to-the-floor day. Chris Lake & Friends closes the Bell OASIS stage after deadmau5, Boris Brejcha and a Boys Noize b2b Tiga hold the MIRAGE tent, and ATLiens takes the Coca-Cola NEON stage into the night. Sunday runs melodic and heavy at once: Dom Dolla headlines, Above & Beyond play into the sunset, and MIRAGE stacks Seven Lions, Wooli and Dabin back to back. Set times and stages are published for every act.
Expect house, dubstep, techno and electronic across 46 acts.
At a glance
- Dates
- –Saturday to Sunday, two days
- Where
- Parc Jean-Drapeau, Montreal, QC
- Lineup
- 46 acts
- Website
- Official site
îLESONIQ 2026 lineup & schedule: all 46 acts
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The Black Book boss whose vocal-hook tech house set the template a hundred producers now copy. The "& Friends" billing means a rotating cast of guests through the set.
Tech houseHouse
Trance's group-therapy session, with push-the-button moments and crowds crying happy tears at sunrise.
Trance
Australian tech house built for the moment the whole field sings back, with big, simple basslines and a vocal you'll still be humming at breakfast.
Tech houseHouse
Grammy-nominated house duo with greasy basslines and instant grooves, 'On My Mind' the calling card, grooves greasy enough to require napkins.
House
Norwegian brothers making melodic, festival-facing house: polished grooves engineered for golden-hour main stages, sleek Scandinavian craft with real emotional lift.
HouseTech-house
Nick Douwma's melodic drum-and-bass is euphoric, precisely engineered, and built for a very large sound system: arena-rave architecture at its cleanest.
Drum and bassElectronic
Melodic house from both ends, with widescreen Australian polish against Finnish deep-house patience.
Melodic houseProgressive house
High-velocity festival bass designed for maximum impact in the shortest possible window, with Ohio-bred drops engineered like demolition charges.
BassRiddim
Boys Noize b2b Tiga
Berlin electro meets electroclash mischief, with two producers who have been bending club music sideways since the mid-2000s.
ElectroTechno
Layz b2b Kompany
Two heavy-dubstep technicians trading eight bars at a time, with grit against Disciple-school precision.
DubstepRiddim
German 'high-tech minimal' techno in a joker mask: precise, melodic, relentless, with marathon sets that build like clockwork machinery.
Minimal techno
Masked Atlanta duo working the dark, alien end of festival bass, with extraterrestrial lore, subterranean growls, and drops built for maximum abduction.
DubstepBass
UK bass house at its most swaggering, with rolling low end and hip-hop cadence built for a dark room rather than a sunny field.
Bass-houseHouse
Melodic house with actual guitars, from a classically trained multi-instrumentalist whose live sets turn festival EDM into something closer to a band performance.
Melodic-houseDance
Melodic bass with a guitarist's instincts: emotional drops built around playing rather than only programming.
Melodic-dubstepFuture bass
Swings between crushing riddim and full melodic bass, often inside the same set, with mammoth branding and matching drops.
DubstepMelodic-bass
Melodic dubstep with a trance heart, with soaring vocal tops over drops that still hit hard underneath, Ophelia-label worldbuilding included.
Melodic-dubstepTrance
Kleed
Electronic
MVNGO
House
Sin Less
Electronic
Montreal party crew turned booth residency, with high-energy club sets and a hometown following.
HouseTechno
Izzy Vadim
Electronic
Tomas Grey
Electronic
Bristol-based DJ and producer working in tech house and minimal house, with releases on Black Book Records.
House
Jkyl & Hyde
American duo working the heavy, low-slung end of bass music, built around abrupt switch-ups rather than steady momentum.
Electronic
French tech house with peak-time bluntness: big riffs, bigger drops, no subtlety intended.
Tech houseTechno
Liverpool DJ-producer pushing bassline-flecked house, Merseyside heat in the garage revival's slipstream, with club momentum rising fast.
Dance
Textural, psychedelic bass music that is heavy without being blunt about it.
BassDubstepTrap
Trance and Eurodance revivalism with a wink: 2000s dancefloor nostalgia rebuilt with modern low end, played here under her own DJ Geneviève alias.
TranceEurodance
OGUZ
Techno
Montreal DJ working the club-edit end of house, with remix-heavy, high-tempo sets.
HouseClub
Kattana
Dubstep
Tom DŪNO b2b Yurie
Opening-set house and techno from two local selectors, played back to back.
HouseTechno
Future Exit b2b NEOTEK
A bass-music tag team, two rising producers splitting one set.
BassDubstep
The voice behind a run of dancefloor anthems, now fronting them live rather than only appearing in the credits.
DanceVocal house
Zorza
Dance
Stoog3s to Death
Bouncy, bass-heavy tech house built for peak hour by an Anaheim producer who came over from trap and bass, with Hypnosis his breakout single.
Tech 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
Jump-up drum & bass's loudest new star, pure warehouse chaos with double-drops stacked until the low end wins.
Jump-up drum & bass
Novah
Level Up b2b Infekt
Two riddim technicians back to back, with snarling low end against surgical sound design.
DubstepRiddim
Amsterdam's hard-trance revivalist, with acid lines and 150 BPM joy and rave classicism played with total exuberance.
TranceAcid techno
Osaka-born cult selector Yousuke Yukimatsu (genre-shredding DJ sets that went from viral clips to worldwide bookings) brings anything-goes technique with total joy.
TechnoDJ set
Masked, anonymous German hard techno producer whose high-BPM sets run on heavy bass lines, with 'No Balance' and a hard techno 'Gangsta's Paradise' among his biggest tracks.
Dance
The headliners
Chris Lake & Friends · The Black Book boss whose vocal-hook tech house set the template a hundred producers now copy. The "& Friends" billing means a rotating cast of guests through the set. Saturday's closer on the main stage. The guest list is the part nobody announces in advance.
Dom Dolla · Australian tech house built for the moment the whole field sings back, with big, simple basslines and a vocal you'll still be humming at breakfast. Sunday's headliner, and the single biggest draw of the weekend.
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. Saturday main stage, an hour before the closer: the Canadian producer at full festival scale.
Above & Beyond · Trance's group-therapy session, with push-the-button moments and crowds crying happy tears at sunrise. Trance's most emotionally direct act, playing into the Sunday sunset.
Up-and-comers to catch early
- Badgalquirit · Montreal DJ opening Sunday's NEON stage.
- MVNGO · Saturday's first Bell OASIS set.
- Sin Less · Opens MIRAGE on Saturday.
- Tom DŪNO b2b Yurie · Two local selectors sharing the Sunday opening slot on the main stage.
Other acts worth planning around
- Boys Noize b2b Tiga · Tiga is a Montreal fixture, and pairing him with Boys Noize is the weekend's likeliest set to go sideways in the best way.
TDJ présente DJ Geneviève · Montreal's own TDJ under an alias, playing the 2000s trance revival she helped restart.
Seven Lions · Closes MIRAGE on Sunday: melodic dubstep at its most widescreen.
¥ØU$UK€ ¥UK1MAT$U · The least predictable booking on the bill, and the reason to be on the NEON stage late on Sunday.
The lineup by day
Saturday lineup (August 8)
Chris Lake & Friends, Deadmau5, ATLIENS, Boris Brejcha, Layz b2b Kompany, Boys Noize b2b Tiga + 18 more
Saturday set times (24 sets)
- Kleed · Coca-Cola NEON stage
- MVNGO · Bell OASIS Stage
- Sin Less · MIRAGE Stage
- Clüb De Combat · MIRAGE Stage
- Izzy Vadim · Coca-Cola NEON stage
- Tomas Grey · Bell OASIS Stage
- Marco Strous · MIRAGE Stage
- Jkyl & Hyde · Coca-Cola NEON stage
- Matt Sassari · Bell OASIS Stage
- Riordan · MIRAGE Stage
- Sidepiece · Bell OASIS Stage
- LYNY · Coca-Cola NEON stage
- KREAM · MIRAGE Stage
- Sub Focus · Bell OASIS Stage
- TDJ présente DJ Geneviève · Coca-Cola NEON stage
- Cassian b2b Yotto · MIRAGE Stage
- Crankdat · Bell OASIS Stage
- OGUZ · Coca-Cola NEON stage
- Deadmau5 · Bell OASIS Stage
- Boys Noize b2b Tiga · MIRAGE Stage
- Layz b2b Kompany · Coca-Cola NEON stage
- Chris Lake & Friends · Bell OASIS Stage
- Boris Brejcha · MIRAGE Stage
- ATLIENS · Coca-Cola NEON stage
Sunday lineup (August 9)
Dom Dolla, Above & Beyond, Seven Lions, Wooli, Dabin, Gryffin + 16 more
Sunday set times (22 sets)
- Badgalquirit · Coca-Cola NEON stage
- Kattana · MIRAGE Stage
- Tom DŪNO b2b Yurie · Bell OASIS Stage
- Future Exit b2b NEOTEK · MIRAGE Stage
- Hayla · Bell OASIS Stage
- Zorza · Coca-Cola NEON stage
- Stoog3s to Death · MIRAGE Stage
- AYYBO · Bell OASIS Stage
- Roddy Lima · Coca-Cola NEON stage
- Hedex · MIRAGE Stage
- Chris Lorenzo · Bell OASIS Stage
- Novah · Coca-Cola NEON stage
- Level Up b2b Infekt · MIRAGE Stage
- Gryffin · Bell OASIS Stage
- Ki/Ki · Coca-Cola NEON stage
- Dabin · MIRAGE Stage
- Above & Beyond · Bell OASIS Stage
- ¥ØU$UK€ ¥UK1MAT$U · Coca-Cola NEON stage
- Wooli · MIRAGE Stage
- Dom Dolla · Bell OASIS Stage
- Seven Lions · MIRAGE Stage
- Holy Priest · Coca-Cola NEON stage
îLESONIQ 2026 lineup FAQ
When is îLESONIQ 2026?
August 8–9, 2026, Saturday and Sunday. îLESONIQ in the City runs downtown on Friday, August 7.
Where is îLESONIQ held?
Parc Jean-Drapeau on Île Sainte-Hélène, Montreal (the same island site as Osheaga).
Who is headlining?
Chris Lake & Friends and deadmau5 on Saturday; Dom Dolla and Above & Beyond on Sunday.
How many acts are playing?
46 acts across three stages: Bell OASIS, Coca-Cola NEON and MIRAGE.
Are set times published?
Yes. The full schedule is out, and every act's day, stage and start time 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 îLESONIQ 2027?
îLESONIQ 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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