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Nocturnal Wonderland 2026 Lineup
The longest-running dance festival in the country, 31 editions in: two nights and a campground at Glen Helen, with house, bass and hard dance all sharing the same woods.
Nocturnal Wonderland is expected back September 2027 (dates aren't announced yet). Until then, here's the full 2026 lineup and the acts you would have loved.
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About Nocturnal Wonderland 2026
Nocturnal Wonderland is the longest-running dance festival in the country (31 editions in), and the 2026 edition runs two September nights with a campground at Glen Helen Regional Park in San Bernardino. Saturday belongs to deadmau5, Green Velvet and James Hype; Sunday to Illenium and Seven Lions.
The two nights read like two different festivals sharing a forest. Saturday leans house, techno and heavy bass (Patrick Topping, Malaa, Partiboi69, Svdden Death, and INFEKT b2b Virtual Riot), while Sunday goes melodic and fast: Said The Sky at sunset, drum & bass from Friction and Hedex, and a T-Pain bass set under the Teddy Pain alias. Threaded through it all are West Coast rave elders like Stanton Warriors, Donald Glaude and Reid Speed, Nocturnal keeping its own history on the bill. Every act carries a day, a stage and a set time.
Expect dance, house, dubstep and riddim across 86 acts.
At a glance
- Dates
- –Saturday to Sunday, two days
- Where
- Glen Helen Regional Park, San Bernardino, CA
- Lineup
- 86 acts
- Website
- Official site
Nocturnal Wonderland 2026 lineup & schedule: all 86 acts
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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
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.
Progressive-houseElectro-houseTechno
Melodic dubstep with a trance heart, with soaring vocal tops over drops that still hit hard underneath, Ophelia-label worldbuilding included.
Melodic-dubstepTrance
The defining voice of melodic bass: emotional, arena-scaled drops built around real songwriting, sad songs engineered for fireworks.
Melodic-bassFuture-bass
Masked French producer who keeps the balaclava on and the basslines filthy, playing bass house with a permanent running joke about who's under there.
Bass-houseHouse
Newcastle tech house with a grin: big, bouncy, unpretentious records engineered for the hour when everyone's already sweating.
Tech-houseHouse
INFEKT B2B Virtual Riot
Two of dubstep's most technical producers trading eight bars at a time, with Infekt's blunt force against Virtual Riot's sound-design maximalism.
DubstepRiddim
Australian party-starter in wraparound shades, playing electro and rave cheese entirely straight, which is exactly why it works.
ElectroTechnoHouse
Melodic big-room house from a producer who was making festival anthems as a teenager. 'Five Hours' is the one the whole field still knows.
Big-roomElectro-house
Half of Gud Vibrations, making heavy festival trap with a melodic streak that keeps widening, drops built for fireworks cues.
TrapBass
Riddim's most theatrical figure, with slow, mechanical, deliberately punishing drops and the VOYD alias for when he wants to go heavier still.
RiddimDubstep
Former Radio 1 drum & bass host turned label boss, with sets that run the genre's whole range rather than picking a lane.
Drum-and-bass
Came up on piano and it shows, with melodic bass where the songwriting stays in front of the drop.
Melodic-bassFuture-bass
Disciple mainstays making precise, sound-design-obsessed dubstep with surgical basses and glitch detail that reward headphones as much as rail-riding.
DubstepRiddim
Dutch-Moroccan producer with a release schedule that never lets up, making clean, radio-shaped dance-pop on a big-room chassis.
EDMDance-popBig-room
UK producer with a bouncy, vocal-sample-driven approach to tech-house, making cheeky peak-time tools with London swagger.
Tech-house
LAYZ
Maryland producer working in hard-hitting dubstep, with dense low-end and drops built for maximum impact.
Dance
Grammy-nominated house duo with greasy basslines and instant grooves, 'On My Mind' the calling card, grooves greasy enough to require napkins.
House
Jump-up drum & bass's loudest new star, pure warehouse chaos with double-drops stacked until the low end wins.
Jump-up drum & bass
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
UK breakbeat mainstays who predate most of the room, with two decades of bass-heavy sets built on breaks rather than four-to-the-floor.
BreakbeatBass-house
UK producer whose rhythmically intricate trap sounds like nobody else's, with 'Do You?' swagger and global percussion baked in.
TrapFuture-bass
French-touch house with a permanent grin, featuring filtered disco loops and rubber-band basslines in the proud national tradition.
French house
One of the most-imitated voices of the 2000s behind the decks instead of the Auto-Tune, with the Teddy Pain alias as his bass-music outlet.
BassHip-hopTrap
CALLEN B2B SEKTOR 8
NEDA(:
Shima
Dance
Steve Leclair
Trainer Red
Ambient
Braydon Terzo
Dance
Moves between UK garage, bassline and grime with the same skippy swing, and is a producer the whole UK bass lineage keeps citing.
UK-garageBasslineGrime
Lily Ardalan
Techno
Wolfie
Steve Loria
House
Heavy, riddim-leaning dubstep built for the low end and not much else.
DubstepRiddim
M-High
Electronic
Australian producer making some of the heaviest and most precise riddim going, with surgical drops and zero wasted motion.
DubstepRiddim
THA4SAKEN
Electronic
Ed Bailey
Fleur Shore
House
Jkyl & Hyde B2B Nikita, the Wicked
Kittamami B2B Tony H
Vancouver producer working the bright, vocal-led end of melodic bass, with big emotional lifts built for singing along rather than bracing for the drop.
Dance
DMZ and Friends
Liquid drum & bass at its most emotional: festival fields turned choir, soaring vocals over rolling breaks.
Liquid drum & bass
Oscar Da Grouch
Electronic
Brazilian tech house producer and DJ mixing house grooves with jazz and soul samples, known for 'Toxic' with Chris Lake.
House
Dances B2B Techno Tupac
Works the seam between moombahton, Jersey club and global bass, making rhythm-first club music that borrows from everywhere.
Global-bassMoombahtonTrap
Kompany B2B Samplifire
Two Disciple-school producers back to back, with precision-engineered heavy dubstep from both sides of the decks.
DubstepRiddim
Two decades of American bass music from someone who spent them booking and releasing it as well as playing it.
BassDrum-and-bassDubstep
Heavy, percussive dubstep with a distinct Latin rhythmic influence, with San Diego drops that have extra swing in the kick pattern.
DubstepRiddim
Subsonic
Dance
Dack Janiels B2B Mongrel
Belgian producer working the harder edges of drum and bass with bass-forward, riff-driven tracks aimed squarely at the dancefloor.
Dance
Woof Logik
Dance
DJ Uncle Noah
Electronic
GAINZ
House
Jordan Savage
DubstepBass
Kristin Lush
Electronic
Nightstalker with MC Dino
Mattilo
Dance
Juos
Dance
Oscure
TankDubz
Electronic
RIOT
Dance
Angrybaby
House
B-Side
Inntraw
Dance
Nifty Nubez
CHYL
Dance
Kendo B2B SLAYY
Tini Gessler
Spanish DJ closely tied to the elrow party universe, playing tech house pitched at confetti-strewn, costumed rooms rather than the back of the club.
House
Vitamin D
Bass producer bridging trap's swing and dubstep's weight, usually in the same track.
BassTrapDubstep
GUDFELLA
Kyle Domingo’s house project on Thrive Music, born in the Philippines and raised in the US, with Madeon and Mura Masa as his touchstones.
Dance
A fixture of California's desert party circuit since the '90s, playing long, unhurried progressive house and breaks built for sunrise rather than peak time.
Progressive-houseBreakbeat
Maximus Grooves
Electronica
Lenny V
Trouble & Bass co-founder who plays club and bass music with a rave historian's memory.
BassJungleClub
Ely Oaks
German producer making melodic, vocal-led house that sits comfortably between peak-time festival sets and daytime radio.
Dance
Mark Lewis
Dance
Simply Jeff feat. Sharyn Maceren (Live)
Electronic
Shay De Castro
Techno
Donald Glaude B2B Thee-O
Two West Coast rave veterans back to back: Glaude's showman energy against Thee-O's deeper, darker end.
HouseTechnoBreakbeat
The headliners
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.
Green Velvet · 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.
Illenium · The defining voice of melodic bass: emotional, arena-scaled drops built around real songwriting, sad songs engineered for fireworks.
James Hype · Tech house as sleight of hand: the mixing itself is the show, cut so fast the transitions become the hook.
Seven Lions · Melodic dubstep with a trance heart, with soaring vocal tops over drops that still hit hard underneath, Ophelia-label worldbuilding included.
Up-and-comers to catch early
Hedex · Jump-up chaos straight off the UK circuit: Sunday's rowdiest room.
Joshwa · The UK's next big tech-house export, arriving right on schedule.
Sippy · Australia's heavy-bass ambassador, one of Saturday's hardest-hitting sets.
GRAVAGERZ · Riddim for the late-night woods: Saturday's low-end workout.
Other acts worth planning around
Partiboi69 · Mullet, shades, and genuinely great records: the funniest serious DJ working.
Teddy Pain (T-Pain Bass Set) · T-Pain behind the decks: the novelty booking that will out-draw half the bill.
Stanton Warriors · UK breakbeat lifers: a direct line back to the scene this festival grew from.
- Donald Glaude B2B Thee-O · West Coast rave history back to back (Nocturnal honoring its own roots).
- INFEKT B2B Virtual Riot · Sound design at the molecular level: the bass nerds' main event.
Said The Sky (Sunset Set) · A sunset slot that fits like it was written for it.
Friction · Drum & bass's great communicator, covering the genre end to end.
The lineup by day
Saturday lineup (September 19)
deadmau5, Green Velvet, James Hype, Deorro, INFEKT B2B Virtual Riot, Malaa + 36 more
Saturday set times (42 sets)
- CALLEN B2B SEKTOR 8 · Dawn Mountain
- NEDA(: · Beatbox Boombox
- Shima · Mystic Wild
- Steve Leclair · Rave Cave
- Trainer Red · Aurora Plains
- Braydon Terzo · Aurora Plains
- Flava D · Mystic Wild
- Lily Ardalan · Beatbox Boombox
- Wolfie · Dawn Mountain
- Steve Loria · Rave Cave
- GRAVAGERZ · Mystic Wild
- M-High · Aurora Plains
- Sippy · Dawn Mountain
- THA4SAKEN · Beatbox Boombox
- Ed Bailey · Rave Cave
- Fleur Shore · Aurora Plains
- Jkyl & Hyde B2B Nikita, the Wicked · Dawn Mountain
- Kittamami B2B Tony H · Beatbox Boombox
- SABAI · Mystic Wild
- Malaa · Mystic Wild
- DMZ and Friends · Beatbox Boombox
- Hybrid Minds · Dawn Mountain
- Oscar Da Grouch · Rave Cave
- Ragie Ban · Aurora Plains
- Patrick Topping · Aurora Plains
- Dances B2B Techno Tupac · Beatbox Boombox
- JSTJR · Mystic Wild
- Kompany B2B Samplifire · Dawn Mountain
- Reid Speed · Rave Cave
- James Hype · Mystic Wild
- INFEKT B2B Virtual Riot · Dawn Mountain
- Hekler · Beatbox Boombox
- Partiboi69 · Aurora Plains
- Subsonic · Rave Cave
- Deorro · Mystic Wild
- NGHTMRE · Dawn Mountain
- Dack Janiels B2B Mongrel · Beatbox Boombox
- Green Velvet · Aurora Plains
- Basstripper · Rave Cave
- deadmau5 · Mystic Wild
- Svdden Death · Dawn Mountain
- Woof Logik · Beatbox Boombox
Sunday lineup (September 20)
Illenium, Seven Lions, BARELY ALIVE, Dombresky, Friction, Hedex + 38 more
Sunday set times (44 sets)
- DJ Uncle Noah · Rave Cave
- GAINZ · Aurora Plains
- Kristin Lush · Beatbox Boombox
- Nightstalker with MC Dino · Dawn Mountain
- Jordan Savage · Mystic Wild
- Mattilo · Mystic Wild
- Juos · Aurora Plains
- Oscure · Rave Cave
- TankDubz · Beatbox Boombox
- RIOT · Dawn Mountain
- Angrybaby · Mystic Wild
- B-Side · Rave Cave
- Inntraw · Aurora Plains
- Nifty Nubez · Beatbox Boombox
- Friction · Dawn Mountain
- CHYL · Mystic Wild
- Kendo B2B SLAYY · Beatbox Boombox
- Tini Gessler · Aurora Plains
- Vitamin D · Rave Cave
- Eliminate · Dawn Mountain
- Said The Sky (Sunset Set) · Mystic Wild
- GUDFELLA · Aurora Plains
- John Kelley · Rave Cave
- Maximus Grooves · Beatbox Boombox
- BARELY ALIVE · Dawn Mountain
- R3HAB · Mystic Wild
- Joshwa · Aurora Plains
- Lenny V · Beatbox Boombox
- Star Eyes · Rave Cave
- LAYZ · Dawn Mountain
- SIDEPIECE · Mystic Wild
- Ely Oaks · Aurora Plains
- Mark Lewis · Beatbox Boombox
- Simply Jeff feat. Sharyn Maceren (Live) · Rave Cave
- Hedex · Dawn Mountain
- Seven Lions · Mystic Wild
- Walker & Royce · Aurora Plains
- Shay De Castro · Beatbox Boombox
- Stanton Warriors · Rave Cave
- TroyBoi · Dawn Mountain
- Illenium · Mystic Wild
- Dombresky · Aurora Plains
- Donald Glaude B2B Thee-O · Beatbox Boombox
- Teddy Pain (T-Pain Bass Set) · Dawn Mountain
Nocturnal Wonderland 2026 lineup FAQ
When is Nocturnal Wonderland 2026?
September 19–20, 2026 (Saturday and Sunday nights).
Where does Nocturnal Wonderland take place?
Glen Helen Regional Park in San Bernardino, California, with on-site camping.
Who is headlining Nocturnal Wonderland 2026?
Saturday: deadmau5, Green Velvet and James Hype. Sunday: Illenium and Seven Lions.
Are Nocturnal Wonderland set times out?
Yes. All 86 acts have a day, a stage and a set time across the five stages. Music starts at 3:00 PM both days; Saturday's last sets start at 11:00 PM (deadmau5 on Mystic Wild) and Sunday's at 11:30 PM (Teddy Pain's T-Pain bass set on Dawn Mountain).
Is Nocturnal Wonderland really the longest-running dance festival in the US?
Yes. 2026 marks 31 editions, making it the longest-running dance music festival in the country.
How many acts are playing Nocturnal Wonderland 2026?
86 acts across the two nights.
How do I work out which acts I'd like?
Tell the finder at the top of this page a few artists you love. It'll match you with the acts on this lineup you shouldn't miss, with reasons why.
When is Nocturnal Wonderland 2027?
Nocturnal Wonderland 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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