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GAUNG, a Yogyakarta collective network, is running a seven-day, mostly free electronic and experimental music festival across nine-plus city venues from September 7 to 13, 2026, including a night marking two decades of Indonesia's funkot genre and an outdoor bamboo-forest camp.
Amsterdam Dance Event's second lineup wave for its 30th anniversary (October 21-25, 200+ venues) puts minimal and Detroit techno figures Ben Klock and DJ Stingray 313 on the same bill as crossover names Paul Kalkbrenner and Eric Prydz, plus a Swan Lake remix and a planetarium show.
Fort X, a new house and techno festival from the promoters behind Kala and Snowboxx, held its first edition on September 5, 2026 inside Slovenia's 15th-century Mokrice Castle, capping capacity around a lineup led by Dixon, Maceo Plex, Âme and Butch.
House In The Park, the deep-house gathering DJ Ramon Rawsoul and Kai Alcé built as a gift to Atlanta in 2005, returns to Grant Park today, September 6, for a 22nd edition expected to draw over 15,000 people, still run by the same two DJs who started it.
CRSSD Festival's Fall 2026 edition returns to San Diego's Waterfront Park on September 26 and 27, headlined by a rare Chris Lake b2b Disclosure DJ set alongside Mochakk, Skepta's Más Tiempo project and Groove Armada.
London's Waterworks Festival has relocated its 2026 edition from Gunnersbury Park to East London venue The Cause, running a one-off 36-hour, seven-space format called Waterworks Extended on the original September 12-13 dates after the park's planning permission failed to arrive in time.
Overcrowding forced organizers to cancel or cut short dance sets at both Reading and Leeds festivals' new Warehouse stages over the same August bank-holiday weekend, with Prospa publicly demanding changes and a fan couple paying to flee to Creamfields.
ARC Music Festival expands to four days for the first time in 2026, running September 4-7 at Union Park with 100+ acts across four stages, its biggest format since launching in 2021.
Paris' free Techno Parade returns on Saturday, September 19, 2026 for its 26th edition after a two-year hiatus, with organizer Technopol naming Detroit, techno's birthplace, as this year's guest of honor.
As its 20th anniversary season opens at Depot Mayfield this month, Manchester's Warehouse Project is marking two decades with a documentary shot partly on some of the world's last remaining rolls of Kodak Ektachrome film, a new podcast, a print magazine and an Apple Music vault of unreleased DJ sets.
Sunwaves Festival's SW38 edition runs non-stop from September 3 to 7, 2026, at Las Salinas in Roquetas de Mar, Spain, the festival's second consecutive edition there since Romanian authorities pushed it out of its 18-year home in Mamaia in 2025.
Meakusma Festival returns to Eupen, East Belgium, from September 3 to 6, 2026, spreading a 140-act bill across churches, museums, empty shops and the former-slaughterhouse venue Alter Schlachthof instead of a single festival stage.
London's Waterworks festival is abandoning its usual Gunnersbury Park home for 2026 after a planning permission delay, relocating to a continuous 36-hour marathon across seven spaces at The Cause on September 12-13.
Eric Prydz will play his first Manchester show in four years on October 17 as a stripped-down, no-phones "Concourse Only" special at The Warehouse Project, the centerpiece of a fall campaign that also spans a 12-date North American run and a marquee ADE booking at Gashouder.
Audio Obscura Festival's second edition doubled capacity to 20,000 at Rotterdam's UNESCO-listed Van Nelle Factory and sold out a full month before the August 29, 2026 date.
Carl Cox and Christopher Coe's label Awesome Soundwave has launched ASW Live, a new run of small, free-entry club nights in Dublin and Belfast this week, with an Ibiza date in October, deliberately trading festival scale for underground rooms.
MUTEK Montréal's 27th edition (August 25-30) pairs a 120-artist electronic and AV lineup, including Jeff Mills' North American premiere of his sci-fi piece Stargate, with an expanded Forum on AI, ecology and digital creativity across five Quartier des Spectacles venues.
DJ Marfox, the batida pioneer behind Lisbon's Príncipe Discos, closes the Panorama stage, MEO Kalorama's dance-music-only stage, on August 30, 2026, at a festival expecting more than 100,000 people over three days.
Eric Prydz has stepped in as Creamfields' "very special guest" on the APEX stage this Friday, August 28, after John Summit withdrew to focus on his CTRL ESCAPE arena tour.
Amsterdam's ZeeZout festival marks its 10th edition on August 29, 2026, still fully independent and still enforcing a strict ban on hard drugs and laughing gas.
Cheshire Constabulary recovered large bags of MDMA, ecstasy pills and ketamine, plus 204 nitrous oxide canisters, buried at the Daresbury Estate ahead of Creamfields' 20th edition, which opens August 27 to around 80,000 fans.
Nia Archives has confirmed a 19-date "Emotional Junglist" world tour running from Japan to Australia between September 2026 and January 2027, with the UK leg opening November 22 in Glasgow and reaching London's Alexandra Palace on November 26, a month after the Mercury Prize decides the fate of her debut album.
Charlotte de Witte headlines the final Lisbon date of Brunch Electronik's tenth-anniversary run on August 30, 2026, at Lagoa Branca in Tapada da Ajuda.
Gilles Peterson's cross-genre We Out Here Festival has sold out its entire 2026 run in Dorset, with Masters at Work's Kenny Dope anchoring a house and afro-house wing inside a bill built mostly around jazz, soul and hip hop.
UMAMI Events' four-weekend SouthSide Summer series, running August 22 to September 13, 2026 across Hong Kong's Murray House, The Pulse and The Repulse Bay, books headliners from Singapore, Indonesia and Thailand in a daytime, wellness-hybrid format instead of importing a Western marquee name.
LENDAA Chapter V, the fifth consecutive edition of Brazil's Atlantic Forest electronic festival, runs August 21-22, 2026 in Morretes, Paraná, with progressive house headliners Sébastien Léger and D-Nox and a full Wellness Day built into the program.
London's queer dance festival Body Movements returns to Southwark Park on August 30th with five branded stages and festival debuts from Horse Meat Disco and House Gospel Choir.
Zamna festival returns to Khoroum Valley in Egypt's Sinai desert from November 20 to 22, 2026, expanding capacity to 20,000 for a deep house lineup led by Sasha and John Digweed.
Wibbly Woods cancelled its sixth edition on 12 August 2026, a month before doors, after discovering the co-owner of its new Loughborough site had never agreed to host the event.
Dekmantel Selectors opens its 10th edition at The Garden in Tisno, Croatia on August 20, still capped small and still booking the deepest lineup on the Adriatic.
Marco Carola's Music On brand, a Pacha Ibiza Friday fixture since 2019, sold out its first-ever Malta edition on August 1, 2026, drawing more than 6,000 people to the Malta Fairs & Conventions Centre.
Eric Prydz and Boris Brejcha played their first-ever back-to-back set on August 15 at Royal Palace Open Air in Brussels, pairing progressive house's biggest visual spectacle with high-tech minimal's most guarded architect.
Zamna In The Club, the indoor arm of the Tulum jungle-rave festival brand, held its first India dates on August 14 in Bengaluru and August 15 in Kolkata, the newest stop in a fast-expanding global club circuit.
Chicago's Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events is running the free, four-day Chicago House Music Festival & Conference from August 27 to 30, 2026, headlined by Roy Davis Jr, Chip E. and Maurice Joshua across Millennium Park, the Chicago Cultural Center and Grant Park.
Sziget Festival, long known for indie rock and pop headliners, has built a dedicated techno and house arena, the Yettel Colosseum, and an entire electronic music quarter, the Delta District, booking Peggy Gou, Dixon and Richie Hawtin for its 2026 edition.
Ushuaïa Ibiza closes its 2026 season on October 10 with an 11-hour ANTS takeover headlined by the first-ever back-to-back set between Vintage Culture and Loco Dice.
South London dubstep pioneers Skream and Benga, who spent roughly a decade apart, play a rare back-to-back set at Flow Festival's Front Yard stage in Helsinki on August 15, 2026, part of a wider comeback that already includes a joint album in the works.
Poland's Unsound festival will run October 2 to 11, 2026 across Warsaw and Kraków for the first time in its history, linked by a dedicated Unsound Train, with Arca making her first-ever Warsaw appearance to perform her album Airdoll.
A woman died during Houghton Festival's 2026 edition at Houghton Hall in Norfolk; Norfolk Constabulary is investigating but does not currently believe the death is suspicious.
Dimensions Festival 2026 has sold out its full five-day passes for the August 27-31 edition at The Garden Tisno, with resale on Resident Advisor now the only route to a full ticket.
The Mannheim-founded techno festival will hold its first Los Angeles edition November 27 and 28, 2026, at Ace Mission Studios in Boyle Heights, the latest market to open under Time Warp's 2024 expansion partnership with Insomniac.
Glitch Festival's 10th anniversary edition, running August 12 to 15 at Gianpula Village in Malta with Ben Klock b2b Rødhåd and Amelie Lens on the bill, has sold out.
Wall2Wall returns to RSO Berlin for five nights, August 13 to 17, with Monolake, Erol Alkan, Ellen Allien and Josey Rebelle topping a 50-plus lineup that hands parts of the program to local Berlin crews.
Maiden Voyage Festival returns to Burgess Park on August 8 with SHERELLE, Helena Hauff and Yaeji, its four stages each curated end to end by a different London collective, UNFOLD, Live From Earth, HOWL WORLDWIDE and Pxssy Palace, who take the main stage to mark their tenth anniversary.
Untold's 11th edition closed with more than 500,000 attendees across four days and nine stages in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, with Carl Cox, Solomun and Joseph Capriati anchoring Galaxy, the festival's dedicated house and techno stage.
Fuse, Belgium's longest-running techno night, brings XRDS Crossroads Festival back to Brussels' Parc des Étangs on August 14 and 15 with over 50 artists across three stages built beneath the E19 viaducts.
Anjunadeep Open Air on the Thames sold out the grounds of Greenwich's Old Royal Naval College for the second consecutive summer, cementing progressive house's pull outside the big-tent festival circuit.
Loveland Festival returned to Sloterpark in Amsterdam on August 8 and 9, 2026 for its 31st edition, a lakeside rave built on a techno spine of Robert Hood, Rødhåd and Ben Klock.
After 17 editions at Lee Valley Showground and a year away, Eastern Electrics returns on August 9, 2026 at a new site in Burgess Park, inner South London.
Portugal's NEOPOP festival is reverting to ANTIPOP, its original 2006 name, for a one-off 20th-anniversary edition (August 6-8, 2026) at Forte de Santiago da Barra in Viana do Castelo, headlined by Jeff Mills, Nina Kraviz, Richie Hawtin and a closing farewell set from Laurent Garnier.
Gravitate, launching August 27 to 31, 2026 at Portugal's Alqueva Lake, builds its program around movement workshops and somatic therapy alongside sets from DJ Nobu, DVS1 and DJ MARIA.
A 45-year-old American man died after falling from decorative structures around Ozora Festival's main stage on August 1, and a 39-year-old woman suffered fatal cardiac arrest during Astrix's set that same evening, prompting organizers to end the night's music at midnight.
UNTOLD, the world's highest daily-attendance festival with over 470,000 visitors in 2025, opens its 2026 edition (Aug 6-9) in Cluj-Napoca with an indoor Galaxy stage dedicated entirely to deep house and hard techno, led by Maceo Plex and Gordo, the tech-house rebrand of Carnage.
Ultra México returns to Mexico City on November 7-8, 2026 after an eight-year gap, and its RESISTANCE stage has booked ARTBAT, Boys Noize and CamelPhat, a real signal that Latin America's underground touring market is coming back.
Barcelona's Brunch Electronik runs three days for the first time, August 7-9 at Parc del Fòrum, with more than 100 artists including Kaytranada, Jeff Mills, Eric Prydz, Luciano and Floating Points.
Field Maneuvers returns to Norfolk on August 21-23, 2026 with Chicago footwork pioneer Jana Rush playing her only UK show of the summer, backed by the festival's biggest-ever Ambient Stage.
Carl Cox and Louie Vega will share a DJ booth for the first time in their careers, at Movida Beach Club in Sicily on Ferragosto night, August 14, 2026.
Marco Carola's Ibiza institution Music On stages its first branded night outside its home island on August 1, 2026, at Malta's Fairs & Conventions Centre, betting that a residency built on one club's DNA can travel.
UNTOLD Festival in Cluj-Napoca, Romania has rebranded as 'UNTOLD ONE' for its 2026 edition (August 6-9), revealing a gold, wing-shaped main stage and a 200-plus-artist lineup that spans Carl Cox, Solomun and Jamie Jones alongside pop-crossover names like Marshmello.
Experts Only Festival has added Max Styler b2b Adam Ten, Will Clarke and five more acts to its September 19-20 Randall's Island bill, alongside a new Pwemium Lounge stage named after a viral tech house meme.
Local mayors banned all fireworks and stage pyrotechnics for Tomorrowland 2026's opening weekend over a drought-driven 'code orange' wildfire alert, then only partly lifted the ban for weekend two, letting the Mainstage run limited, close-range pyrotechnics under daily safety checks.
Fort X Festival debuts September 5, 2026 at Mokrice Castle near Ljubljana, threading stages through medieval courtyards and woodland with a deep house lineup led by Dixon, Maceo Plex and Ame.
Carl Cox and David Guetta played their first-ever back-to-back set on Sunday, July 26, 2026, at UNVRS Ibiza, closing out a night that doubled as Cox's birthday celebration three days before he turns 64.
Dekmantel's 12th edition, opening July 29 in Amsterdam, adds a dawn forest program and a first ever city takeover, while putting EDM crossover star Skrillex on a bill built around Underground Resistance and Ricardo Villalobos.
LISB-ON 2026 runs July 3 to 5 in the Keil do Amaral garden inside Lisbon's Parque Eduardo VII, with Sven Väth, Kölsch, CamelPhat, Kerri Chandler and ANNA among the confirmed acts for an entirely daylight bill.
Shapes Festival's week-long return to Zakynthos, Greece, running July 26 to August 2, 2026, trades a single festival site for boats, beaches, gardens and hilltops across the island, with Carl Craig, Motor City Drum Ensemble and Marcellus Pittman confirmed, per Resident Advisor.
RÜFÜS DU SOL's Jon George and James Hunt are ending their four-Tuesday DJ-only residency at Pacha Ibiza on July 28 with Disclosure behind the decks, after guest sets from Romy, ANOTR and Jimi Jules.
Monegros Desert Festival sold out its 33rd edition at 60,000 tickets, the biggest crowd in its 32-year history, and did it without swapping a single underground name for a mainstream headliner.
Over Tomorrowland's first 2026 weekend (17-19 July, Boom, Belgium), police made 38 arrests, including 13 alleged drug dealers, and fined 192 festival-goers a combined 48,150 euros for drug possession.
Jamie Jones and Lee Foss's Hot Creations label is bringing its tech house parties back to a newly renovated Bora Bora at Playa Soleil in Playa d'en Bossa, with Friday dates on August 7, September 4 and September 25.
RESISTANCE Ibiza's Season 5 residency opens at Amnesia tonight, July 22, running every Wednesday through September 16, with Adam Beyer as season resident and Eric Prydz returning to the club as a co-headliner for the first time in over ten years.
fabric London and Sennheiser have expanded their partnership into a five-date 2026 series atop The Shard, opening August 21 with Sven Väth before the night moves down to fabric's Farringdon club.
Terminal V Croatia has expanded to five stages at The Garden Resort in Tisno for its July 16-20, 2026 edition, folding in Barbarella's Discotheque for sunrise afterhours sets, with organizers confirming fewer than 10% of tickets remain.
Joseph Capriati's Metamorfosi concept has returned to Amnesia Ibiza for a 14-date Tuesday residency running through September 29, timed to the club's 50th-anniversary season and pulling in more than 80 confirmed artists across both rooms.
Defected Records' Croatian festival plays its 10th and final edition, "One Last Dance," at The Garden Resort in Tisno from July 29 to August 2, 2026, headlined by Moodymann, Black Coffee, TSHA, Jayda G, Floating Points, Perc and Mall Grab.
For its 10th anniversary in 2026, London techno festival Junction 2 abandons its single-weekend format for the first time, spreading across three dates at Boston Manor Park, including a one-off collaboration night with fabric.
Terminal V Croatia has confirmed its 2026 stage splits and three Barbarella's after-hours nights, and the small print, Alarico b2b Ben Klock on July 17, matters more than the 100-plus names on the main bill.
WHOLE, the Berlin-founded festival that draws over 15,000 people to Europe's largest queer techno gathering, has confirmed its first international edition, in Brazil, per Groove Magazin.
Draaimolen's 2026 edition, sold out and set for 4-5 September at Tilburg's MOB Complex, reveals over 100 acts including a new Shygirl live show, less than a year after a 26,000-signature petition kept the festival's forest site alive.
The Chosen Few Picnic & Music Festival returns to Chicago's Jackson Park on July 11 for its 36th consecutive year, still run by the same DJs who started it as a backyard gathering in 1990, with no private-equity owner, no EDM headliner and no dynamic pricing scheme.
Josh Baker opened his first Ibiza residency, You&Me, at Amnesia on Thursday July 2, 2026, a weekly Terrace night running through October 1.
Kappa FuturFestival's 13th edition sold out its July 3 to 5, 2026 run at Parco Dora in Turin, moving roughly 90,000 tickets on curation trust rather than one marquee name.
Fifty years into a touring career built on monument-scale spectacles, Jean-Michel Jarre played his first-ever Ibiza show on July 5 on Amnesia's Terrace, the same year the club and his breakthrough album Oxygene each turn fifty.
FOURTH WORLD returned for its 12th edition at New York's Knockdown Center on 3 July, booking more than 30 acts entirely from the city's own scene across five stages.
Defected Croatia will hold its tenth and final edition at The Garden Resort in Tisno from July 29 to August 3, 2026, ending a decade that turned the Adriatic site into a summer home for house music.
ADE unveiled the first wave for its 30th edition, running 21 to 25 October 2026: more than 250 artists, Jean-Michel Jarre as guest of honour, and the Gashouder back, on the way to 3,000-plus acts across 200-plus venues.
The Warehouse Project is marking 20 years with its biggest season yet at Depot Mayfield, a brand new room called Vault and a run of fresh shows, an expansion that lands while clubs across Europe keep closing.
Mint XL, a 2,500-capacity club, opens on 25 September inside the shuttered PRYZM on Woodhouse Lane, with Craig Richards, Enzo Siragusa, Fumiya Tanaka and Sonja Moonear christening a corporate chain venue reborn for the underground.
Carl Cox opens his second season at Ibiza's hyperclub this Sunday with an all-night set and first-time B2Bs, but luxury pricing and a David Guetta date are driving as much debate as the music.
The Norfolk festival announces its most expansive lineup to date, headlined by Underground Resistance's first-ever UK festival appearance alongside Ricardo Villalobos, Helena Hauff, Ben UFO and close to 200 artists.
After 32 years, Ricard Robles, Enric Palau, and Sergio Caballero are gone, and for the first time, Sónar belongs entirely to KKR-backed Superstruct Entertainment.
London's fabric club makes its New York debut on September 5, 2026, staging a purpose-built AV show at Under the K Bridge in Greenpoint with Jeff Mills, Helena Hauff and visual direction from dreamrec.
Solstice Festival runs June 18 to 20 at Rukatunturi in northern Finland, where roughly 75 mostly underground artists play under near 24 hour daylight at the edge of the Arctic Circle.
Tomorrowland will run a 144 square metre immersive Avicii installation across both 2026 weekends, with a large LED film, personal artefacts on loan from Stockholm, three remastered Tomorrowland sets on Apple Music, and a clothing line funding the Tim Bergling Foundation.
Insomniac and Colombian promoter Páramo Presenta will stage the first EDC Colombia at Medellín's Atanasio Girardot sports complex on October 10 and 11, 2026, pairing stadium-scale headliners with Factory 93, Time Warp and a real house and tech house cast.
Anjunadeep's Explorations runs 11 to 16 June in Dhermi on the Albanian Riviera, a sold-out, six-night festival-meets-beach-holiday built almost entirely on the label's deep and melodic house roster, with first appearances from George FitzGerald and Orbit.
Solomun opens Pacha New York on June 19, 2026 with no fee and a free dancefloor reserved for the fans who stood through hours of cold rain at his recent Bronx show, with access decided by one fair raffle.
Carl Cox headlines Cave Romane, a 2,000-year-old former Roman limestone quarry near Pula, on 7 August 2026, with lasers mapped onto the rock and tickets from 49 euros.
Belgian teenager ELFIGO became the youngest artist ever to play Tomorrowland Winter, taking the Frozen Lotus stage in Alpe d'Huez at 14, six years after he started DJing at eight.
Uganda's Nyege Nyege will hold its first European festival, MIRROR WORLD, in Brussels on September 25 and 26, 2026, with 40-plus artists and two-day tickets at 30 euros.
On 28 May 2026, Haitian-American DJ Francis Mercier headlined a Recovery Sessions show at Little Petra in Jordan, turning one of the New7Wonders into an open-air afro house party.
On June 20, 2026, Gärten brings Carl Cox and special guest Mau P to the gardens of one of France's most famous estates, with more than 15,000 people expected.
Dozens of mid-size festivals were cancelled across 2025 as infrastructure costs jumped 30 to 50 percent since 2019, hollowing out the exact rung of the touring ladder where most working house DJs build their fees, even as Tomorrowland and EDC sell out.
UNVRS was voted the No.1 club on the planet in its debut year by spending a reported 40 to 70 million euros to turn the old Privilege site into an arena-scale room, resetting what a superclub now costs to build.
After eight years building Sundays at Hï since its 2017 opening, Glitterbox jumps to Amnesia's Friday terrace for the club's 50th, while Defected itself drops down to the 1,000-capacity Chinois, redrawing Ibiza's brand map.
Pacha Group booked EUR 118.8m of revenue and EUR 40.5m EBITDA in the nine months to September 2025, and its Dubai owner FIVE has lined up a $460m facility to clone the brand from New York to Asia.
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