KETTAMA Is About To Wreck North America This Fall

Few artists have gone from underground favorite to global festival weapon as fast as KETTAMA.

Evan Campbell, born May 30, 1997 in Galway, Ireland, is the artist behind one of the most exciting rises in underground electronic music in recent memory. He goes by KETTAMA. He makes house music that hits like a truck, sounds like nothing else, and has been turning dancefloors into absolute chaos since before most people knew his name.

This fall he is coming back to North America for the biggest run of shows of his entire career and if you sleep on this one that is genuinely on you.

Comes and Goes Is Finally Out

If you needed any more proof that 2026 is fully KETTAMA's year, here it is.

Comes and Goes is officially out now on Spotify after months of unreleased clips, festival plays, and nonstop demand from fans online. The track first surfaced during Miami Music Week at Factory Town where it immediately became one of the most talked about IDs floating around the underground circuit.

The collaboration with Chris Stussy quickly became one of those tracks people were begging DJs to upload after every set. TikTok clips spread everywhere, crowds were screaming it back in clubs before the track even officially existed online, and the comments under every KETTAMA post turned into people asking the exact same question. When is this dropping.

Now it finally has.

The track blends KETTAMA's massive rave energy with Chris Stussy's deep rolling grooves in a way that feels built for packed warehouse rooms at 4AM. Warm, emotional, heavy, and impossible to ignore.

Between a massive new release and the biggest North American run of his career, KETTAMA is moving like an artist entering a completely different level right now.

The Fall North America Tour

This fall North America is getting the full KETTAMA experience.

This is officially KETTAMA's biggest North American headline run to date, with larger venues, heavier production, and some of the biggest crowds of his career already expected. From warehouse spaces to festival scale stages, this feels less like another tour announcement and more like a full arrival moment.

Confirmed North America Dates

• October 1 at Shrine Expo Hall in Los Angeles
• October 8 at Knockdown Center in New York
• October 16 at A.I. Warehouse in Washington DC
• October 18 at LIV Nightclub in Las Vegas
• October 23 at SILO in Dallas
• October 24 at Mission Ballroom in Denver
• October 30 at HISTORY in Toronto
• November 1 at LIV Nightclub in Las Vegas

The run will also feature B2B sets with Interplanetary Criminal, PROSPA, and KETBOI69, bringing some of the most in demand names in underground dance music onto the same stages.

This is not just another club tour. This feels like the moment an underground favorite officially levels up into something much bigger.

From Galway To Everywhere

When Campbell was 16 he bought a Launchpad that came with a trial of Ableton, where he started experimenting by remaking the piano from Tyga's I'm Different. Six months later he downloaded a cracked version of FL Studio and started uploading his tracks to SoundCloud. Not to impress anyone. Not to build a brand. Just because he loved it.

By 17 he was holding down the back room of a Galway club called Carbon alongside his friend and collaborator Shampain, playing to crowds who had no idea they were watching someone who would go on to headline Coachella, Glastonbury, and Red Rocks.

Galway was never supposed to produce one of dance music's biggest breakout stars. That did not stop him.

With so few clubs to network in, KETTAMA relied on music forums, Facebook, and SoundCloud to build a following. Then one day a promoter in China slid into his DMs asking him to come over for a three day tour. He thought it was a scam. He went anyway.

That trip changed everything.

The Track That Started It All

Coming back from China, everything moved fast. His track B O D Y started getting plays from the right people at the right time. In KETTAMA's case that person was Mall Grab.

KETTAMA gave him a USB when he was touring Ireland, hardly expecting a response. But Mall Grab started playing B O D Y in his sets, the internet found out, and suddenly everyone wanted to know who this kid from Galway was.

With the backing of Mall Grab, The Black Madonna, and Annie Mac, his debut EP landed on New York label HOMAGE, caught the attention of Mixmag and DJ Mag, and sold out physical copies immediately.

By May 2018 he was playing peak time at Life Festival in Ireland. The kid who used to sneak into clubs on his brother's ID was now the one people were showing up to see.

The Sound

KETTAMA makes high energy house and techno that pulls from rave, breakbeat, and UK bass, blending nostalgic rave sounds with a modern club feel that hits completely differently in a room than it does through headphones.

All in the box, no outputs, made with a truckload of samples in FL Studio. No modular this and that. He sits down, whatever comes out, comes out.

It sounds simple. It is not simple. It just sounds like it because he makes it look easy.

The Collabs, The Album, The Moment

In 2019, he co founded G Town Records with Shampain, named after their shared hometown of Galway. The label gave them full control over the artwork, the music, the releases, the merch, everything. That independence has defined everything he has done since.

Along the way he linked up with Underworld, released collaborative projects under KETBOI69 with Partiboi69 and Samba Boys with Tommy Holohan, and landed a collaboration with Fred again.. on his debut album.

That debut album Archangel came out in 2025 on Steel City Dance Discs and hit number 1 on the UK Official Dance Albums Chart, spending five weeks on the chart and reaching number 6 in Ireland.

A debut album. Number one. That is not something that happens by accident.

He also spent the year playing everywhere from Coachella and Glastonbury to Red Rocks and Club Space Miami, while picking up Breakthrough Artist of the Year 2025 from DanceToday.

At this point calling him a breakthrough artist almost feels like an understatement.

From a cracked version of FL Studio in Galway to headlining Shrine Expo Hall in Los Angeles and Knockdown Center in New York. The story writes itself.

Go get your tickets before they disappear.