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House music across Asia: new releases, club nights, festival stages and the DJs carrying the four-four from Bangkok to Tokyo. Loopliner's most-read tag.
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Carlita is not underground anymore and Patchwork proves it.
From classical cello training at the Royal Academy of Music in London to Coachella 2026 in the same lifetime. Carlita just dropped Patchwork on Ninja Tune and it sounds exactly like an artist arriving at their moment. DC10 Ibiza is next. Read the full story and go stream it right now.
Five Days in a Forest and No Excuses allowed: Dekmantel 2026
Dekmantel 2026 is five days in a forest with 160 artists and a house music lineup that will make you rethink every other festival you have ever been to.
They Slept on Latin America. That Was the Last Mistake.
From Santiago to Madrid to Ibiza, a new generation of house music DJs is taking over European dancefloors and they did not need anyone's permission to do it. Fernanda Arrau and Jay de Lys are just the beginning.
Tokyo After Midnight: The Underground Scene the World Wants
Tokyo's clubs run until 5am, the crowds know exactly what they came for, and the DJs treat a set like a commitment not a highlight reel. The world is catching up to what Japan built.
Electric Forest 2026: Tech House Magic Lights Up Sherwood Forest
Electric Forest 2026 June 25–28 Rothbury MI: Sherwood Forest glows with secret parties, Tripolee house beats, epic installs. Chris Lake headlines, GRiZ doubles up, wild B2Bs await. Tickets vanishing fast?
Boothstock 2026: Rotterdam's Forest Gets Loud Again
Boothstock 2026 is back in Rotterdam's Kralingse Bos on June 13. Seven stages, 10 hours of house and techno, and Armand Van Helden returning to the city for the first time in over 20 years. Benny Rodrigues, Hot Since 82, Prunk, 999999999 and more. €63.50. Go get your ticket.
D Stone: From Piano Lessons To Europe’s Hottest Dancefloors
Amsterdam producer D Stone plays piano, builds studios from scratch, and just got booked for 909 Festival alongside Jeff Mills and Eric Prydz. His house music has soul in places most producers do not even look. Resonant Dreams EP is out now. Go listen.
Meet Proppa, the Remix Guy Running the Underground
Proppa is the Chicago DJ loading everyone else's flash drive and not asking for credit. House music kid turned underground heavyweight, one bassline at a time.
Doof in the Park 2026: Dundee's Bold Park Festival Takeover
Dundee built a festival from scratch, sold it out before the lineup even dropped, and somehow got Paul van Dyk, Eddie Halliwell, and Lilly Palmer to show up to a park. Year two of Doof in the Park hits Camperdown on July 4th and it is not slowing down.
Sónar 2026 Just Turned Barcelona Into a House Music Problem
Sónar Barcelona just restructured everything for 2026 and the house music lineup is genuinely one of the strongest in Europe right now. MK b2b TSHA. Glitterbox taking SonarHall at 1am Saturday. Dom Dolla with a full AV show on the biggest dancefloor in the world. Six stages. Music from 5pm to 7am. All in one building in Barcelona. June 18 to 20. This one is not a maybe. Read the full breakdown before you talk yourself out of going.
Sammy Virji Is Having the Year Nobody Saw Coming
Sammy Virji sold out Alexandra Palace twice, got a Four Tet remix, and still has Sónar, Finsbury Park and Red Rocks left on the calendar. UK garage is having its moment and he is leading it. Read the full story.
Glorious Day Festival Just Made June Very Complicated
Glorious Day Festival just dropped a lineup that should not be possible for a one day boutique festival. Groove Armada. Jocelyn Brown live. Todd Terry. Norman Jay. Brighton seafront. 13 June. Go get your ticket before someone else does.
The Man Who Put Africa on the Dancefloor Is Coming for London
There is a moment in every Black Coffee set where time kind of stops. The bass gets deep. The drums get personal. And something that started as house music starts to feel like the entire African continent just sat down in the room with you. That is the thing about Black Coffee. He is not just playing records. He is doing something to the air.
One Saturday in Cheshire That You Will Not Forget
No camping. No chaos. Just a beautiful garden in Cheshire and a lineup that basically built the dancefloor you grew up on. Daresbury Festival 2026 is June 20th at Walton Hall and Gardens. 808 State headline. Sam Divine is the special guest. Tickets are going fast.
The Festival That Brings House Music Home Is Getting Bigger
House music is going back to where it was born. ARC Music Festival returns to Chicago's Union Park this Labor Day weekend for its biggest edition yet. Four days for the first time. Over 100 artists. Anyma, Honey Dijon, Derrick Carter, Carl Craig, Moodymann, The Blessed Madonna, Joy Orbison and many more across four stages. September 4 through 7.
Dunya Means World. Khadija Is Building One.
There is a producer in Berlin making the most personal project in house music right now. Her name is Khadija. Dunya means world in Arabic and the trilogy she is building on Radio Slave's REK'D label explores exactly that. Faith, grief, resilience, one chapter at a time. Dunya I came in January. Dunya II just landed May 1. One chapter still to come. Get familiar before the world catches up.
How DJ Mandy Turned the Internet Into a Career
So DJ Mandy started as a TikTok joke. Funny mixes, chaotic energy, the whole thing. Then she kept going. Then the festivals called. Then Breakaway Tampa put her on the same lineup as Dom Dolla and Tiësto. Then the original music dropped and the clubs started playing it. Funk U Want and And That Is House are not content drops. They are actual records. The internet found her first but the dance floor is keeping her.
merchant: The Jamaican DJ Giving Afro House a Soul
merchant is the Jamaican born Afro house producer already backed by Black Coffee, Diplo and Pete Tong. He is making dance floor records with real emotional depth and the scene is paying attention.
Cercle Festival 2026 Said Hold My Rocket
Cercle Festival 2026 is putting house music inside an aerospace museum and honestly it is the most dramatic thing to ever happen to a kick drum. Kerri Chandler, Michael Bibi, Eric Prydz and 41 others. Three stages. One rocket. Two Concordes. An A380. May 22 to 24, Le Bourget, Paris. See you on the tarmac.
Positive Energy: How Jamback Became House Music's Biggest Breakthrough of 2026
The Dutch house music producer who went from Amsterdam's underground to Beatport number one. Jamback's rise in 2026 is the story you need to read.
PollerWiesen 2026: One Sunday, No Regrets
25,000 people, four stages, one Sunday in Dortmund that your future self will absolutely thank you for. PollerWiesen Festival 2026 is here and the lineup just made every other plan irrelevant.
BAUM Festival 2026: Eleven Years, One Dancefloor and the Best Lineup Yet
Eleven years in and BAUM Festival 2026 just dropped a lineup that has no right to be this good. Disclosure in DJ mode, Mall Grab on the floor, Cassian bringing the feelings and Underworld performing live. Bogota, May 22 and 23.
X and Ivy Are Building Something and the Underground Has Already Noticed
Australian DJ duo X and Ivy have gone from lockdown fame to underground house credibility, and their 2026 EP "Broken Jam" might be their best argument yet for why that switch was worth it.
Gottwood 2026: The Welsh Woodland Festival That Refuses to Sleep
Gottwood turns fifteen in June 2026 and the Welsh woodland is about to go fully unhinged. John Talabot, Eris Drew b2b Octo Octa, Gene On Earth, Sally C, Nicolas Lutz and about sixty other reasons to cry on a dance floor are all confirmed. Oh and they got a 24 hour licence this year so the party literally does not stop. Five thousand people, one ancient forest, zero bad taste in music. Your summer plans just sorted themselves.