Airbeat One 2026 reveals its full line-up — and Northern Germany's biggest electronic festival city is ready for the Netherlands
More than 350 artists, ten stages, a brand new Forest Area, and a country theme that promises to shape every corner of the site: Neustadt-Glewe Airfield is about to become something else entirely.
From July 8 to 12, 2026, Neustadt-Glewe Airfield transforms once again into Northern Germany's largest electronic festival city — and with the full line-up now revealed, the scale of what Airbeat One has assembled this year is hard to overstate. More than 350 artists from across the world will perform across ten stages under this year's country theme "Netherlands," a concept that will shape not just the spectacular Mainstage design but the lovingly crafted details spread across the entire festival site. The range of music on offer spans virtually every corner of electronic music: EDM, house, trance, techno, hardstyle, hardcore, hard techno, psytrance, and the greatest dance classics of all time all have a home here. Whatever brought you to electronic music in the first place, Airbeat One has a stage for it.
The Mainstage headline roster is as strong as it has been in years. Charlotte de Witte, Amelie Lens, and Lilly Palmer — three of the most influential techno artists in the world right now — will all perform on the festival's biggest stage, joined by Boris Brejcha with his unmistakable high-tech minimal sound, and ARTBAT bringing modern melodic techno to Neustadt-Glewe. Timmy Trumpet brings his unique live performance energy, W&W deliver their charged blend of big room and trance, and Brennan Heart represents full hardstyle power. The deeper Mainstage bill extends to Meduza, Marlon Hoffstadt, Hannah Laing, Holy Priest, Vini Vici, Neelix, Marten Hørger, Will Sparks, Luca-Dante Spadafora, Scooter, and a long list beyond — an impressive mix of international superstars and scene favourites that gives the main stage room to shift moods across the full festival run.
The Arena Stage remains Airbeat One's home of uncompromising techno. Italian duo 999999999 arrive with their analogue live sound, while Charlie Sparks, AZYR, OGUZ, and Paolo Ferrara deliver maximum rave energy. I Hate Models brings the kind of emotional intensity few artists in the scene can match, Clara Cuvé impresses with genre-crossing vinyl sets, and Kobosil — one of the defining names of modern Berlin techno — joins Lee Ann Roberts, Nicolas Julian, Onlynumbers, Fantasm, Domina, Vieze Asbak, and more in turning the Arena Stage into a meeting point for the international techno community.
One of the most exciting developments at Airbeat One 2026 is the arrival of the new Forest Area, anchored by a new stage called The Face, dedicated entirely to melodic techno and house. Meduza, Kölsch, Korolova, Innellea, and Wade headline the space — some of the most in-demand names in the genre worldwide — complemented by Layla Benitez, Max Styler, Laura van Dam, Einmusik, HNTR, Pretty Pink, and more. Alongside The Face, the new Festival Plaza hosts Groove Castle, a stage combining modern club sounds, melodic house grooves, and viral scene hits from George Radsport, Justin Tinderdate, Mika Heggemann, Paraçek, Trancemaster Krause, Hannah Laing, Pegassi, and others — a perfectly calibrated soundtrack for the space between festival feeling and club culture.
The Terminal Stage handles the current chart hits, festival anthems, and national crowd favourites. ATB — one of the most successful German dance exports of all time — makes his Airbeat One premiere here, joined by Gestört Aber Geil, Niklas Dee, LUNAX, Le Shuuk, AXMO, Die Gebrüder Brett, LIZOT, and more. The Harder Stage, meanwhile, is exactly what its name promises: Angerfist, one of hardcore's biggest icons, leads a bill that includes D-Block & S-te-Fan, Da Tweekaz, Ran-D, Rooler, Sickmode, and Devin Wild for an uncompromising journey through every facet of the harder end of electronic music. On the Second Stage, trance and psytrance take over, with German trance legend Paul van Dyk heading a high-calibre international line-up alongside Andrew Rayel, Ben Nicky, Ace Ventura, Blastoyz, Omiki, Ranji, Ghost Rider, Phaxe, and Fabio Fusco.
The expanded Butterfly Stage remains the emotional heartland for fans of dance classics, hands up, and party anthems — Cascada brings her world-famous hits, Alex Christensen presents legendary dance classics in a new guise, and Aquagen, DJ Quicksilver, Special D, Pulsedriver, Da Hool, Starplash, Mia Julia, Die Atzen, Frenzy, and Isi Glück round out a bill built entirely for those moments of pure, uninhibited nostalgia. And in 2026, Airbeat One also launches The Cube — a brand new stage dedicated to the stars of tomorrow, giving promising up-and-coming artists from Germany and Europe a platform that matches the festival's long-standing ambition to not just present the biggest acts of today, but actively develop the talents of the future.
Full Weekend Passes are available now at airbeat-one.de for €197.99 including all fees, with a Next Generation Ticket for attendees aged 16 and 17 available at €108.90 for all festival days. With ten stages, new areas, expanded camping, and a country theme built into every corner of the site, Airbeat One 2026 is shaping up to be one of the most ambitious editions in the festival's history. Neustadt-Glewe in July — start planning.
