Marten Hørger delivers the official Parookaville 2026 anthem with "Rave" — and it sounds exactly like its name
A hard, dancefloor-oriented house and tech-house cut, a festival that's become a second home, and a summer that keeps getting bigger for one of Germany's most in-demand producers.
When Parookaville commissions an official anthem, it needs to do one thing above everything else: sound like the moment it's soundtracking. With "Rave," Marten Hørger has delivered exactly that. Out now via Kontor Records, the track is built on a club-focused blend of house and tech-house with a hard, dancefloor-oriented beat and the kind of relentless peak-time groove that doesn't ask permission from the room — it just takes it. As the official anthem for Parookaville 2026, it will find its natural home when the festival returns to Weeze Airport on July 17-19, where Hørger will bring it to the stages alongside a lineup that includes Armin van Buuren, Charlotte de Witte, Fisher, The Chainsmokers, Steve Aoki, Boys Noize, Pendulum, and more. This year's edition also marks a first in Parookaville's history: with the World Cup taking place over the festival weekend, screens across the grounds will let attendees move between the dancefloor and the football without missing either — a collision of two entirely different kinds of collective euphoria that somehow feels completely fitting for a festival that has always been about bringing people together around shared intensity.
"Parookaville Festival has become a second home to me over the years. I'm incredibly proud and excited to deliver this year's official anthem." — Marten Hørger
"Rave" arrives during one of the most productive and high-profile stretches of Hørger's career. Recent months have seen him move fluidly between solo work and major collaborative projects — from "Arizona" with Robin Schulz to Men Machine, his joint project with David Guetta, announced live on the Quasar stage at Coachella in April 2026. That range is characteristic of an artist who has spent years building a sound broad enough to operate across very different contexts without losing its identity. DJ Mag simply calls that sound "The Future," and the numbers behind it are hard to argue with: 150 million streams on Spotify, the title of Beatport's most successful Bass House act of all time as of 2022, a place at number 88 in the DJ Mag Top 100, and a consistent ranking inside 1001 Tracklists' list of the 50 most influential electronic artists year after year. His collaborator list — David Guetta, Dillon Francis, Tchami, Apashe, Habstrakt, Sonny Fodera — reads like a map of where house and bass music currently intersect, and his festival résumé, which takes in Tomorrowland's mainstage, EDC's mainstage, Glastonbury, Burning Man, Shambhala, and Fusion, tells you he has long since graduated from promising name to main-stage fixture. "Rave" is the sound of an artist who knows exactly what a festival anthem needs to be — and has the experience to deliver it without breaking a sweat.
