The Headliners, Ranked

1. ILLENIUM

No headliner has more history here. ILLENIUM was on the first Ubbi Dubbi in 2019, where he debuted "Good Things Fall Apart" with Jon Bellion, and on the 2021 edition, held at Texas Motorplex in Ennis as the festival came back from the pandemic. He arrives with ODYSSEY, a 19-track album from February 2026 with Ellie Goulding, Kid Cudi, Bastille and Bring Me The Horizon on it, which DJ Life Mag heard as brighter and more melodic than his phoenix-themed records, with Avicii and Calvin Harris as touchstones. His own Trilogy concerts have played NFL stadiums in Las Vegas, Denver and Los Angeles, billed as the first time an EDM act headlined its own football stadium.

2. MK

The house side's headliner has the longest record behind the desk. Marc Kinchen learned the studio from Kevin Saunderson in Detroit, and his 1990s remix of Nightcrawlers' "Push the Feeling On" is still a club standard. His own name took longer: MK's "Dior," with Chrystal, went to No. 1 in the UK in July 2025, about thirty years after "Always" first charted. If you see one Ubbi-side headliner, make it this one.

3. Deorro

Deorro played Panther Island in 2023 as the producer of "Five More Hours" and "Bailar." He comes back with BOTAS & RAVE, released in April 2026 on Peso Pluma's Double P Records: eleven tracks that push cumbia, banda, quebradita and tribal up to rave tempo, some as fast as 160 BPM. He told EDMTunes he planned a 15-to-20-minute live-band stretch for his shows; nobody has said whether that version comes to Fort Worth.

4. Galantis

Before Galantis, Christian Karlsson co-produced Britney Spears' "Toxic" as Bloodshy, and the project's Grammy-nominated "Runaway (U & I)" is the song most of the crowd will wait for. The newer story is the label. In July 2026 he signed to Counter Records, a Ninja Tune imprint, his first time off a major, and announced an EP of reworked songs by Frankie Valli, The Killers, Feist and The War on Drugs. This is his third Ubbi Dubbi, after 2019 and 2024.

5. Steve Aoki

Fifth isn't a knock. It's that you already know the set: Steve Aoki's cake-flinging and crowd-surfing are the show, and his raft-surfing closers at Tomorrowland go back to 2012. The frame is new. Dim Mak, the label he started in his UC Santa Barbara dorm room in 1996, turned 30 in 2026, and its anniversary tour opened in February, with a stage takeover at Ultra in Miami in March.

The Majors, Ranked

Our top major is 3BALLMTY, one of four acts billed for a sunset set. The Monterrey trio plays tribal guarachero, a style that took shape in clubs where tribal met the city's old love of Colombian cumbia. "Inténtalo" spent two weeks at No. 1 on Billboard's Latin chart in 2012 and came with a Latin Grammy for Best New Artist, and Sheeqo Beat says it's still the song people play at weddings and 15 años. Their 2025 La Vuelta Tour, their first U.S. run since 2014, stopped in Dallas, San Antonio, McAllen and Houston.

Second is Lilly Palmer, the purest techno booking on the bill. She taught herself to beat-match in Zurich in 2015, started Spannung Records in 2020, recorded a BBC Radio 1 Essential Mix in 2022 and made DJ Mag's cover in January 2026, the same year she played a closing set at EDC Las Vegas.

Third and fourth go to the Dubbi side's two strongest stories. Sullivan King, Keaton Prescott, plays electric guitar, sings clean and screams over dubstep, opened Avenged Sevenfold's North American arena tour in 2024, and has another of the sunset sets. Flux Pavilion made "I Can't Stop," the dubstep track Jay-Z and Kanye West sampled, and put out new versions of it after getting his masters back. His 2026 single "Goddess" is with Adventure Club, who also cut "You Can't Break Me" with Sullivan King and Atreyu, so Adventure Club link the other two.

Fifth, Holy Priest, the masked, anonymous German hard techno producer whose "Vielleicht Vielleicht" remix has passed 83 million Spotify streams. His own events go by the Holy Shit Show, built on minimal distance and maximum chaos, and some fans, who call themselves the Holy Clan, turn up dressed like him. Sixth, Jessica Audiffred, who built the bass infrastructure Mexico City didn't have: the A Records label in 2015, then the Mad House festival. She played here in 2024 and was Billboard's Dance Rookie of the Month the following March.

Seventh through ninth: Dimension, whose self-released debut Organ topped the UK's Official Dance Albums Chart in 2021 and who returns after a 2025 booking; WANKDAT, Crankdat and Wooli's back-to-back alias, which headlined Ultra Miami's Worldwide Stage in March 2026 and put out its first studio track, "Fux With Us," that August; and Adventure Club, whose remix of Flight Facilities' "Crave You" is still their most popular record by their own account. This is their fourth Ubbi Dubbi, after 2021, 2023 and 2025, and they have a sunset set.

The last four. NGHTMRE was on the first Ubbi Dubbi in 2019, and his 2025 album MINDFULL brought in Flowdan, A$AP Ferg and IRAH. ŁASZEWO, the Santa Barbara trio with the fourth sunset set, make vocal-first electro-pop; "messy" is past 113 million Spotify plays. TVBOO makes wonky, joke-laced bass on purpose, and "Bass Music" with GRiZ is the place to start. Last is ACRAZE, because one record still defines him: "Do It To It," the Cherish flip that won iHeartRadio's 2022 Dance Song of the Year. His 2026 Insomniac single "Whatcha Do To Me" points toward groove-first tech house.

If You Like X, See Y

Ubbi and Dubbi describe sound here, not stages; nobody's 2027 stage is announced. These pairings cross that line, and each rests on a real link between the acts.

If you like ILLENIUM, see ŁASZEWO and Distant Matter

If ODYSSEY's brighter, Avicii-leaning side is what you came for, ŁASZEWO come at melody from the pop end: vocal-first, built on synth chords more than drops. Distant Matter, a Toronto multi-instrumentalist who names Flume and Louis The Child as influences, toured with them in 2024 and released "Break a Sweat" with them that August.

If you like Lilly Palmer, see Dimension

In October 2026 Dimension released "Frequency" with Eli Brown on Insomniac Records, a track that splices driving techno with drum & bass. It's the clearest bridge between the two halves.

If you like Sullivan King, see Holy Priest and elMefti

TVBOO, a former metal drummer, decided heavy dubstep was basically metal in electronic form. Hard techno is the Ubbi side's answer to the same appetite. Holy Priest and elMefti share a catalog, "Drop This Bass" and "Under The Lights" among it, and Panteros666 b2b Pawlowski brings Pawlowski's acid lines and horror-score atmosphere.

If you like Deorro, see Jessica Audiffred, 3BALLMTY and JUOS b2b ROMMII

Audiffred's catalog includes "Que Calor" with Deorro, so she's the bass-side route in. 3BALLMTY guest on BOTAS & RAVE, and Deorro brought them out at EDC México in February 2025. On the house side, JUOS b2b ROMMII pairs two Southern California Latino producers; Juos was booked to support Deorro at Red Rocks in October 2026.

If you like Steve Aoki, see Rad Cat and Jay Pryor

Rad Cat put out "Diamond" on Dim Mak in 2021, in his future bass years, before moving to house and garage. Jay Pryor was one of the producers on "Just Hold On," Aoki's single with Louis Tomlinson, which entered the UK chart at No. 2.

Staying on one side works too. NGHTMRE put Crankdat on MINDFULL; Florida's Flozone, half of Flozone b2b STVSH, has had support from TVBOO; and Panteros666 made "Ultra Ray" with Zorza, another name on this lineup.

The Bottom Line

ILLENIUM and MK are the headliners to build around, one from each half. In the majors, 3BALLMTY, Lilly Palmer and Sullivan King are the sets we'd least want to miss, and the four sunset slots (3BALLMTY, Adventure Club, ŁASZEWO, Sullivan King) are the sets the festival itself has flagged so far.

Star what you want on the full lineup so the schedule builder can place it when times are posted. Then dig into our undercard picks, the genre guide, or the first-timer's guide.