ARC Music Pageant Raises the Bar With Jaw-Dropping 2025 Lineup

Home music is coming house in 2025 after the organizers of Chicago’s ARC Music Pageant unveiled a jaw-dropping lineup that proves the style’s birthplace continues to be beating sturdy.

The beloved techno and home music competition returns to Chicago’s Union Park over Labor Day Weekend from August 29-31. This yr’s lineup marks ARC’s “most sonically various and bold curation but,” in response to a press launch.

Heading to the Windy Metropolis in 2025 are Jamie xx, Richie Hawtin, Boys Noize, Amelie Lens, FISHER, Scorching Since 82, John Summit, Anfisa Letyago, Nicole Moudaber, Honey Dijon, Duck Sauce, Claude VonStroke, Sub Focus and plenty of extra. The lineup additionally contains a slew of compelling b2b units from the likes of Skream and Hamdi, Ahadadream and Nikki Nair, and Adam Beyer and Layton Giordani, amongst many others.

Its pièce de résistance, nonetheless, is Eric Prydz, who’s returning to carry out underneath three of his aliases—Eric Prydz, Pryda and Cirez D—after doing so at ARC’s inaugural competition again in 2021.

And what would ARC be with out Chicago home legends? Returning house this yr are Derrick Carter, Gene Farris, Felix da Housecat and Inexperienced Velvet, the lattermost of whom may also DJ as Cajmere. They will all carry out throughout 4 phases at Union Park: Grid, elrow, Expansions and Space 909.

Produced by native promotion powerhouse Auris Presents, ARC may also as soon as once more provide its branded sequence of afterparties, which permits competition ticket-holders to bounce into the wee hours of the morning. This yr’s “ARC After Darkish” programming runs by means of Monday, beginning with an unique opening social gathering on Thursday, August twenty eighth headlined by Pryda.

You should purchase tickets to ARC by way of the competition’s web site and take a look at the competition’s full lineups under.