Seismic Dance Event is back. Southern U.S.A’s essential house and techno festival has revealed its phase one lineup for the 9.0 edition. It returns to Austin’s The Concourse Project from November 13–15, 2026. Nine editions in, Seismic continues to build a lineup that genuinely reflects the full breadth of underground dance music.
Founded in 2018, Seismic Dance Event is the only music festival in the Southern United States providing a solely-focused house and techno experience. One can say ‘a meticulously created boutique event’. From its origins in a warehouse, it has pulled legendary electronic names including Underworld, Orbital, deadmau5, and Gesaffelstein. Previous editions have featured Charlotte de Witte, Four Tet, Gesaffelstein, Chris Lake, Deadmau5, and Kaskade. The festival is curated and produced by RealMusic Events, located at its home venue The Concourse Project, owned and operated by the same collective organisation.
Phase One Line-up
The headline tier covers significant ground. Above & Beyond bring their cross-generational Anjunafamily to Austin for what promises to be one of the most emotionally charged sets of the weekend. Porter Robinson, whose ability to occupy thepace between underground credibility and mainstream crossover remains unmatched. He joins a bill that also features Sara Landry. She is Austin-born hard techno powerhouse who continues to prove that the city’s own scene can compete with any in the world. KI/KI, the Amsterdam selector who has become one of the most in-demand names in melodic techno, and SG Lewis, whose approach to dance music sits somewhere between late-night club and festival main stage.
The mid-tier lineup reflects Seismic’s commitment to programming across the full underground spectrum. Chris Lorenzo, Max Styler, and Layton Giordani anchor the house and melodic techno contingent. VTSS brings her hard-speed selector energy. Brutalismus 3000 bring industrial techno intensity. The UK garage contingent — MPH, Notion, Diffrent, and Smokey Bubblin’ B — adds a dimension that few American festivals would think to include, and the pairing of Cole Knight b2b Dreya V signals the kind of curatorial thinking that keeps Seismic’s programming interesting year on year.
Further depth comes from Luke Alessi, Devault, HNTR, Kyle Starkey, Adam Sellouk, 1TBSP, BOLO, Kamino, Brunello, Benwal, Joss Dean, Conrad Taylor, Mestiza, Fallon, Hills, Welker, and Starjunk 95. This looks like a roster of rising and genre-pushing acts that gives the weekend its forward-looking energy.
The Venue
The Concourse Project was built from a blank warehouse shell by local promoters Kelly Gray, Andrew Parsons and David Brinkley. It opened in 2021 with a 18,000 square-foot modular warehouse main hall designed specifically for electronic music events. The venue features a large mainroom floor, upstairs mezzanine, outdoor patio, and adjacent field, a hybrid indoor-outdoor setup that gives Seismic its distinctive multi-stage character.
The festival unfolds across three signature stages: the indoor Volcano, the outdoor Tsunami, and the Frequency stage. Each stage has its own distinct visual identity, sound design, and curated programming. Also, immersive afterparties carry the energy through the night inside the main room. Across fifteen acres of space, art installations, food trucks, vendors and performers fill the gaps between sets.
Tickets
Three-day GA passes and VIP experiences are available now at the official Seismic Dance Event website. The festival runs November 13–15, 2026 at The Concourse Project, Austin, Texas. Phase two lineup announcements are still to come. Get tickets here.
