Two days, two stages, and eighteen hours of nonstop music per day; Brooklyn’s leading underground techno collective unveils a 34-artist program spanning hard bounce, hard groove, hard techno, and hypnotic techno, led by Kobosil, Somewhen, Clara Cuvé, Volvox, Bad Boombox, Adrián Mills, and O.B.I., with a Sunday indoor takeover from Berlin's 44 Label Group.
After five years of warehouse nights and an ever-growing dancefloor family, ÄGAPĒ is putting the full shape of its first festival on the table. The New York event platform and record label reveals the complete lineup and full day-by-day timetable for the highly anticipated debut of ÄGAPĒ Festival, a two-day celebration of underground electronic music taking over Industry City in Brooklyn, New York on September 5 and 6, 2026. Built across two stages and running a remarkable eighteen hours each day, from noon until 6 AM, the inaugural edition marks the biggest moment yet for a collective that has built one of New York's most devoted dance music communities.
Across the weekend, the program charts a deliberate path through the breadth of contemporary techno, moving between the playful, melodic energy of hard bounce, the muscular swing of hard groove, the peak-time intensity of hard techno, and the trance-state pull of hypnotic techno - a range that few North American festivals attempt on a single bill.
"Five years ago, we started with a vision, and a community slowly grew around it. Over 120 events later, this festival is where that journey has led us. Two days, two stages, 18 hours of nonstop music each day. We built this platform for the artists, many of whom grew in notoriety right alongside us. This event is for the people who have shown up for us since the very beginning, as well as those who are yet to come. Industry City felt like the right place for New York to experience this movement."
- Andrés Daza (alias Junkfile), founder of ÄGAPĒ
Day one belongs to two distinct worlds. The open-air Hot Meal stage carries the festival from afternoon into night with a run of forward-thinking selectors - Daybreak, Saint Velez, Madness Of, Ollie Lishman, Fumi, Mischluft, Bad Boombox, and HHunter - moving from brighter, melodic territory toward harder, heavier ground as the sun goes down. Inside, the Face 2 Face stage brings one of European clubbing's most talked-about formats to New York, placing two artists opposite one another in the center of a 360-degree dancefloor with no booth and no hierarchy, only the conversation between them. Saturday's room hosts six of these pairings, threatening hard groove and hard techno through the format: Ramsey Neville F2F Michelle Kay, Junkfile F2F Diossa, Flash Gea F2F Conrad Taylor, Cloudy F2F Serafina, Adrián Mills F2F Emilija, and Fenrick F2F Supergloss.
Day two raises the intensity. The outdoor stage gathers a cross-Atlantic spine of hypnotic and hard techno: Dalton Taylor, Marco Neves b2b Jay York, Future.666, David Löhlein, Aiden b2b Kobosil, and Triptykh, with NYC mainstay Volvox and German hardtechno institution O.B.I. among the names anchoring the programming. Indoors, ÄGAPĒ hands the room over for a full takeover from 44 Label Group, the Berlin label and brand founded by Kobosil that has become one of the defining forces in contemporary hard techno. The takeover brings its core family across the Atlantic - KAYA, Ueberrest, Somewhen, Clara Cuvé, and Kobosil - and closes the festival with a rare three-way Kobosil b2b Somewhen b2b Ueberrest that carries the weekend to its peak.
Industry City offers a fitting home for a debut of this scale. The 35-acre industrial complex on the Sunset Park waterfront, begun in 1895 as Bush Terminal, has been reborn over the last decade as one of New York's most distinctive cultural campuses, today home to more than 650 businesses and a rapidly growing slate of large-scale music programming, from House of Yes open-air takeovers to May's inaugural WHY NOT NOW? Festival. ÄGAPĒ Festival will operate across an outdoor courtyard stage and a connected indoor warehouse room, both built out with full festival-grade production, designed to flow into each other so the program can move from sunlit afternoons into deep, late-night warehouse hours without losing the thread.
With doors at noon and music until 6 AM both days, ÄGAPĒ Festival 2026 delivers thirty-six hours of programming across the weekend. Two-day and single-day passes are on sale now. For full timetable details and ticket information, please visit https://agape-festival.com/.
Named for the Greek word for the highest and most selfless form of love, ÄGAPĒ began in 2021 as a single warehouse night in Brooklyn - a sound system, a carefully chosen lineup, and a room where people could lose themselves in the music. Five years and more than 120 events later, it has grown into one of New York's most respected underground electronic music platforms and a record label that has helped shape a new generation of American techno talent, surpassing $1M in total revenue while building a community defined by loyalty and trust. ÄGAPĒ Festival 2026 is the platform's most ambitious step yet: two days, two stages, 10,000 people, eighteen hours of music each day, and a Brooklyn industrial waterfront finally large enough to hold the movement that has grown around it.
AGAPĒ FESTIVAL 2026 FULL LINEUP (A-Z)
ADRIÁN MILLS
AIDEN
BAD BOOMBOX
CLARA CUVÉ
CLOUDY
CONRAD TAYLOR
DALTON TAYLOR
DAVID LÖHLEIN
DAYBREAK
DIOSSA
EMILIJA
FENRICK
FLASH GEA
FUMI
FUTURE.666
HHUNTER
JAY YORK
JUNKFILE
KAYA
KOBOSIL
MADNESS OF
MARCO NEVES
MICHELLE KAY
MISCHLUFT
O.B.I.
OLLIE LISHMAN
RAMSEY NEVILLE
SAINT VELEZ
SERAFINA
SOMEWHEN
SUPERGLOSS
TRIPTYKH
UEBERREST
VOLVOX
