Music
With its magnificent views and unreal atmosphere created by the midnight Sun, Solstice can feel like an extended daydream. This feeling is enhanced with a carefully curated music program featuring international guests, local legends, and rising talents spread across multiple stages.
From peaktime music to serene ambient oceans of sound, Solstice caters to a broad spectrum of sonic experiences. Lay down, dance wild.
The Solstice 2026 music program will be revealed in three parts. Below you'll find the first. The next part will come in December, and the final one in January.
Bella Sarris b2b Jessie Granqvist

What happens when you put an Aussie and a Swede in the same steam sauna? They go play a DJ set. And that’s exactly what’s happening here.
Bella Sarris was bred in Sydney’s early 00s prog and electro house scene, seasoned by Ibiza’s tech house, slow-cooked in Berlin’s minimal underground, and rested in Stockholm’s chic techno groove.
Jessie Granqvist on the otherhand is a longtime Stockholm hero. Rooted in Sweden’s open-air rave culture, her selections effortlessly weave between tension and release, drawing dancers into a meditative groove.
CEM

Around the latter part of 2010, Herrensauna began to sweep the dance music stratosphere by their feet. What started out as a queer haven for harder-edged techno and hedonism in Berlin, grew up to be a global go-to source of dancefloor satisfaction and liberation. One of it’s originators, CEM, is a known for UK-tweaked tracks from across the contemporary milieu of harder club works, without fear of breakbeats or sullen moments sandwiched in-between.
Denzel b2b Joni DJ

Over a decade of curating lineups, these two have tirelessly pushed the sonic frontiers in their hometown of Helsinki, brought in the top acts, while gathering the tidal before waves have even begun to form. Endlessly snooping around clubs and record stores around the world – literally from Tokyo to New York., their bags are filled with groovin’ smooths, trippy booms, smokey alarms, and A–tier first class.
DJ JVSLive

Bred and born in Helsinki, DJ JVS is a central figure from the newer generation of Helsinki nightclublife; A BELOW0–label affiliate, afterhours staple Stidilä’s promotor, and the mood regulator for the party side of town. From warming up the house for the likes of DVS1, Paquita Gordon and KI/KI, to going back-to-back with Buttechno and making crowds woo with ecstasy at festivals, these are all a testament to their vision and flexibility as a DJ. Now for the first time, we get to hear what this mischevious soul has got cooking through the live medium.
DJ Koolt

Only very few embody power as a deejay more than DJ Koolt. The one of kind Uruguayan is able to bring a fierce yet loving energy through the flick of his wrist, the snap of his fingers, and the thrust of his body. Combined with a topper than notch selection for tracks, a DJ Koolt dancefloor experience is cathartic to say the least.
Hitoshi b2b Justus

The loving party service duo, namely Hitoshi & Justus are all about Serious Fun™ . That’s what their newly formed club night promises (and delivers). Originally from Osaka, Hitoshi has called Helsinki home for god knows how long (feels like he’s always been here). Justus on the other hand hails from Lahti, sometimes refered to as the Chicago of Finland. Make what you will of that.
IslajaLive

Where traditional meets modern. Islaja is a longtime musician and visual artist, who for years lived in Berlin, but has recently relocated back to her hometown of Helsinki. Her first album Meritie (Fonal, 2004) gained praise in international music media such as The Wire, Dusted Magazine and WFMU, and she's since been on a steady streak of touring with Animal Collective, performing at the Thurston Moore curated All Tomorrows Parties 2000, laying down album after album of innovative Finnish folklore ambient.
KMRULive

When sound sits still while everything around you moves. Highly prolific Nairobian composer and sonic artist KMRU makes music that feels both etheral and terrestrial, grounding you at first while sending you off later. His often droney music utilizes sounds from his and our shared environment, provoking a closenss to everyday life and inviting you to see the beauty in it.
KofuLive

Kofu is the artistic alias for Moriamo Ahmed, a Finnish-born Nigerian poet, musician, and DJ. Their music travels on the sonic exploration of introspection, brought to life with vocal harmonies, violin, and experimental synth sounds. Kofu aims to encapsulate the premise of honesty through sifting through themes of home, body, sorrow, and love. Their work revolves around concepts of love and identity, and the strain it causes when the two don’t meet.
Lara Silva

Lara Silva picked up a variety of instruments growing up, but it was the 1s and 2s that made her fall in love. Her selection and confidence behind the decks speak to a dedication and thought process behind it. From techno to trance, these are shadow grooves to make you move.
Mad ProfessorLive Dub Show

Mad Professor is one of the leading figures in Dub. Having started building electronic equipment in the seventies, Neil Fraser evolved into building mixing desks and sound effect units. He opened his self built recording studios in 1979 attracting a variety of artists and musicians.
Miss Jay

Miss Jay is a Romanian DJ and producer based in Milan. Her musical path began in the underground hardcore metal scene, later evolving into electronic music, a transition that continues to shape her unique, genre-fluid identity. Her sets and productions are driven by constant experimentation, merging emotional depth with club-ready energy, and often leaning into the raw, shapeshifting nature of deconstructed club.
Mono JunkLive

Kimmo Rapatti aka Mono Junk is a quintessential name in minimalist techno. As one the founding fathers of the style, Mono Junk has been steadily releasing music since the early 90s, under labels such as Trope, Fordbidden Planet, Skudge, and his own imprint Dum Records, a seminal Finnish label. “Raw analogous minimal icy dark techno woven together in an experimental and hypnotic stone cold form”. Kimmo is responsible for some of the earliest techno productions ever emanating from Finland.
OK Williams

South east London’s OK Williams represents the newer wave of the English capital’s DJs with a highly energetic and wide selection, from techno to grime, electro to UK funky, drill to house. Williams’s sets are thrilling rollercoaster ride that would break apart if she wasn’t so damn skillful in gluing it alll together. Peng to the max.
Ozan

Istanbul-born, Helsinki-based powerhouse Ozan has in a couple of years convinced the crowds here that he is a force to reckon with. As a notable promoter back in his former hometown, and now resident of club Kaiku, he has hypnotic, groovy techno from the modern leftfield laid down to a tee.
Peach b2b C.K

House music galore. London’s big player Peach and arguably Århus’ most important dance music figure C.K are on the driving front of modern, classic-leaning house music. These two are all about the bounce, the rhythm, the pads and the shakery of ass. This bum-to-bum has “match made in dancefloor heaven” written all over it. And to our grandest of pleausures, we get to witnes this close to the sky.
RAMZiLive

With her strange sounds and irresistible rhythms, Phoebé Guillemot aka RAMZi maps a world that exists only in her imagination — a place where dub and 4th world influences mesh together with quirky house-y rhythms that evoke meadows of dreams. If playful is the aim, this is the best in the game. The past 10 years has seen her release music on Mood Hut, 12th Isle, Music From Memory and her own FATi Records to name a few.
RHR

RHR can refer to a resting heart rate. And if we approach this from that angle, we will quickly realise there is no resting but there's definitely a heartrate when we speak about Brazilian producer and DJ extraordinaire RHR. A thrilling mix of techno, bass, dancehall and baile are key here. And so is having fun and wildin’ out. The São Paulo artist is changing the face of Brazilian dance music.
Saint Nia

Big Sexxy Bass is one of the newer club nights in the nation’s capital, and it has gained traction especially among the post pandemic generation of clubbers, bringing international names from the modern club-o-sphere into our northern home. Its co-founder Nia, is a skilfull deejay who by way of mischief combines together sounds that are both familiar and new. It’s modern, it’s old. It’s broken, intact, and bold.
Sallidoing

Tech house kween Sallidoing does a lot. A dentist by day, and deck mechanic by night, her sets are a sure shot hoot, going from minimalistic house music to exuberant celebrations of life.
Sansibar b2b Spekki Webu

What happens when you combine two masses in weightless hyperspace, bind them together to form a covalent bond, and then just wait. Well, we’ll have to wait until summer 2026. But rest assured, it will be worth waiting.
Sonja Moonear

When speaking of European (minimal) house music legends, the name Sonja Moonear has to be included. In dance music, where movements and trends bubble up, bounce off one another and dissipate at startling pace, it takes conviction, dynamism, and an expansive record collection to stay the course. With one ear to the earth, and the other to the moon, Sonja Moonear weaves together feelings emotions through subtle hints and notes.
Sophia MitikuLive

Sophia Mitiku expertly crafts a liminal space of intros, outros and middles using yearnful poetic vocals, well placed speech segments and dreamlike honey-drenched sounds to create a pop-sensibility that doesn’t scream out for attention but earns it through sonic seduction.
Sugar Free

Of all the DJs who make a living spinning strange, I'm-not-sharing-the-tracklist kind of records, Sugar Free, originally hailing from Madrid, might be the most fun. She plays bold, colourful tracks with an air of sci-fi and sleaze, somewhere between Italo, hi-NRG, electro and house, with of course a fizzy soda popping techy bounce to it. 100% body movement and full capacity brain engagement.
TrickponyLive

Trickpony is a new exclusive collaboration between Perth producers Mike Midnight and Roza Terenzi and Helsinki singer, producer and designer Maria Korkeila. Aside from being the creator of the Achilles Ion Gabriel brand, Solstice alumni Korkeila has been making music as both emkay and gem-K, having performed under emkay at many versions of the festival.
Verraco

In the daring sonic fiction of JP López, the Medellín artist also known as Verraco, collides techno, latin-influenced tribal, hyper-electronica, carefully crafted IDM, and cutting-edge dembow-bass technology with both intensity and precision. His releases on Batu’s Timedance, Pariah’s VOAM, as well as TraTraTrax, the quintessential label he co-founded, have solidfied Verraco as highly notable figure in modern dance music.
Wekesa

As a dancer, cultural activist, and deejay Wekesa sees the dancefloor from multiple angles. However, a deep bodily connection is the key here. From dancehall to amapiano, baile to jersey club, the aim is to make you move your body in all kinds of ways. In the clubbing world, Wekesa has most notably formed the queer/POC night Club U-Haul, which has become a identity crossover haven for Helsinkians.
XIAOLINLive

XIAOLIN is an enigma. Balancing light and dark, driven by a deep curiosity for warm sounds, complex emotions and colourful textures, the Hong Kong-based musician, producer, and DJ is a rare occurance in today’s dance music. While being a trained violinist, she excels in deejaying as well as live performance, being able to pull of three different kinds of them.