Over the last five years, ARC has become an essential meeting point for electronic music’s most influential figures, emerging stars, and underground trailblazers, set against the backdrop of Chicago, the birthplace of house music. 

At this year's edition, we witnessed greatness on stage as Chicago's own @hiroko-yamamura-1 stepped up alongside Australian trailblazer @haai-2 for a legendary set.

More exclusive music

HAAi B2B Hiroko Yamamura | Mixmag Lab | ARC Music Festival 2025

A nod to the after-hours of the past, @hi_mija writes a nostalgic tribute to weekends spent on an unflagging dancefloor with an hour of throwbacks cruising through house, disco edits and techno mutations that span nearly three decades of dance music history. 

From the sunny cuts of Paul Johnson to Jeff Mills’ metallic “The Bells,” the set stitches together the ecstatic weirdness of Justice, the body-heat of Soulwax's “Work It" remix, and the sweat-strewn floor fillers of Todd Terry and Jamie 3:26. What emerges is both archival and forward-leaning: a collision of crate-dug classics, remixed gems, and underground anthems that turn the room into a time-bending continuum. Equal parts hedonism and history lesson from the 90s through the 2010s.

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Tracklist:
Paul Johnson - The Groove [Peacefrog Records, 1996]
Nick Monaco - Freak Flag [Soul Clap Records, 2014]
Crazy P - Virtuality [ Futureboogie Recordings, 2013]
Fort Romeau - Jack Rollin [100% Silk, 2012]
New Jack City - I Need Love [Music Is love, 2014]
Marie Davidson - Work It (Soulwax Remix) [Ninja Tune, 2019]
Audiojack - These Days (Jimmy Edgar Remix) [Gruuv, 2012]
Andy Woldman - I Should Not Change [Eisenwaren, 2017]
Desire - What I Want (Todd Terry Remix) [Defected Records, 2016]
Loleatta Holloway - Hit It N Quit It (Cratebug & Jamie 3:26) [Salsoul Records, 2017]
Boys Noize - Donnastag [909D1SCO, 2006]
Hijack - Keep It Real (Oliver $ Remix) [Potty Mouth Music, 2009]
Jesse Rose - Time is But a Moment (Victor Marsó Remix) [Play It Down Records, 2014]
Space Echo - Soul Power (Luv Shack Records, 2013]
Da Posse - In the Heat of the Night (The Black Madonna Remix) [Freerange Records, 2014]
Jeff Mills - The Bells (Purpose Maker, 1997]
Medicine 8 - Bone Of Her Hand [White Label, 2003]
Acid Kids - Expression [Trouvé Grooves, 2017]
Sneaker Pimps - Spin Spin Sugar (Armand Van Helden Remix) [Yoshitoshi Recordings, 2012]
Soulwax - NY Excuse (Justice Remix) [2003]

MIJA (House, Disco, Jackin, Techno) | OUTOFCHARACTER #001

Baddies to the front! In July, we brought Berlin mainstays, Live From Earth, to our summer residency in Amnesia.

Six Sex | Boiler Room Ibiza: Live From Earth

Miami in the house! Cole Knight raves it up with music from CC:DISCO!, Joshua James, Pureblast and a some new unreleased tunes, fresh off the press.

Tracklist:
Cole Knight - The Knight Club (UNRELEASED)
Shjva - Celestial Dub
CC:DISCO! - Magic is in the Tempo (Bashkka's Basic Instinct Mix)
Audrey Danza - New Flow
Lefblom - Mess Bells
Omar + - Open Your Eyes
Cole Knight and Mona Yim - Lucid (UNRELEASED)
Pureblast - Final Fantasy (VonRiu Remix)
Joshua James - Feel The Beat (Baby Rollen Remix)
Cole Knight - untitled (UNRELEASED)
Unison - Incredible SM
Cole Knight - Queen of the Crazy
Kurdish Delight - Hey DJ
Cole Knight - Turn It Up (UNRELEASED)
King Booo! - Tunes Since 89 (Prozak remix)

GuduMix 061: Cole Knight

FMB MIXTAPE 271 | JUXTA

Marco Bernardi - The Light Of Lights (FLRP001)
Souledge - Golden Nugget (PAGAN010)
Obsidian - Human Potential (TUNEZ005)
Z@P – Phenomenology (AOD004)
Böhm- Solar Cycle (DOLLY36)
Uabos - City Woods (BAP095)
Linear State - Octo (STTPLY001)
Explorative Badass - After Party Bullies 
Oliver Romero - Shout The Killer (POD031)
Coco Cole – Sunset (Forthcoming on Serenity Records)
Darren Rhys - Lost Soul (Katakana Remix) (ELECTRO019)
Uabos - Abc Dream (BM004)
Unknown Artist - Amor 

FMB MIXTAPE 271 | JUXTA

Ok, DC! It's time to rewind the tapes on our return to Washington this summer.

BRUX | Boiler Room x White Claw: DC

Topping off the broadcast of our DC weekender: Atlanta-based rapper Lazer Dim 700, experimental producer, rapper and Shed Theory member Joeyy, and DJ & producer Troyboi.

Lazer Dim 700 | Boiler Room: DC

Joeyy | Boiler Room: DC

4 new songs + remastered versions of the originals .

RX-8 [p. MLA™]

throw the drugs away

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Connecting club culture to the wider world, on screen and irl through parties, film and video.