From genre-hopping emerging DJs to a headline set from Four Tet, via live shows from electronic luminaries and finishing moves from jungle legends, here's your guide to electronic and dance music at Wales' largest independent festival.
Green Man Festival returns this week for another sold out edition.
Taking place from 20th - 23rd August in Bannau Brycheiniog National Park, Wales’ largest independent festival will once again host a hugely varied line-up of music, arts, science and comedy across its 16 stages, from the picturesque Mountain main stage and Walled Garden to the Far Out big top tent and the intimate Chai Wallahs, Round The Twist and Rising stages.
Alongside indie-rock, folk and experimental acts such as Mogwai, Wilco, ML Buch, Joanne Robertson, Tara Clerkin Trio, Maria Somerville, Aldous Harding, Cate Le Bon and Wolf Alice, this year’s line-up features more for electronic music fans than ever before, from headline DJ sets and rave-y late-night offerings to crossover acts balancing post-punk abrasion and global sounds with synth-led dancefloor heft.
Below we’ve pieced together an electronic music fan’s guide to Green Man Festival 2026. Find more details about the line-up on the festival's website and check out the full stage breakdown here.
Attendees arriving on Thursday afternoon can ease themselves into festivities at Chai Wallahs, the longstanding and much-loved touring festival venue which, throughout the weekend, will host DJ sets and live performances from emerging and established grassroots artists from across the genre spectrum.
Members of the Bristol-based Diplomats Of Sound DJ collective – whose founders Si Chai and Toast are also those behind Chai Wallahs – will warm things up with their usual mix of reggae, hip-hop, dub, funk and more, before sets from the likes of vinyl scavenger Charity Shop Soundclash, Gnawa-afrobeat-house-dub-d&b fusionists S.
I. M. O & Hippo Sound System, and Electric Avenue DJs take things through to the end of night one.
Meanwhile, if Far Out sets from Stereolab-esque French outfit Userband or Scottish post-rock titans Mogwai don’t take your fancy, nor the emotive electronic pop of Art School Girlfriend at the Walled Garden, Round The Twist will be hosting a DJ takeover from London venue The Social, preceded by a “no pretense—just pure energy” set from Beatvis & Basshead and followed by a slot from Heavenly Recordings affiliate and Confidence Man remixer Che Wax.
The festival’s first full day will see headline performances from Chicago indie-rock heroes Wilco, post-wave-disco swagger merchant Baxter Dury and Michigan punks Prostitute, but before all that there’ll be plenty for those in search of electronic sounds to get stuck into.
Mid-afternoon on the Mountain Stage will see legendary Ghanaian musician Ata Kak bring his irresistible mixture of highlife, electro-funk and hip-hop, all against the stunning backdrop of Crug Hywel.
Meanwhile, over on the Far Out stage, after a set from Irish dream-pop luminary Maria Somerville, buzzy indie-electronic duo ear will be dishing out a trademark helping sweet-hearted songwriting mixed with fizzy IDM, all flickering beats, glitching synths and hushed sample trickery, mapping a scenic route from Squarepusher to Grouper and back again.
Over at Chai Wallah’s, you’ll be able to hear a mix of kuduro, Afro house, dembow and more courtesy of London-born Congolese bassist, producer, chemist and DJ Marla Kether.
Later, on the same stage, Afro-electro-punk outfit Pigeon – featuring Make A Dance's Josh Ludlow – will bring the late-night live energy. In the evening, Round The Twist will get going with sets from Balearic house duo ddwy, NTS Radio breakfast show host, omnivorous listener, and top notch DJ Flo Dil, Sub Club resident ButhoTheWarrior, and PRAH Recordings / Amateurism Radio DJs.
After a slot from Copenhagen's incomparable ML Buch at the Walled Garden, former DJ Mag cover star Avalon Emerson will bring her & The Charm project to life, trading the high-voltage house and techno of her DJ sets for the open-hearted dream-pop of her new album, ‘Written Into Changes’, accompanied by a full band.
Later, post-headline activities at the Walled Garden will see Leeds sextet Adult DVD and London trio PVA bring things to a close with a few hours of riotous dance punk.
At the same time, Montréal techno-pop provocateur Marie Davidson will bring her infamous live show to the Far Out stage, followed by Lone, who’ll wind things down with the blissed-out rave dreamstates of his recent album ‘Hyperphantasia’.
For many electronic music fans at Green Man this year, Saturday’s Mountain Stage headliner will surely be the highlight of the weekend. It’ll actually be Four Tet’s fourth time playing Green Man, having played his debut Saturday headline slot all the way back in 2004, a year after he released his breakthrough solo album ‘Rounds’.
After playing again in 2009, he returned 10 years later to headline The Mountain with a live set on the Saturday night of 2019’s festival.
This year, he returns with his DJ hat on. After a couple of years that have seen the UK visionary play on some of electronic music’s biggest stages, from Coachella and Tomorrowland to KappaFutur and EDC Las Vegas, as well as headlining events in London’s Finsbury Park and Alexandra Palace, his tekkers as a CDJ gunslinger have never felt sharper, or more tuned for dancefloor euphoria.
There’ll be plenty to get stuck into before that though. At Chai Wallah’s earlier in the afternoon, Bristol-based Eva Lazarus will “plug life and soul directly into the sound-system” with a mix of reggae, dub, and garage.
At the Walled Garden, celebrated UK producer and one-half of Simian Mobile Disco James Ellis Ford will play live in the afternoon, performing songs from his ‘Lost In Another World’ album, which he wrote largely from a hospital bed while undergoing treatment for cancer.
Over on the Far Out stage, former DJ Mag cover star Daniel Avery will play his first of two sets of the day in the evening, letting rip on his full-band live set to recreate the shoegaze, trip-hop and industrial-edged sound of his 2026 album ‘Tremor’.
He’ll return to close out the stage with a typically thundering DJ set later on in the night, but not before Hessle Audio’s Ben UFO follows Four Tet with what’s sure to be a 90-minute masterclass in whirling club music, from bass-fueled house and techno through garage, dubstep and beyond.
At the same time, those in search for something a little more intimate but no less rowdy can be sure to get their fill at Round The Twist, where Dutty Disco, Ruthless and Mermaid Chunky DJs will preside over the late-night revellers in the festival’s silliest corner.
Sore heads are sure to be soothed early Sunday afternoon courtesy of Jennifer Walton, whose 2025 album ‘Daughters’ on Local Action swapped the weighty deconstructed club stuff for which she’d previously been known for an exquisite experimental indie-pop / avant-folk navigation of grief.
Meanwhile, Hot Chip’s Alexis Taylor will bring the sweet sound of his debut solo album ‘Paris In Spring’ to The Mountain stage, before a set from XL Recordings owner Richard Russell under his trip-hop moniker Everything Is Recorded.
Later on, at Round The Twist, Russell will be DJing after sets from AD93 affiliates Tracey and Birmingham MC and recent DJ Mag artist Tony Bontana. There’ll be more trip-hop in the evening courtesy of Tricky, who’ll headline the Walled Garden with songs from his murky new opus ‘Different When It’s Silent’.
For those in search of something a little more uptempo, Aussie duo Fcukers will knock any leftover cobwebs away with their glossy dance-pop cool at the Far Out stage on Sunday night, followed by a headline set from art pop pioneers Sparks.
While the summer’s extremely dry weather means that there will be ceremonial burning of the Green Man effigy on Sunday night, the line-up for the final few hours of the festival will feature more than enough fire to keep you dancing until the very end.
On the Far Out stage, closing duties will be handled by jungle / drum & bass legends Roni Size, alongside MC Fearless, and DJ Mag Best of British Outstanding Contribution award winner DJ Flight.
Expect timeless rave energy to take you through to the early hours.
Alternatively, at Chai Wallahs, Afrodisiac DJs will be winding things down, while over at the Walled Garden, Green Man regulars Deptford Northern Soul Club will celebrate their tenth anniversary with their annual closing set.
A joyful, limb-swinging way to end what’s sure to be yet another exceptional weekend in Wales.
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Informação baseada em material público de DJ Mag, reescrito pela redação ULTRA NOTÍCIAS.
