Chimaera Festival 2026

Fri 14.08.2026 12:00

Glad you found your way here. With that, you’ve already completed the hardest part. Now it’s time to arrive, drift away, and dive in. Sounds good? Feels right? Then stay.

Chimaera is entering its fourth edition. A volunteer-run, non-commercial festival — by ravers, for ravers. Rooted in subculture, built for the subculture. No sponsors, no glossy facade, no attitude — just genuine passion, collective energy, and a space that belongs to all of us.

Between forest and water, at Klingemühle just outside Berlin, a world of its own emerges for a few days: carefully curated electronic music, live acts, bands, workshops, sauna, art, and FUNFUNFUN across five floors. High-quality sound and thoughtful lighting concepts meet solid infrastructure — a holiday for everyone without losing its intimate vibe.

Never been before? Maybe it’s time.

Been there already? Then you know what to do.

We can’t wait to have you with us.

// The Chimaera Festival 2026 is supported by Initiative Musik and the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media.

Performers

MIDNXGHT
MIDNXGHT - DJ / PRODUCER - Based in Leipzig, Germany
abs8lute
ABS8LUTE is a French DJ and music activist.
Asphalt DJ
RA: Resident Advisor
Bambi
RA: Resident Advisor
boris (creme club)
RA: Resident Advisor
Boris & Davy
Leipzig-based (tech)-house music lover and record collector. Co-founder and creative mind behind the Crème Club music label and event series.
Caldera
RA: Resident Advisor
Carotin
RA: Resident Advisor
CCL
subglow / liquidtime.

CCL(they/them) liquefaction of rhythmic and melodic matter—combustive phase transitions through wiggle-steppers, trip-no, dub-core, cowgirl-breaks, trip funk, shoe-gays, drum & face.
Cousin
Diving from starlit heights to ocean depths, Cousin’s echoes step through tempos and styles while summoning surreal sonic landscapes centered in spacious atmospherics, subterranean bass pressure and rhythmic hypnotisms.
Darwin
RA: Resident Advisor
Delta Division
RA: Resident Advisor
Desirée Falessi
RA: Resident Advisor
Eliza
Eliza is an avid music and record collector.
Enrica Falqui
Enrica Falqui is a Italian music producer and DJ currently based in Berlin.
Giraffi Dog
RA: Resident Advisor
Hanna Baertig
Berlin based DJ/ Resident at ALLER ENDE ANFANG
Multifun
Multifun is a DJ, the host of the Multimix podcast series and a graphic designer based in Berlin.
jewelry
jewelry is a DJ based in Leipzig and part of the Zeitraum crew.
Miss Take
Miss Take stands for catching vibes rather than genres. Accordingly, she never fails to bring a listening environment to life, utilizing ambient and anything suitable for truly chilling out, carefully curating a mix to set the perfect mood.
Jotel California
DJ and producer based in Berlin.
Lulu & Nell
Lulu & Nell began their journey through a shared passion for house music. Based in Leipzig, the duo blends minimal, tech and deep house into a warm, playful sound. Together with Crème Club, they curate events focused on delicate sound and good vibes.
Lux.
RA: Resident Advisor
Miran N
LATE NIGHT TOOLS AND TEMPORARY HAPPINESS AT INSOLAR
Miscmeg
mp.ulle
RA: Resident Advisor
DJ G1NA R.
RA: Resident Advisor
Mruda
Mruda is a project that seeks to merge diverse genres, approaches, and narratives—such as minimalism, shamanic sounds, and alternative landscapes—into a unified aesthetic vision.
Naone
Clown also needs a holiday...
Natalie Robinson
HOUSE HOUSE HOUSE HOUSE
Neuzeitliche Bodenbeläge
Berlin-based duo playing oddball German language wave with both pop sensibilities and rave desires.
Niklas Wandt
Berlin-based drummer/percussionist/singer/synth twiddler/DJ

solo and in projects

running the Smells party series at Sameheads
not even noticed
not even noticed is a project dedicated to broken beats, dreamy pads and ravy sounds, founded in early 2020.
N ska
Kasia Gościńska AKA N ska @n___ska - Berlin-based DJ and cultural organizer connecting European club and festival ecosystems. Co-creator of the @irl.berlin and @__acidreflux events, member of the @fraktionnimmersatt rave collective.
O/Y
slow minimal / micro house live artist based in berlin
Black Mirror Park
disc jockey & deck shark

party & politics
Olsvangèr
Based in Berlin

aka DJ Headshot

1/2 of Babylon X

Founder of Tofistock

Co-founder of The Powerpuff Trax.
Philipp Otterbach
RA: Resident Advisor
Reka Zalan
into techno
Rill
Rill is a young DJ producer from Berlin, Germany. He is the co-head of the Berlin based techno label Syntop.
Rudolf C
Salt Mines Life Sciences Division
Shimmy Robin
Shimmy Robin moves through music like an explorer of rhythmic territories. What began with collective OSZIL has evolved into a multi-layered artistic identity through projects such as the event series blipmotif or her dj duo project as shimmy chanel.
The Lady Machine
One half of Unterwegs. Resident DJ at Pornceptual. Berlin based, Rio de Janeiro born.
theories
theories is a visual artist and music collector from Bogotá, Colombia with a wide selection of sounds ranging from ambient, leftfield, techno, electro, experimental to drum and bass.
Trancesetters of Westphalia
Trancesetters of Westphalia is formed by Timo S. & Jonathan S.

Based in Duesseldorf - Cologne / Germany
Vlada
RA: Resident Advisor
Yowlandi
RA: Resident Advisor