The acts we're going Down The Rabbit Hole for

There is something about a three-day festival commitment, where messages pile-up, phone calls become reflexes, and the outside world just turns into a distant blur. Day-passes are not an option at Down The Rabbit Hole and, honestly, this full commitment is closer to a blessing: the best excuse to treat yourself to a well-needed getaway (July 3–5, mark your calendars).

DTRH has grown from a niche indie event into one of the Netherland’s most beloved summer festivals since its 2014 debut. Emerging acts across indie, rock, electronic, hip-hop, and experimental music rub shoulders with past edition headliners like Massive Attack, Iggy Pop, FKA Twigs, Sam Fender, and Wet Leg. True to its name, the festival leans into a whimsical, slightly surreal “wonderland” vibe, and who doesn’t enjoy a bit of summer Arcadian-like bliss? The natural result is a loyal, diverse crowd ranging from hardcore music nerds to curious first-timers.

Every year, we tell ourselves we’ll wander spontaneously and see where the day takes us. And every year, there are also a handful of sets we build the entire weekend around, sometimes to our own disarray. This year, Glamcult scoped the line-up and rounded up the must-see acts: the ones we’re showing up early for, texting friends about, and refusing to miss, no matter how fried we are from that overheated tent.

Oklou
Oklou (pronounced “Okay Lou,” officially, but she’s accepted the mass calling her ‘Oaklou’) has become one of the defining (yet soft-spoken) voices of the internet-born avant-pop universe. Moving between crystalline hyperpop and featherlight ambient, she threads it all together with soothing, close-to-the-ear vocals that feel both fragile and self-possessed. Classically trained in piano and cello, and once a choir kid, she blends French pop sensibilities with R&B inflections and lush, celestial synth work, crafting songs that feel just as natural in a packed club as they do soundtracking a 2am bedroom spiral.
A cult favorite with a steadily expanding orbit, she sits comfortably alongside artists like Sega Bodega, Shygirl, Coucou Chloe, FKA twigs, and Casey MQ.

Jim Legxacy
South London’s finest Jim Legxacy does no man’s easy job; painful and complex emotions are exteriorised in the grind, threaded on the bars. And his latest album release Black British Music (2025) doesn’t fall short on the praise – dubbed the mixtape to save UK rap, it’s been added that he’s merely scratching the surface of what he can do. Trying to confine him to a handful of genres is a head-scratch, especially when the fusion of 2010s afrobeats, grime, UK club, and pop, is done so seamlessly and sensibly. Legxacy works across pain, love, nostalgia, and hope, whilst blending in infinite references that all come swirling down into a coherent and anchored South-East London reality (such as banging in a snus in Canada Water). The thing is he is absolutely unmissable at DTRH, think about the trim, the side look, and the dachshund. And if you don’t like rappers, he’ll tell you he’s a singer.

Kin’ Gongolo Kiniata
Instruments made from scratch, infectious percussion, and explosive rhythms delineate the Congolese electro punk-rock five-men band. When your group name translates to “the sound that crashes”, there’s a reputation that has to be upkept – which is not worrisome for Kin’ Gongolo Kiniata. First gaining popularity at Kinshasa’s neighborhood parties and local dances, their frenetic beats could be prone to becoming your newest love language in which metal clangs your heart and rewires your mind. 

Peaches
Electropunk-pop icon Peaches is a teacher of life where irony, fun, politics, sex, and wisdom just make so much sense all together. Peaches believes that the world needs lube to smooth out the friction within it, and is she wrong? After the rise of the diva in the dawn of electroclash, Peaches is back with her first album release of over a decade: No Lube So Rude. Shamelessly raunchy, exceptionally witty, she reiterates her terms in her own biting bluntness. Tbh, it’s all time we subscribe to her teaching, and as Peaches readily prepares us for her set: “Dominate, no debate / Heart rate, make it race.”

Two Shell
Two Shell: the blurry-faced duo that’s hard to put into boxes besides ‘anonymous’ and ‘electronic’. The duo is known for weird marketing stunts like prerecording a DJ set and then allegedly having it performed by decoys, or selling mysterious merchandise (think: a boring rock for €1000), or (less weird than a rock but still unconventional) their album IICONS, made of music from their live sets. Their sound consists of sugarrushed future garage, breakbeat, dancehall, jungle, techno, post-dubstep, and hyperpop all stirred in a tasty soup bound by hip-hop samples. Suitable for lovers of Nick Leon, Nikki Nair and Taahliah.

Little Simz
UK’s favourite (and definitely beyond), Little Simz merges delightful lyrical rap bars with a strong exquisite production. And this time around with her latest project, Lotus, she leans into true diaristic form where the tracks cut deeper and introspect harder. Releasing bops is just not enough for Simz, the focus has now shifted to a more personal tumultuous saga exploring the drift with her long-time collaborator and childhood friend. In full earnest flows and verses, Simz’ production now also leans into jazz and rock influences. With her stellar quality, tumbling down the rabbit hole is truly an experience for the soul now.

Overmono
The live act slotted neatly into the lineage of UK electronic brother-duos (like Disclosure and Orbital), but unlike the aforementioned, these two come with a Welsh accent and add a feeling of brooding melancholy to any club banger they make. Tom and Ed Russell are siblings, but more importantly conspirators in rhythm, pressing breakbeats against drum & bass, melting UK garage into techno, all while keeping up their devotion to 90s rave and trance with ghostly, repetitive, and broken-up vocals.

Their name references Overmonnow, a suburb of the small southern Welsh town of Monmouth, where they were raised ten years apart. Far from any place with a good clubbing scene, Tom was determined to get his hands on bootleg rave tapes. After both starting solo careers in music, together they started sampling what they could from a box of unwanted early Detroit records from a brother-in-law, and birthed Overmono. They’re best known for their 2023 album, Good Lies, which is critically adored. But if you’re uninitiated, consider it a sunnier cousin of Burial’s Archangel. Suitable for lovers of Ross from Friends, Bicep, the digital mischief of Two Shell, or early adapters of Flume, even. Trust – these bruvs know how to make big room bangers and music for people who want to feel something like an MDMA high while sober. 

Deki Alem
Deki Alem know how to mosh. Properly. Another sibling duo on the lineup, the Sweden-based incendiaries are known for their explosive live sets, merging punk, rap, breaks, and hip-hop sensibilities into one volatile concoction. Their sound exists predominantly offline – it translates rage and incites elation at intensities that fully come to life when you’re in front of them. It is the exchange of sweat and near blown up ear drums. Leave your phone in the tent, bring sturdy shoes, protect your ears, and give it your all.

Yousuke Yukimatsu
After a full day of (hopefully) sun-kissed concerts, blissful swimming, and lounging in the luscious fields of Groene Heuvels, we know there is an unshakeable desire for a great DJ set to start ending (or beginning) the night with. Bring in Yousuke Yukimatsu’s sets which are nothing short of ravaging tracks blissfully transitioned into one another.

Following a brain cancer diagnosis (and now treated and recovering) in 2016, Yukimatsu quit his original construction job and turned to djing, whilst also founding Zone Unknown, a series of events across Japan, inviting the likes of Arca or Kamixlo. With a 2022 much respected album bringing in the country’s most experimental and anonymous talents, Yukimatsu furiously and dexterously handles his controllers through the polygluttonous hyper-fun of 100 gecs, to Skrillex’s signature dubstep and the literal French touch of Justice.

And this is solely our selection but there’s just too many acts in which you can lose yourself in. Here’s the full DTRH lineup in alphabetical order:

All Them Witches, Apparat, Arp Frique & The Perpetual Singers, Avalon Emerson, Baxter Dury, Beirut, Charlotte Cardin, Claw Boys Claw, CMAT, Dabeull Live Band, David Byrne, De Nachtwacht, Deki Alem, De Staat Becomes De Staat, Derya Yıldırım & Grup Şimşek, Empire Of The Sun, Florence + The Machine, Florence Road, Folk Bitch Trio,
Gerd Janson b2b HUNEE, Harry Mack, IJSLAND, Jacob Alon, Jim Legxacy, JOHNNY MARR, Joy Crookes, Kevin Morby, Kin’Gongolo Kiniata, Little Simz, Loyle Carner, Lumï, Mall Grab b2b Narciss, Malou, Matt Berninger, Midnight Generation, Mind Enterprises, Moxes, Oklou, Overmono, Panic Shack, Paradise Bangkok Molam, International Band, Peaches, Sierra Ferrell, Son Mieux, Sticks, Thee Sacred Souls, The Last Dinner Party, The Mary Wallopers, The xx, TOMORA, Two Shell, Westside Cowboy, Yousuke Yukimatsu, Zwangere Guy