Two nights before he played quantumVALLEY, Maddix was already in Las Vegas.
May 14, EDC Week — he shared a stage with Hardwell at the Downtown Event Center. Then he came back. Night two of Electric Daisy Carnival’s 30th anniversary, May 16, 150,000 people spread across Las Vegas Motor Speedway, and Maddix behind the decks again for a solo set: 24 tracks, Dreamstate and Interstellar’s stage, a completely different room and a completely different brief.
Playing the same city twice in three days is not a standard tour routing decision. It is what happens when an artist is in the middle of something.
The Part of His Story That Usually Gets Skipped
Pablo Rindt grew up in Eindhoven. His mother taught djembe. By high school he had found FL Studio, and the trajectory from there follows a path a lot of Dutch producers know well — big room, Revealed Recordings, the Hardwell industrial complex that turned festival EDM into an export industry through the 2010s. Maddix fit that world. He caught early attention from Afrojack and Dimitri Vegas and Like Mike. He remixed Tiësto and Armin van Buuren. And he was, by any reasonable measure, succeeding at the genre he had signed up for.
Then somewhere around 2018 the music changed. The kicks got harder. Acid lines came in. “Ecstasy,” which landed in 2019, did not sound like it belonged in the same room as his earlier work — it sounded like it belonged in a darker one. Whether that shift came from hearing the culture move or from getting bored with the previous format, the results were the same: Amelie Lens started playing his records. Then Deborah de Luca. Then John Summit. He entered the DJ Mag Top 100 and ranked seventh among techno artists on Beatport.
A lot of big room producers have attempted this pivot. Most of them sound like tourists. Maddix did not, which is why the trajectory reads differently — and why a booking at quantumVALLEY makes more sense than it might seem from the outside.
What quantumVALLEY Is, and Why Placement Matters
quantumVALLEY occupies an interesting position within EDC’s stage map. It is not the spectacle of kineticFIELD, where the production does half the work. It is not the underground-coded darkness of neonGARDEN, where the Factory 93 and Time Warp bookings sit. quantumVALLEY, co-hosted by Dreamstate and Interstellar, is festival-scale trance and melodic techno — big enough to hold a crowd that came for the sweep of it, focused enough that the music still has to earn what it asks for.
For Maddix in 2026, the stage fit. The EDC livestream broadcast quantumVALLEY across all three nights; the global reach was there. So was the right genre context. This was not an artist dropped into a room that would have to tolerate him. The booking made sense in both directions.
The Maddix EDC Las Vegas 2026 Set, from What You Can Actually Hear
Twenty-four tracks is a long set, and the recording on YouTube holds up to the runtime. The acid lines arrive early and do not let go. The trance elements surface without softening the overall weight — they give the set a shape, a sense of arcs completing rather than a single sustained peak that eventually runs out of ceiling. By the closing stretch it is clear something was being paced here, not just played.
What the set does well is the same thing his recorded output does well: the influences are audible but the seams are not. Techno that sounds like it was made by someone who also spent time with trance before deciding where to commit. That crossover is harder to execute live than in the studio. At quantumVALLEY it worked.
Watch the full recording above. It rewards headphones as much as it rewards being turned up.
Frequently Asked Questions
quantumVALLEY is the EDC Las Vegas stage hosted by Dreamstate and Interstellar. It focuses on trance, melodic techno, and progressive sounds with roots in early rave culture.
Maddix plays a genre-crossing blend of hard techno, acid lines, trance, and big room energy. He began developing this sound in 2018 and has since earned support from both the techno underground and the mainstream EDM festival world.
Keep Going
The Night Streak blog covers the artists, stages, and cultural moments that make EDM worth paying attention to between the weekends it gets loud. If this set opened something for you — Maddix’s catalog, the broader quantumVALLEY lineup, what EDC’s 30th anniversary actually delivered — there is more here worth reading.
By: Brent Lynch
Night Streak EDM Journalist
EDM enthusiast since 2017