DELESTE 2026 Consolidates its identity with a high-voltage edition!

Nearly 8,000 people passed through the ‘Jardines de Viveros’ this weekend to experience the fourteenth edition of Deleste, an event that confirms the festival’s best moment and reaffirms its identity as an international, Valencian, coherent, and different proposal within the national circuit.For two days, Valencia once again became a refuge for those who understand music as something more than entertainment. A festival where electronica, rock, discoveries, dance, and above all, a lot of emotion coexisted. All of this in a privileged environment and with an increasingly defined personality.

Hand in hand with Cervezas Alhambra, Deleste has once again proposed an experience designed to stop, observe, and enjoy music without haste, highlighting the nuances, the discovery, and the emotion of each live performance.

Friday had a markedly electronic character and attracted a significant number of attendees from outside the Valencian Community. Not even the relentless and hot month of May managed to reduce the intensity of an audience completely dedicated from the first hour.

The opening was in charge of Billy Nomates, alone on stage and gigantic in presence. Her emotional rawness and scenic magnetism conquered from the first minute the front rows, full of followers who had even come from Madrid exclusively to see her.

During the stage changes, the figure of Mateo Cabero appeared, sporting a Chemical Brothers T-shirt as a genuine declaration of intentions. The Valencian producer and DJ was in charge of maintaining the tension of the day with an impeccable selection and an energy that turned each transition into a small electronic celebration. Far from acting as mere accompaniment, he confirmed why he is one of the best-kept secrets of the Valencian scene. With each track he played, the dance floor gained momentum and he gained followers. From Toronto came Holy Fuck, proving that they are one of the most untamed and respected bands in organic electronica worldwide. Analog synthesizers, organic drive, and a wild live performance that reached one of the most exciting moments of the festival with “Lovely Allen.” The emotion was so real that a well-known Valencian DJ ended the concert visibly moved by the beauty of the moment.

And then night fell. And Apparat appeared. Sascha Ring’s performance was not a concert: it was an immersive experience of great beauty. The Jardines de Viveros were transformed into an open-air club where every sound seemed suspended in the air. A high-fidelity sound display that elevated the festival to another dimension in which we are still immersed. Before the grand finale, Miss_Tra signed the perfect warm-up for the arrival of the Norwegian giants. The renowned Valencian DJ and producer demonstrated why she is one of the most restless and respected minds in the local electronic scene. She doesn’t understand sessions, she understands journeys. And who else would dare to cross the North Atlantic and build the perfect bridge to Norway from Iceland? She did it in the most iconic way possible: with a track by Björk.

And then came the definitive explosion. The highly anticipated DJ set by Röyksopp closed the night with a simply brutal performance. They demonstrated an absolute commitment that infected the attendees. They knew it, they felt it, and it showed. The final culmination came with the climax that everyone had engraved in their hearts: when the chords of their generational anthem “What Else Is There?” sounded, the festival erupted into a state of collective euphoria.

Saturday kicked off with immediate electricity thanks to The Molotovs, young, brazen, and absolutely incendiary. They opened a day that already felt historic. Issey already announced in an Instagram reel what they were coming for: they were coming to smash the stage. This British trio didn’t care about the afternoon sun or falling on the boards; theirs was all attitude, daring, and something you’re born with: rock and roll in their veins.

In the booth, MEdj perfectly understood the moment that was coming. With the Jardines now completely delivered, the DJ from Murcia built an impeccable warm-up for the arrival of Primal Scream, mixing passion, skill, and an absolutely unbeatable sense of rhythm. She jumped into the booth sporting a T-shirt that defines her perfectly and that, if it also had a crown printed on it, would say it all: ROCK. And then they appeared. Primal Scream. Living legend. A band that plays in another league and that turned Viveros into a pagan celebration of rock. Bobby Gillespie came out to devour the stage, giving us exactly everything we needed. Anthem after anthem, the audience responded by chanting each song as if it were a collective ritual. What happened there, very few of us will forget. Amen.

After such a pagan liturgy, the mission seemed impossible. But Toxicosmos managed to keep the flame alive with a session full of luminous nostalgia, dance, wonderful visuals, and songs that embraced the audience as the night went on. One of the most impressive concerts of the festival came later with Anna Calvi. Hers was pure stage magnetism: a cinematic spectacle of tension, elegance, and delicate savagery. Each gesture, each silence, and each note seemed calculated with artistic precision. For many, the concert of the day. Playing at home, Los Invaders came out to devour the stage amidst mosh pits, sweat, and collective celebration. The Valencians delivered one of the most unbridled and rogue live performances of the weekend, proving that they remain one of the most explosive bands on the national scene. And to close things out, the ultimate trip appeared. Kerala Dust offered a concert that was simply hypnotic, sophisticated, and hard to explain with conventional words. More than a live performance, it was a sensory experience suspended between electronica, krautrock, and nocturnal psychedelia. A perfect ending to a festival that, once again, seemed out of this world!

Report by ’24/7 Valencia’ team