For the past five years, River Beats Dance has had the pleasure of watching Elements Music & Arts Festival evolve into one of the most unique and immersive events on the East Coast and beyond.
For 2025, we return for a three-day psychedelic romp through the Poconos from August 8–10 at the iconic Long Pond Raceway. For those unfamiliar with the festival, this isn’t your typical tent‑and‑beer fest — it’s an immersive spectacle, all four primordial forces of nature colliding under the canopy of bass, art, and raw human freedom.
Below, we share a little bit more about what to expect this year.
Four Stages. Four Elements. One Mind-Meld
Elements sets itself apart by channeling Earth, Fire, Air, and Water into distinct sonic realms. The Earth Stage is a surreal dreamland – picture glowing mushrooms, floating jellyfish, and crystalline trees framing sets from Illenium, Pretty Lights, and Zeds Dead.
Big fan of pyrotechnics? The Fire Stage will be getting lit up this year on multiple cylinders with the sounds of Rezz, Sara Landry, DeadMau5, Tipper, and more.
Glide to the Water Stage, a 360° aquatic playground with Liquid Stranger, Eli Brown, and Wooli spinning you through waves of bass and metamorphic groove.
And hidden in the woods, the new and improved Air Stage offers a sanctuary where Wax Motif, Justin Jay, and Nimino guide you through house, downtempo, and hypnotic techno.
The Lineup — A Cross-Section of Controlled Chaos and Sonic Alchemy
The 2025 Elements Festival lineup features a wild collision of headliners, experimentalists, and bass-shamans all conjuring thunder across four elemental stages.
At the top of the pyramid is Illenium, the Colorado-born phoenix of melodic bass. His rise-from-the-ashes style — all cinematic drops, emotional builds, and stadium-grade soundscapes — will no doubt have bodies levitating on the Earth Stage, clutching glowsticks like holy relics.
Rezz, the alien queen of mid-tempo hypnosis, returns to torch the Fire Stage. Her sets are less performance and more audio witchcraft — dark, minimalist, cerebral. She doesn’t just produce — she builds alternate dimensions.
The deadmau5 sighting is no joke. Love him or loathe him, the man is a living meme in a mouse helmet — and his presence brings a certain gravitas to the proceedings. Expect synth architecture that borders on cyberpunk cathedral-building, and probably a few aggressive rants about the state of the scene. Maybe a couple Coronas too.
Zeds Dead, Canada’s dubstep patriarchs, will crash through the gates with their usual artillery: classic wubs, hip-hop flips, deep cuts, and enough bass to test the structural integrity of the planet itself.
Then there’s Tipper, the cerebral wizard of glitch and left-field bass. Fans in attendance for this legendary performance will get to witness one of the greatest producers in modern bass music play one of his final sets. This is a can’t-miss performance.
And brace yourself for DJ Diesel — yes, Shaquille O’Neal — who brings literal NBA championship energy to a drop. It’s like watching Godzilla DJ a demolition derby.
The genre stew thickens with the presence of Sofi Tukker — globe-trotting jungle-pop fused with multilingual vocals and rave theatrics, Chase & Status — UK drum & bass legends bringing their gritty, frenetic energy stateside, Liquid Stranger — the high priest of wobbly, alien bass music, perfect for the Water Stage, Mau P and Claude VonStroke — house dons with a funk-slap edge, made for sunrise sets and soul reboots, and ofcourse Sara Landry — rising queen of industrial techno, promising a ritualistic purge at the Fire Stage.
While the headliners are all can’t-miss acts, make sure you venture out early to catch some of the highly impressive undercard artists like Maddy O’Neal, Villager, Mikayli, and more.
Experience Beyond the Sound
From sound baths and yoga in the Zen Den to guerrilla comedy shows and poker at the Bizarre — every corner promises something strange, beautiful, and unexpected. Expect art-cars, giant sculptures, immersive installations, Vibe Villages, and interactive performances that recall Burning Man minus the desert heat.
Aside from that, fans can enjoy health & wellness offerings such as aromatherapy, workshops, and movement sessions. Meanwhile, sustainability is baked in — the site runs on solar power, honoring the same elemental vision as the stages.
Why Elements Festival?
Elements is not just another cattle-call rave in the woods or a neon Instagram trap for sparkly influencers — no, this thing is alive. It’s a chaotic organism built on community, creativity, and a complete rejection of the corporate festival blueprint.
You’ve got sunrise techno rituals, swampy bass baptisms, renegade yoga sessions, and enough art installations to confuse your ego into submission. Whether you came to worship Tipper under the stars, stumble into a surprise disco set in the woods, or marry a stranger in a drag cabaret chapel, Elements has a little bit of everything — and that’s the point.
It’s a four-day portal into a world that’s weirder, freer, and far more honest than whatever’s happening back in the algorithmic hellscape of your day job. In a landscape bloated with overbranded mega-fests, Elements stands alone: proudly independent, willfully strange, and completely committed to turning you inside out — with a smile.
For the past five years, River Beats Dance has had the pleasure of watching Elements Music & Arts Festival evolve into one of the most unique and immersive events on the East Coast and beyond.
For 2025, we return for a three-day psychedelic romp through the Poconos from August 8–10 at the iconic Long Pond Raceway. For those unfamiliar with the festival, this isn’t your typical tent‑and‑beer fest — it’s an immersive spectacle, all four primordial forces of nature colliding under the canopy of bass, art, and raw human freedom.
Below, we share a little bit more about what to expect this year.
Four Stages. Four Elements. One Mind-Meld
Elements sets itself apart by channeling Earth, Fire, Air, and Water into distinct sonic realms. The Earth Stage is a surreal dreamland – picture glowing mushrooms, floating jellyfish, and crystalline trees framing sets from Illenium, Pretty Lights, and Zeds Dead.
Big fan of pyrotechnics? The Fire Stage will be getting lit up this year on multiple cylinders with the sounds of Rezz, Sara Landry, DeadMau5, Tipper, and more.
Glide to the Water Stage, a 360° aquatic playground with Liquid Stranger, Eli Brown, and Wooli spinning you through waves of bass and metamorphic groove.
And hidden in the woods, the new and improved Air Stage offers a sanctuary where Wax Motif, Justin Jay, and Nimino guide you through house, downtempo, and hypnotic techno.
The Lineup — A Cross-Section of Controlled Chaos and Sonic Alchemy
The 2025 Elements Festival lineup features a wild collision of headliners, experimentalists, and bass-shamans all conjuring thunder across four elemental stages.
At the top of the pyramid is Illenium, the Colorado-born phoenix of melodic bass. His rise-from-the-ashes style — all cinematic drops, emotional builds, and stadium-grade soundscapes — will no doubt have bodies levitating on the Earth Stage, clutching glowsticks like holy relics.
Rezz, the alien queen of mid-tempo hypnosis, returns to torch the Fire Stage. Her sets are less performance and more audio witchcraft — dark, minimalist, cerebral. She doesn’t just produce — she builds alternate dimensions.
The deadmau5 sighting is no joke. Love him or loathe him, the man is a living meme in a mouse helmet — and his presence brings a certain gravitas to the proceedings. Expect synth architecture that borders on cyberpunk cathedral-building, and probably a few aggressive rants about the state of the scene. Maybe a couple Coronas too.
Zeds Dead, Canada’s dubstep patriarchs, will crash through the gates with their usual artillery: classic wubs, hip-hop flips, deep cuts, and enough bass to test the structural integrity of the planet itself.
Then there’s Tipper, the cerebral wizard of glitch and left-field bass. Fans in attendance for this legendary performance will get to witness one of the greatest producers in modern bass music play one of his final sets. This is a can’t-miss performance.
And brace yourself for DJ Diesel — yes, Shaquille O’Neal — who brings literal NBA championship energy to a drop. It’s like watching Godzilla DJ a demolition derby.
The genre stew thickens with the presence of Sofi Tukker — globe-trotting jungle-pop fused with multilingual vocals and rave theatrics, Chase & Status — UK drum & bass legends bringing their gritty, frenetic energy stateside, Liquid Stranger — the high priest of wobbly, alien bass music, perfect for the Water Stage, Mau P and Claude VonStroke — house dons with a funk-slap edge, made for sunrise sets and soul reboots, and ofcourse Sara Landry — rising queen of industrial techno, promising a ritualistic purge at the Fire Stage.
While the headliners are all can’t-miss acts, make sure you venture out early to catch some of the highly impressive undercard artists like Maddy O’Neal, Villager, Mikayli, and more.
Experience Beyond the Sound
From sound baths and yoga in the Zen Den to guerrilla comedy shows and poker at the Bizarre — every corner promises something strange, beautiful, and unexpected. Expect art-cars, giant sculptures, immersive installations, Vibe Villages, and interactive performances that recall Burning Man minus the desert heat.
Aside from that, fans can enjoy health & wellness offerings such as aromatherapy, workshops, and movement sessions. Meanwhile, sustainability is baked in — the site runs on solar power, honoring the same elemental vision as the stages.
Why Elements Festival?
Elements is not just another cattle-call rave in the woods or a neon Instagram trap for sparkly influencers — no, this thing is alive. It’s a chaotic organism built on community, creativity, and a complete rejection of the corporate festival blueprint.
You’ve got sunrise techno rituals, swampy bass baptisms, renegade yoga sessions, and enough art installations to confuse your ego into submission. Whether you came to worship Tipper under the stars, stumble into a surprise disco set in the woods, or marry a stranger in a drag cabaret chapel, Elements has a little bit of everything — and that’s the point.
It’s a four-day portal into a world that’s weirder, freer, and far more honest than whatever’s happening back in the algorithmic hellscape of your day job. In a landscape bloated with overbranded mega-fests, Elements stands alone: proudly independent, willfully strange, and completely committed to turning you inside out — with a smile.
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