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Kaskade's Sun Soaked festival returns with Matroda and Cassian

The one-day beach event lands at Huntington State Beach on September 12, with the headliner playing a solo set and a back-to-back with BUNT.

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Kaskade, wearing a headset microphone and a dark jacket over a chambray shirt, talks on stage in front of a red backdrop.
Kaskade speaking at the Collision conference in New Orleans in May 2017. Photo: Collision Conf, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Sun Soaked returns to the Southern California coast this month, and Kaskade has stacked it with house music. The one-day festival takes place on Saturday September 12 at Huntington State Beach in Orange County, run in partnership with Insomniac Events.

The event came back in 2025 after a years-long break and sold out, which is the context for a 2026 edition that has not tried to grow into something larger. It remains a single day on a beach rather than a multi-stage weekend.

Matroda and Cassian lead the supporting bill alongside D.O.D., the chart-topping producer, with the whole lineup built around the breezy end of house rather than the harder festival sound.

Kaskade plays twice. He takes a headlining solo set and a back-to-back with BUNT, which gives the same name two different jobs across one afternoon and evening.

The festival is one of several things filling his calendar in the back half of the year. He is preparing an album called ORIGIN// and a tour under the same name, and he also has a headline slot at Breakaway's first Utah edition alongside John Summit and Chris Lake.

Tickets are on sale now. It is one of the last outdoor electronic events of the Californian summer, and the date is logged on the festival tracker.

The facts

  • Sun Soaked takes place Saturday September 12
  • Held at Huntington State Beach in Orange County
  • Run in partnership with Insomniac Events
  • Matroda, Cassian and D.O.D. are on the bill
  • Kaskade plays a solo headline set and a back-to-back with BUNT
  • The festival returned in 2025 after a years-long hiatus

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