Anyma’s ÆDEN premiere
Electronic artist Anyma debuted his ÆDEN show at Coachella with special guests including LISA and Joji, marking the set as a high-profile electronic moment for Weekend 2. The performance was described as a world debut and drew attention for its scale and guest lineup. (yahoo.com)
Anyma finally unveiled his new ÆDEN show at Coachella on Friday night, a week after wind canceled its planned debut in Indio. (billboard.com) The set landed during Coachella’s second weekend at the Empire Polo Club, where the 2026 festival is running April 17-19 after opening April 10-12. Coachella’s published schedule listed Anyma in the Friday late-night slot at 12 a.m. Pacific time. (coachella.com) (yahoo.com) Billboard reported that the performance began around 12:15 a.m. and was billed as the world debut of ÆDEN. The show included guest appearances from LISA and Joji, with Ellie Goulding also appearing on screen during “Hypnotized.” (billboard.com) The premiere came after Anyma lost his first-weekend main-stage set to weather. Goldenvoice said on April 10 that strong wind conditions affecting the stage build made the performance unsafe. (edm.com) Anyma said after that cancellation that he and his team had spent the past year preparing ÆDEN, and he later confirmed the full production would not be rescheduled for Weekend 1. Instead, he played a smaller back-to-back Do Lab set with Marlon Hoffstadt on April 12 at 10:45 p.m. Pacific time. (edm.com) (variety.com) ÆDEN also fits a longer run of Anyma shows built around large-scale visuals and narrative imagery. Billboard said the Coachella set mixed new characters with imagery familiar from his Sphere production, while Sphere says his “The End of Genesys” run became the venue’s first electronic residency and stretched to eight sold-out nights before four final shows in February and March 2025. (billboard.com) (thesphere.com) (sphereentertainmentco.com) That background helps explain why the Coachella slot carried extra weight inside the electronic lineup. Anyma, the project of Matteo Milleri, has spent the last two years pushing a style of dance show where the screen is as central as the music, a format he also developed through Tale Of Us and the Afterlife orbit. (sphereentertainmentco.com) (billboard.com) Weekend 2 gave him the calmer night that Weekend 1 did not. After the missed first attempt, ÆDEN reached Coachella’s main stage with the guest list and full-scale visuals intact. (billboard.com)
