Anyma’s midnight ÆDEN set

Anyma is closing Friday’s main stage at Coachella with a midnight set, which puts an electronic artist in one of the festival’s highest-visibility slots on opening night, after Sabrina Carpenter’s headlining run earlier that evening. (timeout.com) (cultr.com) The set is billed as the debut of ÆDEN, a new live concept that Anyma’s own site says will launch after its first appearance at Coachella into a 2026 world tour with dates in Shanghai, London, Mexico City, Milan, Sydney and Paris. (beatportal.com) (anyma.com) Anyma is the solo project of Matteo Milleri, the Italian-born electronic producer better known to dance fans as one half of Tale of Us, and his shows are built less like a normal disc jockey booth and more like a movie synced to a nightclub sound system. (sphereentertainmentco.com) (anyma.com) That format got huge in Las Vegas, where Sphere says Anyma became the first electronic music artist to hold a residency there, with “The End of Genesys” expanding to 12 dates after an initial run of eight sold-out nights. (sphereentertainmentco.com) (anyma.com) The reason people keep asking what he is “actually doing” live is that the answer is both simple and strange: he is mixing music in real time, but the lights, screen content and stage cues are also locked together with the precision of a theater production. (timeout.com) Time Out describes ÆDEN as a “digital renaissance” built around art-history references, futuristic imagery and character-driven storytelling, which means the set is being sold less as a playlist and more as a world you enter for an hour. (timeout.com) Coachella is a natural place to try that because the festival has spent years treating large-scale visuals as part of the attraction, and in 2026 it is streaming seven stages at once on YouTube, with the Coachella Stage, Outdoor Theatre and Sahara available in 4K for the first time. (coachellavalley.com) (beatportal.com) This year is also Coachella’s 25th anniversary edition, and Beatportal says dance and electronic acts make up 45 percent of the lineup, so a midnight audiovisual spectacle on the main stage fits the way the festival is programming 2026, not just a side experiment. (beatportal.com) There is also a fresh pop-world angle: Time Out notes that Anyma’s collaboration with Blackpink member Lisa, “Bad Angel,” arrived this week, which is why people are already speculating about a surprise guest during the Coachella set. (timeout.com) (udiscovermusic.com) If you are watching from home, the practical detail is simple: the Coachella livestream starts at 4 p.m. Pacific Time on Friday, April 10, and Anyma’s Coachella Stage set is scheduled from midnight to 1 a.m., which means the most talked-about electronic performance of opening night lands right at the festival’s handoff from Friday into Saturday. (beatportal.com) (timeout.com)