The Pacific Northwest’s most iconic electronic music festival is back, and celebrating its 20th year of existence in style. And what better way to do so than with a present wrapped in a bold shiny bow for its many devoted attendees?

That's right, British Columbia's Shambhala Music Festival unwrapped an incredible and cutting-edge musical lineup to honor its legacy of bringing inimitable talent and vibey times to gorgeous Salmo River Ranch for 20 years.

From up-and-coming talent like Crizzly, Illenium, Slushii, Medasin, Ivy Lab and Black Tiger Sex Machine to bigger names like A-Trak, Z-Trip, DJ Craze, and Kill The Noise, to new Canadian artists Adventure Club, Vanic, Shaun Frank, and POMO, to electronic music legends like The Orb, Pendulum, Stanton Warriors, Idjut Boys, and LTJ Bukem, household (or is it “campsite”?) names like Truth, A.Skillz, Justin Martin, Krafty Kuts, Excision, Datsik, Stylust Beats, Opiuo, Mat The Alien, Beats Antique, The Funk Hunters, and Fort Knox Five – just to name a handful –  this lineup is a bombshell. Plus, hip-hop is fully represented with Dilated Peoples, Araabmuzik, Jazzy Jeff, Chali 2na all onboard, while acts like internationally celebrated duos Calyx & Teebee and Delta Heavy are holding down the Drum & Bass arena, amongst others. For those seeking anything from House, Breakbeats, Techno, Trap, Dubstep, World Beats, and Turntablism, they’re all in there!

And you know the sound is going to be good. Recently featured in our Best Festival Soundsystems in North America article, it's Calgary's PK Sound that is an integral part of Shambhala's sonic footprint, deploying 300 loudspeakers across five of the six stages. PK Sound production crews operate five distinct sound systems across the stages, due to the unique environments at each. However, the most celebrated system at Shambhala is the Funktion One rig at the Grove stage, engineered by the amazing team at Fusebox Productions. Sound engineers across the world are in agreement that Shambs' Grove stage is the some of the finest in the festival world.

For this year’s festival The Pagoda Stage, known as Shambhala’s “temple of dance,” will be rebuilt from the ground up following a complete tear down last fall. Our beach-side source of beats, The Living Room Stage, will also be experiencing a full rebuild.

Shambhala Music Festival takes place at Salmo River Ranch in British Columbia, from August 11-14, 2017. Tickets sold out in a record 16 hours when they went on sale last September.