On Friday, 28 August 2026, the Palmlands Records Floor lands at the Waltroper Parkfest and takes full control of the On The Rock Stage — turning it into a Tech House and Bass House stronghold from the first kick to the last drop. Palm-inspired visuals, heavy sub frequencies and a lineup built for pure momentum: this is club culture dropped straight into the middle of one of North Rhine-Westphalia’s most-loved summer festivals.
Here’s everything you need to know before Friday night hits.
What Is the Waltroper Parkfest? A Festival for the Whole City
Before we get to the bass, let’s set the scene. The Waltroper Parkfest is one of the defining open-air events in the Ruhr region, running 28–30 August 2026 in the Stadtpark Waltrop. What makes it special is its scale and its variety: four stages, over 50 acts across three days, and a program that stretches from chart pop and rock to comedy, kids’ theatre, markets, art and — most importantly for us — serious club sound.
The festival spreads its energy across an Open-Air Stage, the On The Rock Stage for electronic and harder sounds, a Comedy & Kleinkunst tent and a dedicated café-tent dance area. Names on the wider 2026 bill include pop and live acts like Alphaville, Vanessa Mai, Kamrad, Nik Kershaw and Kasalla, alongside heavyweight electronic and hardcore artists such as Paul Elstak, Charly Lownoise, Korsakoff and MOGUAI. Kids up to 14 get in free, which makes it a genuine city-wide celebration rather than just another festival weekend.
In other words: something for everyone across the park — and on Friday, the electronic heart of it beats on the On The Rock Stage.
The Palmlands Floor Takes Over the On The Rock Stage
For one night, the On The Rock Stage becomes the Palmlands Floor. We’re not just adding a few DJs to a lineup — we’re building the Palmlands Stage on top of the On The Rock Bühne and transforming the entire space into our own universe.
Between palm-inspired visuals and pressure-heavy low end, the goal is simple: make it feel less like a festival area and more like a temporary open-air club in the middle of summer. The sound moves across a wide but coherent spectrum — starting with housy grooves, evolving into driving Tech House, and pushing into harder, bass-fuelled late-night territory as the crowd builds. No random genre-hopping, just one continuous idea: movement, pressure and flow.
If you love the moment when a groove locks in and the whole floor moves as one, Friday night on the On The Rock Stage is where you need to be.
Who Is Palmlands Records? The Sound Behind the Floor
Palmlands Records is a Tech House and Bass House label from Dortmund with an unmistakable underground signature. Founded in 2022 by Purple Palms and Roxy Nox, the label has grown into a home for club-ready tracks, immersive events and a community built on real vibe — the kind of records DJs pull at peak hour to stand out from the mainstream.
Beyond the studio, Palmlands brings that same energy to the stage with label showcases, club nights, open-airs and festival floors across Germany and beyond. From Ruhr in Love to Juicy Beats, the Palmlands Floor has become a recognisable format: a defined sonic direction inside diverse festival environments. At Waltroper Parkfest, that identity gets its own home on the On The Rock Stage — and it’s built to hit hard.
The Headliners: Brandon & Juliet Sikora
Two names sit right at the top of Friday’s bill — and both are heavyweights of the German Tech House scene.
BRANDON brings the peak-time firepower. The Cologne-based DJ and producer with American roots became a resident of TOP-5 DJ Mag club Bootshaus back in 2018, and has since built a nationwide following with his signature high-energy Tech House. His CV reads like a festival dream: Parookaville, World Club Dome and Nature One, to name a few. Expect his 23:00 slot to be one of the loudest moments of the entire night.
Juliet Sikora is a true architect of the sound. Born in Poland and based in Dortmund, she’s spent nearly two decades behind the decks and co-founded the legendary Kittball Records alongside Tube & Berger. Her groove-infused house-to-techno sets have taken her from the USA to Dubai to South Africa, and her releases — including the Beatport chart-topping “What Did I Tell Ya” on Green Velvet’s Relief imprint — have shaped dancefloors worldwide. When she steps up at 21:00, she sets the tone for the whole peak of the evening.
Purple Palms & Roxy Nox: The Founders Come Home
You can’t talk about a Palmlands Floor without the two people who built the whole thing. Purple Palms and Roxy Nox— the founders of Palmlands Records — take Friday’s later slots, and this one feels personal.
Purple Palms has been sharpening his sound since 2018, blending driving Tech House, Bass House and Techno into energetic, vocal-hooked grooves made for exactly this kind of festival floor. Roxy Nox, Dortmund-based DJ, producer and label boss, is known for sets that rely on groove, long tension curves and a real understanding of how a dancefloor actually moves — living between Tech House, Bass House and darker club territory. Their recent Beatport-charting collaborations like “Two Shots at the Bar” are exactly the kind of peak-time weapons you can expect to hear. With Roxy Nox closing the floor at 00:00, the founders bring it all home where it started.
Warming things up earlier in the night, support DJs Scrafty and Biggie Schoellz open the floor and lay the groundwork for the peak-time storm to come.
