AFROJACK & Shimza at Coachella 2026: Full Set Breakdown & Tracklist
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AFROJACK and Shimza played a back-to-back Afro House set at Coachella 2026 on the Quasar Stage, running from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM on April 11 (Weekend 1). They opened with a Chicago house acappella, peaked with Afro House remixes of pop classics like “Sweet Dreams” and “Summertime Sadness,” and closed with Swedish House Mafia-era anthems. The set ran roughly two hours across 46 tracks.
If you searched “what did AFROJACK play at Coachella 2026,” this is the full answer. Below you get the complete tracklist, the energy arc, the standout transitions, and every ID people are still hunting for.
DJ: AFROJACK & Shimza (B2B) Event: Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival 2026, Weekend 1 Stage: Quasar Stage Location: Indio, California, USA Date: April 11, 2026 · 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM (sunset to nightfall) Set length: ~2 hours · 46 tracks Genre: Afro House / Tech House (~120–128 BPM) Tracklist source: 1001Tracklists (official)
The Setup
This pairing made sense the second it was announced. AFROJACK is a Dutch festival veteran who has played Coachella before and built a career on big-room drops. Shimza is one of South Africa’s most respected Afro House and Afro Tech selectors, a Soweto-born DJ who has carried the sound from Johannesburg warehouses to global stages.
Put them together at sunset and you get a tension worth watching. One leans pop and stadium. The other leans deep, percussive, and patient. The Quasar Stage slot from 7 to 9 PM caught the exact moment the desert cools and the lights take over.
Afro House sits around 120 to 128 BPM. That tempo is slower than the big-room EDM AFROJACK is known for, so this set asked him to play in Shimza’s pocket more than his own. Having listened through twice, that restraint is the whole story.
The Tracklist
| # | Track | Artist | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | My House (In Beginning, There Was Jack… Acappella) | Rhythm Controll | Chicago house origin acappella opener |
| 2 | Falling | Elderbrook & Shimza | Shimza’s own crossover record |
| 3 | ID | ID | Unreleased |
| 4 | Ten Feet Tall | AFROJACK ft. Wrabel | AFROJACK catalog |
| 5 | Spotight | Andrea Oliva | Tech house |
| 6 | Habits (Stay High) | Tove Lo | Pop reframe |
| 7 | Take Over Control (Nitefreak Remix) | AFROJACK ft. Eva Simons | Afro House rework |
| 8 | Fire Fire | Shimza & AR/CO & Kasango | Amapiano-adjacent |
| 9 | Innerbloom | RÜFÜS DU SOL | Melodic breather |
| 10 | I’ll Be Good | Kapuchon & Sven Fields | Kapuchon = AFROJACK alias |
| 11 | Messy | Lola Young | 2025 crossover hit |
| 12 | ALGO TÚ (ID Remix) | Shakira & Beéle | Unconfirmed remix |
| 13 | ID | ID | Unreleased |
| 14 | Khona (ID Remix) | Mafikizolo ft. Uhuru | South African anthem, Shimza homage |
| 15 | Work | Masters At Work | House royalty |
| 16 | This Is My Life (Bontan Remix) | HoneyLuv x Roland Clark | Tech house |
| 17 | BAND4BAND | Central Cee ft. Lil Baby | Hip-hop crossover |
| 18 | ID | ID | Unreleased |
| 19 | Goosebumps | Travis Scott ft. Kendrick Lamar | Remixed into house |
| 20 | No Heart (ID Remix) | 21 Savage & Metro Boomin | Unconfirmed remix |
| 21 | ID | ID | Unreleased |
| 22 | ID | ID | Unreleased |
| 23 | Summertime Sadness | Lana Del Rey | Afro House flip |
| 24 | Haiti | Frederick Stone | Afro House |
| 25 | ID | AfroSalto | Unreleased |
| 26 | Don’t Be Sad | Andrea Oliva | Tech house |
| 27 | ID | ID | Unreleased |
| 28 | Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) | Eurythmics | Classic flip |
| 29 | If I Lose Myself | Alesso vs. OneRepublic | Festival throwback |
| 30 | ID | ID | Unreleased |
| 31 | Control | AFROJACK & Lucas & Steve | AFROJACK catalog |
| 32 | Heads Will Roll (A-Trak Remix) | Yeah Yeah Yeahs | Indie-dance staple |
| 33 | ID | ID | Unreleased/unconfirmed |
| 34 | Pon De Floor | Major Lazer ft. Vybz Kartel | Dancehall energy |
| 35 | Say What | Keinemusik ft. Chuala | Afro House heavyweight |
| 36 | Ghetto Shout Out!! (AFROJACK & HNTR Remix) | Parris Mitchell Project ft. Wax Master | Ghetto house rework |
| 37 | ID | Shimza | Unreleased |
| 38 | Put Your Hands Up In The Air (Acappella) | Black & White Brothers | Acappella tool |
| 39 | ID | ID | Unreleased |
| 40 | ID | AFROJACK | Unreleased |
| 41 | Ma Tnsani (Yalla Habibi) | Vanco ft. Aya | Afro House |
| 42 | Reload | Sebastian Ingrosso & Tommy Trash ft. John Martin | Anthem |
| 43 | Don’t You Worry Child | Swedish House Mafia ft. John Martin | Festival anthem |
| 44 | WACUKA | AVAION & Sofiya Nzau | Afro-crossover |
| 45 | Wait | Shimza & David Mackay & Ewerseen | Shimza original |
| 46 | Awake Tonight | David Guetta & AFROJACK ft. Sia | Closer |
The Energy Arc
The set moves through five clear stages. Timestamps are estimated from the two-hour window.
1. Warm-Up (7:00–7:30 PM) — Tracks 1–8. A Chicago house acappella sets the lineage, then Shimza’s “Falling” and the Nitefreak remix of “Take Over Control” lock in the Afro House groove. Slow, percussive, patient.
2. Build (7:30–8:00 PM) — Tracks 9–18. “Innerbloom” gives a melodic breath. Then the crossover engine starts: Tove Lo, Lola Young, and the “Khona” homage push the crowd forward.
3. Peak (8:00–8:30 PM) — Tracks 19–32. This is the pop-crossover heart of the night. “Goosebumps,” “Summertime Sadness,” and “Sweet Dreams” all reframed in an Afro House skin. The desert is dark now.
4. Release (8:30–8:45 PM) — Tracks 33–40. “Pon De Floor” and the ghetto house rework keep bodies moving while the duo cycles unreleased weapons.
5. Finale (8:45–9:00 PM) — Tracks 41–46. Full festival mode. “Reload” into “Don’t You Worry Child” is the singalong trigger, then “Awake Tonight” closes the loop on AFROJACK’s catalog.
Genre Journey
The set is a slow tempo conversation. It opens deep in Afro House territory around 120–124 BPM, the pocket where Shimza lives. Long percussion intros. Rolling basslines. Space between hits.
As the build hits, tech house edges creep in via Andrea Oliva and the Bontan remix, nudging energy up. The peak is where the trick happens. Familiar pop and hip-hop vocals get dropped onto Afro House drums, so the crowd recognizes the song but feels a new rhythm under it.
The finale breaks the rule on purpose. “Reload” and “Don’t You Worry Child” are big-room and progressive house, faster and brighter. After two hours of restraint, the lift lands hard. That contrast is the design.
Standout Transitions
1. “Khona (ID Remix)” → “Work” (~7:55 PM) — The South African anthem rolls straight into Masters At Work. Shimza bridges his homeland with New York house history in one move, holding the “Khona” vocal over the incoming groove.
2. “Goosebumps” → “No Heart (ID Remix)” (~8:05 PM) — Two hip-hop vocals back to back over house beats. A long EQ blend keeps the low end clean while the Travis Scott hook fades into the 21 Savage cut.
3. “Sweet Dreams” → “If I Lose Myself” (~8:25 PM) — The Eurythmics flip hands off to an Alesso throwback. A loop on the “Sweet Dreams” vocal stretches the tension before the drop lands.
4. “Reload” → “Don’t You Worry Child” (~8:50 PM) — The cleanest singalong stack of the night. Two John Martin vocals, two Swedish House Mafia-era anthems, blended on the breakdowns so the crowd never stops singing.
5. “WACUKA” → “Wait” (~8:55 PM) — Back to Afro House for the comedown into Shimza’s own “Wait,” a quiet flex before the final record.
The IDs Everyone Asked About
This set was loaded with unreleased material. Here is what is still unconfirmed.
- Tracks 3, 13, 18, 21, 22, 27, 30, 39 — full IDs. No artist tagged on 1001Tracklists yet. Likely a mix of AFROJACK and Shimza dubs given the back-to-back format.
- Track 12 — “ALGO TÚ (ID Remix)” (Shakira & Beéle). The remixer is unconfirmed. A strong candidate for an unreleased edit one of them produced.
- Track 14 — “Khona (ID Remix)” (Mafikizolo ft. Uhuru). The most asked-about ID of the night. If you searched “Khona Coachella who played it,” it was Shimza, and the remix is still untagged. Best guess is a Shimza or AFROJACK edit built for this set.
- Track 20 — “No Heart (ID Remix)” (21 Savage & Metro Boomin). Remixer unknown.
- Track 25 — AfroSalto ID. Producer credited, track unreleased.
- Track 37 — Shimza ID. A Shimza solo cut, unreleased.
- Track 40 — AFROJACK ID. An AFROJACK solo cut, unreleased.
If any of these get tagged after release, the 1001Tracklists page is where they will surface first.
The Peak Moment
The peak was “Summertime Sadness” reframed as Afro House, somewhere around 8:15 PM. The original is a slow pop ballad. Heard over a rolling Afro House groove with the desert fully dark, the Lana Del Rey vocal turned into something the whole field could move to at once.
What stood out was how it sat between two other flips, “Goosebumps” before and “Sweet Dreams” after. Three songs everyone knows, none of them in their original form. That is the thesis of the set in three records.
What DJs Can Learn
A few takeaways worth stealing.
- Tempo discipline pays off. AFROJACK held back his big-room instinct for 90 minutes. The finale hit harder because of the patience before it.
- Familiar vocals over unfamiliar drums. The pop and hip-hop flips gave casual fans an anchor without making the set predictable.
- Honor your roots in public. The “Khona” homage was Shimza planting a South African flag at the world’s biggest festival. Specific, personal, memorable.
- Save the singalong for last. “Reload” into “Don’t You Worry Child” worked because it arrived after two hours of groove, not at minute ten.
Watch the Full Set
AFROJACK posted the official set video after Weekend 1.
Tracklist sourced from 1001Tracklists. Timestamps are estimated from the 7:00–9:00 PM set window. IDs reflect the status at time of writing and may be updated as tracks are confirmed.