In short
- It is three club festivals at a single venue: elrow, Brunch Electronik and Industry City share out the stages at Iberdrola Music on Saturday 31 October, from 14:00 to 02:00.
- The Martinez Brothers, Maceo Plex and Kölsch top a line-up of more than 40 names, ranging from house and tech house to the faster techno of DJ Gigola, Fatima Hajji and ØTTA.
- The early entry ticket is the cheapest, but it expires at 17:00: €45 through the official sale compared with €58 for general admission, and anyone who uses it later pays an extra €20 at the box office.
- It is worth planning the journey home before you go: the 02:00 close comes after the last metro, and the organisers have not announced any shuttle buses.
Madrid will have its own major Halloween event this year. Halloween Takeover, which debuted at Barcelona's Parc del Fòrum in 2025, moves on Saturday 31 October to the Recinto Iberdrola Music in Villaverde, with 12 hours of electronic music, from 14:00 to 02:00, and a line-up featuring The Martinez Brothers, Maceo Plex and Kölsch.
Behind it are three brands that fill their own festivals: elrow, the party of stage sets and characters born in Barcelona; Brunch Electronik, the series of afternoon electronic music events held in several cities; and Industry City, the industrial techno stage linked to Monegros. The organisers are talking about more than 30,000 attendees, the same figure the Barcelona edition finished with.
Three stages, each with its own identity: elrow, Brunch and Industry City
The official website announces three stages, one for each promoter, and each comes with its own look. According to Time Out Madrid, elrow is setting up a tent for more than 14,000 people with Dance With The Serpent by NYCHOS, the theme it created for its Ibiza parties and which will be seen in Madrid for the first time, with more than a hundred performers including aerial acrobats, street theatre and audience games. Industry City brings over its set of shipping containers and fire, while Brunch focuses on progressive and melodic sounds.
Turismo de Madrid adds two more spaces to the programme, Antídoto and The Jail, without specifying where they are located on the site.
Halloween Takeover Madrid line-up: house, tech house and techno
The official website highlights ten names and adds more than 30 confirmed artists. At the top are The Martinez Brothers, the brothers from the Bronx who have been among the big names in tech house for more than a decade; Maceo Plex, whose sets move between house, techno and melodic sounds; and Kölsch, the Danish melodic techno producer, close to the emotional register of COLYN.
The hardest part of the line-up comes from DJ Gigola, Fatima Hajji, ØTTA and Prada2000, with fast, rave-rooted techno that contrasts with the rest of the programme. Marco Faraone and Chelina Manuhutu complete the list of highlighted names.
Turismo de Madrid's listing expands the line-up with Manda Moor B2B Sirus Hood, Esther Bronchal, Mariano Mellino, Lee Ann Roberts, Anxhela, Julia Linkogel, Mika Heggemann, Barna92, What So Not, Yins, Javi Galán and Hadex, plus two back-to-back sets: Cruisy B2B Calussa and Render B2B Easttown. There are no set times per artist or stage allocations yet.
Halloween Takeover tickets: prices on Enterticket and conditions
Official tickets are sold exclusively through Enterticket, and the organisers warn that there will be no authorised resale. These are the prices currently shown by the ticketing platform:
- Early General Access, €45: only valid for entry before 17:00. Anyone arriving later can still use it by paying an extra €20 at the box office, which means it ends up costing more than general admission.
- General admission, €58: the ticket is already on its fourth price tier.
- VIP Gold, €160: adds access to an area overlooking the DJ booth at the elrow and Brunch stages, an exclusive entry lane, and its own bar and toilets.
The festival website breaks these prices down as €37, €51 and €154 plus booking fees. For VIP tables you need to contact the organisers. All tickets are for over-18s and general admission tickets are issued in the holder's name: the name must match the official ID shown at the entrance.
How to get to Iberdrola Music and how to get back at 2:00
The venue is on calle Laguna Dalga, at its junction with avenida Real de Pinto, in Villaverde. Turismo de Madrid lists the nearest stations as San Cristóbal and Villaverde Alto, on Metro line 3; San Cristóbal Industrial, on Cercanías; and bus routes 79, 448 and T41.
Getting there, from 14:00 onwards, is straightforward. Getting back is not: the festival ends at 02:00, when the Metro has already closed its regular service, which finishes at 1:30, and so far neither the official website nor the venue has announced shuttle buses or extra services. At Mad Cool, held at the same venue in July, the early-hours exit was handled with extra Metro and Cercanías services and shuttle buses from Villaverde Alto, as we explained in our guide to getting back from Villaverde in the early hours. If nothing similar is announced for the 31st, the journey home will depend on taxis, ride-hailing services or night buses, and it is best to have it sorted before the last set.
It is not the only big party of the night. On the same Saturday elrow is also holding its Horroween in Sagunt, and in the Community of Madrid it competes with Blackworks' Halloween in Leganés. Outside Madrid, Charlotte de Witte is taking her techno to Valencia and Oro Viejo is preparing its Halloween in Valladolid.
Sources: official Halloween Takeover website, Enterticket, Iberdrola Music, Turismo de Madrid (esmadrid.com) and Time Out Madrid, consulted on 19 October 2026.
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