MEDUZA and James Hype: Our House Season Four at Hï Ibiza 2026

When MEDUZA and James Hype launched Our House at Hï Ibiza back in 2023, it was a bet on Wednesday nights — historically the island's quietest slot. By 2025, the residency had turned into one of Hï's most attended weekly events. Now heading into its fourth consecutive season, Our House returns on May 27 with something new: MEDUZA³, a hybrid live concept that changes how the Italian trio performs, and adds a dimension to Wednesday nights that goes beyond what most club residencies try to do.

What Is MEDUZA³?

The name signals the format. MEDUZA has always been three — Luca de Gregorio, Mattia Vitale, and Simone Giani — but on record and in previous DJ sets, the "three" has mostly been a production credit rather than a visible live dynamic. MEDUZA³ makes the trio physical. The concept layers live piano and cutting-edge MIDI controllers into the DJ set, with all three members active on stage simultaneously, blending recorded material with live performance in real time. It's not a "live PA" in the traditional sense — there's no backing track with a keyboard draped over it. According to the Hï Ibiza event page, the format fuses the "art of DJing with live piano, cutting-edge MIDI controls, and dynamic performance elements."

The question will be execution. Live piano in a club context is a genuinely difficult proposition: the room has to be quiet enough in the right places, the arrangement has to leave space, and the performance has to feel earned rather than decorative. MEDUZA's production instincts — rooted in the warm, melodic house style that drove "Piece of Your Heart" and their subsequent catalogue — give them the vocabulary for it. Whether that translates across 19 Wednesday nights is what the season will answer.

James Hype's Role

James Hype returns as the second pillar of Our House, and his position in the residency is distinct from MEDUZA's. Where the trio leads with the hybrid live format, Hype operates as the DJ anchor — technically sharp, high-energy, and capable of reading a room that's been primed by a live performance rather than a standard mix. The dynamic is more complementary than it might appear on paper: Hype's tendency toward high-velocity, crowd-reactive DJing sits well against MEDUZA's more compositional instincts. Four seasons in, the two acts have clearly figured out how to share the night.

The Guest Lineup

The Our House 2026 guest roster is one of the stronger lineups across any Ibiza Wednesday. Confirmed names include Anna Tur, The Blessed Madonna, Eli & Fur, Korolova, Magdalena, Maya Jane Coles, Nora En Pure, Pauza, Sam Divine, TSHA, Fiona Kraft, Tita Lau, Layla Benitez, SYREETA, Henri Bergmann, and Dreya V. The list trends toward female and non-binary artists in a way that feels curatorial rather than performative — the music these names play spans deep house, melodic club, and organic-leaning tech house, all of which fits the Theatre's room dynamics at Hï.

Notably absent from the confirmed list so far are harder tech house and techno acts, which is a signal about what Our House is going for this year: warmth, depth, and a spectrum of house rather than the wall-to-wall percussion approach that dominates the island's bigger rooms.

Why Four Seasons Matters

Residencies that survive four years at a single venue do so by evolving. The ones that stagnate lose their crowd to newer formats. MEDUZA and Hype's decision to introduce the MEDUZA³ live concept in year four rather than year one is strategically sound: they've built the audience first and now have a room that trusts them enough to come along for a format shift. That trust is hard-earned in Ibiza, where the market is saturated and attention is finite.

The residency runs Wednesday nights from May 27 through September 30 at Hï Ibiza's Theatre. Tickets and the full guest schedule are available via Hï Ibiza's website and Resident Advisor's Ibiza listings.

If the MEDUZA³ concept lands the way the duo intends, Our House 2026 might be the Ibiza residency that makes the most convincing argument this summer for why club music and live performance should stop being treated as separate disciplines.