Alesso Returns To Progressive House With An Unbelievable Tomorrowland 2018 Weekend 2 Set [LISTEN]

Alesso broke onto the scene with a multitude of euphoric progressive house hits — songs still hailed among the most impressive works in the entirety of dance music. In the years leading up to 2018, Alesso had been producing outside of the genre his fans came to love him for, and that pop-leaning direction was met with plenty of criticism from the old guard.

It seems Alesso decided it was time to shut the haters down during his Tomorrowland 2018 weekend two set. He held nothing back, delivering a tracklist that made OG fans swoon — wall-to-wall progressive euphoria stacked with his classics, his heroes, and the melodies that defined the genre’s golden era. If you were going to watch one Tomorrowland 2018 set, this was the one. Just check out this set list…

0:03 Alesso & Anitta – Is That For Me (KO:YU Remix) [DROP 0:55]
2:06 CID – Creepin’ [DROP 2:20]
2:59 Alesso & Calvin Harris – Under Control [DROP 4:00 & 5:39]
6:10 Alesso – Years (w/ Congorock & Nom De Strip – Minerals) [DROP 7:25]
8:10 Alesso vs. Maroon 5 – This Summer [DROP 8:57 & 11:14]
12:03 Alesso – Cool [DROP 13:41 & 15:26]
16:27 Avicii – Fade Into Darkness (w/ You’ve Got The Love [Mark Knight Remix]) [DROP 16:57, 19:19 & 21:19]
22:04 The Cube Guys & Barbara Tucker – I Wanna Dance With Somebody (The Cube Guys 100th Mix) [DROP 24:04]
24:49 ARTY – Tim (w/ Heroes vocals) [DROP 25:49 & 27:56]
28:27 DubVision & Afrojack – New Memories (w/ Sweet Escape vocals) [DROP 29:30 & 31:34]
32:19 Alesso & Hailee Steinfeld – Let Me Go [DROP 33:38 & 35:00]
35:36 Alesso – Take My Breath Away (w/ Rihanna – This Is What You Came For vocals) [DROP 36:13 & 38:32]
39:18 Alesso – All This Love (w/ David Guetta – Titanium vocals) [DROP 40:40]
42:03 David Guetta – Titanium (Alesso Remix) [DROP 42:47]
43:33 Alesso – Destinations (w/ Post Malone – I Fall Apart vocals)
44:53 Armin van Buuren – Drowning (Avicii Remix) [DROP 45:23]
46:09 Sebastian Ingrosso – Laktos (w/ Calling vocals)
47:48 Alesso & Sebastian Ingrosso – Calling [DROP 48:29]
49:00 RÜFÜS – Innerbloom
51:37 Otto Knows – Next To Me (Matisse & Sadko Remix) [DROP 52:06]
52:37 Alesso – I Wanna Know (Deniz Koyu & Alesso Remix) [DROP 54:04 & 56:22]
57:18 Coldplay & The Chainsmokers – Something Just Like This (Alesso Remix) (w/ Wake Me Up vocals) [DROP 58:35]
1:00:00 Avicii – Wake Me Up (Something Just Like This [Alesso Remix] with Wake Me Up melody) [DROP 1:00:30]
1:01:22 M83 – Midnight City (Eric Prydz Remix) (w/ Nadia Ali – Pressure vocals) [DROP 1:02:39 & 1:03:40]
1:04:57 Alesso – Destinations (w/ If I Lose Myself vocals)
1:06:40 OneRepublic – If I Lose Myself (Alesso Remix) (w/ Reload + Heroes vocals) [DROP 1:07:44 & 1:09:46]

Watch the full set below!

Why This Set Mattered

Context is everything with this one. Alesso’s rise was the stuff of progressive house legend — the Sebastian Ingrosso protégé who co-wrote “Calling (Lose My Mind)” and delivered era-defining records like “Years,” “City of Dreams,” and the “If I Lose Myself” remix before his mid-decade turn toward radio pop. For fans who fell in love with that first chapter, this Tomorrowland set was the homecoming they’d spent years requesting: “Calling” into its original Laktos DNA, “Years,” the Prydz and Ingrosso-era selections, and the melodic architecture that made 2011–2014 progressive house feel limitless.

Just as meaningful was the thread of Avicii woven through the set. Performed three months after Tim Bergling’s passing, the inclusions of “Fade Into Darkness,” his “Drowning” remix, and the “Wake Me Up” melody carried unmistakable weight on the Tomorrowland main stage — a Swedish peer honoring a friend in front of the festival crowd that loved him most. Moments like these are why this set is still passed around by progressive house fans as one of the defining performances of Tomorrowland 2018, and why it remains a reference point whenever the “old Alesso” conversation comes up.