Words By Allegra Salvadori

Forget crowded beach clubs and predictable summer getaways—this season, the pulse of house music is echoing across the sandstone canyons of AlUla.

Until 30 August, the ancient desert city is flipping the script on summer with Poolside by AZIMUTH, a weekend-long escape where music, luxury, and landscape collide.

From 4pm to 1am, four of AlUla’s most coveted hotels—Our Habitas, Banyan Tree, Dar Tantora The House Hotel, and Shaden Resort—become soundscapes in motion. Each location carries its own rhythm: organic house and melodic beats ripple through Habitas; Banyan Tree turns golden hour into a disco-charged dreamscape; Dar Tantora slows things down with sunset-soaked oriental house; and Shaden closes the series with big-room energy and open-format mixes that stretch deep into the desert night.

The line-up is as curated as the settings: Yebari DJ Rawad, ROULAD, SNOWZARD, Soul Sharkk, and a rotation of regional and international talent craft atmospheres that feel more like private sonic journeys than standard DJ sets. It’s an intimate, limited-capacity series designed for those who want to sink into the beat, sip something cold, and watch the desert sky shift from gold to indigo to starlight.

More than a party, Poolside by AZIMUTH captures AlUla’s evolving energy—a city balancing its ancient soul with a new cultural beat, where luxury travelers and music devotees find common ground in the glow of lanterns and sub-bass.

Here, the desert doesn’t sleep. It dances.

Visit experiencealula.com to learn more.