Carl Cox and David Guetta shared the booth at [UNVRS] on July 26 for their first-ever B2B performance, closing a house-focused night in Cox's 2026 Sunday residency.
The pairing was not a reunion. The venue announced it as the first B2B performance between Carl Cox and David Guetta, calling the set a world-first team-up between two of its resident artists, bringing together two careers that have occupied very different parts of dance music for decades in a formal shared performance for the first time.
The performance sat inside Cox's 2026 Sunday residency, with July 26 dedicated specifically to house music in its different forms.
[UNVRS] billed it as their first-ever B2B
In its official residency announcement, [UNVRS] said the July 26 house night would culminate in the first-ever B2B between Cox and Guetta, repeating that framing in its guide to house programming for the season. It's the strongest documented history for the pairing: the night is notable precisely because Cox and Guetta had not previously been presented as a formal B2B act.
The set was built around a house-focused Sunday
Cox's Sunday program runs from June into October, but the July 26 date was singled out as a night dedicated to house music, with Guetta joining as the main-room pairing for the event.
The contrast is part of what made the booking notable: Cox's long relationship with house and techno meeting Guetta's global festival profile inside a set designed as a shared performance rather than two separate appearances.
The B2B is one of several world-first pairings in the residency
The same [UNVRS] announcement also scheduled Cox for a first-time B2B with Louie Vega later in the season, showing how the residency is using special pairings as part of its identity.
For the Guetta date, though, the cleanest headline is also the most accurate one: July 26 marked their first-ever B2B.
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