Awakenings Summer Festival 2026

Three days at Spaarnwoude that have become the calendar moment for European techno. Awakenings Summer is enormous in scale and uncompromising in genre: a lineup that lays out the state of the scene from the headline names down to the producers everyone will be talking about by next year. Charlotte De Witte, Amelie Lens, Adam Beyer, Ben Klock, Joseph Capriati, Marco Carola, Richie Hawtin, Joris Voorn and Nina Kraviz share top-of-bill billing, while a deeper roster including Indira Paganotto, I Hate Models, Sara Landry, Kettama and Anetha pushes the festival’s harder, faster current. The site’s open-air format and a crowd that arrives knowing what every label release means make it one of the few festivals where the music genuinely is the destination.