Awakenings Upclose 2026

The smaller, more intense sibling of the Awakenings summer edition, held at the Spaarnwoude site outside Amsterdam. Upclose is built around a different idea than the bigger festivals on the calendar: extended sets, long arcs and a sound that tilts hard toward the heavier corners of the genre. Heavyweights like Nina Kraviz, Ben Klock, Ellen Allien and Joris Voorn feature alongside live acts including Planetary Assault Systems and Paranoid London, but it is the long b2b sets that define the weekend, with pairings like Ben UFO and Four Tet, Sasha-style endurance bookings and a generation of younger DJs given proper time to build a story. If you want to spend a weekend listening to techno taken seriously by people who take techno seriously, this is where you go.