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Watch the Best Techno Sets from Awakenings Festival 2017

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This latest broadcast from the leading streaming provider saw people tune in from all over the world. All previous records were broken and in all more than 8 million viewers tuned in, while the streams had a social reach of over 77 million people and 600,000 engagements.

There were many highlights across the two days with sets from huge names from the worlds of house and techno such as Sven VÀth, Joris Voorn, Pan-Pot, Nastia, Chris Liebing, Charlotte De Witte, Kobosil, Blawan, Sam Paganini, Floorplan, Ilario Alicante, Alan Fitzpatrick and Adam Beyer.

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Awakenings Release ADE 2017 Lineups: Two Day and Five Night Specials

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2017 is the year that techno monolith brand Awakenings is celebrating its 20th Anniversary.

Continuing the party, which already started with official celebrations in April and is about to be revisited during Awakenings Festival this month, the Dutch event series will expand further during Amsterdam Dance Event (ADE) 2017, 18 thru 22 October 2017. Just like last year, five nights of Awakenings can be expected at the Gashouder on the Westergasfabriek terrain in Amsterdam. What is new, however, are the two day events scheduled for Friday October 20 and Saturday October 21. Awakenings is a fixed value of ADE, with invariably sold-out events and some of the best lineups in the area of techno and all its diversity.
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Monika Kruse: Still a Raver at Heart

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Things are pretty exciting for Monika Kruse these days, and that’s saying something for an artist that has been making waves for over 25 years since she came to the scene in 1991.

A pioneer of Germany’s dance culture in the early ’90s, Monika has done it all, from organizing raves in abandoned Munich WWII bomb shelters, to launching her revered Terminal M label in 2000, right through to her DJing schedule which sees her perform at some of the best venues and festivals around the world.

2017 has been no different for her, and in fact some may say it’s been one of the best years of her career to date. She is fresh off the release of her EP Get Me On in collaboration with brothers-from-another-mother Pig&Dan, has already played Time Warp and Dockyards, is scheduled to perform at Awakenings Festival and was a guest on Pete Tong’s celebrated BBC Radio 1 Essential Mix show. But that’s not all, she is throwing her debut Monika Kruse & Friends party during OFF Week in Barcelona, where she is going to play back-to-back with Andrea Oliva and also feature friends UNER and Victor Ruiz on the lineup.

So what’s next for an artist like Monika Kruse who has seemingly done it all and more? We had a chat with her to find out!

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Top 13 European Techno Festivals

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2017 promises to be a great year for techno music with a lot of techno music festivals to watch out for. More so in Europe, where techno music is pretty much a way of life among many people there. Today, we have compiled a list of the 13 techno festivals you should check out this year if ever you plan visiting the continent. For clarification, this list takes into account one-location multi-stage festivals rather than multi-club or venue festivals.

Check out the artists, dates, and venues each techno festival has to offer, listed in alphabetical order:

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Awakenings Is Asking You To Vote For Your Favorite Techno Track Of All Time

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This year marks the 20th Anniversary of Awakenings, a festival and party brand many consider to be the ultimate techno institution in the world. On top of a series of top-tier events held at Amsterdam’s Gashouder in April, and its two-day festival later in summer, Awakenings is celebrating the milestone achievement by compiling a list of the 100 ultimate techno classics of all time.

More specifically, Awakenings is asking fans from around the world to choose amongst 1,000 techno tracks carefully selected by journalists Atze de Vrieze (3voor12) and RenĂ© Passet (DJBroadcast) and DJs Joris Voorn, 2000 and One and Bart Skills, helping to narrow it down to the 100 ultimate tracks that Awakenings will then publish in the book ‘Awakenings – 20 Years of Techno’

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Besides the 100 dance classics the book will also contain scores of interviews with artists such as Adam Beyer, Sven VĂ€th, Jeff Mills, Nina Kraviz, Paul Kalkbrenner and Secret Cinema, anecdotes and statistics from the history of Awakenings and hundreds of photos from the Gashouder, NDSM, Rotterdam, Eindhoven and the festival. The book will be released on April 13.

Awakenings was first held in March 1997. The combination of high-quality production, the clear choice for techno and the iconic Gashouder in Amsterdam as location quickly made it the flagship of Dutch techno. Twenty years and over a million visitors later Awakenings is the largest techno party worldwide. The annual festival draws visitors from over eighty different countries.

Votes can be cast at www.awakenings.com/20years/1000tracks. You can already pre-order the book here. 

 The 20th anniversary this year will be celebrated with five parties in the Gashouder during Easter weekend, featuring performances by, among others, Derrick May, Joris Voorn, Ricardo Villalobos, Len Faki and Pan-Pot

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Awakenings Celebrates 20 Years with Festival Lineup Featuring Sven VĂ€th, Tale Of Us, Marcel Dettmann and more

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Following this coming April’s 20 Year Anniversary celebrations at Amsterdam’s Gashouder, Awakenings plans to continue the party on June 24th and 25th during their years festival appointment at Amsterdam’s Spaarnwoude Houtrak.

As expected, the massive lineup includes some of the biggest names in techno and house, ranging from established favorites the likes of Sven VÀth, Ricardo Villalobos, Dubfire, Maceo Plex Chris Liebing and Tale Of Us, to heavier techno acts such as Paula Temple, Kobosil, Jeff Rushin, Randomer and SHDW & Obscure Shape.

Live acts include Monoloc, Paul Kalkbrenner, Matador, Minimum Syndicat, Henrik Scwarz, KiNK, Agents of Time and Artefakt.

Tickets go on sale today and you can buy them here.

Find the full lineup below.

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Listen to Techno and House Live Sets from ADE 2016

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It’s Monday and ADE 2016 is officially over.

But don’t fret; live set recordings from some of the best events and DJs are beginning to sprout up on SoundCloud already, and we have amassed them into a handy playlist for your listening pleasure.

Included are recordings from parties such as Awakenings, Mosaic x DGTL, Dockyard Festival, All Day I Dream and more. Artists featured include Len Faki, Lee Burridge, Truncate, Maceo Plex, Fur Coat, Kölsch, Claude vonStroke, Francesca Lombardo and Octave One.

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Papa Sven VĂ€th Is Caught Watching the 2016 Euro Cup While DJing at Awakenings

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It is said that the love for football (soccer) knows no limits. In fact growing up in Italy, there was a saying I learned while just a kid and still hold true to this day, “In life, there’s only two things that never ever change: your mamma and your football team!”

But what about techno, or one’s passion for DJing and electronic music?

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Richie Hawtin Presents: PROTOTYPES TOUR

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ENTER. and M_nus boss Richie Hawtin just announced a PROTOTYPES TOUR presented by PLAYdifferently, the new project he embarked on to develop and release state-of-the-art DJ equipment.

With the aim of testing the final prototypes of PLAYdifferently’s new mixer, the tour will start on Monday March 14th at Los Angeles’ Sound Nightclub before stops at SXSW in Austin, the smaller Panther Room within Output in New York, a Miami Music Week appearance and a show at Spybar Chicago alongside DJ Tennis before jetting off to Europe. There, he is set to test out the equipment in Paris, Tenax in Florence, Watergate in Berlin, fabric in London and Robert Johnson in Offenbach before a special showcase during Movement weekend in Detroit alongside heavyweights Joseph Capriati, Dubfire and Hito.

The final stop will take place at Awakenings in Amsterdam on Sunday June 26th where he will be accompanied by the likes of Maceo Plex, The Martinez Brothers, Chris Liebing, Hito and Fabio Florido.

Stay up to date with Hawtin on Facebook and Twitter for further information and ticket releases for each show.

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Awakenings Festival 2016: Summer With The World’s Greatest Techno

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Awakenings-Festival-2014_NRFmagazine1The stoic architectural riverside park of Spaarnwoude outside Amsterdam city center will transform into a whole other realm, inviting twenty-four hours, two days of the world’s greatest techno. Following their initial announcement and aftermovie release, Awakenings Festival will return for the weekend of June 25 and 26, the perfect summer awakening for techno devotees from around the world. Read more