Awakenings Festival was founded in 1997, making this its 29th year.
The festival is part of Monumental Productions (LiveStyle)'s portfolio of electronic music events.
Livestream history
Awakenings has a strong record of making set content freely available on its official YouTube channel. The most prominent live broadcast was the 2020 COVID-era free online event in April, which reached 10 million viewers in 70 countries and was explicitly a live stream. The sold-out 2021 ADE edition was also livestreamed free on YouTube, and the 2023 Summer Festival had a confirmed live YouTube broadcast plus Twitch and Facebook. For 2024 and 2025, full set recordings were uploaded after the event to YouTube and SoundCloud for free on-demand viewing, though evidence of a real-time broadcast in those years is less definitive. No livestream has been announced for the 2026 edition as of June 2026. All YouTube content is publicly embeddable.
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2025
YouTube · SoundCloudNotable: Charlotte de Witte, Adam Beyer, Carl Cox, Nina KravizFull sets uploaded to YouTube and SoundCloud after the event.
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2024
YouTubeNotable: Enrico Sangiuliano, Chlar, Alan Fitzpatrick x Ilario AlicanteFull sets uploaded to YouTube after the event; no confirmed real-time broadcast found.
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2023
YouTube · Twitch · FacebookNotable: Adam Beyer, Len Faki, Ilario Alicante, Joris VoornConfirmed live YouTube broadcast of the summer festival; RELIVE recap and full sets archived on YouTube and SoundCloud.
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2021
YouTubeNotable: Adam Beyer (Drumcode), Tale of Us (Afterlife), Joris Voorn (Spectrum)Sold-out Awakenings ADE at the Gashouder livestreamed free; three nights, nine hours per night.
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2020
YouTube · Facebook · awakenings.comNotable: Adam Beyer, Amelie Lens, Charlotte de Witte, Carl CoxTwo free online weekends in April replacing the cancelled Easter festival; weekend two broadcast live from the Gashouder.
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2019
YouTubeNotable: Charlotte de Witte (Area V), Nina Kraviz, Maceo PlexSaturday and Sunday streamed live on the official Awakenings channel; full sets archived afterward.
How to watch
PlatformYouTube / live.awakenings.com
AccessFree stream
Embeddableyes
What sets it apart
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One of the oldest continuous techno-only festival brands in the world, running exclusively techno lineups since its first outdoor edition in 2001, long before techno became a mainstream festival draw.
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The Gashouder, a domed former gas tank in Amsterdam's Westerpark, is the brand's iconic indoor home and is widely called the Temple of Techno. It gave Awakenings its identity before the outdoor festival existed.
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The name is tied to Easter: founder Rocco Veenboer named the first 1997 party Awakenings after learning Easter commemorates resurrection, and the brand still runs Easter-weekend Gashouder editions alongside the summer festival.
Headliners
50 artists indexed across the lineup. Top 30 shown by 2026 touring rank.
🇧🇪 Charlotte de Witte
🇧🇪 Amelie Lens
🇮🇹 Joseph Capriati
Novah
Serafina
🇺🇦 Miss Monique
Cloudy
🇫🇷 I Hate Models
🇳🇱 Mau P
Max Dean
🇷🇺 Nina Kraviz
🇧🇷 Vintage Culture
🇩🇪 DJ Gigola
🇮🇪 KETTAMA
🇧🇪 Pegassi
Adrián Mills
🇫🇷 Anetha
DYEN
Eli Brown
🇩🇪 Innellea
🇳🇱 Joris Voorn
Malugi
🇫🇷 Nico Moreno
Nikolina
🇨🇦 Richie Hawtin
Saidah
🇩🇪 Sidney Charles
🇩🇪 Southstar
Wade
🇹🇷 Mahmut Orhan
Hear the lineup
Charlotte de Witte · Spotify
Amelie Lens · Spotify
Joseph Capriati · Spotify
Novah · Spotify
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Venue
The festival takes place at Beekse Bergen, Hilvarenbeek in Netherlands. It typically hosts crowds in the 80,000+ range across 3 days.
NameBeekse Bergen, Hilvarenbeek
Country Netherlands
History
Founded1997
Years running29
ParentMonumental Productions (LiveStyle)
Signature moments
- 2026The 2026 edition sold out at a record 119,000 visitors, the largest in the festival's history.
- 2022The festival relocated to Beekse Bergen and became a three-day event, the only three-day techno festival in the Netherlands, coinciding with its 25th anniversary.
- 2020With physical events cancelled by COVID, Awakenings produced a free two-weekend online stream from the Gashouder that reached 10 million viewers across 70 countries.
- 2001The first outdoor Awakenings Festival at Spaarnwoude was the first outdoor festival in the Netherlands with an exclusively techno lineup.
- 1997The first Awakenings party, on 30 March 1997 at the Gashouder in Amsterdam, featured Derrick May, Billy Nasty, and Angelo. It sold out immediately and established the brand.