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Verknipt Festival2026

JUN 6–7, 2026Recreatieplas StrijkviertelStream on youtube Edition closed
Reported attendance: 25,000 · 2 days · 6 stages · Founded 2012 · 50 artists indexed · hard techno, industrial techno, techno · Part of Verknipt

Verknipt began in 2012 as an afterparty at Club Roses in Amsterdam, thrown for the Awakenings crowd, and grew into one of the leading hard techno organizations in the Netherlands. Its flagship is the two-day Verknipt Festival in Utrecht, which has run on the water at Recreatieplas Strijkviertel since 2018, with stages spread around a lake under names like The Lake, Hangar, Ponton and Bunker. Over the years the booking policy sharpened. By 2023 the lineups had narrowed almost entirely to hard and industrial techno, dropping the broader house programming of the early editions, and the stage count moved from six down to four. The 2024 edition on June 8 and 9 pulled more than 25,000 visitors, the biggest crowd in the festival's history, with closing sets from Shlomo and Sara Landry singled out as the weekend's high points. The brand has pushed past the field too, launching Verknipt ArenA at Amsterdam's Johan Cruijff ArenA in 2024 for a crowd of around 40,000. The 2026 festival returns to Strijkviertel on June 6 and 7 with six stages and a Breaking Patterns theme, keeping the hard techno focus that defines the name.

Source: Wikipedia ↗

Country Netherlands
VenueRecreatieplas Strijkviertel
Founded2012
Capacity~25k
ParentVerknipt
Genreshard techno, industrial techno, techno
Platformyoutube
OfficialVisit ↗
WikidataQ129677524 ↗
WikipediaArticle ↗

Livestream history

Verknipt's live broadcast history is thin. The clear case is 2021, when a separate Verknipt Festival 2021 Livestream was set up around the July 3 and 4 event during the pandemic period. In normal years the festival does not run a continuous official live stream of its stages. Instead Verknipt records individual DJ sets on site and publishes them after the event on its YouTube channel and SoundCloud, where full festival playlists for 2021 through 2025 are posted. So the catalog is large but it is on-demand set video rather than a live feed of the festival as it happens.

  1. 2025
    YouTube · SoundCloud
    Free stream
    Notable: Toxic Machinery, Jazzy b2b Jowi, Santos, Pawlowski
    On-demand set videos posted after the June 7 and 8 tenth edition, not a live broadcast of the festival.
    Archive ↗
  2. 2024
    YouTube · SoundCloud
    Free stream
    Notable: Fantasm, Jazzy, Sara Landry, Shlomo
    Recorded DJ sets from the June 8 and 9 edition uploaded after the event rather than streamed live.
    Archive ↗
  3. 2021
    YouTube
    Free stream
    Notable: Anfisa Letyago, Fatima Hajji, Perc, AnD
    A dedicated Verknipt Festival 2021 Livestream was promoted around the July 3 and 4 event during the pandemic period. Full sets were later made available on YouTube and SoundCloud.
    Archive 1↗ Archive 2↗
How to watch
PlatformYouTube
AccessFree stream
Embeddablepartial

What sets it apart

01

Verknipt started in 2012 as a Club Roses afterparty for Awakenings in Amsterdam and grew into one of the largest hard techno organizations in Europe, with the Utrecht festival as its flagship two-day event.

02

Since 2018 the festival has run on the water at Recreatieplas Strijkviertel in Utrecht, with stages set around a lake under names like The Lake, Hangar, Ponton and Bunker.

03

Around 2023 the booking policy narrowed almost entirely to hard and industrial techno, dropping the wider house programming of earlier years to match the harder Verknipt identity.

04

The brand extended into a stadium concept in 2024 with Verknipt ArenA at the Johan Cruijff ArenA in Amsterdam, which drew about 40,000 people.

Headliners
50 artists indexed across the lineup. Top 30 shown by 2026 touring rank.
Serafina 🇦🇺 Restricted Cloudy Nikolina 🇳🇱 Vieze Asbak Fumi Jazzy Kruelty Johannes Schuster 🇯🇵 Kuko Franck Winson Jowi Toxic Machinery SLVL USH Klofama Rebekah Entasia BLNK Boery Jo3y3t Lieks Ramon TITI Rozie Davyboi BYORN APRD Zuke
AREA ONE Ben Techy Blurred Movement DROS Juul Exler Freddi 🇫🇷 Fantasm Foss Janks 🇬🇧 Hurts NYCO Inafekt NewTone Iosio JALO Vino Karah LS41 Nzgul SANTOS
Hear the lineup
Serafina · Spotify
Restricted · Spotify
CLOUDY · Spotify
NIKOLINA · Spotify

Gallery

DJ Sara Landry performing at Verknipt festival, Strijkviertelplas, Utrecht, Netherlands
DrAttendoloSforza (own work), via Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0

Venue

The festival takes place at Recreatieplas Strijkviertel in Netherlands. It typically hosts crowds in the 25,000+ range across 2 days.

NameRecreatieplas Strijkviertel
Country Netherlands

History

Verknipt Festival was founded in 2012, making this its 14th year.

The festival is part of Verknipt's portfolio of electronic music events.

Founded2012
Years running14
ParentVerknipt

Signature moments

  1. 2024Shlomo's Saturday closing set at The Hangar and Sara Landry's Sunday set were singled out by the organization as standout performances of the weekend.
  2. 2024The June 8 and 9 edition drew more than 25,000 visitors, the largest festival crowd since Verknipt began in 2012.
  3. 2021The July 3 and 4 edition went ahead during a brief reopening and was later linked to more than 1,000 reported COVID-19 cases, one of the most discussed Dutch festival outbreaks of the period.
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