Adam Beyer
Awakenings Festival 2025
Look at them out there at Awakenings, bless them. Half the crowd is having a profound spiritual awakening, while the other half is desperately trying to find a 5G signal to post their bucket-hat selfies. It's the annual pilgrimage for techno tourists who think wearing all black makes them dangerous. But beneath the laser canopy of Awakenings Festival 2025, the air is thick with proper, unrelenting strobe-lit menace. This Adam Beyer live set is a masterclass in driving momentum, locking us into a relentless 136.4 BPM groove.
Beyer weaves through the Camelot wheel with surgical precision, heavily leaning on 12A and 7A to keep the harmonic tension right at the boiling point without ever spilling over into pure chaos. The mixing is tight, clinical, and utterly relentless. Looking at the Adam Beyer Awakenings Festival 2025 tracklist reveals a crate digger having an absolute laugh with both the old and the new. Dropping Skream's 'You Know, Right?' alongside Faithless's 'We Come 1' is a mad stroke of genius that separates the veterans from the kids. The journey is an absolute monster.
He kicks things off with a massive nostalgic punch, using the iconic 'Energy 52 - Café Del Mar (Three 'n One Remix)' as the opening track. The energy just climbs and climbs, peaking with the thumping 'Techno Trance' before finally bringing the massive crowd back to earth with his own 'Adam Beyer - The Distance Between Us (Extended Mix)' as the closing track. Sorted.