Amelie Lens
at the Gashouder for Awakenings Festival 2020 | Online weekender
Ah, the lockdown-era online weekender. Remember when we all pretended dancing in our living rooms while staring at a laptop was a "spiritual experience"? The chat box was moving faster than the BPM, full of techno tourists typing out fire emojis. Still, this Amelie Lens the Gashouder for Awakenings Festival 2020 tracklist absolutely demolished whatever makeshift setups we had. The legendary, cavernous Gashouder sits empty but menacing, illuminated by a ferocious laser show that screams peak-time warehouse rave.
This Amelie Lens live set is a masterclass in punishing, high-octane Techno. Averaging a relentless 136.3 BPM, she dominates the 12A key, engineering an aggressive, spiked energy arc. The mixing is fast, furious, and heavily reliant on thunderous low-end EQ cuts to create those massive, room-shaking drops. The track selection is completely unhinged in the best way.
Dropping Rank 1's trance anthem "Airwave" is a stroke of euphoric genius, but a Bob Marley "Natural Mystic" edit in the middle of a techno set? Absolutely mad. Following a brutal "Unknown - Unknown" opening track, she takes no prisoners. The absolute scenes arrive with Rocko Garoni's "Mystery Horse", before the pulverizing closing track "NOCTIVORA" by Kornux leaves the empty gasworks completely leveled.