Bart Skils x Layton Giordani
Awakenings Summer Festival 2022
There is nothing quite like the Berghain cosplay you see at Dutch techno festivals—thousands of people dressed like they’re attending a funeral in the matrix, aggressively chewing gum. It’s a beautiful sea of black t-shirts and tiny sunglasses where smiling is strictly prohibited but everyone is secretly having a lovely time. Under the colossal tents of Awakenings Summer Festival 2022, the booming kicks reverberate right through the ribcages of the sun-drenched masses. A dive into the Bart Skils x Layton Giordani Awakenings Summer Festival 2022 tracklist reveals a perfectly synchronized b2b session.
Locked into a driving 135.3 BPM, this Techno clinic relies heavily on 12A and 7A keys to maintain an unyielding, hypnotic tension. The Bart Skils x Layton Giordani live set boasts a massive 57% low-end frequency rate, rolling out those signature Drumcode basslines with surgical precision. The lads came armed with absolute weapons. Tossing in Benny Benassi's "Satisfaction" is a brilliant, cheeky crowd-pleaser that gets everyone having a laugh, while HI-LO, Space 92 & Oliver Heldens’s "Mercury" brings that modern, metallic crunch.
The Advent & Industrialyzer remix of Green Velvet's "Flash" is a proper crate-digger's dream. It's an absolute masterclass in pacing. After an explosive ID serves as the opening track, the boys relentlessly build the pressure. Lilly Palmer's "Resonate" creates absolute scenes in the middle of the set, paving the way for a frantic, old-school finish with the closing track, "Dead Can Trance" by Trancemaster File.