Len Faki
Awakenings Summer festival 2023
Behold the Awakenings summer crowd: an army of shirtless men aggressively chewing gum and staring at the speakers like they owe them money. It's a beautiful congregation of techno tourists who spent six months at the gym just to take their tops off in a Dutch field. But once the sun goes down, the booming, open-air sheer scale of Awakenings Summer Festival 2023 becomes an absolute colosseum. This Len Faki live set is a masterclass in peak-time Techno, averaging a hefty 135.9 BPM.
Faki's technical style is legendary; he anchors the set in the 12A pocket but throws in aggressive EQ cuts and sharp, metallic high-hat layering that creates a relentless, lung-crushing energy arc. The Len Faki Awakenings Summer festival 2023 tracklist is a crate digger's absolute dream, completely throwing out the rulebook. Opening a techno set with Reflekt's trance anthem 'Need To Feel Loved' is a mad stroke of genius, and throwing in Whigfield's 'Sexy Eyes' is him having a proper laugh at the purists. The set's journey is legendary.
Starting with 'Reflekt - Need To Feel Loved' as the opening track, he batters the crowd with K. Hand's massive 'These Sounds,' before delivering the ultimate nostalgic knockout punch with 'Faithless - Insomnia' as the closing track. Absolute scenes.