Luigi Madonna - Awakenings Easter Festival 2022
Nothing says 'Happy Easter' quite like 15,000 people chewing their own faces off in a giant Dutch tent. Forget chocolate eggs; the only thing resurrecting today is your serotonin levels after a brutal four-day bender. It is a sea of jaw-swinging techno tourists and lads in bucket hats who look like they have been awake since Good Friday. But amidst the absolute state of the crowd, the vibe inside Awakenings is electric, charged with blinding strobes and a relentless, driving groove.
A deep dive into the Luigi Madonna Awakenings Easter Festival 2022 tracklist shows exactly why he is a mainstage staple. Locking the tempo at a furious 140.1 BPM, he absolutely dominates the 12A Camelot key, dropping 15 tracks in the same harmonic space to create a suffocating, hypnotic Techno loop. His mixing is powerful and driving, riding a massive low-end wave while utilizing snappy, high-energy transitions. The track selection in this Luigi Madonna live set is brilliantly cheeky.
Mixed in with modern bruisers like Enrico Sangiuliano's remix of "The Techno Code", he genuinely drops Culture Beat's "Crying in the Rain" and System F's trance classic "Out of the Blue". Pure, unadulterated festival shithousery. The set begins with an imposing "Unknown" opening track, before culminating in an absolutely absurd 20-minute masterclass of Paul Webster & Jordan Suckley's "Help" as both the peak and the closing track. Absolute madness from start to finish.