Perc - Awakenings Easter Festival 2022
Enter the realm of the industrial techno purist, stood entirely motionless in a black harness, arms crossed, analyzing the decay rate of the kick drum. They will tell you they only came for the closing set, but they’ve been sweating in the same spot since 2 PM holding a warm Red Bull. Awakenings Easter Festival 2022 feels like the inside of a concrete mixer, punishing the crowd with relentless strobes and brutalist soundscapes. Taking a sledgehammer to the Perc Awakenings Easter Festival 2022 tracklist, we are met with a grueling 146 BPM average.
Pounding through the 12A and 10B Camelot keys, the energy arc is just a flatline of pure, unadulterated aggression. His mixing in this Techno live set is violent and abrupt, slamming industrial textures together with no remorse. Perc's crate digging is, as always, utterly terrifying. He pulls out monstrous cuts like Electric Rescue's "Postures Sociales" and the blistering "Perfect Organism" by Prime Mover.
But dropping a hardstyle-leaning remix of "Eurodancer" proves he loves a bit of cheeky rave nostalgia amidst the carnage. The assault begins immediately with a deafening Unknown opening track. The crowd gets battered through heavy artillery like Distek's "Hard Fax", before Perc delivers a massive curveball with the closing track: Armin van Buuren & Lilly Palmer's "Dopamine Machine". Total devastation.