Speedy J
Awakenings Easter Festival 2022
It's the Awakenings Easter Festival 2022, where the weekend warriors are rising from the dead on day three to chew their own faces off to some proper fast kicks. Half the crowd is having an existential crisis, and the other half is trying to remember where they parked their bikes. It's absolute scenes watching people trying to keep a straight face while their jaw is doing the Macarena. The industrial tent feels like a pressure cooker of strobes and sub-bass, with a visceral, unyielding energy that demands total physical surrender. This Speedy J live set is a masterclass in high-octane Techno, relentlessly pushing a blisteringly fast 139.5 BPM.
The energy is hyper-focused on the low end, but the high frequencies are kept sharp enough to pierce through the dense warehouse acoustics. Staying primarily in the 12A key, the set maintains a dark, foreboding harmonic consistency. Speedy J's mixing is legendary—looping, layering, and effectively performing live to create a wall of rhythmic intensity. The track selection is an absolute goldmine of driving techno and classic trance reworks. Pulling out Zombie Nation's 'Kernkraft 400 (Sport Chant Stadium Remix)' is a brilliantly unpretentious move that sets the tent on fire.
He also absolutely ruins the crowd with System F's 'Out of the Blue'. The Speedy J Awakenings Easter Festival 2022 tracklist is not for the faint of heart. After an enigmatic 'Unknown' opening track, the set escalates into a furious barrage of kicks. The undisputed highlight is Darzack's chaotic 'Fucking Masked Depression', before the closing track, Iñigo Rave's 'Bloodland', finally gives the battered crowd permission to go home.