TuneLab
Alan Fitzpatrick x Luigi Madonna
Awakenings Summer festival 2023
Awakenings Summer Festival is where we go to have our bones rattled by precision-tooled machinery, and the back-to-back of Alan Fitzpatrick and Luigi Madonna is a foreman's briefing on industrial-grade techno. The sheer scale of the festival stage—a cathedral of light and noise—demands a set that operates with the force of a hydraulic press. This is unapologetic, peak-time techno, averaging a punishing 138.8 BPM with a tonal center frequently rooted in the aggressive 7A key.
The energy arc is monolithic, with lows constituting a crushing 71% of the profile, crafting a visceral, chest-compressing experience punctuated by searing 7% highs for dramatic impact. Their mixing style is direct and powerful, using long blends and loop layering to build relentless pressure, with harmonic moves to 12A and 3B providing scant moments of melodic relief before the next pummeling. The crate digging here is about weaponized functionality: Remco Beekwilder's sixteen-minute epic Mutual Manoeuvre is a tour-de-force of evolving, sinister atmosphere, while Rove Ranger's 101010 delivers blistering, loop-driven fury.
Dropping Jeff Mills' The Bells is the ultimate crowd-control flex, a historic siren that still commands instant chaos. The curveball comes with Armin van Buuren & SACHA's Set Me Free in the Rising Star Remix, a trance-inflected moment of soaring emotion that somehow doesn't feel out of place in the ironclad narrative. They kick off with an anonymous, mood-setting bomb, build to an earth-shattering climax with the timeless havoc of The Bells, and conclude with the cold, sweeping synths of Hanet's Obsidian Sweep, leaving the field in a state of beautiful wreckage.