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Enrico Sangiuliano - Awakenings Easter Festival 2022
Enrico Sangiuliano at Awakenings Easter Festival 2022 is a masterclass in modern melodic techno production value, for better or worse. We're here, in a field in the Netherlands, surrounded by people who can identify a synth riser from 50 yards away, all chasing that perfect, architectured drop. The vibe is crisp, clean, and massively scaled, with production so polished you could see your sleep-deprived reflection in the kick drum. Technically, it's a high-octane affair, averaging a fierce 133 BPM with a tonal center often in the moody 3B, creating a sense of urgent melancholy.
The energy is precisely engineered, with a near-even split between low-end weight, mid-range detail, and those signature, soaring high-end leads Sangiuliano is famous for. The tracklist is a showcase of his own sculpted sound and sharp digs. While the opener remains a frustrating ID, the journey includes the driving, hypnotic pulse of Hidden Empire's 'Cashmere'. A brilliant curveball comes with the haunting vocal sample of Pat Kelly's 'How Long Will It Take', repurposed into a techno weapon.
The peak, inevitably, is the monolithic Charlotte de Witte & Enrico Sangiuliano remix of 'The Age Of Love', a track so vast it probably has its own weather system. He guides us from the unknown into the storm of that remix, before cooling down with the progressive, watery textures of Glenn Morrison's 'Hydrology'.