TuneLab
Joris Voorn
Awakenings Spring Festival 2023
Awakenings festival main stage chaos: a sea of fists, incomprehensible LED visuals, and the faint hope your phone's mic can pick out a track ID over the roar of the system. Joris Voorn, as always, is the consummate professional navigating this beautiful madness. The vibe is peak festival techno—vast, loud, and unapologetically euphoric.
Voorn's sound here is driving, melodic techno with a peak-time purpose, pushing a brisk average of 134.2 BPM and frequently leveraging the powerful, open feeling of key 12A. His mixing is dynamic and assertive, building tension through looping basslines before releasing it in waves of soaring arpeggios and classic rave stabs. The set is packed with highlights, from the hypnotic depth of Donato Dozzy's 'Duetto' to the sheer, unadulterated mainstage power of Kevin de Vries & Kölsch's 'Gate'.
And yes, he drops 'Sandstorm'—we collectively lose our minds, and we're not sorry. The journey kicks off with a mysterious, building opener, crescendos with moments like Eli Brown's 'Be The One', and finds a strangely perfect resolution in the breakbeat-driven wash of Zion Train's 'Great Barrier Reef'.