The Top 100 Festivals of 2025, as voted by DJ Mag readers (2025)

This is the fifth year that DJ Mag has presented the Top 100 Festivals list, with a record-breaking number of votes recorded in the poll once again.

Top 100 Festivals first started in 2019, when winners were selected by a panel of DJs. After a brief hiatus due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the poll returned in 2022 with votes being opened up to the public for the first time. Increased numbers have been recorded every year since, and, in 2025, votes came from every corner of the globe, from North and South America to Europe, Asia, Oceania and Africa. In the list below, you’ll find festivals spanning a wide range of electronic music styles, from EDM and hard dance favourites with jaw-dropping production to major house and techno events and underground staples with a sound-system focus.

But the landscape for festivals is changing rapidly, and has become increasingly fraught with challenges. In 2024, a record 78 UK festivals cancelled, postponed or called time on their event entirely according to the Association of Independent Festivals (AIF). That followed the 172 events that ceased operations completely between 2019 and 2024. So far, in 2025, 39 UK festivals have been forced to cancel or postpone. The AIF recently set up the Fallow Festival Fund to help support events that have taken a year out in 2025 in order “to figure out what they need to do differently to make their events work in this new climate”.

In a period of constant flux for the festival economy, where major companies and investors vie for monopoly, conversations around private equity, crowd safety and environmentalism have been pulled into sharper relief than ever before. Fans, industry initiatives and artists alike have increasingly made their voices heard in the hope of maintaining a scene that is sustainable and aligns with electronic music’s core values. In recent months, following the acquisition of entertainment company Superstruct, the owner of over 80 festivals worldwide, by investment company KKR, events have been met with artist withdrawals and calls for boycott over ties to “complicit investments”. These include stakes in weapons manufacturing companies, the Coastal GasLink pipeline, and a number of Israeli corporations that operate in occupied Palestinian territories.

Many festival promoters and attendees have started to demonstrate a desire to reshape the landscape. In May, 46 UK Festivals announced a partnership with War Child, offering free tickets to fans who donate £10 to the Festivals Unite campaign, which aims to help the charity provide support for the 1-in-5 young people affected by conflict globally. Last year, sustainability non-profit A Greener Future (AGF) also reported that 40 festivals in 14 countries had achieved the organisation's certification for sustainability in 2024. In February, Massive Attack reported "unprecedented" reductions in greenhouse gas emissions from their 2024 climate-action concert, ACT 1.5, setting a new standard for how to effectively run a festival while introducing decarbonisation measures.

While the line-ups of the festivals voted into this year’s list by DJ Mag readers vary drastically, what they share is a capacity to bring music fans together, and, as recent figures have shown, the desire for electronic music of all varieties at festivals the world over has seen a significant increase in recent years. According to the IMS Business Report 2025, the presence of electronic acts on global festival line-ups has risen to 18%, rising from 13% in 2021.

You can read the full Top 100 Festivals list below, and find out more information and donate to the AIF’s Fallow Festival Fund campaign here.

There are dance music festivals, and then there is Tomorrowland. The Belgian spectacle has set new parameters for what’s possible, pairing truly groundbreaking stage production with heavyweight line-ups and magical themes for two bumper weekends every July. In 2024, the festival raised the bar once again, debuting its new ‘LIFE’ mainstage, which was christened by Swedish House Mafia with their first Tomorrowland set in 12 years. Improved infrastructure and accessibility across the site made for an even smoother fan experience, whilst the Tomorrowland Academy hosted sets from the youngest DJs in the festival’s history, with artists aged 9 to 17 years old taking to the stage.

Tomorrowland might take place on Belgian soil but the festival is truly global in every other sense, welcoming attendees from over 200 countries — who can be spotted proudly flying their flags in the crowd — and platforming electronic artists from almost every corner of the planet. As a result, the festival’s atmosphere is uniquely international, nurturing the spirit of friendship, collaboration and unity above all else. This unmistakable balance of fan-first ethos with boundary-pushing innovation has made Tomorrowland one of the most talked about festivals in the world, and sells out in a matter of minutes each year.

It comes as no surprise then that the festival has dominated DJ Mag’s Top 100 Festivals poll for almost half a decade. Tomorrowland first clinched the crown back in 2019, when the poll was voted for by DJs, before returning to No. 1 spot in 2022 following the shift to a public vote for the first time. Since then, the festival has topped the poll in both 2023 and 2024, with a record-breaking number of DJ Mag readers having their say. Now, in 2025, Tomorrowland retains its crowd for a whopping fifth time: a testament to the forward-thinking approach of the festival, the hard work of its team, and the passion of its fervent fanbase.

Speaking about Tomorrowland being voted the World’s No. 1 Festival in the DJ Mag Top 100 Festivals 2025, Debby Wilmsen, Tomorrowland’s press relations and internal communications lead, shared: “This is something we work on year-round with a dedicated team of over 300 people — day and night — with great passion, energy, and love for what we do. Receiving recognition like this, especially when it comes directly from the heart of our community, the DJ Mag readers, is incredibly rewarding and deeply appreciated by everyone across the entire organisation.”

Looking forward to this year’s event — which will take place across the weekends of 18th-20th July and 25th-27th July — Wilmsen continued: “In 2025, we’re putting a strong emphasis on technological innovation and ecological responsibility. One example is the introduction of RFID smart cups — a first in Belgium — enabling a fully circular reusable cup system. Our newly launched innovation hub, the Lab of Tomorrow, is also part of this forward-looking vision.

“Our positive impact reaches beyond Belgium. In France and Brazil, we work hand in hand with local teams, authorities, and residents. In 2025, ecology and regional development will remain top priorities, as we continue striving to amplify Tomorrowland’s positive footprint around the world.” OLIVIA STOCK

What can be said about Ultra Music Festival (UMF) that hasn’t been said a thousand times before? One of the world’s most iconic festivals, for over 20 years it's been the centrepiece for the electronic music industry’s annual Miami excursion, first as part of the long-running Winter Music Conference, and now as the crescendo of Miami Music Week. First held on the beach, UMF now sprawls over Bayfront Park, boasting six areas and the biggest artists in the world. This year that meant headliners like trance icons Armin van Buuren and Above & Beyond, EDM dons Tiësto, Afrojack and Martin Garrix, techno titans like Carl Cox, Charlotte de Witte, I Hate Models and Joris Voorn, and huge back-to-back sets like Anyma B2B Solomun, Dom Dolla B2B John Summit.

UMF’s drum & bass offering was strong this year, with DJs like Chase & Status, Andy C, LTJ Bukem, Dimension, Wilkinson and Hedex making the trip across the pond, and there was tech-house specialists like Patrick Topping and Mau P, hard dance favourites Brennan Heart and Sub Zero Project, and names like Four Tet, Ahadadream, and Skream B2B Interplanetary Criminal making sure all corners of dance music were covered. And with numerous events across the world forthcoming, there’s plenty to keep the Ultra ultras going until next March. BEN HINDLE

Ten years ago, in the heart of Transylvania when Cluj-Napoca was named the European Youth Capital, Romania’s UNTOLD welcomed over 240,000 attendees to its inaugural event. The festival’s world-class production drew attention from the industry, landing it the Best Major European Festival award that year. It’s continued to raise the bar each time since. 2024’s edition hosted 250 artists across eight stages, attracting some 427,000 visitors, and in the last 12 months, the team has been building on the festival’s offerings — a new mainstage is in the pipeworks, as well as new brand activations on the festival site.

Music and production aside, UNTOLD is known for its charity and educational work. Its Blood Network, a campaign which encourages blood donations across Romania in return for a day festival ticket, has received tens of thousands of donations — and saved tens of thousands of lives as a result. To mark its tenth year, UNTOLD regulars like Martin Garrix, Tiësto, Don Diablo and Armin van Buuren are planning special extended sets, and for the first time in the festival’s history attendees will also be offered backstage tours. A community-focused ethos, global crowd and social engagement has stood UNTOLD out from the pack from day one.RIA HYLTON

Beginning in 1997 in its current incarnation as part of Insomniac’s portfolio, Electric Daisy Carnival has taken over its home at Las Vegas Motor Speedway every May since 2011, growing into what has become the largest electronic dance music festival in North America. Welcoming 525,000 people over its three days each year, the festival hosts a hugely wide-ranging line-up across its neon-drenched fairground site, taking in the best of EDM, house, techno, drum & bass, dubstep and beyond. Made up of eight stages — including EDC Las Vegas' largest area, the Kinetic Field, which has a capacity of 70,000 people — the festival also features four Ferris wheels and free-roaming carnival performers.

The flagship event for a number of satellite EDC festivals that also feature in this list — which include events in Orlando, China, and Mexico — EDC Las Vegas’ site states that the festival's ethos is all about “taking risks and breaking rules”. “We don’t chase trends, we create culture. We push the envelope to make things you’ve never experienced before.” ROB MCCALLUM

Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts takes over Worthy Farm near Pilton in Somerset following the summer solstice every June, and sells out within minutes each year. Having firmly established its place as one of the world's most iconic festivals since starting in 1970, last year's edition saw headline performances from Dua Lipa, Coldplay and SZA on the gargantuan Pyramid Stage, while this year sees Neil Young, Olivia Rodrigo and The 1975 follow in their footsteps.

Headline performances in 2025 come from artists including Charli XCX, Loyle Carner and The Prodigy, but it's the festival’s ever expanding dance music-focused offering that has been the real highlight of recent years. Glastonbury — which raises millions of pounds for charity organisations annually — has a history entwined with electronic and dance music dating back to the arrival of free party sound systems in the late ’80s. The festival introduced its Dance Village in 1997, which has since morphed into its Silver Hayes area, and in recent years has seen the rapid expansion of its South-East corner, home to areas including Block9, Shangri-La, The Common, Glade and The Unfairground. This year, the festival will see some of its dance music areas expand in size to account for this increased popularity, with Shangri-La getting a total redesign complete new stages and the Arcadia, Glade and Silver Hayes areas all getting additional capacity.

Glastonbury announced that the five-day event will be taking a fallow year in 2026, meaning those that missed out on tickets for 2025 will have to wait until 2027 for another chance to party on the farm. ROB MCCALLUM

The city of Turin, once the capital of Italy and a major industrial hub, has served as the breathtaking backdrop for Kappa FuturFestival since 2009. An art and techno lover’s paradise, which regularly attracts in excess of 80,000 attendees across its three-day term, the event uniquely fuses Italian heritage with forward-thinking electronic line-ups.

Kappa takes place annually at Turin’s Parco Dora: a former Michelin plant with its industrial history still on glorious display. Bronze-rusted steel beams rise out of the ground at the iconic Futur main stage — which has previously housed sets from the likes of Tiësto, Adam Beyer, Charlotte de Witte, and more — whilst towering screens project immersive light shows on the Voyager Stage, introduced in 2023. The festival is symbolic of Turin’s new identity, where the city’s creative and cultural sectors have blossomed in the wake of the manufacturing era, and a testament to what’s possible at the intersection of music, art and technology.

Kappa FuturFestival will return to Turin from 4th-6th July 2025 with another huge bill, featuring Peggy Gou, Carl Cox (Live), ANOTR, Miss Monique, Anyma, Ben UFO b2b Francesco Del Garda, an extended set from Solomun, and much more. OLIVIA STOCK

Every April an arid landscape in Indio, California is transformed into a desert rave. Originally inspired by a 1993 Pearl Jam performance at the Empire Polo Club, the first Coachella took place in 1999, headlined by Beck and Rage Against the Machine. By the mid ’00s it was a globally recognised brand and in 2012 it expanded to two weekends. Coachella remains one of the world’s most influential music festivals, so much so that it’s hard to avoid all the press and social media coverage it attracts — good, bad, and ugly. Whether it’s stage injuries, technical meltdowns, or political protests, you’re bound to hear about it — and all the think pieces that follow.

The reason the festival remains a key moment in the entertainment calendar is in part to do with its line-up, which often includes some of the biggest acts on earth — Beyoncé, Lady Gaga — as well as its knack for spotlighting up-and-coming talent. As a result, it attracts some 125,000 attendees each day and sets the tone for festival culture worldwide. Line-up speculation for 2026 is already swirling, but one thing is for sure — next April, all eyes, ears and cameras will be ready to capture the next viral Coachella moment. RIA HYLTON

Goa’s connection with electronic music is long and storied, and for nearly 20 years, Sunburn has been a part of that. Billed as “Asia’s largest music festival”, today Sunburn Festival — which takes place in December — brings thousands of festival-goers to the west coast of India for three days of fun in the sun.

“Entering our 18th edition, we stood at the crossroads of honouring Sunburn Goa’s legacy while delivering our most ambitious event yet,” explains Sunburn CEO, Karan Singh. “With nearly two decades of bringing world-class electronic music to India, Sunburn Goa 2024 felt particularly pivotal — a moment where we needed to showcase our continued evolution as tastemakers and experience curators.”

In practice that meant creating a “magical aquatic escape” that immersed attendees “in the surreal beauty of the ocean”, and booking dance music’s global elite — names like Skrillex, Peggy Gou, Alesso and KSHMR — alongside the underground acts that are breaking through thanks to their bleeding-edge approach, like Ahadadream, Manara, Hamdi and Sicaria. It’s clearly worked, as Sunburn breaks into the top 10 after landing just outside last year. “Having our fans vote us into the DJ Mag Top 100 this year, for a second consecutive year, hits differently — it’s deeply personal because it represents a direct choice from the people who matter most to us,” says Singh. BEN HINDLE

Founded in 1998 by legendary Liverpool club promoters, Creamfields has rave heritage baked into its foundations. While the scale of the festival has changed — growing from 25,000 attendees to more than 70,000 in 2024 — its commitment to platforming the very best in commercial-leaning dance music hasn’t. This year’s line-up boasts more than 300 of the biggest electronic names spread across 30 stages, and fronted by UK-exclusive performances from David Guetta and ANYMA. Other bill highlights include Saturday headliners Swedish House Mafia, Chase & Status, techno titan Amelie Lens, and countless more.

As always, there’s plenty of site upgrades too, including HALO — a new 360-degree “mega stage” engineered by Lucid Creates. Promising “total immersion” with overhead video, lighting, and sound, the arena is the evolution of the much-loved Runway stage which debuted in 2022. On the opposite end of the site, Teletech will host a three-day takeover in an all-new, 15,000-capacity arena, featuring sets from Funk Tribu, AZYR, Brutalismus 3000, I Hate Models with a Face-II-Face show, and more.

“Creamfields has never underestimated the importance of pushing boundaries with high-end production, keeping their dedicated audience excited and engaged with numerous site upgrades, as well as new arenas and stages year on year,” Chris Carr, director of Lucid Creates, shared. “It’s not an easy thing to pull off, but creating these groundbreaking experiences really is what drives us all.” OLIVIA STOCK

This year’s top-ranking festival dedicated to hard dance music, Defqon.1 was founded in 2003 by specialists in that world, Q-dance. Taking place in Biddinghuizen in the Netherlands over the last weekend of June, it brings together the biggest names from hardstyle, rawstyle, hardcore techno, Frenchcore and more. With a line-up poster so packed fans practically needed a magnifying glass to hunt down their favourites, last year’s event — which operated under the theme “power of the tribe” —presented the pinnacle for those wanting their bones rattled by high-BPM kick drums. A very limited taster of the artists booked includes Angerfist, D-Block & S-te-Fan, Brennan Heart, Showtek, Sub Zero Project, Marc Arcadipane, Wildstylez, Deadly Guns, and Hellfish & Thrasher.

Defqon.1 has previously had outposts in Chile (2015-16) and Australia, where it ran in Sydney for a decade before shutting up shop. With last year’s visitor count at a reported 300,000, the OG Dutch edition is still getting stronger year on year however, and will return this summer under the banner “where legends rise” with appropriately legendary names like Ran-D, The Outside Agency & Deathmachine, Miss K8, Coone, Atmozfears, Warface and Ophidian. BEN HINDLE

World Club Dome has come a long way since its first edition in 2013. What started out as a 25,000 capacity festival has since morphed into an annual extravaganza welcoming over 150,000 attendees each summer and some 100,000 attendees to its winter edition. World Club Dome takes over Deutsche Bank Park in Frankfurt and includes indoor and outdoor staging across 700,000sqm.

Unlike many festival offerings, which draw visitors to remote locales, World Club Dome pitches the party right in the centre of a vibrant European city. With Frankfurt as its bustling backdrop, the event boasts a truly international offering. 2024’s edition billed arena-packing acts David Guetta and Steve Aoki alongside underground heroes like Honey Dijon and Richie Hawtin — and 2025 is looking much the same. Tiësto, Steve Aoki and Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike are set to play on a line-up that includes tech-house champ Jamie Jones and drum & bass turntablist Eskei83.

It’s an unlikely blend of big room energy and underground club culture, one that World Club Dome continues to pull off every year — proving why it remains among the most coveted festival events in the world. RIA HYLTON

Sziget might be one of the most widely-adored festivals on the calendar, but the team don’t take it for granted; constantly expanding the site and assembling genre-expansive bills that straddle pop, rock, indie, electronic music and everything in between. In 2025, the week-long event is set to introduce a handful of new arenas and revamped venues, including the Szoho district, a “multicultural hub” inspired by iconic city districts like Soho in London and New York. Elsewhere, the Delta District will function as the festival’s new nightlife epicentre, offering entertainment options from dusk ’til dawn.

The seven-day spectacular will return to Óbuda, the largest Danubian island in Budapest, from 6th to 11th August 2025, with a world-class line-up of artists to boot. Electronic music once again stands tall in the billing, with appearances from Armin van Buuren, Anyma, Justice, Kneecap, Steve Angello, Ahadadream, Blawan, HorsegiirL, and hundreds more across the week.Last year, Sziget celebrated its 30th edition, hosting a whopping 1,000+ performances across 50 stages, and drawing a crowd of more than 500,000 dancers. It’s no surprise then that it continues to rocket up the rankings in our Top 100 Festival poll, peaking at No. 13 in 2025. OLIVIA STOCK

Back in 1994, a new event launched in Ludwigshafen on the Rhine in western Germany. With names like Laurent Garnier, John Acquaviva and Speedy J on the bill, it clearly meant business. Over three decades later, Time Warp has solidified its place as a global events powerhouse. Its primary location now is the Maimarkthalle in neighbouring Mannheim, where it holds a colossal one-dayer every April (celebrating its 30th anniversary with a special 30-hour event in 2024). This year, that encompassed the likes of Black Coffee, Charlotte de Witte, Jamie Jones, Indira Paganotto, KI/KI, Patrick Mason, Carlita, and SYREETA, dropping 19 hours of top-tier techno and house across five dancefloors. There were also special back-to-back sessions from Dixon and Chloé Caillet, Daria Kolosova and Héctor Oaks, and Seth Troxler and Mau P, amongst others.

Time Warp also hosts an annual two-dayer in Mannheim each Autumn, yearly events in Brazil and the USA, and over the decade has made regular appearances in the Netherlands, Argentina, Chile and Italy. Last year was the first edition of Time Warp Spain in Madrid, which returns this October with another heavyweight line-up. And with tickets on sale for the next autumn and spring 2026 editions of the Mannheim event already on sale, its business as usual for Time Warp. BEN HINDLE

Boomtown re-enters the Top 20 of the DJ Mag Top 100 Festivals in 2025, ahead of its return with another sell-out five-day event on its Hampshire site in August, which hosts a fictional city each year, made up of eight districts. Each edition of Boomtown is based around a new message that “focuses on ways we could create a better world for all, this guides all of our production, the theatre and the music we programme,” according to James Cousins, the festival’s director of music strategy and programming.

For 2025 the message is Chapter Four: Power of Now. This year, the festival is introducing two brand new main stages, HYDRO a hydrogen-powered design that focuses on house and techno, and d&b-focused area The Lion’s Gate, which will be replacing Origin. “The biggest challenge we face is making the festival a bigger and better spectacle than the year before,” Cousins continues. “Our team works tirelessly to keep us ahead of the curve in electronic music. We want to thank all Boomtown citizens, past and present for making our crazy world a place like no other, and for all the love and support they’ve given us over the years.”ROB MCCALLUM

What began as a way of extending the party has grown into ADE’s flagship event. Launched in 2013, AMF now draws over 40,000 fans each year to Amsterdam’s Johan Cruijff ArenA. Its pure EDM inauguration has since evolved into a genre-spanning celebration of dance music of all types, including house, techno, trance and hardstyle. Since shifting to a multi-venue format in 2016, AMF has continued to build on its musical scope and production scale.

Past headliners include Armin van Buuren, David Guetta, Afrojack, Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike and Martin Garrix, and 2024 pushed the genre boundaries once again, still striking a balance between huge crowd pleasers and incoming talent. New blood like Maddix and Marlon Hoffstadt brought fresh energy to the line-up, while the big guns — Garrix, Tiësto, et al — held it down for AMF regulars, delivering stellar sets on the mainstages.

That same vision continues in 2025. Buuren and Hardwell are slated alongside debut performances from KI/KI, Sara Landry and John Summit. We’re also told there is still a big surprise to come, with organisers promising “a special performance that fans won’t want to miss”. With more than a decade under its belt, AMF is no longer just the afterparty — for many it’s the main event. RIA HYLTON

Even if you’ve never been, you’ve probably listened to — or watched — a Dekmantel set. Over the year's the festival’s broadcasts have helped catapult its reputation far beyond Amsterdam — and made a few viral moments too. Since its inauguration in 2013, having evolved from an intimate club night in the late ’00s, it’s been a key destination for summer ravers the world over. Dekmantel's curation privileges sonic depth and heritage over your typical big-ticket names, which is why dance music heads are always open to exploring new names on its bill, as well as some of the best DJs the scene has to offer.

2024’s edition boasted more than 150 acts across eight stages, with Dekmantel favourites CARISTA, Eris Drew and Call Super taking pride of place in its billing. 2025 is looking strong too, with an impressive schedule of b2bs — ANZ & Pearson Sound, Kittin & DJ MELL G, Elena Colombi & Lena Wilikens, to name a few. Over the last decade, Dekmantel has become a benchmark for festival innovation, showing that there’s still space for dance music experiences with heart and a creative vision at their core.RIA HYLTON

The biggest electronic music Festival in Germany celebrates its 10th anniversary in 2025, as PAROOKAVILLE also maintains its place in the top 20 of the DJ Mag Top 100 Festivals poll. The annual three-day event takes place at Weeze Airport in the Lower Rhine region of Germany, close to the Dutch border, and features a packed line-up of dance music heavyweights every year. "Parookaville is the City of Dreams," explains Andreas Cüppers, the festival’s director of marketing. "Our gigantic main stage is redesigned every year, and for 2024, a greenhouse over 200 metres wide with a glass dome and a real waterfall has been created. Overall, we have further expanded the infield area and redesigned the access routes to the main stage to provide our 225,000 citizens with the best possible experience.”

For its 10th anniversary, the team behind the festival has also redesigned its second main stage, Bill's Factory, after eight years. “We work all year round to be one of the outstanding festivals in Europe, and the feedback from our citizens is a very important indicator and driver for this,” continues Cüppers. “May madness, love and pure happiness continue to reign in this city for the next ten years. As Bill Parooka, the fictional founding father of Parookaville, would say: ‘Thank you to everyone who voted for Parookaville. We really appreciate it.’” ROB MCCALLUM

Every summer, a temporary “technopolis” rises from the Spanish desert for 22 hours only. The occasion? Monegros Desert Festival — an uninterrupted day-to-night-to-day rave and one of Europe’s most unique destination festivals. The event will return for its 32nd edition this July, making it one of the longest-running festivals in our Top 100 poll. Laurent Garnier, Richie Hawtin and Pendulum will be heading into the desert to headline the celebrations, alongside recent additions Rudimental, Indira Paganotto, Ben Sims, Cinthie and more. They’ll be joined by 50,000+ revellers set to make the pilgrimage to the festival site — which is located three hours outside Barcelona.

Monegros has come a long way since its debut back in 1992, founded and launched by entrepreneur Juan Arnau Dura. The first edition of the festival was a small gathering of around 200 people, which has steadily grown year on year into a 13-stage extravaganza. “The desert is always a challenge: setup, logistics, production... But every year we strive to outdo ourselves,” shared founders, Juan and Cruz Arnau. “We bet on creativity, impactful stages, and impeccable sound that makes every grain of sand vibrate. And, above all, we want to keep improving artistically and with the line-up. This year, we’re joined by new stages, collaborations, and areas that will surprise even the most seasoned veterans.” OLIVIA STOCK

Dutch techno behemoth Awakenings holds numerous key events throughout the year. There’s its weeklong ADE series, which takes over Amsterdam’s Gashouder, the venue where the brand first started way back in 1997. And its intimate Upclose weekender at Spaarnwoude-park just outside of the Dutch capital. But the crowning glory — at least as far as our Top 100 Festivals poll is concerned — is Awakenings’ summer festival. Returning to its home of Beekse Bergen in the south of the Netherlands for three days each year, the event collates the best techno and house music have to offer.

Having had to cancel its final day in 2023 due to severe weather, the Awakenings crew prepared perhaps their most impressive line-up to date for 2024, bringing in 125 acts. Name one of the current titans of techno and house and you can bet they were present. Honey Dijon? Check. Mochakk? Check. Indira Paganotto? Check. The new-gen’s fastest rising stars, like Estella Boersma, Clara Cuvé and Funk Tribu, rubbed shoulders with OGs like Richie Hawtin and DJ Rush. The biggest of the big — see: Adam Beyer back-to-back with Joseph Capriati — were billed alongside the underground’s finest, like Sally C, the Zenker Brothers and Cincity. Nearly 30 years deep and Awakenings shows no signs of slowing down. BEN HINDLE