Superstruct Entertainment, the KKR-owned promoter behind Sonar, Awakenings and Dekmantel, published an "Artistic Code" on September 10, 2026, setting two red lines for performer speech at its 80-plus festivals, but critics say it sidesteps the KKR ownership dispute that triggered 18 months of artist boycotts.
Awakenings has booked eight events across five days at Amsterdam's Sugarfactory for ADE 2026, mixing harder-than-techno, tech house and a Jeff Mills headline set into what the promoter calls its most diverse programme to date.
KKR-backed Superstruct Entertainment has dissolved Apenkooi Events, the Amsterdam promoter behind DGTL, absorbing DGTL into rival brand Awakenings while shutting down STRAF_WERK, Pleinvrees and Amsterdam Open Air outright.
Superstruct Entertainment, the KKR-owned festival conglomerate, has dissolved its Dutch subsidiary Apenkooi Events, folding DGTL's booking and production into Monumental (the operator behind its own Awakenings brand) and discontinuing STRAF_WERK, Pleinvrees and Amsterdam Open Air outright from May 1, 2026.
Awakenings 2026 sold out a record 119,000 tickets by splitting Hilvarenbeek into six sound-specific areas, from industrial hard techno to house-adjacent grooves, because one stage can no longer hold techno's audience together.
The Top 100 Festivals 2026 poll filled its upper ranks with global electronic music mega-brands. But Tomorrowland's stronger house programming at Crystal Garden shows the festival is also making room for sounds beyond its main-stage EDM identity.
Andrea Gill, who performs as The Tunegirl, made her Awakenings debut on 17 May 2026 at 63, playing fully improvised live techno on a self-built 188-module Eurorack system, with no laptop and no pre-recorded tracks.
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