Awakenings ADE 2026: Cloonee and Prospa Lead the House Takeover

Awakenings has spent 25 years as one of techno's most reliable institutions — Gashouder residencies, sold-out Ziggo Dome shows, a festival footprint that defines Dutch electronic music culture. What it hasn't historically been associated with is house. That changes at ADE 2026. The promoter's eight-event programme at SugarFactory in Amsterdam, running October 21 through 25, carves out real space for the house spectrum in a way that feels less like a pivot and more like a reckoning with where the underground actually is right now.

Metamorfosi: The House Event Awakenings Built Around Joseph Capriati

The biggest signal of Awakenings' house intentions this year is Friday October 23's daytime event, Metamorfosi. Curated by Joseph Capriati — an artist whose musical identity has expanded considerably over the past few years — it brings together a lineup that reads less like a techno brand hedging its bets and more like a genuine commitment to the groove-led side of the underground. Cloonee headlines, with The Martinez Brothers alongside him, and the full bill is completed by Simon Kidzoo and AAT.

The Cloonee booking is worth noting. He's been one of the most consistent performers in tech house over the last three years — big rooms, main stages, festival slots — but his most interesting work lives in the spaces between those moments: darker, lower, more patient than the peak-time reputation suggests. A daytime ADE set in a venue like SugarFactory is a different context from EDC or Creamfields, and Cloonee performing in that context is going to be a different Cloonee from the one most people have on their radar.

The Martinez Brothers bring something else entirely. Their New York-via-Bronx take on house — rooted in classic Chicago and Detroit sounds but filtered through a distinctly contemporary rhythmic intelligence — has been a consistent thread through the better house sets of the last decade. Alongside Capriati's increasingly deep-house-inflected programming instincts, Metamorfosi looks like the most interesting event Awakenings has put together in years.

Prophecy by Prospa: UK Tech House Gets Its Awakenings Debut

Closing the week on Sunday October 25 is Prophecy, built around Prospa's Awakenings debut. The UK duo have had a strong 2026 — festival billings, a sharp run of releases, and an emerging reputation as one of the more intelligent acts working the tech house and house borderline. An Awakenings debut is a specific kind of milestone: the brand doesn't book casually, and appearing in this context signals something about how the broader underground is starting to position Prospa.

The supporting lineup for Prophecy features ISAbella B2B Traumer — a pairing that leans darker and more textural, suited to closing out a five-day event marathon — plus a special house guest yet to be announced. That unnamed booking is worth tracking: Awakenings doesn't tease without intent.

Joris Voorn's A Trip To Galaxy: House Roots in a Techno Frame

Saturday October 24's daytime event is Joris Voorn's A Trip To Galaxy — a concept he debuted at Upclose 2024 that moves beyond his Spectrum brand into more exploratory, immersive territory. The supporting cast includes Jeff Mills, Blasha and Allatt, Beste Hira B2B Grace Dahl, and BIANKA. It's a programme that sits closer to the techno-house borderline than Metamorfosi or Prophecy, but Voorn's house sensibility is audible throughout — the concept emerged from his long engagement with the connective tissue between those genres.

Mills's presence here is its own argument: he remains one of the few figures in electronic music whose relationship with house and techno is genuinely non-hierarchical, moving between them based on context rather than branding.

Why This Awakenings Programme Is a Scene Moment

There's a broader pattern worth reading into Awakenings' ADE 2026 decisions. The inclusion of Cloonee, The Martinez Brothers, Prospa, and Joris Voorn's house-inflected programming isn't the result of market pressure — Awakenings doesn't need to chase house bookings to sell tickets. It's the result of those acts genuinely occupying the same festival and club contexts as the techno names the brand has always worked with. The underground has always been more porous than genre categories suggest, and the 2026 Awakenings ADE programme reflects that reality more honestly than most events manage.

For house and tech house listeners specifically, the three events worth prioritising are Metamorfosi (Friday day), A Trip To Galaxy (Saturday day), and Prophecy (Sunday night). Taken together, they cover a significant range of what's interesting in the groove-forward underground right now — from Cloonee's Ibiza-honed tech house through The Martinez Brothers' New York house classicism to Prospa's UK-inflected club music.

Tickets and full information are available via Awakenings. ADE 2026 runs across Amsterdam from October 21–25 with more than 3,000 artists across 200+ venues.