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She grew up in a small Flemish-speaking town near Brussels, raised by her grandmother after her mother suddenly passed away when Amelie was five. They’d decided to form a super-fan supergroup, and worship Lens, Exhale, and all the LENSKE artists as a unit.Ī lot has happened in Lens’ 30 years on earth. One gig last year, Lens looked up and saw them all dancing there together. They followed her around individually and kept bumping into one another.

Lens says they didn’t know each other until recently. They buy her gifts that she genuinely likes and wants as if they’re her friends or family members. But to be fair, a world where Amelie Lens isn’t adored does seem like a ridiculous concept.Ī group of fans physically follow her around the world. She laughs at that - a happy, good-natured laugh - a sure sign that she doesn’t take herself too seriously. It must have felt like a dystopian future where no one likes her music anymore. “I’d get really into my mixing and forget, then I’d drop a track, and fire would shoot out, and I’d look up and remember again that no one is there.” “That set was 1.5 hours of just mixed feelings,” says Lens, speaking from her apartment in Antwerp. Ahead, there’s nothing but black space - just flames and lasers disappearing into the abyss. Amelie Lens, so used to thousands of screaming fans, looks up, and for a second, her smile falters. Awakenings unleash their almighty production power, firing out twenty-foot flames that bellow across the arena. When she drops an unapologetic techno pounder by Rocko Garoni and Sylvie Maziarz, a grin splits her face. Blissful almost, like she’s taking a bath after a stressful day or inhaling oxygen after being deprived of it for a while.

Oversized Exhale t-shirt, dark mid-length hair, a lick of black eyeliner.

After four months away from the world stage, she was back behind the decks at Awakenings in the cavernous Gashouder Amsterdam venue. Amelie Lens can’t decide whether her last stadium gig felt like a good dream or a living nightmare.