DJBroadcast ADE Magazine 2012

MUSIC, ART & LIFESTYLE SINCE 2002 FREE MAGAZINE AMSTERDAM DANCE EVENT SPECIAL THE ELECTRONIC MUSIC PLATFORM AN INITIATIVE OF BUMA

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Coming home!

These are the moments I live for: coming back to my beloved city of Amsterdam, the city that I still consider my home. Back for what is already the seventeenth edition of the Amsterdam Dance Event.

Amsterdam is packed with amazing architecture, beautiful canals, tasty restaurants, fine hotels, cozy bars and great shopping areas, but most importantly, its amazing, colourful people with all their different backgrounds. What unites the citizens of Amsterdam? Politics? No. Football? Maybe.

Music? Sure. Electronic Music? YES, DEFINITELY. Every resident of this great city has caught the electronic music bug. In no other city did I feel the rise of electronic music more as I did in Amsterdam. At no other parties in the world did I feel the natural integration of all these colourful people more than I did in Amsterdam. You get people of all walks of life together in one room, partying.

Just because of this, Amsterdam is the place to hold an electronic music conference.

Add to that the casual encounters that happen to anyone here on a daily basis, and will happen to you many times during a conference that’s held in a city center the size of a village. Add 700 years of trading tradition. Add the sense of freedom that is deeply rooted in the history of this city. And add, of course, the meticulous organization behind this conference that has always fought for all genres of electronic music. Then you’ll know why ADE is the electronic conference to be for artists, industry folk and fans alike.

Wherever I have been, for however long, when that plane lands at Schiphol airport, I can’t help the big grin on my face. Because I know I am home. I really hope it will feel like that for you as well.

Welcome to the Amsterdam Dance Event. Welcome home!

Love, Tom Holkenborg Producer, composer and one-man band, also known as Junkie XL.

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index 12 FOREWORD 16 MASTHEAD 18 EMPLOYEE OF THE MONTH 20 FREELOADER 22 WELCOME TO ADE 25 NEWS 37 DJB2B 41 DJB LOCATOR 42 DAVE CLARKE’S MIXTAPE 44 DIGIBROADCAST 46 GAMES 48 FILM 50 DVD 52 BOOKS 54 COLUMN 56 TEES & SNEAKERS 58 HOTSHOP 60 BLUEPRINT LABEL 62 ADE PLAYGROUND 64 ADE NEXT 67 HOW TO PREPARE FOR ADE 68 ADE TIPS 71 DUTCH DANCE GOES GLOBAL 73 BEAMLAB 75 THIS IS ALSO ADE 77 MUSIC & BITS 79 DJ MAG TOP 100 AWARDS SHOW 80 WHERE THE CITY BECOMES A PLAYGROUND 91 JEFF MILLS 93 JUNGLE BY NIGHT VS THE GASLAMP KILLER 95 HEADHUNTERZ 97 VATO GONZALEZ 98 AFROJACK 100 NOBODY BEATS THE DRUM 105 SKIP&DIE 109 ADE FESTIVAL PROGRAM 147 ESSENTIAL ALBUM 155 TESTLAB 158 ADE FESTIVAL LOCATIONS 161 PARTNERS

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His passion for music at times takes him so deep underground that it seems he will stay below surface forever, but he usually pops up safely with amazing stories about unsung heroes and hidden scenes before we start worrying whether or not he will return.

If you’re looking for Eelco during the weekend, just cast an eye on the Amsterdam weekly listings and aim for the event that has the most amazing house, disco, and techno DJs, either new kids on the block or living legends, preferably playing vinyl. ‘I’d rather go to a party where you drink beer from a bottle and hang out with crusties, than join the local hipsters at some boring high-brow event,’ is his philosophy. Every now and then, Eelco shares his purist views on music from behind the decks.

If you happen to see his name on a flyer, it wouldn’t hurt to go to one of his gigs and have a beer with the man himself. From a bottle, preferably.

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AKAI SYNTHSTATION 49

The box looks like it could hold a fridge, but it contains Akai’s massive SynthStation 49. The price, however, is not massive. The SynthStation 49 contains a keyboard with pitch and modulation wheels, nine sensitive MPC-like pads and several physical control buttons. Many options arise with connecting to an iPad, and Akai’s specially designed software. There are tons of filters, several work-screens, a grid, and sampling and recording options. Of course it has USB/MIDI outputs so you’re able to hook it up with your computer, but it also has a stereo output to connect to a mixer. akaipro.com/synthstation49

KORG NANOSERIES2

When you’re a producer on the road, there is so much time to work on new music projects if only you had a decent MIDI set-up somewhere.

With the Korg nanoSeries2, you can have have that studio experience at any place. The set-up includes a pad, keyboard and a control unit, all separate devices. The controller is designed in such a way that it’s very light and small, but still giving you the comfort of the physical touch to get the ideas floating. It’s connectable to both notebook and iPad. There’s free Korg software to start with, but it works with most software packages, including Ableton Live. korg.com/nanoseries2 Go to DJBroadcast.nl to be in with a chance of winning these items.

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From 17 to 21 October – that’s Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday – Amsterdam turns black and yellow for the biggest and best Amsterdam Dance Event so far. With ever more locations all across the city hosting parties each night, ADE is expanding its daytime program as well. Not just for dance music professionals, but for everybody. With the addition of ADE Playground, ADE is entering a whole new, exciting phase.

Where there used to be just the one closing party on Sunday night, the last day of the weekend has become fully integrated into the program. Do you have the stamina for five days and five nights of discovery and celebration, of learning and connecting? ADE covers the whole electronic spectrum from deep-house tot hardstyle, from electro to avantgarde and from disco to Dutch house.

Overall, 23 new locations have been added to a total of 75.

You should definitely think of getting a bicycle this year. To reach the huge new Ziggo Dome, where Chuckie is hosting an edition of Dirty Dutch and where Headhunterz will cement his entry into the big leagues, a taxi might be more suitable though. ADE is branching into every part of Amsterdam, including the outer reaches of town.

The beautiful city centre, of course, remains the area where most of the action takes place. With the introduction of ADE Playground, the festival has found a new centre of activity in Stanislavski, formerly the foyer of the eye-catching,

nineteenth-century Stadsschouwburg on the Leidseplein.

This is the new beating heart of ADE, where you can find all the latest updates concerning ADE Playground, buy festival tickets, find the merchandise, arrange a rendezvous, and most of all, experience cool events from small gigs to lectures and even official ADE warm-up sessions. It’s the Festival Lounge ADE has always dreamed of having.

ADE Playground bundles a great many daytime activities spread across 18 locations including film screenings, art exhibitions, workshops, in-store performances, secret gigs et cetera. Get the new ADE Card and gain free or reducedprice access to Playground events and lots of other performances and parties from the dozens of events taking place each night. Yes, it’s hard. Yes, it’s worth it. ADE is like no other dance festival in the world.

Oh, and did I mention there is also a conference? Dance music professionals (you recognize them by their laminates) congregate around ADE Pro, ADE Next, ADE University, Hard Dance Event, Beamlab and Music & Bits – six different conferences taking place at once that meet everyone’s needs and make Amsterdam Dance Event also the B2B platform for the global dance industry, from record label bigwigs to aspiring musicians, from video artists to web developers. Whether you’re a professional or not, we are all music lovers, and everyone is welcome at ADE. Let’s party! amsterdam-dance-event.nl

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THE YEAR OF ISIS It’s been a busy year for Isis van der Wel, celebrating her twentieth anniversary as a DJ, ending her mandate as Amsterdam’s Night Mayor and helping organise a succesful second edition of the free-spirited Magneet Festival. On top of that, she’s playing this year’s ADE twice. On Friday 19th October, Isis performs at Koekoek 3D in Odeon, along with Tiefschwarz and others. On Saturday you can find her at Who Run the World! in Club Nyx (formerly Club Exit), headlining an all female line-up including Amsterdam’s SpaceGirls collective. Isis began her career at the age of 17 in clubs like the famous RoXY, and has become one Holland’s most successful DJs. This April, she kicked off her two-decade anniversary with a six-hour set at Paradiso, taking in an extensive history of modern dance music. During ADE, Isis will begin on a collaborative Doe Maar remix project at the Red Bull Studios, working with other Dutch dance artists on reworking songs from one the Netherlands’ most popular bands ever. djisis.nl

SAE INSTITUtE AUDIOBOT WITH MA SPAVENTI The SAE Institute in Amsterdam is one of the highest acclaimed educational centers for sound-production and design. Situated in Amsterdam-North, has turned talented sound-heads into high standard professionals. For six years now, DJBroadcast and SAE have teamed up for what is called the Audiobot Competition. Anyone can send in their track to the DJB editorial staff, who will select five finalist who are then voted on by the readers. The winner gets a day’s studio time with an acclaimed producer, work together on their track. This edition it’s MarcoAntonio ‘Ma’ Spaventi who will guide the young hopeful through the process. The Italian-born, Amsterdam-based producer has delivered some spectacular, delicate dubbed-out house productions, music that he produced both solo and as a collaborator in R-A-G and Crystal Maze. He has released on labels like Secretsundaze, M>O>S> and aDepth Audio.

Not only is Spaventi a gifted producer, as a teacher at SAE he’s probably one of the few people that can make the session both inspirational and instructive. djbroadcast.nl

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NEW VENUES, NEW LOCATIONS ADE welcomes a variety of new venues located all across the city. This year, some 70 venues subscribe to the ADE Festival program. The Ziggo Dome has seen a steady stream of international stars since the 15,000 capacity venue opened its doors this summer. This ADE, Q-dance will stage a hardstyle event and Chuckie brings his Dirty Dutch extravaganza. Right at the opposite end of the spectrum stands the Concertgebouw, overlooking Amsterdam’s grassy Museumplein. The 124-year-old building joins ADE for a series of special performances. Het Sieraad is the cultural heart of Amsterdam’s Baarsjes area, west of Vondelpark. From there, it’s a 15-minute bike ride back to Leidseplein and the adjacent Stanislavski, the ground-floor restaurant of the beautiful Stadsschouwburg theatre. Both Amsterdam Studio’s and the Convention Factory, also new ADE venues, are located firmly outside the canal area. The latter, located in the Oostelijk Havengebied, is host to the DJ Magazine’s Top 100 Awards Show. If you find Amsterdam’s centuries-old city centre too stuffy, take your bike and ride it here. Westergasterrein is a cultural heartland in Amsterdam-West. Here you find the intimate North Sea Jazz Club as well as the industrial splendour of the Gashouder, the setting for many techno parties. MC Theater is another venue here that’s waiting to get to know you.

ADE FESTIVAL LOUNGE Along with the introduction of ADE Playground, the festival has found a new centre of activity in Stanislavski, formerly the foyer of the eye-catching, nineteenth-century Stadsschouwburg on the Leidseplein. This is the new beating heart of ADE, where you can find all the latest updates concerning ADE Playground, buy festival tickets, find the merchandise, arrange a rendezvous, and most of all, experience cool events from small gigs to lectures and even official ADE warm-up sessions. It’s the Festival Lounge ADE always dreamed of having.

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Vinyl release for MCN Unsigned producers Earlier this year, six emerging Dutch dance producers were picked by MCN Unsigned to remix tracks from national luminaries Tom Trago, Bart B More and Nobody Beats The Drum. The results are called Blender and will be presented at ADE in the shape of an oh so real vinyl package. MCN selected these six producers for this edition: Just Regular Guys, Olivier Boogie, Tettero, Halp, SHMLSS and Baxter Priestly. While dance music was the focus for this edition of the Unsigned project, it will be the 12th and final one in a series where young artists from a range of genres have been offered the opportunity to take the next step in their musical careers. Former MCN Unsigned participants include the mega-selling band Racoon, internationally renowned turntablists-turned-band C-Mon & Kypski, soul/ pop singers Sabrina Starke and Giovanca and the immensely popular rapper Mr. Polska. www.muziekcentrumnederland.nl

ADE CARD This year, Amsterdam Dance Event introduces the limited ADE Card, which can be purchased for 10 euros and offers lots of advantages. To start, the card gives access to ADE Playground (see page 66) and on top of that, cardholders also get exclusive discounts and goodiebags. Shoppers at J.C. Rags (Heiligeweg 49) get a 20% discount when they present their ADE Card at the cash register during the festival. Also, Card holders have free access to Melkweg Cinema’s Films@ADE program and André Giesemann and Daniel Schulz’s photography exhibition Vom Bleiben (About Staying) in Ten Haaf Projects (Laurierstraat 248). SAE Institute Amsterdam organizes composing and recording sessions that are accessible exclusively to ADE Card holder and conference delegates. The ADE Card is available at ADE’s brand new Festival Lounge at the beautiful Stanislavski, situated in the Stadsschouwburg on the Leidseplein. Normally a bar/restaurant, during ADE Stanislavski serves as festival lounge. amsterdam-dance-event.nl/playground

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Awakenings

Just when you thought it would never happen, it does.

Awakenings joins ADE for the first time and they do so in style, with an impressive three-day line-up. Over fifteen years, Amsterdam’s Awakenings parties and festivals have cemented their reputation as some of the world’s most popular techno gatherings, always booking leading acts, showcasing both Dutch talent as well as international names. Awakenings is also known for its spectacular visual experience at the cavernous Gashouder, a venue housed in a 110-yearold gasworks.

The Awakenings crew dish up something typically spectacular for ADE. On Wednesday 17 October none other than Carl Cox, Fatboy Slim, Cristian Varela, Nicole Moudaber and Jon Rundell celebrate the 500th episode of Cox’s Global radio show. On Thursday, it’s all about Adam Beyer and his Drumcode label, still one of the defining imprints when it comes to techno music in 2012. Beyer brings with him Ben Sims, Joseph Capriati, Joel Mull, Alan Fitzpatrick and Patrick Seich. Richie Hawtin presents his latest concept Enter. on Saturday 19 October. Dubfire, Loco Dice, Matador (live), Joran van Pol and Joop Junior will also take the stage. Awakenings’ Maarten van Beusekom explains the promoter’s late arrival at ADE. DJB: Why did it take so long for Awakenings to join ADE? ‘The main reason was practical. Venues that can hold 3,000 to 4,000 people are rare in the city center. The Gashouder wasn’t previously available during ADE, due to an annual art fair. With some agenda adjustments, we now have enough

time for pre-production, which takes up a big part of the process. Furthermore, we have opened our ears to the reccurring statements of more and more artists, bookers and promoters, saying they would like to play at ADE. We’ve noticed that the event has become increasingly significant.

Taken together, there was enough reason to go for it this year. We see it as an opportunity to show the ADE crowd what we can do with a location like the Gashouder, and with three totally different label nights.’

DJB: With all due respect, but what is Fatboy Slim doing at a techno-fuelled event like Awakenings?

‘Carl Cox invited him personally. Those two have often played back-to-back, and I’m not worried about the musical content when an artist like Cox vouches. I think Fatboy Slim is going to surprise us, take my word that he will play a techno and tech-house orientated set.’

DJB: Besides featuring some the biggest names around, Awakenings has always pushed young DJ talent. However, they need to have a release out. Why? ‘It is our way to motivate artists. If you want to succeed as a DJ, making records is a requirement. Joran van Pol and Joop Junior are good examples. They have been releasing on New Horizons, a sub-label of M_nus, and I personally know for a fact that Richie Hawtin and Dubfire are two of their biggest fans. The four of them are sharing a stage now at Awakenings, so some mutual admiration will be expressed, I’m sure.’ awakenings.nl

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ADE in AIR In its first two-and-a-half years, AIR has established itself as one of the leading clubs in the Dutch capital. Situated in the same building as legendary ’90s club iT, it offers a balance between intimate atmosphere and international attitude, thanks to the LED visuals and classy interior developed by designer Marcel Wanders. Every week, the club offers a broad musical program with underground styles next to more popular forms of dance music. The people behind AIR are also deeply involved with some of the most successful dance festivals in the country. With Amsterdam Open Air and Buiten Westen they work with trendsetting local promoters like GirlsLoveDJs and Dekmantel, while Milkshake is the first (very) gay-friendly festival in Amster-

I LOVE TECHNO On 10 November, I Love Techno in Ghent reveals an impressive line-up of DJ’s and live acts that has will force anyone to make some very tough choices. In five different rooms, each named after a different colour, Flanders Expo is host to five different raves going on at the same time. Here’s just a few names, out of many more: the Yellow Room has Boys Noize, performing live behind his new album Out of the Black, Vitalic, Tiga and Erol Alkan, who has mixed the official I Love Techno 2012 compilation album. The Orange Room hosts dubstep and drum ‘n bass from Netsky, DJ Fresh and Flux Pavilion. In the Red Room, where it’s all about techno, you’ll hear Dave Clarke, Joris Voorn and Len Faki. Blue Room’s eclectic line-up includes Major Lazer, who release their new album Free the Universe in the same week, A-Trak and The Magician, while the Green Room hosts the cutting-edge sounds of Jamie xx, Flying Lotus, Benga and Martyn. And that’s not even the half of it. Tickets are €56 and are on sale now. ilovetechno.be

dam. During ADE, the madness starts at Wednesday when the highly acclaimed Belgian disco DJ/producer The Magician hosts a clubnight inviting Maxxi Soundsystem, Perseus and Shmlss, among others. On Thursday, BBC Radio’s Pete Tong invites Crosstown Rebels label owner Damian Lazarus, Visionquest’s Shaun Reeves and Ryan Crosson as well as Justin Martin and Eats Everything from Dirtybird. At Friday Defected hosts its famous In the House party with Tensnake, Sandy Rivera and Noir. On Saturday morning Speedy J’s Electric Deluxe and Juan Sanchez’ Format team up for an afterparty, both inviting special mystery guests. air.nl

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FULL CIRCLE With several big nights lined up, event-agency Full Circle is looking forward to its busiest ADE ever. The Dutch consultancy and event agency has been present at the festival for years, but has never before organised four club nights at one ADE. In previous years, Full Circle has worked with Goldfish, Carl Cox, Jeff Mills and many others, so it’s no surprise that it’s ADE line-up are features some heavyweights in electronic music. Full Circle kicks off its four days of partying on Wednesday 17 October at the Melkweg by bringing the Paul van Dyk’s Evolution world tour to ADE. The trance legend from Berlin has sold over 4,5 million albums worldwide and released his 6th artist album Evolution this Spring. Other DJs on the night are Austin Leeds and Maarten de Jong. On Thursday 18 October, Full Circle puts on an Intec Digital label night at Club Home featuring Marco Bailey and a mysterious Very Special Guest. The last two events are on Friday 19 October. Kimco Entertainment hosts a party with Danny Howells and Jimpster in Club Home and the Melkweg is the venue for a Bedrock showcase headlined by label boss John Digweed and also featuring Guy J and Stelios Vassiloudis. fullcircle-web.nl

7 Stars Music During ADE, the Dutch record label 7 Stars Music is hosting as many as three different club nights throughout Amsterdam to show everybody what they’ve got. Dream Spinners is the name of their first label showcase on Wednesday, 17 October, bringing you the likes of singer Saga Bloom (photo) and DJs Rob Nutek, Mark Kane and John Norman.

This party is held at Club Up, one of Amsterdam’s finest small clubs, and will revolve around tech-house and deephouse. On Thursday the 18th, 7 Stars Music teams up with US-based EnMass Music for a night of progressive house and trance at the beautiful Desmet Studios. Marc JB, Victoria Aitken, Darude and Randy Boyer are among the artists playing. The grande finale of 7 Stars Music’s party marathon takes place on Saturday the 20th, when Desmet Studios will once again be taken over, this time in collaboration with Berlin’s EUN Records. This night the focus is on (minimal) techno, featuring DJs like Mickey Destro, Figu DS and Dyno. 7 Stars is already claiming the Twitter hashtag #ADEtakeover and will give out free tickets to random people retweeting the tag.

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(M)ADE BY VODAFONE FIRESTARTERS Experience the ADE of a lifetime through (M)ADE by Vodafone Firestarters. Five days of ultimate VIPness and all you need to do is go to the FirestartersNL Facebook page, like it, send us your favourite ADE YouTube video and get as much votes as possible! Win access to all the clubs, the ADE conference, four nights in a hotel, the exclusive ADE bag and shirt by J.C. Rags, champagne on the rooftop of the ADE conference headquarters, the ADE football, ADE cars and two HTC mobile phones! Check Vodafone’s FirestartersNL page on Facebook for more detailed instructions on how to enter the competition, which starts October 1st. facebook.com/firestartersNL

VODAFONE FIRESTARTERS AT ADE NEXT Vodafone Firestarters is a platform for innovation and inspiration, focusing on various creative disciplines.

During ADE Next, Vodafone’s traveling talk show will cover two topics: Image Innovation and How Not to Festifail.

It’s hard to define who you are as a person. But as an artist, you are in control of what you are about and how the world perceives you. Such image-building doesn’t stop with a cool Facebook profile pic, or even with providing up-to-date info about your whereabouts on your various online media. You need to innovate, and get creative with the means at your disposal. Be on top of your demographic and expand it. Make them love you. Image Innovation shows you how. Guests: DJ/producer Sander Kleinenberg and Noisia manager Walter Flapper.

It may look like the festival bubble has popped, resulting in empty dance floors and organisations going bankrupt by the pound. So where does this leave the ambitious promoter? Don’t despair, there’s always room for fresh new things; it’s all about knowing what you’re doing. How can innovation in promo, programming, visual identity, production and positioning add up to an amazing festival? We will deal with this matter at How Not to Festifail. Guests: James Minor (SXSW) and Michel Penders (Plus1).

Both talkshows can be viewed after the event on vodafonefirestarters.nl. Vodafone Firestarters is open for all ADE Next visitors. Tickets are available via the ADE website and are € 15 (+ service charge). Felix Meritis, Saturday 20 October.

Doors open at 12.30 PM. Image Innovation start at 1 PM, How Not to Festifail starts at 2.15 PM.

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SMIRNOFF CUBE HOSTS ADE UNIVERSITY Although the Smirnoff’s gigantic inflatable Cube will draw anyone’s attention on Amsterdam’s tourist-heavy Leidseplein. ADE University, the three-day program taking place inside of it, is not for passers-by. For the second year running, students and young professionals are invited to an event aimed at the next generation of music professional, with lectures from successful, household names in the creative (dance) industry. For instance, you can ask Tom Holkenborg AKA Junkie XL, who composed music for blockbusters like The Dark Knight Rises and Spider-Man, how to work your way to the big leagues. Chuckie can also tell you a thing or two about making it in the US, while Joost van Bellen has stayed at the forefront of club music for over two decades. Furthermore, Duncan Stutterheim (ID&T) and James Minor (SXSW) will go in-depth on (international) entrepreneurship, artist and event management, marketing and how to create a succesful business model. ADE University takes place on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, 17-19 October. At night, the Smirnoff Cube turns into a club, with Michel de Hey and Shinedoe (Wednesday), Joris Voorn and 2000 And One (Thursday) and Brothers in the Booth (Friday) playing amongst many others.

Treat Ever since they first met in 1998, Marcel Pantera and Sophie Louise have been an inseperable party duo. Attending and then organising the hottest events, they have been at the center of the scene. Going by the name Treat, Pantera and Louise create concepts and shows for all kinds of events, from Armin van Buuren’s Armin Only 2010 world tour to the upcoming opening of the new Andaz hotel in Amterdam, this season’s show for Club White in Beirut and 2013’s Dance Valley festival. Thinking without boundaries has made Treat into the success that it is today. Companies and artists who want to have something special or different added to their party know where to find them.

By influencing all senses and directing the atmosphere of the whole venue, a new experience is created, making the event stand out from the rest. By staying in touch with the international party crowd from Ibiza to Amsterdam, Treat makes sure that it remains on top of its game, with Pantera and Louise letting fresh ideas flow and continually improving themselves by thinking different. They enjoy stretching boundaries in show and entertainment, if you are looking for a standard package, feel free to shop elsewhere. treat-amsterdam.nl

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ludwig

Located right in the middle of Amsterdam, Ludwig has quickly become one of the most fashionable bars in town. Situated between the three major squares (Dam, Leidseplein and Rembrandtplein), you’ll find Ludwig on the Reguliersdwarsstraat. For a long time this street had, and to a certain extend still has a reputation as a gay area, but places like Ludwig have given it a more mixed clientele.

Once Casper Reinders, the owner of Amsterdam’s famous Jimmy Woo club, fixed the place up this Spring, and both Massive Music and and DJ Mr. Wix (well-known as Mr. Wix) got involved, Ludwig has become a meeting place for Amsterdam’s creative scene. The bar is open daily, while the dancefloor in the back room only reveals itself on weekend nights. Ludwig’s musical palette is quite diverse, promoting what can only be called a metropolitan sound, running from hip-hop to punk, dance and beyond.

Malvin Wix, a mainstay of Amsterdam nightlife for well over a decade and a former resident at Jimmy Woo, explains that Ludwig has hosted anything from record release parties, gallery opening afterparties, rapper’s birthday

parties and other gatherings of connected people from the city’s creative corners. ‘The people here are the tastemakers of Amsterdam,’ he says. ‘We offer them a place that feels like home. It’s very much a community thing.’

Enter Ludwig and you see paintings, photographs and graphic art from prominent local artists like Piet Parra, Stefan Glerum and Vincent van de Waal hanging on the walls.

‘The creative scene doesn’t come just for drinks,’ according to Wix. ‘They are really participating. You see it in the works they presented us. We change it up from time to time.’

Where Ludwig used to be more kind of a fashionable lounge, Wix’ main target was to give the place a ‘soul’.

‘We’re at the centre of gay nightlife, but we don’t pretend to be a typical ‘gay-friendly’ hangout’, he says. ‘Anyone who’s interested in the vision and vibe of Ludwig is welcome.

I believe that a place must be friendly in general. Gay people must feel free to enter, as well as Moroccan youth.

Why should you treat people different to make them feel welcome? They are all patrons with taste, looking for a place that can meet their desires.’ barludwig.com

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dave clarke

When you put on an event like the Amsterdam Dance Event, you like to have someone like Dave Clarke on your side. Here’s a man never afraid to speak his mind, an authority not just on all things techno, but a music lover in the broadest sense and an honorary Amsterdammer to boot.

Grace Jones - ‘I’ve Seen That Face Before (Libertango) (DJ Hell Vienna Mix)’ A good record of course, especially with the extra production of DJ Hell, but chosen because ADE is a place that can be confusing as you see people’s faces in perhaps an enviroment that you cannot place them, like a promoter in the sunlight on a terrace in Amsterdam having lunch.

Sometimes it can take me a while to put the face to a name because of this.

Propaganda - ‘p:Machinery’ A bombastic tune by a German group produced and signed by Trevor Horn, I remember hearing this in a club as a very young chap and being left short for breath when all the orchestrations came in. I’ll be talking to Trevor about this and everything else in his stuffed full career in a panel at ADE. A Place To Bury Strangers - ‘Half Awake’ I don’t just listen to techno and this group really is intense, I saw them in a tiny room at the Paradiso (legendary Amsterdam rock venue) and they filled the space with razor-edged feedback and bass drones that prove that punk and psych can be happy bedfellows.

The Revolutionaries - ‘Total Dub’ A great dub album that is sadly in mono (so no great reverb on the skank) but which is great in atmosphere, I found Vital Dub: Well Charged in Waxwell Records (Gasthuismolensteeg 6, part of the 9 Straatjes, .a very small but wellstocked shop. If you have time and you still like vinyl you should get yourself down there. Very close to Dam square.

Beak> - ‘Failand’ Whether on not you believe the hyberbole that this second album was recorded in an afternoon doesn’t matter, this is complex, introspective and broody guitar music. I got this from Concerto (Utrechtsestraat 52-60), which is my favourite Sunday afternoon excursion. It is a great street for coffee and food, too.

Otis Taylor - ‘Rosa Rosa’ Utterly inspiring. If you find yourself sitting on public transport, cast your mind back to history in the US and imagine sitting down in 1955 when times were not so equal. This song doesn’t preach but just inspires, which is perhaps a clever ruse to suck those who are not too open into the song itself.

I Am Kloot - ‘These Days’ An English group with a Dutch-inspired name, I was a fan quite some years ago and managed to see them at my favourite central Amsterdam venue the Melkweg and they didn’t disappoint. This is a track I got at the beginning of this Summer (?) from the group, it has middle eastern strings with trademark dry vocals at the top of the mix, great cycling music for the banks of the Amstel.

Death In Vegas - ‘Medication (Fearless Nightcrawlers Mix)’ Brought to my attention at a Christmas party round a friend’s house, in the background was Job de Wit’s 22tracks and this one had to be repeated all the time. It reminds me (in a lighter way) of Mekon’s ‘Blood on the Moon (In Flagranti Remix)’, but not quite as emotionally challenging. 22tracks. com is a great way to delegate yourself out of doing the music for parties, a lifesaver!

Octave One - ‘New Life (Instrumental) (Unsubscribe Remix)’ Unsubscribe is me and Mr. Jones ( an all-times cap wearing techno producer from Haarlem), we did this quite some time ago and in fact I heard the Burden Brothers drop our remix in Rome around March just as I walked in to set up.

Two of the nicest, most fervent head nodders in the business and they will be playing at my night at the Melkweg during ADE. Wooden Shjips - ‘Crossing (Andy Weatherall Remix)’ Andrew played at my party last year but sadly I couldn’t make it across to hear his set, one of the downfalls of doing your own parties. This is a trippy mix of Wooden Shjips, a group brought to my attention by acclaimed documentary maker David Kleijwegt (who also has a ‘j’ in a strange place). We were working together on the doc The Owl in Daylight and he recommended I should check them out.

Been a fan ever since, and this Weatherall mix proves he still knows what is up. daveclarke.com

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digibroadcast TEXT jelle spanjaard

Leap Motion

Track 8 The stock music player in iOS is functional, but it definitely has room for improvement. Track 8 is an alternative player that takes a few design cues from the Metro UI. The app provides a clean and beautiful interface where currently playing songs are superimposed over beautiful high-resolution images of the artist or band that change with each track. Metro is a design language which is mainly used for Windows mobile devices but has found its way into the Windows 8 operating system as well. Its main characteristic is the heavy use of typography as a design element instead of icons and graphics. While it doesn’t offer much functionality over the stock iOS music app, it is an aesthetically pleasing alternative. enderlabs.com/track-8

Onavo Extend If you’re traveling abroad and looking to cut back on your data plan, Onavo Extend is a must-have money-saving app. Onavo compresses your data so that you can do more with your mobile device on even the tightest data plan. It reduces roaming charges by providing you with a leaner version of the web. The app also shows you how much data you use and breaks it down by app, helping you manage which apps are data hogs. So how does that work, exactly? Everything you do on the Internet is routed through Onavo’s servers, compressed, then sent to your device. Setup is fast and easy, an installed profile will then run in the background and do its thing. To get Onavo, head over to the App Store or Google Play for a free download. onavo.com

Shuffler.fm for iOS Amsterdam based Shuffler.fm recently announced a major update to its app that brought the popular ‘radiozine’ to the iPhone and iPod touch for the first time. Shuffler.fm turns music blogs into streaming radio. Channel surf the music web through thousands of music sites and blogs, curated by tastemakers who filter the music information overload.

By combining blog-based curation with machine-based discovery, the Shuffler.fm offers a unique experience. The app makes it easy to find new music and helps you organize your favorite artists and blogs for future listening. Shuffler’s iPhone App is their most useful offering yet and can be freely downloaded from the App Store. shuffler.fm

Leap motion Hands-free motion control, a technology pioneered by Nintendo’s Wii and later improved upon by Microsoft with Kinect is coming to every computer early next year by way of the Leap. Leap represents an entirely new way to interact with your computer. It’s more accurate than a mouse, as reliable as a keyboard and more sensitive than a touchscreen. The Leap tracks the movement of your hands, fingers and even objects in front of it. If you’ve seen the gesture interfaces in Minority Report, you know what it does. Developers that take advantage of the Leap’s SDK will be able to do much more, however. Music composers and game developers are apparently beating down the company’s doors for access to the technology. The possibilities seem to be only limited by your imagination. leapmotion.com

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games TEXT JOrn liefdeshuis

Atari Arcade

Where previous game reviews in this magazine have always been of the flashiest and most impressive new games, we’re going for a whole different perspective this time. We’re going back to where it all started, to the roots of modern gaming, to the old-school 8bit games. Like Pong.

Just about everyone has heard of Pong. The Atari game, released in 1972, consists out of two little blocks and an even smaller ‘ball’. Pong is an über-minimalist game of tennis, which is pretty good fun to play on your own, but even better when you play against someone else. It’s addictive to say the least. It was also the start of a digital revolution.

The computer, a machine made for science, got a whole new perspective, it was now used for leisure.

Atari, one of the first developers of this 8bit generation, is celebrating Pong’s 40-year anniversary. To celebrate this milestone, they’ve decided to bring some of their classic games back to life. No longer will you have to dust off your old console to play Asteroids, Missile Command, Pong or – my personal favourite – Super Blockbuster. You can now play them on the Atari website, too.

At the moment, there are only a handful of games available on Atari.com, but the developer has stated that these titles will be increased in number very soon. Either way, playing them remains an amazing feeling. During a long and boring class in school (or meeting at work) playing a game of Pong with a fellow student (or co-worker) is a great way to pass the time.

Atari has upgraded both the graphics and the audio of their old school video games. While these updates are completely unnecessary from my point of view, they may make the games more accessible for whoever didn’t own an Atari or Nintendo back in the day. The new soundtrack for Super Breakout is decent, maybe even good, but it will never be a classic like the Tetris music.

Not nice: many annoying commercials pop up in your screen while you’re playing. Downloading the new version of Internet Explorer can apparently solve this problem, but that won’t be released for another month. For now, it’s still great fun to play the games that have stood the test of time and are proven classics – even with some commercials. atari.com/arcade

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film TEXT job de wit

Dutch influence

Dutch Influence opens with some beautiful aerial shots of the Netherlands. The famous windmills of Kinderdijk and busy Schiphol Amsterdam Airport evoke a sense of pride in a small nation that can occasionally do great things. Before you know it, the screen cuts to equally impressive, very different images of shiny beaches, hotels, and casinos in lights. We’ve left the low country by the North Sea, welcome to Miami and Las Vegas.

Some Dutch people would like to take over your nightlife, thank you.

Oh wait, they already have. When dance music started to become big business internationally, and in the United States in particular, the Dutch were suddenly everywhere.

While trance DJs like Tiësto and Armin van Buuren ruled from the late 1990s onwards, people like Chuckie and later Afrojack introduced another sound. Hatim El Khatib, former club owner and promotor from Utrecht, was right there when this new ‘Dutch house’ style took off. As executive producer and together with supervising producer Samuel Comazzi and DOP Rikash Bobby Gobardhan, he jumped in at the right moment, capturing a new generation of Dutch DJs and producers as they blew up across the world. They’re right there with Chuckie when he’s trying to make a phonecall in the back of a limousine. They’re there on stage when Will.I.Am hears Sidney Samson play one his remixed tracks for the first time. Thanks to El Khatib’s well-connectedness, the three get the incredible access you need to pull of a documentary like Dutch Influence.

Almost all of the Dutch DJs that are playing the main stages

at huge ‘EDM’ events these days are on camera. On stage, backstage (Afrojack is talking while he’s getting his hair cut), in the studio, walking down the street. The featurelength documentary, premiering at ADE, captures artists like Afrojack, Samson and Headhunterz on the way up during a pivotal time in dance music’s evolution. It is a capsule from a time when, as Afrojack says, ‘even if you have made twenty shit records, if you say you’re from the Netherlands, you have a leg up’.

Apparently, it’s this kind of no-bullshit attitude that has brought them this far. Even though Chuckie sometimes wishes his local crowds would be as up-for-it as the Americans, he credits the Dutch audience’s critical stance. As Sander van Doorn explains: if you can play in the Netherlands, you can play anywhere. And if you can play in the over-populated Netherlands, you can play a lot – three bookings a night are not exceptional for very popular DJs, another reason why they can get so good so fast.

Dutch Influence isn’t about the nuts and bolts of music production or even DJ’ing, and could’ve used some more critical perspective. What are the musical merits of this typical Dutch bleep house phenomenon that is here (there and everywhere) today, but, as Sensation boss Duncan Stutterheim states, likely gone tomorrow? That’s a question for another day. The party is still in full swing, and these Dutch guys are intent on making sure it keeps on going, in whatever shape or form.

Dutch Influence: 18–21 October, multiple screenings at Pathe City Theater. Tickets: €10,50 (online), € 11,50 (door) dutchinfluence.com

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DVD TEXT job de wit

Café de flore

Antoine is a DJ from Montréal. Most weekends, he leaves his attractive young girlfriend and his two beautiful daughters behind to fly to Europe and play in clubs and at festivals. Antoine is a very handsome man leading an extremely priviliged life. He is also not a very interesting man. Why couldn’t this film have been about Tiga? That would’ve been hilarious.

But then again, as you find out after a while, this film isn’t really about Antoine (played by the popular Canadian singer Kevin Parent). It’s not even about his girlfriend or his children.

The fact that he is a DJ is more or irrelevant to the story.

Québécois director Jean-Marc Vallée makes it quite difficult to get a handle on his film by really showing two totally different, and for much of Café de Flore, seemingly totally unrelated stories.

The first is about Antoine, and his relation with two women.

Rose (Évelyne Brochu) is the beautiful girlfriend, who entered his life only a few years ago. Carole (Hélène Florent) is his childhood sweetheart, and the daughters’ mother. After two decades together, for no reason given, she’s been replaced. Carole tries to deal with with this situation with impossible, yoga-asssisted grace.

The other story takes place not in present-day Canada, but in Paris, France, in 1969. Jacqueline is the extremely devoted

single mother to a young boy with Down syndrome. It’s the role of a lifetime for Vanessa Paradis, the gap-toothed French star who has acted in over three times as many films as she has released albums but is, outside of France, probably forever best known for her 1987 single ‘Joe le Taxi’.

Jacqueline’s and her son Laurent’s storyline, where she struggles to keep him in regular education, could have been a different film altogether. Valée cuts between the stories for the entirety of Café de Flore, sometimes for just a couple of seconds. Both contain multiple flashbacks. It can be a rather maddening experience just to try to make sense of it.

Until you slowly see to start to see the parallels. Jacqueline has to let go of her little boy, just as Carole has to accept that Antoine will not come back to her. While we’ve been watching Antoine’s not terribly interesting struggles (the superstar DJ life doesn’t satisfy, his alcoholic father doesn’t approve of his new relationship, blah blah), Carole turns out to be the central character after all. Vallée tries to make up for this with a late sub-plot about a psychic explaining her nightmares (and Jacqueline’s storyline) by way of reincarnation. It’s a rather bogus and unnecessary twist to an original piece of film-making whose emotional impact didn’t really require it. cafedeflorelefilm.com

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books Text JOB DE WIT

BANKSY WATCHDOG

BANKSY DIDN’T PRODUCE THIS BOOK, says a bright yellow sticker on the cellophone wrapping. Nevertheless, Banksy: You Are an Acceptibel Level of Threat is the first major book in seven years of the British street artist’s work. It contains not only many excellent photographs taken by Banksy watchers, but also a serious (and sometimes not so serious) assessment, or justification even, of the worldview that inspires his work.

I find it hard to believe that Banksy had nothing to do with this book, which was written by Patrick Potter and compiled and edited by Gary Shove. The author makes a point of chastising New York’s Keszler Gallery for not respecting Banksy’s wish for them to not sell two pieces of (unautheticated) street art. Would that same author write a book detailing the artist’s motivations without him at least having some involvement in it? This isn’t Potter’s first book on the subject, so he’s pretty deep into the subject matter, he is from Brighton, just like Banksy himself, and the two obviously share many left-wing/anarchist ideas. Either way, I’m sure Banksy is happy with the result. Potter’s text, which reveals a sense of irony and mischief similar to Banksy’s style, adds a valuable framework to the art on display.

Art that is also vandalism. ‘If it was not illegal, it would not be street art,’ writes Potter. Some of the more interesting passages deal with street art’s implied criticism of the idea of property in the public space. One of my favourite Banksy

quotes, repeated in the book, is this one: ‘Any advertisement in public space that gives you no choice whether you see it or not is yours, it belongs to you, it’s yours to take, rearrange and re-use. Asking for permission is like asking to keep a rock someone just threw at your head.’

It would be interesting to compare Banky’s street art to his gallery work, which expresses more controversial ideas, apparently, but You Are an Acceptibel Level of Threat deals exclusively with the former. It shows Banksy (and it’s suggested that the individual ‘Banksy’ might well be a collective nowadays) as a modern-day Robin Hood, undermining the theatre of power with a stencil and some paint, hoping to inspire original thought. The point is not to buy this book or, if you can afford to, Banksy’s art. He’d much rather see you pick up a spraycan and try it out for yourself.

While his themes (anti corporatism, surveillance and state oppression, pro individual expression, human dignity) may be predictable, Banksy’s pieces are usually pretty clever and funny, and the ideas worth repeating. You Are an Acceptibel Level of Threat sits totally on the same wavelength as its subject and while that may not make for the most critical perspective, it does what any good tagger does: repeat the message to gain traction.

Banksy: You Are an Acceptible Level of Threat is published

by Carpet Bombing Culture and is available from American Book Center in Amsterdam and The Hague.

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column TEXT james worthy Image Kevinboitelle.nl

The magazine that you hold in your hands normally appears in Dutch. For this English-language ADE special, we turned to our former columnist James Worthy, now a successful author with two novels to his name. You see, James is half-English, and we figured he would be able to give us some nuanced insights into his shared cultural heritage. This, we soon realised, is not really his kind of approach…

born in Amsterdam ‘Some while ago I was born in Amsterdam. The city of Anne Frank, the city well known for it’s shit-filled and corpse-filled canals and the city where jolly people with beautifully constructed faces ride around on stolen bicycles. Because my father is English, I’ve never had the pleasure of doing the latter. My bike riding skills are impeccable, but sadly enough my face looks like it was built by a blind Polish prostitute. Seriously, every time I look in the mirror I see the mug of a retarded miner. No sirree, this boy was not a happy camper during puberty. I loathed the fact that my mother didn’t hook up with a normal looking Dutch bloke.

‘Being English is a hard job. Everybody fucking hates us.

The Irish hate us, the Scottish hate us, but more importantly the football god and the weather god hate our bloody guts. We invented the game, but we play the damn game like a poor African child looking at a PlayStation 3 for the very first time. We play with passion and joy, but we suck.

We suck so bad that we can swallow 6,000 liters of camel cum in a 90 minute period. And the weather, my god. The sun never shows up, but when he decides to pop around, he violates our skin and leaves us behind looking like a raped clown’s nose.

‘I detested my English blood so ferociously, that I promised myself to never write a single sentence in that hellish shitcunt language again. Obviously I failed. Better yet, I’m starting to enjoy writing this linguistic turd sandwich. Slowly

but surely I’m beginning to embrace the Englishness. My teeth are crooked as fuck, and I’m proud of it. I look like Wayne Rooney’s somewhat smarter and potty trained brother, and I’m proud of it. I just deep fried a pigeon and I ate it. YES, God save the Queen.

‘This linguistic turd sandwich is the first English thing I’ve written since 1993, when I wrote a love letter to Gene Hackman. It’s pretty difficult to write in English, mainly because I dream, think, eat, masturbate, talk and joke in Dutch. My vocabulary is so hopelessly inadequate, it’s genuinely frightening, I feel like Corky Thatcher after a booze invested snort fest. I can see the words in my head, but they never end up in my mouth. Like the luscious nipples of beautiful women; I can see them in my head, but without the use of Rohypnol, they never seem to end up in my mouth. Oh well.

‘Still, this was an utterly interesting and challenging task.

I hope you enjoyed it, I know I did, but that’s probably because I’m getting paid to ruin your lovely language. Take care and give me a call when you’re in Amsterdam. I honestly could do with some additional lessons. My grammar is pathetic. Preposterous. Oh, and before I forget, fuck the Scottish. Those fat freckle-faced, skirt-wearing paedophile bastards. Come on, England! Free Prince Harry!’ jamesworthy.nl

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hotshop TEXT tom van haaren

OKKI NOKKI But while vinyl records are all but banned from many clubs, there is an on-going vinyl revival among music lovers who like to hear their musical treasures on a more personal, more physical format. It’s the artwork, and maybe even the sound quality. On the other hand, there is nothing more annoying than pop and crackle from records that are old and filthy. That’s where Johan Bezem comes in, who invented this handly professional record cleaner. The Okki Nokki weights 10 kilos, and contains a mechanical rotating plateau. While your record spins, spread the cleaning agent on its surface for the drainage tube to sniff the dust off. Available from the famous Concerto record shop in Amsterdam’s Utrechtsestraat. Price: € 399. okkinokki.nl

KORG MINI KAOSS PAD 2 AND KAOSSILATOR 2 Korg’s Mini Kaoss Pad 2 and Kaossilator 2 are both handheld devices for easy integration in your live or studio set-up. They look almost identical, but each one contains very different options. The Mini Kaoss Pad 2 is a DJ device that offers many options to implement effects like filtering and looping. It allows a sense of complete freedom because of the real-time use of its intuitive touchpad interface. It contains 100 different effects to create for instance breaks or peaks in your set. For this reason it can be a very handy tool to generate extra dynamics in your sets or sound design.

The Kaossilator 2 feels like a studio in your hands. It’s a synthesizer with a very simple interface, making it user-friendly for almost anyone. It contains 150 built-in sounds that cover several styles of dance music. You can create drum patterns as well as melodic elements, and create tracks on the fly thanks to the recording options. Both are available for € 200. korg.com

J.C. RAGS ADE BAG Walking around town, you can try to spot fellow ADE goers by the bags under their eyes. A more reliable option is to look for J.C. RAGS’ official ADE merchandise. Every professional attendee gets a handy backpack when signing in for the conference, but there are also 500 bags on sale.

The backpack is designed in the recognisable event colors black and yellow, contains some denim details, a roll-up technique for extra volume, and is equipped with very handy ADE survival tools like a bottle opener.

You can buy it and other items at the J.C. RAGS store at the Heiligeweg, the webshop, or at the ADE website. Besides the bagpack, there is also a limited amount of T-shirts, which contains a specially designed map of Amsterdam’s modest metro network, of course with the typical ADE flavor.

Bag: € 59,99, T-shirt € 29,99.

ADE FOOTBALL Despite Amsterdam’s international attitude, the Netherlands is rather a small country. However, sixteen-million strong, we have a reputation to uphold in two globbally popular pastimes: dance music and football (yes we know, we didn’t do so well at this year’s European Championship). The official ADE football offers completely new tools for the networking game.

To recover from the night before, there are lots of parks to get some fresh air and kick a ball. And unless it’s raining during ADE, their should be an opportunity to challenge your competitors and relations to proof their worth on the field. They may claim to be raking in sales and bookings, but a game at the green pitch is something else completely.

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Blueprint label TEXT rené passet Image erosie

3024 isn’t just the postcode of an area in central Rotterdam. For the past five years it’s also been the name of a successful record label, a place where tastemakers like Julio Bashmore, Jacques Green and Mosca can all step out of their comfort zones. Label bosses Martijn Deykers AKA Martyn and Jeroen Erosie on building an identity while staying elusive.

Last August, Martyn sent his ‘last tweet as an imigrant’ from his adopted hometown of Washington, DC. Three years after marrying his American girlfriend, the Dutchman can now call himself an American, too. ‘I also had to swear allegiance to the American flag,’ he beams over the transatlantic phone line, just a few days later. ‘It was a circus.

There were people from 95 different nationalities.’

Much has changed these past five years for the producer, DJ and label boss, originally from the Dutch province of North-Brabant. When Deykers and his good friend Erosie (‘erosion’, a pseudonym) decided to start a record label in 2007, they had just traded their Eindhoven stomping grounds for Rotterdam, and both were at the crossroads of a new career. Erosie had to choose between teaching at the Willem de Kooning art academy, or pursue his graphic art to the fullest. Martyn had just stopped organizing drum ‘n bass parties to be able to concentrate on making his own music. ‘With my first singles I stumbled upon the matter that it took very long for my music to be released. I found it very frustrating to have to wait so long.

If a production of mine finally came out after nine months, I was already way ahead.’

And so Martyn decided to start his own label, a vehicle for his own productions and, he stresses, Erosie’s work as well. ‘I found Jeroen’s art so cool. We have to do something with this, I thought. His graphic work fits very well with my music. He has the same hybrid approach as me.’

ELUSIVE After a handful of successful Martyn releases, 2562, AKA fellow countryman Dave Huismans, was the first outsider to put out a record on 3024. His single ‘Embrace’ (2008) is not easy to categorise. Is it techno, ‘abstract dubstep’ or some form of futuristic UK garage? It’s precisely this elusiveness that has become 3024’s trademark. Whether they are by Jon Convex, Mosca or Julio Bashmore, each of the label’s releases slips through your

fingers once you try to put a label them. ‘That’s the main philosophy of 3024’, confirms Martyn. ‘We want our releases to touch on two or three different genres, preferably more. My own single ‘Vancouver’ was picked up by a variety of DJs, from Gilles Peterson to Marcel Dettmann, who was able to mix it at half-speed in his techno sets.’

Such crossover applies to all 3024 artists, says Deykers.

‘Many guys that have released with us, have taken a step away from their own sound.’

If there is a common thread in 3024, it’s probably a love for bass music with a vibrant London touch. It’s an observation that is belied, nevertheless, by Berlin techno producer Redshape’s dark ‘Throw in Dirt’, which came out on 3024 earlier this year.

SCRATCHING 3024’s kaleidoscopic approach is reflected in the artwork of Jeroen Erosie, featuring brightly coloured typography, with contrasting icons and frayed organic forms seemingly randomly stuck on top of it. When looking at all nineteen releases at once, you may start to see a pattern forming. ‘I usually take the last cover as the starting point for the artwork of the next record,’ reveals Erosie. ‘It could be called a kind of remixing, yes. I build my work in layers, just like many musicians on the label. I then keep scratching at the picture, until there is movement. Sometimes one of Martijn’s tracks has changed five times before it finally appears on a record. That goes for my artwork too.’

Although 3024 recently celebrated its fifth anniversary, the label has only ever released one album, Martyn’s own Great Lengths (2009). His second album, Ghost People (2011), appeared remarkably not on his label, but on Flying Lotus’ Brainfeeder. ‘Albums really are another market,’ says Deykers. Their promotion in particular takes a lot of energy and money. ‘I spent five months on promotion and interviews with my debut. I learned a lot from it, don’t get me wrong, but there was so much new music I could have made in those five months.’

3024’s twentieth release is ‘Tactical Manoeuvres’ by Trevino (AKA drum ’n bass mainstay Marcus Intalex, who put out Martyn’s second record in 2005) and is out at the end of October. Martyn will be discussing the art and business of remixing with with Josh Wink, Boris Dlugosch, Timo Maas and Adam Beyer at the ADE conference.

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feature Text alfred bos

ADE Playground ADE introduces a new platform to the ever expanding conference and festival. ADE Playground is a daytime event for the festival visitor. It aims to bring the spirit of the club nights right into the sunlight, spreading the ADE vibe all over Amsterdam, especially its canal area. In addition to ADE’s 800+ performances, ADE Playground puts on exhibitions, showcases, master classes and workshops at various notable locations in the city centre.

More gear: Pioneer hosts a series of Pioneer DJ School masterclasses and workshops at The Amsterdam View (Rokin 75, floor 6). This is the place to check the latest Pioneer products on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, noon tot 5 PM, free entrance. Even more gear: Native Instruments sets up shop and displays the full range of their studio wizardry, illustrating its special status via demonstrations and workshops that are open to all who care to drop by and hang out at Native Instrument’s ADE Playground site.

Obviously, ADE Playground is open to conference participants as well. The idea is to spread the congenial and relaxed atmosphere of the ADE conference out on the streets, bridging the mental and spatial gap between the dance professionals at ADE’s daytime hubs – Felix Meritis, De Balie, the Dylan Hotel – and the audience that continues to make ADE’s night program such a teeming success.

While a fair share of ADE Playground activities are freeentry, several exclusive events are not, and are only open to holders of the ADE Card, which is limited and sells for € 10 at the ADE Playground website and ADE festival lounge. Besides exclusive entry to a number of Playground events, the ADE Card offers a discount rate at participating stores and shops.

Ten Haaf Projects (Laurierstraat 248) exhibits Vom Bleiben (About Staying), a series of photos by German artists André Giesemann and Daniel Schulz. Their topic is quite unique: the empty spaces of techno clubs after the party is over and the people have left. It is a special moment, before the ravage is cleaned out for the next party. This exhibition marks the very first time these photos have been on display outside Germany. Open noon-8 PM from Thursday through Saturday, free entrance for ADE Card holders.

PERFORMANCES, WORKSHOPS ETC. Melkweg Cinema proudly presents its first Films@ADE program, showing dance music-related movies daily at 5 PM (free for ADE Card holders) and 1am. The program includes Left Fields, an Austrian documentary about DIY musicians (Wednesday), 20-minute portraits of the scenes in Berlin, Detroit and Bristol from Resident Advisor’s Real Scenes series (Friday), and Charly Friedrich’s Can U Feel it (Saturday).

From Thursday through Saturday, Akai Professional and Numark serve up a series of demonstrations and workshops at CoX (Marnixstraat 429). On Thursday and Friday, from 2-3 PM, Ski Oakenfull will host a Point Blank Ableton/ APC workshop. Open from noon until 7 PM, the full program offers a series of demonstrations and workshops, including an Akai Pro MPC workshop and Numark iDJ Pro performances. AKA AKA (Thursday) and Broombeck (Friday) top it off with live performances. As space is limited an early arrival is recommended. Entrance is free.

The studio of the SAE Institute Amsterdam opens its doors on Thursday, Friday and Saturday (2-10 PM) for a series of collective composing and recording sessions by reputed local musicians. Beat M Up Studio Soundclash @ SAE Studio is open exclusively to ADE Card holders and ADE Conference delegates. SAE Institute welcomes visitors from noon-6 PM. Red Bull Studio Amsterdam is a state-of-the-art recording studio, built to provide local talent and international artists with the ultimate facilities to make music. From Thursday till Saturday, this will be an official ADE Playground location, featuring a series of workshops by various ADE festival artists, giving first-hand insight into their music making methods. After you’ve checked these artists out in the clubs, you can enjoy their sets once more on Red Bull Music Academy Radio. Check the ADE Playground program to see who’s lined up for the masterclasses, what nights will be recorded and how to enlist.

Limited Tiefschwarz Mike Huckaby, tastemaker, educator and sound designer from Detroit with a series of great deep house remixes for Deepchord, Loco Dice and Juan Atkins under his belt, will

demonstrate Native Instruments’ Maschine and answer questions. The afternoon is hosted by Tomorrow Is Now, Kid! and Amsterdam Roest at Czaarpeterstraat 213 on Saturday 20 October from 3-5 PM. Entrance fee € 12, ADE Card holders € 6, limited capacity.

For the duration of ADE, Stanislavski, located at the ground floor of the Stadschouwburg on Leidseplein, functions as ADE’s Festival Lounge. Here you find all the latest festival and ADE Playground info, the ADE Card, festival tickets and even ADE Playground activities.

All throughout ADE, the J.C. Rags clothing store (Heiligeweg 49) gives a 20% discount to ADE Card holders. On Thursday, J.C. Rags presents an in-store performance by Maceo Plex and Terry Toner; on Friday, Tiefschwarz will man the decks, both nights from 8.30-11 PM. These are invitation only, keep an eye on ADE Playground info on how to obtain tickets. And remember: there’s much more to ADE Playground than this.

ADE Playground locations: Amsterdam Roest, The Amsterdam View, Backstage Hotel, CoX, FOAM, FOUR, In Deep ‘n’ Dance, J.C. Rags, Melkweg Cinema, Oz., Pathé City Theater, Red Bull Studio, SAE Institute, Smirnoff Cube, Stanislavski, Ten Haaf Projects. www.amsterdam-dance-event.nl/playground

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Who’s Next ?

Of course you can find a truckload of household names at this year’s ADE festival. The big players, the major attractions, the Weatheralls and Van Doorns of this world are all here. But what if you’ve just started producing music in your own bedroom and are everything but a luminary? ADE Next, ADE University and ADE Playground can show you how to move forward when you haven’t earned your stripes just yet.

ADE Next is a platform for new talent with a broad program featuring name producers, top DJs and other professionals such as managers and agents from around the globe, all eager to share their knowledge and experience. What does that mean? How about people like Sander van Doorn and Objekt explaining to you personally how they do what they do. Both of these (very different) producers will bring their home studio (!) to the conference, and you will be able to book one-on-one sessions with them.

Are you more a remix kind of guy or gal? In that case, don’t miss out on the workshop lead by Marc JB from Bimbo Jones, who’s been on remix duties for major pop stars like Lady Gaga, Rihanna, P!nk, Ke$ha, Kelis and Katy Perry.

Next door, Dutch house crack Vato Gonzalez will conduct a masterclass dissecting one of his club hits.

Demolition Next Generation presents four freshmen from the Netherlands. Jameszoo, Boaz van de Beatz, Dannic and Halp are all making waves in the industry, each in his own way. If you feel comfortable enough to face techno baron Dave Clarke, the much feared and brutally honest Demolition Panel is were you should head. Drop your demo in the demo box that’s set up at the registration desk during the conference, and top DJ and producer Dave Clarke himself will be the

judge of it. ‘Although the title of the panel suggests explosive commentary,’ he comments, ‘you should see this as an opportunity to get support and great insight into your unsigned music by some of the top professionals in this field.’

That’s a relief.

Crate Digging 2.0 ‘Nope, sorry, I’m all out’ used to be record store lingo for ‘I certainly do have that record you are looking for, and you’ll get it when hell freezes over. Meanwhile, I’m keeping it for my hotshot DJ friend.’ Crate digging has changed, however, as illustrated by the demise of the record store as a landmark in the world of dance music. This is why this panel is named DJ to DJ: Crate Digging 2.0, and Guerilla Speakerz are there to show you some insights.

ADE asked Michel de Hey, one of the key-figures when it comes to Dutch techno and a jury member at Vinylized, the leading competition for Dutch dance producers, what he would have done if ADE had been around when he started out as a DJ back in the day. Here’s what he said: ‘My advice to young producers is to go and visit every party where your particular style is played. At the conference: come prepared!

Stalking people is not a good idea, but handing out the right music to the right people is. Do not put a hundred tracks on a CD, but choose two or three tracks that you regard as your best. Furthermore, all the great DJs and producers that I know are not only good at producing music or spinning records, but equally proficient at networking. It’s part of the job. ADE sure is helpful because the chance that you’ll bump into a particular label, DJ, producer or promoter is huge.’

ADE Next, 20 October at Felix Meritis. Tickets € 15,amsterdam-dance-event.nl/ade-next

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How to prepare for ADE

Welcome! So you made it to the ’dam. Now brace yourself for the most jam-packed ADE so far. Whether it’s a small venues like OT301 or a huge halls like Ziggo Dome, the whole city will be living and breathing dance music for five days in a row. Opportunities to meet new people, learn something, be inspired, do business and, obviously, dance your ass off will abound. Everyone’s here from promotor to PR agent, artist, label, manager and distributor and they are ready to party with you.

How can you enhance your stay?

ADE’s day program is held once again in and around the 18th century Felix Meritis building at the Keizersgracht. It’s one of the most beautiful and historical spots in the city, with the bustling Jordaan neighbourhood and a wide range of boutique shops right around the corner. A good way to spend the morning is to walk around in the 9 Straatjes (‘nine streets’) area, where ADE has its headquarters. Contemplate last night’s mayhem while enjoying an oh so necessary espresso. After the seminars, head here for some great food before walk over out to the famous Paradiso or one of the

other venues around town.

Some venues will be closer to your temporary home than others. Extra large venues like the Heineken Music Hall and Ziggo Dome for instance are located some way out of the city centre, so check the schedule, have Google Maps on hand and make sure you get in a taxi or subway train in time, i.e. half an hour before. Also don’t forget to check out the latest addition to the program: ADE Playground. It’s a new day program that spreads the ADE vibe across to a new set of locations with people playing on a boat on the canals, high profile exhibtions, film or installations. There will be exclusive Playground events for ADE Card holders as well as promotional items, goodie-bags and other suprises.

And last but not least, one very useful piece of advice: please don’t cross the street without looking both left and right. Amsterdammers love their bicycles and will show no mercy if you happen to get in their way while browsing through the ADE program guide looking for that cool bar where the next big thing is suppposed to be playing a midafternoon set. We still love you, though.

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Disclaimer: it’s perfectly possible to enjoy ADE without going to any of these parties. There are plenty others, with great Djs. If, however, you get lost in the listings and would like for DJB to give you some some clues to five fantastic nights out, here are just a dozen.

ADE tips DEKMANTEL @ MC THEATER WEDNESDAY 17 OCTOBER Two rooms of house and techno with a great soundsystem and an even better line-up. Dekmantel host parties for afficionados and for their ADE opening party join forces with Paramount Artists to present Carl Craig’s 69, Nina Kraviz, Agoria, Stacey Pullen, Radio Slave, Paul Woolford, Francesco Tristano, Trus’me, next to Indigo Aera’s Maarten Mittendorff and Jasper Wolff as well as Dekmantel’s own Jan van Kampen.

THE DJOON EXPERIENCE @ SUGAR FACTORY WEDNESDAY 17 OCTOBER Djoon is a club in Paris specialising in ‘soulful’ dance music of many kinds. It has close ties to the South African deep-house scene and for their (by now) annual Djoon Experience at ADE they like to showcase these by inviting top SA DJs Black Coffee and Culoe De Song, as well as several of their own residents.

WARUNG TOUR/KOMPAKT SHOWCASE @ MELKWEG WEDNESDAY 17 OCTOBER It’s not just the economy that’s booming, Brazil dance scene is doing pretty good too. Itajaí’s Warung Beach Club bringing its vibe to Amsterdam in October might sound like a challenge, but then again they have Brazil’s biggest techno export Gui Boratto playing. His Kompakt collegues Michael Mayer, Kölsch and Jennifer Cardini are in the other room.

ADE MONSTER MASH @ MELKWEG THURSDAY 18 OCTOBER If you’re only going to one electro party this year, better make it this one. Erol Alkan, Dan Avery, Justin Robertson, Crookers, Brodinski, Gesaffelstein, Para One, Surkin, Club Cheval, Rory Phillips and Holland’s Joost van Bellen, RipTide and Henzel & Disco Nova are alle playing and if that’s not a monster line-up, nothing is.

GREEN ROOM INDOOR FESTIVAL @ STUDIO/K THURSDAY 18 OCTOBER Green Room is a party that brings the finest in bass music to Amsterdam quicker than most. Make your way to Amsterdam’s East side for three rooms of the cuttingest-edge dance music from the UK, US, Canada and Holland. Redinho, Lando Kal, Sinjin Hawke, Helix and Amsterdam’s Presk and DJ+ are all performing.

VRIJ @ HET CONCERTGEBOUW FRIDAY 19 OCTOBER Vrij (‘free’) likes the challenge of putting on parties at unusual locations. Best known is their sold-out festival at the Olympic Stadium in the Spring, and for ADE they move to the world-famous Concertgebouw. Headliner Junkie XL knows a thing or two about classical composing, as his dayjob is scoring Hollywood blockbusters. Today he will present his new, disco-inspired album Synthesize.

DEKMANTEL ADE UK SPECIAL @ MC THEATER FRIDAY 19 OCTOBER Dekmantel knows its techno, but they’re nothing if not versatile. UK bass is the sound of Amsterdam’s incrowd, and you can be sure to find them at Dekmantel’s UK Special, featuring Julio Bashmore, Joy Orbison, Boddika, Space Dimension Controller, Lone and Krystal Klear, as well as Holland’s Audio Culture crew, 751 and Dekmantel’s own Casper Tielrooij.

DAVE CLARKE PRESENTS @ MELKWEG FRIDAY 19 OCTOBER If you know anything about techno, you know that Dave Clarke is going to put on a great night when given half a chance. His annual ADE party at the Melkweg is bound to live up to its reputation with a line-up that features Green Velvet, Marcel Fengler, Octave One, Blawan, DJ Sneak, Estroe, ESHU’s Roger Gerressen and of course Mr Clarke himself.

CLONE X DELSIN X RUSH HOUR @ TROUW FRIDAY 19 OCTOBER So you’ve come to Holland for ADE. The least you can do is pay your respects to three of the finest record labels the country has to offer, at the best club in the land. It’s going to be fun, trust me! You can’t beat a line-up that includes Tom Trago, San Proper, Legowelt & Xosar, Antal (Rush Hour), A Made Up Sound, Dexter, Gerd, Serge (Clone), Delta Funktionen and Conforce (Delsin).

LOVELAND ADE @ HOTEL ARENA FRIDAY 19 OCTOBER Amsterdam’s Loveland presents a night with Gregor Tresher’s Break New Soul label. The boss himself plays a 6-hour set together with Karotte, supported by friend-of-the-family Petar Dundov. On Saturday night, Loveland hosts a second party across four rooms at the Westergasfabriek, with Marco Carola, Sebastien Léger, Kevin Saunderson, Secret Cinema and many more.

BODY & SOUL @ MC THEATER SATURDAY 20 OCTOBER François K, Joe Claussell and Danny Krivit’s famous deep-house and disco party comes to Holland for the first time, people have been waiting for years for this to happen. Dekmantel has Juju & Jordash, Melon and Mark du Mosch lined up for the second room if it’s all getting too emotional for you.

TROUW OP ZONDAG @ TROUW SUNDAY 21 OCTOBER Trouw op Zondag (‘Trouw on Sunday’) is the club’s regular Sunday party and for its ADE special they’ve lined up a pretty impressive roster of international residents. Mind you, Prins Thomas, Cassy, Mano Le Tough and Tale Of Us don’t play here every month so it’s still pretty special. Your last ADE party starts at 9 in the morning and doesn’t end until 3 at night.

Yonderboi Gui Boratto

Gregor Tresher Junkie XL

Franรงois K Carl Craig

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Dutch dance goes global It’s hard to find a major dance event in the world nowadays that doesn’t include at least one DJ or act from the Netherlands on the bill. Dutch dance is everywhere, from Stockholm to Kaapstad and from Shanghai to Los Angeles. Dance music is an important Dutch export item, adding over € 50 million to the Dutch economy in 2010.

Dutch dance has exploded onto the global scene. Between 2008 and 2011, the number of international performances of Dutch dance artists has tripled. Trance meisters Tiësto, Armin van Buuren and Ferry Corsten, who used to fly the flag for Dutch dance by themselves, are now part of a very varied pack of Dutch dance producers who cover the full spectrum of dance styles between them, from Chuckie’s Caribbean-inspired ‘Dirty Dutch’ to Headhunterz’ innovative hardstyle sounds.

When dance went overground in the United States in 2009, Dutch dance producers where ready to stake their claim.

They have always had an eye on the horizon, as symbolized by the mere fact of the Amsterdam Dance Event. ‘ADE created more awareness for Dutch artists like me,’ confirms Chuckie. ‘By participating in panels I was able to share my vision and music with a high level of industry people. Now my ADE looks like speed-dating. It’s insane how much business my team and I can do in less than a week’.

Industry stalwart Armin van Buuren agrees: ‘Although, I believe trance is under-represented at ADE when it’s one of dance’s most popular genres, I am very glad there is an event like ADE. It’s very simple, everybody who is somebody is present at ADE.’ ADE was instrumental in helping Funkerman to make the next step. ‘ADE was the best opportunity to meet people from the business. I can honestly say that a big part of the more serious business we did afterwards had something to do with people we met there.’ Funkerman’s label partner Fedde Le Grand: ‘ADE worked out very well for Flamingo Recordings.

It helped us to open doors to the international dance market.’

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dedicated visuals program

This year, ADE partners with Beamlab, the bi-monthly seminar on media and visuals at Pakhuis de Zwijger, to present a dedicated VJ conference where motion graphics specialists discuss their work and explain their set-ups, illustrating (in more sense than one) the growing importance of stagecraft and motion graphics for live electronic and DJ performances.

us to deliver a creative visual display, which is improvised as opposed to pre-recorded,’ Walenciak stresses. ‘Sometimes Armin is criticized for being too perfect. His set and our visuals sync so well some people assume it is prerecorded, but it’s not.’

Beamlab, which started out in 2005, is a place where technical and creative professionals meet in an interdisciplinary environment. Coders talk to producers and VJs and vice versa and discuss their trade, focusing on digital media and (moving) images. One of those involved in Beamlab’s ADE program is Eindhoven-based Eyesupply. Active since 2003, the company tends to the visual aspects of the DJ performance for a slew of international superstars, including Armin van Buuren, Afrojack and Swedish House Mafia.

Kevin and his Eyesupply colleagues (a full dozen of them) are busy people. Besides creating visuals at some 700 DJ gigs per year, they also develop the visuals for their client artists. ‘Four people are creating visuals full-time at the office,’ he explains. ‘The artists have individual styles of visuals.

Abstract images suit Armin’s trance, while Afrojack prefers a more aggressive, games-like visual approach.’

Since 2010, when Eyesupply got sole responsibility for Van Buuren’s visuals, Walenciak has travelled more countries than he can remember. ‘It’s almost a full-time job just applying for travelling visa,’ he laughs.

Individual styles ‘It’s all about being flexible,’ says Kevin Walenciak of Eyesupply. ‘We use a modular set-up, so the DJ retains his freedom while the music and the supporting visuals are synced.’ Eyesupply uses customized software, written by The Hague-based company Resolume. ‘For Armin van Buuren we use various loops of abstract visuals. It enables

Beamlab ADE Special, with Kevin Walenciak (Eyesupply), Rogier van der Zwaag (Nobody Beats The Drum), Bryant Place (visual programmer for The Black Eyes Peas, Kanye West and Plastikman) and more. Wednesday October 17, Pakhuis de Zwijger. Beamlab is an initiative of BeamSystems and Pakhuis de Zwijger. Free entrance. www.amsterdam-dance-event.nl/beamlab

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This is also

ADE

Obviously, you’re going to get your dose of electronic music at ADE. But what if you don’t want to hear bouncy techno beats at debilitating allnighters, and would like to see some old-fashioned musicians with proper instruments? Well, they’re here too! How about some British and Norwegian jazz for instance, or an iPad concert on a 4D soundsystem, both at the stunning Muziekgebouw aan ’t IJ. ADE or no, Muziekgebouw ’t IJ is always worth a visit. The concert hall on the IJ lake (hence the name), is an acoustical gem and the architecture is remarkable, too. During ADE, pop, improv, contemporary composed music and electronics meet under the banner of ‘technology in music’.

American composer and performer Marko Ciciliani and Dutch recorder player Erik Bosgraaf connect the dots between ‘whisper music and digital typhoons’ with a variety of synthesizers and effects pedals. Before and after the ‘iPad Concerto’, DJs (sorry, there’s no escaping those!) will play on a specially designed 4D soundsystem (Friday 19 October).

The experimental vocalizations of Sidsel Endresen, whose improvising style creates a vigorous dynamic with Ståle Storløkken (keyboards) and Thomas Strønen (drums and electronics) from Humcrush, are also worth hearing (also on 19 October). The Norwegian free-jazz singer, coming from years of solo work and collaborations with musicians like Bugge Wesseltoft and Helge Sten, includes the timbre of contemporary electronic music in her rather unusual performances.

There’s a new kid in town, and it goes by the name of North Sea Jazz Club. Open for less than half a year, it offers New York vibes in a David Lynchian setting. Besides the electronic music program throughout ADE, there’s also a Portico Quartet performance on Saturday 20 October.

Drawing on electronica, ambient, classical and dance music, Londoners Jack Wyllie (saxophone), Milo Fitzpatrick (bass), Duncan Bellamy (drums) and Keir Vine (percussion) play a strange and beautiful, futuristic music. Think Burial, Mount Kimbie and Flying Lotus, but without those damned laptops.

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Music & Bits ‘Why visit Music & Bits? When your interest is music and the internet is your tool, these are the people you want to meet.’ Music & Bits is a dedicated conference program within ADE that focuses on trends, business opportunities and the latest developments in the world of online music. This year’s edition sees the addition of the Tech Lounge, where tech companies and the electronic music industry to meet.

More importantly… breakfast is served! Each day, an hour before Music & Bits starts for the day, you can meet the speakers in an informal breakfast setting. Vincent Lindeboom is one of the initiators of Music & Bits, is a strong believer in the success stories of beginning artists who find their ways to fame with modern techniques. ‘It’s possible for relatively small artists to promote themselves worldwide thanks to online techniques. Apart from the standard social media channels such as Facebook, there are many online tools available which are evolving every day. At Music & Bits we want to show the latest developments, but we also want to show how to use these tools in an efficient way.’

But Music & Bits does not focus on beginning artists alone, emphasizes Lindeboom. ‘More experienced artists will find the lectures of interest as well, for example on how to keep

control over your web presence, or how to broadcast and monitor new tracks.’ The complete program is divided into four subcategories: Music, Arts & Design will address the visual side of music, game mechanics will have their say at Music & Games, and you can hear how to make money in the evolving ecosystem around music at Music & Business.

It’s not only artists that should think about coming to Music & Bits, music consumers lovers in general should find something of interest. ‘There are countless new ways to discover new and old music online, and filtering out essential information has become increasingly important.

Some of the most interesting people who are dedicated to filtering key information on the web are present at Music & Bits,’ says Lindeboom. And that’s not all. Music & Bits welcomes CASH Music (Maggie Vail, US), Whosampled?

(Nadav Poraz, GB), TastemakerX (Sandro Pugliese, US), Topsin Media (Shamal Ranasinghe, US), Shuffler.fm (Tim Heineke, NL), SongPop (Mathieu Nouzareth, FreshPlanet Inc., US), This Is My Jam (Matthew Ogle, US), We Make Awesome Sh.it (Syd Lawrence, GB) and reps from Turntable.fm and Last.fm. amsterdam-dance-event.nl/music-and-bits

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DJ Mag Top 100 Awards Show DJ Mag’s Top 100 DJs poll and ADE are a natural fit.

Both began in the mid-1990s, when the dance music industry was growing rapidly, and both have since grown in size and stature as global phenomena, along with the music. Last year, the DJ Mag Top 100 Awards Show moved from London to Amsterdam and this year, the glitzy production returns to ADE. It started out as an in-house pet project and it has evolved into the biggest online popularity poll on the planet. The DJ Mag Top 100 DJs Poll is the barometer of global dance, recording the shifts in popularity of the world’s best loved – and best paid – record spinners.

Since 27 June of this year, the quicksilver in the barometer of global dance has been rising. That day at noon, the poll opened its doors to voters. And their numbers have been increasing steadily. This year, well over half a million clubbers from some 170 countries have cast their vote before the poll closed 30 August at midnight.

In 1997, the first year the DJ Mag poll was open to outside

voters (after starting in 1993 as a pet project of DJ Magazine editors and contributors), some 700 people answered the magazine’s call. Carl Cox won that year, as he did in 1998, when the voting process went from snail mail to online.

Going digital meant that the the poll was no longer restricted to the magazine’s largely UK-based readers; it became an international affair, as reflected in the list of winners.

Initially, British DJs reigned – Cox, Paul Oakenfold, Sasha, John Digweed. The string of British winners was broken

by Tiësto (The Netherlands) in 2002, who topped the list for three consecutive years. Impressive, but not a record.

Armin van Buuren (also from the Netherlands) was voted king of the clubs four years in a row (2007-2010).

Read into it what you like: poll winners Paul van Dyk (Germany, 2005-2006) and David Guetta (France, 2011) hail from the European continent as well. Will American hotshot Skrillex finally be the first DJ to break the European stronghold this year?

DJ Mag Top 100 Awards Show: Friday 19 October, 10pm at The Convention Factory. Tickets: € 25/42,40.

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Before your passion becomes a career, throwing parties is playing around with what works, what doesn’t, what’d be good fun, what wouldn’t. Scouting locations, checking out DJs, throwing off the audience, inviting all of your friends. There’s always a new gang in town, or several, making their mark on the club scene.

They’re having fun, and making fun, in Amsterdam.

The guys and girls from Sistemsiz, Audio Culture and These Guys are going to kick up dust at Studio/K, Club Up and Rhone Warehouse during ADE. But for now, let’s go outside and explore new territory on the outskirts of town.

Audio Culture

Sistemsiz

These Guys

Audio Culture

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Jeff Mills

Jeff Mills will perform his soundtrack to the 1929 Fritz Lang movie Woman in the Moon at EYE Film Institute.

It is the third time Mills soundtracks Lang’s fantasy on space travel, after debuting his all-new electronic score in Paris last year for a Lang retrospective at the Cinématique Française.

Mills, who developed his interest in SF in his childhood and collects classic pulp science-fiction, composed an electronic score for Lang’s masterpiece Metropolis (1927) in 2000. He praises the German director ‘cinematic perspective and apparent devotion to thoroughly play out and address complex social matters in a convincing way.’ Woman in the Moon, originally titled Frau im Mond, was Lang’s last silent movie, and is hailed as the first ‘serious’ SF film. Scientifically spot on, the movie looks brilliant too. Lang used state-of-the-art (for 1929) modernist design for the scenes in the protagonist’s apartment and the launch of the moon rocket is visually and conceptually stunning, using innovative modeling as well as crane shots. Through his storytelling, the director was able to explain the then-new concept

of moon travel. Lang today is still utterly modern in his use of media to propel the story.

‘One of the first things I realized,’ says Mills of his Metropolis soundtrack, ‘was that techno and electronic music was being greatly understated in terms of its ability to expand beyond the dance floor – that its structure is perfect in relaying certain things about people’s concerns and visions about the future. This is an example of broadening the genre in a meaningful way.’

All of Woman in the Moon’s 164 minutes is set to newly composed music. Mills: ‘I think there is no better way to do a cine-mix than to start from the ground up by creating the music to apply a tailored result. The music can only be heard during this film presentation.’

Woman in the Moon by Jeff Mills, EYE Film Institute, Wednesday October 17, 9pm. Tickets: € 32,50 (reservation mandatory) axisrecords.com eyefilm.nl

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This summer, Amsterdam-based afrobeat group Jungle

By Night recorded was holed up in the local Red Bull Studio with The Gaslamp Killer. The DJ/producer from California had picked a selection of favourite songs for the Dutch band to cover under his supervision.

Their collaboration has been just one of many special projects to take place in the Amsterdam studio since it opened earlier this year. While the young musicians played their asses off, musical director Gaslamp Killer was jumping around in the control room like a madman.

The nine-strong Jungle By Night collective have taken the Netherlands by storm over the last year with their enthousiastic blend of afrobeat, soul and funk. They first met The Gaslamp Killer when both performed at 2011’s Pitch Festival in Amsterdam. ‘I walked into the hall, heard them play and thought: these guys are awesome’, explains the American DJ. ‘As I came close to the stage, I thought: what the fuck, these young motherfuckers playing this music.

I was shocked!’

Both parties kept in touch by e-mail and kept seeing each other at Gaslamp Killer’s Dutch gigs. A year later, both finally had time for some studio action. Jungle By Night drummer Sonny Groeneveld: ‘We went into the project really open-minded. We are both very interested in music

from all over the world and we are both really into music that has a strong energy. When we met, we had a good vibe, we really liked each other’s approach to music and doing things things our own way. We come from quite different worlds, but if you have the same energy for music, things will work out.’

Prior to meeting in de the studio, The Gaslamp Killer had sent over six song suggestions to Amsterdam. ‘These are songs I always wanted intrumental edits of. And as a fan, I wanted to recreate them with these guys. The Black Sabbath song was my main goal. I wanted to do a metal song with an afrobeat/funk-rock band.’ While working in the studio, the idea came together beautifully. ‘And by beautifully I mean ugly!’, screams Gaslamp Killer. ‘These guys are fucking epic, man! Did you hear what they came up with?

That’s fucking amazing.’

With Gaslamp Killer’s new album Breakthrough out now and Jungle By Night touring behind their excellent debut album Hidden (2012), what will happen with the release of their collaboration is not exactly clear at this point, so keep your ears and eyes on their respective social media statuses. redbullstudio.nl

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Headhunterz

Hard Dance Event is the ADE sub-conference that aims to connect professionals in the harder styles of dance music. It allows artists, promotors, entrepeneurs and other professionals to discuss, experience and continue current and new developments. This year, HDE’s showcases, lectures and talks move from ID&T’s headquarters to the Melkweg, right in the centre of Amsterdam. Hard dance is booming around the world and now it has been fully integrated in ADE.

studio working on new stuff.’ The heavy touring can take its toll on one’s creativity. ‘My girlfriend gave me a card that said: succes is not the key to happiness, but happiness is the key to succes. That made me think. So I went back to making music for me instead of for money. Trying to stay true to myself. I feel it’s the ultimate test for an artist.’ Rebergen also went for the higher-quality bookings instead of quantity. ‘One of the highlights was Electric Daisy Carnival and I’m looking forward to my trip to Australia, too.’

One of hard dance’s biggest stars is up for his biggest event ever. On 20 October, Q-dance presents Headhunterz at the brand new Ziggo Dome in Amsterdam. It’s a big moment for 26-year-old Willem Rebergen AKA Headhunterz – and for hard dance music as a whole. The venue can house about 17,000 ravers, who can expect a very special showcase by Headhunterz. ‘I feel this is the next step towards a wider recognition, not just for me but for the whole scene in The Netherlands and around the world. A lot of people still don’t know what hardstyle is about, and I think this night can serve as inspiration for artists and DJs alike.’

Since his humble beginnings as a teenager playing in a club in the small village of Elst, Rebergen’s rise to fame has seen him winning a DJ contest for a spot at Defqon.1 to selling out Amsterdam’s Heineken Music Hall. ‘I think I was at the right place at the right time for hardstyle. Without really thinking about it, I started using more melodic features and other influences in my music.’

It was this innovation, and the fact that on stage he is a true performer that made Headhunterz a worldwide star. With the show at Ziggo Dome he’s now entering a new ‘even bigger room’ phase in his career. ‘It will be the ultimate collaboration between me and Q-Dance. The best of both worlds!’

In 2011, Headhunterz was ranked seventeenth in DJ Magazine’s Top 100. It was a crazy year with maybe just a tad too much of travelling and work. This year, for Rebergen, has been one of redefining his career. ‘I wanted to go back to the source, and that meant spending a lot of time in the

HDE takes place on Thursday 18 October. Tickets: € 25.

Headhunterz plays Ziggo Dome on Saturday 20 October.

Tickets: € 52,50. headhunterz.com

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Vato Gonzalez

Last year, Dutch DJ and producer Björn Franken AKA Vato Gonzalez scored a UK Top Ten hit with ‘Badman Riddim (Jump)’, a track he originally recorded five years earlier. Instead of desperately trying to come up with a follow-up, he followed his heart. At ADE Next, Gonzalez will break down his M.O., from the first spark of inspiration to the final product.

DJB: ‘Dutch house’ and Chuckie’s Dirty Dutch are two well-established notions in dance music. You’ve made this into Dirty House. Are these all the same thing?

‘Dirty House is a completely separate movement that is rooted in the streets. I developed the concept after I noticed that the record industry was ignoring the sounds that actually made people dance. The focus was only on the credibility of the artist, the coolness of the label and the quality of sound.

It lacked the essence of what house music should be about: making people dance. Dirty House is not a genre, it’s about how well a record can rock your socks off. We DJs tend to think too much in terms of genres, quality and mastering when the audience cares about none of this.’

DJB: Is it a coincidence that both you and Afrojack are from the small town of Spijkenisse and did you know each other when you were both unknown?

‘I’ve known Afrojack ever since he was four or five years old. We went to the same primary school, but since he was a little younger than me, we never had that much to do with each other. When I was about 18, I was teaching breakdancing at a community center. Afrojack was one of the

guys attending the course and since then we’ve had a little more contact. He used to DJ at parties that I put on and I think I’m one of the few promoters who can say he has booked Afrojack, Hardwell and Vato Gonzalez at an event with a budget of two bottles of vodka.’

DJB: How did ‘Badman Riddim’ come together? ‘‘Badman Riddim’ was made on the same computer my dad did his taxes on. I had forgotten all about it when one day I got a phone call. They told me MJ Cole was playing ‘Badman Riddim’ on the radio. It had taken the UK club scene by storm. No publisher. No label. Unknown producer. It proved that if your music is what the people want, the music will do to the talking for you. It didn’t take long for Ministry of Sound to sign me, but it did take about a year to replay the break. When Foreign Beggars came up with their verses it was finished.’

DJB: How do you follow-up a hit like that?

‘The big problem with ‘Badman Riddim’ was that I’d made the tune five years prior, I wasn’t in that state of mind anymore. I tried a few tunes in the same fashion but none of them had the heart of the original so I did the only thing that felt right. I didn’t make the requested follow. I continued doing what my heart was telling me, which resulted in about five completely different tunes that are now getting scheduled for release.’

Masterclass with Vato Gonzalez @ ADE Next, 20 October at Felix Meritis. Tickets € 15. vatogonzalez.com

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Afrojack

He’s been Holland’s fastest rising star of the last couple of years, without a doubt. 25-year-old Nick van de Wall from Spijkenisse has gained worldwide recognition for his crisp, no-holds-barred productions and skilled DJ sets. With over a hundred gigs just this summer, the Afrojet has hit all major party cities in Europe and the US. With ADE in sight, where he’ll bring his Jacked party to the Amsterdam’s famous Paradiso for what promises to be a classic opening night of the festival, the tallest man on the scene reflects on another crazy year and looks f.

Afrojack started the Dutch leg of the Jacked concept at Amsterdam’s Air club last year at ADE. ‘The first party was a total madhouse, with Steve Aoki, huge LED screens, champagne and CO2 cannons. It was the kind of party you don’t see a lot in Amsterdam. So for ADE I liked the idea of doing the next one at the legendary Paradiso. We want to bring the high quality experience that I see when I play all around the world. I host my own party and I want to welcome my friends from the labels and the clubs where I play all over the world at my house. And of course I want to show the Dutch people how big the whole thing has become internationally.’

With the new wave of EDM sweeping the globe, there’s a newfound interest in a scene that has grown exponentially over the last few years. Van de Wall suspects that The Black Eyed Peas’ and David Guetta’s multi-million selling 2009 collaboration ‘I Gotta Feeling’ was the spark that set the flame. ‘A lot of people say: dance music has become “commercial”. That’s because a lot of people like it! That’s what happens. Maybe it will happen to ADE too, like it happened to WMC. It that bad? The more people are interested in dance music, the better. They are opening up to the love you experience when you are in a club with a thousand people you never met, who all become one when the DJ plays that certain song.’

Being a Dutchman in dance music definitely helps, thinks Van de Wall. ‘Dutch stands for quality. We tend to be laidback, down to earth and not give you any bullshit. I don’t know of any Dutch producers who are doing well that are faking it, you know, having just one shit song that you haven’t even produced yourself and saying you’re the man.

Armin always delivers with a fantastic show, the same thing goes for Sander Kleinenberg. International promotors tell

me that people from the Netherlands are easy to work with, that we are gezellig. I always go for the best possible. Every night has to be legendary. You know that for most of the people out there, there aren’t that many nights that give them that kind of an experience. They buy a ticket for an incredible night out and they deserve to get one.’

Afrojack sees an even brighter future for dance music. ‘It will get bigger, without a doubt. At least for the next five years dance music will be on top. And electronic music will win anyway. It just much easier to learn how to make electronic music than how to play guitar and start a band. There will be exponentionally more producers than bands in the future. And if it will be drum ’n bass, hip-hop, dubstep or trance doesn’t matter.

For me personally the experience of mixing two sevenminute four-to-the-floor tracks will never be bettered.

You’re making a classical piece with records. Of course you can mix from hit record to drop to hit record, but then you will never get people in that real trance. The attention span is really short right now. Look at Skrillex. I’ve seen his shows and I love them, but it’s only about the drop. You see dubstep artists making that crossover now. I saw Knife Party playing and they went from dubstep to a hit records to drum ‘n bass and back to dubstep. A mishmash of stuff to prevent it from becoming boring.

‘The only downside of becoming famous with hit records is that you have to play them when you are DJing. It’s a luxury problem. I have to combine two things: being Afrojack, the artist whose people songs know, and being the DJ that I love to be and play some different stuff to make people think. For instance, I always play ‘Lotus’ by Mumbai Science in my sets at the moment. It’s a seven-minute long acid record that I heard in a 2ManyDJs set. It’s hard sometimes to keep the balance, but that’s my job.’

You won’t see Afrojack doing a big Skrillex-like set-up with synced video screens and a big space helicopter anytime soon. ‘I am a DJ, I need to be able to make musical choices on the fly. Of course I could do prepared sets, but I would bore myself to death.’

Kings of Ace: 20 October, 10 PM at the Sand. Tickets € 22,50.

Afrojack presents Jacked: 17 October at Paradiso (sold out). www.afrojack.com

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This year, a dynamic Dutch electronic trio is making waves overseas with a banging live show. Nobody Beats The Drum from Utrecht/Amsterdam have spent over three months of 2012 touring North-America with their 333� extravaganza and are ready for their homecoming Melkweg show at Amsterdam Dance Event.

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‘This was the most memorable tour of our career so far,’ says Sjam Sjamsoedin in the Nobody Beats The Drum studio in Amsterdam’s Bos & Lommer neighbourhood. The band has just returned from a three-and-a-half month tour through dance music’s promised land. ‘We’ve traveled the whole of the States to show the people what we do and the response was quite overwhelming. After playing in the Netherlands for quite a while, the opportunities that arose this year really feel like a new phase in our career.’

Nobody Beats The Drum had its humble beginnings in 2003. Jori Collignon and Sjam Sjamsoedin met through the band 6 Of Your Best Friends, a Utrecht-based collective that has spawned more than a few successful Dutch hiphop and dance acts. Together with visual artist Rogier van der Zwaag they started NBTD and won the national Grote Prijs van Nederland competition that same year. After a first 12” in 2005 it took the band until the Spring of 2008 to release an album. The two following years saw them touring in Great Britain and the US, but it didn’t bring the succes they had hoped for.

‘We had toured Holland a number of times and you start thinking to yourself: is this going anywhere? It’s a small country. The three of us made a deal when we started working on our latest album Currents. We agreed that we would go for it one more time and put in everything we had.

And if we failed, we would quit,’ says Sjamsoedin.

SINGULARLY UNIQUE Currents was released at the end of 2011 and NBTD played a great show at the Groningen’s Eurosonic Noorderslag festival in January, where they met up once again with booking agent Ben Shprits from Entourage Talent in New York. Shprits had set up previous tours for the band and Jori Collignon’s other band C-Mon & Kypski.

‘Nobody Beats The Drum blew me away as soon as I saw their videos online,’ says Shprits. ‘The creativity they bring to the table in the realms of both audio and video was apparent upon my initial review. ‘The Drum’ and ‘Quit Your Job’ showcased their ability to create both fantasy and artsy music videos respectively, while ‘Purple Cactus’ brought their bombastic live show and fun personalities into focus. The kicker was ‘Grindin’’, which had half a million views on YouTube at the time and great buzz for its technically complex but beautiful, multi-colored shifting blocks. In my opinion, Nobody Beats The Drum is one of the most exciting and singularly unique artists on the rise in dance music today.’

Within a month after the Groningen show, Shprits moved to AM Only and the only act on his roster he took with him was Nobody Beats The Drum. It was an important moment for both parties. ‘As we are sort of Ben’s pet project, he’s done really well in getting us a spot at some great festivals,’ says Collignon. ‘And it’s pretty special that we got the opportunity to build a second 333” set-up there and take this show on the road in the States right away,’ says Van der Zwaag.

It’s Van der Zwaag’s visuals that make NBTD’s show extra special. ‘We feel it gives us an advantage over other DJs.

We can bring the whole package. Music, visuals and party,’ says Collignon. On top of that, just being from Amsterdam also makes for good conversation. Sjamsoedin: ‘The European sound is hot and the Dutch guys especially are doing so much good stuff at the moment. So thanks a lot, Tiësto!’

THE NEXT GOAL Th highlight so far was a gig at the Sasquatch Music Festival in Washington state. ‘People in the audience were screaming our names even before the show had started, when we were still thinking no-one had ever heard of us!

The vibe was incredible, the line-up was big and the place itself had a really special feeling too.’

The guys at the booking agency thought it was pretty special too, apparently. ‘It was our first big American festival show. They kept telling us it was a breakthrough moment.’

A month later NBTD shared a bill with Skrillex, Zedd and Major Lazer at Festival d’Été de Québec in Canada, ‘the biggest crowd we ever played for.’

With EDM making it big in the States, it’s a matter of being at the right place at the right time. ‘A lot of more rock oriented festivals started booking dance acts for the first time this year. And I think we have the advantage of being a cross between a live band and a dance act.’

It’s been a crazy year. ‘You have to adjust your goals all the time, because new opportunities and chances are coming your way every day. People know who we are now, also thanks to our videos, but we don’t even have a record out in America. The next goal is finding a great label, releasing a new hit record and doing lots of remixes.’

And with a great team working for them in the States, the pressure is on. ‘We’ve seen so many dance acts this year and obviously that will have an effect on our way of thinking about music. But the most important thing is to stay focused and keep making the stuff we like.’

Nobody Beats The Drum 333”, 18 October 20:30 at Melkweg. Tickets € 12. Masterclass with NBTD @ ADE Next, 20 October at Felix Meritis. Tickets € 15 nobodybeatsthedrum.com

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Skip&Die is made-up of South Africa-born, Amsterdam-based frontwoman Cata.Pirata and Dutch musician/producer Jori Collignon, who also plays in C-Mon & Kypski and Nobody Beats The Drum. On stage, Skip&Die is a five-piece band. Their debut album Riots in the Jungle has just been released.

It’s two in the morning. An enclosure of abandoned flats to the left and right of me. Shattered windows and trash on the sidewalk. I’m driving fast. There are heavy concrete blocks on both sides of the street, I can’t get out. I’m in the middle of Johannesburg, enveloped by complete darkness and there’s no one to be seen except for the blonde asleep in the passenger seat next to me. There’s no way I’m going to stop at the red light.

I have no idea where I am but by the look of things, this must be Hillbrow, the notorious neighborhood Louis Theroux deemed a nightmare of rough gangs and violence.

I hope I can tell her I know where we are when she wakes up. We are in South Africa to meet musicians, work on music together and lay down the foundation for an album.

It’s late 2009 and we’ve never played a show, but what we do have is a name: Skip&Die. You skip this liedjie, you die. Verstaan jy, my bru?

Yebo boss.

Right. Lekka. Now that we’ve all got that clear in our koppies, who’s in charge of the padkos?

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Headbanging Every morning we drive out to meet an artist for a new collaborative musical adventure. Behind us lie banana trees swaying in the wind, on our horizon structures of crushed tin cans house the ambitions and hidden qualities of its inhabitants. The people we meet each have different cultural backgrounds and diverse musical inclinations to us and each other. Electro producers, kwaito rappers, marimba bands, soundscape artists. Zulu, Xhosa, Afrikaans, English, Portuguese. It’s all in the mix.

Earlier this morning in Soweto we wrote a song with a hardrock band called Ree-Burth. They set up their gear and played a show for us outside in the street. It was quite an unusual sight: the tattoos and piercings, heavy drums and guitars, a jumping and belting frontman, all set between tiny houses and shacks on a dusty street. Women hanging out their laundry came to listen. Little kids passing by in school-uniforms couldn’t resist joining in with the headbanging antics. Everybody seemed to know each other, there was a joy in people’s eyes. The place felt alive.

Safety belt It’s not easy to be a rock band in Soweto. You get accused of worshipping the devil. You might think: ‘well yes, any decent rock band should worship the devil’. But in this religious neighborhood, where people need to stick together and take care of each other just to survive, being a devilworshipper won’t make you many friends.

It’s not easy being even an ordinary person in Soweto. One member of Ree-Burth tells us about his father who got shot during a dispute. He shows us the bulletholes in the livingroom wall of his family’s apartment. They know who did it, but they’ve let sleeping dogs lie.

We are taken on a drive around their area. ‘Jori, my man, why are you wearing your safety belt?’, asks Smokey, the bass player. We just bought a bag of weed, smoked a joint and I’m holding a beer in my left hand while I’m driving.

‘Come on man,’ he says. ‘Take it off, you look ridiculous.’

Danger, apparently, comes from different angles here.

Mary Jane Other days we find ourselves in entirely different parts of town, involving lush African gardens, poolside sunsets, fully-equipped recording studios and rooftop braais. Needless to say, the high walls around these private paradises contrast immensely with life outside on the streets and in the townships.

If there’s one thing you can’t escape from in South Africa during election time, it’s political propaganda. It is hard to miss all the commotion. Posters of political candidates are stuck all around the country, deep in the jungle and all across the wild coast. No running water or electricity? No need to worry my friend, Jacob Zuma’s face on a poster is here to suffer with you.

Perhaps the copious amounts of homegrown Mary Jane from the motherland could be assigned some credit, but truth be told, the power of creation with another artist really

Zulu, xhosa, Afrikaans, English, Portuguese.

It’s all in the mix. builds bridges. One’s own personal sonic boundaries are broadened. Like osmosis, at the point the music takes over, the individualistic thoughts of where you’re from, your demons and anxieties are cast aside, and for that fleeting moment in time transformed into a more unified experience.

Each song that results out of our artistic collaborations reflects the alchemy and interplay between ourselves and our co-creators. All fluently knit into sound-bytes that resonate amongst us. The magic-wand of the mic capturing the synergy. The tracks we go out here to create reveal a nomadic saga, inter-cutting multiple layers of each artists’ story and the allegories within and around our own memories.

To say that it’s a hectic period would be an understatement. Some mornings, after jam-sessions that last until sunrise, all we can do is utter sweet nothings to each other, you know, the basic smalltalk and expected confusion for two exhausted musicians.

‘Uhm, Cata, there’s a hair on your kudu’.

‘What, you don’t know how to peel a pawpaw?!’

Two-and-a-half years have passed, and we’re writing this thing in our studio in the clouds, while the album is finally about to hit stores. We’ve evolved, from what once was a two-piece fantasy with nothing more than a name, into a full-fledged crazy rhythm beast of a band ready to take over stages. We skip and die, from one extreme to the next, each journey teeming with paradox. That’s life. That’s Africa. It doesn’t adhere to any rules. The trick is to keep your yin and yang in balance with the beat. And don’t forget to skip and die, muthafukkas.

Skip & Die, 17 October, 20.30 at Paradiso. Tickets € 7. skipndie.com

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Studio 80 00:01 - 05:00 Unofficial start of ADE Studio 80 presents Saved Nic Fanciulli (Saved Records, GB) Robert Dietz (Saved Records, DE) Subb-an (Saved Records, DE) &ME (Saved Records, DE) Mark Fanciulli (Saved Records, GB) € 10

Canvas op de 7e 22:00 - 04:00 THIS IS Not Miami Secret line up € 12

Club Lite 21:00 - 03:00 Take your shoes off and dance!

Techno Op Blote Voeten Jescodins (TOBV / Ascension House, NL) Pit Blanke (9.23, NL) Iradi (TOBV / Nataraj, NL) Visuals Yantra (TOBV / Nataraj, NL) De Voetverwenners Tenen lezen en voetmassage: Helmy Stoelmassage: Luciano Regular € 10 students € 6

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AIR 23:00 - 05:00 PaardenKracht & The Magician present: A Magical Night The Magician (BE) Perseus (US) Moon Boots (US) Jonas Rathsman (SE) Maxxi Soundsystem (GB) SHMLSS (NL) Lumiere (NL) € 17

Bump 19:00 - 03:00 E.P.M. Productions presents: Gay Minded: 10 Amsterdam Gay & Lesbian DJ’s DJ Martijn (NL) ManMachine (NL) Steve Malenka (NL) Lupe (NL) Big General and Bramsterdam (NL) Bo Monde (NL) Rado (NL) Polly F (NL) Max del Principe (NL) Antoine dela Cruz (NL) Door € 5,-

Bungalow 8 23:00 - 04:00 MYNC presents: Cr2 Records Live & Direct Mark Brown (US) MYNC (GB) € 12

Café ‘t Schuim 21:00 - 01:00 Alles Los presents: Alles Bass Gomes (Oi!, NL) Akkachar (Rwina, NL) Bomb Diggy Crew (NL) Guerilla Speakerz (Trouble & Bass, NL) Brutuzz (Oi!, NL) Full Crate (Wonderful Ear, NL) Kypski (bmkltschrcrds / Partyscratch Music, NL) Dion Cassius (Oi!, NL) Free entrance

Chicago Social Club 23:00 - 05:00 Elite Music Management and Kreativ present: Ovum Recordings Josh Wink (US) Steve Bug (DE) Shlomi Aber (IL) MANIK (US) Lounge Eerstelingen (Daan de Greef & Mailman, NL) Mulla & Martin Bell (NL / US) Am&I (NL) Eigenwijs (NL) L’Atelier (NL) Dobbelaers (NL) € 15

Club BlinQ 19:00 - 01:00 Spinnin’ Records presents Firebeatz (NL) La Fuente (NL) Julian Jordan (NL) Leon Bolier (NL) Erik Arbores (NL) Martin Garrix (NL) Tony Junior (NL) DubVision (NL) TV Noise (NL) ZIGGY (NL) Free entrance

Club HOME 22:00 - 04:00 Young Gunz ADE Special Angger Dimas (ID) Mikael Weermets (SE) Jidax (FR) Firebeatz (NL) Dogus Cabakcor (TR) Julian Jordan (NL) Mitchell Niemeyer (NL) Mark Junior (NL) JoeySuki (NL) TV Noise (NL) MC Jollygood (NL) € 10

Club Up 22:00 - 04:00 7 Stars Music presents: Dream Spinners Saga Bloom (7 Stars Music, FI) live John Norman (4Play Trax / 7 Stars Music, GB) Rob Nutek (Stealth / Nervous / 7 Stars Music, GB) Mark Kane (Kushtee Records / 7 Stars Music, US) Allan Gallego (Owls Dance, US) Regular € 7,50, door € 10

ClubNL 19:00 - 04:00 1Management Network Night Filthy Rich (Toolroom / Great Stuff / 1605, GB) Funkerman (Flamingo Recordings / Can You Feel It, NL) Prok & Fitch (Floorplay / Stealth / Toolroom, GB) Saeed Younan (Younan Music, US) Eedhuizen (SMKSTF, NL) Rene Amesz (Toolroom, NL) Taras van de Voorde (Defected / EC Records, NL) MOTi (Wall Recordings, NL) DJ Lady Bee (Cloud 9 Dance, NL) MC Haits (NL) Free entrance from 21:00

CUE Bar 18:00 - 03:00 Sleepwalkers Records ADE Showcase RifRaf (Upon.You Records, DE) Suspect Delivery (Strøm Recordings, NL) Ludwig Rausch (Harry Klein, DE) Johannes (Sleepwalkers Records, NL) Max Amen (Sleepwalkers Records, NL) Dassive (NL) Free entrance

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De Lax 15:00 - 23:00 S.S.A. ‘De LAX’ presents: Press Play Talent Night Press Play Talent Night offers 8 starting DJ’s a chance to present themselves to a broad audience. A professional jury will judge the contestants (no matter the genre) and give specific feedback.

Free entrance

Escape Club 22:00 - 04:00 ALDA Events presents: Sander van Doorn Sander van Doorn (Doorn Records, NL) € 17,50

EYE - Cinema 1 21:00 - 00:00 I Amtechno presents: Jeff Mills | Cine-Mix | “Woman In The Moon” Jeff Mills (US) € 32,50

Jimmy Woo 23:00 - 04:00 Nicky Romero presents: Protocol Recordings & Special Guests Nicky Romero (NL) Swankey Tunes (RU) Daddy’s Groove (IT) Nilson (NL) Special Guest € 12,50

Korsakoff Amsterdam 23:00 - 03:00 InDeep’n’Dance Records present: Elementz Dexon (InDeep’n’Dance Records, NL) Dassive (Enlightenment, NL) Brajan (InDeep’n’Dance Records, RS) Free entrance

Little Buddha Amsterdam 22:00 - 05:00 Elite Music Management and Stainless Agency present: Freemasons Freemasons (GB) Jodee Kitch (NL) € 15

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MC Theater 22:00 - 06:00 Dekmantel ADE - Paramount Artists MC1 Carl Craig presents 69 (US) live Nina Kraviz (RU) Agoria (FR) Paul Woolford (GB) Francesco Tristano (ES) live Jan van Kampen (NL) MC2 Stacey Pullen (US) Radio Slave (GB) Trus’Me (GB) Maarten Mittendorff (NL) Jasper Wolff (NL) € 18

Melkweg - The Max & Old Hall 22:00 - 05:00 Warung Tour 2012 & Kompakt Showcase Gui Boratto (Kompakt, BR) live Michael Mayer (Kompakt, DE) 16 Bit Lolitas (Bits And Pieces, NL) Kölsch (Kampakt, DK) live Jennifer Cardini (Kompakt, FR) Leo Janeiro (Warung, BR) Daniel Kuhnen (Warung, BR) Renato Ratier (Warung, BR) Jorn Liefdeshuis (Off Centre, NL) Visuals Okinawa69 (DE) € 19 + membership

Melkweg - Rabohall 23:00 - 05:00 EVOLUTION World Tour 2012 Paul van Dyk (Vandit Records, DE) Austin Leeds (Ultra Records, US) Maarten de Jong (Vandit Records, NL) € 23 + membership

North Sea Jazz Club 23:00 - 05:00 The Full Glass presents: Uzuri Bookings Showcase Aybee (Deepblak Recordings, US) XDB (Metrolux Music, DE) DJ Deep (Deeply Rooted House, FR) Regular € 13 door € 15

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Odeon 22:00 - 04:00 GirlsLoveDJs presents: GirlsLoveDJs vs.

Sweat It Out Music! ADE Special Yolanda Be Cool (AU) Parachute Youth (AU) GirlsLoveDJs (NL) dj set Bongo (BE) Ajax (AU) Northbrook (AU) Jaziah (NL) Rubix (NL) Sem Vox (NL) Mr. Simpson (NL) Regular € 12,50 door € 15

OT301 20:00 - 03:00 Rangleklods, Knalpot, Mmystery Guest and more Rangleklods (DK) Mmystery Guest Knalpot (NL) Title (BE) Zero Gravity (BE) H-SIK (NL) Dandy-J (NL) Cold Sweat (NL) € 10

Panama 22:00 - 03:00 Openingsparty ADE Sharam and Friends - Night & Day Sharam (US) & friends Regular € 10 door € 15

Paradiso - Kleine Zaal 20:30 - 23:00 Skip & Die Skip & Die (NL) live € 7 + membership

Paradiso 23:00 - 05:00 Afrojack presents Jacked Afrojack (NL) Quintino (NL) Shermanology (NL) Bobby Burns (NL) Apster (NL) Zawdi MC (NL) Sold out

Rain 22:00 - 04:00 Housesession Jochen Pash (DE) Futuristic Polar Bears (GB) Niels Van Gogh (DE) Peter Gelderblom (NL) Reza (GB) Rio Dela Duna (FR) Tune Brothers (DE) Gerald Henderson & DJ Haro (FR) jUANiTO (FR) aka John Aguilar €5

Studio 80 23:00 - 05:00 Studio 80 presents: SCI+TEC and This And That Paco Osuna (Mindshake, ES) Davide Squillace (This And That, IT) D’Julz (Bass Culture, FR) Carlo Lio (SCI+TEC, CA) SHADED (SCI+TEC, US) The Junkies (SCI+TEC, CA) € 15

Sugar Factory 21:00 - 23:00 GoodLuck GoodLuck (ZA) € 10

Sugar Factory 23:00 - 05:00 Deep afro and soul house with Black Coffee, Manoo, Culoe De Song; inspirational artists of the now, and of the future!

The Djoon Experience Black Coffee (Soulistic, ZA) Culoe De Song (Soulistic, ZA) Manoo (Tribe Records, FR) Rocco (Foliage, FR) Alex Finkin (Vega Records, FR) Afshin (Djoon, FR) Leroy Styles (Afrazoo, NL) Regular € 10 door € 12,50

Suzy Wong 19:00 - 23:00 Hello! We Are Moon Agency C6 (US) Puresang (NL) Rene Kuppens (NL) Sam O Neall (NL) Stickyfingers (NL) Nick de Vree (NL) D.MC (NL) Chelsea (NL) Free entrance

The O.C. 19:00 - 03:00 Wemusic Company presents: ADE Wethouse Showcase Asino di Medico (NL) Silvio Ecomo (NL) Mike Lachman (NL) Pascal Roth (FR) Brammez (NL) VJ Yzco (NL) MC Libidosa (NL) Free entrance

The View 19:00 - 23:00 Miss Nine is looking for talent Lenimal (Pioneer DJ Contest 2012 winner, BE) Miss Nine (925 Digital, NL) Free entrance

TrouwAmsterdam 22:00 - 05:00 Late Night Society & Imprint ADE Special Trouw Seth Troxler (Visionquest, GB) Makam (Sushitech, NL) live Boris Werner & William Kouam Djoko (Late Night Society, NL) De Verdieping Ben Klock (OstGut Ton, DE) Sandrien (Imprint, NL) Regular € 18 door € 20

Undercurrent 22:00 - 06:00 Cocoon Showcase @ Undercurrent Tobi Neumann (Cocoon, DE) Ilario Alicante (Cocoon, IT) Onur Özer (Cocoon, TR) Dinky (Cocoon, CL) Markus Fix (Cocoon, DE) €9

Gashouder 22:00 - 08:00 Awakenings ADE special Carl Cox presents Global 500 Carl Cox (Intec Digital, GB) Fatboy Slim (Skint, GB) Christian Varela (Intec Digital, ES) Nicole Moudaber (Intec Digital, GB) Charlie Hedges (GB) € 45

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3 Sisters The Pub 21:00 - 03:00 Haiti Groove World Tour Plastik Funk (DE) DBN (DE) Mike Lachman (NL) Jay C (GB) Rob Boskamp (NL) Sugarstarr (DE) of Syke ‘n’ Sugarstarr Marc JB & Victoria Aitken (GB) live Lee Dagger (GB) Free entrance

AIR 23:00 - 06:00 All Gone Pete Tong Pete Tong (GB) Damian Lazarus (GB) Shaun Reeves (DE) Ryan Crosson (US) Justin Martin (US) Eats Everything (GB) BLOND:ISH (GB) Waifs & Strays (GB) Tettero (NL) Prunk (NL) Rubix (NL) € 19

Amsterdam Convention Factory 19:00 - 06:00 Co-hosted by Pleinvrees - Straf_Werk Bar25 ADE Deep House Special Âme (Innervisions, DE) live Extrawelt (Cocoon, DE) live Oliver Koletzki (Still for Talent / Cocoon, DE) live Joris Delacroix (Timid / WOH Lab, FR) live Noir (Noir Music, DK) Alle Farben (Kallias, DE) Oliver Schories (Parquet Recordings, DE) live Adana Twins(Exploited / Noir Music, DE) Marcus Meinhardt (BAR25, DE) Dirty Doering (BAR25 / Katermucke, DE) Sascha Braemer (BAR25 / Still For Talent, DE) live Finnebassen (Noir Music, NO) live Danny Faber (BAR25, DE) Sold out

Amsterdam Roest 20:00 - 01:00 Vresh Label Night Booddha (NL) Änimal (NL) Bootycall (NL) Faze & Neon Riddims (NL) Neyse & Casset (NL) Free entrance

Amsterdam Studio’s 22:00 - 07:00 Cosmodance & Keinemusik Label present: Keinemusik - From Berlin to Amsterdam - ADE Special &ME (DE) Adam Port (DE) Rampa (DE) Tigerskin (DE) AKA AKA (DE) live Thalstroem (DE) live Supported by Sjeroem & Verdi (NL) Regular € 17,50 early bird € 12,50 door € 20

Bar Struik 19:00 - 01:00 Tomorrow Is Now, Kid! x SlapFunk Records x My Love Is Underground Jeremy ‘Underground Paris’ (My Love Is Underground, FR) Brawther (My love Is Underground, FR) Alex Salvador (Tomorrow Is Now, Kid!, NL) Anil Aras (SlapFunk Records, NL) Samuel Deep (SlapFunk Records, NL) Malin Genie (Tomorrow Is Now, Kid! / SlapFunk Records, NL) Daan Groeneveld (NL) Free entrance

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Bitterzoet 23:00 - 03:00 Vunzige Deuntjes vs. Yellow Claw invite: Slachthofbronx Schlachthofbronx (Mad Decent / Man Recordings, DE) Yellow Claw (NL) Lee Millah (Vunzige Deuntjes, NL) DDK (Boston Strip, NL) € 10

Bump 20:00 - 01:00 C1rcle & Switch Entertainment present: C1rcle - The Showcase Michael Calfan (Axtone / Stealth / F*** Me I’m Famous, FR) Greg Cerrone (On the Air Music / Mutants, US) Dimitri Vangelis & Wyman (EMI Music, SE) Pier Poropat (Spinnin’ Records / Dim Mak, SE) Tom Buster (MoS / Universal / Hotfingers / Wormland / 17:44, FR) DJ Ralph (Electro Addict Records, FR) Harrys & Fly (Musical Madness / Electro Addict / 17:44, FR) Monte Cristo (Kingdom Kome Cuts Records / Universal, FR) Tristan Casara (Serial Records, FR) Hosted by DJ Benjamin & French Faction (Episode Records, NL) Door € 5,-

Bungalow 8 23:00 - 04:00 Nouveau Niveau & EEMM & Talida Wegener present: Nouveau & EEMM & Tallida ADE Special Tom Novy (DE) Butch (DE) Christopher Groove (AT) Funk D’void (GB) Pele (DE) Jashari (CH) Alex Cvetkov (SI) Flooder (MK) Raphael da Cruz (DE) € 12

Café ‘t Schuim 21:00 - 04:00 Bish Bash Bosh Showcase DJ Lady Ace (Bish Bash Bosh / 130 Techno Travellers, NL) DJ Rubszman (Bish Bash Bosh / 130 Techno Travellers, NL) DJ Erik Arrow (Loudspeaker, NL) DJ Sophie van Riel (NL) DJ Patrice van den Berg (Chicken Skin, NL) MC Marxman (Dance Valley / Bish Bash Bosh, GB) MC Semson (NL) Free entrance

Canvas op de 7e 22:00 - 04:00 Cassette Collectief Erdbeerschnitzel (DE) Simon Weiss (NL) Bert de Rooij (NL) € 10

Chicago Social Club 23:00 - 05:00 De Nachtdivisie presents: Ellum Audio Maceo Plex (US) Danny Daze (US) Odd Parents (ES) Special Guest Lounge Hellie Berry (NL) Tijn Benedek (NL) Rooiecol (NL) Grythm (NL) Lumiere (NL) Prunk (NL) € 15

Club BlinQ 20:00 - 23:00 Stimulated Soul Recordings Label Night Groove Assassin (GB) Sean McCabe (GB) Lewis Ferrier (NL) Free entrance

Club BlinQ 23:00 - 03:00 iCulture Richard Earnshaw (GB) Grant Nelson (GB) Soul Purpose (GB) Mike Scot (NL) Rob Boskamp (NL) Free entrance

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Club HOME 23:00 - 05:00 Intec Digital presents: Marco Bailey, Layo & Bushwacka!, Jon Rundell and Very Special Guest Marco Bailey (BE) Layo & Bushwacka! (GB) Jon Rundell (GB) Special Guest € 15

Club Lite 22:00 - 05:00 Two Point Zero Agency & The Sessions Showcase - Part 1 Dave Seaman (GB) Jody Wisternoff (GB) C-Jay (NL) Secret Life Soundsystem (GB) aka Phil Dockerty & Murray Mckee Neil Quigley (GB) € 10 (free entrance before 00:00)

Club NYX 23:00 - 04:00 Kollektiv & Vieze Meid presents: Compost Records ADE Special Area 1 Robert Owens (GB) dj & live vocal performance Christian Prommer (Compost / Life and Death / !K7, DE) ft. Kelvin Sholar (Kasmavtsu Music, US) Nuno Dos Santos (NL) SHOW-B & Thomas Herb (DE) Michael Reinboth (DE) Area 2: Vieze Meid Eric de Man (NL) SHMLSS (NL) Eindbaas (NL) Django Gitano (NL) Toiletterette Thea Hygiëna & Trees Smetvrees (NL) Door € 10

Club Stereo 21:00 - 03:00 They came to take over the planet!

House Invaders Sjeazy Pearl (NL) Jeff Residenza (NL) Royal Flavour (NL) Rodney Starson (NL) Boogie Blasterz (NL) Wilco Divaro (NL) Mitch le Freak (NL) G.A.B.Y. (NL) €7

Club Up 23:00 - 05:00 Tomorrow Is Now, Kid! x SlapFunk Records x My Love Is Underground Jeremy ‘Underground Paris’ (My Love Is Underground, FR) Brawther (My love Is Underground, FR) Alex Salvador (Tomorrow Is Now, Kid!, NL) Anil Aras (SlapFunk Records, NL) Samuel Deep (SlapFunk Records, NL) Malin Genie (Tomorrow Is Now, Kid! / SlapFunk Records, NL) Daan Groeneveld (NL) Regular € 10 door € 12

ClubNL 22:00 - 05:00 SUB & Club De Loods present: SUB ADE Special Reuben Alexander (NL) Wano S (NL) Licky and the Lickettes (NL) Charles West (NL) € 10

COX 20:00 - 02:30 Doctor Spaventi’s LAB Spaventi (Intacto, IT) live JAMA (Karma Productions, NL) Maarten Bloem vs. Bob Nagel (Subway, NL) Max Anthony (I Hear You, NL) Free entrance

CUE Bar 18:00 - 03:00 CUE Bar presents: Suntree Records, 3am Recordings and Bounce House Recordings Showcase Oded Nir (IL) Easy Ryan (NL) Matt Prehn (CH) John Joseph (NL) Dutchican Soul (NL) DK Watts (US) Al Bradley (GB) Kajan Chow (NL) Phil Towers (GB) Free entrance

Dansen bij Jansen 22:00 - 04:00 We Own presents: Slackers Wannabeastar (NL) Helena (AU) Mightyfools (NL) Style Of Eye (SE) Dem Slackers (NL) Mike Hawkins (DK) €5

De Balie 23:00 - 05:00 Hardsoul Pressings Hardsoul Live ft. Roog (NL) / Greg van Bueren (NL) / Mitch Crown (NL) / Mavis Aquah (NL) / Glenn Helder (NL) and Special Guest live Copyright (GB) Audiowhores (GB) dj set David Penn (Urbana Recordings., ES) dj set The Cube Guys (Stereo Productions, IT) dj set Pasha NoFrost & Kolya Smart (Soul Cola Productions, RU) MC I/fan (NL) Regular € 12,50 door € 14,50

De Bierfabriek 23:00 - 05:00 IPM Rome, ROOM26, Southport Weekender, Suncebeat, BODY MUSIC, MONDAY & Meubel Stukken present: SOUL HEAVEN ADE Special DJ Spen (Code Red / Quantize Recordings, US) Terry Hunter (Chosen Few DJ’s, US) Barbara Tucker (BStar Music Group, US) live Luis Radio (Room26 / IPM Rome, IT) RiskSoundSystem (Body Music, NL) Marly Mar (Monday, NL) € 19,99

De Lax 15:00 - 01:00 Pleasure Class Mystery Guest (SE) Rishi Romero (NL) C-Jay (NL) Miqstar (NL) Brian Chundro & Santos (NL) Miss Sugaware (NL) Mike Lachman (NL) Kazzikasz (NL) percussion € 3,50

Desmet Studio’s 22:00 - 04:00 7 Stars Music & EnMass Music Label Showcase Victoria Aitken & Marc JB (GB) live Randy Boyer (EnMass Music, US) Darude (EnMass Music, FI) K-System (Koo Digital, FI) Mark Kane (Kushtee Records / 7 Stars Music, US) Regular € 10 door € 15

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Escape Club 22:00 - 05:00 ALDA Events presents: Hardwell’s Revealed Hardwell (Revealed Recordings, NL) € 17,50

Escape Studio 23:00 - 04:00 Be Bigger by BIGGI ADE Special BIGGI (NL) Jess&Miss (NL) Paul Veth (NL) Elton Jonathan Kroon (NL) MC Steef (NL) € 10

Het Sieraad 22:00 - 05:00 Next Monday’s Hangover invites: Exploited Label Night Area 1 Tensnake (Permanent Vacation, DE) Catz ‘N Dogz (Pets / Dirtybird / Get Physical, PL) live Adana Twins (Exploited, DE) Homework (Exploited, NL) Shir Kahn (Exploited, DE) Area 2: hosted by ZeeZout Till von Sein (Suol, DE) Doctor Dru (Exploited, DE) Claptone (Exploited, DE) Cocolores (Exploited, DE) La Vondèl & ME.N.U. (morgen.am, NL) live Chris Julien (Backstage, NL) Area 3: disco area hosted by ZeeZout SHMLSS (NL) Eric de Man (NL) Maarten Pordon (NL) Regular € 17,50 early bird € 12,50 door € 25

Jimmy Woo 23:00 - 04:00 ADE Rising Music Night Chris Lake (GB) John Dahlback (SE) Nelski (GB) Marco Lys (IT) € 15

Little Buddha Amsterdam 23:30 - 06:00 Stainless Agency Showcase Mastiksoul, Nick & Danny Chatelain, AndManyMor3, Gabriel & Castellon, D-Rachid Mastiksoul (PT) Nick & Danny Chatelain (ES) AndManyMor3 (ES) Gabriel & Castellon (NL) D-Rashid (NL) Raymundo (NL) € 15

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Ludwig 23:00 - 05:00 Riva Starr presents: Snatch! Label Showcase Riva Starr (GB) And Friends € 10

MC Theater 22:00 - 06:00 Co-hosted by Kinetic AM Dekmantel ADE - Blueprint, Sandwell District, Mote Evolver and Time To Express Planetary Assault Systems (Mote Evolver, GB) live Sandwell District (Sandwell District, DE) James Ruskin (Blueprint, GB) Donato Dozzy (Time to Express, IT) Peter van Hoesen (Time to Express, DE) Samuli Kemppi (Mote Evolver / Time to Express, FI) Silent Servant (Sandwell District, US) Thomas Martojo (Dekmantel, NL) Regular € 20 early bird sold out

Melkweg - Old Hall 20:30 - 22:30 Nobody Beats The Drum 333” Nobody Beats The Drum (Basserk Records, NL) live Shameboy (Radar Records, BE) dj set € 12 + membership

Melkweg - Rabohall 22:00 - 05:00 Snowbombing with Cable presents: Skreamizm Skream ft. Sgt Pokes (GB) Artwork (GB) Disclosure (GB) live Jacques Greene (CA) dj set Gomes (NL) € 17 + membership

Melkweg - The Max & Old Hall 22:00 - 05:00 Rara Aves, Rauw, Decked Out, Bromance, Marble Records, Phantasy Records, Savoir Faire and Talent Boutique present: ADE MONSTER MASH 2012 Erol Alkan (Phantasy Records, GB) Brodinski (Bromance, FR) Gesaffelstein (Bromance, FR) Crookers (Ciao Records, IT) Para One (Marble Records, FR) Surkin (Marble Records, FR) Club Cheval (Bromance, FR) Rory Phillips (Durrr, GB) Justin Robertson (The Deadstock 33s, GB) Dan Avery (Phantasy Records, GB) Joost van Bellen (Rauw, NL) Henzel & Disco Nova (Rara Aves, NL) RipTide (Rauw, NL) € 20 + membership

Odeon 20:30 - 05:00 Bass Culture rond Volle Maan invites: The Mad Professor and Jazzsteppa Area 1 Mad Professor & Bassculture Family Band (GB) live JazzSteppa (DE) live Kubus (NL) Dub Creator (NL) ft. Lyrical Benjie Selektor Depender & Filtercutter (NL) MC Diamanta (NL) Area 2 DJ Kurro (NL) DJ Sonny Groeneveld (Jungle By Night, NL) Rahul Def Burman (NL) Area 3 L-DOPA (NL) Rednass_Audio (NL) € 15

OT301 21:00 - 03:00 EPM & BulletDodge Records present: Players Club Gareth Whitehead & My Evil Twin (GB) Mr O. (GB) Break 3000 (NL) Tiger & Woods (IT) Paul Mac (GB) Visuals Lucid Interval € 10

Pand 14 22:30 - 04:00 Trick Track Records presents: MIRAGE Kolombo (Noir Music / Kompakt / Loulou, BE) Atapy (Noir Music / Get Physical, RO) Sasch BBC (Time Warp / 8 Beat / Noir Music / Viva Music, DE) Addo (Trick Track Records, RO) With Two (Trick Track Records, RO) Regular € 12,50 early bird € 10 door € 15

Paradiso - Main Hall 20:00 - 23:00 Simian Mobile Disco Simian Mobile Disco (GB) live € 15

Paradiso - All Areas 23:30 - 05:00 NON Records Main Room Palmbomen (NON, NL) Bear Damen (NON, NL) Renkas (NON, NL) Marius (NON, NL) HyperHyper (NON, NL) Breakbot (FR) dj set Basement Boris & Boris (NL) € 15

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Rain 22:00 - 04:00 Perc Trax Night and MJUZIEEK DIGITAL Label Night Area 1 Audiowhores (GB) Lauer & Canard (HU) Soneec & Belocca (HU) Mike Newman (HU) Pray for More (AT) Jay Santi (NL) Blacksoul (HR) K-Klass (GB) Roger Williams (GB) Dave Doyle (GB) Jay C (GB) Nathan Lee (GB) Reza (GB) ReWire (RS) Muzikfabrik & Jetro (HU / RO) Nervous Kid (GB) Souljackerz (GB) Ash Paine (GB) Frater & Stent (GB) DJ Zimmo (GB) Grayson P. (GB) Area 2 Perc (GB) Bas Mooy (NL) Radial (NL) live €5

Schram Studio’s 23:00 - 07:00 Studio 80 presents: Diynamic Neon Nights Solomun (Diynamic, DE) David August (Diynamic, DE) Kollektiv Turmstrasse (Diynamic, DE) live Stimming (Diynamic, DE) live H.O.S.H. (Diynamic, DE) Uner (Diynamic, DE) NTFO (Diynamic, DE) Adriatique (Diynamic, DE) € 22,50 Studio 80 23:00 - 05:00 Studio 80 presents: Rejected Joris Voorn (Rejected, NL) Derrick May (US) Deetron (Rejected, CH) Huxley (GB) Edwin Oosterwal (Rejected, NL) Kruse & Nuernberg (DE) Maher Daniel (Rejected, CA) € 15

Studio K 22:00 - 06:00 Green Room & Studio /K present: Green Room Festival Green Room Area Lando Kal (Hotflush Recordings / Rush Hour, DE) Redinho (Numbers, GB) Sinjin Hawke (Pelican Fly, ES) Helix (Night Slugs, US) Kristof & Cursed P (Green Room / Little Globe, NL) Omega Redd (Green Room, NL) Inuk (Green Room, NL) Nachtwerk Area Alex Coulton (All Caps, GB) Presk (Fourth Wave / Audio Culture, NL) live DJ+ (Nachtwerk, NL) Mattikk (Nachtwerk, NL) Sistemsiz Area Kidnap Kid (Squelch & Clap, GB) Seb Wildblood (Church, GB) Apes (Church, GB) Obey City (Astro Nautico, US) Regular € 13 door € 18

Sugar Factory 18:30 - 23:30 Worldwide leading labels and promoters The Third Movement and PRSPCT host the afterparty of the HDE. The Third Movement & PRSPCT present the Hard Afterparty DJ Promo (The Third Movement, NL) DJ Thrasher (PRSPCT, PT) DJ Limewax (PRSPCT, UA) Special Guests € 10

Sugar Factory 23:55 - 05:00 2000 and One 100% Pure Label Night DJ Madskillz (100% Pure, NL) Kaiserdisco (KD Music / 100% Pure, DE) Gabriel Ananda (Basmati / 100% Pure, DE) live 2000 and One (100% Pure, NL) € 15

Supperclub 23:00 - 05:00 Nightbird Music, audio tonic and Seamless Deep Label Night Vincenzo (DE) Giom (GB) Sasse (DE) Sebastian Davidson (NL) Neil Quigley (GB) Raxon (AE) Graham Sahara (GB) Ben Sowton (GB) Phonic Funk (NL) Malbetrieb & Rik Woldring (NL) Ferdy (NL) Andy Lee (GB) € 10

Suzy Wong 22:00 - 04:00 SFFRMKRS & BESPOKE Official ADE Gathering Adje (NL) Hef (NL) Cream (NL) Fanny West (NL) Snelle Jelle (NL) Melly Mel (NL) Abstract (NL) Free entrance

The O.C. 19:00 - 03:00 Wemusic Company & DCE present: ADE Wethouse Showcase Randy Katana (NL) Wolffman (NL) Eric Romano (ES) Miss Irma Derby (NL) Misja Helsloot (NL) Binou (NL) Sander Amadé (NL) Melanie Eden (NL) VJ Yzco (NL) MC Libidosa (NL) Free entrance

The Sand 23:00 - 05:00 Size Matters ft. Steve Angello Steve Angello (SE) An21 (SE) Max Vangeli (US) Third Party (GB) Qulinez (SE) Wayne and Woods (SE) Regular € 39,50 early bird € 32,50

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Transformatorhuis 22:00 - 08:00 ON and ON presents: ON-Weer Shifted (Mote Evolver/ Avian, GB) Reeko (Pole group / Mental Disorder, ES) Abdulla Rashim (Abdulla Rashim Records, SE) live Mike Wall (WALL Music, DE) Dimi Angélis (A&S Records, NL) Jeff Rushin (On and ON, NL) Nicole Rosie (On and ON, NL) € 19

TrouwAmsterdam 22:00 - 05:00 Colors - ADE Special Trouw Maya Jane Coles (GB) Jackmaster (Numbers, GB) Cinnaman (Colors, NL) De Verdieping: Hessle Audio presents Pearson Sound (Hessle Audio, GB) Ben UFO (Hessle Audio, GB) Special Guest Regular €18 door €20

Undercurrent 22:00 - 06:00 UDC / Twenty4Seven Management / Dancetherapy Productions present: Full On - Hosted by Ferry Corsten / Solarstone presents Pure Trance Main Room: Full On - Hosted by Ferry Corsten Ferry Corsten (NL) Aly & Fila (EG) Bassjackers (NL) Showtek (NL) Sied van Riel (NL) Chicane (GB) live Side Room: Solarstone presents Pure Trance Solarstone (GB) John 00 Fleming (GB) Giuseppe Ottaviani (IT) live Daniel Kandi (DK) Orkidea (FI) € 17,50

Gashouder 22:00 - 08:00 Awakenings ADE special Adam Beyer presents Drumcode Adam Beyer (Drumcode, SE) Ben Sims (Drumcode / Theory, GB) Joseph Capriati (Drumcode, IT) Paul Ritch (Drumcode, FR) live Joel Mull (Drumcode, SE) Alan Fitzpatrick (Drumcode, GB) Patrick Siech (Drumcode, SE) € 45

WesterUnie - Westerliefde 22:00 - 05:00 Flying Circus 5th Year Anniversary Worldtour Area 1 Westerunie: Flying Circus 5th Year Anniversary Worldtour Art Department (CA) Audiofly (GB) Sis (DE) live Tiefschwarz (DE) Bill Patrick vs. Maayan Nidam (US / DE) Area 2 Westerliefde: Labyrinth Showcase Pole Folder (BE) live Alex Dolby (IT) Arado vs. Marco Faraone (DE / IT) Tofke (BE) Ugur Yurt (BE) € 17,50

Winston Kingdom 23:00 - 04:00 Cheeky Monday Recordings Launch Party Nicky Blackmarket (GB) Loco (NL) Spud (NL) Sinistah (NL) Adi-J (NL) Insom (NL) Gibbo (NL) €8

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3 Sisters The Pub 22:00 - 04:00 Mjuzieekal Education Audiowhores (GB) K-Klass (GB) Pray for More (AT) Roger Williams (GB) Dave Doyle (GB) Muzikfabrik & Jetro (HU) Nervous Kid (GB) Souljackerz (GB) Frater & Stent (GB) DJ Zimmo (GB) Grayson P. (GB) MC Marxman (GB) Free entrance

AIR 23:00 - 05:30 Defected in the House AIR1 Tensnake (DE) live Sandy Rivera (US) Noir (DK) Supernova (IT) Chocolate Puma (NL) Franky Rizardo (NL) Andy Daniell (GB) Lorenzo (GB) live PA AIR2 Flashmob (IT) Larse (DE) Hott Since 82 (GB) Nice7 (IT) Anna Wall (GB) € 19

Amsterdam Convention Factory 22:00 - 05:00 Trackitdown & ALDA Events present: DJ Mag Top 100 Awards Show Regular € 25 royal lounge € 47,50

Bar Struik 21:00 - 03:00 Hosted by Kid Sublime & Wouda Dopeness Galore presents Unite Series ADE Special Kid Sublime (Dopeness Galore, NL) Wouda (Dopeness Galore, NL) Free entrance

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Bimhuis 20:30 - 23:00 Bimhuis Amsterdam Dance Event special Humcrush + Sidsel Endresen Humcrush + Sidsel Endresen (NO) Stale Storlokken (NO) electronica / keys Thomas Stronen (NO) drums / electronica € 18

Bitterzoet 23:00 - 04:00 Nothing Special ADE special SirOJ (NL) Jeff Solo (NL) Edzon (NL) € 10

Bump 20:00 - 03:00 Undergroovy Productions presents: Undergroovy Tune Brothers (Housesession Records, DE) Gerald Henderson (Undergroovy Pro. / Stereo Productions, FR) jUANiTO (Vamos Music, Ole Music, FR) aka John Aguilar David Abarca (Undergroovy Productions, ES) DJ Haro (Undergroovy Productions / Stereo Productions, FR) Rio Dela Duna (Vamos Music / Stealth Records, FR) Chazers (Undergroovy Productions, NL) Marc Garcia (Undergroovy Productions, DE) Robbie Taylor (Undergroovy Productions, NL) Finzy (Undergroovy Productions, FR) € 5,-

Bungalow 8 23:00 - 04:00 Purple Music presents: PURPLE MUSIC with Jamie Lewis & Special Guests Jamie Lewis (CH) € 15

Café ‘t Schuim 21:00 - 03:00 Schuim presents: Schuim All Stars DJ M-Cecile (NL) DJ Nandos (NL) Free entrance

Canvas op de 7e 22:00 - 05:00 All Eyes On Dego (GB) Thelonious (NL) € 10

Chicago Social Club 23:00 - 08:00 NGHTDVSN presents: Systematic Recordings Marc Romboy (DE) Christian Smith (SE) Robert Babicz (DE) Max Cooper (GB) live KiNK (BG) live Satoshi Tomiie (JP) Sleepy & Boo (US) Terry Toner (NL) Lounge: hosted by Manual Music Estroe (NL) Paul Hazendonk (NL) Zwaan (NL) live Qbical (NL) Tundra (NL) Nadia Struiwigh (NL) Joe Manish (NL) € 15

Club 8 22:00 - 04:00 Clubdecoratie / Kopjek Creatives Showcase Franklin de Costa (Curle / Connaisseur / Resolut / Lena, DE) Bobby Courthe (KopjeK Creatives, NL) Derek te Rijdt (KopjeK Creatives, NL) Zoran Pillay (KopjeK Creatives, NL) Visuals BadRobot (NL) € 7,50

Club BlinQ 20:00 - 23:00 Arrecha Records Get Together Pascal Morais (NL) Denz Devarez (US) D-Malice (GB) Zano (SA) Wayne Tennant (CA) Free entrance

Club BlinQ 23:00 - 04:00 MYAM.AM & KKC present: Kingdom in da House Starkillers (US) Ron Carroll (US) Stonebridge (SE) Darude (FI) D.O.N.S. (DE) Peter Gelderblom (NL) Filthy Rich (GB) Rob Boskamp (NL) Ignacio (NL) Mike Lachman (NL) Free entrance

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Club HOME 23:00 - 05:00 KIMCO entertainment presents: Danny Howells, Jimpster, Shur-I-Kan and Gorge Danny Howells (Dig Deeper, GB) Jimpster (Freerange Records, GB) Shur-I-Kan (GB) Gorge (8 Bit / Katchulli, GB) € 13

Club Lite 22:00 - 05:00 Local Talk Records Bassfort (Local Talk, ES) Mad Mats (Local Talk, SE) Tooli (Local Talk, SE) John Mood (Local Talk, NL) Ron Wilson (Submarine / Watergate, DE) € 10

Club NYX 23:00 - 05:00 Jodie Harsh NYX invites Room Service ADE Special Area 1 Jodie Harsh (GB) Severino (IT) Max Morel (NL) Area 2 Johanna Maria (NL) The G-Team (NL) Toiletterette Plee (NL) € 10

Club Up 23:00 - 05:00 Night Flight x Boston Strip invite Clek Clek Boom French Fries (Clek Clek Boom, FR) Bambounou (Clek Clek Boom, FR) Manaré (Clek Clek Boom, FR) The Town (Clek Clek Boom, FR) Mudde (Boston Strip, NL) DDK (Boston Strip, NL) Alex Charry (Boston Strip, NL) Haron (Night Flight, NL) Silvester (Night Flight, NL) Berend Kirch (Night Flight, NL) Jeroen Kok (Night Flight, NL) Regular € 12 door € 15

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ClubNL 19:00 - 23:00 Link-Busters Network Event Link-Busters is the leading anti-piracy service for the music industry, protecting releases for popular artists like Deadmau5, Pryda, Mark Knight, Swedish House Mafia, Fedde le Grand and many others. This network event will give you the opportunity get to know kindred spirits in the music industry and learn promotional and sales-strategies of leading professionals in the industry.

Invite only

ClubNL 23:00 - 05:00 Miss Melera & Friends Charles Davos (NL) live Miss Melera (Epiqurus, NL) Eelke Kleijn (Outside The Box / EMI, NL) Regular € 10 door € 12,50

CUE Bar 18:00 - 04:00 10 hours of funky, jackin house music AMSTERJACKED vs. LOFREQUENCY DJ Le-Roy (NL) Sista Stroke (US) Soul De Marin / Lurob (NL / US) Flapjackers (BE) Mr Hun (GB) Sturdus (NL) Tommy Largo (NL) Wayne Brett (GB) Pha5e & Fürmit (NO) Menno Overvliet (NL) Free entrance

Dansen bij Jansen 23:00 - 05:00 Gino Christiano & Rob Black present: 707 Area 1: 707 Vincent-Paolo (22Beats, NL) Blaxton (Basserk Records, NL) Rob Black (Girls Love DJ’s, NL) Freddie Glitch (Pitch, TZ) Gino Christiano (Epic!, NL) Springstof (Backstage, NL) Jarreau Vandal (Wavefiles, NL) Area 2: Oh Shit! Presents: ‘Raven Bij Jansen, Alles Naar De Klote’.

Majin Boo (NL) Kleine Dondersteen (NL) Chrisis Dubs (NL) €5

De Balie 23:00 - 07:00 Raveline Mag presents: MEANWHILE at ADE Main Room Juan Sanchez (FORMAT, NL) Mirella Kroes (Balans, NL) ONNO (Upon You, NL) Samuel Dan (Sincopat, ES) Tapesh (Variante Music, DE) The Man With No Shadow (GZG, NL) Salon Makcim (Remote Area, NL) Prunk (King Street Sounds, NL) Tettero (MEANWHILE, NL) Raveline Mag Miniclub Basti Grub (Hoehenregler, DE) Camiel Daamen (VIVa Music, NL) Martin Heyder (Hoehenregler, DE) Regular € 10 early bird € 8,50

Escape Club 23:00 - 05:00 Powered by Ministry of Sound Fedde Le Grand ADE Takeover Fedde Le Grand (NL) € 20,-

Het Concertgebouw 20:00 - 03:00 VRIJ presents: Junkie XL Junkie XL (NL) live Pretty Lights (US) live Yonderboi (HU) live Eelke Kleijn (NL) live € 27,50

Het Sieraad 22:00 - 05:00 Next Monday’s Hangover invites: mobilee ADE session Area 1 Pan-Pot (mobilee, DE) De Bierfabriek 23:00 - 05:00 Sebo K (mobilee, DE) Meubel Stukken & FUSE Communication Anja Schneider (mobilee, DE) present: Rodriguez Jr. (Mobilee, FR) live O.W.A.P. Intiem @ Chicken Tonight Area 2 Todd Terry (InHouse Records, US) And.ID (mobilee, GR) live Barbara Tucker (Bstar Music Group, US) live Ralf Kollmann (mobilee, DE) The Glimmers (Decked Out, BE) Sebastian Radlmeier (mobilee, DE) RiskSoundSystem (Body Music, NL) Johanna Mercker (We Are E, NL) Miss Bunty (Barkers, NL) live Area 3 Nepco (Meubel Stukken, NL) live Some Chemistry (morgen.am, NL) Miss B-Have (Meubel Stukken, NL) live Sonurber (morgen.am, NL) The Original Confettiman (Meubel Stukken Regular € 20 early bird € 15 door € 25 a.k.a Furniture Pieces Worldwide Inc., NL) € 25,25 Hotel Arena 22:00 - 07:00 Loveland ADE day 1 De Lax 21:00 - 06:00 Break New Soil ADE Showcase Brainburst Church Hall Dr. Peacock (NL) Gregor Tresher & Karotte (DE) 6 hrs set Leviathan (NL) Petar Dundov (HR) [KRTM] (BE) Garden Hall Flowcreatorz (IT / NL) Dosem (ES) The Irritainer (NL) Marco Effe (IT) Enforcer (NL) Romano Alfieri (IT) Apac (NL) Luca Bear (IT) Xqruciator (NL) € 19 Faniac (NL) Regular €10 door € 12 Jimmy Woo 23:00 - 05:00 Krushgroove Desmet Studio’s 21:00 - 04:00 Tommie Sunshine (US) Pooledmusic presents ADE Special The Partysquad (NL) Spencer Parker (Rekids / Saved / Ovum, GB) Illuminati AMS (NL) Ed Davenport (NRK / Pokerflat / Vidab, DE) Jaziah (NL) Mitja Prinz (Watergate / Pooledmusic, DE) € 17,50 Ian Pooley (Pooledmusic / Ovum, DE) € 12,50

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tommie sunshine green velvet dave clarke

ADE festival program friday 19 october

Korsakoff Amsterdam 22:00 - 04:00 InDeep’n’Dance Records presents: Elementz Dexon (InDeep’n’Dance Records, NL) Soundbalance (Comport Records, NL) Sebastian Hawkes (Hypertensive, NL) Dansor (Comport Records, HU) Weider Terlouw (Kanduka / Phonocult / Stock 5, NL) live Roderik Flohil + Wietse Smit (Kanduka / Phat Elephant / BlaBla, NL) live E-contact (Kanduka / Suruba / Stock 5, NL) live Ado + Boris Lensky (Kanduka DJ Crew, NL) €5

Little Buddha Amsterdam 22:00 - 06:00 East European Music Management Showcase Baggi Begovic (NL) Gramophonedzie (RS) Tom Novy (DE) The Shapeshifters (GB) Jodee Kitch (NL) Leon Diaz (RS) Pookie (RS) Blacksoul (HR) Prok & Fitch (GB) € 15

Ludwig 05:00 - 15:00 ZeeZout x Exploited ADE After Hour Doctor Dru (Exploited, DE) Cocolores (Exploited, DE) Joyce Muniz (Exploited, BR) € 10

MC Theater 22:00 - 06:00 Dekmantel ADE - UK Special Julio Bashmore (GB) Joy Orbison (GB) Boddika (GB) Space Dimension Controller (GB) live Lone (GB) live Krystal Klear (GB) Casper Tielrooij (NL) Audio Culture (NL) 751 (NL) Regular € 20 early bird € 15

Melkweg - Old Hall 06:00 - 14:00 Electric Deluxe: ADE After Hour Speedy J (Electric Deluxe, NL) Len Faki (Ostgut Ton, DE) Blackasteroid (Electric Deluxe, US) Special Guests € 12 + membership

Melkweg - The Max & Old Hall 22:00 - 06:00 Dave Clarke presents Dave Clarke (White Noise, GB) Green Velvet (Cajual Records, US) DJ Sneak (X-Mix Productions, US) Octave One (430 West Records, US) live Blawan (Hessle Audio / R&S / Clone, GB) Marcel Fengler (Ostgut Ton, DE) Estroe (Connaisseur, NL) Roger Gerressen (ESHU, NL) € 23 + membership

Melkweg - Rabohall 23:00 - 05:00 Bedrock Showcase John Digweed (Bedrock, GB) Guy J (Bedrock, IS) Stelios Vassiloudis (Bedrock, GR) € 21 + membership

Muziekgebouw aan ‘t IJ 13:00 - 05:00 4D Sound System and Ipad Concerto present: Listen To This 19:00 Listen to This café with DJ’s playing on the Foyerdeck 1 and on the 4D Sound System in Entreehal 20:30 iPad Concerto by Sinfonia Rotterdam + Marko Ciciliani and Erik Bosgraaf; 22:00 Listen to This Café with DJ’s playing on the 4D Sound System.

Ipad Concerto: regular € 24 CJP € 19 Listen to This Café: free entrance

Odeon 22:00 - 10:00 Koekoek 3D with Souvenir & Wilde Agency Tiefschwarz (DE) Daniel Wilde (DE) Bloody Mary (DE) Kenny Leaven (DE) Moustache Mamas (GB) Ruede Hagelstein (DE) Isis (NL) Mike Ravelli (NL) Marcus Gehring (NL) Wubb (NL) Franklin Reeves (NL) JAMA (NL) Bitse Sessie (NL) Misja Impossible & Delatouffe (NL) Ici Sans Merci (NL) Kevin Arnemann (NL) Quentin van Honk (NL) Verdi (NL) Tess&Frank van Zwol (NL) € 17,50

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aron friedman bart b more riptide

ADE festival program friday 19 october

OT301 21:00 - 05:00 Lemon Mega Birthday Rave XXL: 7 years of Lemon Community!

Ceephax Acid Crew (GB) DJ Donna Summer a.k.a. Jason Forrest (US) The Squire of Gothos (GB) DS-10 Dominator (NL) Hakki Takki vs. Bahk (NL) Balthazar Bootyface Killah (NL) Akemio Grey (NL) Gonzo Toby (NL) RTRD (NL) Rokus (NL) DJ Faz (NL) Gerard Rave (NL) Club Zijn DJ Team (NL) € 10

Pand 14 20:00 - 07:00 Crackhouse: Doorhaalchinees presents: ‘De Blacklightchinees’ Deadbeat (Wagon Repair, DE) special Crackhouse set Rouge Mécanique (Rekids, FR) live Carlos Valdes (Crackhouse, NL) Brent Roozendaal (Crackhouse, NL) Aron Friedman (Crackhouse, NL) Sven Prinsen (Radiate, NL) Elias Mazian (Barre Tijden, NL) Alex Jansen (ESHU, NL) Regular € 17 door € 20

Paradiso - All areas 23:00 - 05:00 Oi! ADE Special: Benga (live) Main Room: Oi! ADE Special: Benga & Friends Obey (Access FM, NL) Dismantle (Digital Soundboy, GB) Benga (Magnetic Man, GB) live Kutz (Wheel & Deal, GB) Gomes (\! / Resist, NL) Host: MC Drew (NL) Upstairs Room: Taped - Rwina Records vs bmkltsch rcrds Jameszoo (NL) Akkachar (NL) Guerilla Speakerz (NL) Chad Wick (NL) Boemklatsch (NL) Basement: MWM-recordings “Blame it on the Dutch EP” Releaseparty Dubheadz (NL) Gomes (NL) Dion Cassius (NL) Gritt (NL) € 18

Passenger Terminal Amsterdam 21:00 - 05:00 ALDA Events presents: Armada Night Armin van Buuren (NL) Aly & Fila (EG) vs. John O’Callaghan (IE) W&W (NL) Sied van Riel (NL) vs. Max Graham (CA) Ashley Wallbridge (GB) vs. Tom Fall (FI) Tenishia (MT) Regular € 29,50 royal lounge € 47,50

Rain 22:00 - 05:00 Brian Chundro & Santos invite: Area 1 Brian Chundro & Santos (NL) D-Rashid (NL) Dennis van der Geest (NL) Stefan Vilijn (NL) Roul and Doors (NL) Marc Macrowland (NL) Area 2 Miss Sugaware (NL) Mickster (NL) Pete Rose (NL) Miqstar (NL) Juvanice (NL) € 7,50

Soho 22:00 - 04:00 Happy Kids Productions presents: Happy People, Dirty Life Cincity’s Yazz (NL) Jess&Miss (NL) Ilker Akay (TR) Lim de la Cruz (PH) DJ Edel (NL) MC Divine (NL) Ferry de Ruiter (NL) Ceciel Moyano (CO) Shug la Sheedah (NL) Free entrance

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david morales frankie knuckles tom trago

ADE festival program friday 19 october

Stanislavski + COX 23:00 - 05:00 Sugar Factory 20:00 - 23:55 THIS IS MGMT Presents: Full Spectrum presents: THIS IS US Merdan Taplak, Boy Kid Cloud and more Sander Kleinenberg (THIS IS, NL) Merdan Taplak (PIAS, BE) Drop Out Orchestra (THIS IS / Eskimo, SE) live Boy Kid Cloud (Inspected, GB) Kraak & Smaak (DJ) (THIS IS / Jalapeno, NL) Beat Tha Calaveras (NL) Kolombo (THIS IS / LouLou, BE) J-Dane (NL) Diskjokke (THIS IS / Smalltown Supersound, NO) € 10 NSFW (THIS IS, NL) Sugar Factory 23:55 - 05:00 Kraver (THIS IS, NL) Ferreck Dawn (THIS IS / Toolroom, NL) MN2S ADE 2012 presents: 25 years of DEF MIX € 15 David Morales (US) Frankie Knuckles (US) Studio 80 23:00 - 05:00 Hector Romero (US) Studio 80 presents: DJ Meme (BR) Desolat Used & Abused Regular € 15 door € 18 Martin Buttrich (Desolat, DE) live tINI (Desolat, DE) Supperclub - All Areas 23:00 - 03:00 Guti (Desolat, AR) live SubTone presents: ATJAZZ & Friends Livio & Roby (Desolat, RO) ATJAZZ & Karizma (Exist) Hector (Desolat, MX) SI TEW (ATJAZZ Record Company, GB) live € 15 Brothers in Harmony (Subtone, NL) Rafeal Moraes (Yoruba Records, BR) Studio K 22:00 - 06:00 Kyri (R2 Records, GB) Taped Regular € 9 door € 11 Area 1: hosted by bmkltsch rcrds Zombie Disco Squad (GB) The House of Rising 23:00 - 04:00 Mike Mago (NL) Ibiza Expressions Loves ADE Mercury (NL) DJ S.H.I.V.A. (Laughing Buddha Agency / A.N.D.Y. (BE) IBIZA EXPRESSIONS, NL) TWR72 (NL) DJ ShowBizLiz (Laughing Buddha Agency / Area 2: hosted by Secure IBIZA EXPRESSIONS, NL) Bart B More (NL) DJ Tommy (Sound Farm Studio, ES) Baskerville (NL) DJ The Gee (Gee Spot Recordings, ES) RipTide (NL) Live percussion by Cherokee Mystery Guest Free entrance € 14

The O.C. 22:00 - 04:00 Wemusic Company presents: Solid Henry X (NL) Kid Q (NL) Nene Dasile (NL) Kimberlee Ramirez (NL) Hosted by: MC Gary Black € 10

The Sand 22:00 - 06:00 Luxury Events proudly presents: David Guetta World Tour David Guetta (FR) Nicky Romero (NL) Special Guests Regular € 59,50 early bird € 38 vip € 175

TrouwAmsterdam 22:00 - 05:00 Clone x Delsin x Rush Hour Trouw Delta Funktionen (Delsin, DE) A Made Up Sound (Clone, NL) Conforce (Delsin, NL) live Dexter (Clone, NL) live Gerd (Clone, NL) Serge (Clone, NL) De Verdieping Tom Trago (Rush Hour, NL) San Proper (Rush Hour, NL) live Alfabet (Rush Hour, NL) live Legowelt & Xosar (Rush Hour, NL) live Aroy Dee (Delsin, NL) Antal (Rush Hour, NL) This night is recorded for Red Bull Music Academy Radio.

Regular € 16 door € 18

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richie hawtin gregor tresher

ADE festival program friday 19 october

Undercurrent 22:00 - 06:00 UDC / CLR Chris Liebing presents: CLR ADE Special Chris Liebing (DE) Terence Fixmer (FR) live Tommy Four Seven (GB) Brian Sanhaji (DE) live Drumcell (US) Monoloc (DE) DJ Emerson (DE) € 17,50

Gashouder 22:00 - 08:00 Awakenings ADE special Richie Hawtin presents Enter Richie Hawtin (CA) Dubfire (US) Loco Dice (DE) Matador (IE) live Joran van Pol & Joop Junior (NL) € 45

WesterUnie 19:00 - 07:00 Click presents: Click, AD Bookings, HEY! Records, Soma Records, Idoubleyou Westerunie: 10 Years AD Bookings The Advent (AD Bookings, GB) live

Steve Rachmad (AD Bookings, NL) Heiko Laux (AD Bookings, DE) Wehbba (AD Bookings, BR) Vince Watson (AD Bookings, GB) live Klartraum (AD Bookings, DE) live Wouter de Moor (AD Bookings, NL) Tim Wolff (AD Bookings, NL) Klankarbeit (AD Bookings, NL) live Transformatorhuis: Soma Records Slam (Soma Records, GB) Mark Henning (Soma Records, GB) Alex Under (Soma Records, ES) Mystery Guest (Soma Records, ?)

Stefano Richetta (Click, NL) Westerliefde: HEY! Records Michel de Hey (HEY!, NL) Monika Kruse (Terminal M-HEY!, DE) Aril Brikha (Art of Vengeance-HEY!, SE) Warren Fellow (HEY!, NL) Taras van de Voorde (HEY!, NL) Jamie Lie A Kwie (HEY!, NL) Jeff Moore (HEY!, NL) Westergasterras: Idoubleyou Stefano Richetta (Idoubleyou, NL) Daniel Zuur (Idoubleyou, NL) live Erin (Idoubleyou, NL) Moritz (Idoubleyou, NL) € 25

Winston Kingdom 21:00 - 00:00 Winston Kingdom presents: Electro Rocks!

Flash Fiktion (GB) live Death Rattle (GB) live Cosmo V (NL) live € 7,50

Winston Kingdom 23:45 - 05:00 Groovmill presents: Fiesta Macumba Tropical Bass Edition Beat Tha Calaveras (NL) DJ Tommi (NL) DJ Rodrigo (NL) DJ Poto Peludo (NL) €8

Ziggo Dome 22:00 - 07:00 ADE XXL Special Dirty Dutch Exodus Chuckie (NL) Knife Party (GB) Just Blaze (US) Porter Robinson (US) Gregori Klosman (FR) BetatraXx (US) € 52,50

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juan sanchez

ADE festival program saturday 20 october

3 Sisters The Pub 04:00 - 07:00 Afterparty Anders Mike Lachman (NL) Billy Mason (NL) Free entrance

3 Sisters The Pub 22:00 - 04:00 Finally Javi Mula (ES) Nick Fiorucci (CA) DJ’S from Mars (IT) Studio Apartment (JP) Yves Eaux (NL) Mike Lachman (NL) Rob Boskamp (NL) Free entrance

AIR 06:30 - 14:00 Electric Deluxe & Format: ADE after hour Speedy J (Electric Deluxe, NL) Gary Beck (Electric Deluxe, GB) Juan Sanchez (FORMAT, NL) Special Guests € 10

Amsterdam Convention Factory 22:00 - 07:00 Evotions presents: Cocoon Heroes ADE Ricardo Villalobos (CL) 4 hrs Guy Gerber (IL) live Raresh (RO) Frenk Wiersma (NL) Edu Imbernon (ES) Darko Esser (NL) Olivier Weiter (NL) Rauwkost (NL) live Arjuna Schiks (NL) live Bas Amro (NL) Terry Toner (NL) Regular € 22,50 door € 30

Amsterdam Roest 22:00 - 03:00 Weerloos Label Night Santa Ballistol (NL) live Suspicious Outsiders (NL) live Pat (Fyah! / Poptrash / Bang! Bang!, NL) Django Gitano (Pitch / Awakenings / Super Social, NL) Jules et Jim avec le disco-bingo (Noorderlicht / Air, NL) Free entrance

Amsterdam Studio’s 23:00 - 08:00 ADE Special Schwung presents: Sleaze Records Gary Beck (GB) Alex Bau (DE) Pär Grindvik (SE) Dustin Zahn (US) Hans Bouffmyhre (GB) Folker Zwart (NL) Regular € 20 early bird €17 door € 25

Bar Struik 21:00 - 03:00 Wavefiles - ADE Special Eaglemen (Red Light Radio, NL) Blaxton (Basserk Records, NL) Jarreau Vandal (NL) Mr.Blonde (BEAST, NL) Vincent-Paolo (NL) Free entrance

Bitterzoet 23:00 - 04:00 Sffeervol ADE special DJ Cream (NL) Snelle Jelle (NL) MC Tjek (NL) € 10

135

stefan bodzin wouter de moor

ADE festival program saturday 20 october

Bump 20:00 - 03:00 E.P.M. Productions presents: The Sounds of Blackness : New York Dj’s / Producers Honey Dijon (US) Manny Ward (US) Curtis Atchison (US) of Midnight Society Quentin Harris (US) Katya Gabeli (NL) live PA Door € 5,-

Bungalow 8 00:00 - 12:00 W.A.T.M Republic presents: The 13 Sins Area 1 Wouter de Moor (REKORD3R, NL) Camiel Daamen (Meanwhile, NL) Philip Young (NL) Stefano Richette (Love Click, NL) Nicole Rosie (on and on, NL) Tom Verstappen (The Endless Summer, NL) Dante & Sep (NL) Area 2 Mirella Kroes (Meanwhile, NL) Timothy Watt (Nachtritme, NL) Johanna Mercker (We Are E, NL) Milan Meyberg (Black Box, NL) Bram Fidder (Studio 80, NL) Van Nooij (13 sins, NL) € 15

Café ‘t Schuim 21:00 - 09:00 Delicious Grooves meets Cosmic Disco Gino Lightner (Fierce Ruling Diva / Wooferland, Pinq Radio / Delicious Grooves, US) Hepcat (Fruit 4 Ears / Loudspeaker / Delicious Grooves, NL) Orguesm (Baroque / 90Watts / Soraya / Future Synth Records / Univirtual Music, NL) Jazzy D (Future Groove Express, NL) Zweistein (Cosmic Disco, NL) live Jon Billick (Pacha Recordings / Cosmic Disco, US) € 8 (free entrance before 03:00)

Chicago Social Club 23:00 - 05:00 Backstage presents: Get Physical Recordings Main DJ T. (DE) M.A.N.D.Y. (DE) Catz ‘N Dogz (PL) live Smash TV (DE) Lopazz (DE) Lounge: Backstage All-Stars Chris Julien (NL) Victor Coral (NL) Homework (NL) € 15

Canvas op de 7e 22:00 - 05:00 Club 8 22:00 - 04:00 Elevator Passion & Phat Elephant present: Clubdecoratie / Fiasco / Soulfully Yours ADE Special Showcase Mark Mywords (Phat Elephant, NL) Gramophonedzie (RS) Jose Ibanez & Roy Verschuren (Elevator Miss Honey Dijon (US) Passion, NL) MarcoLoco (Space Ibiza, ES) Alex Thomson (Elevator Passion, NL) Blacksoul (HR) Paskal & Urban Absolutes (Sonar Kollektiv / Funktransplant (SY / NL) live Phat Elephant, DE) Ed Marco (Fiasco, GB) Cenk Unis (Elevator Passion, NL) live Mad Mats & Tooli (Local Talk / Phat Elephant, SE) Chris Calculus (SY / NL) Visuals Dairmount (Room With A View / Phat BadRobot (NL) Elephant, DE) € 7,50 Elevator Passion (NL) interactive playground ShiTv (Elevator Passion, NL) interactive visual entertainment & mapping Arts in Parts (NL) make up interactive photography € 16

136

bart skils isis

ADE festival program saturday 20 october

Club BlinQ 20:00 - 23:00 connect:d meets RSR Husky (AU) Scott Diaz (GB) Dave Mayer (NL) Dutchican Soul (NL) Soulmagic (DK) D-Reflection (NL) Free entrance

Club HOME 23:00 - 15:00 Schmeck Pony presents: Tronic Treatment - 16 Hours Marathon Christian Smith (Tronic / Plus 8, SE) Mauro Picotto (Alchemy, IT) Dosem (Tronic / Rejected, ES) Jewel Kid (Allenza, MT) Raxon (Audio Tonic / Plastic City, AE) Bart Skils (Tronic / Drumcode, NL) Specker (Tronic, NL) Trish Former Friends (Schmeck Pony, NL) € 17

Club BlinQ 23:00 - 04:00 Big Boss Records presents: Legendary!

Javi Mula (ES) Club NYX 23:00 - 05:00 Remaniax (NL) Girls behind the desk Mike Lachman (NL) 3 x NYX: Who run the world!

DJ Q (CW) Area 1 Rob & Laura Boskamp (NL) Isis (NL) Nick Fiorucci (CA) Cat Carpenters (NL) DJ Silence (NL) Cincity’s Yazz (NL) Jason Brooks (US) Spacegirls (NL) DJ Jeroenski (NL) Area 2 Saxy Mr. S (NL) Joya Felicia (NL) Bjorn Know-how (NL) Made In June (NL) Free entrance Twisted Disco Nymphs (NL) TOILETERETTE Tante Door (NL) € 10

Club Stereo 21:00 - 03:00 Dancing in Amsterdam Who’s That Chick Royal Flavour (NL) Sjeazy Pearl (NL) J*me Faith (NL) Jesse Mak & Jake Tarry (NL) Jeff Residenza (NL) €7

Club Up 23:00 - 05:00 Audio Culture Label Showcase Hackman (Audio Culture, GB) New York Transit Authority (Audio Culture, GB) South London Ordnance (Audio Culture, GB) Tessela(Audio Culture, GB) Goldffinch (Audio Culture, BE) Cinnaman(Audio Culture, NL) Presk(Audio Culture, NL) live Visuals Cvgabriel (A STUDIO, NL) This night is recorded for Red Bull Music Academy Radio.

Regular € 12 door € 15

137

nuno dos santos anton Pieëte

ADE festival program saturday 20 october

ClubNL 06:00 - 12:00 tralala presenteert: alalart ADE After tralala soundsystem (NL) Ferdinand (NL) Jur (NL) Eric de Man (NL) Ramos (NL) €9

Dansen bij Jansen 05:00 - 12:00 Sans Gêne x Vieze Meid - Schaamteloos Vertier Alex Salvador (Tomorrow Is Now, Kid!, NL) Daan Groeneveld (NL) Reuben Alexander (NL) Eindbaas (NL) €5

ClubNL 23:00 - 05:00 Nhar Hurly Burly ADE Special Fady Ferraye (Per-Vurt / AlterImage / Baroque, LB) Johnny de Mol (NL) Nhar (200 / Correspondant , FR) Johnny de Mol (NL) b2b Fady Ferraye (PerVurt / AlterImage / Baroque, LB) € 10

Dansen bij Jansen 22:00 - 11:00 Another Bullshit night from Cleveland VS Club Del Animal Kingdom Little Stew (NL) Tom Verstappen (NL) Dann Doyle (NL) J-Baggs (NL) Chaddie Bistro (NL) Kristoff (GB) Vic Le Tor (NL) Lantei (NL) Regular € 5 door € 10

CUE Bar 16:00 - 04:00 Sounds R Us ADE Showcase R.O.N.N (US) Marco Bailey (BE) Tom Hades (BE) Steve Mulder (NL) Oz Romita (NL) Jamez (NL) Richard Gatling (NL) W&DY (NL) Roderick Fox (NL) Bily Mason (NL) M.R.T.N. (NL) Gino Windster (NL) MC MARXMAN (GB) Free entrance

De Balie 23:00 - 06:00 Fit en Fruitig presenteert: Altijd Dak Eraf Pitto (Green / Rejected, NL) Einsauszwei (Mangue Records, DE) Mees Dierdorp (NL) live Mick Benjamins (NL) Regular € 11 door € 14

De Bierfabriek 23:00 - 05:00 Meubel Stukken, BODY MUSIC, MONDAY and Radiate Artists present: OBJEKTIVITY Label Night Dennis Ferrer (Objektivity, US) Phil Weeks (Robsoul, FR) Jordan Peak (Robsoul, GB) NiCe7 (Noir Music / Defected, IT) André Hommen (Objektivity, DE) Lilith (Objektivity, NL) € 17,50

Desmet Studio’s 22:00 - 04:00 Label Showcase 7 Stars Music & EUN Records Dyno (7 Stars Music, NL) John Norman (4Play Trax / 7 Stars Music, GB) Karan Luthra (EUN Records, SE) Point Zero (EUN Records, NL) Mickey Destro & Figu Ds (EUN Records, IT) live Regular € 7,50 door € 10

Heineken Music Hall 22:00 - 06:00 Together Chase & Status (GB) dj set Nero (GB) dj set Sub Focus (GB) dj set Noisia (NL) dj set Feed Me (GB) dj set Major Look (GB) dj set € 30

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ADE festival program saturday 20 october

Het Sieraad 13:00 - 01:00 Little Buddha Amsterdam 23:30 - 07:00 Next Monday’s Hangover invites: Pukka Up vs. StainlessAgency BLA BLA ‘’Daytime Madness’’ Full Intention, Starkillers, Sebastien Daniel Sanchez (NL) Benett, Deuze, ANDMANYMOR3 Technasia (FR) Sam Walker (GB) KiNK (BG) Full Intention (GB) Pig & Dan (ES) Starkillers (NL) Mauro Picotto (IT) ANDMANYMOR3 (NL) 2000 And One (NL) Nick & Danny Chatelain (ES) Dosem (ES) Straitjackets (GB) Boris Werner (NL) Sony Miguel (GB) Metodi Hristov (BG) Sebastien Benett (FR) Andrea Oliva (CH) Deuze (GB) Fabrizio Maurizi & Idriss D (IT) € 15 El Mundo & Satori (NL) live Nuno Dos Santos (NL) Ludwig 05:00 - 15:00 Pascal Benjamin (NL) mobilee ADE After Hour Miss Melera (NL) Sebo K (DE) Joey Daniel (NL) More mobilee DJ’s Specker (NL) € 10 Some Chemistry & ME.N.U. (NL / MK) Regular € 20 early bird € 15 door € 25 MC Theater 22:00 - 06:00 Hotel Arena 23:00 - 08:00 Co-hosted by Electric Avenue I Amtechno presents: Dekmantel ADE - Body & SOUL Tresor meets Deeply Rooted House MC1 Room 1: Tresor Records hosted by Body & SOUL Juan Atkins (US) François K (Wave Music, US) Terrence Dixon (US) live Joe Claussell (Sacred Music, US) Surgeon (GB) Danny Krivit (718 Session, US) Mike Huckaby (US) MC2 Room 2: Deeply Rooted House Juju & Jordash (Dekmantel, NL) live Patrice Scott (US) special guest Melon (Ratio? Music, NL) Bleak (SE) live Mark du Mosch (SD Records, NL) Marcelus (FR) Regular € 20 early bird sold out Mondo (FR) More artists to be announced Melkweg - Old Hall 19:00 - 21:30 Regular € 22,50 early bird € 17,50 C2C C2C (On and On Records, FR) Jimmy Woo 23:00 - 05:00 € 15 + membership “Yours Truly” The Flexican & Sef ADE Special Melkweg - Rabohall 22:00 - 05:00 The Flexican & Sef (NL) Chew the fat! 15th birthday € 17,50 Bar9 VS Bare Noize (GB) Reso VS Starkey (GB / US) Korsakoff Amsterdam 22:00 - 04:00 Document One (GB) InDeep’n’Dance Records presents Millions Like Us (GB) What is on your mind?!

Gorgon City (GB) live October Rust (Nachtstrom Schallplatten, DE) Marco Del Horno (GB) Knobs (Nachtstrom Schallplatten, IT) TB6K (NL) Dexon (InDeep’n’Dance Records, NL) Powered by 50Hurtz DJ Slave (Adult Records, HU) € 15 + membership Elle (InDeep’n’Dance Records, NL) Szilvia Harsz (Budapest Delight, HU) Nicolas Martos (InDeep’n’Dance Records, GR) €5

Melkweg - The Max & Old Hall 22:00 – 05:00 Gravity 2ManyDjs (Soulwax, BE) Vitalic live (Citizen Records, FR) The Proxy (Turbo Records, RU) Annie Mac (Island Records, IRL) Jack Beats (Cheap Thrills Records, UK) Jaymo & Andy George (Moda Black, UK) Raving George (BE) Rogerseventytwo (NL) Lustige Lola & Weltschmerz (NL) € 23,- + membership

Muziekgebouw aan ‘t IJ 22:00 - 05:00 Nachtwerk presents: Hed Kandi ADE Special Phil Faversham (GB) Stonebridge (SE) Sam Cannon (GB) Carl Hanaghan (GB) Chris Kaeser (FR) MC Choral (NL) vocals The Drum Warrior (GB) percussion Ace on Sax (NL) Steven Quarre (NL) Denniz (NL) Full Hed Kandi Production, Effects, Entertainment & Out of this world LED walls Regular €25 early bird € 20

North Sea Jazz Club 23:00 - 05:00 Portico Quartet Portico Quartet (GB) live Support: North Sea Jazz Club Residents € 18

Odeon 22:00 - 05:00 Tour d’Amsterdam presents: Moon Harbour Theatre Matthias Tanzmann (Moon Harbour / Circo Loco, DE) Luna City Express (Moon Harbour / Watergate, DE) Italoboyz (Moon Harbour / Superfiction, GB) Sven Tasnadi (Moon Harbour / Cargo Edition, DE) Woodstock Dan Drastic (Moon Harbour, DE) Ferro (Woodstock 69 / PLAK, NL) Daan Donk (Woodstock 69, NL) PLAK Zohki & Roozlee (Moon Harbour, DE) KlapSandwich (PLAK, NL) Bobby Andrews (PLAK, NL) Regular € 17,50 door € 20

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OT301 22:00 - 05:00 Basserk label night Riot with Roska!

Roska (GB) NBTD (NL) dj set Distrakt (AU) Spag Heddy (NL) Blaxton and Vincent-Paolo (NL) € 10

Panama 23:00 - 05:00 Hope Recordings / Sudbeat presents: Hernan Cattaneo b2b Nick Warren Hernan Cattaneo (AR) Nick Warren (GB) Jerry van Schie (NL) Studio: Groovecollection Bookings Showcase Luke Chable (AU) Deepfunk (MT) Soulfinder (IE) Sezer Uysal (TR) DAVI (US) Sebastian Davidson (NL) Paul Hazendonk (NL) Embliss (NL) Flavourables (NL) Francesco Pico (NL) € 17,50

Pand 14 22:00 - 08:00 Subculture Bookings & Events (NL) and Upon.You Records (DE) Subculture invites: UPON.YOU REC Area 1: UPON.YOU REC Marco Resmann (DE) Gunnar Stiller (DE) ONNO (NL) Marcus Gehring (NL) Joost Ruyter (NL) Area 2: Subculture Abstract Division (NL) Neal Evans (NL) Pinxt b2b Lone Striker (NL) Sander Ellerman (NL) Van Anh (NL) Regular € 15 door € 18

Paradiso - Kleine zaal 20:00 - 22:30 I Heart Sharks I Heart Sharks (DE) € 9 + € 3,50 membership

Paradiso 22:00 - 05:00 VOLTT invites: Soweso, Klopfgeist & Moral Fiber Room 1: VOLTT invites Mathew Jonson (M-nus / Itiswhatitis, CA) live Mathias Kaden (Freude am Tanzen, DE) Minilogue (Wagon Repair, SE) live Anton Pieete (Rejected, NL) Bart Skils (VOLTT, NL) Room 2: hosted by Soweso Kabale und Liebe (Soweso / Rejected, NL) Lauhaus (Soweso / Intacto, NL) Mike Shannon (Soweso / Cynosure, CA) live Beesmunt Soundsystem (Soweso, NL) live Efdé (Soweso / Piekup, NL) Room 3: hosted by Klopfgeist & Moral Fiber Andreas Bergmann (Moral Fiber, NL) Neo Young (Moral Fiber, NL) Hesz (Klopfgeist, NL) Malbetrieb (Klopfgeist, NL) Not Him (Moral Fiber, NL) € 20,50

Passenger Terminal Amsterdam 22:00 - 05:00 ALDA Events presents Sunnery James & Ryan Marciano Sunnery James & Ryan Marciano (NL) Regular € 26,50 royal lounge € 47,50

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People’s Place Amsterdam 19:00 - 01:00 People’s Place Presents: Bing Ji Ling (Tummy Touch Recs , US) live Two Inch Punch (PMR Recs, GB) live Taylor Mcferrin (Brainfeeder Recs, US) live Bobby Beige (Fabric Recs, NL) Regular € 10 door € 12,50

Rain 22:00 - 05:00 Frisko Artists / Supperclub SF Trax Records, Calamity of Noise Recordings, Looking Glass Recordings and Smash Records present: Frisko Music Night DJ Stellar (US) Nick Hussey (GB) Sebastiaan van Beest (NL) Vitaly Katz (US) Chris Serious (SE) Jama (NL) Gary Tennant (CA) aka Johnny Omega Cory Michael Kelly (US) Jimmy Bell (GB) Viktor Karlsson and Bastiaan Vinkestijn (SE / NL) aka S69 € 7,50

Rhone Warehouse 22:00 - 06:00 THESE GUYS Objekt (Hessle Audio, GB) The Analogue Cops (Restoration Berlin, IT) Special Guest (R&S Records, GB) FunkinEven (Eglo / Apron, GB) Pilp Friction (These Guys, NL) Kowloon Odyssey (These Guys, NL) Maarten Mittendorff (Indigo Aera, NL) Jasper Wolff (Indigo Aera, NL) Mattikk (Nightwork, NL) DJ+ (Nightwork, NL) Regular € 15 early bird € 12

Soho 22:00 - 04:00 DJ-World and MLP present: Supertramp ‘The Muscles edition’ Rob Boskamp (NL) Mike Lachman (NL) Erlend Aav (EE) DJ Kolzar (EE) Hey Girl Hey (NL) Jerry Black (NL) DJ Absoluut (NL) Free entrance

Stanislavski + COX 22:00 - 05:00 Lazy Sundays presents: Harry Klein, Half Baked and Lazy Sundays ADE Special Harry Klein Booking Agency Avatism Live (Vakant / Dumb Unit, IT) Cesare vs Disorder (Vakant / Serialsm, IT) Dario Zenker (Ilian Tape / Vakant, DE) Julietta (Harry Klein / Sushitech, DE) Half baked Greg Brockmann (Half Baked, GB) Le Loup (Wolf+Lamb / Life and Death / Half Baked, FR) Mike Shannon (Cynosure / Half Baked / Wagon Repair, CA) Lazy Sundays Ici Sans Merci (Lazy Sundays, NL) Mispoes (Lazy Sundays, NL) Zwaan (Nine2NineMusic, NL) live Regular € 15 early bird € 12

Studio 80 23:00 - 12:00 Mixmag & Welcome To The Future present: 10 Years Watergate Room 1: 10 Years Watergate Ellen Allien (BPitch / Watergate, DE) Miss Kittin (Nobody’s Bizzness, FR) Heidi (Jackathon / Watergate, CA) Karotte (Break New Soil / Studio 80, DE) Luna City Express (Moon Harbour / Watergate, DE) Lee Jones (Watergate, DE) Room 2: Junk Department - 10 Years Superfreq Special Guest (IT) Russ Yallop (Crosstown Rebels, GB) Mr C. (Wagon Repair / Poker Flat, GB) Luke VB (Superfreq, GB) Luca Pilato (Junk, GB) Wouter de Moor (Welcome To The Future, NL) Bram Fidder (Welcome To The Future, NL) € 17,50

Studio K 22:00 - 06:00 Meanwhile & Lofarmedia present: VBX Go Berlin Underground Area 1 Vera (Hello? Repeat, DE) Bill Patrick (Visionquest, US) Dewalta (Vakant, DE) Reiss (Dialegestai, NL) Area 2 Margaret Dygas (Perlon, DE) Binh (CDV, DE) Sandrien (Imprint, NL) Carlos Valdes (Soulrock, NL) Frodo (Berlin Underground, NL) Pep (Berlin Underground, NL) Area 3 Zsah Zsa (Underpants, NL) Spotify dj-team feat Abou & Ant Area 4 Cinematics Visuals Wonderboys / Deframe Collective Regular € 17,99 early bird € 11,99

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Sugar Factory 19:00 - 23:00 FormaT Recordings presents: AKS and Friends Surfing Leons (FormaT Recordings, BE) AKS (FormaT Recordings, BE) live Bad Dancer (FormaT Recordings, BE) € 10

Sugar Factory 23:55 - 05:00 NGHTDVSN & Plantage13 present: Monaberry, Herzblut and Ideal Audio Labelnight Main Stephan Bodzin (DE) Oliver Huntemann (DE) Super Flu (DE) Skeet (DE) Lounge: hosted by Overdraven Julien Simmons (NL) Boj Tieman (NL) € 15

Suzy Wong 22:00 - 04:00 Lucash presents: Suzy Saturdays ADE Special Quinten909 (NL) Rob Black (NL) Hitmeister D (NL) Kuddedieren (NL) Le Moustache (NL) Donagrandi (NL) Isaac Blaze (NL) Lucash (BE) Weslo (NL) Hosted by FSUPER (NL) Free entrance

The O.C. 22:00 - 04:00 Wemusic Company presents: Obsessionz Smash Parker (NL) Waylon Pereira (NL) Diego Armando (NL) € 10

The Sand 22:00 - 05:00 Ace Agency present: Kings of Ace Afrojack (NL) Angger Dimas (ID) Apster (NL) Bassjackers (NL) Billy the Kit (NL) Bobby Burns (NL) Franky Rizardo (NL) Jaziah (NL)

Leroy Styles (NL) Mitch Crown (NL) NERVO (NL) Quintino (NL) R3hab (NL) Shermanology (NL) Sidney Samson (NL) the Shapeshifters (GB) Thomas Gold (DE) Hosted by: Ambush (US) MC Roga (NL) Zawdi MC (NL) € 22,50

TrouwAmsterdam 22:00 - 05:00 RA VS ADE Special Trouw: DJ Harvey (Locussolus, US) vs. Andrew Weatherall (Rotters Golf Club, GB) De Verdieping: DVS1 (Transmat, US) Xhin (Stroboscopic Artefacts, SG) Regular € 16 door € 18

Undercurrent 07:30 - 17:00 Breakfast Club - 2 Years Anniversary Celebration Cosmin TRG (50weapons / Rush Hour, RO) Tobias. (Ostgut Ton, DE) live Eduardo de la Calle (Analog Solutions, ES) Ivano Tetelepta (ESHU, NL) live Brent Roozendaal (Breakfast Club, NL) Tommy Kornuijt (Breakfast Club, NL) Jaime Frias (Breakfast Club, NL) Tom Liem (Breakfast Club, NL) Johan Brolound (Berns, SE) Noah Gibson (Berns, SE) Henrik Bergqvist (Berns, SE) Leo Netz (Berns, SE) € 16 (incl. fresh made breakfast)

Undercurrent 22:00 - 06:00 UDC / Mixmash Records presents: Mixmash Label Night ADE Special Laidback Luke (NL) Austin Leeds (GB) Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike (BE) Gregor Salto (NL) John Dahlback (SE) La Fuente (NL) Sandro Silva (NL) Swanky Tunes (NL) Oliver Twizt (NL) Wax Motif (NL) € 17,50

WesterUnie 22:00 - 07:00 Loveland ADE day 2 Fire! / Mistakes Music / Gem Records / 2020Vision Transformatorhuis: Music ON Marco Carola (Music ON, IT) Maetrik (Ellum, US) LEON (VIVa MUSiC, IT) Westerliefde: Mistakes Music Sébastien Léger (Mistakes Music, FR) Format:B (Formatik, DE) Popof (Form Music, FR) Heartik (Mistakes Music, IT) Westerunie: Gem Records Secret Cinema (Gem Records, NL) Kevin Saunderson (KMS Records, US) Remy (Gem Records, NL) Sian (Octopus Recordings, NL) Roger Martinez (Gem Records, NL) live Westergasterras: 2020Vision Ralph Lawson (2020Vision, GB) Huxley (2020Vision, GB) Julien Chaptal (2020Vision, FR) € 25

Winston Kingdom 23:00 - 05:00 Concept 385 presents: Tjoller Inc & Friends ADE Special Guerilla Speakerz (NL) Brutuzz (NL) Wurtz (NL) George Ho (NL) Guessbeats & Kidmalone (NL) Tjoller Inc DJ Crew (NL) MC Dan Stezo (NL) € 10

Ziggo Dome 21:00 - 07:00 Q-dance presents: Headhunterz “Hard With Style” Headhunterz (NL) € 52,50

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AIR 23:00 - 04:00 Dexter & E-A Events present: TIK TAK ADE Special Oliver Twizt (NL) Sem Vox (NL) Abstract (NL) Aaron Gill (NL) Delivio Reavon (NL) Kuddedieren (NL) MC MR VI (NL) € 15

Canvas op de 7e 17:00 - 01:00 New Dutch School Jeremy P. Caulfield (Dumb Unit, DE) Cesare vs. Disorder (Vakant / Dumb Unit / Serialism / Stock 5 / Clink, DE) Dario Zenker (Ilian Tape / Harry Klein / Vakant, DE) Frank Haag (Serialism / Get The Curse / New Dutch School, NL) William Köster (New Dutch School, NL) € 10

Café ‘t Schuim 16:00 - 01:00 Jazzamusica Maestro (Blue Note / Arrow Jazz, NL) Mulat (Club Bongo / LFTFLD, NL) Mono Archief (NL) Cowpunk (NL) Skanga (NL) Free entrance

Club HOME 22:00 - 04:00 Blue Frog & NXT Management: India Meets West ADE Special Oliver Giacomotto (NXT Management, IT) John Acquaviva (NXT Management, GB) Ankytrixx (Ozoloco,Audiophile Blue Frog, IN) Janux (Blue Frog, CZ) Christian Cambiasso (Gate Null Recordings, IT) Andrea Frisina (Gate Null Recordings, IT) € 10

Canvas op de 7e 07:00 - 14:00 The Full Glass & Aspirations presents Smallville Records Moomin (Smallville Records, DE) Smallpeople (Smallville Records, DE) aka Julius Steinhoff & Dionne Regular € 13 door € 15

ClubNL 05:00 - 12:00 Natives & Slapfunk Records ADE Special Samuel Deep (NL) Mike Melchiot (NL) Martin Bell (US) Randy Delmore (NL) Stooge Wilson (NL) Eerstelingen (NL) Regular € 10 door € 13

ClubNL 22:00 - 05:00 Two Point Zero Agency & The Sessions Showcase - part 2 Dave Seaman (GB) Jody Wisternoff (GB) C-Jay (NL) Pete Gooding (GB) Guy Mantzur (IL) Murray Mckee (GB) € 10

Escape Club 22:00 - 04:00 Powered by Ministry of Sound Roger Sanchez presents Stealth Roger Sanchez (US) € 17,50

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Jimmy Woo 23:00 - 04:00 Fantastic ADE Closing Party FS Green (NL) € 15.-

Korsakoff Amsterdam 15:00 - 23:00 Origenes Showcase Der Process (Origenes, NL) Determinators (Jet Set Trash Records / Thrash Base / Origenes, NL) Mentis Abutor (Trick Track Records RO / Sonocracy / Origenes, NL) Alex Preda (Trick Track Records / Sonocracy /Origenes, NL) Lucrecio & his RoomBeat (Origenes, NL) Visuals Party Eye Amsterdam / URBANIZR (Origenes, NL) Free entrance

Melkweg - Old Hall 22:00 - 05:00 Soul Clap rec vs. Wolf + Lamb rec present: Crew Love Soul Clap (Soul Clap Records, US) Wolf + Lamb (Wolf + Lamb Records, US) PillowTalk (Wolf + Lamb Records, US) live Night Plane (Wolf + Lamb Records, US) live Nick Monaco (Wolf + Lamb Records, US) € 15 + membership

Melkweg - The Max 06:00 - 14:00 Electric Deluxe : ADE After Hour Speedy J (Electric Deluxe, NL) Sandwell District (Sandwell District, GB) ROD (Klockworks / CLR, NL) Special Guests € 12 + membership

North Sea Jazz Club 22:00 - 03:00 Celebrating the rise of an award winning music discovery service 22tracks: 3 Year Anniversary!

Three years after launching at ADE, the DJ curated startup 22tracks.com also runs in Brussels, London and Paris. This night will focus on the backbone: top-shelf DJs from Amsterdam. € 5 free entrance before 00:00

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Odeon - Basement 12:00 - 20:00 Sticky Green invites: Rhythm Convert(ed) Label Showcase Calmez-Vous b2b Tim Gruppe (Sticky Green, NL) Me.n.u b2b La Vondél (Sticky Green, NL) live WPD (Sticky Green, NL) Roel Salemink b2b Drumcomplex (Global Underground, NL) Tom Hades (Rhythm convert(ed) BE) b2b Soren Aalberg (MB Elektronics, DK) Redhead (MB Elektronics, BE) Wotax b2b FredEx (Sticky Green / Resorted Recordings, NL) Marco Bailey (BE) Regular € 7 door € 10

OT301 18:00 - 00:00 Dekmantel ADE A Night With Jeff Mills Jeff Mills (Axis, US) 6 hrs set € 20

Panama 19:00 - 02:00 Sundaypeople presents: ADE Closing Party Panama David Penn (ES) The Cube Guys (IT) Roul and Doors (NL) Jasper Clash (NL) b2b Rene Amesz (NL) Brothers in the Booth (NL) b2b Georgio Star (NL) € 15

Pand 14 14:00 - 23:59 Motto’s Daytime Label Showcase Creme Organization , Bunker Records and Moustache Records Showcase Creme / Bunker: Unit Moebius (NL) live Trackman Lafonte & Bon Qui Qui (Legowelt / Xosar, US) DJ TLR (NL) Orgue Electronique (NL) live Cosmic Force (US) live Turbo Polyp (NL) Special O (NL) 751 (NL) Moustache Records Still serious Nic (NL) Alden Tyrell (NL) live David Vunk (NL) Seutek (NL) Mark du Mosch (NL) Intergalactic Gary (NL) € 10

Paradiso - All areas 22:30 - 05:00 The O.C. - Main Area 19:00 - 04:00 Gunslingaz and De Afdeling present Fuze: Wemusic Company & DCE present Cyberpunkers, The Oddword++ Wethouse ADE Closing Party Cyberpunkers (IT) Wolffman (NL) The Oddword (BE) Silvio Ecomo (NL) The S (IT) Asino di Medico (NL) Rusty Warriors (ES) live Miss Irma Derby (NL) Nation (FR) Pascal Roth (FR) Azzeration (NL) Mike Lachman (NL) Basement Misja Helsloot (NL) Pitch Play talents showcase Melanie Eden (NL) € 15 Salvodor Deep (ES) VJ Yzco (NL) MC Libidosa (NL) Paradiso - Kleine zaal 22:00 - 05:00 Free entrance Phat Elephant & Club Pera present: Istanbul Hi-Fi Connection The Sand 19:00 - 01:00 Alican (TR) The biggest Ibiza event is coming to ADE UHR (TR) Supermartxe World Tour Murat Uncuoglu (TR) Ab Garcia (ES) Flohil & Smit (NL) Nalaya (ES) vocals Ahmet Sendil (TR) Regular € 30 early bird € 19,50 door € 40 Edwin Oosterwal (NL) € 12,50

Studio 80 22:00 - 05:00 Studio 80 presents: secretsundaze & The Secret Agency Motor City Drum Ensemble (Raw Cuts, DE) Delano Smith (Mixmode / Sushitech, US) live Patrice Scott (Sistrum, US) Giles Smith (Two Armadillos / secretsundaze, GB) James Priestley (Simple / secretsundaze, GB) Brawther (Balance, FR) Tom Ruijg (BangBang!, NL) € 15

Sugar Factory 23:00 - 05:00 Wicked Jazz Sounds ADE Special Leroy Rey (NL) Phil Horneman (NL) Regular € 9,50 danspas € 7,50

The O.C. - Dupstep Area 22:00 - 03:00 Wemusic Company & DCE present: Wethouse ADE Dubstep Closing Party La TAsh (NL) Dub Doctors (NL) DJ Karma (NL) Vici (NL) Looped Exodus (NL) VJ Skinfiltr8r (NL) Free entrance

TrouwAmsterdam 09:00 - 03:00 Trouw op Zondag ADE Residents Special Trouw: Life and Death presents Tale of Us (Life and Death, DE) DJ Tennis (Life and Death, DE) Mano Le Tough (Permanent Vacation, DE) Job Jobse (Trouw, NL) De Verdieping Prins Thomas (Full Pupp, NO) Cassy (Cocoon, AT) Melon (Ratio?, NL) Olaf Boswijk (Trouw, NL) Regular € 18 door € 20

Undercurrent 15:00 - 01:00 Herr Zimmerman ADE Closing Party AudioWitch (NL) SHAMBOK (NL) live TanzMan (Herr Zimmerman, NL) D-R-U-N-K (Motor / Police Records, FR) Franz & Shape Live (Relish Recordings, Bang Gang 12s, IT) Fraulein Z (Herr Zimmerman, NL) Regular € 10 door € 13

Winston Kingdom 22:00 - 04:00 The Cheeky Crew presents: MC Navigator’s ‘On Dis Ting Musik’ Launch Party MC Navigator (On Dis Ting Musik, GB) €8

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essential album TEXT JOB DE WIT TEXT interview SANDER KERKHOF image ALEXANDRA WAESPI

THE XX COEXIST YOUNG TURKS When The xx’ debutalbum came out three years ago, it was released to a largely unsuspecting public. There had been a few gigs, a couple of singles, to not much hype. Unusual for what is essentially a pop band, it takes a while for the group’s songs to sink in, preferably while listening to them alone, at night. xx went on to sell over a million copies worldwide, making Coexist a highly anticipated record, quite unlike its predecessor. Too much eagerness, however, doesn’t help when trying to appreciate such quiet, understated, emotionally charged music.

Their surprise mega succes have not turned The xx into an attention grabbing, big festival crowd-pleasing band chasing mainstream radio acceptance. If anything, Coexist sounds even more intimate and insulated from the outside world, while retaining, and strengthening the band’s emotional delivery. Even at (around) twenty years old, singers Romy Madley Croft (guitar), Oliver Sim (bass) and producer/programmer/percussionist Jamie Smith had crafted a stand-out sound. (Fourth member Baria Qureshi was forced out of the band a few months after their debut album’s release.) A few years on, and they’ve refined it even further.

Coexist – clever wording – is an album about relations and loneliness, distance and desire, some of it probably inspired by young people spending a lot of time far away

from their loved ones. Its sweetest moment is its opening song and first single, ‘Angels’, with Madley Croft sounding like she’s singing right in your ear, ‘being as in love with you as I am’.

The sparse sound of The xx leaves room for musical surprises, in almost every song. The alarm-like synth motif at the start of ‘Try’, ‘Chained’’s nocturnal synth moods, the introduction of a stiff techno beat in ‘Swept Away’, the sudden rumble of beats in ‘Angels’, like a distant thunderstorm.

When Sims has finished singing the unusually emotive ‘Missing’, Madley Croft’s clear guitar dissolves in the sound of a flat line at a heart monitor.

No other band sound like The xx, they are at once radically modern and seperate from the hectic culture surrounding them, and us. Coexist has less hooks than xx did, in that respect it is a second album that will likely appeal primarily to the band’s existing, substantive fanbase, who have learned, and appreciated, to take their time with these songs. Producer Jamie ‘xx’ Smith, in the last couple of years, has enjoyed succes as a remixer, solo artist and DJ, and some of that has found its way into the sound of his band, but not so much for The xx to enter a radical new phase here. Their stunning new live show (I was lucky to catch The xx at Lowlands in Holland) is more experimental, going full-on house for a moment during ‘Sunset’, and even better than the studio version.

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The worldwide succes of their debut album xx (2009) and two years of live experience have of course influenced the London trio’s work on Coexist. ‘We were very aware that we would be playing live a lot again,’ says singer/guitarist Romy Madley Croft. ‘For instance a song like ‘Swept Away’ works great at a festival.’

The penultimate song on the Coexist is indeed the most house-oriented song on the album, and has already proved its worth at festivals like Primavera and Lowlands. This development to slightly more uptempo material did not happen overnight. During the last tour the band layered the songs of the first album more and more with Jamie Smith’s beats.

Singer/bassist Oliver Sim: ‘You play the same song everyday. To keep it fresh the songs did start to morph. But mostly it was a reflection of what we were listening to.’

The influence of third member Jamie Smith’s producing and DJ’ing has not gone unnoticed. ‘Jamie is impressively upto-date’, says Sim. ‘In London, the dance music scene is just for ever evolving. I find it really hard to keep up. Dubstep came from 2-step and garage and then it became really housey and now it’s edging towards really dark techno.

Jamie is our window into what is going on.’ Madley Croft: ‘We definitely share a taste in this kind of music. A good example is our blog where we post stuff we like. I love house music and disco as well.’

Madley Croft has also started DJ’ing. ‘More as a kind of fun thing,’ she says. ‘Not the superstar DJ that Jamie is. I love making mix CDs and the idea of playing songs for people in a certain order. I definitely started listening to music in a different way. Thinking about the way songs mix into each other and the progression of the set. We think about that more and more. And we were still working out the running order of Coexist until the last moment.’

Sim: ‘The mood of the first album was a bit more consistent. On this one there are more ups and downs. It has the darkest and lightest songs we have ever written.’

Where xx had a strong sense of positive longing, yearning for love, Coexist has more doubt. The darkest case in point being ‘Missing’. ‘My heart is beating in a different way’, sings Oliver, his voice nearly breaking. ‘It was the first song we wrote for this album,’ he says. ‘It was a bit of a breakthrough for me.

I wrote it on tour. I was feeling a bit dark and desperate.’

Sim describes the recording of the song as quite a traumatic experience. Madley Croft: ‘The recording was really interesting and emotional. You can hear Oliver is really pushing himself. I think we have both grown as singers.’

A lot has changed since they started work on the first album at the tender age of fifteen. Oliver: ‘What did I know, really?

It was definitely writing a lot from expectations and observations. I’m 23 now, a grownup.’

And while writing the first album took several years, both singers sending each others little bits of text by chat. Sim: ‘About halfway through the new album we started writing together in a room and it went really well. We wrote ‘Chained’, ‘Unfold’, ‘Our Song’ and ‘Tides’ in half an hour each. It was really cool. It definitely changed the way that we will write in the future.’

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No, it’s not a soundtrack. Yet Noir, the fifth album from the Hamburg-based techno producer Steve Bug, has everything to do with cinema. And especially with the aesthetics of the old black-and-white films, the big contrasts and the sinister atmosphere of 20th century film noir.

STEVE BUG NOIR POKERFLAT

Titles like the ‘The Spiral Staircase’, ‘The Seventh Victim’ and ‘Somewhere in the Night’ directly refer to the films bearing the same names. It almost makes for a concept album, but thankfully, no. Nevertheless, Noir isn’t going to set dancefloors on fire, even though pulsating, Detroitinfused opening track ‘Tell Me Why’ shows every intention.

Most of Noir is music for the mind, preferably listened to on a decent set of headphones. Only then will you hear the subtle ways in which Stefan Brügesch weaves his warm basslines, melodies and percussion. Noir’s retro feel mainly comes from the fact that it was pretty much totally made with machines. It brings the old sounds of Chicago and Detroit to mind, which is fair enough for someone who has been making dance music for over twenty years. Noir’s soul may be black, but there’s enough light shining through its grooves.

RENÉ PASSET

***** Once Anstam was plural, but these days Lars Stöwe is on his own. After a couple of fine breakbeat and dubstep influenced EPs, the Berliner has released two albums within a year’s time. Either there was a plug in the pipeline or Anstam has been on a ridiculously creative streak since signing with Modeselektor’s 50 Weapons label.

ANSTAM STONES & WOODS 50 WEAPONS

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Probably the latter, because after the rather underrated Dispel Dances (2011), Stones & Woods is another dark, bold adventure. More so than in the past, Anstam combines analogue tones with synthesized sounds as he jumps across dubstep, avantgarde and electronica with a sardonic grin. Every track is its own microcosmos. ‘Morning Shiver’ combines the repetitive, hypnotic patterns of Steve Reich with the sinister futurism of Shackleton. Next up, Anstam ties PiL’s ‘Flowers of Romance’ beat to some trance chords in an turbulent nightmare called ‘Hopes Soliloguy’ like there’s nothing to it. Stones & Woods’ beats rarely follows a straight path. There is always an oblique angle or a sloping roof where everything threatens to fall off. Polishing up and ironing out is not Anstam’s style. The hectic is allowed space, and the album never feels crammed.

RENÉ PASSET

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‘I feel like there’s more stuff for the club in this one than the last one,’ Flying Lotus recently told Complex magazine. You’ve got to wonder what clubs he frequents.

Even the most uptempo and danceable songs here have a dreamy off-kilter vibe that would throw off most DJs. There’s a few minutes of rhythmic handclaps and high-pitched voices that resemble, say, Hudson Mohawke, and around halfway through there’s a bit of deranged funk that sounds like Parliament jamming in the studio, drunk.

FLYING LOTUS UNTIL THE QUIET COMES WARP

*****

Most of FlyLo’s new album continues where Cosmogramma (2010) left off, however. Save for some grimey synthesizers, the LA native still seems much more interested in the organic and sultry atmosphere of his previous record, than the instrumental hip-hop he started out with. Using mainly bells, piano, guitar and soulful electric piano, he creates a kind of jazz-fusion that sounds like Weather Report updated for the 2010s. Vocals, instruments and percussion blend in and out of the mix, and where one tracks ends and the next begins seems irrelevant. It’s all part of a dreamy, psychedelic mess. What it lacks is the ‘holy shit!’ surprise element that made Cosmogramma so special. But with 45 minutes of beautiful new music, who can complain?

JACCO HUPKENS

These last few years, The Gaslamp Killer has been a welcome sight at many festivals and clubs. The LA DJ has one of the most exciting stage performances around. But can you name one Gaslamp Killer hit? A song that everybody knows?

THE GASLAMP KILLER BREAKTHROUGH BRAINFEEDER

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No, The Gaslamp Killer is not a production wizard. So it appears on his debut album as well, where he gets help on 12 out of 17 tracks. Big names in the scene like Daedelus, Dimlite and of course Gonjasufi, whose debut album was co-produced by Gaslamp, all contribute. Some collaborations turn out well, like ‘Dead Vets’, where Adrian Younge’s warm, soulful organ matches GLK’s beats. ‘Peasants, Cripples & Retards’, with Samiyam, is a highlight. It’s a real instrumental hip-hop earwig with lovely space bleeps, a song you immediately return to. Most of the time, however, Breakthrough doesn’t get this memorable. ‘Keep it Simple Stupid’, with Shigeto, may be simple, but it’s hardly a track, more a sketch, and ‘Critic’ just keeps on fizzling. GLK’s five solo tracks are all interludes and hardly add anything. This album isn’t much of a breakthrough. You put it on once, maybe twice. The Gaslamp Killer had better just play clubs instead of producing. He is way better at it.

MARCO MUHRING

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When Hercules & Love Affair sang how ‘my house is in order’, they were evoking a nostalgic, early ’90s proper house feel. On his third album, German producer Alexander Rhida AKA Boys Noize has Snoop Dogg re-do that classic ‘Girl, I’ll house you’ line, and it sounds like a cheap attempt to break into that lucrative American EDM market. You only have to imagine the drunk frat boys high-fiving Big Snoop on a dance record, faintly echoing Todd Terry’s inspired 1988 Jungle Brothers hook-up. It’s truly terrible.

BOYS NOIZE OUT OF THE BLACK BOYSNOIZE

Thankfully, the eleven preceding tracks are a lot better. Rhida’s still a great producer who knows his way with cut-up organ samples (‘Missile’), funky synth-pop basslines (‘Ich R U’) and grimey, dubby hip-hop (‘Circus Full of Clowns’). His music breaks down and soars when it needs to, and thanks to his attention to detail there’s hardly a single boring moment. If you find yourself yearning for 2007, when Digitalism and Justice were king, pick up this record. Out of the Black doesn’t sound that derivative, except really for Daft Punk soundalike ‘Touch it’.

JACCO HUPKENS

***** Hold on, didn’t Erol Alkan just release a mix album?

Yes, he did, only a few weeks ago. But who’s complaining when another arrives – even if it’s just a month later – when he piles on the of-the-moment techno like he does on I Techno 2012? The official compilation to november’s mega rave in Ghent also serves as a future reminder of where high-octane dance music was at this year.

EROL ALKAN I LOVE TECHNO 2012 LEKTROLUV

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Erol Alkan’s other recent mix album, A “Bugged Out” Mix & “Bugged in” Selection, was a two-disc affair spanning both decades and genres and is frankly incomparable to I Techno 2012, which reflects its title pretty well. Over three quarters of Alkan’s selection is made up of records that were released this year, jumping in with Alkan’s and Boys Noise’ excitable ‘Brain Storm’ to get the party going right from the start. The pace doesn’t let up. An early highlight is Alkan’s own crazy acid disco edit of Para One featuring Surkin’s ‘Compute’. Onwards it goes, twenty tracks of dirty, hypnotic, machine music long. From Blawan’s crucial ‘6 to 6 Lick’ to Gesaffelstein’s shrieking ‘Control Movement’, if this doesn’t get you in the raving spirit it’s hard to know what will.

JOB DE WIT

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Testlab TEXT Hans Verhaag

BKE Beat Thang The Beat Thang – ‘by Dallas Austin’ – was one of the more eye-catching products I saw at Frankfurt’s Musikmesse earlier this year. Since I only got to play with it for a short while at the time, I was happy to test it more throughly.

First of all: the Beat Thang is a heavily armoured piece of sampler/sequencer, built out of sturdy metal and rubber that reminds you of a particularly fine piece of Deutsche Gründlichkeit. Which it isn’t, it rolls straight off America’s conveyor-belt AKA China. It’s a physically impressive machine nonetheless, a machine apparently built to outlast its only true competitor, Akai’s MPC500.

Central to the Beat Thang are the cool blue backlit LCD screen, next to a chromatic octave and sixteen layered, touch-sensitive rubber triggerpads. You’ll find nine track selectors, effect switches for reverb, phaser, delay et cetera, two nicely sized selector pots and the inevitable transport section. All of these controls, with additional buttons primarily for editing and sampling, are also fashionably blue lit (this is adjustable, thankfully), the ‘BLANG’ knob ranging from completely dark to the kind of eye-piercing blue that’s always handy in a dark club.

The back of the Beat Thang has a wide variety of connectors: a double USB connector for data communication to and from your computer, as well as an additional USB storage unit. There’s a MIDI in and out, two headphone outputs, one stereo (double mono) master out and a mic/line dual connector input enabling you to sample from virtually any sound source.

The Beat Thang can be used in four different, somewhat obvious modes: song, pattern, kit and instrument. All of these have been pre-stuffed with a wide range of presets and patches, to complete patterns and songs, which come in handy when you want to see quickly what the Beat Thang is capable of but any self-respecting producer

would otherwise steer clear.

The kit and instrument modes offer what you expect them to: instruments and drum, percussion and SFX kits that you can play on the octave of trigger pads, and combine and mix to form complete compositions in pattern or song mode.

The different modes have different possibilities for editing either your individual sounds or for instance the swing and feel on your entire project. Beat Thang’s default sounds have undoubtedly been designed to serve this kind of workflow.

The instruments in particular sound kind of oddly overproduced taken on their own (especially when pitched outside the original range), but all the more effective when used in a (preset) pattern. This way you can easily build somewhat professionally sounding tracks that have that peculiar poppy hip-hop sound that this sequencer comes with.

The more experienced (or bored) producer will probably be more interested in another complete sampler function, and importing (USB, two SD) their own existing sample-library.

Samples can all be edited on-board with functions like auto-chop, effects and ADSR filters. You may be investing a lot of time in something a professional has already done for you, however. BKE has expansion packs that add up to ten of gigs of sounds and patterns, including samples, patterns and kits by Beat Thang’s creator Dallas Austin (producer for Madonna, TLC, Gwen Stefani), amongst others. It’s almost impossible not to find something to your liking. You might want to keep an eye out for the tons of new sounds that are still in the making.

If that’s not enough to make the Beat Thang worth your 1000 euros, BKE provides its Beat Thang with a full software version that ensures easy integration in your DAW. We should have known this thang was a bit too complete to review on a single page. beatthang.com

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Akai SynthStation 49 Anyone who’s ever worked a proper synth app or recording-app, like Nanostudio, will have to admit the iPad’s prowess when it comes to making music. Its main shortcoming, they will also find out, is that the iPad’s screen is a little small for the more complex, expressive or subtle controls for playing music. But now the same people that have brought us the indispensable MPC, Akai Professional, have made the SynthStation 49 controller, overcoming the iPad’s limited dimensions.

The SynthStation 49 – if you are familiar with Akai’s products you might call it an MPK – is a four-octave (+1) USB/ MIDI controller with an added docking bay for your iPad. The keys, naturally, are touch sensitive, with nine MPC-like trigger pads next to keyboard wheels for both pitch-bend and modulation. Even though you may have some difficulties making music with Skype or some other program, Akai has chosen not to include the SynthStation software with the controller. You have to buy that through the proper, ever powerful iTunes channels. That sounds a lot worse than it is, as it’s about as expensive as half a pack of cigarettes.

It gets you no less than three parallel synths, fifty (!) drum kits, effects, a sequencer and a mixer to top it off. All of these function pleasantly obvious and comfortable manners, while switching between the various interfaces. And even when you’re looking to do some in-depth tweaking of your sound, you won’t be dissatisfied as you can use an arpeggiator, LFO and a handy X/Y editing tool that brings the Kaoss Pad (or similar) to mind.

Both controller and hardware derive a lot of their genetics

from Akai’s earlier Miniak, something that’s definitely added to the practical advantages that the SynthStation’s workflow offers. To smoothen the process even more, the controller has some extra controls for navigating through the various synths, presets and octaves. Furthermore, a set of transport controls helps you through the app’s sequencer function, a nice way to easily come up with nice sketches and beats.

Your iPad meanwhile has conveniently been stored in a cool pivoting docking bay, conjuring up your sound even while getting charged. Once installed, the SynthStation controller adds a stereo output to your tablet, giving it somewhat of a placebo effect: when used with the hardware, the SynthStation seems to sound better right away.

The SynthStation controller, while very limited in size, show the same structural integrity and sturdiness that we’ve come know first the MPC by, and Akai’s MPD/MPK-controllers later on. This means the SynthStation is up for the job, especially with the added expression of the pitch and mod-wheel. This same physical comfort cannot immediately be applied to the software however. You want to keep your fingers lean and aiming confidently when interacting with the iPad’s screen.

The SynthStation controller plus software nevertheless make up a complete, affordable, compact and mobile synthesizer. It doesn’t just control many different apps on the iPad, being fully CoreMIDI-supporting. With a USB connector it also functions as a fully-flexed MIDI controller to virtually any instrument of your choice, like your DAW. Cool! akaipro.com/synthstation49

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Festival Locations 3 Sisters The Pub Rembrandtplein 17 1017 CT Amsterdam A’dam-Rijnkanaal Kanaalweg Utrecht AIR Amstelstraat 16 1017 DA Amsterdam www.air.nl Amsterdam Convention Factory Czaar Peterstraat 213 1018 PL Amsterdam Amsterdam Roest Czaar Peterstraat 213 1018 PL Amsterdam www.amsterdamroest.nl Amsterdam Studio’s Duivendrechtsekade 85 1096 AJ Amsterdam www.amsterdamstudios.nl Bar Struik Rozengracht 160 1016 NJ Amsterdam Bimhuis Piet Heinkade 3 1019 BR Amsterdam ww.bimhuis.nl Bitterzoet Spuistraat 2 1012 TS Amsterdam www.bitterzoet.com Bump Kerkstraat 23 1017 GA Amsterdam www.barbump.nl Bungalow 8 Korte Leidsedwarsstraat 14 1017 RC Amsterdam www.bungalow8amsterdam.com Café ‘t Schuim Spuistraat 189 1012 VN Amsterdam

Canvas op de 7e Wibautstraat 150 1091 GR Amsterdam www.canvasopde7e.com

Dansen bij Jansen Handboogstraat 11 1012 XM Amsterdam www.dansenbijjansen.nl

Chicago Social Club Leidseplein 12 1017 PT Amsterdam www.chicagosocialclub.nl

De Balie Kleine Gartmanplantsoen 10 1017 RR Amsterdam www.debalie.nl

Club 8 Admiraal de Ruijterweg 56 B 1056 GL Amsterdam www.club-8.nl

De Bierfabriek Rokin 75 1012 KL Amsterdam www.bierfabriek.com

Club BlinQ Kleine Gartmanplantsoen 5 1017 RP Amsterdam www.blinq-amsterdam.nl

De Lax Weesperzijde 190 1097 DZ Amsterdam

Little Buddha Amsterdam Kleine Gartmanplantsoen 17 1017 RP Amsterdam www.littlebuddhaamsterdam.com

Desmet Studio’s Plantage Middenlaan 4 A 1018 DD Amsterdam www.desmet.tv

Little Buddha Amsterdam Kleine Gartmanplantsoen 17 1017 RP Amsterdam www.littlebuddhaamsterdam.com

Escape Club Rembrandtplein 11 1017 CT Amsterdam www.escape.nl

Ludwig Reguliersdwarsstraat 37 1017 BK Amsterdam www.facebook.com/barludwig

Club NYX Reguliersdwarsstraat 42 1017 BM Amsterdam

Escape Studio Rembrandtplein 11 1017 CT Amsterdam www.escape.nl

MC Theater Polonceaukade 5 1014 DA Amsterdam www.mconline.nl

Club Stereo Jonge Roelensteeg 4 1012 PL Amsterdam www.clubstereo.nl

EYE IJpromenade 1 1031 KT Amsterdam www.eyefilm.nl

Melkweg Lijnbaansgracht 234 A 1017 PH Amsterdam www.melkweg.nl

Club Up Kleine Gartmanplantsoen 7-9 1017 RP Amsterdam www.clubup.nl

Gashouder Westergasfabriek Klönneplein 1 1014 DD Amsterdam www.westergasfabriek.nl

Muziekgebouw aan ‘t IJ Piet Heinkade 1 1019 BR Amsterdam www.muziekgebouw.nl

Club HOME Wagenstraat 3 1017 CZ Amsterdam www.clubhome.nl Club Lite Jan van Galenstraat 24 1051 KM Amsterdam www.clublite.nl

ClubNL Nieuwezijds Voorburgwal 169 1012 RK Amsterdam www.clubnl.nl COX Marnixstraat 429 1017 PK Amsterdam www.facebook.com/cafecox CUE Bar Utrechtsestraat 16 1017 VN Amsterdam www.cuebar.nl

Heineken Music Hall ArenA Boulevard 590 1101 DS Amsterdam www.heineken-music-hall.nl Het Concertgebouw Concertgebouwplein 10 1071 LN Amsterdam www.concertgebouw.nl Het Sieraad Postjesweg 1 1057 DT Amsterdam www.het-sieraad.nl

Hotel Arena ‘s-Gravesandestraat 51 1092 AA Amsterdam www.hotelarena.nl Jimmy Woo Korte Leidsedwarsstraat 18 1017 RC Amsterdam www.Jimmywoo.com Korsakoff Amsterdam Lijnbaansgracht 161 1016 VX Amsterdam www.korsakoffamsterdam.nl

North Sea Jazz Club Pazzanistraat 1 1014 DB Amsterdam www.northseajazzclub.nl Odeon Singel 460 1017 AW Amsterdam www.odeonamsterdam.nl OT301 Overtoom 301 1054 HW Amsterdam www.ot301.nl

Panama Oostelijke handelskade 4 1019 BM Amsterdam www.panama.nl

Supperclub Jonge Roelensteeg 21 1012 PL Amsterdam www.supperclub.nl

Pand 14 Muntbergweg 14 1101 ED Amsterdam Zuidoost www.p14.nl

Suzy Wong Korte Leidsedwarsstraat 45 1017 PW Amsterdam

Paradiso Weteringschans 6-8 1017 SG Amsterdam www.paradiso.nl Passenger Terminal Amsterdam Piet Heinkade 27 1019 BR Amsterdam www.ptamsterdam.nl People’s Place Amsterdam Stadhouderskade 5-6 1054 ES Amsterdam www.peoplesplaceamsterdam.nl Rain Rembrandtplein 44 1017 CV Amsterdam www.rain-amsterdam.com Rhone Warehouse Humberweg 7 1043 AH Amsterdam

The House of Rising Reguliersdwarsstraat 41 1017 BK Amsterdam www.thehouseofrising.com The O.C. Reguliersdwarsstraat 17-19 1017 BJ Amsterdam The Sand Mekongweg 5 1043 AE Amsterdam www.thesand.nl The View Rokin 75 VI 1012 KL Amsterdam www.the-view.nl Transformatorhuis Klönneplein 2 1014 DD Amsterdam www.westerunie.nl

Schram Studio’s Grasweg 50 1031 HX Amsterdam

TrouwAmsterdam Wibautstraat 127 1091 GL Amsterdam www.TrouwAmsterdam.nl

Soho Reguliersdwarsstraat 36 1017 BM Amsterdam www.cafe-soho.nl

Undercurrent TT Vasumweg 93 1033 SG Amsterdam www.undercurrent.nl

Stanislavski Leidseplein 26 1017 PT Amsterdam www.stanislavski.nl

WesterUnie Klönneplein 4-6 1014 DD Amsterdam www.westerunie.nl

Studio 80 Rembrandtplein 17 1017 CT Amsterdam www.studio-80.nl

Winston Kingdom Warmoesstraat 131 1012 JA Amsterdam www.winston.nl

Studio K Timorplein 62 1094 CC Amsterdam www.studio-k.nu

Ziggo Dome Arena Boulevard 61-75 1101 DL Amsterdam www.ziggodome.nl

Sugar Factory Lijnbaansgracht 238 1017 PH Amsterdam www.sugarfactory.nl

Playground Locations &Foam Vijzelstraat 78 1017 HL Amsterdam www.foam.org Amsterdam Roest Czaar Peterstraat 213 1018 PL Amsterdam www.amsterdamroest.nl Café Speijk Nieuwesijdsvoorburgwal 260 1012 RS Amsterdam Club-Up Kleine Gartmanplantsoen 7-9 1017 RP Amsterdam www.clubup.nl COX Marnixstraat 429 1017 PK Amsterdam FOUR P.C. Hooftstraat 127 1071 BS Amsterdam www.azzurrofashiongroup.nl InDeep’n’Dance Rozengracht 60 1016 ND Amsterdam www.indeepndance.com J.C. Rags Flagship Store Heilige weg 49 1012 XP Amsterdam www.jcrags.com Melkweg Cinema Lijnbaansgracht 234a 1017 PH Amsterdam www.melkweg.nl Mini Brand Store Leidseplein 31 1017 PS Amsterdam www.mini.nl/brandstore Oz. Oudezijds Achterburgwal 66 1012 DP Amsterdam www.oz-amsterdam.nl Pathé City Kleine Gartmanplantsoen 15-19 1017 RP Amsterdam www.pathe.nl

Red Bull Studio Amsterdam Atlantisplein 1 1093NE Amsterdam www.redbullstudio.nl SAE Institute Amsterdam Johan van Hasseltweg 31 1021 KN Amsterdam www.amsterdam.sae.edu Ten Haaf Projects Laurierstraat 248 1016 PT Amsterdam www.tenhaafprojects.com The View Rokin 75 VI 1012 KL Amsterdam www.the-view.nl

Conference Locations Felix Meritis Keizersgracht 324 1016 EZ Amsterdam The Dylan Hotel Keizersgracht 384 1016 GB Amsterdam www.dylanamsterdam.com De Balie Kleine Gartmanplantsoen 10 1017 RR Amsterdam www.debalie.nl Melkweg Lijnbaansgracht 234a 1017 PH Amsterdam www.melkweg.nl Pakhuis de Zwijger Piet Heinkade 179 1019 HC Amsterdam www.dezwijger.nl Smirnoff Cube Leidseplein ADE Festival Lounge This brand new location is the beating heart of ADE where you can get the latest info, buy festival tickets, find merchandise and most of all experience cool events from lectures to official ADE warm-up sessions.

Leidseplein 26 1017 PT Amsterdam www.stanislavski.nl

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