With friends · 10 picks · Wed to Sun
One daytime thing and one concert a day, for friends who don't club.
Travelling with someone who doesn't do 4am? Each day pairs a daytime show or exhibition with a concert, so you can share the week without dragging anyone to a warehouse.
By Songpot desk · from the ADE programme, our venue guide and artist notes
Japanese ambient records, played on fine speakers, in a chapel.
Selector Nina Yamada plays kankyō ongaku and Japanese deep-listening records on Audio-Technica's Hotaru system, in a historic chapel surrounded by water. Lie back and listen.
For fans of Hiroshi Yoshimura
A live radio show in a Leidseplein café, with French house.
The Selection Live Show broadcasts from Café Lux with The Supermen Lovers' bright, filtered French house, JP Lantieri's melodic progressive and Music P's funky house. Relaxed, early, good for a mixed group.
For fans of Daft Punk, Cassius
Radio Slave in a former Shell laboratory, in the morning.
A two-day house gathering where the room is the line-up: Radio Slave's jacking house and stripped techno, Hilit Kolet's percussive swing and Paul Nolan's polished club music, at A Lab in Noord.
For fans of Sven Väth, Laurent Garnier
Barbara Tucker sings house the old way.
The New York vocalist's big, gospel-lifted house songs, with The Cube Guys' tribal grooves and DJ Q's older vocal records, in a late bar beneath the Beurs van Berlage.
For fans of Kerri Chandler
Rødhåd's ambient side, at zero BPM, in a church.
Out Of Place Artefacts is Rødhåd and Vril's ambient project, a rare chance to hear two Berlin techno heavyweights with the kick drum gone. Nastia, Fadi Mohem and ALTINBAS, all known for hard, controlled techno, trade it for drones and space too. Lie down, go deep, come back.
For fans of Dasha Rush, Luke Slater
Live techno in a spatial-sound room.
Wata Igarashi's patient, psychedelic techno, Nadia Struiwigh's live hardware set from ambient to techno, and OK EG's tightly sequenced psychedelic club music, in Loods6's monumental harbour warehouse. A concert, not a club.
For fans of Rrose, Donato Dozzy
Dasha Rush and Steve Rachmad, at zero BPM, in a church.
Day two of the ambient ritual at de Thomaskerk: Dasha Rush's fogged-out atmospheres and long reverbs, and Amsterdam's own Steve Rachmad, a Dutch techno name since the early 90s as Sterac, playing it slow. Early morning, lying down.
For fans of Andy Stott, Rrose
Amsterdam's own spatial-sound makers.
NTHNG's ambient-leaning techno, Loek Frey's stripped, linear live set and composer Casimir Geelhoed's detailed software-built textures, in Loods6's spatial room.
For fans of Ryoji Ikeda, Donato Dozzy
The last morning of the ritual.
Nadia Struiwigh's deep ambient hardware set, Sunju Hargun's psychedelic atmospheres and Human Space Machine's heady sequences, at de Thomaskerk on Sunday morning.
For fans of Rrose, JakoJako
Giorgia Angiuli plays toys, theremin and techno, live.
Angiuli's live set mixes voice, keyboards, drum pads and toy instruments into pop-tinged techno; Marie Vaunt brings hard, 303-driven acid; Lino Fuso plays live techno with melodic lift. ADE's last dance, at Club John Doe.
For fans of Miss Kittin, Peaches
Times, lineups and tickets are on each event's ADE programme page. Songpot is independent of the festival.