By sound · 6 picks · Wed to Sun
Hard techno, schranz and the fastest rooms of the week.
By Songpot · from the ADE programme, our venue guide and artist notes
Awakenings opens hard.
Awakenings opens its ADE in the Sugarfactory with the fast end of techno: 999999999's hardware acid, Adrián Mills's 240 sets and Novah's hard dance. It's a statement opening night.
For fans of Charlotte de Witte, Paula Temple
A trance and hard-dance rave in a former prison.
A rave in the former Bijlmerbajes prison: D'Angello & Francis's trance and hard dance with Hannah Laing's hard house. It's the hard-house revival at full volume, on the opening night.
For fans of Charlotte de Witte
I Hate Models and Nico Moreno, together for the first time.
I Hate Models and Nico Moreno share a floor for the first time, in Gashouder's round former gasworks. Expect industrial techno with rave and EBM in it, with Maudux's hard trance as support.
For fans of Kobosil, Charlotte de Witte
A hard techno rave for ADE's 30th.
A hard techno showcase in a central club on Rembrandtplein: Billy Currie, KR:KD K and TEKON's trance-lifted industrial. Easy to reach, and easy to get home from.
For fans of Alignment, Rebekah
Hardgroove all night in the old prison.
Yanamaste's hardgroove takes over the old Bajes prison complex with Freddy K's vinyl techno, Alarico and BLANKA. It sits closer to groove than to gabber: fast, rolling and hypnotic.
For fans of I Hate Models, Oscar Mulero
240 KM/H: the title is the tempo guide.
The 240 KM/H crew closes the week in a warehouse on Elementenstraat: Adrián Mills, APHØTIC b2b Johannes Schuster and Félicie. It's a Sunday for people who still have legs.
For fans of Paula Temple, I Hate Models
Times, lineups and tickets are on each event's ADE programme page. Songpot is independent of the festival.