For DJs and live acts who want more gigs. The agent and promoter meet-ups, the booking sessions, and smaller label nights where bookers actually go. Talk to people after their sessions, not during their sets.
By Songpot desk · from the ADE programme, our venue guide and artist notes
Talk to bookers after their sessions, not during their nights.
Wednesday21 Oct
Rosewood Amsterdam · Canal District · Pro passRosewood Amsterdam3 sessions · 11:00 to 15:30
11:00Meet The Event Organisers & PromotersMEET-UP
13:15Meet The AgentsMEET-UP
15:30Meet The Labels & A&RsMEET-UP
11:00
Meet The Event Organisers & Promoters
A room full of people who book festivals.
World Club Dome's David Wyrich, Audio Obscura's Jeroen Fontein, festival producer Jo Vidler and about a dozen more promoters, in a structured meet-up. Bring a one-line pitch and a link.
With David Wyrich, Emanuel Iliev, Jeroen Fontein, Jo Vidler, Kieran Ratcliffe, Matt Brockman
A structured meet-up with label and A&R people including Universal Music Switzerland's Burak Yeniyol and InFiné's Enora Pellerin. Bring two tracks, not ten.
With Bastian Meyer, Burak Yeniyol, David Rishty, Enora Pellerin, Hiroki Beck, Joel de Vriend
Belgian DJ Dennis Cartier's What Da House label takes over a private karaoke venue for a free early-evening session: Eran Hersh's tribal, Middle Eastern-inflected house, Tim Hox's rolling grooves and Neon's tight, crowd-reading club mixing.
Rosewood Amsterdam · Canal District · Pro passRosewood Amsterdam1 session · 12:15
12:15Meet The ManagersMEET-UP
12:15
Meet The Managers
Twenty artist managers, open for questions.
Including Black Coffee's manager Cristiana Votta, Mathame's Guillaume Thollet and Kwame Kwaten. For artists looking for management and managers looking for peers.
With Bas Kaspers, Cristiana Votta, Grace Russo, Guillaume Thollet, Hayley Lennox, Isabelle Fallmann
Felix Meritis · Grachtengordel-West · Pro passFelix Meritis1 session · 16:00
16:00DJ Mag | The Art of the After-HoursPANEL
16:00
DJ Mag | The Art of the After-Hours
The art of the after-hours, from the people who run them.
Breakfast Club's Brent Roozendaal, Club RAUM's Sven Bijma and DJ Doudou MD, with DJ Mag's Rob McCallum, on parties that run into the next week. ADE's after-hours culture, explained by its keepers.
With Brent Roozendaal, Doudou MD, Rob McCallum, Sven Bijma
ARCA Bar @ art'otel Amsterdam · Opposite Amsterdam Centraal Station
London's disco label, in a hotel bar.
The Disco Express returns to art'otel for its yearly get-together: Tatiana's italo and soulful house, Bustin' Loose's disco and funk records over a house floor, and Oslo's Third Attempt with disco basslines and a soft soul sheen.
Giegling's foggy, tactile house and techno, in a brand-new club.
The Weimar collective's world is house and techno with the edges smudged: Edward's kosmische club records sit next to Zenker Brothers' taut, punchy techno and Eduardo de la Calle's dry, looping pressure. It starts at midnight and goes long.
Felix Meritis · Grachtengordel-West · Pro passFelix Meritis2 sessions · 12:45 to 16:15
12:45Q&A and Cypher: House of Knowledge presents ‘The Unsigned Hype’Q&A
16:15Demolition XXIXDEMO
12:45
Q&A and Cypher: House of Knowledge presents ‘The Unsigned Hype’
Old MCs, new MCs, one cypher.
House of Knowledge brings generations together: Rotjoch, Latifah, Nosa, Alee Rock and 4SHOBANGERS talk, then rhyme. Generational exchange is how MC culture works; this is it in practice.
With 4SHOBANGERS, Alee Rock, Latifah, Nosa, Randall Spann, Rotjoch
Bring your track. Joseph Capriati and BT will listen.
Demolition is the long-running session where producers' demos get played and critiqued in public: this year by Joseph Capriati, BT, Pooja B and Louisahhh, with Dave Clarke. Brave, useful and often funny.
With BT, Dave Clarke, Ivan Markovic, Joseph Capriati, Louisahhh, Pooja B