Talks by topic · 12 picks · Wed to Sat · Pro pass
Long conversations with artists and legends.
The sessions where artists talk about their own records and careers. For fans who want the stories behind the music, and for anyone who writes, films or programmes and needs leads.
By Songpot desk · from the ADE programme, our venue guide and artist notes
Industry pass needed for most sessions.
Jean-Michel Jarre, Armin van Buuren, JakoJako and Lady Starlight on machines.
Jean-Michel Jarre made Oxygène in 1976 and has been staging electronic music as spectacle ever since. He sits with Armin van Buuren, JakoJako's Berghain-tested modular techno and Lady Starlight's hardware sets: four generations who made their names on machines. The best line-up of any panel this week.
With Armin van Buuren, JakoJako, Jean-Michel Jarre, Lady Starlight, Meike Jentjens
From a Sega game to improvised electronics.
Takuya Nakamura worked on the Sega Genesis version of Michael Jackson's Moonwalker in 1989, then moved into jazz-rooted live electronics between Tokyo and New York. A rare long-form talk.
With Takuya Nakamura
How to start a publishing company, from people who did.
Publishing lawyer Stefan Blonk, DGTL Publishing's Quinten Moeshart and others, led by MSA Music Services' Mandy Salem-Aubry. A how-to for producers who write a lot and labels who keep giving their publishing away.
With Mandy Salem-Aubry, Stefan Blonk
Two careers, from teenage records to the world's booths.
Luciano, central to the Cadenza sound and Berlin's Panorama Bar years, and Marcel Dettmann, from Hard Wax's counter to Berghain's booth, on how their formative years shaped how they play. UK techno veteran Dave Clarke asks the questions.
With Dave Clarke, Luciano, Marcel Dettmann
Techno DJs who secretly love drum & bass.
Ukrainian techno DJ Nastia and Thijs de Vlieger of Noisia, the Groningen trio whose sound design drum & bass producers studied for two decades, on the crossover between the two scenes, with Dave Clarke. Expect record talk.
With Dave Clarke, Nastia, Thijs de Vlieger
From 300 delegates to 10,000, told by the people who started it.
ADE co-founders and early team members Anna Knaup, Maria Jiménez, Richard Zijlma and Jan-Willem van de Ven with programmer Gary Smith, Dave Clarke moderating. Thirty years from three night venues to three hundred.
With Anna Knaup, Dave Clarke, Gary Smith, Maria Jiménez, Richard Zijlma
Suno's music chief and a house pioneer, on the same stage.
Paul Sinclair, Chief Music Officer at Suno, faces Brooklyn house pioneer Todd Terry, whose records were built from samples long before models were. MIDiA's Laura Fisher moderates. The most direct AI conversation of the week.
With Laura Fisher, Paul Sinclair, Todd Terry
How Mau P built an independent career at full size.
Mau P, the house DJ behind 'Drugs From Amsterdam', with Pacha Group CEO Aloki Batra and his label and management team. For artists weighing a deal against doing it themselves.
With Aloki Batra, Jelle Keizer, Julius Leuftink, Mau P, Talina
Dancehall history from one of its voices.
Jamaican dancehall artist Busy Signal in an informal campfire Q&A with Pay Williams. Come with questions about the genre's last two decades.
With Busy Signal, Pay Williams
Johannesburg style, music and who owns it.
South African artist 2Shoes, from the Johannesburg creative scene, talks fashion, music and art and the question of ownership with journalist Carmen Hogg.
With Carmen Hogg, Mateki2shoes
A late bloomer in modular techno, telling it straight.
The Tunegirl, who improvises live on modular hardware, on how her path started, asked by fellow modular performer Estroe.
With Estroe, Rob Strobe, The Tunegirl
A film about Dek Bass, with its director.
Curator and filmmaker Rana Ghose screens 'Bass Boss' and takes questions with tour manager Dennis de Groot.
With Dennis de Groot, Rana Ghose
Times, lineups and tickets are on each event's ADE programme page. Songpot is independent of the festival.