surprise me + only idm & experimental + at night + art & exhibitions + only house
ADE picks
Listening Session & Bites with Disco Arabesquo
Disco Arabesquo digs through vinyl and cassettes from Egyptian cinema of the 70s to the 90s: warm, sample-heavy grooves with more melody than kick drum. A listening session with Egyptian snacks from Qibli Bahri.
Rethinking Dance in Nightlife
NickV, Polli Panda and Sophie Koffeman discuss why fewer people dance all night, what happened to club participation, and whether nightlife lost its social movement. It’s framed through The Better Move, with house, breaks, electro and swing on the floor.
The Art of Noise – Part One
At SPRMRKT’s 400 m² concept store turned talk space, Dave Clarke, An Vandevorst and Isaac Sellam dig into fashion, photography and music with Jonas Zitter moderating. Expect club history, design process and crossovers, with Clarke’s stripped techno and electro lineage in the mix.
Foam x Echobox present: The Sounds of In Here Own Way
Foam and Echobox frame Yomna El Beyaly’s In Her Own Way / شوية وراجعة through music and storytelling, with Karmel, Noise Diva and ZINEB in the room. Expect ambient stretches, sharp edits, vocal refs, North African rhythms and amapiano swing around the exhibition’s themes.
Motie - Thursday (Opening Night)
Motie turns the Stopera, city hall and opera house on the Amstel, into a home for the city's night culture for three days. The opening has Young Marco's psychedelic, left-turn sets, Jonny Nash's slow-blooming guitar ambient and Oceanic's live minimal techno.
ANOTHER - EROTICA
Erotica in all its forms: female, male, queer, sexuality through every medium that will hold it. Music, fashion, Illustration, photography, moving image and reading
DISCO I’m coming out - Wereldmuseum Amsterdam
Disco’s first arrivals in Amsterdam get the gallery treatment: a hosted arts-and-culture session on how the first records came in from New York, the dawn of the DJ era, and the route from disco to house, with Amber Vineyard/House of Vineyard, Eddy de Clercq, JeanPaul Paula, and more.
Motie - Friday
Jonny Nash's soft guitar phrases and slow harmonies, Young Marco's elastic, trancey house and Oceanic's mechanical, restrained live techno, inside the Stopera. Calm, local and a bit unusual.