As Amsterdam celebrates its 750th anniversary alongside the 30th edition of ADE, Amsterdam Dance Event 2025 is set to be more than a festival—it’s a citywide convergence of music, culture, and innovation. With over 3,000 artists across 200+ venues, it’s the largest edition yet, proving why ADE remains the world’s most important meeting point for electronic music.
First Wave of Artists: Innovators And Icons
The first wave already unveils over 350 artists, spanning from household names to the underground’s most daring gems. You’ll find icons like DJ Tennis, Amelie Lens and Adam Beyer sharing space with artists such as Fumi, Ogazón, Nene H, Job Jobse or Anetha, whose techno vision keeps the genre’s future sharp, or Eris Drew, a cultural force blending acid, house, and queer club identity.
Collectives like ISAbella’s MARICAS carry the flag for community-based artistry, while festivals like Into the Woods and Awakenings continue to blur boundaries with dynamic lineups and unique B2Bs. Meanwhile, underground spaces such as Tillatec, alongside curators like Vault Sessions and Laster, remain a vital part of the program’s DNA.
ADE Lab Expands Into a Village
This year also sees ADE Lab break new ground with the creation of the ADE Lab Village at Westerpark. It’s an ambitious evolution into a full creative campus, with listening bars at Radio Radio, breakout sessions at WestWeelde, gear-testing workshops at Pacific Amsterdam, and spaces for mentorship, networking, and experimentation; designed to spark collaboration and help the next wave of artists find their voice.
ADE Lab has always been about nurturing talent, but 2025 will cement its role as the event’’s creative heartbeat.
Not to miss during ADE Pro
Running alongside the Lab and party events, ADE Pro reaffirms its status as the most influential conference in the electronic music world. This year, it will bring together trailblazers like Eris Drew and Modeselektor, who will celebrate three decades of the iconic DJ-Kicks series with a special session that looks at the deeper relationship between dance floor culture and creativity. Industry heavyweight Scott Cohen, co-founder of The Orchard and Jukebox, will also take the stage to explore how innovation is rewriting music distribution and finance.
Expect other interesting insights from Jess Nash, Head of Sync at Defected Records, on how timeless house culture connects to today’s global markets and British pioneer Sasha, continuing his legacy of pushing progressive house forward.
The program stretches beyond culture into technology, with Google DeepMind, SoundCloud, and COLORSxSTUDIOS joining forces with leading start-ups and platforms to discuss how AI, rights, and artist independence are shaping the next decade.
Why 2025 Feels Extra Special
With ADE Lab evolving into a full village, ADE Pro driving the conversations that matter, and a first-phase lineup that weaves together global names and underground selectors, Amsterdam Dance Event 2025 is set to be both a celebration of heritage and a blueprint for the future of electronic culture.
Electronic music has never been more exciting, yet it’s also never been more competitive. This is what makes ADE vital: it doesn’t just celebrate the culture, it provides the stage, the dialogue, and the visibility we need to navigate its future.
