In 2012 the 17th Amsterdam Dance Event was the biggest yet, featuring over 200,000 festival visitors, 3,800 conference delegates and over 1,700 international artists performing across 5 full days of electronic music.
The festival included an extra day, 23 new venues, and a line-up featuring virtually all of the world’s top DJs and performers such as Ferry Corsten, Afrojack, Armin van Buuren, Carl Cox, and Richie Hawtin, attracted the largest number of clubbers in the history of the event. The ADE conference program was also extended with a new event focusing on visuals and stage design: ADE Beamlab.
The most notable growth was the ADE Playground. In 2012 the Playground featured twenty locations spread throughout the city offering studio sessions, equipment demonstrations, film screenings, exhibitions and in-store performances by well-known DJs and artists. Most of these events were ADE exclusives and all were free to holders of the newly introduced ADE Card.
This year the festival will be held on October 16-20, 2013, and the plan is only to get bigger and better, ADE will be promising 350 events utilizing 75 of the best clubs and venues in Amsterdam. ADE Director Richard Zijlma claims:
We intend to further expand ADE Playground this year in order to build a truly great creative platform that reflects the richness and diversity of both electronic music and global dance music culture.”
It’s safe to say this is something you’re not going to want to miss.
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