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Dockyard Festival Announces ADE 2017 Lineup with Sven VĂ€th, Âme, Oscar Mulero, Ben Sims

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The well-established and influential Dockyard Festival returns to Amsterdam during Amsterdam Dance Event 2017 on Saturday October 21st 2017. Promising to be the most spectacular edition to date, it all goes down in the new location of N1-Park in Westpoort with Sven VĂ€th, Âme, Eats Everything, Ben Sims, Oscar Mulero, Octave One and many more all scheduled to play.

Dockyard is the only techno festival that takes place during ADE and is a great way to round out the week. As well as the usual great production, light, sound and stage design, you can expect four different areas over the course of the 12 hour party.  Dockyard Presents Cocoon with Sven VĂ€th, Âme playing live, Ilario Alicante, Mano Le Tough, Markus Fix, Nakadia and Tim Green, as well as Mystic Garden Presents Mindshake featuring Paco Osuna, Cuartero, Eats Everything, Egbert live, Jairo, Luca Agnelli and Technasia.

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Reaktor Delivers Powerful Lineups for Thursday and Sunday ADE 2017 Showcases

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Reaktor Events, the Amsterdam techno promoters known for their powerful lineups and well-curated techno events such as Unpolished, Era, Katharsis, and Nassau Festival, have just announced their ADE lineup and it’s heavy.

This year the brand will see itself present not one but two nights of raw, heavy techno at two of the city’s most notorious warehouse venues. Reaktor will feature DVS1’s Wall of Sound on Thursday October 19th at Warehouse Elemenstraat and a second event at NDSM Warehouse on Sunday, October 22nd.

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Amsterdam Dance Event Announces First Wave of Artists for 2017

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Amsterdam Dance Event takes place from the 18th to 22nd of October, 2017. Since its inception in 1996, ADE has grown into a globally renowned platform for the international dance and electronic music scene. The festival is the perfect place to spot the latest musical trends and emerging talents, as well as hearing the most recent work of both electronic music pioneers and current superstar acts. In addition to the extensive line-up of the ADE Festival, the ADE Playground offers music enthusiasts a large and varied daytime program including exhibitions, in-store promotions, pop-up stores and film screenings all over the city center. The business aspect of the event (ADE Conference) is recognized as the most important of its kind, presenting a broad range of conferences and networking opportunities that focus on music and technology, VJs & visuals, sustainability, dance & brands, harder dance styles, new talent and the education of students.

2017 is set to feature around 2500 performers, an all-time record number, playing in over 140 locations around Amsterdam. ADE, the world’s largest club festival and the most important business conference for electronic music, today announced the first selection of artists for 2017.

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Awakenings Release ADE 2017 Lineups: Two Day and Five Night Specials

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2017 is the year that techno monolith brand Awakenings is celebrating its 20th Anniversary.

Continuing the party, which already started with official celebrations in April and is about to be revisited during Awakenings Festival this month, the Dutch event series will expand further during Amsterdam Dance Event (ADE) 2017, 18 thru 22 October 2017. Just like last year, five nights of Awakenings can be expected at the Gashouder on the Westergasfabriek terrain in Amsterdam. What is new, however, are the two day events scheduled for Friday October 20 and Saturday October 21. Awakenings is a fixed value of ADE, with invariably sold-out events and some of the best lineups in the area of techno and all its diversity.
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Amsterdam Dance Event Announces 2017 Dates and International Expansion

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Between the 18th and 22nd of October 2017, Amsterdam will once again be invaded by hundreds of thousands of electronic music fans and industry experts for the latest edition of Amsterdam Dance Event. Following our presence at ADE 2016, and the many lessons we learned while there, we cannot but recommend the trip for anyone involved with or passionate about dance music.

ADE has now become the world’s largest club-based festival and conference for electronic music, featuring all facets of the world’s scene from EDM to Techno and from Trance to Trap. Featuring over 2,200 artists and 550 speakers in a record-breaking 140 venues, the 2016 edition was ADE’s largest yet, with around 375,000 expected national and international visitors for the 22nd edition later this year.

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