Amsterdam Dance Event announces final names

With just three weeks to go, the preparations are in full swing for the nineteenth edition of the Amsterdam Dance Event (ADE), the world’s biggest club festival and leading conference for electronic music. Today the organization has finalized the already impressive festival line-up with the addition of new names. The five-day ADE Festival, which takes place from 15 to 19 October, will showcase a record number of 2,224 national and international artists from 57 countries.

More than 400 journalists, 5,000 conference delegates and an expected 350,000 festival visitors are set to travel from all over the world to the city of Amsterdam, as the ADE, an initiative of Buma, puts the international spotlight on Amsterdam for five full days. Taking place across 85 of the city’s most diverse locations the ADE Festival offers a hugely varied program.

Just some of the new acts to be added include Armin van Buuren, Carl Craig, DJ Harvey, Floating Points, Four Tet, Jackmaster, Jon Hopkins, Joy Orbison, Paul Oakenfold, Pete Tong, Seth Troxler, Skream and many more.

The full list of confirmed acts and more information can be found online here.

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Grahame Farmer

Grahame Farmer’s love affair with electronic music goes back to the mid-90s when he first began to venture into the UK’s beloved rave culture, finding himself interlaced with some of the country’s most seminal club spaces. A trip to dance music’s anointed holy ground of Ibiza in 1997 then cemented his sense of purpose and laid the foundations for what was to come over the next few decades of his marriage to the music industry.