Niches · 10 picks · Wed to Sun
Record shops, in-stores and live radio.
For people who'd rather be at the racks than the main room. In-store sets, radio broadcasts and livestreams you can drop into, most of them free and daytime.
By Songpot desk · from the ADE programme, our venue guide and artist notes
In-stores are small: arrive early.
Dexon at the record shop.
Amsterdam techno DJ and label owner Dexon, a regular at InDeep'n'Dance, digs through the shop's techno, minimal and rave crates with whoever turns up. Raw, looping warehouse techno is his thing; here it's conversation and records.
A radio station takes over Supperclub.
Power Hit Radio broadcasts from Supperclub with Beard2Beard's oriental motifs over club beats and Kole Audro's percussive house-techno. Afro and tech house, live on air.
For fans of Cinthie, Acid Arab
Broken beat and Chicago house over coffee.
Kid Sublime's MPC-driven house with jazz and soul and Ruggero's crate-digger Chicago grooves, in Black Gold's coffee-and-vinyl shop for an afternoon. The kind of in-store where you leave with three records.
For fans of Ron Trent, 4hero
Rinse FM broadcasts from a heritage building by the Oosterpark.
Bellaire's disco-funk house with garage swing, Midas Field's pianos and acid, and Alec Dienaar's groove-forward hardgroove, live on Rinse from the Royal Tropical Institute's grand halls.
For fans of Purple Disco Machine, Folamour
Three days of radio from a natural wine shop.
Radio Chenin sets up in Chenin Chenin's shop 'for those who still trust the crackle': records, wine and an open door, three afternoons in a row.
A radio takeover of a hostel's old lecture hall.
VM Radio and SYNESTHESIA, sold out last year, take over Generator: Nandu's polished melodic house, Jonathan Kaspar's rounded Cologne techno and Argia's emotional melodic techno.
For fans of Kölsch, Sasha
Rinse FM, round two, at the KIT.
Voigtmann's patient, swinging house and techno, Julian Anthony's drummer's sense of groove and Ive Lovers' 90s house and garage with singalong hooks. A minimal-house crowd's night.
For fans of Ricardo Villalobos, Chris Stussy
Kiosk Radio meets The Lot Radio, in a basement.
livwutang's dub-heavy club sets, Red Light Radio co-founder Orpheu The Wizard's fast switches from disco to oddball edits, and babyschön's new beat and synth pop. Two cult stations, one small room in Volkshotel's basement.
For fans of Young Marco, Mala
A hundred hours of radio from a window on the Zeedijk.
Studio Zeedijk, an independent non-profit station, broadcasts non-stop for five days from its studio window. Drop by, wave, or listen from anywhere.
The week's last marathon, on vinyl.
Freddy K's long-form, all-vinyl techno with rigid low end and pressure that keeps building, Alarico's churning hardgroove and Vilchezz's raw loops. Vault Sessions close at RADION, the raw concrete club in the old ACTA building.
For fans of Ricardo Villalobos, I Hate Models
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