Routes by job · 8 picks · Wed to Sun
Where the people who book and sign hang out, for free.
No Pro pass? These are the open mixers, maker sessions and expos where label and agency people actually are. Bring a short link to your music and a reason to talk to them.
By Songpot desk · from the ADE programme, our venue guide and artist notes
Free sessions need registration on the official page; bring a short link to your music, not a USB stick.
Tomorrowland's world, free, in a historic debate hall.
A free exhibition about the Belgian festival in De Rode Hoed's monumental canal-house complex, open all week. More fan pilgrimage than networking, but the industry passes through too.
An 'ideas machine' for people stuck on a loop.
Telepathic Instruments' Charl Laubscher shows the Orchid Orc-1 and its Pistil synth plug-in, built to help you find chords and sounds faster.
Hear the monitors before you buy them.
Berlin's HEDD Audio at MIDI Amsterdam's showroom: the people who design the studio monitors, and a room to hear them in. Free.
Drinks with label people, in a 17th-century house.
HMWL and Indie Music Rights invite their label artists and partners to the cocktail bar of the Kimpton De Witt: HAUMS' melodic, organic house and Alex Twin's Afro-leaning grooves in the background, conversations in the foreground.
For fans of Hernan Cattaneo, Nora En Pure
An immersive audio day with EVE Audio.
Bert Smorenburg and EVE Audio at MIDI Amsterdam on monitoring for immersive mixes. Free, practical and good for anyone setting up a studio.
Instruments you play with your whole hand.
French company Expressive E shows its expressive controllers at MIDI Amsterdam. Free, hands-on.
Four melodic house labels, a round teahouse in Vondelpark.
Actuation, blooom, Sekora and Soave meet artists and teams in a monumental round teahouse: UOAK's polished deep house, Slow Ted's warm organic house and Amber Revival's vocal trance anthems.
For fans of Ben Böhmer, Lane 8, Nora En Pure
Dig with the DJs at a techno record shop.
InDeep'n'Dance has sold techno, minimal, hardcore and rave records since 1999. Angie Lonarc and the shop's DJs dig through the crates with you: recommendations, conversation, a few records on the decks.
Times, lineups and tickets are on each event's ADE programme page. Songpot is independent of the festival.