Niches · 12 picks · Wed to Sun
Women-led nights, collectives and the sessions on women in music.
All-women lineups, collectives and the conversations about who gets booked. For artists, organisers and anyone building a more balanced lineup. Picked from what each listing and the acts' published bios say.
By Songpot desk · from the ADE programme, our venue guide and artist notes
Picked from what each listing and the acts' published bios say.
A mixer about safer nights.
UPTAK and shesaid.so bring people together around the future of safer nightlife. The friendliest networking room of the opening day.
With Eva Santos
A network drink in a grocery shop.
Beskar Bookings, Decks & Stories and Loud Ladies host drinks and a showcase in a neighbourhood shop: Ghent DJ Doreen Van Steen of Loud Ladies, Major K's melodic tech house and VILBØ's genre-hopping house.
For fans of Yotto
Oud, electronics and identity, in sound and image.
Podium Mozaïek, Echobox Radio and Foam present EIN L AQL's oud-and-electronics improvisations from Alexandria, Kamilya Jubran's voice and oud and Noise Diva's work between sound and image.
For fans of Moor Mother
Safety on the dancefloor isn't the same for everyone.
A free shesaid.so session with UPTAK's Eva Santos, Club RAUM's Youssef Ahmed Mahmoud and Rita Community's Aynouk Tan, moderated by Vibe Lab's Victória Mazzone de Castro. For promoters and door teams who want practice, not posters.
With Aynouk Tan, Eva Santos, Victória Mazzone de Castro, Youssef Ahmed Mahmoud
Hip-hop as culture and archive, in the Bijlmer.
OSCAM's BOUT IT programme treats hip-hop as more than music, and has made room for voices on its margins since 2018. Amsterdam rapper Noell3 performs as artist in residence: direct, catchy rap with club drums, in an intimate museum setting.
An afternoon on women's place in electronic music, with a plan.
BumaStemra Rise Up and DGTL Academy host DJ and Future Female Sounds founder Tia Korpe, Amsterdam DJ and organiser Isis van der Wel and Taskforce GO!'s Elske van der Linden. Workshop energy more than panel talk.
With Elske van der Linden, Isis van der Wel, Thomas van Well Groeneveld, Tia Korpe
Three days, 35 DJs, one grocery shop.
The Beskar, Decks & Stories and Loud Ladies hub keeps going: Brussels DJ AMARE's emotional techno with dirty rolling bass, Nick Mason's organic grooves and SurfingDJs' new-wave-tinged progressive house.
For fans of Adriatique, Joris Voorn
Three DJs, 160 BPM and up.
SHERELLE's jungle, footwork and juke at full speed, Anz's swinging breaks and bass and Mallaury's fast, techno-weighted drum & bass. The listing calls them three women shaking up the scene; the music makes the case on its own.
For fans of Nia Archives, Special Request
Brazil's funk scene, and who still gets left out.
Baile funk DJ and curator Galecta, LUA and DJ Ray, moderated by Monique Dardenne, on the machismo that still sidelines women and queer artists in a scene the world is dancing to.
With DJ Ray, Galecta, LUA, Monique Dardenne
A daytime party made for and by women.
Untold Society is a women-run daytime party pulled straight from the Dutch hard-house and trance revival, with DJs from Utrecht, Haarlem and the Verknipt circuit who play it fast and euphoric: Cleo Grooves' disco-shimmer house, ANOUQUE's hard, groovy house with trance flashes and CHAR's hard house cut with UKG. Afternoon hours, peak-time tempo.
For fans of Kettama, Peggy Gou
Chicago house history, in a small pink bar.
Women of House returns to PRIK for ADE's 30th with First Lady, a Chicago radio and house veteran, Mia Banks' disco-edit house and Seoul's Better with rolling basslines. Vocal, hands-up and old-school in the best way.
For fans of Honey Dijon, The Blessed Madonna
An all-day vinyl takeover of a second-hand record shop.
RIOT's second year at KillaCutz: an all-female line-up digging, drinking and dancing, with Laura Meester's disco and African deep house and Laia's acid-touched techno. Bring cash for records.
For fans of I Hate Models, Marcel Dettmann
Times, lineups and tickets are on each event's ADE programme page. Songpot is independent of the festival.