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Get Afrojack to be your personal chauffeur!
Luxury car service app, Uber which is available in over forty-five cities around the world, has teamed up with Afrojack to give you the opportunity of a lifetime to order the Dutch DJ/producer as your private driver. As part of the deal, you could be picked up in a brand new Bentley Flying Spur 2013 during the Amsterdam Dance Event and attend Afrojack’s Homecoming Show at ADE.
India’s sLick! set to hold their very own showcase at ADE 2013!
The Amsterdam Dance Event (ADE) began in 1996, and is a five-day electronic music conference and festival held annually in mid-October. The event is organized by The Amsterdam Dance Event Foundation, and tries to mix business with pleasure by offering a full program of daytime conferences along with a nighttime music festival featuring more than 300 events spread across 50 clubs in Amsterdam.
The event starts off with ADE Pro and ADE University, the Music & Bits conference program, and the DJ Cook-Off. Alongside that, ADE also now includes the awards ceremony of the DJ Mag Top 100 DJs Poll.
The event’s latest rabbit out of the hat is ADE Playground, which started in 2011 as a “new technology” showcase, but since 2012 features pop-up events, surprise daytime appearances by top DJs, special product lines, film screenings, and special discounts in shops and bars for all the attending ravers.
The nighttime line-up has over 800 DJs and artists as well as a selection of the upcoming local and international talent, playing to more than 200,000 clubbers.
This year is very unique, as India gets a special representation. The sLick! showcase, will present some of India’s leading dance music talents at the reputed Club NL in Amsterdam. sLick! is India’s number 1 portal for underground House/Techno. This is iconic in India’s dance music history and we’re sure Europe will be wow-ed by our domestic rock stars.
The Bangin Beats’ ADE 2013 party guide!
The Amsterdam Dance Event (ADE) is possibly the world’s biggest club festival with tons & tons of DJ’s and acts performing in Amsterdam’s finest venues, cafés, record stores, lounges and art galleries. From its humble beginnings as a small-scale industry event, the ADE now hosts thousands of key professionals and a festival audience eager to hear the best that dance music has to offer. It is the world’s leading electronic music conference and the biggest club festival for the many electronic sub-genres on the planet.
The event offers a full program of daytime conferences, including interactive workshops, mentoring sessions, technical demonstrations and in-depth round-table discussions, alongside a nighttime music festival featuring more than 220 events over five days in 52 venues around the city. Each year, the ADE attracts over 3,000 business professionals and 140,000 festival visitors – including 30,000 tourists – from 62 countries.
This year’s Amsterdam Dance Event shall be even more special, as it celebrates 25 years of dance music in The Netherlands. With house music exploding in Holland at the end of 1988, it went on to become one of the world’s leading countries regarding dance music, producers and events such as ADE. As part of the 25-year milestone celebrations, the Dutch language book ‘Mary Go Wild’ which has been compiled by over 80 writers, explores the history of parties in the country as well as interviewing key industry figures of the likes of Chuckie, Fedde Le Grand, Martyn and Nicky Romero.
The event remains extremely crucial to the industry calendar till date. With a largely ‘work’ focused agenda it provides for a packed house of labels, artists and even fans looking to get stuck, in this mecca of dance music. For 2013, in particular, the festival agenda has turned quite a few notches higher. With a record number of parties from across the spectrum set to have you in a fix throughout the conference, We bring you a complete focus on all the events you should be hitting across the five-day event. Hit past the break now!
Hardwell releases trailer of upcoming documentary, ‘I Am Hardwell’!
As was told to us in an interview earlier in the year with the man himself, the road to dance music super-stardom began at the age of 16 for Breda-born Robbert van de Corput. Today, better known as Hardwell, he finds himself atop charts, rankings, festival headliner slots, and the works. Announcing an upcoming documentary that has been in the filming process for nearly three years, the “Spaceman” producer has released the official trailer for ‘I Am Hardwell‘.
‘Inceptor of Sunburn Festival’, Mr. Shailendra Singh to be featured on ‘Amsterdam Dance Event’!
Some great news just came in! Amsterdam Dance Event - World’s Largest Dance Music Forum will host the ‘Inceptor of Sunburn’ to highlight his journey to becoming one of the ‘Top 50 most powerful people in EDM’.
ADE’s conference confirmed Sunburn festival founder, Mr. Shailendra Singh, recently named as one of the Top 50 most powerful people in the EDM world by InTheMix, and SFX Entertainment’s Head of Acquisitions Shelly Finkel.
Mr. Singh who is the joint-Managing Director of Percept, started Sunburn in 2007 and the event, which attracts over 100,000 people, has since come to be known as the face of dance music in Asia.
Alongside him, SFX Entertainment’s Head of Acquisitions Shelly Finkel will be taking part in ADE Pro and ADE University. On behalf of SFX, Finkel recently took a majority stake in Dutch event organiser ID&T, as well as acquiring electronic music download platform Beatport.
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