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ADE Lab is building ‘ADE Lab Village’ in the Westerpark

12 August 2025

Amsterdam Dance Event (ADE) is expanding ADE Lab this year, building an ADE Lab Village in Westerpark. From October 22nd to 26th, 2025, the park will be transformed into a vibrant creative hub where the next generation of artists, producers, and other music professionals can network and learn from each other.

It takes an ADE Lab Village

It takes a village, the organizers of ADE Lab thought, when it comes to helping the next generation of music professionals evolve. With that in mind, they’re creating more space, connections, and inspiration this year. Not a street, but an entire village, where you’ll be surrounded by the people shaping the next steps in electronic music. This is where you need to be:

WestWeelde: the industrial hotspot where masterclasses and talks take place. Then, take in all the new information comfortably in the Lab Living chill-out zone.
Radio Radio: Get hands-on during workshops in this nightclub. And let a vinyl listening bar become your new teacher.
Pacific Amsterdam: attend intimate talks and masterclasses, or try out the latest equipment yourself in a Gear Test Lab and Gear Workshop Room.
Bakkerswinkel: dive into a gear-filled recording studio to capture your very own creations directly on-site.
Mossel & Gin: a small but delightful hidden garden in Westerpark with a program yet to be announced.
Amsterdam Flavours: a secret so far, but it promises to be a place where learning experiences are central to all ADE Lab visitors.

For the next generation

This village is built to help the next generation thrive. Are you ambitious and have an ADE Lab Pass? Then you will get access to the entire ADE Lab program for all four days!

Get your ADE Lab Pass

About Amsterdam Dance Event (ADE)

ADE is organized by the Amsterdam Dance Event Foundation, with BumaStemra as a founding partner and Heineken as the main partner. Year after year, this event proves to be the world’s largest and most influential club festival and conference for electronic music. For five days, visitors from over 146 countries come to Amsterdam. Music professionals come for the ADE Pro conference component. And music lovers come for the ADE festival component. Visit ADE.nl for more information.

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