Amsterdam Dance Event unveils second wave with 1200+ artists confirmed

Amsterdam Dance Event (ADE) - the world’s largest festival and conference for electronic music - has revealed its second wave of artists for 2025, bringing the total line-up so far to more than 1,200 names set to perform across the city this October.

Running from 22nd – 26th October, the festival now has over 450 events locked in, but the programme is still only halfway complete. Standout additions in the new wave include Amaliah, Chris Stussy, Azyr, Ben UFO, Bullet Tooth, Faster Horses, Hannah Laing, Jeff Mills, Salute, Seth Troxler, Soul Mass Transit System, Paul van Dyk, CARISTA, Kyle Starkey, Carl Craig, DJ Pierre, Enrico Sangiuliano, FJAAK, Héctor Oaks, Indira Paganotto, Mahmut Orhan, Moodymann, Polygonia, Sally C, THC, Tjade, TOKiMONSTA, TWIENA, and YoungWoman.

Beyond the club nights, ADE continues to blur boundaries with one-off highlights like a full-on No Art Festival takeover, over 16 Intercell events, Jeff Mills reviving his Tomorrow Comes the Harvest concept, ZERØBPM’s 40-hour ambient marathon at Thomaskerk, and ZeeZout’s special Concertgebouw outing that turns the classical hall into a club.

Elsewhere, the ADE Lab expands with a new Lab Village at Westerpark featuring large-scale art and light installations, all free to the public. Historic sites also return in 2025, including De Bajes prison complex, Levenslang, and the Veronica Schip pirate radio ship.

On the conference side, ADE Pro brings heavyweight talks and masterclasses with Skepta, Eris Drew & Modeselektor, Luke Slater & Chris Liebing, Nicole Moudaber, and ANOTR, alongside the teams behind Tomorrowland Brasil and No Art.

In typical fashion for the scale of ADE, this announcement is still only the halfway mark. The final programme is set to feature over 3,000 artists and DJs across 1,000+ events citywide, making ADE once again the epicentre of global electronic music culture.

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