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21.02.2019 Club | Brothers Tom and Ed Russell, better known as Truss/MPIA3 and Tessela, tell us more about their collaboration as Overmono. They will be playing alongside Deena Abdelwahed and Zohar this Saturday.

14.02.2019 Club | Before his visit from San Francisco, Solar took the time to chat with us about his experience; the formative rock and metal bands which he holds dear, the abundance of talent he is witnessing in his beloved Bay Area, and about his continued friendship with Interstellar Funk, who he will play alongside in the basement.

08.02.2019 Club | "What I've learned from looking over many DJ's shoulders for the past three years: some sync, some improvise, some plan it out, some mix dusty vinyl with hi-end wavs, some bring an effect box, some play the same transition every time, some always push it to something new - it doesn't say anything."

06.02.2019 Restaurant | Alise Akimova explores the ever-changing menu at Restaurant DS.

06.02.2019 Café | We zijn per direct op zoek naar een nieuwe kok voor in Café DS. Het gaat hier om een afwisselende functie in een gezellig en veelzijdig team. Café DS is zeven dagen per week geopend en van dinsdag tot en met zaterdag wordt er in de avond De Weekhap geserveerd: een wekelijks wisselend vegetarisch menu.

01.02.2019 Club | Konduku on the influence of his Turkish heritage, splitting his time between DJing, producing and photography, and the role these creative outlets played in bringing him peace over recent years.

31.01.2019 Club | Ahead of his set Saturday night during Het Weekend, we caught up with CEM.

18.01.2019 Club | Bram Barentsen talks to REKA about her first EP, her thriving interest in bikes and varied academical background.

11.01.2019 Club | Luc Mastenbroek on the first edition of Het Weekend in 2019, a fundraiser for Mama Cash, and what else is happening in February at De School.

29.12.2018 Club | François X on his early involvement with the Parisian clubbing scene, his development as a DJ and plans for launching a new label.

14.12.2018 Club | "Two years ago when I stumbled upon their first EP on Brothers From Different Mothers. It just got out and I was shocked. I just remember thinking: 'What is this sick shit?!?! Why did I never hear about them before?!?!'"

13.12.2018 Club | Reminiscing 2018, and starting off 2019.

28.11.2018 Club | Ahead of his live set this Saturday, Angelina Nikolayeva spoke to Moscow-based Pavel Milyakov, better known as Buttechno.

17.11.2018 Club | BEA1991 talks about her approach to DJing, paradoxical sounds sounding harmonious, actually connecting with a listening public, and feeling over-inspired by everything.

16.11.2018 Concert | "The main idea is not like that the sound is happening all the time and everywhere. It’s not like you sit in the center of the music and everything is constantly coming at you, but it feels like you are part of the music because it happens around you. It surrounds you and it’s constantly moving around you; the sound appears and then disappears again."

15.11.2018 Club | "December is a month of traditions, but traditions are also meant to be broken."

10.11.2018 Club | Ahead of his set, we took a moment to talk to Parrish Smith about his soundscape for a project that felt very personal and playing with different moods and emotions in his sets and productions.

26.10.2018 Gallery | "For the 60 Hour book, everything has to happen in the 60 hours and also come from De School: all the conversations about the book, thinking about how the ideas are going to be turned into a spread or a page, decide how it’s placed, printed, sorted, bound and finally glued.”

20.10.2018 Concert | Tonight, PAN-affiliate SKY H1 plays our only concert during this ADE weekend. This is a collaborative performance with artists Gosse de Kort en Nieke Koek, whose installation is on show in De Aula until Monday morning.

18.10.2018 Concert | Subbacultcha invited How To Dress Well to perform at s105 tonight. Mathys Rennela looks into the sound transition of the one-man recording project of experimental musician, composer and vocalist Tom Krell.

16.10.2018 Club | "We need to listen to what’s happening; if he makes a drum groove, I compliment it with a baseline, if it’s not there yet. Maybe he’s already making the bassline, but if I’m quicker I just put it in."

15.10.2018 Gallery | For Het Weekend 19.10 – 22.10 Children of the Light has invited six artists that will be taking over different spaces in De School with four different works. Mathis Neuhaus talked to two of these artists, Nieke Koek and Gosse de Kort, about collaborations for the sensorium.

11.10.2018 Club | Eris Drew will be making her De School debut during Het Weekend 19.10 – 22.10. After seeing her love-filled b2b with Octo Octa and reading several interviews, Emma van Meyeren asks Eris which tracks reflect different concepts around love.

10.10.2018 Gallery | For Het Weekend 19.10 – 22.10 Children of the Light has invited six artists that will be taking over different spaces in De School with four different works. Mathis Neuhaus interviewed one of these artists, Karolina Halatek, to find out more about her and the concept behind her artwork that will be shown during ADE.

09.10.2018 Club | Our programmer on who's (finallly!) coming to play and special birthday celebrations in November.

08.10.2018 Gallery | In conversation, Children of the Light explains some of the conceptual ideas that led to inviting Karolina Halatek, Matthijs Munnik, Nieke Koek and Gosse de Kort and Joris Strijbos and Nicky Assmann. These six artists will be taking over different spaces in De School during Het Weekend 19.10 – 22.10 with four different works.

28.09.2018 Club | "It’s just that when you are freed from the rules and get all this freedom at once, you just want to go all the way, try everything out. I think this happened when I left classical music. I have lots of other plans and projects in mind and am hoping to bring them all out in the future."

20.09.2018 Club | "The original idea of the project was to make atmospheric dance music that could fit in the context of an underground club. The experiences I had in nightclubs have left a big mark on me, like it has on many others. Right now, I’m at a different point in my life in which going out that often doesn’t occur so naturally anymore. However, that aesthetic vision remains."

13.09.2018 Club | "The Amsterdam dance scene has its own Christmas. Every year mid-October people from the scene gather under colourful lights to share what they have, promise to do better and fight out family conflicts."

12.09.2018 Club | Kangding Ray on his latest projects, machines, guitars and the meaning behind his music.