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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."

26.09.2018 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.

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.

21.08.2018 Gallery | We spoke to Nikki about his installation Multiverse in relation to De School, Present Progressive and future projects.

16.08.2018 Club | "I think the brain really values unpredictability. It equals excitement. That’s what people respond to. It’s nice to involve the crowd in an honest way."

15.08.2018 Club | A recap of the recent Discwoman Workshop with Frankie Decaiza Hutchinson

09.08.2018 Club | After a warm, warm, warm, warm summer, we’re moving the epicentre of the club from De Tuin back to our basement for September.

27.07.2018 Club | Prolific producer and regular fixture of Ibiza's dance music scene, the Danish DJ S.A.M. is coming Sunday July 29th for his first extended set at De School, alongside DJ Dustin and Vlada.

29.06.2018 Club | Coming Sunday, Pieter Jansen presents his very first exploit of many more to come. His new label yeyeh (you’re everything you’ve ever heard) will release its first record: ‘Ja! & Ritmebox’ by Spinvis and Simon Vinkenoog, compiled out of two albums previously released on cd. For Pieter, these albums have always been there to fall back on. 

28.06.2018 Club | You heard it here first: Anja is going to be big. Coming Friday De School has the pleasure to introduce this newfound dj-collective – better known as Job Sifre, Identified Patient, Merel and Post Ave.

31.05.2018 Club | In anticipation of the very first all night set in our basement under his Talismann alias, we sat down with Guy Blanken to discuss his methods over some tasty soy roti.

15.05.2018 Restaurant | While food and wine can enhance each other, perfect wine-and-food pairing is not a goal in itself at Restaurant DS. Especially once you consider some flavours do not always have a perfect match.

04.05.2018 Club | We caught up with the Amsterdam-based producer and DJ to see just exactly what he’s plotting.

04.05.2018 Club | This Saturday Steffi brings her live set based on her latest album 'World Of The Walking State' to Het Muzieklokaal.

03.05.2018 Club | In an ideal situation we would like to have only one edition of Het Weekend to look forward to, avoiding possible mix-ups. This time there’s only three weeks in between two weekenders, so it seemed better to already give it away.

01.05.2018 Concert | Matteo's the first artist that features the intimate concert series we're hosting throughout the summers to come. We asked him to answer some questions as a short introduction on what to expect on Wednesday the 2nd of May.