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22.05.2019 Club | Ahead of her set in our basement this Saturday, we caught up with DJ and producer Elena Sizova. Who is coming to play in Amsterdam for the very first time this weekend.

10.05.2019 Club | L.A.N, De Happening, a Nachti weekender, and everything else that is happening in and around De School in June.

08.05.2019 Club | Steffen Bennemann on the Nachtdigital weekender in June.

02.05.2019 Club | Ahead of her set in Het Muzieklokaal this Sunday during Het Weekend, we had a chat with Lux.

29.04.2019 Gallery | Introducing JEMAPUR, who will be the first artist-in-residency we are hosting at De School together with Studio The Future.

25.04.2019 Club | Paula Temple releases her first album, Edge of Everything, May 3rd. We caught op with her ahead of the release party, which takes place this Friday in our basement.

12.04.2019 Club | The lists and stories that are behind our May program.

12.04.2019 Club | Emma van Meyeren talks Twitter with LSDXOXO ahead of his set tonight.

10.04.2019 Club | Our programmer Elisa Luengo talks about the process of putting together next month's weekender.

09.04.2019 Concert | Ahead of their concert underneath our cherry blossoms, Angelina Nikolayeva talked to live duo Wanderwelle.

05.04.2019 Other | "What began as a small-scale but visionary initiative of five feminists around a kitchen table in Amsterdam has since then grown into into an international fund that supports women’s, girls’ and trans people’s movements around the world."

12.03.2019 Club | Two album tours, a Sunday in the garden, cherry blossoms and Bonzai. Luc Mastenbroek on what is coming up this April in De School.

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.

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.