Looking Back At ADE – Day Four: Amsterdam Music Festival

Past Sunday the Dutch madness called Amsterdam Dance Event ended the last day of this year. After five days of big events, important conferences and a lot of meetings, it’s time to recover and look back at the ADE. We visited several events on 4 of the 5 days and will provide a recap on every day. Starting today with the fourth and for us last day of ADE, Saturday October 19. We attended the Amsterdam Music Festival and were part of the perfect climax for the Amsterdam Dance Event!

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Location
The RAI in Amsterdam was the home to many many events in the past. From the domestic market, to carshows and of course Chuckie’s Dirty Dutch events. RAI Amsterdam is a huge indoor terrain with many halls and space for a very big amount of people. Nothing less than three big stages were build for the event, with the mainstage as absolute highlight. It’s the biggest location used during ADE and with this first, but surely not last edition of the Amsterdam Music Festival, they found a fitting partner for a huge event. The location of the Amsterdam RAI is absolutely perfect, straight next to the highway and easy reachable.

Line Up
Amsterdam is the electronic music capital of the world and the climax festival of ADE needed a huge lineup. Well, they quite met the expectations with Hardwell, Armin van Buuren, Alesso, Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike, W&W, Steve Angello, Sunnery James & Ryan Marciano, Fedde Le Grand, Showtek, Congorock and many, many more. Also, the awardshow of the yearly DJ Mag Top 100 DJ’s competition took place during the festival and winner Hardwell had the honor to play his set right afterwards. During the event we did a lot of walking around between stages, because every stage welcomed dj’s that would fit on every leading festival in the world.

Organisation
Even though the mainstage was nothing less than enormous, but ended up full after just an hour and a half. Everyone who wanted to go to the mainstage had to wait in the tunnel that connected to the stage, which of course was understandable. It was for safety reasons, the only problem was that the tunnel became steaming hot, so a few visitors unfortunately passed out. This can’t be called a mistake made by the organizers, the people wanted to go the mainstage too bad. All the other things were organised perfectly and added something to the good atmosphere. We couldn’t find a negative point.

Audience
The audience went absolutely bananas during the whole night. The insane music, the insane light effects and the other visitors all contributed to the amazing atmosphere. It didn’t matter if you were Dutch, English, Polish, American, Russian etc etc, everyone partied together and the vibe was so good. It was a pleasure to be part of this event and I wished the audience could be like this more often. Our compliments to not just the visitors, but also the organisation and dj’s to make this happen!

Conclusion
When we take a look at all our points, we can definitely say that this night was more than successful. The RAI provided the visitors with the biggest venue during ADE, the organisation made sure that everyone had a good time, the audience partied like nothing before and the dj’s played sets to be remembered. I hear people asking for the livesets very often, something that must be a good thing, everyone wants to be part of this event.