ADE Culture Hub

ADE introduces the Culture Hub: a new gathering on ADE Saturday where ADE Pro, ADE Lab, and ADE Beats come together to honor the foundations of electronic music. Subcultures and grassroots movements are not side stories but the very core of the global scene, where innovation takes root and spreads outward. Building on the legacy of ADE Beats, the Culture Hub connects ADE Lab’s focus on talent with Pro’s global outlook to create a platform where stories, strategies, and sounds converge. At Felix Meritis, it becomes the place where grassroots meet global, and where the roots of electronic music drive its future.

ADE Beats is the annual platform at Amsterdam Dance Event (ADE) to network and connect with the international hip-hop, bass and bass community.

ADE Beats puts a strong emphasis on hip-hop, bass and beats as an international force and industry; aims to support its worldwide success, and to facilitate opportunities and positive developments for music professionals and creative talent all over the globe, in a world and industry that are rapidly getting smaller.

Speakers in our past editions included Just Blaze, Dizzee Rascal, Hudson Mohawke, Grandmaster Flash, Timbaland, Jae5, Hiatus Kaiyote, Karen Nyame KG, London On Da Track, Nile Rodgers, Shaggy, Amp Fiddler, Om’Mas Keith, Kurtis Blow, Rahaan, Bambii, Kenny Dope and Jazzy Jeff - and professionals including Omar Grant (Roc Nation), Dave Free (pgLang), Riggs Morales (Def Jam), Aibee Abidoye (Chocolate City), Khady Thiam Gueye (TMI Worldwide), Shanti Das (Silence the Shame), Nicki Farag (Def Jam), Ghazi Shami (EMPIRE) and many others.