Charlotte de Witte, Joris Voorn, rRoxymore, Wally Badarou to share their insights at ADE Sound Lab

Tuesday, 01 October 2019

The four-day program on sound, creativity and technology introduces new formats The Flightcase Of...and Beat Clinic for its 2019 edition, and will also feature Colin Benders, Charlotte Adigéry, Elena Combi, Joe Smooth, Jonas Blue and Todd Terry.

After recent news about ADE Beam Lab and ADE Green, we now shift focus to ADE Sound Lab.

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After recent news about ADE Beam Lab and ADE Green, we now shift focus to ADE Sound Lab.

ADE Sound Lab is always one of the most joyful parts of ADE, because it's where we get to see the music at the heart of club culture evolving in real time: professional and bedroom musicians get to mingle, share ideas and jam. It is a place to learn and to get inspired, either from the latest gear or your musical heroes, it's all there.

In case you missed: the 2019 program takes place at De Brakke Grond ánd Compagnietheater and will see the return of the MusicTalks, The Record Bag of..., In The Studio With..., Demo & Promopitches and the annual Demolition Panel, hosted by Dave Clarke.

Not sure what to expect? Here's an overview:

ADE MusicTalks
Get your questions ready! During ADE MusicTalks it is your time to pop the questions that others don't. There are some serious heroes among the latest additions, Wally Badarou for starters. For his work with the Compass Point All Stars (Grace Jones, Larry Levan, Tom Tom Club) alone the keyboardist would be assured a place in dance music history, but his work ever since has been bubbling with joyful invention and strangeness, and is as vital now as ever. From a veteran to a relative newcomer: Charlotte De Witte has had a rocket ride over the last few years, being a figurehead for the new popularity of techno, and taking on the world with her confident, acidic sets and releases. Amsterdam's hometown hero Joris Voorn, of course, isn't new to techno: he's proven himself a dozen times over with his rich, dreamy musical constructions and is achieving further maturity still with his imminent fourth album.

Add to these the already announced hardware legend Roger Linn, modular wizard and Stevie Wonder enabler Malcolm Cecil, big room artists Sunnery James & Ryan Marciano, and Arp Frique talking about his Improvised Suites for Analogue Machines, and you've got the most kaleidoscopic array of perspectives on electronic music making you could ever hope for.

The Flightcase of...
There's a new format for ADE Sound Lab this year: “The Flightcase Of...” - where visitors can get a glimpse inside the boxes of key artists' touring setups. This will be a chance to hear not just about the individual hardware they use, but how it comes together on stage, the fine line between improvisation and preparation, how to deal with mistakes or equipment glitches, the nature of live performance itself, and much more besides.

The Flightcase of... will also be pushing the boundaries of what live performance is, with Boris Acket, Colin Benders, Nick Verstand and a representative from the jaw-dropping 4DSOUND setup explaining how they create totally immersive audiovisual dreamworlds. Last but not least visitors will be hearing from Montpelier-via-Paris-via-Berlin artist rRoxymore about how she's consolidating her sonic innovations of the last seven years as she prepares to tour her stunning debut album.

The Record Bag Of... & In The Studio With...
2019 will see the return of the popular – and self explanatory – “The Record Bag Of...” with a peek inside the real or virtual crates of the father of techno himself Derrick May, deep and weird NTS Radio electrician Elena Colombi together with Knekelhuis's Mark van der Maat, and globe-bestriding house artists Roger Sanchez, Junior Sanchez, and DJ Sneak aka S-Men. And our “In The Studio With...” sessions are frankly off the hook this year. They include Chicago house forefathers Chip E & Joe Smooth, Dutch producer/songwriter Max Oude Weernink - MOW Music, and DJ Rob Black, Martiniquais/Belgian singer Charlotte Adigéry and Macau-born producer Bolis Popul on their mischievous Caribbean-synthpop collaboration, and club music / soundtrack star Eelke Kleijn on writing for both screen and dancefloor.

But wait, there's more: French emotional techno wrangler Rodriguez Jr., Dutch funkmaster Wantigga, Parisian Tïesto / DJ Snake collaboator Aazar, Bolivian/Belgian mystical experimentalist Susobrino, Amsterdam's mistress of tropical bass, Panda Lassow are all opening up their studio practice, and there will be a special Ableton session with the fantastically diverse and erudite duo Polynation.

Demo- & Promopitches
Alongside all of this, don't forget the most interactive part of all: the daily demopitch. Professionals will be added to the judging panels everyday and the sessions will run from Thursday to Saturday from 4:30 PM till 6:00 PM. You can register with a professional of choice in the morning on the first floor of the Compagnietheater. This is a rare opportunity to have your music listened to deeply by some of the most vital names in the game. Next to that two promopitches are being hosted on Thursday and Saturday for professional marketing and PR advise.

Demolition XXIV
ADE Sound Lab also features the annual Demolition panel - headed by DJ Dave Clarke, with DJs and producers including Eli Iwasa, Kristin Velvet and Todd Terry who are ready to give you an honest appraisal of your work, and maybe even some tips as to how to improve what you're doing. You can drop your CD or USB stick in the Demolition Demo box any time between 11:00 AM and 4:00 PM at the registration desk at De Brakke Grond.

About ADE Sound Lab

Studio XL Sessions, workshops and more
In addition to all of the above this year's program will include Studio XL Sessions with San Holo and NGHTMRE, workshops about focusing on mixing and production by David Wrench and How to start a record Label featuring Marco Faraone and Nastia. On top of that Jonas Blue will host a panel focused on pop music.

There are three Gear Test Labs spread out over the Compagnietheater and De Brakke Grond where you can find a broad range of hardware and software brands to try out including Ableton, Moog, Pioneer DJ and Roland amongst others. A complete overview of the 2019 ADE Sound Lab program can be found here.

Photo credits: Isabel Renate la Poutré, Mark Richter, Mary Weinants and Max Knevel

A preview of the ADE Sound Lab line-up

Gear Test Lab 2

Allen & Heath / Arturia / Loopcloud / ROLI

The Flightcase of: with Boris Acket, Colin Benders, Nick Verstand & Salvador Breed

Boris Acket (NL), Colin Benders (NL), Nick Verstand (NL), Salvador Breed (Sound Designer & Technology Innovator, NL), Moderator: Stuart Acker Holt (CRUMB.FILM, GB)

Pioneer DJ

The Record Bag of Elena Colombi & Mark Knekelhuis

Elena Colombi (IT), Mark Knekelhuis (NL), Moderator: Daniel Cole

Xone DJ Presents Mild to Wild: Enhancing Live Performances

Dave Mech (NL), Moderator: Ferdinand Eloff (Founder, Electiv, NL)

Gear Test Lab 3

Akai / Denon DJ / Rane

Moog’s Psychedelic Synthesizer Sanctuary

Gear Test Lab 1

Ableton / Amptec / Beatport / LANDR / Novation / Pioneer DJ - TORAIZ / Roland

Young Creators: Hollt

Hollt (NL), Moderator: Ferdinand Eloff (Founder, Electiv, NL)

Pioneer DJ

The Record Bag of S-men

DJ Sneak (US), Junior Sanchez (CEO, Brobot Records,US), Roger Sanchez (Release Yourself, US), Moderator: Jeremy Abbott (MixMag, GB)

ADE MusicTalks: Joris Voorn

Joris Voorn (NL), Moderator: Atze de Vrieze

In the Studio with Chip E & Joe Smooth

Chip E (US), Joe Smooth (US), Moderator: Ferdinand Eloff (Founder, Electiv, NL)

How to Start a Record Label

Marco Faraone (IT), Nastia (UA), Sander van Doorn (NL), Moderator: Kered Beere (Creative PR, Loot Recordings, US)

ADE MusicTalks: HÆLOS

Arthur Delaney (GB), Daniel Vildósola (GB), Dom Goldsmith (GB), Lotti Benardout (GB), Moderator: Joe muggs (ADE, Journalist, GB)

The Power of the Collective

The FatRat (DE), Ed Brew (CCO, The Hello Group, UK), Jorge Brea (CEO, Symphonic Distribution, US), Laura Brehm (US), Moderator: Anna Yvette (US)

STUDIO XL: San Holo

San Holo (NL), Moderator: Declan McGlynn (Journalist, DJ Mag)

In the Studio with Charlotte Adigéry & Bolis Pupul

Charlotte Adigery & Bolis Pupul (BE), Moderator: Ferdinand Eloff (Founder, Electiv, NL)

Promopitch

Clara Suess (Founder, Suess Media, GB), Clare Dickens (DE), Justine Servais (International PR & Promotion Manager, Armada Music B.V., NL), Lisanne Krouwels (International PR & Promotion Manager, Armada Music B.V., NL), Madeleine van Geuns (Founder, 88 Music Management, NL), Sally Freeman

Beat Clinic: Headhunterz

Headhunterz (NL), Moderator: Erix Santman (NL)

ADE MusicTalks: Sunnery James & Ryan Marciano

Sunnery James & Ryan Marciano (NL)

Masterclass with Skinnerbox presented by Ableton

Skinnerbox (DE)

Demopitch

Alexander Lundin (A&R, 1NAM Sweden, SE), Brian Dessaur (A&R Director, LDH Europe, NL), Daniel Curpen (A&R, Anjunadeep, GB), Trouze (Label Manager, Flyta, SG), Glenn Forrestgate (Label Manager, Quattro Music Denmark , SE), Jarri van der Haegen ( Founder, Editor, Disco Naïveté, BE), Philipp Grefer (Founder, CEO, FakeMusicMedia, CN), Roos van Tongeren (Product Manager, LDH Europe, NL), Sonny Grootscholten (NL), Thomas de Raad (A&R, Tommy Advice, NL)

In the Studio with Eelke Kleijn

Eelke Kleijn (NL), Moderator: Ferdinand Eloff (Founder, Electiv, NL)

ADE MusicTalks: Wally Badarou

Wally Badarou (FR), Moderator: Arp Frique (NL)

Moog’s Psychedelic Synthesizer Sanctuary

C3 Moog Music Room

In the Studio with WUKONG

WUKONG (SG), Moderator: Ferdinand Eloff (Founder, Electiv, NL)

Gear Test Lab 1

Ableton / Amptec / Beatport / LANDR / Novation / Pioneer DJ - TORAIZ / Roland