Yes, Amsterdam Dance Event that is. Every year around this time dance related labels, promoters and artists hook up in Amsterdam for some networking and talent scouting, but for most of us ADE is mainly about 3 days of parties. While a lot of the line-up is not exactly my cup of tea, there is always some interesting stuff going on. Since last year the Bimhuis (usually the authority on jazz in the Netherlands and abroad) is also part of ADE. On friday the 24th, for the second time Beatdimensions will take over the Bim. After the legendary edition with Flying Lotus and Hudson Mohawke, now Dimlite, Mike Slott and Take are invited by Juha and Cinnaman to play their futuristic beats & beyond. For more info on the Bimhuis line up, visit audioculture.org, where our friend Juha also did an interview with Daedelus, who’s performing this tuesday at Smart Project Space.

As fans of his longtime running radioshow might already know; Gilles Peterson is also in town. In London he just started again with his weekly monday night in Bar Rumba (I remember going to the last one a few years ago), in Amsterdam he will be playing at KSpace and Bar Struik on the 23rd, together with Brownswood affiliates thBpm and Lefto. With Melodee hosting an Appletree night at Bitterzoet, 1.1 / Mamiko playing in Studio K, DROP inviting fresh producers at OneFourOne for a beatbattle and Tom Trago and San Proper doing another Le Pop at Canvas, it’s hard to choose. What are you going to do?

To get your dancing shoes on, here’s a set Tom Trago did recently at Dekmantel (thanks to Rush Hour):

And here’s a mix + interview with local 8 Bit hero Hayzee, who plays at DROP (thanks to Little D Soundlab):