ADE 2026: The DJ Sets to Watch Before Amsterdam

ADE is a week of choices. Hundreds of nights, five days, and a calendar nobody can finish. The cheapest way to choose is to hear the people first, for an hour or two, with the room and the crowd in frame.

So this is our pre-ADE watch list. It is built from the artists on the ADE 2026 lineup we track on Videojam, and for each one we picked a single full set: not a highlight reel, not a drop compilation. ADE 2026 runs 21 to 25 October. Press play now and you will know exactly who you want to see.

The players for all fifteen sets sit together in the "Watch on Videojam" block at the end of this article, in the same order as the list below.

The fifteen sets

1. Adam Beyer, Awakenings x Drumcode ADE 2024

The Swedish DJ who founded Drumcode. This is a two-hour room set from a previous ADE: watch the full set. It shows the Beyer method, steady pressure and patient builds, in a venue built for it.

2. Joris Voorn, A Trip To Galaxy, Awakenings x Spectrum ADE 2025

A Dutch producer whose sets travel between house and techno without raising their voice. This two-hour Spectrum night is a good measure of how he sequences a long room.

3. Adriatique presents X, ADE 2025 Warehouse Set

The Swiss duo has a reputation for melodic, carefully layered sets. Their ADE 2025 warehouse set runs close to three hours, and it plays like an argument for slow, deep builds.

4. Mind Against, HABITAT x Loveland, ADE 2025

Berlin-based, Italian-rooted, and at home on the darker side of melodic techno. More than three hours at a Loveland night during last year's ADE, long enough to hear them take their time.

5. Rødhåd, Awakenings x Spectrum ADE 2025

A Berlin selector who treats the dance floor as a slow burn rather than a series of peaks. This ADE 2025 set is a hundred minutes of dense, hypnotic techno.

6. Boris Brejcha, Cercle at Grand Palais

The German artist behind "high-tech minimal". A 2019 Cercle classic, two hours filmed under the glass roof of the Grand Palais in Paris, and it makes the sound read as cinema.

7. Amelie Lens, Cercle at LaPlage de Glazart

Lens runs the LENSKE label and plays hard and fast. This 2017 Cercle classic from Paris is the compact version, close to an hour and a half, with a crowd that clearly came to move.

8. Peggy Gou, Cercle at Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille

The South Korean DJ and producer who made house music feel like pop and kept the club credibility. A 2018 Cercle classic from Lille: she plays almost two hours inside a museum, which is a better setting than it sounds.

9. Joseph Capriati, Metamorfosi at Amnesia Ibiza 2026

Capriati is Italian and runs the Metamorfosi parties. This three-and-a-half-hour DJ Mag set is from 2026, which makes it the freshest read on how he plays right now.

10. Mau P, Awakenings Festival 2026

One of the fastest rises in club music in the last few years. This Awakenings Festival set from July 2026 shows his loud, groove-first style.

11. Eric Prydz, Ultra Miami 2026, Resistance Megastructure

The Swedish producer's live shows are productions in their own right. Almost two hours from Ultra Music Festival Miami this March, recorded on the Resistance stage.

12. Tinlicker, Live at Gashouder (2024)

The Dutch duo sit between melodic house and electronica. This near-two-hour set at the Gashouder was filmed in Amsterdam, the same city ADE fills each year.

13. Benwal, DGTL ADE 2025

An hour and a half at DGTL during ADE 2025, filmed in Amsterdam while the city is in full festival mode.

14. Marlon Hoffstadt, Daddycation at Awakenings ADE (Gashouder)

The German artist is the most playful name in this list and probably the loudest. His Daddycation night at the Gashouder is a two-and-a-half-hour tour of hard dance and trance with a sense of humour.

15. Dax J, closing set at Intercell x Chlär Invites, ADE 2024

A British techno DJ who plays on the hard, industrial side. This ADE 2024 closing set is almost two and a half hours long and is a straight-ahead lesson in how to finish a night.

Find your sound before you go

Pick by what you want from the week:

• For hard, driving rooms, start with Techno and Trance: Beyer, Rødhåd, Dax J, Brejcha.
• For melodic and progressive nights, the Melodic and Progressive hub covers Mind Against, Tinlicker and Adriatique.
• For house with a groove, House is the place for Peggy Gou and Joris Voorn.
• For the big-room end, EDM has the festival-scale sets, including Eric Prydz.

Past ADE nights on Videojam

Every ADE set we have published lives on one page: ADE on Videojam. Past editions are there to watch in full, and new sets appear as the week's recordings go up in the weeks after. If you only have time for one thing before you fly, watch two sets from that page and compare.

To see what is being watched right now, the Weekly Chart tracks which DJ sets are moving this week.

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