Most people arriving at Amsterdam Dance Event assume DGTL is a single festival you drop into and leave when you like. It is not. For 2026, DGTL runs eight separate ticketed events across four days and two Amsterdam Noord venues, NDSM Warehouse at NDSM-Plein 85 and Kromhouthal at Gedempt Hamerkanaal 231, each built around a distinct sound. You buy per event, not per weekend, and the right approach is to decide which nights actually match what you want to hear before any of them sell out. There is also one logistical fact that will catch you off guard if you do not read this first. DGTL ADE 2026 runs Thursday 22 to Sunday 25 October, and tickets are on sale at dgtl-festival.com.
Thursday 22 October, DGTL ADE Thursday, NDSM Warehouse, 17:00, 23:00 If you were expecting techno to open the week, the programme has other ideas. ADE categorises this night as House and Trance, and DGTL’s own lineup makes the case plainly: MPH, Benwal, and a B2B from Lammer and Paige Tomlinson across Eurodance, UKG and peak-energy club sounds. For UK readers, MPH is a name with real weight in that world. Six hours, an early finish, and a sound that owes more to fabric on a Friday than to Berlin on a Saturday. A sharp opener.
Friday 23 October, Tinlicker Live + Friday Night, NDSM Warehouse Friday splits into two events at the same venue. Tinlicker plays an extended live show first, full guest details had not been announced at time of writing, before the Friday Night programme takes over with Joris Voorn, Kevin de Vries, Miss Monique, Nicky Elisabeth, and NTO performing live. The sound is melodic house and progressive. Two separate tickets, two distinct experiences, one venue: plan accordingly.
Saturday 24 October, Three events across both venues Saturday spreads across the full weekend geography. At NDSM Warehouse, Shimza curates a daytime and evening programme bringing Âme DJ, Desiree, Bedouin, Arodes, and Stoffela, rooted in Afro house. Later in the same building, Novah leads a nighttime bill with Ciara Cuvé, Øtta, EMILIJA, and Faster Horses. Across town at Kromhouthal, Lane 8 presents This Never Happened, his label made physical inside a former factory hall with 15-metre ceilings and working cranes overhead. Three separate tickets if you want all three. Most people will need to choose.
Sunday 25 October, DGTL ADE FUSE, NDSM Warehouse, 14:00, 23:00; Folamour All Day Long, Kromhouthal Sunday is where DGTL makes its strongest case for staying until the end. FUSE, the London-born collective with deep roots in British club culture, takes NDSM Warehouse from 14:00 to 23:00 with its signature deep, dubby tech-house. Nine hours in a 20,000 m² former shipbuilding hall, and this is the first time DGTL has brought its full Generator stage indoors for a daytime ADE event. At Kromhouthal, Folamour runs his own all-day programme. Pick one.
Getting there and the thing you must know about your ticket NDSM Warehouse sits on the NDSM Wharf in Amsterdam Noord, reached by free ferry from Amsterdam Centraal, roughly 15 minutes on the water, then five minutes on foot. DGTL will run extra festival ferries alongside the regular schedule during the event, so the crossing is straightforward. Kromhouthal is also in Amsterdam Noord. Neither venue is in the city centre, and that is part of the point.
The ticket system is the detail most people miss. Tickets are not dispatched when you buy them. DGTL holds them in a sealed personalisation process and releases them to the lead buyer on 22 October 2026 only once every ticket in an order has been personalised. If you are buying for a group, everyone needs to complete personalisation before anyone gets their ticket. Do not leave it to the morning you travel.
Find out more – https://dgtl-festival.com/en/dgtl-ade/dgtl-ade-2026/
