Walk into most ADE showcases this week and you get the same formula: a label night, a few recognizable names, a room that could be anywhere from Berlin to Ibiza. CLUB Lab, now in its third year as a joint production between DJ Mag and ADE Lab, is doing something different on the festival's busiest Friday: building the bill around who's actually in the room, not just who's headlining.
The night splits across two venues. From 9 to 11pm, Het Ketelhuis hosts a free audiovisual programme open to ADE Lab and ADE Pro pass holders. Then the whole thing moves to Radio Radio's Lab Village for a club night that runs until 6am, with paid general admission alongside the pass-holder access. It's a hybrid format TTH has seen plenty of festivals attempt and few pull off: treat the early slot as a genuine listening session, not a warm-up nobody shows up for.
What ties Desi club edits to Moluccan soul?
The programming leans into house, UK garage, garage house and bass, the backbone of the UK underground for two decades. But the bill is anchored by two artists whose relationship to that sound runs through diaspora rather than Hackney or Bristol. Armana Khan, the US-based DJ, model and activist, mixes Indian rhythms directly into her club sets, a Desi-edit approach that treats South Asian musical heritage as source material rather than garnish.
JAEL works from the other direction. Born Giovanni Jaël Jano in The Hague, he's a Moluccan musician whose soulful, gospel-leaning productions are shaped by the funk and soul his parents played at home. He's been part of the LA-based Soulection collective for years and held down a monthly show on Rinse FM in 2022 and 2023, returning to the station in 2025. Neither artist is making a novelty crossover record. They're both treating family musical heritage as the foundation of a club sound, which is a far rarer framing than most diaspora-themed lineups manage.
The night explores house, UK garage and bass shaped as much by Desi sounds and Moluccan tradition as by the UK underground itself.
Who's holding down the Amsterdam side of the bill?
Cinnaman (Yuri Boselie) is the local anchor, and his résumé explains why ADE Lab wanted him on this specific bill. He co-founded Colors, the Amsterdam bass night that's run since 2010 with Volcmar Lammers and Lukas Nieuwenhuijsen, and he's held residencies at three of the city's most respected rooms: Trouw, Club 11 and De School. He's also produced the Beat Dimensions compilation series for Rush Hour Records, putting him squarely in Amsterdam's house-and-bass lineage rather than its techno one.
Rounding out the bill: Té de Gember, a Rotterdam selector known for genre-fluid, unpredictable sets; Valentina, a Leeds-based UK garage DJ working choppy beats and heavy basslines; and VKANG, a Malaysian DJ exploring UK dance music through garage and breaks. It's a lineup that reads less like a typical ADE night and more like a map of where UK garage and bass culture actually travels now, from The Hague to Kuala Lumpur.
