At the crossroads of electronic music, visual art, and technology, Nxt Museum returns to Amsterdam Dance Event 2025 with Visual Frequencies: a three-day programme tracing the many voices and futures of techno. From pioneers of industrial and minimal techno to innovators in modular and ambient electronics, and new generations shaping cinematic and club-rooted sounds, the series fuses sound and vision in radical ways. Set between Nxt Stage with a 360 square meter floor-to-ceiling projection surface and Boris Acket’s monumental art installation Duration, featuring 96 projection screens, these performances push ADE into uncharted audiovisual territory.
Wednesday, 22 October kicks off with the world premiere of KERNEL (live A/V) by Chlär, founder of Berlin’s Primal Instinct label – an explosive fusion of unreleased peak time techno in dialogue with custom and complex AI systems generating immersive visuals from Parisian studio Bonjour Lab. Colin Benders, the Dutch modular icon, follows with a fully improvised live set where analogue synthesis becomes infinite exploration. Local innovator Valody frames the evening with adventurous takes on experimental techno, while Jillis Pieters delivers live visuals throughout.
Thursday, 23 October introduces a new concept by Luke Slater, Regis (Karl O’Connor), and Function (Dave Sumner): a groundbreaking format that reimagines the club experience through extended live performances and immersive visual storytelling. The night features the long-awaited return of Sandwell District, with Regis and Function reuniting in a rare hybrid live show accompanied by archival visuals from the late Silent Servant, whose spectral imagery extends the collective’s legacy. As Planetary Assault Systems, Slater delivers a two-hour exploration of industrial textures and hypnotic futurism, freed from the limits of traditional DJ sets. Amsterdam-based Nadia Struiwigh opens with ambient-driven electronica and immersive projections by Infinite Vibes, while throughout the night, Sophia Bulgakova blends AI, XR, and cultural storytelling into live visuals that charge the space with otherworldly atmosphere. This is electronic music without safety nets: performed live, extended to allow deeper artistic journeys, and rooted in the city through the voices of its local talents.
The final day of the Nxt ADE series, Friday, 24 October, opens with a programme curated by London’s Mastery studio. The programme explores sound as a psychedelic and the transcendental nature of live electronic music. An immersive sound bath sets the tone before Jennifer Loveless’s expansive ambient set and Ruthlss’s debut live piano performance. Mor Elian then guides listeners into hypnotic terrain, leading into Actress’s boundary-defying AV show, together creating a meditative journey of resonance and experimentation.
The series concludes in the evening with a bold finale curated by Junction 2, one of London’s leading electronic festivals. TYGAPAW debuts C.L.U.B. (Care Love Ultimate Bliss), an emotionally charged A/V work fusing techno, dancehall, soca, and conversations with trans siblings to interrogate decolonisation in sacred spaces. For the first time ever, Paris-born Quelza and Spain’s BLANKA unite in a back-to-back, weaving Quelza’s cinematic storytelling with Blanka’s raw, high-energy propulsion, a fusion of narrative depth and relentless drive. Closing the night, Salomé joins a special guest for a Berlin-meets-Berlin acid techno finale. Visuals by Ella Wandendeya transform memory and resonance into living projections.
