Amsterdam, one of electronic music’s most bustling hubs has plenty of gems, iconic and hidden - special cafes, an infamous, world-renowned red light district, a vibrant art scene and handful of underground clubs with some of the techno world’s most celebrated sound systems.
Neither Raynor de Groot nor Emiel van den Dungen grew up in the Netherlands listening to Brazilian samba or Afro-jazz, but one did love percussion and the other infatuated with synths.
Amsterdam Dance Event, affectionately known as ADE, is as short as it is long.
Based in Rotterdam Yør Kultura have implemented a trademark sound of their own over the past year by smoothly combining extravagant synth-melodies with stripped down bass lines to form a symbiosis in raw track- and sound structure.
Torture the Artist 