Bringing together a collaboration of friends to create an unforgettable weekend, once again filled with your favourite music, exciting new experiences, and so much more, all set at Gaasperpark.

Bookings: martijn@dedicatedagency.com


Jay Hardway continues to be one of the dance scene’s most exciting and well-loved names, with a formidable discography rapidly building up alongside a burgeoning global tour schedule. Hailing from Drunen in the South of the Netherlands, he began producing and DJing at the age of 14, influenced by the big producers of those early days. Now located in Amsterdam, he is a serious musical force with many millions of plays and sales to his name.

Jay’s very first release came in the form of a collaboration with then-unknown teenager Martin Garrix, the free download Registration Code. It marked the beginning of a successful and enduring working relationship between the duo that continues on to this day. Their next collaboration Wizard was released on Spinnin’ and quickly reached the #1 spot on Beatport and picked up 3.6 million views on YouTube in its first week. The duo released the smash Spotless in 2016, which has had over 15 million views on YouTube and still counting. 
Further collabs with fellow scene greats like Firebeatz, Bassjackers, MOTi have provided yet more dancefloor gold, as have his remixes of Armin Van Buuren, Bourgeous and Sam Feldt.

Aside from these successful collaborations, Jay is also well known for his solo endeavours in which he can show us his love for beautiful melodies the most. 
With the likes of Bootcamp, Electric Elephants, Somnia and Golden Pinapple he takes us on a journey with his complete and diverse spectrum of sounds. While best known for his high-end production, he has branched out into more mellow sounds on tracks like the stunning trance-influenced chugger Somnia. Most recently he has incorporated melodic vocals to his track such as Need It and Wired. Jay is always on the lookout for something new and exciting not only with his music but also with the videos that come along with his tracks, like the Electric Elephants video which was shot in Japan and collected over 5 million views.

2017 Seeing him climbing the legendary DJ Mag Top 100 DJs Poll to #68. He graced the stages of the world’s biggest clubs and festivals such as Tomorrowland, EDC New York, Hakkasan Las Vegas, MTV Mobile Beats, Sziget, WiSH Outdoor, Creamfields Brasil, Electric Love, Pacha NYC, AMF and Mysteryland to name a few.

Bookings: agustin@paramountartists.com

Abstract Division is a long-standing collaboration of Paul Boex and Dave Miller, a Dutch electronic music producer and DJ duo. Next to running their label Dynamic Reflection and its sub-label Morphologies, they stimulated the Dutch underground scene with their well-known DECODE parties.

With over 30 years of collective experience under their belt, the established duo of Abstract Division is bringing deep, hypnotic and energetic techno sets to any club, rave or festival. They have performed at prominent festivals like Awakenings, Monegros Desert Festival, Time Warp, BAUM Festival, Audioriver, Loveland and some of the best venues including Berghain, Fuse, Fabrik Madrid, RSO, Radion and many more.

During many years of collaboration, the duo managed to create their own unique sound. Their in-depth knowledge of sound engineering enables them to release year after year refreshing productions and each new track marks a subtle evolution in sound.

Swedish DJ based in Amsterdam/Berlin. 

Bookings: cody@supersonicagency.nl
Promos: heddastenberg.promos@gmail.com

Upcoming shows 2025:
15/11 Het Sieraad, Amsterdam.
01/11, TBA, Stockholm.
24/10 ADE Lost & Found at Westerunie, Amsterdam.
23/10 ADE train 50:hertz, Amsterdam.
12/10 Brunch Elektronik, Malaga.
03/10 Culturebox, Copenhagen.
20/09 Gardens of Babylon: The Light of Equinox, Amsterdam.
18/09 TBA, Stockholm.
11/09 Speechless at Renate, Berlin.
06/09 Private event, Berlin.
28/08 Vitruvian Lounge at Burning Man, Black Rock City.
26/08 Norse Code at Burning Man, Black Rock City.
25/08 Playground at Burning Man, Black Rock City.
16/08 Lieber Scholli, Munich.
09/08 Loveland festival, Amsterdam.
26/07 Watt at Paal69, Zandvoort.
16/07 Mixmag at Amnesia, Ibiza.
12/07 Lofi, Amsterdam.
28/06 CLSR festival: Adriatique, Stockholm.
21/06 La Reve festival, The Hague.
14/06 Chateau festival, Örebro.
13/06 Mohriska, Falun.
07/06 Tussilago festival, Stockholm.
03/06 Private at Soho House, Barcelona.
31/05 Süda, Stockholm.
28/05 Nuet Afters, Stockholm.
28/05 Nuet: Black Coffee, Stockholm.
16/05 Mechanical Orange, Tbilisi.
02/05 Slaktkyrkan: Guy J & Yotto, Stockholm.
19/04 Private at Edition, Barcelona.
04/04 Het Sieraad, Amsterdam.
29/03 Melkweg, Amsterdam.
21/03 NEU, Stockholm.
22/02 Paradiso: Röyksopp, Amsterdam.
15/02 Het Sieraad, Amsterdam.


Shows 2024:
28/12 The Gardens of Babylon, Amsterdam.
14/12 What A View Festival, Stockholm.
13/12 Süda, Stockholm.
30/11 Lily Dusk, Stockholm.
23/11 Spectrum Music at TivoliVredenburg, Utrecht.
09/11 THP at Madam, Amsterdam.
18/10 Taiko ADE, Amsterdam.
17/10 Nostos ADE Sessions, Amsterdam.
11/10 Matignon, Paris.
21/09 Het Sieraad: B2B Mitch De Klein, Amsterdam.
13/09 Private event, Stockholm.
10/08 Loveland afterparty, Amsterdam.
10/08 Loveland festival, Amsterdam.
03/08 Zitya, Ibiza.
27/07 Private, Malaga.
15/06 Nostos Sessions: Paal69, Amsterdam.
08/06 Woodstock, Stockholm. 
07/06 Slaktkyrkan, Stockholm.
01/06 Free Your Mind festival, Arnheim.
23/05 Ashram sunset, Ibiza.
22/05 Laylah, Ibiza.
04/05 The Terminal festival, Stockholm.
03/05 Süda x Imprint, Stockholm.
19/04 Module, Copenhagen.
09/03 Köket, Gothenburg.
01/03 Substitutet, Stockholm.
17/02 Loveburn, Camp Cymatica, Miami.
13/01 Het Sieraad: Adana Twins, Collé and Mees Salome, Amsterdam.

Shows 2023:
31/12 SAGA Nye party, Stockholm.
25/12 Bibliothèque Records by Sebjak: Berns, Stockholm.
02/12 32F Arctic Shaman, Lapland.
25/11 TivoliVredenburg: Joris Voorn and Helsloot, Utrecht.
10/11 Het Sieraad: Monkey Safari, Amsterdam.
21/10 ADE Gardens of Babylon, Amsterdam.
21/10 ADE Let's Pretend, Amsterdam. 
20/10 ADE THP x Imprint at A'dam Tower, Amsterdam.
16/09 Into the Woods festival, Utrecht.
09/09 Het Sieraad: Âme b2b Trikk, Amsterdam.
02/09 Lief Festival, Utrecht.
18/08 Club Atelier: Olivier Weiter, Amsterdam.
12/08 Way Out West Festival, Gothenburg. 
05/08 The Cosmic Jungle, Amsterdam.
09/07 Thuishaven: Rose Ringed, Amsterdam.
24/06 Het Sieraad: Joris Delacroix, Amsterdam.
23/06 SAGA Private Party, Gotland.
16/06 What A View Festival, Black Coffee, Desiree, Stockholm. 
3/06 IMPRINT At Sea, Stockholm.
27/05 Pleinvrees Festival, Amsterdam.
05/05 THP at Yellow House, Amsterdam.
24/03 Het Sieraad: Workals, Amsterdam.
18/02 NEU, Stockholm. 
10/02 420 Group: Joris Voorn, Stockholm.
28/01 Episodes: Tal Fussman, Stockholm.

🎧 Bookings: navi@aceagency.com
✉️ MGMT: info@mickstermanagement
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Beyond their breathtaking melodies and explosive live sets, you’ll find dance music's closest friendship. Dutch powerhouse duo Lucas & Steve have seen a momentous rise to stardom in recent years with consecutive summer hits, multiple platinum and golden records, an endless string of international performances and accolades from BUMA (The Netherlands), Fun Radio (France), DJ Mag, MTV and many more.

The pair are renowned for uplifting productions and emotive lyrics, etching their place in modern dance music with massive radio hits like "Summer On You", "Up Till Dawn", "Where Have You Gone", “Perfect” and of course “Letters”, the title track of their 2020 debut album: "Letters to Remember”. Their 16 song LP, which received the Netherlands’ prestigious Edison Pop Award, showcases their musical diversity and solidifies Lucas & Steve’s reputation as truly talented songwriters. With deeply embedded dance roots, the pair have collaborated with the likes of Armin van Buuren, Sam Feldt, W&W, Mike Williams and remixed many household names such as David Guetta, Robin Schulz, Kygo, Lost Frequencies and Illenium among many others.

Since, the Dutch tastemakers have continued their upward trajectory with a slew of highly anticipated and heavy hitting collaborations. 2021 saw Lucas & Steve first team up with R&B icons Blackstreet for the radio-friendly ‘No Diggity’, before bringing things back to the festival with ‘Paper Planes’, a joint venture alongside Norway’s very own Tungevaag.

Lucas & Steve’s infinite energy is best experienced in a crowd, which they’ve proven time after time with acclaimed live performances at Tomorrowland’s Mainstage, Creamfields, AMF, Parookaville, Sziget Festival, ElectroBeach, as well as continuous tours across Europe, Asia and South America.

As the world came to a standstill in 2020, Lucas & Steve continued to elevate their songwriting and recording process to new heights, resulting in the duo surpassing 1 billion streams from all corners of the globe. Lucas & Steve continued to up the ante throughout 2021, churning out trendsetting and memorable collaborations alongside industry icons like Afrojack, Tiësto, and Galantis. Most recently, Lucas & Steve expressed their excitement to bring their sound back on the road with the release of the aptly titled “Set You Free”. Completely reinvigorated, Lucas & Steve are finally emerging from the past two years with a whole new bag of musical tricks up their sleeves. With a succulent summer tour ahead, the Dutch duo is ready to show fans that the best is yet to come.

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For Rune Reilly Kölsch, Kompakt has become a great label to call home. In 2013 the German imprint celebrated 20 years of record releases at the cutting edge of electronic music, championed in June by one of the most genre re-defining albums and personal music projects for an era: Kölsch’s landmark long player, ‘1977’.

A melodic autobiography on black wax, the Kölsch project has seen 36/37-year-old Rune take stock of a diverse and successful production career and draw upon his own personal beginnings: a nostalgia for childhood, family, friends and the confusion of applying his split-cultural heritage to what it means to think of ‘home’. As Rune freely admits, “being half Irish, half German and living in Denmark – it was all one big messy period of my life.” 

Born to hippie parents in the freetown of Christiania (a commune-like autonomous borough of the Danish capital Copenhagen) his childhood was spent surrounded by creativity. His mother was an artist whose family had roots in German politics and his father a singer songwriter who travelled through Asia playing music in the early 70's. Kölsch, however, did miss out on building friendships and found solace in making up “this imaginary world that I would spend days in,” before the family moved to Germany – a period of memories, relations and characters from which ‘1977’ derives its titles.

For Rune, the tracks he began building from 2010 took in this personal reflection, his being “completely locked in to reminiscing about what shaped me as a kid and into the individual that I am now” – contemplating his unique past to form the brickwork of ‘1977’, one of the most future-facing techno albums of recent years.

Influenced by hip hop, pop and the incredible legacy of Jeff Mills and Derrick May, Rune started producing in 1995, embarking on a string of success stories. In 2003 he released the multi-million selling, saxophone-infused ‘Calabria’, that saw collaboration requests pouring in from artists as diverse as Nicki Minaj, Shakira and Flo Rida. He then set up Tattoorecs – releasing pioneering underground tracks with no titles, just tattoos for artwork, that garnered critical acclaim and support from minimal and techno trailblazers such as Sven Väth, Richie Hawtin, Magda, Tiefschwarz and Ricardo Villalobos.

This appreciation of the complete musical spectrum has gifted Rune with a devotion to groove and melodics and with it the dexterity to input real creative change to the genres he reveres, not least his beloved techno. “2010 was the year of the ketamine house wave, where the music was 118 bpm and everything was extremely boring”, reflects Rune. “I wanted some melodic techno, some energy back in this scene. People needed the energy to express themselves and go crazy for a bit.”

This notion faced opposition, even from within Rune’s close circles. But it was Kompakt founder Michael Mayer who had the insight to see what Kölsch was trying to achieve. Rune’s conviction that vibrations and melodics are the key to human response had tipped the balance, underlined by his experience as a hip hop DJ where he “needed something to catch me and drag me in. And that’s what techno should do!” Here too he drew on his love of Jeff Mills and Derrick May, recalling how “they used to make mistakes all the time. It would be a big mash of all kinds of stuff, but at least something was happening. That’s what I was missing and that’s what I’m trying to change with the Kölsch project.”

The result is ‘1977’, a personal collection of dancefloor destroyers that are continuing to send clubs and festivals across the globe into melodic supernova. Take this video of Kölsch’s set at Belgium’s I Love Techno festival, one of Rune’s 2013 highlights, where “people were doing sit downs, singing along to all the tracks”. Watch it. It puts the hairs up on the back of your neck. “The response was overwhelming,” said Rune in a recent interview with Mixmag (who named Kölsch as one of their ‘Stars Of 2013’), as “when you think about it, it was just a bunch of childhood memories with a kickdrum underneath.” 

Elsewhere he’s ripped up the airways with an acclaimed Essential Mix for Pete Tong on BBC Radio 1, delivered his incendiary soundscape to Singapore’s world-renowned ZoukOut Festival, boomed his live show through the heaving basement of London’s XOYO and played the hallowed Space Terrace – in his words “a boyhood dream since I started going to Ibiza in 1999. That was what I wanted from life!” So opening Amnesia in 2014 with Joris Voorn will be a bonus then...

While these are reasons enough to keep the beaming smile beneath Kölsch’s trademark black fedora, his humility remains just as striking. While tracks like ‘Goldfisch’ have taken pivotal positions in the set lists of world class DJs from across the dance music spectrum – traversing the underground with Seth Troxler, while simultaneously providing credible new euphoric highs for the likes of Axwell – Rune remains joyously down to earth. All despite producing, with ‘1977’, an album that has crossed as many cultural and musical boundaries as his own childhood past.

From the face-twisting melodic drive of ‘Opa’ and ‘Bappedekkel’, to the chord-surfing piano groove of ‘Der Alte’ and the euphoric crescendos of ‘Lorely’, ‘Oma’ and ‘All That Matters’ (all hits in different countries), the fact remains that whether in your living room, on the dancefloors of the world’s greatest parties, or simply in your headphones on your way home, Kölsch’s ‘1977’ has re-defined techno and become an achievement that speaks for itself. 

Words: Phil Dudman – Clubs & Live Music Editor, Mixmag


Happy Feelings Soundsystem is an Amsterdam based collective of talented DJ's, who know how to convey the distinctive Happy Feelings sound to the audience like no other. With house as the foundation, the 2000s as the playground and disco as the homestay, they leave no dance floor untouched.

About Happy Feelings
Extravagant, famous, and notorious; Happy Feelings is one of the biggest and most successful providers of joy in the Netherlands and far beyond. With 100+ annual events, festivals and club nights in over 25 cities in 5 countries, we cater to more than 100,000 annual visitors with parties, happiness, and limitless amounts of confetti.

contact: info@bynxmusic.com
mgmt: jake@hyperionartists.com
booking: olivia@@hyperionartists.com

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