De School unveils extensive digital archive featuring over 800 DJ sets
Het Archief includes sets from the Amsterdam club dating back more than eight years
De School has unveiled a new digital archive featuring more than 800 DJ sets and live performances recorded at the Amsterdam nightclub over the years.
Named Het Archief, the archive spans almost a decade’s worth of music from 2016 when the club first opened to its eventual closure in early 2024.
Over 800 performances now feature in the archive, including sets from the likes of Call Super, rRoxymore, Ryan Elliott, Carista, Hunee, Objekt, SPFDJ, AceMo, Ikonika, Bored Lord, and AIDA.
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The archive also includes sets from long-running residents such as Tammo Hesselink, and live sets from the likes of Nene H, Phase Fatale, Buttechno, and Steffi over the years.
The archive was built alongside archivist Stadsarchief and music platform Podium Kunst using Mixcloud, and offers the ability to search using filters such as year, club night, or even the room the set was recorded in.
“Translating eight years of our history into an open-ended archive, you’re invited to re-enter and remember De School through sound,” the club explained on Instagram.
“Het Archief is a time capsule for the present and future, as well as a testimony to the time-transcending value of club culture. More than anything, it’s a shared space to simply get lost in (music) once more.”
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The club also thanked the nearly 500 artists who gave permission to publish their performances, each “soundtracking De School’s existence between 2016 and 2024”.
Het Archief is the product of “months of action behind closed club doors'' following De School’s closure in January. After eight years in operation, the famed Amsterdam club was shuttered for good following a closing party featuring more than 80 artists.
In March, it was announced that a new venue named Tilla Tec would open in the same space - a joint project between Samuel King and DJ Lola Edo — the founder of queer bar pamela.
Check out Het Archief here.
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