Shuttered Amsterdam Club De School Launches Digital Archive Featuring More than 800 Set Recordings

DJ and live sets from more than 500 artists appear across the extensive archive

Amsterdam club De School, which closed for good in January of this year, has launched a digital archive, featuring more than 800 set recordings from the venue.

Put together in collaboration with Mixcloud, Podium Kunst and archivist Stadsarchief, Het Archief takes in DJ and live set recordings by more than 500 artists, which span from the club’s opening in 2016 through to the final weekend at the start of this year.

Among the artists whose set recordings appear across the archive are Objekt, Speedy J, Rabih Beaini, Elena Colombi, Optimo, Peter Van Hoesen, Lena Willikens, Call Super, Shannen SP and Vladimir Ivkovic.

“Translating eight years of our history into an open-ended archive, you’re invited to re-enter and remember De School through sound,” the team behind the club wrote 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.”

Browse the full archive here.

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