Amsterdam’s De School shares vast digital archive with over 800 sets: Listen

Shuttered Amsterdam club De School has opened up its archives, sharing more than 800 sets recorded at the club which are now available to stream.

The multi-purpose arts and hospitality venue, which closed as De School in January and has since reopened as Tilla Tec, has launched an interactive digital archive, titled Het Archief, with hundreds of recordings from the time the club was open from 2016 through to 2024.

The project was a collaboration with Mixcloud, Stadsarchief Amsterdam and Podium Kunst, with more than 500 artists giving permission to have their sets included. Many mixes are accompanied by a description from the DJ, like this March 2018 set by Lena Willikens & Vladimir Ivkovic which she said inspired them "to play from now on as Willikens & Ivkovic regularly".

"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 said 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."

Listeners can browse the archive by year, as well as by space, promoter and event series, like De School's signature Het Weekend. There are mixes by club residents and favourites like Aurora Halal, upsammy, Objekt, Oceanic, Stellar OM Source, rRoxymore, Speedy J, Hunee, Carista, Nene H, Call Super, Mor Elian and many more.

De School closed for good in January 2024, after a 16-month reopening run under new management, which gave the venue, that initially closed in 2020 while at centre of wide-ranging criticism, a chance to "show what we have learned". In April, it was voted No. 85 in DJ Mag's Top 100 Clubs Poll. 

Browse Het Archief here, and read De School's announcement statement below.