Niels Orens
support: echofarmer
22
October
Niels Orens is an electronic producer and live performer exploring the intersection of acoustic instrumentation and immersive electronic sound design. His music transforms organic textures into deeply atmospheric, emotionally resonant soundscapes that prioritize tension, spatial depth, and sonic detail over traditional song structures. Inspired by artists such as Yves Tumor, Burial, Eartheater, James Holden and Jon Hopkins, Orens crafts a sound that moves between fractured breakbeats, haunting low-end pressure, distorted textures and fragile melodic moments — balancing raw intensity with moments of quiet stillness. Written during periods of isolation and introspection, his work explores themes of alienation, loneliness and internal unrest, translating emotional detachment into immersive, slow-burning compositions that feel both physically immediate and deeply human.
Orens’ artistic development has been strongly shaped by his collaboration with Max Cooper, contributing to projects including Unspoken Words and SEME, which premiered at venues such as London’s Barbican and the Salzburg Easter Festival, alongside his feature on Cooper’s 2025 album On Being. In parallel, he has shared stages with artists including Forest Swords, Rival Consoles and Weval, while performing extensively across Europe with shows at Ancienne Belgique in Brussels and a sold out Concertgebouw’s Koorzaal in Amsterdam during ADE. His live performances extend the emotional and cinematic quality of his recordings through immersive audiovisual elements and precise sound design, offering an intimate glimpse into an evolving body of work that continues to push deeper into experimentation, texture and emotional clarity.
AMSTERDAM DANCE EVENT (ADE)
This show is part of Amsterdam Dance Event (ADE). ADE is the most upfront, influential and educational gathering for electronic music and its industry. ADE Festival consists of 1200 music events yearly organized by over 300 clubs and cultural institutions. This means the Foundation does not organise the individual events itself, but rather invites external events to join the yearly festival. Every year ADE is hosted by very established as well as unknown and surprising locations, covering not only every part of the city, but a great variety of electronical music as well.
ADE wristband holders have free access to this show, but please note that Cinetol ticket buyers get priority access.
Support act
echofarmer
echofarmer (BE) is the alias of Brussels-based producer and musician Arne Nuyts. With a sound as suited for the club as for the couch, echofarmer crafts enchanting miniverses. Hyperdetailed percussion and deep subs fuse with vocal-like synths, acoustic instruments, and found sounds. Combining childlike joy with surgical precision, every live set is infectiously unique, all unified by echofarmer’s tactile approach to sound and relentless appetite for experimentation.
From teletubbie hyperjungle to bedroomstep and pillowcore, echofarmer blurs the line between dance floor and blanket fort.
