EAST is a weekly Techno + underground Tech House night on Thursdays in the heart of Amsterdam. After 25 years Club NL will be closing its doors for good, at the end of June. Join us this month on Club NL's dance floor for a final goodbye to this fantastic club. GENERAL INFO Every Thursday night at Club NL Amsterdam Quality Techno and Tech House music by international guests and local stars Special Thursday deals on drinks Chill out areas ENTRY Presale: 8 EU (ex fee) At the door: 10 EU Location: Club NL Address: Nieuwezijds Voorburgwal 169 Amsterdam // EQUINOXX Equinoxx Is an Albanian producer, DJ and live act performer, characterized by successful productions leading to tracks like "Sonata", "Kerce" etc, with hundred thousands of monthly listeners. This has brought him to share stages with the biggest names of Electronic music like Marco Carola, Adriatique, Lee Burridge, Michael Bibi, Dubfire and Solomun. His passion for music started when he was 6 years old. As his passion started to take form, he started to learn the french horn and a few years later he deepened his studies towards basstube. He played with several orchestras all around Albania, Macedonia, and Kosovo. After many experiences and shows in the Gold Classic music scene, he decided to focus on the electronic genre, eventually, he was exploring the music world. In 2015 he created Plipki Records, with his childhood friend Loren. // REA Rea is an Albanian DJ and young producer based in Tirana. She started her career by experimenting with Organic Soundscapes and now she has been exploring even other genres of electronic such as ‘Progressive House’, ‘Melodic Techno’ and ‘Indie Dance’. Rea’s sets always give a hypnotic and yet powerful feeling while creating a cheerful and positive energy to the dance-floor. Her passion is always driven by enforcing and connecting her culture and roots with music, because to her electronic music is the universal language, we can all understand. Rea has played at several events in Albania such as: Turtle Fest, Tunnel Club, Okla Festival, Tirana Street Party, WunderWandel Festival etc. Rea is constantly growing in the electronic scene by recently adding producing in her portfolio. She recently published her first track ‘Lucero’ in collaboration with Seta4Art label. Currently she is part of '4AM Events' by having her first debut in Poland during March 2022. // ZELDA A techno artist whose story spans two continents and multiple cultures, Zelda is far from your run of the mill club DJ. The Netherlands-based US ex-pat has always been influenced by electronic music on a profound level, drawing inspiration from a selection of Techno’s most influential figures. Rising out of the late ‘90s across the DC, Maryland and Virginia area of the US, Zelda built a vinyl format sonic signature comprised of deep, melodic and driving Techno with a splash of Psy that focuses on hypnotic and perpetual grooves. Less industrial, and more in tune with the euphoric side of dance music - going hand in hand with the rave culture DJ Zelda was born from. Some of her most notable influences come in the form of Secret Cinema, Egbert, Metodi Hristov, Speedy J, Len Faki, Chris Liebing, Josephine Wedekind and Sandrien, among others. A plethora of inspiration, fusing the most iconic parts of today's Techno world along with the journey that led it to be. A clubland regular, Zelda’s performance resume includes the likes of the infamous Club Nation’s Buzz parties, The Edge, and Tracks in DC, Family Affair in Ohio, and Club Soma in Madrid. In 2019, Zelda won a DJ mix contest at Club Magistrat in The Hague, and she played there regularly until the end of the year. Having experienced the dancefloor as a dancer and as a performer, Zelda is now primarily focused on extending her reputation into a smaller target area as she looks to build on her newfound presence within the Dutch scene. Going beyond just club appearances to her relationship with electronic music throughout the years, Zelda famously played a part in the protest against The Reducing Americans' Vulnerability to Ecstasy Act, commonly known as the RAVE Act, where she was a speaker at the Capitol in DC in 2002, and in 2000, she opened the first DJ school in the US: Metatrack Studios. She currently manages a multi-thousand member Amsterdam Techno Lovers Meetup and Techno Travelers, a group dedicated to exploring techno around the world. Zelda has remained present online by sharing her club and studio mixes -serving as a platform to express her standout musical taste. More than just a selector; Zelda is a contributor to the electronic music community and a figure that instills genuine care for the togetherness that the culture itself brings. Zelda is a name that you can expect to stand the test of time in an ever-changing musical landscape, setting a fine example by doing what she does purely for the love of the music.