Armin van Buuren joins Amelie Lens for a surprise B2B set at ADE 2026

Armin van Buuren stepped unannounced into Amelie Lens’s booth for a surprise back-to-back set during Amsterdam Dance Event 2026, according to We Rave You. It happened at Lens’s EXHALE takeover, which she was headlining at the 5,000-capacity G-Star Rawfactory in Amsterdam.

The pairing of the Belgian techno star and the Dutch trance figure had not been announced beforehand, and Lens later posted clips of the set on Instagram. The EXHALE event ran across several rooms, with a lineup that also featured Anfisa Letyago and Blondex, as well as two more B2B sets: Adiel with HAAi, and DAX J with DJ Nobu.

It was one of several ADE appearances for Lens this year. On Saturday, 24 October, she played AMF at the Johan Cruijff ArenA in front of 40,000 people, on a bill that also included Armin van Buuren, Afrojack, David Guetta, Marlon Hoffstadt, ARTBAT, D-Block & S-TE-FAN and Korolova. In October mbuzz reported that AMF 2026, the biggest show on the ADE programme, had sold out.

Amelie Lens is a techno DJ and producer born in 1990 in Vilvoorde, Belgium. In September she released her debut album, “AURA”, via EXHALE Records, and this year she drew 14,000 people to a hometown show on the square by Antwerp’s KMSKA museum.