De Unie 2026

Name: De Unie 2026
Start: 2026-12-19T14:00:00+01:00
End: 2026-12-20T01:00:00+01:00
Location: 013 Poppodium

Sat, 19 Dec 2026 · 14:00 — Sun, 20 Dec 01:00

013 Poppodium, Tilburg

festival party

Foto: Spotify

De Unie 2026 takes place at 013 Poppodium in Tilburg, featuring a line-up of Abiba Sokoto, Antal, Avalon Emerson, Cobahn, Will Oirson, David Vunk, Fafi Abdel Nour, Gabrielle Kwarteng, Jen Cardini, Ineffekt, Suze IJó and Young Marco.

About the festival: De Unie 2026

5th edition

Edition number

Halls

±3 000

Capacity 013 Main Stage

Good to know

Saturday 19 December 2026, one day
Ticket from € 25,- (early bird) to € 42.50 (regular)
Early entrance ticket only valid before 16:00
Age limit: 18+
Three halls, each with its own genre and atmosphere
No camping - indoor event
Schedule will be announced in the week of the event

What's new

2026-01
Pre-sales for De Unie 2026 started on Friday, January 30, 2026 at 11:00.
2026
The early bird tickets are sold out; regular ticket sales are now open.
2026
De Unie 2026 takes place on Saturday, December 19 at 013 Poppodium Tilburg.

Line-up

Abiba Sokoto
Cobahn
Will Oirson
Fafi Abdel Nour
Gabrielle Kwarteng
Suze IJó

About: Antal

Behind the decks is Antal Heitlager, the man who built Amsterdam's Rush Hour into a record shop, label and distribution house rolled into one. With close to thirty years of DJing behind him, he moves fluidly between house, Afro-funk and disco, giving every dancefloor its own distinct character.

13K

followers on Facebook

What's new

aug 2025
Antal performed in August 2025 at the Finnish Flow Festival in Helsinki, as part of a busy festival season that also included performances at Lentekabinet, Love International and Dekmantel.
mrt 2025
In March 2025, Antal performed a live set from the Rush Hour shop in Amsterdam for The Lot Radio in New York.
okt 2022
In October 2022, Antal produced a two-hour Essential Mix for BBC Radio 1, one of the most prestigious mix shows in the world.

Tracks

BBC Essential Mix (oktober 2022)Two-hour mix for BBC Radio 1, widely shared in the international club scene

Nothing but 45's (dj mix)Popular mix on SoundCloud, entirely mixed on 7-inch singles

Brazil 16 MixMix compiled after a crate-digging trip in Brazil (2016)

Groove Podcast 354 (2022)Mix for the renowned German Groove Magazine

About: Avalon Emerson

From San Francisco warehouse parties to the Panorama Bar and major festival stages, Avalon Emerson brings a decade of DJ craft together with a growing career as a vocalist and bandleader. Her sets move freely across genres and eras, while her band project Avalon Emerson & the Charm shows that her musical reach extends well beyond the dancefloor.

51K

followers on Facebook

80/100

Metacritic score for '& the Charm' (2023)

What's new

2026-03
Avalon Emerson & the Charm released their second album 'Written into Changes' on March 20, 2026 via Dead Oceans, co-produced by Bullion and Rostam Batmanglij.
2026-01
In January 2026, Resident Advisor announced that 'Written into Changes' would be released on March 20; the album is thematically dedicated to change and relocations in Emerson's life.
2026-02
Avalon Emerson announced a performance at Down The Rabbit Hole in Ewijk as part of her festival schedule for 2026.

Tour

EwijkManchesterLondonParisBerlin

Tracks

The FrontierBreakthrough single from 2016 on Whities; named by Resident Advisor as one of the best tracks of the decade

& the CharmDebut album (2023), co-produced by Bullion; Metacritic score 80/100

DJ-Kicks: Avalon EmersonMix album from 2020 for the renowned !K7 label

Written into ChangesSecond album (2026) via Dead Oceans, featuring Bullion and Rostam Batmanglij

Perpetual Emotion MachineEP series from 2025, collaboration with Moby; marks return to the dancefloor

About: Jen Cardini

With more than thirty years behind the decks - from small queer bars to Ibiza superclubs and warehouse raves - Jen Cardini ranks among the most influential figures in the European club scene. As founder of Correspondant and Dischi Autunno and artistic director of the Nightclubbing Festival in Paris, they weave label work, political commitment and DJ sets into one coherent story.

5.1K

followers on Resident Advisor

30+

year active as dj

What's new

2026-03
Jen Cardini released the EP 'petit monstre' on March 27, 2026 via SMIILEWAX - her first solo project since the nineties.
2026-02
Cardini announced the first Nightclubbing Festival, taking place from September 24 to 27, 2026 in La Villette in Paris, in collaboration with AEG Presents France.
2025-12
Cardini created a mix for Resident Advisor (RA.870) following a performance at a Mala Junta party, described as a 'fever dream blasting with percussive sensuality'.

Tour

ParisAmsterdamBerlinLisbonSan DiegoDüsseldorf

Tracks

petit monstre EPfirst solo project since the nineties, released on SMIILEWAX in March 2026

Feeling Strangemix-cd released on Kompakt in 2008, making Cardini the first female artist on the label

Tuesday Paranoiacollaboration with Shonky on Crosstown Rebels (2008), one of her best-known productions

August in Pariscollaboration with Shonky on Mobilee (2006)

The Dark, The Lightown release on Correspondant (2023)

About: Young Marco

Born in Sneek and rooted in Amsterdam's underground, Marco Sterk built an international reputation through sets that roam freely across psychedelic house, techno and global sounds - backed by his Safe Trip label and a Beatport number-one single.

141.6K

monthly listeners on Spotify

'What You Say?' on Beatport (2023)

201+

registered concerts (Concert Archives)

What's new

2025-07
Young Marco was on the line-up of Down The Rabbit Hole 2025 (4-6 July, Beuningen).
2025-10
Young Marco was announced for the Into the Woods ADE Festival 2026 (23-24 October, Amsterdam).
2025-11
Young Marco performed in November 2025 at multiple European club nights, including Basses Fréquences in Lyon and Kodz in Paris.

Tour

AmsterdamBeuningenLondonLyonParisPortoBudapestTisno

Tracks

What You Say?Beatport #1 and NPO 3FM Megahit (2023), with sample from Imogen Heap

The Best I Could Do (With What I Had)Released via Dekmantel (2015), praised as slowly built-up house classic

BiologyDebut album as solo artist

BahasaSecond solo album (2019), hypnotic rhythms and dreamy soundscapes

Clouds (Gaussian Curve)Ambient album with Gigi Masin and Jonny Nash (2015), 7.8/10 on Pitchfork

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