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How to be a Raver: Party Animals – the extended mix
Ravers are friendly people, and no-one loves animals (and aliens) with more intensity than us.
Dancefloors with sound systems built to make your entire human body vibrate are not optimal places to bring your favorite pets with sensitive hearing, though. But you can bring your inflatable animal friends instead:
Here’s a grown-up man squeezed tight by his friendly inflatable giraffe and also wearing a shamanic flute in case more spirit animals have to be summoned. Trancefloor at Fusion, a place of much fun, 2013.Here’s animal lover and animal protector Joel Rowdy, bringing a tiger to the dance floor at Fusion. Turmbühne.Hjeppe Mann simply wears cats at the Somewhere Festival 2017.Chriszka dj’s at Storketræf, surrounded by many animals: Unicorns, cats, peacocks, storks, jellyfish, flamingos. Fusionists dance below the iconic dragons at Turmbühne.Chriszka wears a butterfly on her face. Afterparty people gather by the iconic octopus arms – at the Distortion afterparty, 2024.Thyregod roams free in his natural habitat, the outdoor party, wearing full body animal print. Storketræf 2024.Yes. I am inside a white rabbit costume at Strøm Festival 2023. We needed someone to lure the massive crowds from the Trans Metro Express train to the afterparty on the rooftop terrace at Alice, so obviously we needed a white rabbit to do that. Alice, white rabbit, get it? Someone HAD to do it. And I was, surprisingly, the only one at the Strøm office who didn’t mind jumping into the costume. Another great day at work, many years earlier. I am inside the bear to the left! I wrote an article in Berlingske about Rosa Gjerulff’s new show at Nørrebro Theatre, and we needed a cover shot for the front page, so I jumped into an icebear costume along with the PR manager from the theatre, Karen, and we did this photo shoot on Nørrebrogade. Rosa’s show was called ‘Rosa in the Rhythm Forest’ which is a very raver-style title. This is me, acting like a sad ice bear in the corner of the dressing room of Nørrebro Theatre. SUPER FUN WORK DAY!Someone wears an inflatable giraffe on their back at the dancefloor at Free Earth festival in Greece. This guy always wears an elephant on his back – at Roskilde, July 2010.Copenhageners enjoy the sun underneath the flamingos at Kaj Din Ven I Solen, June 2021. This might be a hint to Lewis Carroll’s ‘Through the Looking-Glass’.In the newest incarnation of the Tanzwüzte stage at Fusion, which has a shipwreck vibe to it (including actual shipwrecks and a stranded yellow submarine) the crowd dances beneath circling pirate birds. You can spot three of the black birds above the crowd here, behind someone’s ‘find-me-on-the-dancefloor-flag.At Boom 2012, everyone at the Dance Temple danced beneath the feathered serpent Quetzalcoatl. According to the Mayans, Quetzalcoatl would return around 2012 and mark the beginning of the era of The Sixth Sun, a sun of darkness. This era, followed by the long reign of The Fifth Sun (a sun of light, dominated by the masculine and science) will be characterized by the rise of the feminine and of irrationalism, reality gaining a dreamlike quality. (The Aztecs were very frightened by the coming of the Sixth Sun and indulged in some human sacrifice rituals to avoid it – or maybe ease themselves into it).Here’s a proper look at one of the heads of the feathered serpent, before the dancing crowds arrived.Someone ALWAYS brings a unicorn to the dance floor. This is the Distortion Final Party, 2022.Someone brought crocodiles and elephants to the rooftop party in Kødbyen of Copenhagen, August 2010.This captain guy brought an octopus to Fusion. 2019.
This just reminded me how much dubsteppers love deep sea monsters. Re-read my text about the Kraken release party (which happened around March 2007) here: Gigantisk dybhavsmonster indtager Stengade.
More glittery animals: Dancing beneath a unicorn at the So Verbot one day festival, Copenhagen 2022.So yeah, this is me, loving animals from an early age. This is my first cat ever.And here’s my current one, her jungle cat Tybalt, lover of (and destroyer of) plants.
Since we are already talking about Tybalt, and since this post is about our love for animals, I think everyone should know that my hyper-intelligent jungle cat has learned to play fetch. Here’s proof. Dj Dröj mixes tunes by the flamingo at Storketræf, 2024. More animals: Spot the yellow bird.Fred Alert has dressed up as a Dalmatian and goes hunting with Tybalt.
DJ Drop spins some dangerous tunes at the bike shop, wearing a shark.A mouse arrives at Dollars’ Campingvogn Party, August 2007. A monkey and a pink elephant show up at the Trancefloor on Fusion, 2013. People relaxing on a unicorn by Bachstelzen at Fusion.Sofus the Shape-shifter embodies the spirit of the dead pig at the Hifly Pigfest, July 2010.Who remembers the crowdsurfing panda? This is the Distortion street party in indre by. The photo accompanies an article I wrote in Berlingske in May 2013 titled ‘Party Photos – No Thanks’ – about party organizers who “have had enough of cameras everywhere” – featuring Linus Ellesøe Ditzel (Ghettobass) and Kristoffer Buck Bramsen (Pumpehuset) – amongst others. Panda photo by Kenneth Nguyen.
Here’s the article:Rudkjøbing wears a bat on his chest – at O Days, waiting for Chase & Status, august 2024.Alex is being very French and casually prepares a grilled lobster in our camp at Fusion, 2014. I am still impressed with this accomplishment. He even went on a search for garlic butter in our neighboring camps – and found some! Garridge Bwoy features a dinosaur on his t-shirt – at Mariii’s garden party, July 2006.An inflatable unicorn rests by the scenic sea stage on the last day at Somewhere Festival, 2016.Baby-faced Chriszka discovers some surprising animals on sticks at a food market in China, 2004. Check out the seahorses.Ravers relax inside the mouth of a dragon at Fusion.Chriszka embodies Anubis with the jackal head, the ancient Egyptian god of the dead.A dear bunch of colorful raver musicians throw an energetic concert in front of the giant deer, created by Hackstage. The head of the deer is right behind Steen Koerner, electric boogie’ing.A butterfly thinks Chriszka’s colorful raving shoes must be flowers – at Fusion, 2007.Someone wears a bird on their head – at Roskilde Festival 2010.Chriszka brings her jungle t-shirt to the Chinese lion at the Forbidden City, 2004.Someone wears actual wings (or has grown actual wings, who knows) at the Bachstelzen stage, Fusion.A zebra overlooks the Øen Ved Siden Af stage at Distortion, 2022. For extra points: Spot the dragon.Rowdy wears a friendly dragon hat in the middle of a sandwich hug by Alex and Emok at the Trancefloor on Fusion.Morten glides elegantly across Fredens Eng at the Strøm Peace Party wearing dangerous animal print.A unicorn watches from the wall as Lux repairs the shoe of Louis Jarto (Random Koncerter) .Someone brought their own nighttime dragon to Fusion.Chriszka wears animal print to the people zoo of Stella Polaris.
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For the geeks out there who wants to dive even deeper into the magical lands of rave culture, so filled with mythical creatures like dragons, unicorns, white rabbits and deep sea monsters, I wrote an entire thesis on the subject: ‘Festivaler, flowmaskiner og fabeldyr’ (in English: Festivals, Flow machines and Feathered dragons’):
