Electronic music Category
My Psytrance Sci-Fi Mix: Cosmic tracks spanning from 1998 to 2025
Jump on this spaceship with me! My newest mix is fully dedicated to psytrance with sci-fi vibes. ALL tracks have a sci-fi theme, in the title, in the soundscapes, in the samples, in the artist name, or all of them combined. Listen at https://soundcloud.com/chriszka/psytrance-sci-fi-mix-cosmic I love sci-fi and speculative fiction – because it’s mind-expanding! If […]
Rave Culture: Aliens, spaceships and cosmic adventures
Posted on December 21, 2025 Leave a Comment
You might have noticed that mainstream culture has turned its gaze towards UFOs, aliens, and possible parallel universes in recent years. But as always, ravers are decades, if not eons, ahead. Rave culture is PACKED with references to space travel and aliens and has been so since day one. The entire festival looks like it’s […]
The Dark Stranger mix: Darkside jungle and drum’n’bass with eerie horror vibes – from 1993 to 2024
Posted on November 10, 2025 Leave a Comment
When I immersed myself in the jungle scene in London at 19 and became instantly obsessed, the big darkside anthems were packed with (horror) movie samples, and I was completely fascinated by that. I still am. So: Here’s my newest mix, an hour of carefully handpicked darkside jungle and drum’n’bass with eerie horror vibes and […]
Blasts from the Recent Past: Birthday Bash Edition 5.0
Posted on December 3, 2024 Leave a Comment
Last year, I celebrated my birthday with a pop-up-vernissage that would slowly transform into a party and then into a jungle rave. These are the rare photos and videos from the event.
New mix: The Psytrance Tunnelsyn Set
Posted on October 27, 2024 Leave a Comment
My newest mix is the dj set from the Tunnelsyn party on Saturday 19th of October 2024: A psytrance set with an oldschool vibe, lively basslines and rising intensities. Listen here: Psytrance Tunnelsyn Mix I’m time-traveling as per usual: The oldest track is from 1995, the newest from 2023. Featuring Beat Bizarre (several tracks), Braincell, […]
Ravers Are the Experts: Our Natural Habitats
Posted on December 16, 2022 9 Comments
Outdoor parties are the best. Electronic music sounds great under the open sky (this is where it really and totally unfolds properly), the blurpy and creaky sounds of psychedelic trance and techno just makes a whole lot more sense when you dance next to trees, and the tribal beats make cosmic sense when you dance […]
How to Be a Junglist: The T-shirt Special (Extended Remix)
Posted on December 14, 2022 11 Comments
When you belong to an awesome subculture, you need to be able to communicate your sophisticated taste to your tribe instantly. You also need to communicate it when you walk around in mainstream areas of society, just to underline how much cooler you are. Let’s have a look at some printed t-shirt strategies applied by […]
Ravers are the Experts: Dancefloors Everywhere
Posted on December 7, 2022 17 Comments
Proper ravers make the best dance floors in the world, and everywhere: From tiny dance floors in livings rooms and secret dance floors in the forests to cosmic dance portals for tens of thousands of people like The Dance Temple at Boom or Turmbühne at Fusion. Since I started raving, all other dance floors lost […]
My thesis on psychedelic festivals: Festivals, flow machines and feathered dragons
Posted on January 20, 2021 Leave a Comment
My thesis is about rave culture as ritual: I look upon psychedelic festivals as – flow machines – ilinx generators (what’s that, you say? Read all about it in the thesis!) – and– transformation rituals for the 21st century. Read the full thesis here (in English): Rave culture likes to imagine itself as the direct […]
Dark waters and light: Music on the edge
Posted on August 16, 2019 Leave a Comment
There is something both exciting and ominous about the combination of techno and water…. This Friday I was midnight swimming in Frederiksberg Svømmehal during the Strøm Festival while SØS Gunver Ryberg was playing and laser geometries from Laserfabrikken filled the room with the most magnificent light patterns. My article is out. You can google translate […]