Festivals Category

Rave Culture: Aliens, spaceships and cosmic adventures

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 […]

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Ravers Are the Experts: Our Natural Habitats

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 […]

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Ravers are the Experts: Dancefloors Everywhere

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 […]

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My thesis on psychedelic festivals: Festivals, flow machines and feathered dragons

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 […]

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Trance Tales: The Ozora Adventures

It’s the shortest and darkest day of the year here in Scandinavia, and I’m in serious need of some warm colours and light. So today, I’m taking JUngLEkalenderen to a warmer and brighter place. It’s excursion time! We’re going on a trip to the most colourful week of the past year: The magical and magnificent […]

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5 problems only ravers know about

Time for some jungle trouble. As you probably remember, the 7 best things about being a raver are 1) knowing the secret locations of the best parties on the planet 2) possessing the Endless Enthusiasm Superpower 3) never giving up (a useful skill in so many ways) 4) endless supply of Magic Raver Hugs 5) […]

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