Festivals Category
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Trance Tales: The Ozora Adventures
Posted on December 21, 2015 7 Comments
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 […]
5 problems only ravers know about
Posted on December 20, 2015 5 Comments
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) […]