Subcultures 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 […]
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 […]
The art of dying in virtual reality
Posted on January 20, 2017 Leave a Comment
The most scary thing I have ever tried in virtual reality was a ski jump. Whauw, that felt so real. Virtual reality is an amazing tool for exploring your phobias, but the technology can also be used for many other things. The hyper focus of the VR headsets can be very useful for exploring meditation and altered […]
Jungle Confessions: “I get goosebumps on my legs thinking about that party!”
Posted on December 9, 2016 3 Comments
Today is dedicated to a Q&A with the one and only Nis, a completely unique character and friend who was an absolute jungle first mover in Copenhagen with his legendary jungle parties at Operaen and The Grey Hall in the 90s. If it hadn’t been for Nis and his early Jungle Fever parties I would […]
The Ozora Festival in Weekendavisen
Posted on August 28, 2015 Leave a Comment
My article on this years magical Ozora Festival in Hungary is out today in Weekendavisen. Much more to follow – here, too. But if you’re in Denmark – grab a copy. It’s out for a week. Read the entire article here (in Danish): En fest med jordforbindelse
The best festival in the world
Posted on July 3, 2015 1 Comment
I went to Fusion Festival for the first time in 2007 – and I have been attending every Fusion Festival since then with undiminished enthusiasm. For many years, I didn’t even consider writing an article about the festival. It was too special, too ‘secret’. But as the years went by and the festival just kept […]
Will Copenhagen become the Tetris capital of Europe?
Posted on March 26, 2015 2 Comments
On March 14th I attended the European Championships in Tetris just outside Copenhagen. I wrote the article “Klodsede stjerner” which was published in Weekendavisen, March 20th 2015. Below, a recap in English – with pics from the night. The Perfect Game The best Tetris players in the world were gathered in Copenhagen on March 14th […]