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Romantic Junglist Mix: Jungle tracks from 1994 to 2025 with romantic sing-a-long vibes
Soundcloud link: The Romantic Junglist Mix – featuring romantic jungle tunes from 1994 to 2025 This year, the month of May was even more romantic than usual: There was a wedding in the mix, on top of all the other springtime festivities. And that wedding presented me with a unique and very JUngLEkalender-esque opportunity: to […]
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: Career Advice from Unexpected Places
Posted on December 14, 2025 Leave a Comment
Rave culture is so fun and amazing, you never want to leave. So how do you stay inside the fun house forever? By turning raving into your career. Here’s how. CAREER CHOICE: BECOME A DJ AND/OR START A RECORD COMPANYThis is the obvious choice. And many have succeeded. Even if we limit ourselves to those […]
How to be a Raver: Party Animals – the extended mix
Posted on December 7, 2025 Leave a Comment
The magical landscapes of rave culture are filled with mythical creatures like dragons, unicorns, white rabbits and deep sea monsters.
Ravers are the Experts: Surviving the long, dark tunnel
Posted on November 30, 2025 Leave a Comment
Ravers are the experts: Surviving the long dark tunnel
Ravers are the Experts: Keeping Warm at All Times
Posted on December 22, 2024 1 Comment
Rave culture can keep you warm through the coldest and hardest of times. Because the heart of rave culture is the dancefloor. And the dancefloor is the place to go for (re-)heating up our hearts when life freezes over.
Jungle Feelings: The Bladerunner Special – round II
Posted on December 15, 2024 Leave a Comment
This is my jungle set from the Tunnelsyn party in Copenhagen in November 2024. The party was in a tunnel, so I had a lot of fun mixing in ‘Valley of the Shadows’ here and there, because hearing the ‘Felt that I was in this long, dark tunnel’ sample while partying in a tunnel is […]
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.
Ravers Are the Experts: Big Smiles and Extreme Happiness
Posted on December 24, 2022 Leave a Comment
This has to end with an explosion of emotion, every year. Enjoy this collection of feel-good snapshots of moments in the past (and the very recent past) where you were all clearly TRULY happy. Intermezzo: Read some of Tim Driver’s insights about rave culture right here: My first big raver experience. Intermezzo: Enjoy some more […]
Ravers are the Experts: Slowing Down in Fast Lives – part II
Posted on December 23, 2022 1 Comment
Let’s get back to how it all started out this season: With slowing down. On purpose. Here’s another sweet selection of ravers slowing down in the middle of everything. – Read more about the ‘slowing down in the middle of everything’ skill here: 5 problems only ravers know about– Here’s some family fun for the […]