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How to be a Raver: Nectar of the Gods
Posted on December 17, 2022 7 Comments
To everyone out there who enjoyed How to be a Raver: Food of the Gods – here’s the drinking version. Featuring mystical garden potions, synchronous drinking tricks, bottle magic on the dancefloors, electric boogie coffee, Ohoi! rum, people pouring bubbles like experts, and a little bit of schnapps and glögg. DID YOU MISS A DAY […]
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 Raver: Hands in the Air
Posted on December 15, 2022 10 Comments
Showing your deep appreciation for the music, for the mixing, for life, for the universe, for everything! – is a massive part of being a proper raver. Enjoy this selection of images (including a rare movie!) depicting people truly enjoying the moment with the reckless abandon of the open-hearted body: Hands in the air, receiving […]
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 […]
How to be a Raver: The Sunglasses Special
Posted on December 2, 2022 21 Comments
So, we have established that ravers are always right and thus probably the most highly evolved species on this planet (along with dolphins, the ravers of the sea). If we, the ravers, were only completely in charge, the future would be so bright. So magnificently bright that we would have to wear sunglasses to stare […]
The 13 best darkside jungle tunes ever
Posted on December 7, 2016 11 Comments
Okay, people, it’s time for a re-run. Or actually, it’s more of a remix than a re-run. In the 2014 edition of JUngLEkalenderen I did a collection of the best darkside tunes ever, but I posted them below a tale from my very very early childhood about my very first favourite vinyl record – and that tale […]
Gamers and ravers: The surprising similarities between the two worlds
Posted on December 2, 2016 7 Comments
I have been writing professionally about computer games since 2001 but I have been deeply involved in the electronic music scene for even longer, since 1993 – and I have found that the similarities between the two worlds are astonishing. To a hilarious degree. So let me share them with you: The 12 amazing similarities […]
Blasts from the Past: Garden Party People
Posted on December 12, 2015 6 Comments
It’s a sunny weekend, and we’re halfway through JUngLEkalenderen. It’s time to kick back and relax with an outdoorsy chill out session. It’s the birthday party of the Jungle Monster! If you didn’t catch that reference, jump to BuzzFeed’s If Disney Princesses had Realistic Waistlines, which caused quite a lot of debate in the mainstream […]
The Jungle Diaries: The Meaning of Life
Posted on December 5, 2015 13 Comments
The picture you see below is an example of what my diary started to look like when I became a dedicated jungle raver in London. It was all so new and exciting and completely outside the reach of the mainstream media , which meant that it all felt like a big, wonderful, magic movement, a […]
The 7 saddest jungle tunes ever
Posted on December 1, 2015 3 Comments
It’s that time of year, and as tradition demands it, we have to kick this off with some music before diving into all kinds of adventures. And I want to set the tone with some proper sadness. Because sad music works really well as fuel for time travelling. Let’s go, fellow timehoppers. Pulse – Stay […]