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My Psytrance Sci-Fi Mix: Cosmic tracks spanning from 1998 to 2025
Jump on this spaceship with me! My newest mix is fully dedicated to psytrance with sci-fi vibes. ALL tracks have a sci-fi theme, in the title, in the soundscapes, in the samples, in the artist name, or all of them combined. Listen at https://soundcloud.com/chriszka/psytrance-sci-fi-mix-cosmic I love sci-fi and speculative fiction – because it’s mind-expanding! If […]
New mix: The Psytrance Tunnelsyn Set
Posted on October 27, 2024 Leave a Comment
My newest mix is the dj set from the Tunnelsyn party on Saturday 19th of October 2024: A psytrance set with an oldschool vibe, lively basslines and rising intensities. Listen here: Psytrance Tunnelsyn Mix I’m time-traveling as per usual: The oldest track is from 1995, the newest from 2023. Featuring Beat Bizarre (several tracks), Braincell, […]
How To be a Raver: The Conversationalists
Posted on December 22, 2022 2 Comments
Back in 2016, I had a JUngLEkalender conversation with fellow junglist Sofus about our first many years at raves. And how we always always always had to be the last person standing on the dancefloor. How important that was. This is a bit of the conversation: Sofus: “Now, it’s a lot easier for me to […]
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 […]
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 […]
“Dancing is a very important ritual”
Posted on November 17, 2014 7 Comments
Son Kite releases their 4th album “Prisma” today on the Danish label Iboga Records. I interviewed the Swedish duo a couple of weeks ago, and it was a hugely inspiring experience. It is quite rare for me to meet people who take the transformational potential of the dancefloor and the healing properties of proper raving […]