Thirty years of Hospital Records. One night on Karangahape Road. A venue full of the D&B whānau, basslines you can feel in your ribcage and outfits bright enough to be seen from the Sky Tower. Here is your Ravers Co guide to doing the Auckland round properly. Your Guide To Hospital Admission Hospital30 lands at…
The deep frequency swept me into its rhythm, each sweet harmony lifting me higher into transcendence and bliss, until nothing remained but the music. In that moment, I was free. There are some events you go to, and some events you feel. Like every AUM gathering before it, the AUM Winter Series #2, on Friday…

Picture it. The sun is sinking behind the Auckland skyline, a psytrance bassline is rolling across the harbour and a boat full of ghosts, aliens and sea witches is dancing its way into the night. If that sounds like your idea of a perfect Halloween, you’re in the right place. Trancevaders is celebrating 10 years…

AURA Music & Arts Festival returns to Melbourne for its third edition on 30 October 2026, and the clue to what makes it worth your time is right there in the name. This isn’t just a lineup – it’s a music and arts festival, which means the visual side of the event matters as much…
If you’ve ever found yourself mesmerised by the fire spinners just beyond the dancefloor, or completely lost in the visual energy of a late-night doof, you need to know about Cosmic Weave. Michael Todd is one of the founders and organisers of Auckland Fire & Flow, the community keeping the fire and flow arts alive…

Terminal V has built a serious reputation in techno, and the Sydney edition brings that energy to ivy on 17-18 October 2026. This is a different animal to a paddock festival – it’s an indoor, big-room techno event in the middle of the city, and it wants a different approach to what you wear and…
Deep in a hidden Te Tai Tokerau/Northland valley, where a winding river meets ancient forest, something extraordinary is waking up for the eleventh time. From 5th to 8th February 2027, a quiet working farm near Nukutawhiti becomes Dimension: Origins Edition, four days that call us all the way back to the roots of Aotearoa’s psychedelic…

Octoblast is one of those festivals that people in the know get quietly excited about months out. It lands in late spring on the Northland coast, it runs bass music, techno and psytrance across multiple stages, and it has built a reputation as a properly immersive weekend rather than just a lineup on a paddock.…
Every scene has its instruments. Rock had the Stratocaster, jazz had the saxophone, and rave had a pile of second hand drum machines that nobody else wanted. That is the strange and brilliant thing about dance music gear. Most of the machines that defined it were commercial flops, bought cheap by broke kids who then…

You know the feeling. You get home from a festival, peel off your coat, and it looks like it has been through a storm. The fur is flat in patches, there is a mystery stickiness on one sleeve, and the whole thing smells faintly of smoke and someone else’s night out. Here is the good…