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Rave Culture and Religion explores the role of the technocultural rave in the spiritual life of contemporary youth. 

Documenting the sociocultural and religious parameters of rave and post-rave phenomena at various locations around the globe, scholars of contemporary religion, dance ethnologists, sociologists and other cultural observers unravel this significant youth cultural practice.

The collection provides insights on developments in post-traditional religiosity (especially ‘New Age’ and ‘Neo-Paganism’) through studies of rave’s gnostic narratives of ascensionism and re-enchantment, explorations of the embodied spirituality and millennialist predispositions of dance culture, and investigations of transnational digital-art countercultures manifesting at geographic locations as diverse as Goa, India, north-eastern New South Wales, Australia and Nevada’s Burning Man Festival. 
Contributors examine raving as a new religious or revitalization movement; a powerful locus of sacrifice and transgression; a lived bodily experience; a practice comparable with world entheogenic rituals and as evidencing.

Compiled by Dj Reza Edge

Mastering : Wild Mastering
Cover : Amoeba Design Studio

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In 2013, in the highest village on a mountain in the Swiss Alps, a project was born. Having been attending and organising parties for his entire adult life, Nico Z3nkai decided to help his friends, help the music he loves and use his many contacts to create a family of musicians that became what is known today as DIGITAL SHAMANS RECORDS.

It was not long before Z3nkai compiled the first release and made a huge first impression for the label. This CD, Altered Gravity, showed off the fresh talent on the label as well as established international artists that supported and loved what the label was doing.

Their sound quickly spread with many artists seeking to be released on the label, Did playing their music at the biggest events and promoters booking them all over the world including USA, Brazil, Canada, New Caledonia and India to name a few.

Today, having released 4 CDs and numerous EPs and playing at the worlds events, they bring a heavy line-up of live acts and DJs to rock any party with complicated, detailed, full power psychedelic dance music and are quickly making a name for themselves as the label to watch!

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Forest psytrance project under construction

Member SunnyHigh Stuttgart. Psytrance DJ/Producer.

Encountering the world of Psytrance through a Party in Austria in 2014, this genre quickly started to fascinate the person behind Chlamydia Nightmare. Listening to it every day, whilst enjoying and exploring it, developing an addictive behaviour.

Years later, after nearly a decade of listening to Psy-Music on a daily basis and going to parties and festivals, his newly moved in flat mate at that time (JJUXXTA), showed him how to mix together two tracks on a DJ Controller. Having no expectations at all, it felt quite satisfying & fun, whilst finally realising that he could now dive even deeper into his favourite music genre.

Already recording his first whacky Set a few weeks later, the procedure of thinking about what tracks could fit together, which style & tempo to play etc. unlocked a lot of joy inside an already crazy/Psy-addicted Person and Chlamydia Nightmare was sort of born, funnily connected to a weird story from the past regarding a sexual disease.

Chlamydia Nightmare is a project based on the constant (and maybe sometimes lost) hunger of scanning through all the newest Psytrance Music and making the tracks fit together somehow in a weird messy psychedelic fashion. 

Chlamydia Nightmare Sets are mostly around the range of 146-160 BPM Night-& Twilight-Psy, occasionally also diving into DarkPsy and foresty Nightpsy aswell as ForestPsy. Playing not only older tracks from the last 9 years of personal research, but also always adding the newest tunes on the market to his sets, he always hopes to ignite the listener with the same joy he gets from Psy, infecting them like a disease.

Nevertheless, Chlamydia Nightmare is still only the fun little project of a cracked up childish person, which for some reason, listens to Psytrance every day without losing the joy for it. The drive behind playing and recording sets is still fueled by the happiness of just listening to this kind of music for hours on end, even if Chlamydia Nightmare is the only person in the room.

Chlamydia Nightmare is a Psy-Project by Joschka B.

Contact: chlamydia.nightmare@gmail.com

11. Borderliners - Parallel Worlds

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